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

[jadelicia]

744 was great!

782) You are typing a social essay, but you soon find it has turned into a story of one of your civs.

783) You use facts from your game to prove your point (ex: A Fundimentalist government is the best government for a nation that is an agressor. For example, look at the great civilization of the Romans under their fantastic ruler Jadelicia. They rule over half the world!)

784) You can't figure out why your failing social.

785) ...Or every other subject for that matter.

786) Your parents no longer say to you "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all"...

787) ...Instead they say, "If you don't have anything else to say besides civ II stuff, don't say anything at all".

788) They can't comprehend why you aren't talking at all anymore.

789) You can't comprehend anything more interesting to talk about than civ II.

 

[The Person]

What about Apollo Program?

When you build it, no message tells you you have landed on the Moon. It only tells you that your astronauts send back pics from space.

790 - You dress as the leader you're playing.

791 - You expect to be addressed as the leader you're playing.

792 - You've programmed a clone of Civ2 that corrects all the errors we complain about about here at CFC.

793 - But you delete it and go back to Civ2. (noooooo...)

794 - The One City Challenge is not a challenge.

795 - You think that the Pentagon is hiding all the Real Worlds *.txt and *.gif files to keep others from edting them. (Ever wondered how the US became so powerful?)

796 - You think the Pentagon must be a Barracks improvement.

797 - You think it's an outrage even to mention Civ3 and it's expansions when you are able to hear it.

798 - Luckily 797 will never happen, since you never get away from your computer.

799 - You have your first Civ2 disc on a pedestal.

800 - ...but never bother to dust it off because you think Civ2 is better use of time.

Woohoo! I got no. 800!

 

[The Person]

Woopsie! Double post, sorry.

 

[funxus]

When you build it, no message tells you you have landed on the Moon. It only tells you that your astronauts send back pics from space.

Not that it really matters, but the Civilopedia describes the Apollo program, and how they walked on the moon.

801) You wonder if there's a way to precharge RL engineers in case of an emergency. E.g. it would've been nice to have insta-rebuilt WTC

 

[Specialist290]

802. You have experimented at least once with Cheat Mode to give the barbarians nukes and see what they do with them (I've seen them fortify 'em in fortresses for no reason, like every other unit they seem to use).

803. You wonder if a unit represents a company, a battalion, or a division.

804. You think "Division of Labor" indicates the Tax/Lux/Sci settings.

805. You think football is played in a Colosseum, not a stadium.

806. You notice a newly-built Police Station in a town and immediately wonder if it's supporting an Armor unit somewhere.

807. When the Russians launch their nukes at us, you comment, "Well, the US has the Laser, and I'm sure the gov't. wouldn't be stupid enough not to build SDIs..."

808. You wonder where the local SAM Site for your city is.

809. During a board game you always try to eliminate the player with the red token "because he's a barbarian."

810. ...That is, if you even have time for playing anything other than Civ2.

 

[ElephantU]

(followon to #794)

811. Having become bored with One City Challenges, you set your sights on getting a pre-AD1000 AC landing with a Size1 OCC.

 

[jadelicia]

812) (Follow on 811) You strangely, you can't comprehend talking about Civ II and having "boring" in the same sentence.

813) You're trying to decide what level your country's leader is playing at. I.E. Is he a Chieftan, Warlord, Prince, King, etc.?

814) Instead of sending family photos to your relatives, you send pictures of the A.I., your high council, and screen shots of your game...

815) ...you stop receiving family photos from you relatives...

816) ...instead you receive pictures of the A.I., high council, and screen shots of their games...

817) ...you now know you have addicted your relatives to Civ II...

818) ...you now know that Civ II is addictive simply by only seening screenshots...

819) ...you decide to try this newfound addicting power on the rest of the world...

820) ....the world descends into chaos as no one who has a computer and civ II CD is doing anything else.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

821)...and the government official that was on vacation while this was happening orders the army to destroy all computers in the world, and, in theory, everyone goes back to work...

 

[jadelicia]

822)...the discontentment of the world population becomes overwhelming because of the loss of the computers...

