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

[Old n Slow]

485. You use the map generator to set up the overland portion of an email D&D campaign.

and of course,

486. You play the Civ II game to generate events for the D&D campaign.

 

[Specialist290]

funxus: Yeah, you missed something...

487. You think the world had the best production rates during the Middle Ages. (all those shields...)

488. You have forgotten what D&D stands for, if you ever knew it in the first place. (hasn't happened to me yet, though...)

489. You notice that Old n Slow, The Person, jadelica, and I have been making most of the reasons lately.

490. You create a map on the Map Editor based on the wallpaper pattern in front of your computer.

491. Comparing the real world map to the Civ2 world map, you notice that Switzerland is a 1-tile or maybe 2-tile mountain country.

492. You think, "No wonder they don't need a large army!"

493. You conclude Switzerland, Lesotho, San Marino, the Vatican, etc. are all playing the One-City Challenge.

494. ...And therefore turn up the pressure on NASA to start work on the ship to Alpha Centauri, claiming that the Swiss have already begun work on theirs.

495. You believe that the Swiss are so rich because they ship lots of chocolate freight around the world.

496. You remember that chocolate isn't a trade commodity in Civ2.

497. You finally go insane, proclaiming you are 6000 years old and are destined to lead your country to ultimate world domination before 16 years is up (or the Swiss launch the spaceship).

498. You wonder why Poland isn't the most advanced nation in the world, since they built Copernicus' Observatory.

 

[Achinz]

499. You go to Pizza Hut hoping to tip it for 100 gold or at least a scroll.

500. You demand that your wife says "Sire" when she gives you advice about how to manage your economy.

 

[jadelicia]

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

you should put it down...or I could add it in, but that would screw up the numbering

 

[jadelicia]

501) You sit in social class, trying to concentrate, but you simply can't because every time something interesting comes up, you think of how that could be made into a great scenerio.

502) You wonder why you require water to drink. Your city isn't at a population of 360 000 people yet, so why should you need water?

503) You present this phenonomanom (sp???) to your bio teacher, claiming that no one should ever start feeling thirsty until the population of their city reaches 280 000, and even then, they can wait for water at least until the population increases to 360 000.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

504. Your Bio teacher thinks that that is very logical reasoning, and will present this theory to wherever they meet to discus these things.
506. You have memorized and can pronounce all the city names in Civ2.
507. You wonder why Aquaducts are no longer used to carry water to cities, but insted used to pass canals over rivers...
508. You had some very good ideas for this thread, but you forgot them after reading what was posted since your last read.
509. You wonder why the cold war didn't end shortly after the discovery of the laser, and most certainly after the "Star Wars" program.

 

[Specialist290]

510. When you and a friend are having a debate, and your friend gets a little long-winded, you instinctively reach for the ENTER key (which isn't there) so it can be your turn again.

511. When a few of your friends are giving you advice, you instinctively reach to point and click on the button under another friend's portrait (that again isn't there) to hear what he has to say.

512. He says, "Build City Walls!"

513. One of your more nerdy friends butts in, saying, "I disagree."

514. Elvis pops up and says, "The people love you!"

515. You ignore all of them

516. You wonder how the Arabs got so rich when they still deliver their Oil with Camels.

517. You see a factory in a small town and immediately think, "What a waste of resources."

518. Ever noticed how a lot of the people who take a look at the War Academy (main-site) become veterans?

519. You wonder how an entire British army made up of plenty of Riflemen and Cavalry could be wiped out by a mob of Zulu Warriors at Ishandlawanda, then that same mob fails to take out a single Riflemen unit at Rorke's Drift.

520. You can't understand why, with many, many years to research techs, the Zulus still didn't have the secrets of Iron Working and The Wheel in the 1870s.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

521: You apply for a city planing job and show him your 15360 point game, and then show him the random map you started on.
522: After you are inexplicably turned down for the city planing job, but recomended as the perfect person for the asylum down the street, you take the same saves to the landscaping company to apply for that job.

 

[jadelicia]

523) You manage to hook the entire landscaping company on civilization after only showing them the saves (because we know Civ II is that addictive! ), and you are hired for the job.

