How long does the Average Game Take You

[martialartsofmoney]

I really enjoy this game. However, the games take a VERY long time to complete even on quick mode. Anyone else have this issue?

[Arcanine]

Its not an issue its just how the game works. You have to learn to play fast solo and in groups. The complaining starts happening when your playing with random people and they are slow as f***. Anytime i play with others i ususally have Netflix also running cause of this problem. Also i stray agianst it also cause of this problem.

My expierience is pretty lackluster with multiplayer, I do play with the NQ mod so that tends to help somewhat with thier community. The game is just long, and the only way to make it quicker is play faster and/or play with people that dont take 1-2+ minutes per turn. End game it can be difficult to play faster when you get alot of cities but usually at that time there are wars going on so, thats civ for ya.

[Larry]

Civ has always been a SP game. You never play with other players unless they're friends of yours. You can spend 20+ hours in a single playthrough that's the kind of game this series is.

These games are more time sinks than they are 30-40 minute drops in the pond. It's just how the series was developed as a grand 4X RTS.

[martialartsofmoney]

*thumbs up*

[katzenkrimis]

It takes me about 3 days, (24 hours) with these settings.

Map size: Standard.

Map type: Shuffle.

Game speed: Standard.

Score victory: Off.

Everything else on random/standard.

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Yes, games take a long time. But at least they have a definitive ending.

You are playing a 'match'.

When you play those sandbox strategy games, like Tropico or Anno, they just go on and on.

[martialartsofmoney]

I like taking the scoring match off! Never thought of that.

[butterfieldreb]

One of the complaints I have seen is a long lag time between turns 1+ minutes. This was happening to me until I put the game on a partition all of its own. It reduced the lag time to under 20 seconds even in late game. If Firaxis would come out with a patch allowing the user to choose the save file location this might help improve time even more using this fix. Playing solo King level I have more than 30 hours in on one game.

[martialartsofmoney]

Oh wow what a great idea! How big was the partition you made?

[BladeSe7en [ICON_RESOURCE_FURS]]

Originally posted by Dr.Larry:

Civ has always been a SP game. You never play with other players unless they're friends of yours. You can spend 20+ hours in a single playthrough that's the kind of game this series is.

These games are more time sinks than they are 30-40 minute drops in the pond. It's just how the series was developed as a grand 4X RTS.

Speak for yourself bud. I predominantly play multiplayer. Single player is lack luster due to how poor the ai is. On diety it's not even a challenge. Now MP is a lot of fun because actual strategy. All you need to do is set a turn timer so each turn doesn't take so long. Typically 150-180 seconds is good enough. I play with a group of friends that are very reliable and at times saved a long game and played the next day.