Rate your fav/most hated victory condition 1-5

[76561198120595189]

1 for the best, 5 for the worst. Give reasoning.

Ex
1. Science (You can't be destroyed by your neighbours if you've left the planet, easy and simple)
2. Domination (A bit tricky, but fun)
3. Diplomacy (Very expensive but worth it.)
4. Time (If you hae enough score, then the odds are in your favour. Big pain in scenarios though)
5. Cultural (Tourism...Theming...Ideology difference...nuff said)

[General Malaise]

Domination is my favourite, easily.

Game is really about economy & fighting afaic, and you need to both to win Dom.

Getting in a position to win Dom, usually means you can win however you like. I won my last game Dom, but had every City State allied, and Forbidden Palace, and was Council leader. 44 votes, and needed 39 for Diplomatic, so I abstained. I was tech leader too, so could have won Science, and I had nearly all the culture in the game, so could have won that way.

Domination must be the purest victory.

[Velvet Waltz]

1. Cultural
2. Science
3. Domination
4. Diplomacy
5. Time

There are different approaches for cultural victories and I love to get the snowball going. You can go really far with good micro here, especially with the likes of France, Polynesia or Brazil.
Science is for particular reasons, my "ideal" victory. I, however, like large maps so domination is really tedious. Diplomacy victories are always the same. get an economy, get 2 of world ideology, world religion and forbidden city, bribe all CS and rush to telecommunication. meh. and who the hell wants to sit out 500 turns? if you didn't win by then there's no helping any way

[Martin]

Don't really bother with winning anymore.

Favourite would be Science.
Then Domination.

Never even tried any of the others.

Usually I get into industrial era and by that time someone else is in modern and I just stomp them, then I get bored with the mess of cities I've now got and start a new game.

[General Malaise]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Martin:

Don't really bother with winning anymore.

Favourite would be Science.
Then Domination.

Never even tried any of the others.

Usually I get into industrial era and by that time someone else is in modern and I just stomp them, then I get bored with the mess of cities I've now got and start a new game.

That's one strange post dude.

:)

[Maverick Mullah]

My favorite is Science and Domination victory, culture is meh and time...♥♥♥♥ time...

[HalloweenWeed (US)]

1. Domination
2. Time (really this is Domination, just a turn limit to shorten the game)
3. Culture
4. Diplomacy
5. Science

I don't even play with other than Dom vic any more. Other vics: AI cheats too much to even consider it fair play.

[Gazmeister]

Domination all day everyday.

[𓆚 standardheadache 𓆚]

1. Culture wins out for flavor. As much as it is a waiting game (and requires AI to swap great works with unless you want to pay an arm and a leg), the sweet feeling of knowing everyone in your oppositions' nations are practicing your culture is so satisfying.

2./3. I tie science and diplomacy because both take a while, but are relatively achieveable if you have good infrastructure.

4. I'm not huge on Civ combat, but I'll do it if necessary to get a particularly pesky enemy out of the game. It's also nice to have the standing army to prevent every nation from declaring war on you at once.

5. Time has no flavor, it's purely a mechanic made to artificially shorten games. By that time, the game should be almost over anyways. Let the true victor win!

[daniel]

Cultural, Science, and Dom are ok. Diplomacy is boring and takes too long, and a Time victory doesn't really feel like a real victory.

[Tarik Torgaddon]

1. Domination, because f*ck your feelings!
2. Scientific, to get away from all the dirty Earthling plebs.

I may try for a cultural victory once in a blue moon, when I'm feeling more sophisticated. Everything else just doesn't feel satifying.

I wish there were other ways to win, such as a religious victory (convert everyone's holy cities) or economic victory (have the most gold or have a trade surplus for x amount of turns).

[KalkiKrosah]

1. Science
2. Domination
3. Diplomacy
4. Time
5. Culture

Science helps out in every aspect of the game except maybe religion. So you have more freedom when you attempt a science victory to get other victory types just by being smarter than everyone else.
Domination is the most fun route. You can end a game very quickly with this victory type or at least completely eliminate some of the competition from the game. But the more civilizations there are in the game, the harder this victory route becomes because of the happiness Mechanic.
Diplomacy is funny in how you can screw other people over, but it is tedious and annoying as a victory condition. I have never actually gotten a victory through diplomacy.
Time is for when you're just screwing around and win by accident, but it's better than culture.
Culture is so dull and so anticlimactic. I only won this victory because I got impatient and wiped out the other cultural leaders off the map.

[Enigmatic]

I always turn off Science. The extra tech you get is enough of an advantage towards domination.

[lukebaird84]

1. Cultural (it's the most difficult so the most rewarding)
2. Domination
3. Scientific
4. Diplomatic
5. Time (I generally disable it)

[HankMcTankerton]

1. Domination - Usually with warmongering AI allies I meet.

2. Diplomatic - Warmongering friends usually vote wisely after destroying others.

3. Time - Don't have to conquer everything outright, as long as I do well.

4. Scientific - Sometimes a strong military doesn't get you what you want, especially if you're playing on a large map and can't find that one guy that's always an era ahead.

5. Cultural - I feel like there's just too many ways for countries to just shoot you the finger and say "yeah, you have me surrounded, but I have religion! NYAH!" This is the only one I usually turn off

[BubblestationCPH]

1. Domination

2. Domination

3. Domination

4. Domination

5. Science

rest is BS imho