Retire, or stick with it to the end?

[PirateLei]

If you're doing badly and know you'll probably lose, will you keep playing until the end whether you manage to win or not, or do you just retire?

For me I've been just retiring lately, and it just feels lacking, but saves time? Perhaps I should try to play to the end.

[Patman]

If I don't see any chance, I retire and restart. A single game just takes too long for me to keep it going. Just focus on what went wrong until that to improve next time...

[Ryika]

I tend to retire quite often. If I win, if I lose... doesn't really matter. I think there's not too much to learn anyway - if you're losing, mistakes were already made long ago and snowballed until you were able to see their effects. So from the "How to get better?"-Point of View I think the right thing to do is to think about the game, what might have gone wrong and then retire quite early. That way you can practise the early game as much as possible, because that's where you start winning games.

[PirateLei]

I'll stick to my retiring habits then ^_^ lol. Thanks for your inputs everyone.

[NikkiButt]

I'm of a different feather then :p I get way too immersed and if I made mistakes and fail, I'll continue on until im entirely defeated. See how my story ends ya know?

[FergieJ]

There are some achievments for lossing with some civs as well....but beyond that I retire often.....I actully retire more often if im winning and just crushing everyone, I find the struggle for 2nd place and a slim chance to win much more rewarding than smashing everything with battleships in the year 1790

But then I try to crank it up a notch in harder AI and really get creamed lol for now, really depends on a lot of factors though

[Twelvefield]

I rarely finish games.

[Matthew]

I'm with Twelve on this one. Have nearly 2k hours in this game and often never finish a game. The enjoyment for me is forming my empire and once the game hits Industrial and beyond, it usually just becomes "click next turn" until the victory screen finally rolls around.

Perhaps if turns took as quickly as they do in the early game, I'd stick it out, but as it is now it is a lot of sitting around for nothing.

[OZFugazi]

i NEVER retire.. only exit to main menu :)

[PirateLei]

^I retire, exit to main menu, and exit game as well, lol.

[Pneuma]

If I'm not the dominant civ in the game I try and spam as many science buildings in the game to give me a better technological edge. if i'm behind based on armies and territory covered, well I just suck it up and capture 1 city at a time!

[Danny]

I will stick to the end if there is hope, hope as in taking a vital city from the ai that will put me back as a player on the world stage. If not and I get put EXTREMELY far back due to getting a 1v4 war from some bs or something like that, then yeah I retire because ai's on far away lone continents are wrecking me on the demographics board

[Arcamean]

Depends, as said before usually you don't know you're screwed until it's too late then it's best to restart. I usually never bother with retiring because I despise that screen.

[Gisterack]

i retire

[Sohei]

I often retire when I am winning. Mopping up at the end can be boring.

[Peltron5000]

Usually, I would retire. I mean you could possibly pull out a cultural or science win, but it's unlikely in situations like when I lost my capital and other civs when two different nations flanking me from both sides declared war on me but I survived by building off contient lands, but it still wasn't enough to get the culture/science I needed.