Comrad Poopoff
Chieftain
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2003
- Messages
- 7
I'd first like to start out by saying that I have been Civ free for over 7 months. After realizing my addiction to this game I decided to hand my game over to a good friend to hide from me for a while so that I could rejoin the REAL civilization. And I was doing soooo good, untill this week. With the release of the Civ 3: Conquests I now have relapsed into my Civ addiction. I was playing just now, I just took a break for some bread and water. I decided to start this thread because I think its an issue we all deal with, and we all have stories, and I'd like for some fellow addicts to share their stories of being addicted to Civilization
I'd also like to hear of some "tactics" when trying to break the addiction. For example when I'm addicted to a game I give it to my friend to hide from me till a certain date, usualy for 3 or 4 months, and that usualy breaks the habbit...temporarily. I do this with my other addicted games, such as Heroes 1-4 and starfleet command 2-3.
As for one of my addiction stories...I nearly missed my friggin' graduation!!! In order to graduate from college I had to give my Civ 3 game to a friend for the remainder of the semester. And the agreed return date was the day before graduation. My friend gave me my game the day before graduation, and that night I played that game like I had never played it before!!! The best way to describe it, is it was like realy having to pee bad then finaly letting loose when you got to a toilet. But anyway I played the game till about 6am and I was beat from all the conquoring and genocide so i looked at the clock and I still had a good 3 hours to sleep. At 8:30am I got a call from my mom asking me where i was. Of course i couldnt tell her that I was late because I played video game all night, thats just pathetic! So I opted for somthing a little more realistic, I got real drunk the night before and was sick but I was one my way. Needless to say I did get to my graduation with 10 minutes to spare...of course I did have to forgo on such luxuries as a shower and brushing my teeth. But it was a good day and I spent the rest of the summer playing Civ.
I'd also like to hear of some "tactics" when trying to break the addiction. For example when I'm addicted to a game I give it to my friend to hide from me till a certain date, usualy for 3 or 4 months, and that usualy breaks the habbit...temporarily. I do this with my other addicted games, such as Heroes 1-4 and starfleet command 2-3.
As for one of my addiction stories...I nearly missed my friggin' graduation!!! In order to graduate from college I had to give my Civ 3 game to a friend for the remainder of the semester. And the agreed return date was the day before graduation. My friend gave me my game the day before graduation, and that night I played that game like I had never played it before!!! The best way to describe it, is it was like realy having to pee bad then finaly letting loose when you got to a toilet. But anyway I played the game till about 6am and I was beat from all the conquoring and genocide so i looked at the clock and I still had a good 3 hours to sleep. At 8:30am I got a call from my mom asking me where i was. Of course i couldnt tell her that I was late because I played video game all night, thats just pathetic! So I opted for somthing a little more realistic, I got real drunk the night before and was sick but I was one my way. Needless to say I did get to my graduation with 10 minutes to spare...of course I did have to forgo on such luxuries as a shower and brushing my teeth. But it was a good day and I spent the rest of the summer playing Civ.