Top 10 ways to know your a Civ Fanatic?

[karembeu]

please add others as warranted ...

10. You force the neighborhood kids to sign "Open Borders" agreements before they can retrieve balls from your garden

9. the F12 key on your keyboard is worn out

8. you are now an expert at updating graphic and sound drivers, and can uninstall and reinstall Civ4 in less than 5 minutes ... you started timing yourself for fun!

7. when you see your dog/cat sittingin the corner, you wonder if 'working that square' would be best served by a pasture or camp

6. when someone forgets something, you refer to it as a "memory allocation error"

5. Sid Meier has been named as co-respondent in your upcoming divorce proceedings

4. you were recently fired for referring to your co-workers as allies, and changing all the project schedules to "turns to completion" instead of days to complete.

3. instead of getting new glasses you simply ask the optician to "upgrade your graphics drivers"

2. Sid Meier has issued a restraining order against your wife/girlfriend/partner after receiving numerous death threats

and the number 1 way to tell your a Civ Fanatic ....

























1. you are still reading this drivel ... nodded through most of it ... and actually GOT IT

 

[FuRRie]

My F12 is looking the less good of all my F keys .

 

[bitplayer]

Hehe some of those were pretty good.

 

[Inflammatory]

4. you were recently fired for referring to your co-workers as allies, and changing all the project schedules to "turns to completion" instead of days to complete.

And you just can't help yourself with the whole "just one more day, just one more day" syndrome.

 

[binhthuy71]

Very funny - and painfully close to the truth.

Kudos!

 

[los]

How about dreaming in turn based
civ 4 graphics. At least once a week
I will wake up after having a total
Civ 4 episode. It's completely unlike
regular dreaming as it is turned based
strategizing... freaky

 

[SkippyT]

10. You force the neighborhood kids to sign "Open Borders" agreements before they can retrieve balls from your garden

Ahahahahhahahahah! *laughter beyond real*

 

[automator]

at least I'm not the only one who dreams in Civ.

 

[Shigga]

You wonder how you never knew there's a Moto GP

You wonder where they popped the GP that's settled in Rome

You plan to invade Italy big time to get you hands on all the gold by capturing their holy city.

You write a letter to you local govenment asking how on earth they can leave so many cities undefended.

You wonder how on earth iraq can draft so many partisans with mostly desert around.

You wonder how on earth Bush ever got the idea of invading such a poor-tiled state.

 

[Zorn]

You wonder how on earth Bush ever got the idea of invading such a poor-tiled state

Hey, they were close to win a culture victory...

 

[karembeu]

You write a letter to you local govenment asking how on earth they can leave so many cities undefended.

You wonder how on earth iraq can draft so many partisans with mostly desert around.

You wonder how on earth Bush ever got the idea of invading such a poor-tiled state.

Lots of *OIL* though!

 

[Civ4rulesTH]

Here's some

You go to your nearest city and panic as you can't see any units defending it

You see 2 workmen and tell them there is some oil to be improved along the road.

Infantry walk around in threes

You believe you founded Christianity in 440AD and Taoism in 800AD

You wonder what the maximum size of your village is and if it is going to be a wealth/science etc. city

You believe just outside the borders of your nation there is a hostile nation sporting black flags

You tell some builders to stop building the farm as it is outside the nearest cities fat cross.

When visiting Paris you believe is a massive boradcast tower and counts as one in all cities in Europe.

You can't wait until 2050 to see if your nation wins a time victory.

 

[mtu]

You write a letter to you local govenment asking how on earth they can leave so many cities undefended.

 

[PMabey]

1. you send a declaration of war to your next door neighbour and proceed into his garden to pillage his improvements.

2.Having forced your next door neighbour to move house you wait for the new owner to arrive and hope to perform a praetorian rush on him. Unfortuneately you lose your only iron resource, to someone else's high culture. You suspect he is going for a culture victory and send a spy (your son) to his capital (kitchen)

3. you write a letter to your local MP to research genetics next because you are sick and need the extra health bonus.

 

[Birdmanthepuny]

When you're not playing Civ (F#@$&ing work) you prowl around the Civ boards searching for new information that will help your current game.

 

[Minmaster]

you speak to people in nimoy quotes...

 

[Civ4rulesTH]

When you go round your neighbours you ask if they wish to sign a defensive pact.

When tradesmen stop at your door you wonder if they're just the barbarians or another nation that will bring your DP into effect.

You believe its perfectly normal for a warrior born in 4000BC to still one of the cities defenders in 2000AD

You see a machine gunner and tell them to upgrade as they are obselete.

You believe the Pyramids were actually built in London and Stonehenge in Beijing

 

[Birdmanthepuny]

You write the President to advise him to place some fogbusters in the desert to stave off the barbarians.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

You are now banned from every store in town since every time the cashier asks you for the money to purchase a product your only response is "You'll have to take it from my cold, dead hands"...

You get depressed at the thought that since you are not working fields, you must be a specialist, but if you are not a merchant, scientist, artist or priest you must be a mere citizen and therefore your whole existence is worth a mere 1 production per turn...

 

[Volstag]

When you bother to read the umpeenth million thread entitled: "You know you're a civ fanatic when..." or "You know you're addicted to civ when..."