Conquests too short?

[Starhemberg]

Thanks for the info guys.
Guess the situation is better than I thought, although I would have welcomed even longer scenarios. Nobody "needs" a civ game that takes only 3 hours.

[Dis]

Just fyi. I finished Fall of rome last night. A little over 8 hours.

Not bad. Once I wiped out east and west rome I put everything on automatic and forified most of my units. I didn't have the patience to manually terraform everything. I also changed my city production to regular buildings.

That's a problem I have with the normal game, once I know I'm going to win- I don't want the game to drag on and on.

But luckily I was gaining victory points very fast having troops on most of the VP locations (I only missed a few- central france region, London, and there is one more near the alp mountains)

[Plotinus]

I completed Mesoamerica in just two hours, on my first try (as Monarch). That was good fun. I like the idea of a short snippet of Civ like this, and I like the way that different scenarios take different amounts of time - some short like that, and some mighty slogs. I'm looking forward to being Napoleon this evening (what will I tell my girlfriend? "Not tonight, Josephine." If only that were her name).

[Dis]

yeah that one didn't seem big. I just started it last night. I'm trying to decide to go for culture or domination. I'll probably do domination. I've done cultural vicotry in vanilla Civ3. Nothing too exciting. Although I do enjoy playing a builder. But in that scenario you gain culture through ritual sacrifice (though I think in Three Sisters scenario you can sacrifice barbs), so I'd have to do warfare anyways.

I did Middle Ages in just over 7 hours. but if you wanted to, you can spend twice as long on that scenario. But once I revealed the whole map, the turns seemed to slow down a bit. And I really had no desire to try to win by domination or even- gasp- conquest of all 17 civs. I just took all 4 relics to Jeruselim once I had the galleys to do so (my armies wouldn't fit on curraghs).

[Snotty]

Originally posted by Plotinus
I'm looking forward to being Napoleon this evening (what will I tell my girlfriend? "Not tonight, Josephine." If only that were her name).

Absentmindedly tell her that and you get to play civ every night

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Dissident
Is there something about Napolean I don't know? I haven't loaded it up yet.

Play as the French but employ some good ole' Italian Mafia tricks. See how much they will pay you for your protection.

[joncnunn]

Re: Conquests too short?

Mesopotain took me around 12 hours acoding to the clock.
Granted I spent 1 hour doing nothing but looking at the science tree and help files.

No wars at all, except some of the barbs, especally when the second civ entered the 2nd era.

Game ended in wonder victory, there were still quite a few techs left in the 2nd era.

Originally posted by Starhemberg
From my impression, most of the scenarios only last between 2-4 hours, which is way too short in my eyes.

[Aqualung71]

Seems to be a few mixed opinions here, so I thought I'd add one more!!!!

Like others, I've found the different scenarios to be of different lengths - still not sure how some of you have found time to play them ALL already! I've got a half finished RoR (playing Persia) that I'm just getting tired of, it's so tedious moving all those units every turn just to keep Macedonia out of your cities!

I've been reading the other thread on "is C3C too easy?". Yes, it seems to me that compared to PTW at the same level, C3C is easier. However, when you consider the scenarios I believe the reason this has been done becomes clearer. When we say "easier", I guess we mean easier to win.....in time. Perhaps I'm lazy, but pre-C3C I used to play Emperor and bide my time for most of the game, then zap 'em all in the modern era. Using this strategy, you generally find that you're behind on points for most of the game, even though somewhere after halfway you can quite clearly become the dominant power militarily and economically. Plus the fact the at emperor level you usually found yourslef behind on tech's most of the game and scrambling to pick them up through sharp trading.

Well, because the scenarios are shorter, the patient players who try to "wear down" the opposition now need to completely rethink their strategy, because just as they're smiling to themselves that they are the most powerful civ on earth, the AI quietly informs them they've had their arse kicked!

While this annoys me no end, it has certainly forced me to rethink my strategy, and I will probably end up being more aggressive earlier.

I think the developers have really challenged hard-core Civ'ers into redefining their Civ strategies, and for this I applaud them.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Try the fan-made Age of Empires type scenario available in the files section - it looks HUGE. I don't think anyone could finish THAT in a few hours. And I look forward to more fan-made ones in the near future.