What do you hate/find most tedious in civ?

[Blaupanzer]

Partisans begin to appear prior to Guerilla warfare. One consensus on another thread on this board was Communism triggers them. Note, if you're conquering with a high income (e.g., Fanaticism), buying the guerillas gives you infantry defenders to help sustain your attacks.

[SmartFart]

- program allowing micromanaging,negotiating,rushbuying,etc, during your turn
- anonymous messages
- poor demand/supply concept (i have at least 10 better solutions than checking out thru trade screen)
- cities on hilltops and mountains

- probably everything else

[granite00]

I hate the Barb spawning points. In a current game 1 AD, I must have had 20 Barb groups spawn from the very same point on one of my islands. I spend half the time knocking them down, only to get a fresh and stronger group one turn later.

[Alexander's Horse]

Build a city on the spawning point

That stops em!

[Juggernaut]

Wee civs coming and demanding for tribubes though you could easily obliterate them.

[connorkimbro]

global flooding. man, that stuff wrecks havoc with all your farms.

. . .so my strategy is 1 enemy city = 1 nuke, so what? nukes are quick and effective

[Craftsman]

Everyman said:

Enemy partisans. When they pop up after conquering a city in late game, I have to decide whether to kill them off one by one with my remaining attack units or make peace with the enemy civ and kill the partisans at a later time. Optimal solution is to complete your world conquest before guerilla warfare.

This really makes me try to conquer the world ASAP.
One way to avoid this is to have a big siege force and try to occupy all, or at least the more important terrain (forest; hills; mountain; anyone w/fortress) in the city radius, before invading the city.

Another thing I hate is the always demand-changing cities, regarding trade. I just ignore the demands, and send any commoditie. "Want Oil? Here goes Silk!". I make less gold. But I´m still making gold...

[mp4]

When I almost rule the world there are no more challenges, and then I often get bored.

I always use the "flat world" option to avoid a naval unit travelling around the world to move five squares...

Management of the army gets boring too, when I have 15 stealth bombers to be distributed to the front... and for ground units the "goto" command doesn't always work.

Cruise missiles are boring, because the enemies always have loads of them.

Well, now you might ask why I still play the game ;-)

[Messer Niccolò]

Originally posted by mp4

Well, now you might ask why I still play the game ;-)

I guess for the same reasons we are still playing!

[drake]

I always use the "flat world" option to avoid a naval unit travelling around the world to move five squares...

Just like the real world right!?
No one tell mp4 that you can get to australia from california, might blow his mind

[Blaupanzer]

Drake, not that I support the alternative,m but mp4 is solving the problem of ships from Hawaii sailing to Australia by way of Panama, Africa, and the Indian Ocean because the 'goto' command won't take them over the dateline. I find it easier to move the ships manually in that area of civ maps, then send them on, but I complained above over the tediousness of that. Still, declaring the world flat seems a little extreme.

[drake]

Oh.....well I always manually move everything.......


never wouldve even thought of that.

[Gothmog]

I really hate to see this message

You are invited to gape with awe and amazement as the Zulus (or whatever) demonstrate the wonders of Gunpowder (or whatever). Absolutely no scribes will be allowed.

It means two things
You are really backwards tech-wise
The AI is rubbing it in.

[Scouse Gits]

Don't be shy ... just steal the tech!

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SG(2)

[ColdWizard]

1. rah killing off my exploring units
2. barbarians picking on me but not anyone else