Things that make you stop caring

[Renco]

My thinly veiled attempt to get some tech support, but i'm also genuinely interested.

So RTW players, what makes you abandon a campaign before it's finished?

Mine is when my game starts crashing, and my most recent saves become corrupted, meaning I have to replay from an earlier version.

My game was just getting interesting. Playing vh/vh for the first time as Julii, had just taken Rome and was about to start fighting roman factions on like 4 different fronts around the world, in all types of terrain. I was pretty excited. Now I just don't care.

What's happened to you?

[Genius of the Restoration]

I'm exactly the same. Even though I only ever have to replay a single turn because I'm a compulsive saver, it really puts me off.

[Fireright]

It's usually when all that squalor garbage starts getting out of hand, and I'm feeling more like an accountant or public sanitation inspector instead of a military commander. I think "oh stuff this campaign, it just aint fun".

[Brusilov]

It's recommended that you turn off autosave and don't do quicksaves. Both are known to corrupt games.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=100384

[Punic Hoplite]

When I find myself spending more time managing than fighting. Or when I start letting the computer decide more battles than actually fighting battles. Although for the first problem I find the 'Manage Everything' button comes in handy if its an interesting campaign.

[jukeness]

It gets boring because it's too easy.

[NikolaTesla]

When I hit the Romans, if they have Marian reforms. It just gets so tedious having to fight every battle, since, according to auto-resolve, your 1 general, 7 phalanx, 4 Cappadochin cav, and 2 onagers can't beat 2 urban cohorts...

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

The same for me. And also when I beat my principial enemy (tse and pontus as Egypt, GCS, Brutii, Dacia, Thrace as Macedon an so on). After that you are usually so rich and powerful that noone is a threat anymore.

[Stu.]

When you cant be bothered fighting a battle which you could easily win if you did play (plus the balance thingy is towards your army) and decide to auto resolve it to save time, and you get a "crushing defeat" or something like that, this wouldnt be so bad if you could load your autosave, but that isnt possible if you just fought a twenty minute heroic victory on the same turn. At that point, I just close the game and go on youtube or something... -_-

[herne_the _hunter]

When the game crashes which is a really rare event. Especially frustrating after I had won an enjoyable but intense heroic victory against the odds which was sweet in itself but it meant I would have taken a city as well. (that's with a fully working save game so I could play it again but it just wouldn't be the same )

If I find a campaign getting boring I'll switch to another one to relieve the tension and so forth. Ideally it would be good to switch to another faction in the same campaign world to give it another view point on the world.

Being abit anal here but the starting geographical errors of some factions. Not immediately noticable but once you become aware of it though reading more up on history it becomes annoying. eg the cut down Selucid Empire in vanilla.

Using the auto resolve.

[Fireright]

When you cant be bothered fighting a battle which you could easily win if you did play (plus the balance thingy is towards your army) and decide to auto resolve it to save time, and you get a "crushing defeat" or something like that, this wouldnt be so bad if you could load your autosave, but that isnt possible if you just fought a twenty minute heroic victory on the same turn. At that point, I just close the game and go on youtube or something... -_-

Auto-resolveitis is also a sign that its actually 4am and time to go to bed. Yet another TW player is gonna be late for work or college

[herne_the _hunter]

Auto-resolveitis is also a sign that its actually 4am and time to go to bed. Yet another TW player is gonna be late for work or college

too true

[|Sith| Max]

i played campaigns for 2 years straight after getting the game in 2006. then i clicked this thing called multiplayer and did not look back till RS2 came out. one of my subordinates made their MP mode so i went to check that out, and i was then promised that a VH VH campaign would be hard. So far it hasnt surfaced but the new units to rape adds some variety. The AI still just hill camps though. doesnt do anything when you rotate your entire army behind em... after so many years of MP i cant stand such noobness.

[Loko]

After the point where I feel my empire is unstoppable (i.e. all major enemies severely crippled), pretty much anything can make me stop a campaign and consider it "done". I've never experienced a game crash or corrupt save, nor do I ever auto-resolve, but any other annoyance can trigger the "meh I'm done with this" event at that point. It can be an army of mine being bribed, even a single unit one; an assassination; one too many rebel armies spawns, ... Basically from the moment I feel unstoppable I say to myself "okay I'll continue until world domination or annoyance" and usually I'm relieved when I get an excuse to stop :-) Last vanilla campaign it was the last turn of a city I was besieging, the enemy sallied out but after beating back a couple of their units the rest just stayed inside the walls and stopped moving (I play without battle time limit)... I couldn't be bothered to attack them and I refused to accept a draw so that was it...

[Fireright]

After the point where I feel my empire is unstoppable (i.e. all major enemies severely crippled), pretty much anything can make me stop a campaign and consider it "done". I've never experienced a game crash or corrupt save, nor do I ever auto-resolve, but any other annoyance can trigger the "meh I'm done with this" event at that point. It can be an army of mine being bribed, even a single unit one; an assassination; one too many rebel armies spawns, ... Basically from the moment I feel unstoppable I say to myself "okay I'll continue until world domination or annoyance" and usually I'm relieved when I get an excuse to stop :-) Last vanilla campaign it was the last turn of a city I was besieging, the enemy sallied out but after beating back a couple of their units the rest just stayed inside the walls and stopped moving (I play without battle time limit)... I couldn't be bothered to attack them and I refused to accept a draw so that was it...

Wow..I sure recognise some of the sentiments expressed in your post...have some rep

Whilst its a sign that we're playing a good engrossing game with a high 'must have one more turn' factor, I too get that 'annoyance trigger'.

Eg...click end turn, the AI does its stuff...I'm presented with a sea of red faces all over the map, and I dread the thought of having to sort it all out.

[Plant]

After the point where I feel my empire is unstoppable.

10 turns into the game then.

[HanatielHawk]

Normally I stop playing the campaign when the constructionlist is getting so long, that I need to spend ten minutes to complete it and 20 minutes to complete the turn

[|Sith| Max]

tbh i think they intentionally make the AI so bad that kiddies can have a make pretend belief that they are top players.

[{GrailKnight}]

The crappy A.I., i've never finished a campaign since it was so boring :/

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

used to play tons of singleplayer in mods like SPQR, RTR and RS(still the best, going to have to give RSII a go though once I hit 2nd year uni and uni internet blocks RTW online), but multiplayer takes the cake