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Mountain Sage
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Dear friends,
I must confess I feel a bit teary-eyed today. Why? Because for the last two years (or was it more, I can’t remember…) we were like a band of brothers (or sisters, or…).
We had the same common passion: Civ3.
So, what’s Civ3, after all? A ‘friend’ of mine told me that computer games, especially those where the goal is to create a civilization, and make it win through planning, cunning, conquests, culture etc., was a ‘megalomaniac intellectual masturbation late-hours game’.
Really?
If I remember correctly, during the last few years, we all grew up (in terms of age and possibly wisdom), got/created/changed jobs, had our lot of new boy- girlfriends, some of us even married (or lost dear ones, Civ3 fault?) and even raised a new generation of Civ fanatics (Axelman, how is your son faring, btw?).
If this was just the result of ‘intellectual masturbation’, then I must confess we were most ‘successful’.
Of course, sitting alone in front of his/her/it computer screen is a bit ‘lonesome’, isn’t it?
Ah, but you forgot this forum…
I must confess, and this does not come easily to me (you know by now how arrogant I can be), that the only reason I played Civ3 for all those years was because I had the wonderful opportunity to share all my joy, frustration, techniques, discoveries, puzzles etc. with you.
I was a very average player when I joined this forum and, thanks to my ‘brothers’, I will leave it as a better player (forget that I won every single challenge, as ‘Eternal war Forever’, 5CC, OCC on Sid etc.), those were not skills, but just the arrogance of being the first one to report them on this forum…).
So, as I am leaving this Civ3 forum, I wish to thank you, from the bottom of my heart (and without irony this time), for all the marvellous hours I spent with you.
Now, before YOU get teary-eyed, I just wish to inform you that you won’t get rid of me that easily.
Civ3 is dead, long live Civ4!
You will have the (dubious) pleasure of ‘hearing’ from me soon.
Therefore, this is not meant to be an ‘adieu’, but just a ‘goodbye, dear friends…’
MS, forever. 
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11-06-2005 00:59
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