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

[Specialist290]

272. You've read all of Starlifter's old posts (or tried to).

273. While driving down the road you see a convoy of trucks and wonder which city is building a new wonder.

274. You wonder why all those poor Third World nations haven't tried building more roads to get trade arrows.

275. You think the Cure for Cancer has already been built (I mean discovered).

276. You have a bad dream about the leaders of 3 other civs chasing you across a desolate wilderness.

277. ...Then wake up in front of your computer screen at 2 AM and reassure yourself by saying, "You've already conquered them, (your own name here)."

 

[Terrapin]

# 274.... Surprisingly close to reality. The Economist ran a great article last winter about the effects of sub-standard transportation infrastructure on living standards in under developed countries... It made its points well, but what made it a great article is that the reporter researched the story by accompanying a truck load of Guiness across Camaroon.... A Guiness which costs $2.75 (US equivalent) in the capital (name escapes me now) costs as much as $4.75 in the outlying villages. Verily, Camaroon would have more arrows AND more beer if they had more roads....

 

[Hookah]

#275 you attempt to use every single pack of units images you can find on the web ot make mods

 

[BlueZebra]

#276. You break your CD in half and erase the MPS folder from your hard drive to get yardwork done around the house.

#277. You read CNN.com and compare all current events to Civ II games that you've played.

 

[Angry Roman]

#278: In a history test at school, you write how the Greeks rose to greatness when they stole the secret of Iron Working from the Persians

 

[Old n Slow]

Originally posted by Terrapin
# 274.... Surprisingly close to reality. The Economist ran a great article last winter ....

#280 -- Noting that history replays as well as the game does: similar story ran in the Wall Street Journal, reporting that half of the goods rotted on the way to market in Zaire due to inferior or even lack of roads. I recall reading the story in 1980.

 

[ElephantU]

Folks: Specialist290 was up to #277, then Terrapin commented on #274 and Hookah added #275, bringing us back three. Old n Slow skipped #279, but it was out of sequence already. If you are going to comment on a previous, use the "quote" vB code, or put the number in parenthesis. We should be up to #283 next.

 

[ElephantU]

#283: You dont know what to do with the rest of the month after completing the GOTM a week early. The "Honey-Do" queue takes an unexpected drop.

 

[Specialist290]

#284: You devote all your time to Civ2 and thus flunk your tests/lose your job (depending on age group).

#285: You learn English for the sole purpose of translating the game's text files into your native tongue.

 

[HughMungus]

Originally posted by BlueZebra
#276. You break your CD in half and erase the MPS folder from your hard drive

I've done this!!!

 

[TheViking]

Originally posted by Specialist290
#285: You learn English for the sole purpose of translating the game's text files into your native tongue.

#286: You are far too busy playing Civ to even consider translating the game's text files to your native language so you notice that you sometimes think about the game in English and not your native language.

 

[Specialist290]

287. You wonder if the world was created by using the Map Editor or just a computer-generated map.

288. When you hear prophets of doom, you respond, "That's OK, we can just start a new game if we lose this one."

 

[funxus]

Originally posted by Specialist290
#285: You learn English for the sole purpose of translating the game's text files into your native tongue.

289. You have actually translated the files, without anyone but yourself being interested in them.

 

[Specialist290]

290. You wish to claim the last three numbers of your screen name for a comment on Civ2, so you wonder why the government doesn't give us free money when it's in Capitalization mode.

 

[Specialist290]

(Boy, no one's posted in this thread in a while.)

291. You have trouble separating Civ2 from reality (which is pretty much what this entire thread is about...)

292. You wonder whether Algeria and other Sahara states have discovered Explosives,... because if they did, they could build tons of Engineers and have lots of fertile Plains in no time.

293. You've still read the entire thread, and notice that a few of the signs have been posted more than once.

294. You can remember every detail of every Civ2 game you have ever played, but not what you had for breakfast (or where you live).

295. When away from a computer, you create and visualize an entire game in your head.

296. You are reading this post in the first place.

EDIT: 297. You don't recognize how bad your grammar is while posting a way that you can tell you're hooked on Civ2 (added after correcting a few spelling and word usage mistakes )

 

[CCA]

298-You declare yourself ruler of the country you live in saying support the true goverment of (insert name here)
299-Five minutes later the secret service of your country takes you to a firing squad.............
300-On the way there you start to realize you could load this life again to be more succesful........
301-You get the "failure to load game saved game has more recent version" message

 

[Specialist290]

302. You're overjoyed that someone has actually replied to this topic besides yourself.

303. On the way to said firing squad, you notice that your executioners are Musketeers and figure you can easily take them out with Stealth Fighters.

304. You realize you haven't discovered Stealth yet.

 

[KingWilly]

305. While you're at work, you're trying to think of reasons to turn on your computer when you get home so you're spouse won't complain and make you do some housework.

306. Related to above - trying to think of excuses as to why you didn't get to back to bed until 3am. (Honey - the computer had a virus and I had trouble fixing it - or something like that)

 

[Old n Slow]

307. (related to #305) -- Your spouse no longer believes your threat (Hey if I weren't playing civ, I could be at a bar).

 

[Specialist290]

308. You hope your future wife plays Civ2.

(I'm unmarried, and not legally old enough to be anyway--or to drive, for that matter.)