Funny stuff we did when we started.

[Håkan Eriksson]

When I order my first civ game (civ1 to SNES(Super Nintendo)) then is was some trouble so I got the manual one week before the game. So the first thing I did was to studied the manual fore a week.

I se that most people around here just burned to manual and started playing.

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Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto
(I am man, nothing human is alien to me)

Ex Libris of Gustaf VI Adolf

 

[LordOfTheMorning]

I am a longtime Civ1 player who switched to Civ2 only about two years ago (when I got a computer capable of running it.). About the dumbest thing I did when I first started playin Civ2 was not taking the time to read the new abilities of the Wonders (Pyramids does WHAT?????????). Sure left me

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"I would not mind you in my head" said Lews Therin, "if you were not so clearly mad."

 

[SpacemanSpiff]

Håkan - Well, the manual is missing a lot! It only got me a little started compared to the online help.

But I've got one here I bet no one else has EVER done...

I was playing probably my first game. I didn't understand enough and was getting whooped (who didn't 1st time?). I wanted to end the game "properly" without just quiting and dumping the SAV file or retiring, etc.

So there are 7 civs on the map and I only had a few units left (but still a few cities). I took my units out to the other civs to kill them off and end the game (I thought). Finally, a rival civ killed my last unit. *whew*

PROBLEM? I had "Press Enter after each turn" TURNED OFF!

RESULT? With cities standing and no pieces to move, I got to watch the computer go round and round and round <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/spinsmile.gif" border=0> giving every civ a turn (except me, no units) WITHOUT STOPPING, only notifying me of their discoveries wonders and gov't changes along the way (the only rest from the constant movement).

WORSE: The game let me do NOTHING that would stop/end this! I tried everything (and I was a certified Windows 3.1 master at the time). I couldn't get to the menus or do anything to end the game while the pieces were moving or when the dialog boxes came up. <u>NO THING!!!</u>

I had to turn the computer off to stop it.
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I never turn that option off anymore. Anyone else done that? Or do I win the prize for stupidity?

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[This message has been edited by SpacemanSpiff (edited January 02, 2001).]

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Yeah, I turn that off all the time, except when I'm in a major war and need to make many adjustments each turn. My superior Macinstosh has no problem breaking out of that cycle

In one of my early games playing on the Meditteranean landscape I got this brilliant Idea to NOT build any cities but rather use my two settlers to build a road that stretched across the entire map! In the process, I picked up unnumerable units in goody huts, but by the time I decided to build a city or conquer, I can't remember which, it was about 1500 a.d. So I went out to fight their riflemen with my horsemen and elephants. Needless to say, I learned my lesson.

Oh, and when someone build King Richard's Crusade I thought that it was the Real Deal, based on my grade eight history, and that waves and waves of my enemy's new crusaders were going to come wipe me and my heathens out!

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Hhheeeeeeeyyyyook dodo,doddodo, dooooo, heyak! heeeeeyyyyyhheyssshhho

 

[SpacemanSpiff]

Go Mac! I don't own one but I used to administrate a college network full of them, as well as the PCs. So I go both ways. I guess that makes me "bi"?

Spiff

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Hmmm, I suppose you're right.

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Hhheeeeeeeyyyyook dodo,doddodo, dooooo, heyak! heeeeeyyyyyhheyssshhho

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Håkan Eriksson:


I se that most people around here just burned to manual and started playing.

I read and learn the manual before I play any game. being a COMPLETE novice sucks.

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Gauis Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Pontificator Pedanticus
Older, richer, and wiser than you.

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

I read the instruction book from start to finish and still did all sorts of stupid things

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Consider a career in Hippo Taming.

 

[scorch]

hahaha, a couple more, I used to play with the enter off, so I was fidlling around with a options oneday and I put it on, then i finished my turn, then I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and think, "crap, these computers must have a big civ to be taking this long" and waiting, until about 1/2 hour later i saw that flashing thingy.

another one, I played Civ on a 486 with 8mg ram, and i decided to turn on "animated heralds, requires 16mg ram" i didn't acutally know much about comps then, so i turned it on, then the nect thing i know, most of the time when i talk to another Civ, the computer crashed, which sucked, coz i also had Autosave off

For about a year i just thought our comp had suddenly gone stink, then when i learnt a bit more about comps, i saw that option ticked.

yet another one. I didn't ever use the advisors, so i didn't know how to contact other civs, so to try contact my ally, who loved me and always gave me stuff, i would get a unit and "rub" it against one of its citys. This actually worked lots of the time. then about 1.5 yers after playing, I found out abou the foregn advisor, so i was like, yeah, and kept contacting everyone, and they got real pissed off

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

"consider a career in hippo taming"

A officer of my lodge, a sherriffs deputy in Bandera County (NW of San Antonio), was involed in a hippo round up.. Two pigmy hippos escaped from an exotic game ranch there.

 

[stellar converter]

i enjoy reading all my manuals

. if i could have one hundred dollars for every time ive read the civ manuals, i would have a lot of money, but not quite to the rich level. maybe if i got 100,000...

 

[scorch]

yah! 3 pages long!