I really hate it when...

[Ming]

I hate it when you put a new city down to reach a key strategic resource, and it passes it's health cap when the population grows to two

[wodan11]

Starting on the coast with no sea resources always irks me. Especially when there's not even any fresh water.

"If you don't like the weather... move." -- George Carlin

[Lord Avalon]

I hate it when you settle a city with a resource in the outer ring, and some creative jerk settles next to it and takes it away.

Can you say, "target acquired"?

[Hauptman]

I hate it when my machine guns defend against Cavalry attacks instead of my riflemen, thus wasting first strikes and alowing far too many enemy grenadiers survive.

[rah]

"If you don't like the weather... move." -- George Carlin

In an SP game I'm more likely to move because if you go 4 turns and the land still sucks you can reset. In an MP game game it's more risky. If there's a plains hill on a river I will waste a turn and move but if not, not settling for a couple of turns puts you in quite a hole. Human players are more likely to rush you early where 1 or 2 turns can mean the difference between survival and death. If you're a civ that starts with myst, and you don't settle on the first turn, give up any hope of one of the two early religions.

And being tempted to move because of the blue circle is just silly. I remember doing that once and when I got to the blue circle, the next turn the blue circle moved to where I started originally.

[Theben]

I hate it when my machine guns defend against Cavalry attacks instead of my riflemen, thus wasting first strikes and alowing far too many enemy grenadiers survive.

Immunity to 1st strikes ends with cuirassers(sp?), cavalry are still vulnerable for some reason.

[rah]

Which is probably why the machine guns are selected to defend.

[Norselord]

In an SP game I'm more likely to move because if you go 4 turns and the land still sucks you can reset. In an MP game game it's more risky. If there's a plains hill on a river I will waste a turn and move but if not, not settling for a couple of turns puts you in quite a hole. Human players are more likely to rush you early where 1 or 2 turns can mean the difference between survival and death. If you're a civ that starts with myst, and you don't settle on the first turn, give up any hope of one of the two early religions.

And being tempted to move because of the blue circle is just silly. I remember doing that once and when I got to the blue circle, the next turn the blue circle moved to where I started originally.

Yeah, in the past i have been guilty of 'chasing the circle.' I still don't know if the blue circle appears because the computer knows about resources that have not been revealed yet.

[Norselord]

I hate it when my brother in law quits on a MP team game against the AI because he didn't end up with horsies near his cap. He might even have iron and copper and stone and marble and corn and rice and fish and crab and gems and gold, but if he didn't horsies within 8-10 squares of his cap, its crying time.

[Ming]

I've been known to whine a bit during MP games... but usually I don't go into super heavy crying mode until I know that I don't have horses OR copper OR iron anywhere near me.

[Dubhghlas]

Wait until you find out that the oil is nowhere nearby, either.

[wodan11]

People who drop in MP are the #1 reason why MP isn't as successful as it could be.

[Ming]

That's why you try to play with people you know instead of trolling for a game at game spy

[self biased]

because, the option is always there to get drunk and trash talk your enemies if your game is tanking.

[Ming]

True enough

The last MP game I played, I settled on a bunch of islands, anticipating being wiped out on the mainland. I figured I could just sit back and trash talk after that