Thread: How long does it take you to finish a round of Civ?

I'm talking in game years here.

Originally Posted by LuckyDucky

I don't know, I've never won yet.

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Protip- EXPAND FAST!

EG, build a worker, then your capital builds nothing but settlers until you're humping your rival's borders. New cities build a worker, then highest defensive troop or two, then buildings. S'usually how I do things.

Originally Posted by Red_Lizard2

i'd suggest against always expanded, you may overexpand and thus dropping research to net to nothing and falling behind tech wise.

The simple way is if your researching at higher then 80% then you should look to expand. Obviously there are times when it is more important to expand, different levels etc.

2nd it helps to try and make sure you are at least mid level on the power chart (if i recall correctly) if you are towards the bottom, likely your going to find yourself being attacked by the AI since they know you are weak. Obviously the empires around you matter as an aggressive leader is more willing to attack then others.


As for how long, for me its usually a lonnnggggg time as i tend to focus on winning through culture first, war if i get the chance but i tend to defend more. I don't use time (There no end date in real life (yet)), or Space race (Stupid win condition imo). Got to win either by conquest, domination, culture or Diplomatic

In the beginning it is imperitive that you expand quickly. Rapid Early eXpansion/REXing. Spam out the cities. It doesn't matter if your science drops to even 0% sometimes, as long as you are compensated by a lot of well placed cities. Work a lot of commerce tiles and run scientists in the mean time. You'd be surprised at how fast the AI will expand if you don't grab up land first. My typical build order in the early game would consist of maybe 6 settlers and a shitload of workers. Grow fast and whip infrastructure like crazy. Then kill your nearest neighbor.