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Travathian is offline Travathian
Warlord
Chandler, AZ, USA
May 1999
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Top Ten Reasons NOT to buy Civ3 Suffering from ads?

10) You have a soical life, and you enjoy it.

9) You have a job.

8) You go to school.

7) Conquering the world isn't your cup of tea.

6) You still have CtP I

5) You actually bought CtP II and still own it!

4) You don't have a computer.

3) You don't have a computer made this millenium.

2) You're a little girly man afraid of getting beat back to ancient times.

1) Civ3? Is that a new computer chip?


Feel free to add your own!

yin26 is offline yin26
Emperor
This space reserved for Darkstar.
Apr 1999
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11) It's not a first-person shooter.

Alexander's Horse is offline Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
Jan 1970
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12. Yin told me not to

Pyrodrew is offline Pyrodrew
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Dec 2000
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13)It's not Civ2.1

14)Your 1st name is Sid

Travathian is offline Travathian
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15) Its not a RTS.

16) You have a Mac or Linux system.

17) You actually require 10 hours of sleep a week.

tleilaxu is offline tleilaxu
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Hong Kong
Oct 2001
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18. America is too young to be in Civ!!

yin26 is offline yin26
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19) You've been playing the beta for 4 months and know how bad it is.

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Oct 2001
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20. You live in Hong Kong and can get it from the gangsters for $2.50 US, plus bootlegs of movies that haven't been released yet

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Apr 1999
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21) Because you're currently on a plane to Hong Kong.

MattHiggs is offline MattHiggs
King

Apr 2000
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22)Because it isn't out yet

wotan321 is offline wotan321
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Nowheresville, Man
May 2001
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23. Because that big mean voice in your head says NO! NO! NO! NO! BAD GAME! BAD! BAD! MUST HAVE RAISINS!

...uh.... at least that's what a friend told me....

Zanzin is offline Zanzin
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Sydney, Australia
Mar 2001
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24) Because you read threads like this!

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Brisbane
May 1999
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25. It doest have MP !!

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Nov 1999
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Got spare money?

26. Your girlfriend will leave you (but do you still care...???)

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Have a beer!
Sep 2001
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25. It doest have MP !!


26. Because Rasputin's avatar told me not to.

Earthling7 is offline Earthling7
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of pop
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27) Because Chess is better played without animated advisors.

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Halifax, Calderdale, England
May 2001
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28. Because a muppet was put in charge of constructing the world maps.
29. Because the art dude put clothes on Joan of Arc

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Jul 2000
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30) Because it takes only two days to download it(1 left ).

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Sep 2000
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31) Because you don't have a 1024x768 monitor

Rosacrux is offline Rosacrux
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In a Galaxy far, far away...
Oct 2001
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32) Because you are happily married and you intend to stay that way (at least until Xmas)

33) Because you are blind (Braille Civ3 anyone?)

34) Because you are an X-Files fan (if you play Civ3 how are you going to catch up on the reruns?)

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Mar 1999
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35. Because Eli didn't tell me yet where he downloaded the game (hint hint)
36. Because you have RSI
37. Because you still didn't manage it to beat the Civ2 Deity level
38. You're against globalisation
39. You're a pacifist
40. You're an anarchist
41. You're a part of the Taleban (computers are from the devil)
42. You're Bin Laden and your computer got just hit by a big bomb
43. You're Bush and controlling the world in real life is more fun
44. Yuo Do'tn spaek Enlisgh
45. You didn't knew MP wasn't in and you're still waiting for the other party to finish it's turn
46. You're busy building the List for civ4

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Tampere (Tammerfors), Finland
Nov 1999
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47. Infogrames haven't published the BTE worldwide.
48. Your aunt doesn't want you to play PC games,
because it might endanger your health.
49. You should save your money for Osama bin Laden's
"charity" organisation, al-Qaida.
50. You wouldn't be able to go out with your pet tarantula.

JoeK is offline JoeK
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Boca Raton, FL, USA, Earth, Sol
Jun 2001
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51) Because you don't have a job and you don't have the money.

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Sep 2000
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52) You were busily hunting for some seeds and berries and accidentally wandered into the wrong forum.

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May 1999
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53) You're too busy reading all the hilarious comments in this thread!

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Oct 2001
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54. Your girlfriend is addicted to Windows Solitaire and won't let you take up hours of CPU time CIV'ing.

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Sir! Why do you keep clicking on me?
Dec 2000
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55. You work for Activision and don't want to know how to do Civ properly.
56. Your company doesn't allow downloads greater than 500kb through the firewall on their ADSL.
57. You got abducted by a time-machine experiement from the year 763BC.

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Sep 2001
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58. Why play civ 3 when you can play master of magic

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Oct 2001
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59. Because you've already got enough credit card debt, you're likely to need to pay for your next semester of college out of your pocket, and you *swore* to yourself, "no extras!" until you had build your savings back up.

- Eh, I bought it anyway.

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Christchurch, New Zealand
Apr 1999
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60. Because you are supposed to be getting married and going on your honeymoon tomorrow.

61. Because you've still got about 200 other games on your shelf that you haven't finished playing.

62. Because you are dead.

 
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