1000 Clues You Play Civ IV Too Much

[Civ'ed]

3170) You see a leaflet advertising tourism for Vatican City, but wonder how comes its got all that culture, but it hasn't flipped loads of Italian cities yet?

OCC, of course.

 

[Bryce3]

OCC, of course.

3171) When you work this out, you release that Italy must have cheated by giving itself settlers/cities in the WB

 

[baseballpie]

That's great!

"My name is Ozymandias, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle." -- Leonardo Da Vinci

"A man does not get himself killed for a little security so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." -- Angela Merkel

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by one vessel unto honor, and another onto dishonor?" -- Kurdish proverb

I love this so much

"The bureaucracy is expanding, not when there is nothing left to add, but when political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Andrew Jackson

 

[AW Arcaeca]

I can at least attempt this...

"The whole is more than what its purchaser will pay for the minds of all, the idea of God." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"We will make electricity so cheap that I have no time for this nonsense to electrify him." - Robert Bacon

"You should hammer your iron when the same God that has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect will feed him for a life time for art's sake." - Steve Wozniak

3172) You spend your free time merging civ4 tech quotes for the sake of humor.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

"We will make electricity so cheap that I have no time for this nonsense to electrify him." - Robert Bacon

Obviously just my opinion, but that one wins.

 

[CaterpillarKing]

"The whole is greater than the earthly by the love of self, so long as it's black." - Pliny the Elder

 

[baseballpie]

We need a thread dedicated to this.

 

[Bryce3]

Agreed.

 

[civfanchambers]

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection, when words are both true and kind, so that the strong should not harm the weak, except by the lawful judgment of his peers".

 

[AW Arcaeca]

"Never trust a computer we borrow from our children." - Homer

"It is not the strongest species that survive, but the great masses of the wisest men that follow their own direction with their eyes turned skyward." - Virgil

"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities make a habit of doing two things: to help, or at least, to do no harm." - Albert Einstein

"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with what gunpowder did for war." - Sputnik

 

[Quintillus]

We need a thread dedicated to this.

I agree. These are both funny, and at times sensible as well. One of y'all who's submitted some should start a thread. It'd be a shame for them to fall into obscurity by being buried 145 pages deep into a thread.

 

[baseballpie]

I guess I could if that's alright with everyone.

 

[Lennier]

You can do it even if it's not OK with everyone.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I guess I could if that's alright with everyone.

Done and done well.

 

[Pangaea]

Clue #2898

"Civ 4 - Strategy & Tips" is on top of the "Most Visited" list in Firefox.

 

[Seraiel]

Clue #2898

"Civ 4 - Strategy & Tips" is on top of the "Most Visited" list in Firefox.

That's actually a clue that you play CIV wrongly, because what should be on top of the list are the HoF-forums ^^ .

 

[civfanchambers]

When your playing Civ4 prevents you from viewing the cfc forum.

 

[reddishrecue]

When you play deity difficulty many times on random and rage quit many times that you start feeling depressed.