Recent content by spite

Maybe I phrased things wrong. I never stated this game sucks. Even look at my topic - it's in the form of a question. It's designed to provoke, I agree... but to provoke an intelligent response, a rebuttal. Nowhere did I state that the game sucks. I stated MY qualms with it, but I always...

Why do I feel as if I'm talking to a bunch of Quake fanboys and accidentally insulted their favorite mod, not mature Civ fans? It's too bad that the civ newsgroups have gone downhill so much over the past 5 years. My point is: 1. Hi, I'm a fan of Civ games. 2. For some reason I find...

Hey, did I throw insults your way? Do I tell you that your posts are meaningless? No. I just want to know if I'm missing something about Civ3, if I'm doing something wrong... that after two weeks of trying to really like it, I'm getting frustrated at my inability to succeed in the game...

It's a lot of *work* to play this game. Building settlements (especially later in the game, when default units are expensive) is very time-consuming and unrewarding. Strategic resources are the biggest PITA ever. I mean, what farmer didn't have a horse dating back to pre-historic times...