When did you start calling shields hammers?

[phungus420]

I just realized in a post I called them hammers. Think I've been doing so for a year now, just never noticed. I remember back when cIV first came out, I was all, no way, I'll always call them shields, but I guess even the most obstinant of us succumb to the invetible. So when did it happen to you?

 

[say1988]

I started as soon as I got it, but I still use both sometimes. Plus hammers makes more sense

 

[6K Man]

Took me about a year from my last Civ2 game, I think.

 

[say1988]

I can't say that, my last civ II game was in february some time In fact more recent than an actual game of Civ IV.

 

[CCRunner]

What are these shields you speak of?

I started with Civ 4, they've always been hammers to me.

 

[eris]

It made sense when they renamed the abstraction in Civ4. After all, building a library out of shields is silly. Just imagine trying to stack shields into walls and a roof of a building. It definitely makes much more sense with hammers.

Anyway... It really didn't take long to adjust the vocabulary.

 

[Bowsling]

I have always, and still do, use shields. I have played civ III for years, since about 2003, yet I started civ Iv only in about 2007, when I bought a computer that met the system requirements for civ IV

 

[pianoman1242]

I've played III and IV, but I use hammers. It just makes more sense to call a picture of a hammer a hammer, not a shield.

 

[JonathanStrange]

Yeah, I'll call 'em what they appear as, depending on the Civ version. The game can be intimidating enough for newcomers with all the Civ jargon as it is; they don't need for me to confuse the issue further.

When? It was instantaneous for me. I'm sentimental about the shields but, you know, that's civ.

 

[Arlborn]

Right away. I was never a true hardcore civ3 player, not in the same way as with civ4 anyway, so by the time I bought civ4 I hadn't played civ3 for around 2 years or more.

 

[Notadolfhitler]

I started playing at Civ4:BTS, I never knew they were shields before civ4. Hammers make more sense than shields.

 

[r_rolo1]

I started to call them hammers when they started to look like this :

 

[ABHPage]

I still own my copy of civ I on supernintendo with the sheilds (my sister still plays the game btw...), and this summer have played civ 2 a bit, but in the last few years I was playing more of Alpha Centauri than civ. Started playing BtS last week and I already call htem hammers.

 

[PieceOfMind]

I think the shield made sense in Civ1 because it was easy to identify in such a small number of pixels. Plus they looked ok when they were stacked (overlapping) beside each other.

 

[Stoney the I]

hmm

never realized I am calling hammers shields.



good thread!

 

[blitzkrieg1980]

The little symbol for production used to be shields (IN the game). Now, they're , so they should be called as such

 

[Turquoiside]

It was pretty instant. Though shields looked okay in Civ III, hammers are just easier to remeber. I do still see CIV people calling them shields though. More than the poll would hint.

 

[blitzkrieg1980]

Shields doesn't really make sense in the first place to me. I remember them, but when CIV started using , it made a lot more sense to me. Shields to symbolize building units, maybe? But hammers to symbolize building stuff in general... just makes more sense.

 

[Supr49er]

I switched from Shields to Hammers when I heard Leonard Nimoy sing If I had a Hammer.

 

[Antilogic]

The first option in this poll could have easily been "I started playing Civ with Civ4."