Game Time

[DreamSlave2112]

I felt a little froggy last weekend and decided to play a small world, highly aggressive AI's all competing for a small Pangea land mass under the Sid level.
I soundly got my clock cleaned.
Anyway, as I was playing, I stopped for 4 or 5 hours for some family time and then I returned to the game and soundly got my clock cleaned.
The entire time I played could not have lasted more than half an hour, but I left the game on during those 4 or 5 hours.
Two questions:
1) Can the game be "paused" without shutting it down?
2) Does it really matter, i.e. does the time spent affect the final score?

[Shogun Gunner]

Time spent has no relation to the final score. It's just a "feature" to show you how much time you can waste playing this game

You can save, close the game down and start it back up later if you really want to....

[alva]

It's one feature from which I try desperately to avoid my eyes. That thing always scares me.

[Dis]

it was introduced with the PTW expansion. I guess for multiplayer purposes, though it really doesn't affect multiplayer play. who knows.

[DreamSlave2112]

thats what I thought, so now I don't feel guilty thinking I spent 30 hrs on my last campaign (prob more like 29 1/2, a man's gotta eat)

[alva]

30 only???

Mine usually says a 100+

[Shogun Gunner]

I wonder what the record is...and I don't mean a bogus "left the computer on for a month just to get a large number"

Sounds like a new thread....

[alva]

Good idea. Make a few categories though. Map size & difficulty certainly come to mind.

[Dis]

I'll compete for shortest spaceship victory, but not longest! I hate long games.

[alva]

Yeah, but you keep playing chieftain even if you've been here for over 20 years and know more about this game than most of us.

[Shogun Gunner]

Yeah, Chieftain

i don't push myself into harder play levels either

[Modo44]

My games went from 10-20 hours on Monarch to over 40 hours on Demigod. This was without large changes to playing style. The main difference is the amount of required MM and diplomacy.

[Dis]

yeah cheiftan is the way to go baby .

actually I play monarch. I find enough challenge there. Sometimes I lose if I get a ****ty start. Actually I only lost once. But it's possible

[alva]

Go up a level Diss, you know you want to.

On the other hand, this is what happens if you slightly above your level.

Standard deity (continents, rest was random IIRC, well I did choose my civ)

[Dis]

I don't think I've ever had a game over 60 hours.