Which victory do you usually go for?

Arc · September 14, 2002, 16:32

If necessary, explain why!

Ninot · September 14, 2002, 16:38

you left out win by score, and popular personal victories such as terrorist nation aiming for defeat.

Arc · September 14, 2002, 16:45

Score is left out on purpose

Not the most interesting way to beat the game i think...
As for the terrorist nation thing i never saw it mentioned! lol

Carver · September 14, 2002, 16:56

I've found the tech win in all civ-type games very satisfying so, Spaceship. Conquest and even Domination can get to be quite tedious. Cultural isn't a bad idea but the win seems so anticlimatic. Diplo is just a rediculous joke (although it shouldn't be that way - Supream Leader from SMAC anyone?).

Thrawn05 · September 14, 2002, 17:17

You left out Diplo victory....

As for me... it's pot-luck. I take what I see if fit. Generaly, I chicken out and in the last minute sell all of my gold and get a Diplo win due to looming late game wars that would be unwinable for me.

jdd2007 · September 14, 2002, 17:18

i go for ALL of them (not that i always win, i just try to get them)

miccofl · September 14, 2002, 17:34

Conquest is by far the most satisfying, I use the others as an easy out if the game starts to get boring. I could just quit and start a new game, but quitting is not in my nature (that's why I still smoke

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Theseus · September 14, 2002, 18:03

You left out "I am kicking major league AI ass, and have achieved overwhelming momentum... NEXT!"

Demerzel · September 14, 2002, 18:10

i usually go for conquest as space race is often a cinch, I've got less chance of winning a cultural victory on emperor than I have of meeting an alien and the diplomacy victory implementation is the worst thing I've seen in a game, a five year old could have coded better. WTF were they thinking when they thought that would be good enough? As mentioned above SMAC diplomatic victory to Civ3 diplomatic victory is a huge step backwards. The same as if you went from UT2003 to Wolfenstein.

Getting back OT I find that going for conquest win will often mean I get a domination win instead. must learn to be more ruthless and raze that size 17 city and kill the million or so inhabitants instead of incorporating it into my empire.

Wormwood · September 14, 2002, 18:41

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Originally posted by Thrawn05
You left out Diplo victory....

As for me... it's pot-luck. I take what I see if fit. Generaly, I chicken out and in the last minute sell all of my gold and get a Diplo win due to looming late game wars that would be unwinable for me.

I find that interesting. Usually by late game, I'm always in a position of total domination, and it becomes a matter of how much unhappiness and casualities a war will cost.

BTW, great avatar! I take it you're a MST3K fan. I was watching that episode this morning.

Rasputin · September 14, 2002, 18:49

culture cause it easy !!

Thrawn05 · September 14, 2002, 19:20

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Originally posted by Wormwood

I find that interesting. Usually by late game, I'm always in a position of total domination, and it becomes a matter of how much unhappiness and casualities a war will cost.

BTW, great avatar! I take it you're a MST3K fan. I was watching that episode this morning.

This is Monarch level... where I'm horrible playing at.

Boy, I didn't think people would see into this Avatar so quickly. Smart people.

Thrawn05 · September 14, 2002, 19:21

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Originally posted by Rasputin
culture cause it easy !!

Amen to that. Sometimes it happens out of the blue.

vmxa1 · September 14, 2002, 20:35

Culture is very hard for me, since I disable it.

Zarn · September 14, 2002, 21:21

It depends on which civ I get (I do random civs). BTW, I feel so inferior. When I post at CFC, I don't feel as bad with my number of posts there.

miccofl · September 14, 2002, 21:43

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BTW, I feel so inferior. When I post at CFC, I don't feel as bad with my number of posts there.

Build more posts!!!

Bamspeedy · September 14, 2002, 22:58

Zarn, I feel the same way. This 'settler' rating just doesn't feel right when I have an 'emperor' title over there.

But anyways... I like Conquest, but mopping up the last couple of cities that the last civ has gets tiring, so I'll just go ahead and trigger domination.

Or I'll just let them live and be my puppet civ for a few hundred years. I just love having someone like Catherine be all furious at me and there isn't anything she can do about it.

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alva · September 14, 2002, 22:59

Only finished 1 game up 'till now. By conquest btw.

Usually I win by forfeit

Zarn · September 14, 2002, 23:08

Yah, Bamspeedy. 1000+ posts at CFC means nothing at apolyton. The only time that I forced Catherine into a one city state, was before the first patch. I had her landlockes and everything. She completely depended on me. Other civs declared war on her, though.

+1 post for the Catholic Republican

ranskaldan · September 14, 2002, 23:16

Spaceship.

With the large maps I use, conquest gets very tedious.

Theseus · September 14, 2002, 23:27

Welcome CFCers!!

Sorry for your (temporary) loss, but I'd love to see you guys here more often.

More cross-fertilization...

Anyway, a more serious answer than before:

1) Haven't achieved a cultural victory yet.

2) One conquest victory... tedious.

3) Domination pretty often.

4) Spaceship has been my win type lately... learning to love the late game.

5) Diplo, what a let down. I've been turning it off mostly.

6) OCC, soon to come (probably the only diplo win I respect).

I still stop some games midway through, when I know it's my game. I sorta think of it as being similar to Carver's Quick Challenge... how well do I think I ran the game up to that point?

Another interesting question: How do you lose??

Jawa Jocky · September 15, 2002, 00:45

Usually SS but often domination. Never have won by culture, conquest or score.

I really hated the diplomatic victory at first, but I'm coming around to a new opinion. It's great because it saves you the hastle of playing the boring and poorly conceived modern era.

Demerzel · September 15, 2002, 11:03

the diplo victory may be quick & easy but I've chosen to disable it as it's just so tackily implemented.

Wormwood · September 15, 2002, 11:06

When I tried out the jump from Emperor to diety, I was obliterated by a coaltion of Rome, Persia, and Iroqouis (yeesh!). I ended up with one city on a pathetic island, so I gave up. Only time I was ever thoroughly thrashed.

Thrawn05 · September 15, 2002, 11:08

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Originally posted by Theseus
Welcome CFCers!!

Sorry for your (temporary) loss, but I'd love to see you guys here more often.

More cross-fertilization...

What horrors await us? Fanaticpoly!

I do agree diplo could be better... but oh well.

alva · September 15, 2002, 11:28

hmm, better make that ApoFANS

Keeper of Hell · September 15, 2002, 12:30

Space Ship is the one I usually end up doing, just because it's pretty easy. However, when I'm looking to have a bit more fun, I disable all victory types except Conquest and Domination and slug it out. I *always* disable Diplomacy- it's got to be the stupidest, most infuriating victory type there is. You're cruising along, or perhaps in the middle of an epic war, or two turns away from completing the last SS component, then bang! Game over. Ugh.

vmxa1 · September 15, 2002, 13:35

Now your talking.

Moonsinger · September 16, 2002, 16:58

I usually win by Conquest, Domination, and Spaceship all in the same game by 2049 AD (I mean if you load my 2049AD savegame, you have multiple options: you can either launch the spaceship, destroy the last AI city, build another city, build the UN, or do nothing and win by Culture). Cultural and Diplomatic victory does require more works and a lot of time, I'm too lazy for it.

vmxa1 · September 16, 2002, 17:10

I just had a domination before I wanted it, so from now on only Conquest.