Can you explain some things related to victory conditions please? So the game can be won only by accumulating the highest Fame.

1. If a civilization gets eliminated it does not prevent it to win the game when it ends assuming nobody else managed to collect more Fame than that particular civilization. This means that if a civilization has gone far away in Fame that can hardly been gained upon it's not even a solution to follow the Civilization reciepe of erasing it from the planet, right? So maybe resigning the game is a more efficient solution at that point.

2. What if my civilization gets eliminated? Does the game finish at that point? And who's the winner then? Or does the game simulate the game by its end somehow first? :)

Changlini wrote:

Supposedly:

Players who get eliminated do not have their fame counted, but it seems that is not the case, so they're taken out of the game, but their fame still counts when the scores are tallied, so you can theoretically come in second place to an eliminated player.

Exactly. That raises my dilemma described in #1. And still don't get what happens when human player gets eliminated in a single player game by another empire and who wins the game (question in #2).

I would bet that the game just simulates the rest of the turns till turn 300. The easiest way to test this is to start in the Neolithic era and lose all your tribes. There is also an achievement for that. Anyone willing to test this tonight ? :)

Changlini wrote:

Oh, sorry, I haven't tested being eliminated in a game yet, so I don't have any observations on that.:

trigorin wrote:
This means that if a civilization has gone far away in Fame that can hardly been gained upon it's not even a solution to follow the Civilization reciepe of erasing it from the planet, right? So maybe resigning the game is a more efficient solution at that point.

I mean, if you really only are their to come in first and nothing else is acceptable, then yes. Closing the range of a 14,000 v 9000 thousand score difference requires gaining more than three goal stars in each era. Which means you can not be rushing through eras, unless you know you will be too slow to get all those stars. So giving opt, robotically speaking, is the correct choice.

That was my assumption. So the player is constantly forced to keep up the pace, right? This maintains the tension of gameplay. I like it.

(Just a quick question: in my current 6-player game on Metropolis difficulty at Classical Era I'm the last one with Fame of 558 while the leading civ has 1234 - should I resign now? :D)

So I tried it and got eliminated. There is no simulation going on, the game ends just there in this very turn and the one with the most fame in that moment wins. And yes, it is possible to win yourself as the player that has been eliminated. This means that you can more or less freely decide when to end the game (might take a few turns to raze all your stuff and suicide some units), and in case you are leading, also win it. 

Siptah wrote:

So I tried it and got eliminated. There is no simulation going on, the game ends just there in this very turn and the one with the most fame in that moment wins. And yes, it is possible to win yourself as the player that has been eliminated.

Thanks :) So if AI plays to win and is clever enough it won't kill you if you're leading :)

It's not necessarily the AI's choice when you are eliminated, you can take the initiative and die. I suicided against an IP.