POLL: for how long does your game last?

[ghen]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
never more than 6 hours

on what size map though, thats kinda required information :P

[Dis]

Originally posted by guermantes
Thanks everyone for contributing to this thread!

I guess I am not doing too bad then, considering this is my first contact with strategy games.

If I may, one answer prompted a question:

Dis writes:
"I should note that I only have 9 civilizations on a huge map. Gives me plenty of room to expand. . I hate being crowded in. I know it's an advantage to the human because the ai really would take so long to send units to attack me."

Where lies the advantage? I don't understand what the variables or cause/effect are here?

Ciao,

/p

because the AI units may be obsolete by the time he gets to me. Though I am exaggerating a bit. As they aren't that far away from me.

In fact, despite a huge map, all the players started fairly close to each other leaving large parts of the world empty.

[inca911]

5 hr 50 minutes last night. Prince level (the level that's one harder than Noble), Continents, Tiny.

Each player (2 AIs and me) ended up with a continent to themselves so there was no war. I won Space Victory by overwhelming production advantage. I was able to run 100% science toward the latter portion of the game and had forge--factory--plant in about 7 productive cities.

[Dis]

I finally finished my game on a huge map with 7 opposing AI's (8 total).

Amazingly it said my total time was 4 hours and 48 minutes! I know I spent more time than that- I think. I think their clock is ****ed up.

I did okay until near the end, then it got a bit slow. And when I got the final victory, is when my computer really slowed down and I got a windows virtual memory low message (which I didn't see until I exited the game). It took me like 5 minutes to exit the game after my victory.

[wattro]

Originally posted by Cordelayne

After all that trouble, though, I wish the Hall of Fame would save the victory movie, so you could replay your victories. The end of game stuff is great--but it still sometimes seems kind of a letdown after 20 hours of hard work.

Do you mean the replay movie that shows how all the turns progressed?

In the Hall of Fame, there is a little square to the left of each score. You can click it to watch a replay of all of your turns.

[Cordelayne]

wattro, thank you. I had missed that. I edited my incorrect post above.

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Re: POLL: for how long does your game last?

Originally posted by guermantes
I'm new to CIV and would like to get a feel for how long time people spend on a single game in average. For me it usually takes something like 15-20 hours, and I am after 5 games slightly put off starting a new one since I know that during its play I will be obsessed by it and not be able to do other things properly, inclusing eat and sleep.

For how long do yours games last on average?
Do you ever start and win a game in under 2 hours?
Do you consider yourself to be an experienced CIVver?

Thanks for all comments!

Never more than 3 hours, but I play on duel against 2 AIs. I micromanage my cities a bit and I allways micromanage my workers. Its great to see another swede on this site!!!!!!!

[Solver]

I dislike any maps less than standard. They don't feel much like Civ to me, more like a RTS game, too quick, small and aggressive. Playing on Normal game speed, my games took me from 12 hours up, usually in the 12-15 range, although I have had a quick one of 8 hours. On Epic, which I actually prefer, it's 15 hours for a fast game, 20 for others. That I like, this is my preferred length for a game.

[Enigma_Nova]

Then how do you find time to post?

[Solver]

Me? Posting takes less time than playing Civ, and I haven't played any for a long time .

[Jaybe]

Just finished a Huge Epic Terra w/10 AI game; 44 hours.

Lost as Rome without Iron (until I got to the New World); that bleepin' Cyrus beat me in the space race.

[Enigma_Nova]

Originally posted by Solver
I haven't played any for a long time .

Haha, Solver is Gaming Nerd.

[Solver]

I'd be overexcited if I had all the time to play every day .