gettingfat
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- Nov 7, 2003
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The more I play Civ4, the more I find something not making any sense, to the point I actually find it funny, e.g.
Not that I'm complaining. A game is a game. Just find it so weird.
- You're are living in a totally isolated island in the ancient era. Your people exhaust themselves to build a Pyramid for you and is 90% finished. Suddenly a voice in your head tells you, "Stop, it has been built by people far far away, you've infringed somebody's copyright". You're so upset, but then you realize that you can actually turn the stones that you used into heaps of gold by some sort of magic.
- You can turn the ivory that you trade for into elephant warriors. Another magic.
- Stone is harder to find than iron. Oil seems to be everywhere.
- My Mongolian Kershners with flank II promotion don't know how to withdraw from a bunch of spearmen charging at them.
- Elizabeth still doesn't want to teach me alphabet after I've razed her two cities and beseiged London with my 15 axemen.
- Seeing a whole stack of longbowmen fortifying at their capital? No problem, we've got suicide bombers, a.k.a. catapults.
- My people have learned fusion, still have no clue how to plant a tree.
- The easiest way to win diplomatically is to nuke everybody so your people represent over 67% of population in the world
- One can spend money on research to discover God
Not that I'm complaining. A game is a game. Just find it so weird.