If life was a game of Civ...

[Cookie Crumbs]

The world ends in 44 years time. The Bible and the Terminator films got it wrong.

 

[Giaur]

On the other hand, imagine virtual wars beetween real countries by use of computer games. It's only the matter of time ...

 

[Ranjrdanjr]

On the other hand, imagine virtual wars beetween real countries by use of computer games. It's only the matter of time ...

Or a matter of catching the old Star Trek episode.

Speaking of which, so much for a space race victory.

 

[CivFan91]

On the other hand, imagine virtual wars beetween real countries by use of computer games. It's only the matter of time ...

Forgive me for straying off-topic, but I remember a sci-fi novel about just that. Everything virtual.

 

[Karl Townsend]

you would never die from a nuke eveen if it detonated right next to you

 

[mtu]

The world ends in 44 years time.

Might not be too far from the truth! Although I wonder if a huge "The End of Time!" dialog box will appear in the sky.

 

[Karl Townsend]

Might not be too far from the truth! Although I wonder if a huge "The End of Time!" dialog box will appear in the sky.

or wait just one more turn

 

[Birdmanthepuny]

-Once your scientists discover a new tech, every city can build it immediatley.
-You instantly know that Stonehenge has been build somewhere in the world...but don't know who did it.

 

[Azkonus]

-Production in the cities would be turn based, no city (it does not matter how big it is ) can start building a factory if it is building a research lab.

 

[Brice]

the Arabs would oblige the Indians to convert from Islam to Hindouism

some maniac antisocial barbarians would appear from Antartic in the XXth century to fight Australia and Argenina

when a city is conquered, people in the suburbs are now out of any country, whereas they were still part of their old nation when enemy troops were occupying the suburbs already for decades before the conquest of the city

 

[Shadowsong]

...I would have won by Conquest.

 

[Brice]

the world whoul sudently disappear, just because the universe is to weak to bear such a complex world and that the gods have not yet provided a suitable patch

 

[GIO888]

Right, Brice!

If my life was a game of Civ4 I'd be the most prolific workaholic of all time!

 

[Caradoc]

Every so often there would be a "We Love Our Despot" day.

 

[scooter]

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.

What Canadian troops?

 

[Xanikk999]

The space elevator would already be built and Israel could see into everyone of Americas cities because they hold jeresalum. (USA is mostly christian).

 

[tombeef]

I life was a game of CIV IV, then I would have won the game of life.

 

[atreas]

- you had to wait for 4000 years to learn a way to transfer water
- animals would never be afraid of men - on the contrary, they would come from the other end of the world to attack them
- animals and humans are mysteriously evolving from nowhere. Rumors say that in dark areas daemonic forces turn the dust into black-dressed warriors.
- you first discover how to work with bronze or iron, and then see where you can mine bronze or iron in the first place
- sea is dead calm - there was never a ship that sunk into it
- to build the Parthenon you should first try to become Hinduist