Basically let's just tell anything that can go wrong with getting and installing civ4, just a little humor. Anyone can post, since i know i'm not the best comedian.

I. The "Friend"
Once apon a time a civ4 obsessed man walked (ok he ran) into a store and quietly (I mean loudly) celebrated the release of civ4. After being let out of the asylum which he was then placed in, he quickly went back to the store, only to find all the CIV4 CDs gone, they were sold out.
The man fell to his knees and cried, until another man came up to him and said "DUde, just go to a differant store."
With blazing speed the man was off the floor and into the next store, but it was sold out to. In fact ALL the stores seemed to be sold out.
Finally, he came to a store with a copy, and raced for the shelf.
Suddenly his girlfriend jumped out and said "Nuh-uh, you aren't getting this one, I didn't spend over $1000 at the other stores just so I can be dumped for ANOTHER Sid Meiers game!"
The man burned with anger that his stupid girlfriends had done this hideous deed, and she got dumped anyways.

:D The second Civ4 story.

Lacking a little in plot development though :p

Once upon a time a man in England went on the web. Knowing the release if Civilization IV was imminent, he surfed along to CFC and read the pre-release info for his favourite game.

He saw that Civilization IV was due to come in a special pre-order edition, with all sorts of goodies including a printed tech tree, a keyboard overlay, pewter models of a settler, Hammurabi and the Hoover Dam (1/100 scale), life-size busts of Sid Meier and Soren Johnson and a silver cigarette lighter embossed with the phrase, "our words are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS."

He saw it, and he wanted it. He went straight to Amazon. But there was a tingle of doubt at the back of his mind. "Supposing," he thought to himself, "the pre-order edition is only available from certain places? Supposing you have to pre-order it before it's announced? Supposing it's a cock-up and this thing doesn't really exist?" He headed back to Civfanatics to do some research.

His fears were more than justified. The pre-order edition was US-only. He felt gutted. He kicked the cat. He kicked the computer. He stubbed his toe on the desk. He wrote to his MEP, the United Nations, the Warsaw Pact, the Samaritans. He wrote more letters of protest than he had envelopes to put them in.

Later that same day, our hero was standing in a queue in the post office. He was lucky: arriving before lunchtime, he'd managed to get a window seat near the front. Ten minutes later and he'd have been about half a mile further back and in for a long wait. In his arms he carried roughly fifteen boxes of envelopes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, your in-queue movie for today will be Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights starring Carey Elwes and Patrick Stewart. It will start in about five minutes. In the meantime, I'd like to draw your attention to our preferential airmail rates. Transatlantic packages now start from as little as five pee per kilogram up to ninety kilograms."

Fifteen loud thuds echoed through the post office. Our man didn't hear them, nor would he ever: he was already through the sound barrier, retracing his steps back to his house. He threw himself into his doorway, glanced at the post office queue receding into the distance, and opened the door. Wading through a pile of unsent letters, he sat down at the computer.

"Amazon," he breathed to himself. "Dot com. As opposed to dot co dot uk."

Amazon.com don't deliver software to the UK.

Back to Civfanatics.

"Gamestop. Do gamestop deliver to the UK?"

Fifteen thousand miles away, a sonar operator aboard the USS Dallas called the captain.

"I heard something," he said, "but it didn't sound like any ship I've heard before. It made a noise I've never heard at sea before, Captain. I guess it sounded like someone screaming with joy."

Our friend stopped screaming in delight. He fumbled for his credit card. He typed. He phoned the bank. He answered a series of daft "security" questions. He told them his new address. He typed a little more. He clicked on the OK button.

Order status: PROCESSING

He grinned. He grinned and grinned and grinned so damn wide he could have bridged the Atlantic and saved on postage. This grin was so big, it had its own gravity. Thousands of minor planets were sucked in but our man didn't care. He told the girlfriend what he'd done and nearly got chucked out (she only kept him, she explained later, because we was wearing that cute smile). He waited. He hardly slept, logging on to civfanatics every few hours and posting pointless messages. He lost weight too, poor lamb.

Then, one morning, he and his now fixed grin awoke to a Christmas feeling. At first he put it down to all the presents clustered about the place which the super-efficient but possibly obsessive-compulsive girlfriend had planned in July, bought in August and wrapped in September. Then, he remembered.

Release day. Nine hour time difference. Pointless day spent fidgeting and failing not to think about what he was missing. Fighting a headache from all that grinning. He swallowed half a ton of codeine and logged on to gamestop.

PROCESSING

Shytebags.

:lol:

A great story, and one that I totally sympathise with. Id almost forgot the frustration that I used to go through waiting for release dates etc when I still lived in Good Ol' Blighty.

III.
The Bug

Ha, another man thought as he loaded his CD into the drive, "I've got it!".
THe set-up screen came up. He chose his options when halfway through the download his computer crashed! He tries it again, the computer crashes again. Un-able to realise that there was a bug, he crashes his computer for the rest of his life in despair, he starved to death after 4 days.

Poor guy.

STUPID POST SIZE LIMIT!!!

Lol now I woudl have kept my cool and simply done somethign else to get civ4, get antoher copy or antoehr computer or mess up with the computer and or cd until it worked,


One day I jsut heard that civ4 had come out in canada!!!!! but I was too far from any store and i wasn't allowed to drive yet due to driving age, plus my dad wouldnt' order it online cuz hes too lazy and needs to wait till its 2dollars, now im stuck at home posting on a what coudl go wrong thread on a forum when I should be able to be playing civ4 on my computer and destroying someone. [pissed]
(based on a true story)
Now I just found out that my computer will need pentium 4 instead of its pentium3 so il need to get that plus a new motherboard and a faster CPU so basicly i need to get a whole new computer which i dont have enough money to get.[pissed] I feel like killing somethign now