Unlimited Turns

[WE ARE VENOM]

Is its possible to have unlimited turns ?

[Jiks]

Yes, absolutely.

Simply go into Game Setting Summary/Advanced Settings and untick score victory. Then you can play as long as you like.

[WE ARE VENOM]

Originally posted by Jiks:

Yes, absolutely.

Simply go into Game Setting Summary/Advanced Settings and untick score victory. Then you can play as long as you like.

Thanks mate :)

[Bone Daddy]

Hi, I've recently got the game and was about to start a match, I had the same question, and am just wondering this:

In case we dont have score victory on, what effect does game speed have, and does anything happen at the turn limit stated in the game speed we choose?

[Jiks]

Originally posted by Czin:

In case we dont have score victory on, what effect does game speed have, and does anything happen at the turn limit stated in the game speed we choose?

Not sure I understand the question, so I'll answer the one I think you are asking ^^

If score victory is turned off nothing will happen on turn 150 fast/300 normal speed etc, the game will carry on until someone meets one of the other victory conditions.

The number of turns for the score victory on each speed is fair indication of how long it will take that to happen in an average game, ie 300 turns on normal speed and normal difficulty I'd be getting nervous of an AI win by science or wonder.

On higher difficulties they will move along faster, usually. Sometimes not as they are too busy fighting like weasels in a sack but you get the idea.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

I beleive you can play even with score victory on.. you can just ignore victories.

[Bone Daddy]

My question is if the game speed afects anything besides the turn limit, after researching a bit I believe it also imbalances the game in some factions favor and messes with, for example, turn limits on quests and other stuff.

[Jiks]

Changing the game speed does change a lot of things as you suspect but I only play on normal so anything I come out with is going to be unreliable, hopefully someone a bit more knowledable will come along, Czin.

[Paladestar]

Not sure about all the speeds, but on Endless speed you get to set your empire plan every 40 turns instead of 20 turns (it lasts for 40 turns too, so there's no downtime). Luxury boosters last for 20 turns instead of 10.

On Endless speed you only get 0.333 - a third - (or might even just be 0.3, can't remember for sure) strategic resources per extractor per turn instead of 1. This confused me at first as for a couple of turns after I built first my first Titanium extractor I still had zero showing, like it was doing nothing. The confusion arises from that fact that the tooltips do not adjust for this different rate, they still refer to the base of 1 for everything, e.g. the if you research and build the technology that gives +1 on strategic resource, it still says +1 on the tooltip, but will instead only give +0.333 for 0.666 total per extractor per turn instead. Everything has the same cost though, so it takes far longer to be able to equip armies with strategic gear, to erect buildings that need strategics etc.

[Okumura]

Be warned, however! While you may be able to play for unlimited turns, you WILL face an endless winter. I was at turn 500, at that point, Summers only lasted 1-2 turns, with winters everywhere else. I cant remember what speed I was playing on (Probably a long one, since I like dragged out games), so I dont know if this is affected by game speed or not. Somewhere I found a mod to turn of winter, but as of yet I have not found a mod that keeps winter without making it constant as the game goes on.