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ugh, there was recently a thread about worst mistakes you ever made

i just hit "end turn" by accident when i still had several 100 units to move :/

lost a lot of cities i had just taken heh :/

war will last longer now and i'm democracy heh :/
 
My worst mistake: Leaving an army in a city that was very likely to culture-flip to the enemy:confused:
 
Attacking everybody in sight when I have different civs on every border. That only works on chieftan from what I can tell.
 
Accidently nukeiing my captiol.
 
Making a Granary my first build priority, so having no military (that's right, not even a Warrior!) when Persia took my only city in 3150BC :o.
 
Gave away Rocketry and a Territory Map for a Territory map when an AI offered it as a deal...hit the wrong button.
 
I accidently gave a Civ 67 gpt instead of the intended 67 gold. Needless to say, my economy went straight downhill, until I figured out what it was, and declared way, negating the deal. Of course, the war had a nasty effect upon my happiness and economy, but that is NOT the point . . .
 
I remeber one time, I was having a pretty decent game, I was ahead in tech, had a nice arsenal of nukes, and decided it time "to make my move." So before my sudden war was going to start I decide to milk the AI for as much money as I could get. I got to my biggest rival, and sold him the tech for modern armor, this happend of course after I made some crazy deal with someone else for a MMP, and gave him WAY more money then I thought I was..... (dont drink and negociate policy!) So in my rightous fury I decide to lay the world to waste, and mistakenly nuked my most productive city. After this I joyously shot off the rest of my nukes, only to discover after I shot off five, the cities that I thought were going to make more of them by that turn... were still quite a few turns away from produceing anything. It was my dumbest moment EVER in any civ game.....
 
One night after drinking and smoking myself into oblivion, I decided to step up a level to Monarch. As I was doing very well at Regent, I thought the jump would be no problem. While I didn't make any large errors, the hundreds of tiny ones caught up to me and I got my butt kicked out of the game before 200AD.

Moral of the story: don't play Civ3 when you are drunk and stoned. :smoke:
 
Originally posted by Brewster
One night after drinking and smoking myself into oblivion, I decided to step up a level to Monarch. As I was doing very well at Regent, I thought the jump would be no problem. While I didn't make any large errors, the hundreds of tiny ones caught up to me and I got my butt kicked out of the game before 200AD.

Moral of the story: don't play Civ3 when you are drunk and stoned. :smoke:
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NO, moral of the story: don't drink or get stoned in the frist place.
 
I pay tribute to a primitive civilization

CoughtcoughtZulucoughtcought
 
I usually play on regant....one day I played "sid"...
 
in my first game i built only my capital and fortified it with only catatpults. then i declared war on the zulu who had like a hundred cities and the most powerful army. oops.
 
This is interesting b/c one of my greatest successes indirectly lead to my biggest mistake:

On my first ever Civ (on Chieftain level), out of paranoia from getting harassed early, I built up a big military and ended up going from a huge science deficit early in the game to being THE power in everything by 2050 (and I won Histographically).

That was great, but I got SOOO used to NEVER, EVER giving in to anyone's demands for gifts or grossly unfair trades, that I was unwilling to give in even when I really needed to. In my second Civ (on Warlord), very early on, I snubbed the Egyptians when they asked for a gift, I didn't think twice about it. I've never seen so many War Chariots since!! They mowed 5 of my 6 cities down in a blink, and wouldn't recognize my envoy until I had one fledgling little city left. I gave them whatever gold I had and survivied. The problem was, I had only one city, and I was trapped on a peninsula, with no room to expand anywhere, and thus little, or really NO chance of ever getting bigger. I finished last out of 8 histographically, with a score of 143. Even to civs that got eliminated finished above me in score.

But it didn't all go down the toilet. The Egyptians eventually declined and by the 1930's when the Romans were about to finish them off, I walked in and got the last Egyptian city! Take that Cleopatra!
 
Your smack is so truthful and on time! Give me a pound dog!

Take that Cleopatra...that's great.
 
I think I was the king of stupidity in my first game:

Not looking at manual, I noticed that every time I build a colony I get +1 gold. Of course, this +1 gold is the gold you was paying for worker upkeep:p but i didnt know.

So, in my first game, I build some 150 workers and made about 150 unusefull colonies on every ressource, thinking I will make a lot of cash. geez:lol:
 
1. Losing an Army and my entire air force because of a culture flip.

2. Giving up techs and great deals because I hit the "We accept" button instead of "No way!"

3. Not moving my units correctly during a crucial battle (they went left instead of up!).

4. Hitting "end turn" button and forgetting to adjust the Science slider when a discovery was one turn away.

5. Walking away from the game, only to find out later that my 2-year-old has decided to play my game for me!!!!
 
Originally posted by soren


NO, moral of the story: don't drink or get stoned in the frist place.
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Geez, you act like getting drunk and stoned (Two of my favorite weekend activities :cool: ) is committing some terrible crime against humanity, mellow out, dude.

Anyway, on that note, i played a game drunk once, and didn't really remember what i did the next day (Not that i drank myself to black out, i just didn't pay much attention :D ) and so i checked my progress, and i had annhilated all my weak neighbors and was at war with the entire world :crazyeye: :lol:

Other things include putting almost my entire military in one captured city....... only to have it culture flip back. :rolleyes:
 
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