you know you've been playing too much Civ4 when...

[Cruise]

you know you've been playing too much Civ4 when...


- when you go to the hospital and ask if a great person has been born already.
- you ask when the last great scientist was born and extrapolate the birth of the next one by visiting the university labs and counting the number of scientists at work.
- look for stone in the garden so you know you can build your garden wall twice as fast.
- wonder when you're an organized person if you should change your lifestyle accordingly.
- Tell everyone that every religion has the same effect everywhere.
- you buy a calender and expect you know where you are whereever you are.
- you're pissed off you can't cut down that dead tree because dont know how to produce bronze.
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[laylowmay]

... when you wake up in the morning thinking about excuses not to go to work (so you can play civ4). yup, I did it once.

 

[NoAnswer]

You walk outside and expect the sky to read "45 Turns Left!"

You travel from city to city with an axe in your hand searching for the annoying horse rancher and, surely enough, find him in each one.

pt. I You begin to accept the incessant chanting as passive game music.

Your repetitive sex life leads you to contruct monasteries of all the world's religions in your bedroom.

You never finish your games and instead start a new one at least once a day.

You argue that "The Germans built the Hanging Gardens until those (insert modifier of choice) Mongols captured them and let the (again) French burn them to the ground."

pt. II You turn off the game music, voice, and ambience; play with winamp on.

 

[Oddible]

You never finish your games and instead start a new one at least once a day.

You DO finish your games AND start a new one at least once a day.

 

[Thrag]

Thankfully I have a convenient mechanism for knowing when I've played too much. My otherwise happy go lucky not at all needy or demanding girlfriend starts to make this certain noise which eventually grows into complaints of "when the hell are you getting off that thing".

 

[nevs69]

- when you skip taking showers in the morning so that you have time to play before going to work!

 

[Urederra]

Thankfully I have a convenient mechanism for knowing when I've played too much. My otherwise happy go lucky not at all needy or demanding girlfriend starts to make this certain noise which eventually grows into complaints of "when the hell are you getting off that thing".

Maybe in 2008, when they release SMAC2?

 

[lionhead]

You know you have played too much civ4 when:

You say in history class that Ghandhi lived from 3000BC too 2050 AD
You believe The germans Build the eiffel tower and the Kremlin
You believe peace with the romans is possible
You think trading one gold bar for one sheep is fair
You believe the Sputnik actually talks
You believe a guy with a shovel actually can clean up radioactive waste

 

[eldar]

YKYHPTMC4W:

- You take the day off sick the "morning" after getting to bed at 3.30am.
- You actually disable your automatic virus check that kicks in at 3am - at midnight.
- You keep wondering why Wall Street isn't along the local high street, surely there are enough banks there to qualify for it?
- You ask a priest where he keeps his hammer (and if he has one, does he hammer in the morning, in the evening, and all over the land...?)

 

[slothman]

When you try to read CFF fast so you can get back to civving.

 

[WildWeazel]

Shouldn't this be called "1000 Clues you've been playing Civ4 too much"?

 

[Quasimodo]

Driving down the freeway and you see a pasture and wonder how much food the owner is getting off it.

Driving down the freeway, seeing a hill and wonder how many hammers you might get from it, if you build a mine.

You're in the middle of playing a game and could have swore that you build a city on that coast. Then realize that you did, but it was in the dream that you had when you last slept.

You tell a coworker that you want tribute or you will invade his cubicle and ransack it.

 

[lionhead]

You think mount rushmore is build by fascists.

 

[KCCrusader]

You start calling the area you live a Hamlet, because its bigger than a cottage but not quite a village.

 

[Meffy]

Driving down the freeway and you see a pasture and wonder how much food the owner is getting off it.

:-D Sounds all too familiar. Way back when Populous was brand new I played so much that, while driving in the mountains, I kept thinking "Gee, if I just clicked to lower that hillock, then that little house in the holler could grow bigger."

 

[Dagoth Ur]

When your friend ask you to join him on his sail boat, and you refuse because caravels only carry 1 unit.

 

[Genghis Khan II]

-When you start building "spaceship parts"(car parts) and decide to change to the slavery civic and "sacrifice" family members and then you wonder why it didnt get any more sheilds?
-Then you do (whatever you do, I cant remember) and hope you get a great engineer to rush your spaceship parts.
-After you build the "spaceship parts" you wonder why your "spaceship" doesnt fly off.
-you dont understand how people have lower bodies. "Its not on civ4"
-and now that you think about it you wonder why they have bodies at all? isnt that only leaders of civilizations?
-You add up the civics and wonder why America is in debt
-YOU GET BOARD

 

[Eozenig]

When you propose 450 gold and refrigeration tech for peace to your other half when you got an argument

 

[Captain2]

you know you've been playing civ too long when you go around looking for people protecting your town from invaders

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Gentlemen, let's do this properly! Number your list of reasons.

Number (whatever the devil it's up to now) - You know you've been playing too much Civ4 when you're a veteran of Civ2, 3, AC etc "you know you've been playing..." threads and you're posting on this one complaining it's not being done properly.