1000 Clues You Play Civ IV Too Much

But what if we have a great engineer on standby to help out with production? He could rush a factory or settle in the city for more hammers and research!
 
2128. You think that the French would be better suited if they became Communists.

That's not as far from the truth as you think (talking about the French, not promoting communism). France has had a long history with powerful communist movements.
 
2132. You hear "mad sale ruch" in TV advert and think "Buy rush Kremlin then buy rush 50+ rifles".
It is mad, I would be better off with just whip rush.
 
2136) Poland is a barbarian city in Europe, that, because of a bug, is treated almost like a full civ.

2137) You wonder when they're going to patch the Earth.
 
2140. You try to organize a riot because it's too crowded.
 
2141) When annoyed at your boss, you turn up at work dressed all in red, including a red beret, and then just sit there staring at him.

2142) Some time after an Italian family moved in next door, you notice that you and your family have started to grow slightly Italian around the edges. And when your youngest son is angry, he shouts: "I long to be rejoined with my Motherland!"

2142) You introduce State Property in your home and impound your wife's clothes and your children's toys. The neighbours become somewhat nervous when they see you play with toy trains wearing a dress and high heels.

2143) You become a vegetarian and then get upset because "Vegan" is not a civic in the game.

2144) You see the head of the CIA interviewed on TV and dismiss him as a fraud because he doesn't wear a white dinner jacket.

2145) You are invited to a booksigning event with a great novelist and wonder why he isn't dressed like Elvis.

2146) You rush around the house, building a stable in every room in the hope that a random event will make you benefit from having built them.

2147) You wonder if there are horses on your front lawn and take a course in animal husbandry to find out.
 
2088) If you get a Mexican or a Greek neigbour, you immediately start to plan exactly when to kill him.

I do that anyway regardless of how much I play civ.

2148: When your company's contractor tells you 'We have enough on our hands right now', you immediately go and see if you can strike a deal with their closest competitor.

2149: You think Judaism was the first religion to have a single deity. (Support Monotheism)

2150: When you come home and notice acrid green smoke billowing out of your house, you immediately become an enviromentalist.

2151: When that doesn't work, you petition the council to have a national park constructed in your back yard.
 
2152. You grab a makeshift spear and start heading for a military base to destroy all the tanks there.
 
2153-2178
You try to conduct diplomacy with the wall.
You are grounded for, till college, because you played too much CIV.
You are so bored because you can’t play for, till college that you invade your neighbor’s house.
You think you saw Lincoln in your backyard.
At your child’s birthday party you play pin the tail on Caesar (your enemy who you have been at war with).
You buy Culture on eBay.
You have 7 copies of each game.
You have each game framed in your room.
You think that when the Culture from eBay comes your house will get bigger!
You dig for oil in your backyard.
You text your friend strategies during the big board meeting.
You have CIV installed on your work computer.
You tell your neighbors that their heads would look good on the end of a poll.
You apply to Firaxis without any computer training.
You build a Lego farm and put your corn in it.
You stare at your email all day waiting until your PBEM saves arrives.
You try to build a camp around the fake deer in your yard.
You try to change your name to Churchill.
You try to fish in your pool.
You name your kids Beyond, The, and Sword.
You try to have your wedding at the Firaxis headquarters.
You think Take-two named themselves that, because they give out two copies of each civ game.
You try to make civ 5.
You arm the snowmen you build.
You try to start a golden age by painting everything in your house gold.
 
2179) You go into battle in Iraq with a spear in thinking that the AlQuida will surrender because they have tanks, and you have a spear.

2180) You die because of this :D
 
2181) When there is not enough time between two games to work on your mod.

2182) when you have a PRPM random generator to help you decide if you want to
  1. Play a game,
  2. Read the forum,
  3. Post a message,
  4. work on your Mod.
2183) when you wonder if playing Civ is a hereditary trait as your grandchildren are as fanatic as you are.

2184) When it is late at night, your vision becomes blurred, and you start to see a similarity between queen Elisabeth II (the real life one) and civ leader Elisabeth I.
2185) When it is even later that night and you start to see a similarity between queen Elisabeth II (the real life one) and Boudicca.:crazyeye:

2186) when your citytrip to Rome is wasted as you kept searching for the Hanging Gardens
2187) when your citytrip to Londen is wasted as you kept searching for the Colossus
2188) when your citytrip to Amsterdam is wasted as you kept searching for the Oracle
2189) when you think the USA are hard to enter because they have sealed their borders with the Great Wall.

2190) when you are the most favorite student in history class because of your great knowledge of history.
2191) when you are definitely not the most favorite student in history class because you place events one or two eras early.
 
2192) The only friends that you have are the leaderheads. :p

2193) You think it will take 8 years to cross the country

2194) You think that the world that you live in is just a big game of RFC, but with a lot more civs.
 
but Judaism was the first religion to have a single deity.

2193) No it wasn't.

2194) You build a shrine to said religion called Civilizationism.

2195) You get mad when the shrine does not produce bags of gold.
 
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