Slow Pokes.

[markusf]

I want to know what slowpokes do during their turns? Cuz maybe we can eleminate the time it takes them to do stuff...

Here is what i do every turn.

1. I never have more then 5 units to move a turn. When building caravans i build all caravans and move them all to my capitol, or the biggest enemy city i can find.. if it demends the goods or not doesn't matter.

2. happy citizens, i just use the F4 key when its not my turn and check to see if anyone is unhappy.

3. trade is maxed out permently in my 6 biggest cities. other other cities don't matter a bit, and are usually a few steps behind my core cities.

[SociableMartian]

Hmmm

[Hydey]

Quiet please , let the master speak

[Ming]

I just wince when it takes somebody 2 minutes a turn, and they only have two units on the board

I also try to move as quick as possible, with city changes being made between turns. The only thing that slows me down is the amount of beer drunk as the game moves into the wee hours of the morning

[DrFell]

1 - Often you can do with more units though, especially in duels. If you only have a couple units moving around in a duel you sacrifice a lot of opportunities for taking undefended cities, etc.

2 - As long as you don't manage cities on your turn it doesn't matter how you do it.

3 - I max out production in some of my big cities, too. I also try to keep other cities well managed though - but again I do it all when it's not my turn.

[War4ever]

i think its pretty safe to say that all of us max out production or science depending on what the city is capable of......i use the city screens to check each turn...and i too don't do micro on my turns...thats what the other guyz turns are for...but some of you

[rah]

The only time I micro during my turn is during the first 20 turns of a duel. (and this is limited to buying up) Too many times I ended up with an extra warrior or phalanx instead of a settler because the other players turn only took 3 seconds.

There are exceptions, but those few are beer related.

2x games probably take a little longer because more units are produced in the first 20 turns.

We do have a few quick players that are considerably limited by their connection. (glances at berz)

RAH

[ColdWizard]

i move units during my turn and do micro during the other peoples' turns. i do switch production thru the pop up screens at the start of my turn. if i don't, i end up with loads of wasted shields 1 or 2 turns later when i check my production

[SlowwHand]

I don't get as mad as I used to, but Strategyking used to frost my balls with his slow play.

[markusf]

ok but later in a 7 player game... how come some people... aka diety take 40 minutes to move while others take 1 minute.

Around 800 AD 1x 1x deity?

[rah]

It's simple, He's slow

RAH

[markusf]

Originally posted by rah
It's simple, He's slow

RAH

in the extreme.

Even diety dude... And others what the heck are you doing on your turn that takes soo long?

[Ming]

Whenever it takes somebody over a few minutes to take THEIR FIRST DAMN TURN... I can just picture them downloading the save to disc and using a second computer to view the map

[atawa]

On an island map with lighthouse, I usualy only build Tiremmes and caravans (and off course massive amounts of settlers and the odd horse)
Trying to manage this logistic nightmare usualy takes a lot of time.
And what I really hate is when some guy with half the city's and tech, no ships or caravans whatsoever starts to whine about how much time I use.

Some strategy's just take more time then others......

[Eyes_Of_Night]

People take a long time because they aren't totally familiar with the game yet. Not everyone can keep track of exactly where each unit is, what each city is doing, that sort of thing. Therefore they must go and recheck those things whereas with us we can simply know what is going on everywhere and keep it down to a minimum. When I'm playing a civ2 game my mouse doesn't stop moving. I look like I"m playing an RTS game when I play because the map just keeps flicking all over the place because I'm constantly planning out the next moves in advance so I know exactly where to move each unit and what city is going to do what next so when my turn does come around I can zoom through it.