Posted by Lelouch of the Rebellion

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Freeciv, which is a Civ 2 clone (and of course, free. Thing is, the games take a long time).

OpenTTD (Needs a few files, but it can be set up as a tournament game fairly well)

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Freeciv is ironically one of the faster Civilization games I played. Mostly because of the missing eyecandy and streamlined technology tree (which I almost start climbing too fast at some point).

OpenTTD is not that good for competition, at least by default. If you were playing with more expensive stuff, and with patches to decrease the timescale a bit (so it takes longer to pay off expenseses/income) then perhaps. (A common problem is that you have more money than you can get ride of at a certain point in the game).

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Posted by Lelouch

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Posted by Ailure

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A common problem is that you have more money than you can get ride of at a certain point in the game.

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Yeah, at three game months in

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Which is why I thought about writing a patch that makes it take longer time to gain income/expenses. It won't make the game harder, just slow down it economically. To make up for it, I would make each day to take longer. The trains will be as fast, so don't worry about watching them go along at a snailpace.

...that would also allow one to be AFK for long periods of time, and just build in spurts than being there constantly. So there's more planning than rushing.

There's also Civ IV, which I really prefer over Freeciv/Civ II. However it's ruleset is... very different.

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