1000 Unrealistic things about the Civ Games

[pi4t]

71)Civ 3 (and perhaps others) Barbarians build horsemen when they are nowhere near horses

 

[pi4t]

72)civ3-Cities always join another civilisation, never start a new one
73)civ3-Boats can never go up rivers, and units can just leap across them
74)although the boats probably couldn't fit, and the units can put the same foot on both sides of the river at once (in other words, the units are too big)

 

[Öjevind Lång]

In a previous post, I mentioned Colosseum as a possible Great Wonder. Actually, it was a Great Wonder on French and British lists in the 18th century. In those days, the list usually looked like this:

1) Colosseum in Rome
2) The Catacombs of Alexandria
3) The Great Wall
4) Stonehenge
5) The Leaning Tower in Pisa
6) The Porcelain Tower in Nanking
7) Hagia Sophia

Here are a couple of new absurdities (very enjoyable, though):

(75 Battalions of workers are chased by wolves

(76 Indian workers run twice as fast as other workers

(77 Persian Immortals ride on horses although in real life, they fought on foot

And one I genuinely disapprove of:

(78 The half mythical Ragnar Lodbrok is the Scandinavian leader instead of Canute, and Brennus is Celtic leader instead of Vercingetorix

 

[Alarconte]

(in the anterior way) :


79) Civ4- The epic/mithological Gilgamesh of Uruk leads the hordes of the sumerian; but this time he has triumphed on his Quest to obtain the INMORTALITY!

 

[pi4t]

Not if his civ's destroyed...

80) all civs, probably: everyone lives forever, or until they die by starvation, being killed etc

 

[pi4t]

81)civ 3 chariots need less shields than horsemen

 

[twitching]

82) civ 4 - horse back riding is a much more expensive tech than wheel for chariots

83) civ 4 - tribal villages have knowledge of paper millenias ahead of any other civ

 

[NewWaver]

84) Civ4 (and in urban legend) - Al Gore invented the Internet.

 

[Camikaze]

85) Civ 4- Nationality disappears instantly when civ is wiped out.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

86) Another civ may dislike you for "attacking our friend" even if they later on attacked that "friend" too.

 

[techathon]

87)Civ3- As soon as a city is built, it can be instantly to corrupt to be useful.

 

[pi4t]

87)Civ3- As soon as a city is built, it is instantly to corrupt to be useful.

88) civ3, if you make civ 1 break an agreement with civ 2 against you your advisor will say: don't forget [civ 1's leader] betrayed OUR FRIENDS [civ 2]

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

22. A 100 Years War is considered a relatively "quick" war.

I always thought that was rather hilarious myself.

28) I can invade Russia and never have to worry about winter.

I quite agree... Then again, if that were the case, Russia would be invincible.....

21) Civ IV: Other civ leaders nurse a grudge against you forever if you attacked their friend in 3750 BC. There should be a (very long-time, but still) statute of limitations. 3 000 years?

Same thing goes for Civ III.... That's why I always play with diplomacy victory disabled: In all but Chieftain and Warlord difficulties, by the time you can build the UN, no matter WHAT you do, everyone's so ticked off at you that they'll vote against you and it's instant game-over (never mind that you control over 33% of the land area and Population and your army is at least TWICE the size of your largest competitor's)...

And one I genuinely disapprove of:

(78 The half mythical Ragnar Lodbrok is the Scandinavian leader instead of Canute, and Brennus is Celtic leader instead of Vercingetorix

Yeah, that makes me mad, too... If they're going to unite Scandinavia as a single civilization, then they should use Canute or, better yet (in my opinion) Gustav II Adolf, one of the only kings in history worth of the title.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

Yeah, that makes me mad, too... If they're going to unite Scandinavia as a single civilization, then they should use Canute or, better yet (in my opinion) Gustav II Adolf, one of the only kings in history worth of the title.

The Danes, the Norwegians and the Icelanders would disapprove of it since Gustavus Adolphus fought (and won) wars against them. I think Canute would be better, and perhaps Margaret the Union Queen as an alternative ruler. She did rule all the Nordic countries, and she was a good ruler. Still, the Swedes, the Finns and the Estonians might not like having *two* Danish leaders of the Scandivanian civilization, so that woudl mean Canute alone.

 

[Tholish]

Graphical scale discrepancies. Each object (city, improvement, unit, bonus, route, feature) fills its square so it is visible. We adjust to the fact that an infantryman towers over buildings like Godzilla, but sometimes it jars. I'm not asking for google earth here, just a layer of zoom at which scales all match. When you are zoomed out you see things as through binoculars, one thing at a time. When you zoom in you see them together in proper relative scale. At some point it just transitions, like the music changing.

 

[Camikaze]

89) You can actually build the Space Elevator.

 

[kochman]

90) Rifling instantly obsoletes walls... uh

 

[My Pet Hamster]

90) Rifling instantly obsoletes walls... uh

Well, it kinda does. Get big gun. Fire big gun. Wall go bye-bye.

(91) The buttons saying emphasize whatever... There should just be a "work harder" button.

 

[CiverDan1]

(92) Enkidu Warrior - apparently mythological figures were good at fighting real battles
(93) Quecha - what exactly is this supposed to be?
(94) Feeding millions of people with sushi

 

[Gamemaster77]

95) CivALL? - One source of iron can fuel the entire world if you own it