Restart

[fabian]

Do you restart the game if your starting location seems too bad for a fair game?
I sometimes restart several times before getting a starting location outside a rainforest or a desert.

[CerberusIV]

I will restart several times to get one I feel is interesting and reasonably playable. It's no fun if your capital city is in a rubbish terrain or if you don't have enough room for a few cities before the AI cuts you off.

[Shogun Gunner]

I've become so disgusted with myself due to the number of times I restart that I have placed myself on a "no restart for any reason" ban.

I will continue to enforce this ban as long as I show the potential for self-defeating habit of restarting. I have become addicted and have self-organized an intervention on my behalf, for my own good. I don't like it, but something had to be done.

In a similiar vein, I also now select RANDOM for everything -- including the civ I will play. I became entrenched in bad habits and decided I need a clean break.

I'm currently playing the Koreans (would have never picked them on my own) on what looks to be a continent world, slightly dry and perhaps average temperature....except I'm not 100% sure as I have not explored the whole world. You see? That's already more exciting....

[Theseus]

No re-starts for me anymore... I might even follow SG's example.

[Brundlefly]

I never restart. The AI has enough advantages. I will quit a game if it becomes obvious I will lose.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I only restart if I am testing a scenario/units and my start is very detrimental to that test.

[vmxa1]

I am not a restarter perse, but I do bail out of games when I get bored. C3C has make playing one or two ages very common for now. Mainly as I wanted to see different aspect and different levels.

[asleepathewheel]

I restart flagrantly. The game is for my sole enjoyment, no shame in wanting to have a decent start. That said, I don't wait for a 2 cow river ivory start. Sometimes I do get fed up with restarting, but oh well....

[gunkulator]

I don't restart but after a few hours of playing a crappy starting position, I often wish I did. I can handle AI advantages in production and science, but I at least want to be able to grow my cities past size 6. The game gets pretty boring if you have nothing to do but watch workers hack away at jungles.

[SirOsis]

I've never restarted. I also don't finish many games either. My worst start was in the middle of a huge jungle. The whole screen was jungle but I thought I'd give it a try. Brutal start! I think I quit after having 2 cities.

[TheArsenal]

I restart far less these days - tiny islands, extreme jungle or tundra is about it really. Now that I have C3C, however, it is a struggle for me not to restart when I realize I do not have Ivory.

[Alex]

i never restart. back in the days of win 98, i had to do it often, but...

oh, wait, you mean in civ3, right?

i never restart.

[eewolf]

i absolutely...i absolutely, without a...i abs...i absolutely, without a doubt, positively and co...i absolu...i absolutely, without...i absolutely, without a doubt, positively and conclusively, never, ever restart.

I sw...I swe... I... I swear.

eewolf

ps: i have been using the random settings and making the best of my positions of late.