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Chieftain
The Netherlands
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Apr 2008
time: 11:37
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This happened in my latest game: I was doing great (ahead in tech, a nice stack of doom) and suddenly, 4 civs started to attack me. I could fend of 1 but the other side of my world was slowly being conquered.
But I did not gave up! Even after 4 cities were taken, I kept on fighting, making units, building walls,etc.
It was no use... I lost all cities...
What do you do in a situation like this? Do you load back an early save, do like me and keep on fighting or do you just say "next time better". Or are you so good that this situation never happens to you?
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I rarely reload.
If I get walloped - then so be it - new game move on.
The only time I do reload is if I am trying out a specific strategy - and then, if I get it to work, I ditch the game and move on.
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Prince
Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
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Jun 1999
time: 10:37
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I voted re-load but yesterday I shut down when Saladin moved on me and pretty quickly took two of my cities. I might have gotten things straightened around but I didn't have the stomach for a fight.
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Prince
The Bear Flag Republic
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Jan 2006
time: 02:37
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I almost always stubbornly slog ahead. I have learned more things this way than when things go too smoothly.
I never reload.
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Chieftain
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Jul 2008
time: 10:37
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I wish I was cool like Supr49er. But I'm such a perfectionist empire building nerd that I can't handle it when someone attacks me and I'm unprepared. I just load, or sometimes I loose interest and quit. I kinda suck I guess.
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Blaupanzer
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King
Fairfax, VA
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Oct 2000
time: 05:37
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I evaluate whether I can pull it out. As long as I think I can, I play on. The AI is not so good at consistency. If they get distracted, then I can build up my forces and try again. But in those three-on-one (or more, oh my) events, I evaluate what I did wrong to attract all that attention, then retire. My HOF is mostly losses, but I think I am learning.  Restarts from an earlier save seems to me to be cheating somehow, so I seldom do it. I have restarted on occasions where I should have burned a city, but kept it to no real value. Mostly, it's a No-No to me. 
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King
Saskatoon, SK, CA
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Oct 1999
time: 04:37
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I reload often in bad situations. I cheat too often, but hey it's SP.
Playing out a losing situation can be a good learning experience, but so is reloading. Often a disastrous invasion can be stopped with only a few extra defenders. It helps to run through the same situation with slightly different setups to fine tune my build priorities.
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Prince
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Nov 2005
time: 10:37
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I do reload, if the situation only got that bad, because i was too lazy or not attentive enough. For example i might have seen the invasion coming and where it would come, but didnt, hence didnt prepare for it, because i dont check my borders regularily. Or i might loose a settler which i sent out a couple-of-turns distance - then a barb pops out and eats it. Those are typical reload occasions.
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Prince
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Nov 2005
time: 10:37
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Well, the city-defender-to-be is always at the planned point of city-founding. So itīs only unescorted en-route, but safe when it gets there and founds.
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Prince
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Nov 2005
time: 10:37
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Well, even when i play with a buddy, loosing a settler to a unit you could have seen, but just didnt due to oversight, is a valid reason for reload. Though the player who had this happen to himself gets scolded. The reason why we do it this way, is because we both think, that the Civ4 map doesnt show units really clearly (as compared to, say, Civ1) and looking around each turn to make sure would take a lot of time. And the little arrows are of little use, when you have no non-automated units to move on that turn and the settler just keeps on walking before you can do anything about it. Itīs not a big deal anyways, because at the time you settle, turns dont take long, and replaying a maximum of 4 is no problem usually. Now, scouting around with a settler and stumbling into animals or barbs is a different strory. I never do that and in such a case, iīd totally agree with Nugog: Ones own fault. But if i send a settler from my city to an archer that stands at, say, 8-8-7-7 (all 1MP-Terrain) from that city (guarded as well of course and with BFC), then itīs loosing it, is not due to some risk i have taken, but can only be the result of oversight (unless in the very rare case of 2MP-barbs attacking). That kind of thing. Tho i am not sure how often this is really the case when my buddy is clamoring for reload again (it happens a lot more often to him then to me - which was just once). BTW: The shown walking path of units when you order them, is not always the one they actually take when they move and that can be another cause.
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Technical Assistant
Of the Peanuts Gallery
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Apr 2004
time: 04:37
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I didn't think you can become a vassal as a SP ... did that change at some point?
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Settler
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Nov 2002
time: 10:37
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I voted fight to the end, but in actuality, if it gets to where I don't have a chance to win, I quit. This, though usually happens when the final onslaught is heading to my capital. I guess I just can't watch myself be destroyed. This has only happened a few times, and not lately. I have lost, but very rarely to the point of destruction.
I do seem to recall that I was once offered capitulation, but I won't swear to it. That was a long time ago.
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by a barb - well then I took the risk, and paid the price.
