Victory and the Scoreboard
The game is won by conquest. A civilization is destroyed the moment it loses its last city; when every rival has been destroyed, the last civilization standing is victorious. Barbarians never count either way.
Conquest is the only ending for now. More are on the way, most of them coming down to a final choice: see Endings and Final Choices on the Roadmap.
Defeat
- Losing your last city defeats you. You may keep watching the game unfold as a spectator.
- A city of one citizen is destroyed rather than captured, so a civilization down to a single small city can be wiped out in one assault. See Cities.
The scoreboard
Press F2 for the scoreboard: every civilization you have met, graphed turn by turn on eight ratings. It also lists the top 10 cities of the world (citizens x 1 plus wonders x 5) and every wonder built.
- Population: every citizen in your cities.
- Military: the combined strength of your military units, counted at full health, in tenths so it reads on the same scale as the other ratings.
- Economy: gold earned per turn by cities, trade routes and trade deals before anything is spent, plus 2 for every caravan running a route.
- Culture: culture made per turn.
- Science: science made per turn, plus the cost of every technology you know divided by 100.
- Wonders: wonders of the world standing in your cities, whoever built them. A captured wonder counts for its new holder.
- Land Area: tiles inside your borders.
- Power: all of the above combined: population x10, military x2, economy x4, culture x2, science x16, wonders x80, land x2. A wonder is worth 8 citizens.
- The military cap: military counts for at most 35% of Power, however large the army. Past that line only what the civilization does besides fighting raises its score, and raises the line with it.
Hover a civilization in the scoreboard's legend to see what each rating adds to its Power. Ratings are worked out from the same history every machine records, so what you see is what your rivals see.