A Thousand & One Things We’ve Learned From Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

31: The UN has the power to stop you from building nukes or becoming a Monarch.

32: The only thing left for us to discover is more entertainment and more medicines.

33: While training civil servants, no babies are born.

 

[Yared]

34: You can build libraries before you create an alphabet.

 

[Robo-Star]

34: You can build libraries before you create an alphabet.

Well not all writing systems are alphabetic...

35. Police states doesn't prevent free speech.

 

[Yared]

True, Logographs, Abjads and Abugida exist too... But having Alphabet come after Writing then implies that Alphabet is superior and more advanced than the other ones

 

[Robo-Star]

True, Logographs, Abjads and Abugida exist too... But having Alphabet come after Writing then implies that Alphabet is superiour to the three other ones

Oh yeah, I agree that's pretty messed up.
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[capnvonbaron]

36. Mansa Musa is a much more terrible and hated leader than Stalin or Mao

37. An interstellar space vehicle is best built without cooperation from anyone else on the planet because face it, first one off this rock is clearly Winner Of Everything

38. Prarie dogs make great pets!

39. Fire ants can destroy an entire sugar plantation. Right down to the foundation. In one year. Seriously.

40. Ancient ruins frequently give scientists valuable insights toward things like refrigeration or fusion.

 

[Yared]

41. Giant Theatres have the effect of making people forget about all of their problems and conflicts.

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

42: The Maoi Statues send out magical radiation than converts fish into wood, hammers, nails, and other building implements.

43: Soldiers are build with wood, hammers, nails, and other building implements.

44: Wood, hammers, nails, and other building implements are magically supplied by an engineer.

45: Rameses and Abraham Lincoln are bestest buddies.

 

[onemoreturnmike]

46: Montezuma always attacks, even if he has inferior forces.

 

[itg]

47. The people who hate you more than anyone else in the world probably hate you for... trading with the person they used to hate more than anyone else in the world.

 

[BammBamm]

48. When Civving on a huge terra map amongst 13 world leaders with vassals allowed in the early Twentieth Century, it may take well over a full minute for the clarion call of the war bugle to finally subside:​

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[Akkon888]

49. If you are lucky, you can pay Catherine to do anything.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

50. You can find oil thousands of years before anybody else does through your scout.

51. Oil is magicily above ground.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

52. Cavalry charges are obviously the best option against mounted machine guns, as evidenced by history they are better at that than rifleman, infantry, cannons or blimps. Or at least in civ.

 

[mr.pimm]

53. Churchill And All Other World Leaders Are Immortal

54. Marie Curie Was Born In 280 BC

54. Everyone's 100 Foot Tall

 

[Bushface]

55. Scotland Yard is a spy-training establishment.

56. The Space Elevator can be built anywhere in the tropics, not just on the equator.

 

[robertomagno]

57. Mountains are totally useless, just like deserts.

 

[Yared]

58. Workers, dressed like this one:

Can walk around in Tundra wearing that without any adverse effects.

 

[Darth Caesar]

59. Animals cannot enter the borders of a nation.

 

[Absolute Zero]

60. Modern artillery is incapable of killing a caveman with a club.