Alarms for the Addicted
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Commander Bello
Say No 2 Net Validations
Option "occasionally" is missing
DrewBledsoe
Veteran QB
The only use for the alarm is to remind me that the rechargable batteries for my mouse (as CIV tends to go through a lot) are ready 
... That might count as the last alternative then...wiseguy101
Warlord
I look at my clock every now and then, but I should use the alarm on it to govern how long I play Civ IV.
The 777 Hoax
future skeleton
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I don't play more than an hour at a time so I don't use it.
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Chieftain
Who need an Alarm when you have a Girlfriend/wife... 
They know what time is it and how long you've been there... believe me...
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They know what time is it and how long you've been there... believe me...
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I have tried using the alarm, but it doesn't work for me. It would go off in the middle of a turn, so I would "just" finish the turn. ... and then I would start the "one more turn" cycle all over again.
Commander Bello
Say No 2 Net Validations
Anyway, this is really a nice little functionality. Little things like this make a game better - if the other things are fixed as well, but this I don't want to discuss in this thread.
I like this functionality, however.
I like this functionality, however.
King Flevance
Deity
I don't usually play for over a few hours so I don't use it. I can usually only play for anywhere between 2-4 hours. Prior engagements can pull me away easily enough.
GreatSquid
Chieftain
They should make a type of alarm clock that you can input a certain number of turns and after that many turns are up, the game exits.
That would put an end to my one-more turn problem.
That would put an end to my one-more turn problem.
Acceptable_Loss
Chieftain
The alarm is one of the best features in Civ4. I use it almost everytime I play, and I usually adhere to the alarm. Although... there have been time where are I have instictually turned off the alarm and kept playing without realizing it until hours later...
I do my best to keep an eye on the clock (another great, yet simple feature), though there have been a few times where I kept on telling myself "one more turn", luckily though i've never been too late becuase of it.
Plus I've learned that my girlfriend doesn't like it when i spend so many hours playing the game (yet she's allowed to sit on MSN all day long, WTH?!)
Plus I've learned that my girlfriend doesn't like it when i spend so many hours playing the game (yet she's allowed to sit on MSN all day long, WTH?!)
King Flevance
Deity
sheerin said:
Yeah I use the clock as the 'alarm' myself. This was a nice little feature added. As for the gf thing, I have never understood that. Girls in general seems to not mind you being on a IM thing but dont load up a game!
Venus must be some weird freakin planet with all kinds of double standards, hypocracies, and thing in which there is no logic involved. But there is ALOT of p*ssy.
King Flevance said:Yeah I use the clock as the 'alarm' myself. This was a nice little feature added. As for the gf thing, I have never understood that. Girls in general seems to not mind you being on a IM thing but dont load up a game!
Venus must be some weird freakin planet with all kinds of double standards, hypocracies, and thing in which there is no logic involved. But there is ALOT of p*ssy.
I always try to play civ when my gf is occupied with bashing orcs, nightelves, undead or humans
