1000 ways you know you've played Civ2 too much when...

[The Person]

406. You visit this thread at school.

407. You have made a lot of MODs, without posting them on the net.

408. You wonder what attitude Bush has towards you.

409. You can't think of anything more to post right now, since you're too busy playing CivII.

 

[Old n Slow]

410. You vote for civ III (as a proxy for civ II) over Mario in the Game Spy activity.

 

[ElephantU]

411. You refuse to vote for CivIII as "its really a different, less worthy game" than Civ2...

 

[Roke]

412: You have civ installed in 3 directories: one with ToT, one with patched ToT so you can play the GOM/Scenarios and one for whatever Modpack you want to play with.

 

[Specialist290]

413. You've built so many cities in one game that you've gone through the lists twice or more (i.e. you have two cities named Athens as the Greeks).

414. You're wondering why Iran hasn't conquered the whole Middle East with all those fanatics.

415. You figure Bush must have gotten a lucky break with the Senate when he invaded Iraq.

416. You wonder if Los Angeles must be having happiness problems because of all the entertainers running around.

417. You wish real-world foreign affairs were as easy to solve in real life as they are in Civ2.

418. You think that nukes aren't so bad because they only kill half of the people and the radioactive mess can be cleaned up by a bunch of engineers in, let's say, five years...

419. You reason that the Egyptians must be well-fed because they have the Pyramids.

420. You think France has good relations with everybody because it built the Eiffel Tower.

421. You think the English are happy little rich guys because they have Shakespeare's Theater and Adam Smith's.

422. The relationship between your flashlight and Energizer batteries is the same as the relationship between you and Civ2.

423. You've worked on the same game for over 3 months...

424. Your weekly electrical bill is higher than your total income for 5 years.

Oh, and hello again, everybody. Haven't been back here in a while.

 

[ElephantU]

Originally posted by Specialist290

415. You figure Bush must have gotten a lucky break with the Senate when he invaded Iraq.

Notice he started with a quick air campaign? He seems to know Civ2 enough to know if he empties the cities and countryside of military units via air attack he can take the cities without a face-to-face confrontation that would cause Senate interference. And those roving helo units could be looked at as partisan-suppression tactics. He used the Marines and MechInf/Armor combinations well, too, aiming straight for the capital city, after which he can bribe or roll over the secondary cities. Keep the nukes in the back pocket in case WMD show up, and then try to restore the city infrastructure to bring back content citizens. In Civ terms, seems like the partisan-suppression was not successful enough, and the happiness improvements are not going in fast enough.

Then again, we have the Statue of Liberty - he could just have revolted to Fundy and eliminated all unhappiness...

 

[funxus]

Funniest thing I've read in a while.

 

[Specialist290]

ElephantU's got me on a roll...


425. You figure the Iraqis have built a hidden city in the desert which is why their partisans haven't disappeared yet.

426. You're waiting for the announcement of the "150 gold ransom paid" for Saddam Hussein.

427. (ties in with the other two) You debate in your mind whether Iraq is an actual civ or simply a collection of barbarian-occupied cities (which might be another reason the partisans won't stop coming...)

428. You disagree with those saying we need to pull our troops out of Iraq, saying that we need them there to maintain order and that if we remove all of our troops from the cities, the United States will collapse into anarchy because of all the riots.

429. You wonder whether the Shiite opposition to the planned Iraqi postwar government is simply an attempt by Iran to subvert Iraqi cities.

430. ...But if it is, you figure it will never work, since the US is a Democracy, and you can't bribe units or cities under a Democracy.

Well, that's all I've got from that little topic. But there's still more reasons coming...

431. You're sent to an asylum because just before you were about to finish the game by spaceship with the largest civ you've ever had (ensuring the highest score you've ever had), a power outage hits, and you suffer a mental breakdown because you forgot to save for the past 30 turns.

432. You wake up in a hospital, and the last thing you can remember is calling out a bunch of marines in a bar, shouting, "You guys are useless!" (Grabbed this one off the Civ3 list)

[EDIT-Fixing typos)

 

[jadelicia]

433) You look for giant flags beside cities to see if they are guarded or not.

434) For you, being slightly myphed at a nation's actions is enough reason to declare war and wipe them out!!!

435) You expect there to be two meal rations a day - one with a bushel of wheat and another with a bushel of wheat.

436) You dress up in the colours of your nation that you are currently playing (i.e. if you're the Greeks, you insist on dressing completely in orange). You even go as far as to searching for a hat with horns if your the Vikings.

437) You are always surprise that upon looking on the set-up of your neighbour's yards that they are square or rectangular versus interlocking diamonds.

438) You go seraching for the aqureduct in a city with a population over 280000.

439) When you can't find it, you go to the local municipal government and ask where it is.

440) You become angry when they ask what you're talking about and you respond, "Are you stupid? The people are thirsty! We should build an Aqueduct to let our city grow!!!"

