Ace
Emperor
#45 Instead of taking out the trash, you decide to disband it.
1000 ways you know you've played Civ2 too much when...
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Ren
Communist Nazi
#46: When in the country and you see a forest with river, you think for a second where you nearest Engineer is.
#47: In your game your city names have more than 2 "New"s stuck on the front (New New New New Bombay).
#48: You see two towns built next to each other and think for a moment "how can it be?"
#49: You wonder why your home town has no garrisons.
#50: You're scared to walk into a stereotypical hut.
#51: You get on a ship to the other side of the world and are surprised it doesn't try to take the long way around.
#47: In your game your city names have more than 2 "New"s stuck on the front (New New New New Bombay).
#48: You see two towns built next to each other and think for a moment "how can it be?"
#49: You wonder why your home town has no garrisons.
#50: You're scared to walk into a stereotypical hut.
#51: You get on a ship to the other side of the world and are surprised it doesn't try to take the long way around.
Jace
Knight Defender
#52 You pass a convoy of trucks on the freeway and expect to see a wonder of the world under construction in the next city.
#53 You try to think of more signs that you have played civ 2 too much, but keep getting interupted by the Zulu emissary threatening you with WAR!
#54 You reply to unwanted invitations for work meetings with the message "We have had enough of your endless chatter!"
#55 You suspect that the Al Queda is the result of US troops wandering into a small village in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm
Edit: Numbers and #55
#53 You try to think of more signs that you have played civ 2 too much, but keep getting interupted by the Zulu emissary threatening you with WAR!
#54 You reply to unwanted invitations for work meetings with the message "We have had enough of your endless chatter!"
#55 You suspect that the Al Queda is the result of US troops wandering into a small village in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm
Edit: Numbers and #55
Ren
Communist Nazi
#56: You have a Civ 2 CD for every computer you use.
#57: You name your child Deity.
#57: You name your child Deity.
Cedric Greene
King
ala #56
#58: You legally own a copy of each version and expansion of Civ 2 (like me
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#58: You legally own a copy of each version and expansion of Civ 2 (like me
)B52
Chieftain
#59: You spend up to 20 minutes thinking about a good name for the new city you just built, even going so far as to consult an atlas.
#60: Your right index finger is cramping up from clicking your mouse as you move your units.
#61: When an AI civilization sneak-attacks you, you actually get angry and embark on a vandetta to wipe that civilization out to "teach the others a lesson."
#62: You have been playing a game for so long that you have reduced every other nation to one city, and you have spent hours constructing one or more "walls" composed of rows of submarines or tanks that block enemy ships from moving in either the sea or land, then chuckling to yourself every time a stray AI unit gets "caught in your net."
#60: Your right index finger is cramping up from clicking your mouse as you move your units.
#61: When an AI civilization sneak-attacks you, you actually get angry and embark on a vandetta to wipe that civilization out to "teach the others a lesson."
#62: You have been playing a game for so long that you have reduced every other nation to one city, and you have spent hours constructing one or more "walls" composed of rows of submarines or tanks that block enemy ships from moving in either the sea or land, then chuckling to yourself every time a stray AI unit gets "caught in your net."
Dark Ascendant
Darkness Ascending...
#63 You wonder if the population of your town will revolt against the gov't because you don't see cathedrals or collesiums in town.
funxus
Orange Cycloptic Blob
#64 You wonder why your small town of 50, 000 people has a sewer system, what a waste of money.
Marlos
Christian Soldier
#65: You wonder where all of the people in your size 38 city live, since all the surrounding land is farmland.
#66: On the way to work, you pass a farm with a tall grain silo and wonder if that is your town's granary.
#66: On the way to work, you pass a farm with a tall grain silo and wonder if that is your town's granary.
Alice
Warlord
67 - You've bought MORE than one book on Civ strategies 
Jace
Knight Defender
# 69 Every time you get off a plane, you think to yourself "airlift completed succesfully".
# 70 You read an article in the newspaper about genetic engineering, and wonder why anyone hasen't built the Cure for Cancer.
# 71 You still have the original poster with the tech tree and unit specifications. In fact, it is lying next to your computer, showing signs of extensive use.
# 72 You curse the government for being to incompetent to build a decent Super Science City
# 70 You read an article in the newspaper about genetic engineering, and wonder why anyone hasen't built the Cure for Cancer.
# 71 You still have the original poster with the tech tree and unit specifications. In fact, it is lying next to your computer, showing signs of extensive use.
# 72 You curse the government for being to incompetent to build a decent Super Science City
gr8ful wes
Deity
73 you find yourself checking sights about carple tunnel syndrom because your arms and hands are aching.
74. You keep warm while hunting in the winter by thinking about how you will launch your next offensive when you get home.
75. you dream of the game at night.
74. You keep warm while hunting in the winter by thinking about how you will launch your next offensive when you get home.
75. you dream of the game at night.
samo_filling
Chieftain
76. Your reading this list.
77. After you take a step on the side-walk you wait for everybody else to take their turn.
77. After you take a step on the side-walk you wait for everybody else to take their turn.
CaptTuttle
Chieftain
#61 Thank GOD! I am not alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 78 Tell you wife in detail how you had to destroyed the evil empire of X because they kept sneak attacking you even though you know the only response will be
Thats nice dear!
# 78 Tell you wife in detail how you had to destroyed the evil empire of X because they kept sneak attacking you even though you know the only response will be
Thats nice dear!
.:KNAS:.
Civfanatic
# 79. You wonder how Elvis could live for so many years.
Alt. You wonder why Elvis is still the luxury advisor in the eighties.
Alt. You wonder why Elvis is still the luxury advisor in the eighties.
Jace
Knight Defender
#80 You never consult your high council, because you already know what the are going to say, do and look like. (BUILD CITY WALLS!!!!)
#81 You follow a discussion about which strategy works best, and is familiar with all of them.
#82 terms like OCC, ICS, FCT and WLTXD makes perfect sense to you
#81 You follow a discussion about which strategy works best, and is familiar with all of them.
#82 terms like OCC, ICS, FCT and WLTXD makes perfect sense to you
TimTheEnchanter
I...am...an Enchanter!
#83. You come out of an important meeting at work, look at your notes and find only comments like "Japanese - 8 dips to buy cities, 7 dragoons to take capital , defensive units for garrison, need 4 transports... Vikings - Take one more city ,make pet civ....Aztecs - keep demaning tribute....Make Sioux suffer for killing engineer from Canterbury"
#84. You write an excel spreadsheet that will tell you which advances will be available and which will be 'hidden' each time.
#85. You wonder why shipping companies don't use ship chains to deliver trans-oceanic freight quicker.
#86. You wonder how we ever got to our current international situation, since one country should have controlled the entire world shortly after the development of the Dragoon or at least Cavalry.
Edit: Got the numbers wrong. Minor formatting
#84. You write an excel spreadsheet that will tell you which advances will be available and which will be 'hidden' each time.
#85. You wonder why shipping companies don't use ship chains to deliver trans-oceanic freight quicker.
#86. You wonder how we ever got to our current international situation, since one country should have controlled the entire world shortly after the development of the Dragoon or at least Cavalry.
Edit: Got the numbers wrong. Minor formatting
