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View Poll Results: When does your game stop?
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Until I achieve victory
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25.53% |
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I usually get bored in industrial age
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I usually get bored in modern age
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Until I loose
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I stopped playing alltogether
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other
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January 9, 2002, 05:59
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Prince
Local Time: 20:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Prime Headbonker, The Netherlands
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At what point do you stop playing?
So far I've played maybe 8 or 9 games of civ3 (which is far less than it was after 2+ months of civ2), but I've only played 2 games until I achieved a victory condition.
Usualy I get bored somewhere in late industrial or early modern age.
How about you?
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January 9, 2002, 06:41
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Chieftain
Local Time: 19:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 38
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Ohhh, about a month ago now. 
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January 9, 2002, 07:58
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Prince
Local Time: 20:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 624
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The buck stops somewhere along this line:
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January 9, 2002, 08:04
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Settler
Local Time: 14:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Atlanta, Ga
Posts: 7
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as soon as i lost my erection 
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January 9, 2002, 10:09
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Prince
Local Time: 20:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Prime Headbonker, The Netherlands
Posts: 322
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I was excited at the prospect of getting my hands on civ3 but it never realy turned me on. 
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January 9, 2002, 10:22
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Prince
Local Time: 13:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: In a dark and scary hole!
Posts: 728
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I always play until I win or lose.
Patience if a virtue
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January 9, 2002, 10:26
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Prince
Local Time: 20:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Prime Headbonker, The Netherlands
Posts: 322
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I play until I loose patience.
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January 9, 2002, 13:14
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Chieftain
Local Time: 12:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Colorado
Posts: 72
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Once I build Hoover Dam, it's all over but the tedium.
I get bored a little after I get Cavalry technology, but I tend to keep seeing where it's all going until Hoover Dam.
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January 9, 2002, 16:31
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Emperor
Local Time: 12:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Henderson, NV USA
Posts: 4,168
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I keep playing until its over. Sort of explains why I'm still on my third game. 
Yes, sometimes it is boring and sometimes it's a lot of work. But I want to know what happens later! (Like a novel that you are writing -- too bad I'm not a writer).
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January 9, 2002, 16:35
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Deity
Local Time: 16:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Mola mazo!
Posts: 13,118
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I've played two games, spaced between each other by a month. The second one was spurred from a "ok, I have the patch, let's give these people another chance"...
I got bored some 20 turns later than the first game...
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January 9, 2002, 19:01
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Prince
Local Time: 12:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Canada
Posts: 510
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In late industrial. Finding rubber is the last big thrill for me in a game. After that, it does get too tedious to bother continuing.
I've probably started over 20 games and only finished 2.
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January 9, 2002, 19:18
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Deity
Local Time: 12:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: In a bamboo forest hiding from Dale.
Posts: 17,436
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I haven't actually quit any of my games yet, but, there are a couple around modern age that I have saved and haven't gone back to for a while.
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January 9, 2002, 19:59
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Prince
Local Time: 05:07
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 441
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Quote:
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Originally posted by eccentricity
as soon as i lost my erection
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That's a good way of putting it.
Unless you were being literal....
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January 9, 2002, 22:15
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Chieftain
Local Time: 11:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: 3rd rock from sun, just down street from 7-11 :)
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Uninstalled the game about 2 weeks ago. Played 1st game to the end. Never felt urge to complete another game after seeing the ending. 3 games total started. Last 2 played till middle of Modern Times tech tree.
Loved 99% of Civ3 (post patch). Found worker movement way too tedious after playing CTP2. This is the 1 thing that killed the enjoyment for me.
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January 9, 2002, 23:00
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Warlord
Local Time: 11:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Laguna Hills, CA
Posts: 175
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Until I am assured victory. Once I'm just moving pieces around and waiting for some "victory condition", I bolt.
This isn't _necessarily_ related to a particular age, but because I develop Railroads so much better than the AI does, and because I beeline for Replaceable Parts, I usually mount my last offensive with Infantry and then I have an unbeatably dominant position. One game out of 20 or so games has gone 'till I got Tanks, and that's just because I wanted to see what they were like.
I've never played into the modern Age, and I've never finished a game. It's just too tedious.
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January 10, 2002, 13:43
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Emperor
Local Time: 14:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Smemperor
Posts: 3,405
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...at what point do you even start????
It's gathering pixel dust on my hard drive
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January 10, 2002, 13:52
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Emperor
Local Time: 20:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: London, UK
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The only games I've played recently have been the tournament ones. Having started them I sort of feel obliged to actually generate a score even if I don't then submit it. The 1.16 auto-settler fix is *just* adequate enough to stop me getting fed up with late game tactics.
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January 11, 2002, 06:04
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Prince
Local Time: 20:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Prime Headbonker, The Netherlands
Posts: 322
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Votes so far indicate that the majority of people either stopped playing alltogether or get fed up in industrial or modern age.
If Firaxis would be able to fix the late game tedium/boredom this game might still have a future because I think most people find the early game quite enjoyable.
On abrighter note: nobody seems to loose!
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January 11, 2002, 08:26
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Settler
Local Time: 19:07
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: D-55129 Mainz, Germany
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As with David Wheldon, I play until I'm assured victory.
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