 

[jadelicia]

524) You're are confused when you see forests that are both broadleaf and coniferous mixed together. You're absolutely sure that forests should come in squares of broadleaf and squares of conifer, such as they appear on the map

 

[Prof. Garfield]

525: You are highered, not for the landscaping job, but as a consultant for problems with their civ2 strategy.
526: You recognize a place in your geography class, because you played a scn. in the area your class is lerning about.
527: You submit a map from your civ two map editor as your project.
528: You get a C on your project because your map didn't have enough detail or because you forgot to hook your geog. teacher on civ two.
529: You do many many smaller maps to submit in order to pull up your mark.
530: To be on the safe side, you also hook your teacher on civ two.
531: You hook all your teachers on civ two after that to be on the safe side the next time you hand in a project.
532: Your school seems to have more days off than all the other schools in the area.
533: Your teachers now mutter to themselves when they are at school.
534: You find that the new art project in the jym is a giant civ2 tech tree.
535: You find out that your princible suggested it the above.
536: You wonder if you have gone to far...
537: But quicky conclued that this was good for the entire school.
538: You go on a mission to bring civ2 to the less fortunate in the area: all the other schools.
539: You wrote probably the most symptons in a row.
540: You have yet to understand what this could signify.

 

[covok48]

541. It baffles you that a city can build more than one improvement/unit/wonder at a time! WHAT? A city building a library AND training units at a militiary base?

542. You wonder at what point are all natural resources converted to blue shields.

543. Then contemplate how everything produced does not have a touch of blue with gold trimming in them.

 

[jadelicia]

544) You turned off the music the first time you played civ, and it's been so long since you played the first time, that if you were to turn on the music now, you wouldn't recognize it.

545) Or you're absolutely insistent that you have the music on because of tradition, and you've heard it so often that you hum it in your sleep.

546) You're now looking for a cell phone that will play the Civ II music as a ring tone.

 

[covok48]

547. Hell, you're now looking for a cell phone that plays Civ II!

548. You start playing Civ I just to measure how good civ II is.

549. You think historically that Italy (Marco Polo) and Portugal (Columbus) and New Zealand (Hillary) were the ONLY nations to ever build explorers.

 

[jadelicia]

550) You find that there are some things with which you can procrastinate. Civilization is not one of them.

 

[The Person]

551 - Whenever you try to play Civ3 you give up since you always think that Civ2 is so much better.

552 - You refuse to post in the Civ3 forum for exactly the same reason.

553 - You have the Civ2 icon as your avatar. Don't look at me...

554 - Your house could burn down around you with you not noticing under a Civ session.

555 - Your only social life is at CFC.

556 - And it isn't much of one.

557 - You wonder when this thread will stop stating the obvious.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

558: Your house burns down, and you say: "It's a good thing that I took those house insurance policy papers out of the fire safe box to put my civ2 backup saves and CD into."

 

[The Person]

The last one was really hilarious. So hilarious I'll even praise it in my H&J style:



Hey, that was a good idea; I think I'll do it!

 

[covok48]

559. Your five page term paper is due tomorrow and you haven't started since civ is so...much...fun.

560. All your buddies conclude "Yep, he must be playing Civ II or on 'that messege board again' whenever they see me in front of a computer.

561. You suddenly become re-addicted to civ at the WORST TIMES (before a test...finals...paper...ect.)

 

[Specialist290]

#532 was hilarious...

562. You play Civ2 during a major nuclear exchange and don't even notice the bombs falling.

563. ...Or you do notice the bombs falling, but you conclude you have at least a 50-50 chance of survival.

564. ...And that it's not so bad as long as there are plenty of Engineers able to come by and clean everything up.

565. You wonder why the Romans hadn't owned Europe, north and central Africa, India, and SIberia, and reached the American continent before 200 BC.

566. Regarding all Garfield's posts: You wonder what this thing called "school" is; doesn't all life revolve around Civ2?

567. You figure that since any school that is a lower level than a University can't be built in Civ2, they don't really exist.

568. You wonder how there can be more than one University in the same city.

569. You think that a mall is a type of Marketplace.

570. You enter the diplomatic corps of whatever country you live in with high hopes of being able to blow up things such as Barracks, Airports, Marketplaces, etc.

571. You look and look but still can't find the City Walls for your city.

572. You wonder why there aren't more guerilla uprisings in Alaska with all that unsettled space.

573. You believe that the Chechens, Al Queda, and those Haitian revolutionaries are all part of a group collectively known as "Barbarians."

574. You wonder whether your nation's infantry is composed mostly of Riflemen, Alpine Troops, or Mech. Infantry.

575. You wonder why it's not made up entirely of Tanks and Howitzers.

576. You've become so addicted that you hum the music even when it's not turned on.

577. You think that true beauty is a size 120 city with the surrounding terrain terraformed to exactly 2/3 hills and 1/3 grasslands.

578. You use so many Civ2 acronyms in your everyday speech that no one understands what you're talking about.

579. Even if you didn't, they still wouldn't understand you because all you talk about is Civ2.

580. You are more adamant in your opinion about Demo v. Fundy than you are in things such as taxes, abortion, politics, etc.