What would be the setup for the longest Custom game?

[Chicagophil]

Played with 18 Civs on Marathon speed.

Would islands or highlands in artic terrain slow things down to a crawl?

[Thedrin]

Highlands. Slower research, less food and choke points. It's also a map consisting predominantly of land so your computer will go slower too.

[Nikolai]

Is that a now, that the computer slows down? Man, you should go back to Civ3.

[Chicagophil]

I wasn't looking for any advantage over the computer. I just like long games. I remember playing Civ1 & playing one game for a week.

[Nikolai]

How is that possible? My Civ1 games lasts for some hours, not more than that!

[Diadem]

Civ1 is a lot faster than civ4 in my experience.

My civ4 games take a looong time. But perhaps that's just because I think a lot each turn, and micromanage a lot.

[JackRudd]

Turn off all victory conditions except Conquest as well.

[Chicagophil]

What is everyone's avg time per game? I just got done with a game that had the final time of 17hrs 2mins. I won that game PA with Manua. Won with Land area/population.

[Nikolai]

I usually play normal speed games, and tend to finish after 3-4 hours.

[Jaybe]

Huge/Marathon games; my avg time used to be about 60 hours, but that has gone down to more like 30-40.

[Thomas Hobbes]

Huge/Marathon too; My last game took me 31 hours. The current one I've been playing for 34 hours now (current year is 1700).

But then again I never automate workers, never queue up buildings/units in cities or worker orders and seldom use stack-movement of units.
And I'm only playing for conquest victory, of course.

That's true Civ II style

[Harrier UK]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I usually play normal speed games, and tend to finish after 3-4 hours.

To me that is very quick. What map size do you play on, and at what difficulty level?

[ColdPhoenix]

My epic games on small maps last around 4 hours according to the timer at the end. I think that I probably play too quickly and don't think enough about what I'm doing. I know that when I play my housemate over our LAN the games seem really slow and I spend most of the time smoking and drinking while waiting for him to finish the turn.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Thomas Hobbes
Huge/Marathon too; My last game took me 31 hours. The current one I've been playing for 34 hours now (current year is 1700).

But then again I never automate workers, never queue up buildings/units in cities or worker orders and seldom use stack-movement of units.
And I'm only playing for conquest victory, of course.

That's true Civ II style

The other things I understand the reasons for but "never use stack-movement of units"? Why on earth not? That's just slowing your self down for absolutely no good reason. Even if you move your stack one square at a time, or move one unit first to survey the ground... or within your borders when at peace or... I don't get it.

Marathon games take me about 7-8 hours, less on a smaller map.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Harrier UK


To me that is very quick. What map size do you play on, and at what difficulty level?

Normal map size, fractal or continents, and warlord or noble difficulity for the most part. And I usually automate my workers around when RRs comes into play.