Completing SP Games

[Agema]

I've very rarely completed SP games on anything that is based on random maps (eg. Civ as opposed to, say, Starcraft where you 'complete' the game). Once the hard part is over, you may as well go to a new hard part.

[NTJedi]

Agema said:
I've very rarely completed SP games on anything that is based on random maps (eg. Civ as opposed to, say, Starcraft where you 'complete' the game). Once the hard part is over, you may as well go to a new hard part.

Atilla the Hun: "It is not enough that I must win, everyone else must lose."

[Lingchih]

I've completed maybe two or three SP games, out of the hundreds that I have played. That may be why I suck so bad at the endgame in MP

[LDiCesare]

Agema said:
I've very rarely completed SP games on anything that is based on random maps (eg. Civ as opposed to, say, Starcraft where you 'complete' the game). Once the hard part is over, you may as well go to a new hard part.

In Civ, depending on what you're targetting, the end may very well be the hard part (One City Challenge in Civ2 for instance, or a cultural victory in Civ IV).
I tend to finish all the SP games where I remember to set a victory condition (usually about half the provinces or half the land provicnes). Otherwise, I will erase the game after either getting bored or having tested what I wanted to test (nation, spell, whatever).

[Serenity]

Well when things go too well or too badly I tend to quit the game and start another. Usually they go too well, which is damn boring. Sometimes I come up with a interesting build for the nation and start over.

I've always liked the idea of bleeding your opponent out of resources. Attack a province beyond the front lines, put some PD and pillage till its worth nothing. Repeat a few times at high pop or farmland provinces and you can win tough opponents pretty fast thus speeding up the boring end part.

[Ming]

I have never finished an SP game on standard victory condition.

I have since set victory condition to around 60% of the provinces and even then only finish about 50% of my SP games. However, I hope to work on my unfinished games at some point and bring the % up. 8-)