Bad Starting Positions: Restart or play on?

[Dis]

I always play on. It's a challenge to make something out of nothing. Although I was not able to do that today. More often than not I can pull out a victory, but by a very close margin.

[miccofl]

I eat a banana because I might trash the game or play on, it depends on the day. Why didn't you vote?

[Tuberski]

I restart, mostly because I have moved up in difficulty recently, and a bad start gurantees I won't have a chance.

[Carver]

I always play at least 30 turns or so, just to look around. But I'm not afraid to restart when doomed.

[asleepathewheel]

I'm not ashamed to say that I restart from pathetic situations. I just don't have the time to waste to play for half an hour before deciding it sucks. Expansionist helps here, those scouts can quiclkly look around. If my start sucks, maybe the 2nd city can be good. or not, then I reset. NO shame.,

[vmxa1]

I do not see any problems with restart or not to restart. I have not done it, but I would if I did not like the looks of things. I want to enjoy my time. I use to for civ2, when I was on a small land mass, even though you could win.

[Dis]

I did vote. I play most of the game. I sometimes play all of it. I at least like to complete the REX phase and see where I stand.

[Jethro83]

I don't really have time to be playing games where I won't stand a chance anyway due to a bad start, so therefore, I always restart.

I want to at the very least be a realistic contender for the position as superpower, so it is important to have good places to farm settlers and workers (particularly when I'm an industrious civ).

Perhaps when I have a bit more time on my hands, I might try a crappy start.

[Tiberius]

Play on. It is more challenging to win from a bad starting position.

When the conditions are harsh, I like to think that my people are tougher than those banana-eating opponents

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

Well, I ALWAYS stick it out to the bitter end becuase I reckon "Hell, if the real-life Egyptians could make a go of a DESERT, then I can't complain!" .
What surprises me, though, is that no-one has voted for "whines that Civ3 sucks" option, given the number of people who do claim it sucks here on the forum! .

Yours,
The_Aussie_Lurker.

[Mattaba]

Well I look around first and I try to complete the game even with bad start, but I would restart if I had an Aeson-like starting position.

[FrustratedPoet]

I will restart if I get something really terrible, but I'm not one of those people who restarts each game 20 times to get the perfect start.
I usually don't finish my games anyway, when I'm bored with it for whatever reason (I'm obviously winning by miles, or obviously losing badly) I'll restart and try something different.

[Demerzel]

I'll stick with a position unless it's pretty hopeless, i.e. mountains galore surrounding my position. Playing on Emperor whilst starting in the middle of the Amazonian rain forest does make for a testing game indeed so I'll play it out but having to create civilisation from the top of Everest? No thanks

[Laertes]

It's the all-ice starts that get me hitting crl-shift-Q. No food, no shield, cant irrigate and just plain cold!

[Adagio]

I always play on...ok, almost always, I only restart when I'm english, the terrain has NO influence wheter I restart or not...

I don't give up, even though the risk to lose is 100%...also when playing against humans (Back in the days as I played Settlers 3 online, I always sticked around after I was destroyed...just to see who won the game...Once I even stayed in the game 1 hour after my destruction...