Top Ten Things I'd rather do than play CTP:
1) Play Lemmings.
2) Eat SPAM and Velveeta sandwiches made with Light Mayo on Potato bread.
3) Scratch my armpit with a cheese grater.
4) Pick my nose with a knitting needle.
5) Repeatedly slam my johnson in a doorjam.
6) Download and extract the file 'allthelatest.zip'.
7) Walk barefooted in an adult movie theatre.
8) Watch Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, over and over and over. (Of course, anyone who would play CTP probably LIKES that god-awful movie!!)
9) Have a long, subject-roving conversation with Gilbert Gottfried.
10) Watch a Barney/Teletubbies marathon.
In short(too late), Civ CTP was perhaps a worse thing to have done to the Civilization franchise than Batman and Robin was for the Batman franchise. The civil engineering thing was a bad idea. The controls and displays were over-engineered and under-planned. The game basically took everything great about Civ, and threw it away, then replaced it with incomprehensible rubbish. I never finished a game. I got to the point where I had about twenty cities and simply could not abide to AI's colossal stupidity, the SLOWNESS(I have a 200mhz w/32 megs RAM), and the loss of everything good about Civ. To deny these facts is to mark yourself as a child interested in nothing more than pretty colors and flashing lights. Go play Dungeon Keeper(the original, II sucked), it will definitely be more your speed. Or better still Quake(what's it on, III? F-P-S's, feh.)
Fearless Leader
