Whats the stupidest thing you've ever done in civ2?
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Becka
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I didn't find out until I got Civ2 what tax rates were for. I didn't even touch them. I couldn't figure out what they were for, so I just didn't mess with them.
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"You know what I pray for? I pray for the power to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, the in incapacity to tell the difference."
-Calvin and Hobbes
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"You know what I pray for? I pray for the power to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, the in incapacity to tell the difference."
-Calvin and Hobbes
Aristonico
Chieftain
Oooooooh! another victim of the same screen
The Splang
BOB...
i got civ2 around the time i got my computer so i wasn't very good at the buttons and such, witch is why i never won
, i could conquer only a few sellect cities due to this handicap. one day howwever my finger sliped and my archer moved... diagonal
! i think i cried from happines
Could've sworn I replied to this thread months ago, but oh well...
My biggest screwup was my very first game of Civ2. I'd played Civ1 for years already, but I thought I'd start out on Prince, large map just to savour the new version. I was playing fairly perfectionist, had my decent-sized continent with lots of big cities before I decided to wipe out the others.
Got through all the weaker civs first, leaving the awesome French for last as htey were furthest away and neck-and-neck with me on tech and the powergraph (yeah, I know, my sense of strategy is a bit better now...
) Anyway, so I built a sweet navy--subs with nukes, carriers with bombers and choppers, battleships, transports with tanks and spies, the works. Must have been 300 units all together.
Then I launched my offensive to greet the French and whathef**k?!? CRUISE MISSILE ATTACK NEAR LYONS? My navy was completely decimated, and I turned off the computer in disgust, not to play again for two weeks.
Now I know all about Aegis Cruisers of course, but I still cringe everytime I read the cruise missile attack dialogue box...
My biggest screwup was my very first game of Civ2. I'd played Civ1 for years already, but I thought I'd start out on Prince, large map just to savour the new version. I was playing fairly perfectionist, had my decent-sized continent with lots of big cities before I decided to wipe out the others.
Got through all the weaker civs first, leaving the awesome French for last as htey were furthest away and neck-and-neck with me on tech and the powergraph (yeah, I know, my sense of strategy is a bit better now...
Then I launched my offensive to greet the French and whathef**k?!? CRUISE MISSILE ATTACK NEAR LYONS? My navy was completely decimated, and I turned off the computer in disgust, not to play again for two weeks.
Now I know all about Aegis Cruisers of course, but I still cringe everytime I read the cruise missile attack dialogue box...
Caesar19
Chieftain
Getting my girlfriend interested in playing it now not only dont I get to play it but shes better then me.
Hail Caesar!
Hail Caesar!
Heffalump
Proboscidea Heffalumpus
In CivI I played my first several games without ever shifting governments beyond monarchy, and then wondered was I was stagnating technologically and getting overrun in the end. SO .... I then tried a new plan, building VERY few military units and focusing all my energy on building libraries, etc ... only to be overrun early in the game by marauding invaders.
Like several other people my biggest Civ II blunder was launching a large invasion force without Aegis protection, and then watching everything sink in spectacular fashion as missles come flying from all directions..
Like several other people my biggest Civ II blunder was launching a large invasion force without Aegis protection, and then watching everything sink in spectacular fashion as missles come flying from all directions..
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
From a purely gaming POW, this wasn't much of a stupidity, but just imagine that it was the real world:
Fairly late-game, the world is populated by me (the Russians), a couple of sorry-looking and generally insignificant AI civs, and the HUGE French Empire of Fundamentalist Mega-Armies. I was, of course, at war with the French, and despite my superior tech, it had degenerated to a steelmate.
Having got the nuke tech, I notice that while most of my major cities are coastal ones, the French ones were mostly inland. I started Manhattan Project and began building plenty of Harbors and Offshore Platforms. You can probably guess what my plan was ....
Yes, that's right. I fired off HEAPS of nukes, the French replied in kind, and in a few turns global temperatures soared. Soon, the French cities were suffering massive starvation, while my coastal cities fared pretty well.
In the end, I achieved world conquest about 2010, at which point the the world consisted almost entirely of ocean, swamp and desert.
Fairly late-game, the world is populated by me (the Russians), a couple of sorry-looking and generally insignificant AI civs, and the HUGE French Empire of Fundamentalist Mega-Armies. I was, of course, at war with the French, and despite my superior tech, it had degenerated to a steelmate.
Having got the nuke tech, I notice that while most of my major cities are coastal ones, the French ones were mostly inland. I started Manhattan Project and began building plenty of Harbors and Offshore Platforms. You can probably guess what my plan was ....
Yes, that's right. I fired off HEAPS of nukes, the French replied in kind, and in a few turns global temperatures soared. Soon, the French cities were suffering massive starvation, while my coastal cities fared pretty well.
In the end, I achieved world conquest about 2010, at which point the the world consisted almost entirely of ocean, swamp and desert.
The Splang
BOB...
i just got civ1 from abandonware and thought "this will be easy, ill just start as babylonians in prince on the world map" i have never been so wrong...
Turn 12, the mongel hoardes sweep up through the Nile, taking two important cities, one i would never see again and the other was ironically my last stand...
Those basterd Russians crush like 3 empires and then move on to me... no matter who i paid to attack them it was just pathetic, city after city fell, and i finally was defeated outside Ur (Cairo area), I was destroyed and my people would forever remember me as the guy that couldn't beat dan quale... GOD THAT WAS FUN!!
Turn 12, the mongel hoardes sweep up through the Nile, taking two important cities, one i would never see again and the other was ironically my last stand...
