At what point do you stop playing?

[Mannamagnus]

So far I've played maybe 8 or 9 games of civ3 (which is far less than it was after 2+ months of civ2), but I've only played 2 games until I achieved a victory condition.
Usualy I get bored somewhere in late industrial or early modern age.
How about you?

[LRotan]

Ohhh, about a month ago now.

[Grim Legacy]

The buck stops somewhere along this line:

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[eccentricity]

as soon as i lost my erection

[Mannamagnus]

I was excited at the prospect of getting my hands on civ3 but it never realy turned me on.

[ACooper]

I always play until I win or lose.

Patience if a virtue

[Mannamagnus]

I play until I loose patience.

[Heliodorus]

Once I build Hoover Dam, it's all over but the tedium.
I get bored a little after I get Cavalry technology, but I tend to keep seeing where it's all going until Hoover Dam.

[Jaybe]

I keep playing until its over. Sort of explains why I'm still on my third game.

Yes, sometimes it is boring and sometimes it's a lot of work. But I want to know what happens later! (Like a novel that you are writing -- too bad I'm not a writer).

[Dr. Nick]

I've played two games, spaced between each other by a month. The second one was spurred from a "ok, I have the patch, let's give these people another chance"...

I got bored some 20 turns later than the first game...

[LotC]

In late industrial. Finding rubber is the last big thrill for me in a game. After that, it does get too tedious to bother continuing.

I've probably started over 20 games and only finished 2.

[Dinner]

I haven't actually quit any of my games yet, but, there are a couple around modern age that I have saved and haven't gone back to for a while.

[Zanzin]

Originally posted by eccentricity
as soon as i lost my erection

That's a good way of putting it.

Unless you were being literal....

[napalm010]

Uninstalled the game about 2 weeks ago. Played 1st game to the end. Never felt urge to complete another game after seeing the ending. 3 games total started. Last 2 played till middle of Modern Times tech tree.

Loved 99% of Civ3 (post patch). Found worker movement way too tedious after playing CTP2. This is the 1 thing that killed the enjoyment for me.

[David Weldon]

Until I am assured victory. Once I'm just moving pieces around and waiting for some "victory condition", I bolt.

This isn't _necessarily_ related to a particular age, but because I develop Railroads so much better than the AI does, and because I beeline for Replaceable Parts, I usually mount my last offensive with Infantry and then I have an unbeatably dominant position. One game out of 20 or so games has gone 'till I got Tanks, and that's just because I wanted to see what they were like.

I've never played into the modern Age, and I've never finished a game. It's just too tedious.