When did you first start playing Civilization?

[paulcarri]

which was the civ with the exploits using caravans to insta build wonders, and where you could build a useless wonder as a prebuild, then switch when the actual good wonder was available??

They have all merged now, i can remember spending insane amounts of time on marlas maps though.. can remember on one version that if one unit in a stack died, they all did (unless in a fort i think).

Theres things i miss from the old civs though, i liked building my palace.. i liked how the leaders dress changed as they modernized, i miss the HUGE fuss that was made about the wonders.

 

[noontide]

Civ 5 was disappointing after civ 5 because of dumb tactical AI that couldn't handle fighting at all. Also underwhelming were tile improvements, while in civ 4 you felt when you improved that crabs, fish or mines, Civ 5 in comparistion was meh +1 food for 6 worker turns. G&K improved game a lot, and now with BnW I can play the game happily until civ 6 at least.

Yes, it feels like cheating luring AI into war, set up a grinding machine and whittle its army down.

And border growth feels much more monumental in Civ 4 somehow, when you are a culture powerhouse, you can see turn by turn the neigbouring city got squeezed in by your cultural pressure, and eventually, bang! you flipped it. It's enormously satisfying.

 

[ezysquire]

Civ I. PC. Awesome.

 

[Gruminmor]

Um, there's no option for Alpha Centauri...

But to be fair, I did play Civ 2 for a short time. But it really was AC and Civ 3 that got me hooked. And I had played a few turn based strategy games before, like Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

God I wish they'd make Alpha Centauri 2.
C'mon ya boobs, leave the legal lawsuits alone and make the damn game already!

 

[VladTepes]

I bought Civ I when I was in college in '92 and got hooked. I have stopped playing a few times: Civ 2 made me ragequit, liked Civ3 and 4 but I stopped playing for a time when 5 came out because the road maintenance was bankrupting me until G&K came with other gold-making options. If I can't get Tithes I restart because that is my early revenue generator.

 

[Denounced]

I started with Civ Rev on the PS3. I don't even have a PC. Civ 5 is the only game I've ever played on my Macbook.

 

[Timally]

Civ 1 on the Amiga 500.

Civ 3 is the only one I've never spent an indecent amount of time on..it was really irritating. Fortunately SMAC also came out the same time, by the original Civ team. I loved it, SMAX as well. Those were my real Civ 3. I still love pottering with the unit creator

 

[Riker13]

Civ 1, good old days of gaming as things were still original.

Think I got this game as I liked Sid`s other games from Microprose and have got every version since and will continue to I expect.

But even after 5 versions it`s still not perfect, one day........

The best thing that they done for CIV though was to allow Mods Bless em.

 

[SnowKomodo]

Interesting, the biggest percentage of CivFanatics, at least in this poll, have been around since the beginning

 

[CaesarCS]

I started with Civ I as well. I'm ashamed to admit it was a pirated copy. I had no idea it was a pirated copy; indeed, I had no idea what pirating was, but ignorantia legis non excusat. I always thought the questions that occasionally popped up were just to make sure I knew history, or how to play the game, or something like that.

Anyway, I absolutely loved it, and bought Civ 2 when I saw it in the stores. Of course, my computer was incapable of playing it so I began a crash course of actually learning about computers. I had a job so I saved for a few months, my parents kicked in a little as my birthday present, and I got my Pentium... er... I can't even remember what it was. Anyway, I never really stopped playing the game. I still load up the Civ2 WWII scenario occasionally, and I still have an absolute blast playing it.

 

[Otheon]

My wife bought me Civ I for Christmas of 1991(we were dating, not married yet). It went on my shiny, new, 386-33 which was about the fastest home computer out at the time(with 2 megs of ram even and a 512k video card, lol.) She bought it at my request after I saw it in stores. At the time I was also into Railroad Tycoon, Attack Sub 688, etc..

I've played every version of Civ. MMORG's cut into it's playing time a lot but Civ was always a great break from MMORPG's when I needed one. Now I'm just playing Civ again.

 

[ezbutton]

Wow, I feel ridiculously young reading some of these stories. Well, my love of civ started when I was really young, my brother introduced me to the series when he brought back civ 2 and installed it onto our pc and I would play that thing till it blue screened. Man I really miss that throne room. It probably wasn't till civ 4 till I realized that I was truly a civfanatic and should probably sign up for civanon (No more turns PLEASE).

Reason why I keep playing is probably because I love strategy games and have a fascination for history and ancient civilizations and civ is just a combination of the two. Plus its one of those few games where you can play with ICBMs, what can I say nukes are fun to use. I dare you Monty... I double dare you!!