Those basterd Russians crush like 3 empires and then move on to me... no matter who i paid to attack them it was just pathetic, city after city fell, and i finally was defeated outside Ur (Cairo area), I was destroyed and my people would forever remember me as the guy that couldn't beat dan quale... GOD THAT WAS FUN!!
DutchDiplomate
Chieftain
The dumbest thing i did was the following:
I had 2 settlers, 1 supported by my capital, 1 unsupported (free from the beginning). I let my unsupported settler make a city.
I had 2 settlers, 1 supported by my capital, 1 unsupported (free from the beginning). I let my unsupported settler make a city.
Becka
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The other day I forgot that a Caravel holds more than two units. There I was, with Crusaders waiting on the shore for a glorious invasion, and I'm taking them two by two on Becka's Ark.
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"You know what I pray for? I pray for the power to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the in incapacity to tell the difference."
-Calvin and Hobbes
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"You know what I pray for? I pray for the power to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the in incapacity to tell the difference."
-Calvin and Hobbes
Shekwan
Kim Chi Quaffing Celt
They cut a load of the meat off it. A good few kebabs wasted.
I was playing as the neutals in WWII scenario trying out a strategy. I build a city on a mountain close to Venice and filled it with lots of armies so that even the full force of the axis armies could not take it by military force.... and then they bought it. 
Jacen_Fel
Chieftain
It works on all big Empires as long as their are less than civ players remaining in the game. It's a great strategy for splitting the one super computer empire if you have been playing on diety and let the computer grow possibly a bit too strong.
Rommel1942
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i remember one multiplayer game that ended with a monstrous cold war/nuke build up situation. my friend struck first, then it was all out production and nuking... i remember at one point i had 175 nukes, 80something subs, and i had used several already. we played into the 2200s, and i eventually won, but the world was incredibly desolate- i don't remember how many times the "global warming" terrain change happened, but it was at least 20 or 30.
but i did win
but i did win
Wow, bumping a two page thread that started nearly ten years ago. Only in the civ2 forums.
Once I had an epic cannon and musket war with the English that went on from nearly AD to the modern era. Of course, the rest of the world progressed on and we were too wrapped up in our pointless feud to care.
Once I had an epic cannon and musket war with the English that went on from nearly AD to the modern era. Of course, the rest of the world progressed on and we were too wrapped up in our pointless feud to care.
Catfish
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When starting out Civ2ing, I'd made so many mistakes that it's hard for me to single out any one:
(1) Mining a hill. Then irrigating it because I like the lure of getting extra food AND extra shields from the same square. Once the irrigation is done: hmmm... coulda sworn I mined it... oh well, let's mine it now!
(2) Dismissing trade as extraneous and concentrating on shields.
(3) Ignoring caravans/freight.
(4) Ignoring Diplomats/Spies.
(5)
(Senate signs a peace treaty with the Babylonians behind my back.)
[Next turn]
American leader (ME): Stupid Babylonian Archers are in my way to the river. Let's pummel it with Cavalry!
(Senate overrules the action.)
ME: God$%@# you, stupid Senate! Hmmm... if I can't sneak attack them like I know they'll sneak attack me later, then I'll "convince" them to start a war with me. Let's see... Let's have this Spy destroy one of this city's buildings.
(American Spy destroys the Babylonian Factory.)
[NEWS: Scandal in the Senate -- Babylonians declare war over espionage furor! American government collapses!
ME: Okay, now Cavalry -- CHARGE!
(Cavalry attacks the Babylonian archer and easily defeats it.)
ME: Woo-hoo! That's right! Take that, you #&*^$@%#&%*$& Senate!
(6) The Carthaginians were constantly sending diplomats into my cities to steal my techs as I had built a sizable lead. They even started constructing Spaceship Parts! I decided to concentrate on Nuclear Missile production in all my cities. A few turns later, I went nuke happy and easily took over the Carthaginian cities via the railroads that THEY had built. However, on the Victory Screen, I had a whopping 500 point penalty for Pollution squares and my Civilization rating, despite the vast number of cities I had, was somewhere near only 40%.
(1) Mining a hill. Then irrigating it because I like the lure of getting extra food AND extra shields from the same square. Once the irrigation is done: hmmm... coulda sworn I mined it... oh well, let's mine it now!
(2) Dismissing trade as extraneous and concentrating on shields.
(3) Ignoring caravans/freight.
(4) Ignoring Diplomats/Spies.
(5)
(Senate signs a peace treaty with the Babylonians behind my back.)
[Next turn]
American leader (ME): Stupid Babylonian Archers are in my way to the river. Let's pummel it with Cavalry!
(Senate overrules the action.)
ME: God$%@# you, stupid Senate! Hmmm... if I can't sneak attack them like I know they'll sneak attack me later, then I'll "convince" them to start a war with me. Let's see... Let's have this Spy destroy one of this city's buildings.
(American Spy destroys the Babylonian Factory.)
[NEWS: Scandal in the Senate -- Babylonians declare war over espionage furor! American government collapses!
ME: Okay, now Cavalry -- CHARGE!
(Cavalry attacks the Babylonian archer and easily defeats it.)
ME: Woo-hoo! That's right! Take that, you #&*^$@%#&%*$& Senate!
(6) The Carthaginians were constantly sending diplomats into my cities to steal my techs as I had built a sizable lead. They even started constructing Spaceship Parts! I decided to concentrate on Nuclear Missile production in all my cities. A few turns later, I went nuke happy and easily took over the Carthaginian cities via the railroads that THEY had built. However, on the Victory Screen, I had a whopping 500 point penalty for Pollution squares and my Civilization rating, despite the vast number of cities I had, was somewhere near only 40%.
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