Worst start ever (bis)

[GenghisK]

I don't think anybody can do better thant that. I heard the losing theme as soon as I begun. I pressed the ctrl+D (disband) shortcut instead of ctrl+S (save). I didn't even move the settler. 2 minute for a Civ game. World record. BTW, never use shortcut to save games... Wise advice indeed. Or never save as soon as the beginning!

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Genghis K.
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[Thunderfall]

LOL, was it a multiplayer game?

 

[Circee]

Your first sensations









[This message has been edited by Circee (edited April 10, 2001).]

 

[Circee]

then, there are:

 

[Circee]

and finally there's:









because, some times after... you can only laugh of those kind of things...




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Here's I am...
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[GenghisK]

Nyet comrade, I'm still hating my f*** clumsy fingers that day. Perhaps I'll consider laughing at myself one day, when I'll tell that tale to my children

PS: No, Thunderfall, it wasn't a MP. Fortunately. Otherwise, I think I'll become the most famous guy in this forum. "Hey that's the clumsy Genghis... the quickest loser ever" No, I don't want to win that title.
And if I play a MP game, I'll never host
Hey, finally you were right, Circee. I've started laughing of myself.

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Genghis K.
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[weimar_republic]

doesnt it ask

"does you REALLY wanna disband this dude here?"

or something similar?

 

[FearlessLeader2]

Most people just hit enter instantly after doing the save shortcut, so he probably just registered his horrible mistake as his finger left the enter key.

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"What do we want? Tickets to the Met, Broadway, the shops, civilization, man, that's what we're looking for. Oh, we may stumble along the way, take this fellow for instance. . . *BLAM*
Now was that civilized? Fun, yes, but in no sense civilized."

 

[GenghisK]

doesnt it ask
"does you REALLY wanna disband this dude here?"

or something similar?

Alias no. Not on Civ for Macintosh... That's a mistake, I admit

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Genghis K.
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[Micah]

I don't see why you would be mad at that. Its the first turn, just start a new game.

 

[Philo]

In the first Civ i built a city then before i could buil any units in came the barbarians.

 

[GenghisK]

You were not quick enough, my friend
And generally, the barbarians are not so dangerous in the beginning. Unless you've nothing to defend your city of course. But in this case, you can call back your settler (if you've built one or if you've got 2 settlers when you started). It's strong enough to vanquish barbarians!

 

[Philo]

I know i spent far too much time building city improvements but i assumed the barbarians wouldnt turn up for a while.

 

[GenghisK]

As you know, Barbarians only appears on unsettled places. In other words, uncivilized square (ie not covered by any civ, having no roads, etc.) Now you know what you have to do

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[cichlid221]

Once, I played on the world map, small size. I didn't randomize player starting positions. I was French. On my first turn, I built my capital. My turn was over. During the AI turn, the Spanish settler must have gotten a goody box, because there was, all of a sudden, a Spanish horseman at my gates. It opened up a chat window, and I signed a peace treaty. However, the horseman still had one move left, and it did a sneak-attack and destroyed Paris. Who could possibly do worse? My score was 5o, only because of the raging hordes of barbarians.

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Never again will I eat those orange cashews.
<u>I DON'T LIKE RAW FOOD! </u>
Feel free to criticize my porr speelings.
DO NOT ask me why I'm like this.

 

[Garwulf]

[Writer falls off his chair in hysterics.]

I'm sorry...I know that it counts under horrible typoes, but it's still one of the funniest Civ stories I have EVER heard...

Best regards to all,

Robert Marks

 

[Garwulf]

Well, it's not quite Civ II, but it is Civ I.

You see, I had only just discovered the game. I was in high school, Windows 95 was not even a glint in Microsoft's eye, and I was trying out a game as the Roman Empire on the large Earth map.

So, I found Rome. Then, realizing that any enemy would have a very difficult time getting through if they just walked up against a wall o'cities, I founded Caesarea. Right next to Rome. Literally. Units moved from one city right into another.

Not to be outdone, I then did it again. And again. And again.

(Can you guess that at this point I hadn't picked up on one or two little important points of the game?)

Well, when the proverbial barbarian hordes came around a short time later, they didn't NEED to cripple my civilization...I'd stranded it in the stone age with no help whatsoever...

But I'm much better now...

Best regards to all,

Robert Marks