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Wiglaf
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Cambridge
Dec 2000
time: 23:36
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Hi, I am just starting Civ3, and I am a little intimidated with how long a game seems to take. Most games like this are long by default but allow through customization for shorter sessions. My first Civ3 game with Accelerated production, small world, was over 2 days (6 hours, up to 1800AD and still going). Short of playing scenarios, what can I do to speed things up?
One thing I am looking at is buying PTW. It only costs $8, whereas Conquests is up in the $30 range, and it seems to allow reliable single-player variants that might shorten the game. Or is Conquests, despite being $22 more, still a better value? Thanks.
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eris
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To shorten a game:
Surrender immediately. That'll do it. But maybe that's not the answer you are looking for.
Going to an even smaller map should help. Adjusting your playstyle might help. Go for an aggressive nature of play. War early and often. The less enemy units and cities that exist, the sooner the game will end.
PTW and Conquests both introduced stack handling abilities, albeit primitive ones, which seem to relieve some of the tedium of moving units around and make the gme at least seem less endless. Despite other opinions, I would recommend Conquests. There are new traits and some gameplay balance adjustments that are significant improvements. (However, watch out for the resource scarcity. That can be a pain in the Assigned Strategy and cause significant rethinking towards a new Assigned Strategy.)
If you go with the upgrade and want a fast game, try Elimination mode. Take out one city and that whole tribe disappears. The AI doesn't understand that mode very well, (it is intended for multi-player mode more than single player) but it might make the game entertaiing enough that you start to get hooked.
If you do get hooked you might find yourself playing more extensive games so as to play with the details. You might even find yourself eventually coming back to these boards asking how to implement those extra-huge map sizes just so you can play a little bit longer. Then again, you might not. What really matters is having fun.
It comes down to part of your original post. You said you were in the 1800's after some, in your opinion, long length of play. The question becomes: "After all that play and construction and work, aren't you interested in what's going to happen next?" "Does an old unprovoked war still haunt you, or a miss for a land grab for a resource?" If not, then you need some of the suggestions in this thread. However, if it is so, then you are ready to play a second game of Civilization, the one entitled "My Conquest and Revenge, part II". It's just a different way of looking at the epic nature of the game. It's like the Lord of the Rings films. You can watch them one at a time in whatever schedule your interest and life permit, or you can watch them all at once, like I and the kids did this last weekend. It's the same story, but with two different approaches, one of which is even more obsessive than the other.
Maybe that is really what it comes down to, obsession level. And I am obviously in no position to give well-balanced advice on that subject. I fall into the "Too much is almost enough." category all too often.
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04-06-2004 07:07
My typical game takes over a month if I play several hours a day, every day. 
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