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

[Prof. Garfield]

5271: As part of a master plan, you anonymously mail a copy of Civ 2 to your English teacher a couple of weeks before a creative writing assignment is due.

5272: You then write a story based on Civ 2 and hand it in.

5273: You fail the assignment and fail to understand why you failed.

5274: You go to your guidance councilor who tells you your "science rate is low. May I propose a small adjustment?"

5275: You think Adam Smith owned a Trading Company.

5276: You pay your taxes in gold.

5277: Your budget consists of 3 categories: Taxes, Luxuries and Science.

5278: Your savings are all in gold.

5279: You don't understand the concept of debt.

5280: You try to sell your house "Sewer System" because you have all the children you want.

 

[stixs]

5281. You get an F for your history paper on WWII after citing "Axis failure to build STC."

5282. You see a woman with short hair, wearing a purple leotard and become worried that she'll try to bribe your children.

5283. You're hauled off by the cops after attempting to 'expel' the woman and she 'issues a statement of protest.'

 

[rrhal]

5284: You Actually build city walls in your capitol just so your military adviser will give you some other advise.

 

[forkshy]

5285: your wife says, "didn't you beat this game 16 year ago?"

 

[Blasph23]

5286: You wonder why cities are so big and why there are so many skyscrapers on a large area, when in reality all those millions of people would fit in a couple of two-story houses viewed from a bird's perspective, all within a walled area no larger than 15 square kilometers

(not sure if this wasn't posted before, it's hard to read all 5k+ reasons in a few minutes)

 

[Prof. Garfield]

5287: When on the staff of a political figure, you are instructed to "be more diplomatic" when dealing with the staffs other legislators. You immediately start carrying a large quantity of cash.

5288: You attempt to bribe a staffer into deserting and working for your boss.

5289: You infiltrate a legislator's office and steal documents at random.

5390: You sabotage a random object in another legislator's office.

5391: You incite a legislator's branch office to revolt and join your boss' party.

 

[Millman]

5292: You complete a Jenga game by yourself to rid the feeling of never being able to complete Capitalization.

5293: 360 Degree Full circle becomes 320 to you.

5294: You write a story where it ends on some 41-43 page.

5295: When you play battleship you keep your ships within two spaces of the edge on the first game.

5296: Obviously you call every version of it Civvy or something.

5297: You will not use anything that goes beyond the number 10.

 

[Flygon]

5298: When you contribute to a list of '1000 ways you know you've played Civ2 too much when...' and it becomes the 5298th contribution.

 

[elmenhorster]

5285: your wife says, "didn't you beat this game 16 year ago?"

L M A O!!!!

 

[RedBananna]

5299: When you ask what a particular city's population rank is,

Civ II Player: So is Miami a 20 or 22?
Normal Person: Excuse me?

 

[civiijkw]

5300:

You have to read it twice to understand why a "normal person" would be confused by the question.

5299: When you ask what a particular city's population rank is,

Civ II Player: So is Miami a 20 or 22?
Normal Person: Excuse me?

 

[Flygon]

5301: Upload a 40 hour game and upload it to youtube.

Only to find out you need to split it into 240 parts (Yes, I actually did the math).

5302: You get upset at the above statement because I divided 2400 by 10 rather than 10.59 or whatever the precise time of the maximum limit of youtube videos is represented in the metric system.

 

[RedBananna]

5303: You accidentally cut your knee on an exposed sharp object and do nothing about it because you're too busy finishing up your spaceship

(Actual event, the skin over my knee was sliced by a protruding wooden splinter coming up from the chair I was sitting in, pathetic huh?)

 

[Chicken_Flamer]

5304: Upon reading the news that Oil and Copper prices are up,

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=475595

Oil, Copper Up As Stocks Rise Early, But PR Nightmare Haunts Hog Futures

By REUTERSPosted 04/30/2009 06:56 PM ET

Commodities were mostly up Thursday, supported by an early rise on Wall Street, but hog futures extended a weeklong slump, suffering from the mislabeling of the world's latest health scare as swine flu.

Oil prices defied higher inventory levels to close up in New York after an unexpected drop in the number of workers filing new unemployment claims propped up Wall Street and European stock exchanges despite the bankruptcy of automaker Chrysler.

you look for oil and copper freights to wake up near faraway, demand large cities with superhighways and multi-special tiles in another continent belonging to an AI civ but do not have nightmares because you realize that there isn't such thing as hog freight in Civ2.

5305: After seeing so many made-in-China items in your house, you begin to worry if China is just keeping America around as a pet civ that they can send endless number of freights to maximize their score just before launching their spaceship to Alpha Centauri in 2013.

 

[Sciguy001]

5305) You still post on this thread

5306) You think it's still 1996

5307) You just realized that civ 3 is out

1308) You just realize that civ 3 is out because you close civ 2 for the first time since its release date in 1996

1509) You've taught yourself not to eat so you can maximinze civ 2 playing time

1510) You've taught yourself not to sleep so you can maximize civ 2 playing time

1511) Whenever you go outside your eyes get sunburned

1512) you forgot what the sun was

1513) You're always shocked when you go out in public because everyone is more than an inch tall

1514) You are also suprised because you see no military units in the public area

 

[candle86]

1515. When you get evicted because the land lord wanted rent and you havnt worked in 2 years because your civilization needed you

1516. You go to jail after tring to recuit riflemen to assault your land lord and reclaim your house.

 

[Sciguy001]

5317. You dig up a 1-year 1-month old Civ 2 thread when Civ 5 is coming out

 

[candle86]

5318. You just bought Civ 4 today and spent almost no time playing Civ 3 because Civ 2 hadn't gotten boring yet

 

[stixs]

5319. You just saw a blurb on here that Civ 5 is coming out this year. They came out with Civ 3 AND 4 already?!

5320. You don't care. Civ 2 is awesome.

5321. Your wildest fantasy includes the "foreign advisor."

 

[Theov]

5275: You think Adam Smith owned a Trading Company.

5322: he didn't?