If life was a game of Civ...

[omni_paul]

- A gold mine that's built too far away from your city, but still within your country's borders doesn't bring in any money, but does make people happy.

- He who is first to circumnavigate the globe gets faster ships, instead of he who has faster ships is first to circumnavigate the globe.

- You can have open borders with a less advanced civilization, but they won't pick up any of your secrets while they're passing through. Perhaps they're blindfolded.

- You need to be cultured to claim territory.

- A continent can be occupied by only one nation, but there can still be sections of that continent they don't claim as their own. (Can you imagine if this rule applied to Australia? There'd be a massive culture hole in the middle, ranging up to the north-west!).

- Inflation is a thing of the past.

- We need a UN Declaration of Single Currency, when we've all been trading in Gold for over 4000 years.

- Scouts wandering around on another continent can get word of their explorations back to their capital instantly, even if there are no ships available to carry the message.

 

[Tom183]

America would be public enemy #1 in Japan:
- 40: You nuked us!

LOL!!!

(p.s.: WE'RE SORRY!!!)

 

[CivFan91]

I'm not. Japan was imperialistic and was trying to do what Germany was doing. I hold no hatred against the japanese; however I do not apologize for what we deemed necessary to do back in WWII.

 

[Mr. Civtastic]

1. With a trade agreement (open borders) you can expect to see troops from other countries freely walk around your nation. Imagine Canadian troops strolling down nyc.

2. Every single entire building within your nation is built based 100% on the decision of one person.

3. Buildings built in 3000 b.c. were made of wood, and still exist to this day in perfect condition.

4. A person could be leader of a nation AND leader of the U.N.

5. Technology has advanced to built a sci-fi "space elevator" but not enough to build a rocket.

6. "Ooo look what a pretty painting...my city will join your nation immediately!"

7. If you have troops in a nation and declare war, they absolutely HAVE to leave before they can come back and start fighting.

8. Wooden ships in a ocean can stay in the exact same spot for 1000s of years, and despite having a finite amount of cargo space, do not need to return for food and water.

9. The number of songs ever written is less then 70, and they can only be played according to how advanced you are.

10. Trading cows for uranium or oil for pigs are not uncommon.

11. You can download the exact blueprints for building a lightspeed ship through the internet.

12. Through the dedication of Leonardo and no one else, the parthenon was built in one year, without using marble.

13. The best way to claim new land for your nation is to dress up like elvis and perform one concert.

 

[Rast]

- England would have been the first to circumnavigate the globe becuase they traded for enough maps to have an explored line of tiles all the way 'round the world without having to actually do it.

- Some cities would be defended by troops who wear loincloth uniforms and sport clubs. The reason they would be so armed is because the leader of their country is too lazy to upgrade them or doesn't want to spend the money.

- People would only be unemployed because they were unhappy, and would rather be whipped to death to build something in one turn or starve than work. While unhappy, they would light a huge bonfire in the city center.

- Borders would be fluid, and depend entirely on whom the rural inhabitants of the land liked the most at the moment.

 

[CivFan91]

oil for pigs are not uncommon.

In other news, the latest "oil for pig" scandal is sweeping talks in...

Anyway, to not be off-topic:

Citizens would not need to be told there was a new technology; likewise, the psychic generals know when people in a city 100 miles away learn something new (all this before the telephone.) If they're so psychic, why can't they tell me the enemy's plans? *shoots general*

 

[Roibeárd]

This thread is starting to take on the flavor of this one. We had a lot of fun over there.

 

[Argh]

Germany would invade France. A horrible war would ensue. Germany would eventually get beaten. Although France would bare a grudge, they hold no actualy memory of what happened and get invaded by Germany again in almost the exact same way a few "turns" later.

Oh, hang on....

 

[deanej]

You would be unable to eat bananas because your civilization hadn't researched the calendar technology.
To declare war, you would tell another leader that their head would look good on the end of a pole.
You could spend gold to have a building or unit magically be finished.
As soon as a scout entered a village in unexplored territory and got rewarded, the village would vanish.
Japan would have been able to make the atomic bomb because America completed the Manhattan Project.

 

[Underdawg]

If the world were like Civ IV...

...You can have universal suffrage, taking care to exclude those not of your own religion(theocracy) and those considered slaves(Slavery)

That actually happened! British Empire or the 1800s US anyone?

 

[LeConquerant]

Underdawg: yes, and Greeks in 400 BC

 

[Kalleyao]

If life was a game of Civ... Life would be computer game.

 

[kharas]

If life was a game of Civ... Life would be computer game.

is not that?

 

[Ranjrdanjr]

My face would be blistered from all the times I offered Cathey Fascism for Combustion.

Hurt me, baby.

 

[HypnosTene]

-the american continent would be overrun with barbarians (in a terra map) with riflemen and grenadiers

I mean.. they do have better weapons, but isn't it mostly true?
j/k, of course

 

[kharas]

If life was a game of Civ... Life would be computer game.

is not that?

 

[DrewBledsoe]

.....when you wake up on a Sunday Afternoon, head pounding, throat dry and start remembering what you actually did and said last night..you could just click Saturday Afternoon's autosave and decide not to get quite so wasted this time...........don't we all wish a least once

 

[Bushface]

England, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria and the Balkan countries would not exist as such, because the Romans conquered them all and civilisations do not resurrect. This eradicates Victoria, Elizabeth, Louis XIV and Napoleon from the leaders list.
The USA would not exist, because the present country evolved from colonists and immigrants, neither of which exist in Civ4 and certainly not in 4000BC. Goodbye Washington and Roosevelt.
The Danes and Dutch would walk everywhere, there being no bicycles.
In warfare :-
- No matter how strong your defences are, three shots from an accurate Artillery unit would reduce them to zero.
- Armed units under air attack might get wounded, but never killed.
- There would never be any casualties from "friendly fire".

 

[Karl Townsend]

- the sphinx wouldnt exsist

- the bi plane would never of been built unless you had a specail modification

- workers would sitll be using wooden hammers to build cottages when fact there made with steel in the 21 century

- tabacco would never exsist
- oranges woudl never exsist
- some guy discovring the al[phabet would go
a b d
no thats not right

a b c s

No

next turn

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

think thats right

 

[Mr Funkypants]

If life were like Civ III (Civ IV-less as of now)

-Italians would be forbidden from entering France, Switzerland, Austria, come to think of it, any country, because they broke a Right of Passage with the Greeks in 146 A.D.

-Before a railroad is built, it would take several years to travel 40 km. Once a railroad is built, you can make a world trip in less than a day.

-Thousands of people would run along the streets, muttering, "It's way too crowded..."

-Industrial labour would not exist, although factories do.

-If a city has both an iron and a coal mine nearby, it has the magical capacity to build the mysterious "Ironworks" which somehow makes builders work twice as fast. Sadly enough, there can only be one Iron Works per nation.

-Electricity can be harnessed without power plants. If a power plant is built, it just causes the builders to work even faster for some reason.

-The United States would have no need for any power plants, considering they've already built the Hoover Dam.

-The Pyramids still affects the daily lives of people 5000 years after it's built.