441) (Adding to 265) When asking your city to build city walls, you complain saying "This city is virtually defenseless!".

442) Or, contrary to 197, you are absolutely sick of the wonder videos, but you still feel the obligation to watch them and you can't figure out why.

443) You're actually able to add to this list more than a year after it has been started.

 

[jadelicia]

444) You actually came up with ten suggestions for the list in one sitting.

445) Your civilization window is up as your typing this.

 

[Specialist290]

446- You're the reason JOMT Syndrome is in the medical books.

447- You're the reason this thread isn't languishing at the bottom of the forum

448- Your sz16 city w/ 23t and 41s is in WLTCD, you're ready to convert to PD, and your SSC has the Colossus, Cope's, Newt's, and SETI.

449- You can read 448 perfectly without so much as thinking about it.

450- You notice that the French + Eiffel Tower joke has been made twice.

451- ...And both times it was by you.

452- You can make 5-10 new reasons in one run without skipping a beat.

453- You learn English, French, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Mongolian, Chinese, Russian, Phoenician, Babylonian, Nahuatl, Swahili, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Iranian, Sanskrit, Sioux, Gaelic, and Icelandic (if you didn't know them) for the sole purpose of being able to come up with accurate city names after the list runs out of your civ's and into the generic "extra" list.

 

[jadelicia]

454) You wanted to wait until someone else added to this list before you added more of your own so you'd still feel conforted that you're not the only one.

455) You have a coffee maker, coffee, mug, water jug, box of filters, and other such supplies by your computer. This way, you can make coffee to keep you awake at night so you can play Civ II and you won't even have to leave your computer to make it (unless something runs out )

 

[jadelicia]

456) (I accidently pressed enter before finished ) Your drawing maps of your civ worlds "just in case you forget what they look like when you finish the game".

457) You have dreams about civilization...

458) ...The dreams actually make sense in your mind.

459) In fact, those dreams give you new strategies, ideas, names for cities, and other such inspirations.

460) You try these new ideas in your current games the next day.

461) They work.

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Originally posted by jadelicia
461) They work.

At first glance I thought you said "At work." Now that would probably be a sign you play too much!

 

[Prof. Garfield]

462. For your history class you make a civ two scn. as your project.

463. For your creative writing class you make a different scn. then write the story of the nation and a person in it, that reflects what actualy hapened in the game.

464. You get your teachers hooked on civ. two a few weeks before your project is due so they won't say anything when you hand in a floppy disk as your project with a note that tells them that they need to play civilization with that scn. to see the project.

465. Your teacher has no objections to any of the above.

466. You are the teacher.

467. You are not the teacher, but you get an 1000% for your project.

 

[Specialist290]

468. A few weeks later, your teacher that you hooked calls you up for advice on what to do next, because he/she has played his/her way into a corner and doesn't know how to get out.

469. You agree to help, finishing with, "but no scribes allowed."

470. You try to get your work done at home to cover up your addiction for playing Civ2 at work.

471. ...But you can't find the time, since you have Civ2 at home as well.

472. You carry a floppy with your game save to and from work so you can work on the same game all day.

473. You never exit from the game and leave the Civ2 window on your computer because you don't want to waste the precious seconds it would take to open and close the program.

474. You wonder why the US and France didn't get tanks and planes in the 1850s, since they were in Democracy or Republic and everyone else was in Monarchy.

475. You take a vacation to Athens so you can see the Colossus, Hanging Gardens, Shakespeare's Theater, and the headquarters of the SETI Project up close.

476. When asked when Rome fell in history class, you reply with gusto, "in 1887 AD, under the invincible might of Aztec Armor and Stealth Bombers!" (History fans should take a look at the number of this reason--hint hint )

 

[funxus]

Originally posted by Specialist290

475. You take a vacation to Athens so you can see the Colossus, Hanging Gardens, Shakespeare's Theater, and the headquarters of the SETI Project up close.

Neither of these can be found in Athens. Or do I miss something?

Maybe I shall try to hook my teachers on civ as well, too bad I've already done my history courses... maybe religion techer could be interested.

 

[The Person]

477 - You have tried to translate Civ2 into your language...

478 - ...and failed since you can't find time between your Civ2 sessions.

479 - No. 478doesn't make sense to you. (Between the sessions? What's that?).

480 - No. 479 doesn't make sense to you either, because being on CFC clearly is "between" the "civ" sessions.

481 - Not even no. 480 doesn't make sense to you because you think "CFC" = "Civ2".

482 - You wonder why you've actually taken the few precious seconds it takes to read this post from your civ time.

483 - You've figured out a way to make Civ2 your OS.

 

[ElephantU]

484. You think OS/2 was developed to stabilize the operating system issues for a better game of Civ2.

 

[Old n Slow]

Originally posted by jadelicia
435) You expect there to be two meal rations a day - one with a bushel of wheat and another with a bushel of wheat.

Worth reading the whole list for this gem!