01-01-2004 12:14									#31
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quote: Originally posted by ICBM And in addition to that, if you have Civ running on two computers at your house at the same time, at midnight on New Years', while posting on Aployton.

Or how about setting both computers to hot-seat play each other?

	01-01-2004 12:41									#32
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quote: - you try to click on screen shots as if it were an actual game in play.

Guilty as charged ... all too often, in fact!

Or, if you capture a city, leaving a knight-Army (my ONLY Army) in it to heal and it FLIPS on you IMMEDIATELY ... and you don't reload.

	01-01-2004 20:38									#33
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... if you preordered the limited edition and still have the tin.

	01-01-2004 21:41									#34
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... you have the patience to read a 5-page thread about how your damned FP works...

	01-01-2004 22:33									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Vince278 Or how about setting both computers to hot-seat play each other?

I'll have to try that one.

Last night, I had Conquests running on my new computer, playing as the Dutch, and I had Play the World running on this computer, playing as the Germans.

	02-01-2004 09:07									#36
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... when you try to win Civ - the board game arguments with Civ III PC rules

	02-01-2004 16:51									#37
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...you're puzzled that rail journeys take time.

	02-01-2004 16:57									#38
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... when you don't understand why you aren't walking 3x faster on the road

	02-01-2004 22:45									#39
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Here's an anecdote of a recent conversation: (pathetic, really)

A friend is telling another friend (also a civer) and myself about some guy that didn't want to pay the Utility Athority for watering his lawn. He had a spring on a hill near his house and he piped it down the hill to storage tanks using the water pressure instead of pumps. The first friend makes the comment, "Like the Roman Aquaduct systems."

I look toward the second friend and say, "Well, I guess now that guy can have more than 5 kids.'

Steven

	03-01-2004 12:57									#40
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The time to start worrying, is when he has his own hospital

	03-01-2004 13:05									#41
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quote: Originally posted by steven8r I look toward the second friend and say, "Well, I guess now that guy can have more than 5 kids.'

I have six.
(and the house was in unrest after the pop exceeded 3 )

	03-01-2004 20:38									#42
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Our house was in unrest when our pop REACHED three (of course, my little brothers are twins...)

	04-01-2004 20:41									#43
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That'll teach you to treat your family as an 'empire'...stick to being a chieftain and they'll be 'naturally content'

Well...
Either that, or splash out loads on luxuries

	04-01-2004 23:51									#44
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Or have a couple of tanks around.

	05-01-2004 10:19									#45
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Hmm...pop/family 'whipping?

	05-01-2004 22:08									#46
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... if you think fascism and communism are good government types.

	05-01-2004 22:15									#47
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dp...sorry

	05-01-2004 22:15									#48
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Imagine civ tiles when looking out the window of your car on a long trip...

	05-01-2004 22:21									#49
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Speaking of aqueducts.. notice how them pesky citizens are using more water these days? In Civ 1 you could go up to size 10 without one, in Civ 2, size 8, and now only up to 6!

	06-01-2004 03:54									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Cerbykins Hmm...pop/family 'whipping?

Hmmm....
"Hurrying the lawn mowing would interrupt the leisure of 1 citizen."

"It's that important, Get out my whip!".

(Actually the threat of removing computers is more successful than whipping).

Steven

	07-01-2004 05:35									#51
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True story:

I negotiate real estate matters for large companies for a living.

I was on a conference call doing a deal for a factory building today, reaaaally boring, so I was checking out 'poly, and thus had Civ on the brain (like I don't all the time ).

Anyway, at one point the call heated up, and we were haggling over some pretty intense points. We sorta reached the limit my client was willing to go, the seller was getting pissed off (which I needed to settle down, hint hint) and I was trying to get creative, and I swear, I was THIS close to offering Spices to sweeten the deal. I actually said: "How about if we add s... (slight pause) ignage?"

Which, btw, made no sense whatsoever, but was the first real estate related thing that came to my head. AND, get this, it did the trick!! The seller wanted signage rights for his own reasons, and never thought to ask for them. My client thinks I'm a genius.

(Now if I can only get Bruno Bonnell to take my friggin' calls. )

Moral: I'm a Civ-addict, and making money 'cause of it!

	07-01-2004 05:42									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Theseus Moral: I'm a Civ-addict, and making money 'cause of it!

Ahh, if only I could do the same thing with architecture.

	07-01-2004 05:48									#53
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You'll have your chance.

Client: "I really like animals, so I want the house and grounds to have lots of room for them to run around."

Rhothy: " Hmmm... You might want to consider adding the Statue of Zeus right, uh, HERE."

	07-01-2004 07:58									#54
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Theseus,

You should have offered spices as well. 2 week vacation on Zanzibar.

	07-01-2004 08:45									#55
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The people who really can learn some business lessons from playing civ are CEO's of oil companies you gotta know how important your product is

	07-01-2004 21:16									#56
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I think they already have. We need to conquer as much desert as possible so that when we exhaust our supply of oil in Texas the new resource will appear on land we own.

	08-01-2004 10:28									#57
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley I think they already have. We need to conquer as much desert as possible so that when we exhaust our supply of oil in Texas the new resource will appear on land we own.

We're working on it.

	09-01-2004 20:09									#58
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Smiley, I think that we have several sources of Oil here in Texas. It's just that we prefer to leave them 'unroaded' and prefer to road the supplies in other lands to keep ours from becoming 'exhausted'.

That way, when those sources of Oil become depleted, we can immediately road them and remain competative. The Workers are standing-by.

Steven

	13-01-2004 02:01									#59
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you draw out maps on graph paper to figure the most efficient way to place your cities (Civ1)
You actually plan war strategy while at work and then implement it when you get home.
You've given up trying to explain to your wife why it can take several minutes to find a place in Civ3 to save
You plan bathroom and snack breaks around the "please wait..." phase of the game cycle
You actually lie awake at night wondering how to defeat the equally large yet techologically inferior indians
Any amount of time spent on the Apolyton site makes you yearn to play the game even if it means spending two hours to hunt down the CD, clear up space on the hard drive and re-install it.
You wonder how to find time to play the game after the baby is born (just kidding honey...)

	13-01-2004 03:59									#60
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On your slow computer with slow internet, you play Civ while pages on Poly load, and read those Poly pages while the AI takes its turn.