SP late game boredom?

[Morkilus]

Actuarian said:
I have yet to see a true 4X turn-based strategy game that doesn't suffer from this end-game micromanagement slowdown. Smaller maps will definately help and lower resources and gold settings should help too.

Space Empires IV. There's enough good automation that you can focus on what's fun and leave the AI to do the rest.

[Taqwus]

SE IV did get tedious if you were an extreme long-term maximizer (like building atmosphere converters on all domed worlds, converting to Monolith IIIs, ensuring per-planet and per-system computer facilities...) but yah, you could set it up so that the end game didn't have as much micro, like using finite resources (Anacreon-style... well, in Anacreon, it's even worse because you run out of trillum and that's used to both build and FUEL your ships) or tweak the tech tree.

Ex: mod away System Gravitational Shields and let the Stellar Manipulation technologies do their work.


As for late-game D3, if it's essentially won, I might merely hit 'enter' for a few turns (if it looks like dominion kill is going to happen), or I might ignore micromanagement and start running strange experiments (GoR'd mindless summons, insanely-equipped assassins, collecting all the elemental royalty, cloning enemy pretender types with Wish, basically playing around with items/magic I normally deem too risky, silly or expensive).