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Nor me. Though I could do with the practice so I could play PBEM with it properly.
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Drachen
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On Emperor I adore AP and tiny maps because the "just one more turn thing" sucks me into a huge Civ III vortex where I find myself gibbering about railroads and "It's pay back time!" around 4AM. With AP I just might get to food and sleep by dawn!
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MyOlde
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Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
Jun 1999
time: 05:28
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Yesterday I completed my first game with Accelerated Production and I liked it. A lot.
Caliskier asked me (see above) to note my pros and cons. So here goes.
The nitty gritty: I played on a standard map, skinny little pangaea, Regent, as Persia, with raging barbs (that was a first, too) with all random AI civs.
My average time for a game (I almost always play a standard map) is 18-19 hours. This one went 16.
Everything moves along faster. The food bin fills faster, techs research in a shorter number of turns, and so on. And I enjoyed it. I had to keep reminding myself that I did NOT have any kind of an edge on the AI, that they were enjoying the same rate of production -- and that was evident when I called them up to make a deal and saw how many techs they had and I didn't.
For the purists in the group, I too am a purist. I have never modded the game, figuring the guys who designed it and played it figured out how the ideal ideal game would play. And I noted in the thread that one or two thought to use AP would be to somehow compromise the game. Having played it, I don't see that there's any compromise. It is simply a shorter version of what we all know and love.
To the poster who said he liked to have his cities always building something, I would simply say that, once they've built everything there is, it never hurts to build another defensive unit or to bring in some extra gold (wealth). I've been doing that ever since I started playing the game.
Now there may be some differences that I'm missing. I don't bother trying to get into the inner workings of the game the way some of our colleagues here do. But on the surface and after 16 hours, I don't see the difference. Except that you get to each goal faster. And I found it very enjoyable.
I should have noted above that I'm also not pressed for time. I have lots of hours to devote to Civ. I'm retired and Civ is my afternoon at the golf course. So I don't do it because my spare time is limited.
I'd be interested in reading of bad experiences with AP.
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caliskier
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Thanks Myolde, I think I might have a game where I play with it all the way through.
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I tried it once...didn't like it. Went by too fast, didn't feel right IMO.
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