823) ...once again the world sinks into chaos and anarchy as civil disorder breaks out world wide in protest...

824) ...you wake and suddenly realize that its just a dream...

825) ...or is it? After all, you could make it a reality. Muah ha hah!

 

[The Person]

826 - You make a "Best of 1000 ways you know that you have played Civ2 too much when..." list.

827 - You crack the game engine so that you can start earlier than 4000 BC. (To try to win before 4000 BC.)

828 - Civ2 is too easy for you, but your addiction makes you keep on playing.

829 - You play Civ2 on two computers at the same time.

830 - You wonder why city improvements look different in each city.

BTW, here's the list:

 

[Specialist290]

831. You wonder why the Colossus in RL was built on a tiny island with very little chance for growth--those guys should have known better!

832. You also wonder how it could have been destroyed by an earthquake--there aren't any natural disasters in Civ2!

833. You read a history book and comment on how each world leader could have done better.

834. You are appalled at the stupidity of the US gov't. for not selling all of their Power, Hydro, and Nuclear Plants once Hoover Dam was built.

835. You wonder if the US Navy still uses the "tall ships" of the Chesapeake (Frigates) as warships to patrol the Atlantic.

836. You figure Italy should have conquered Europe during the Renaissance because they had Leo's when Gunpowder was discovered.

837. You can sit there in complete calm and serenity while a herd of 2 yr. olds destroys your house, but the instant you see one of them moving one of your Transports out of the ship chain route... (I'll leave the rest unsaid, as those with faint hearts and weak stomachs may be reading this )

838. (follow-on to 823) ...And so, after the ensuing period of anarchy (shorter for the US than the rest of the world because of the Statue of Liberty), all the nations of the world switch to Fundy or Communism and begin nuking one another.

 

[The Last Conformist]

839. You post here again to point out that the figure of ~2400 posts in the corresponding CivIII thread was a typo. Correct number: ~3400.

801) You wonder if there's a way to precharge RL engineers in case of an emergency. E.g. it would've been nice to have insta-rebuilt WTC

This reminded me of the true RPGer's solution to a hostage crisis - level the place with the ground, and then resurrect the hostages.

 

[Specialist290]

840. You have a desire to create and maintain a Civ2 terms glossary.

 

[The Last Conformist]

841. You think there's still need for a CivII terminology glossary.

 

[The Last Conformist]

842. You double post in this thread.

 

[jadelicia]

843) You read The Person's "1000 Clues.txt".

844) You were overjoyed when you saw one or more of your posts among the list.

845) You suddenly realize that there is only 155 more posts to go before reaching 1000 and are overjoyed by the fact that they still all apply to you!

 

[Specialist290]

846. You comment on other people's reasons for playing too much Civ2.

847. You make comments like #846.

848. Even though all of these reasons apply to you, you still think you don't play Civ2 too much.

849. In fact, you believe you need to play it more.

850. You add city names to the CITY.TXT to keep the AI from cycling into the list of "extra" cities.

851. Each civ now has names for at least 100 cities.

852. You have tweaked the RULES.TXT at least once.

853. You have played all the civs in all the scenarios for every expansion and, when you finally finish the last scenario game, you ask, "That's it?"

854. You get Civ2 on your 10th birthday, play it for a while, and take a break long enough to celebrate your 80th birthday.

855. ...And, once that's over, you keep playing until you die.

856. However, the sheer intensity of your desire to keep playing Civ2 allows you to resurrect yourself from the dead so you can do so.

 

[scloopy]

857. You stay in the room on vacation to play Civ II while everyone is at Disney World.

858. You also miss MGM to play Civ II.

859. You start to Universal but call a cab to take you back so you can finish your game.

 

[jadelicia]

850 is a good idea! I never thought of that!

 

[Specialist290]

860. (follow-on to 859) ...And when that's finally over, you get in the cab, then ask the driver to turn around and go back again so you can see if anything new has been posted on Civfanatics.

861. You are up past midnight posting in this thread.

862. You are not the only one.