You might be a civ addict if...

Ben Williams · December 26, 2003, 13:47

Anyone know where I can find the "you might be a civ addict when" threads?

Alex · December 26, 2003, 14:41

your best bet would the old Civ3 General-Archive and Civ3 PTW-Archive forums...

But I could find one in the Civ3 General-Archive for you:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=36148

steven8r · December 29, 2003, 18:35

Well Alex, that thread isn't accepting any new posts (or maybe I just tried at a busy time).

I was listening to the radio several months ago and they were disscussing the Chinese Space Mission. I thought to myself, "The Chinese have built the Apollo Program".

Then, the radio host says something like, "The Chinese are nothing if not Industrious." I immediately thought, "Yeah, and Militaristic, but fortunately they have a low Aggression Level."

steven8r · December 29, 2003, 18:38

Another sign that you might be a Civ Addict:

When the family pet leaps from one's lap to another and you yell-out, 'Culture Flip'. And you are either happy or sad depending upon the direction of the 'leap'.

Kuciwalker · December 29, 2003, 19:21

... if you remember the seemingly infinite number of previous threads

... if you said "there, said it first this time! hah!" after saying that

vmxa1 · December 29, 2003, 20:35

If you only play huge maps with max civs and want to know how to get bigger maps and more civs.

flipside · December 29, 2003, 21:08

If you have crushed up pure civ, boiled it down to it's distilled state and then slammed that baby home.

BulMaster · December 29, 2003, 21:36

When instead of droping nukes in Hiroshima you drop one in washingont. wait that's civ2 sorry

You've becom a civ addict when each time in the morning when you wake up you make plan on taking berlin, but fears that the zulu will atack you and that china will lunch another spaceship. When you realise that you don't have an entire army at your command and empire at your command and you don't live 6000 years, but instead you have meere house and live for 70 years :S wicked

Plotinus · December 30, 2003, 09:17

You know you're an addict when you're posting on this site on Christmas Day!

Kuciwalker · December 30, 2003, 10:31

You know you're an addict when you're posting on this site, period. You'll NEVER escape.

vee4473 · December 30, 2003, 10:47

This probably belongs in off topic, but it seems to fit.

You're an addict to forums in general if when you dream your dreams come across in the form of posts in a forum...

Instead of a normal dream, you see a forum where everyone in the dream is represented by nicknames and you follow the dream by reading the posts...

i need to unplug i think

Shogun Gunner · December 30, 2003, 12:17

You know your an addict when you keep files and directories organized on the work file server with business-like titles such as: "Network Infrastructure Proposal" or "Call Center Organization Chart" but the files are really Civilization ideas that you plan on posting later when you get home.

Alex · December 30, 2003, 12:31

Quote:

Well Alex, that thread isn't accepting any new posts (or maybe I just tried at a busy time).

Yes, it is in the archive, that's why it doesn't accept new posts.

But let's revive this thing...

You're addicted to civ when...

- your wife tells you "the dinner is ready" and you groan something like "damn this domestic advisor";

- you've heard the news about Saddam Hussein captured and you thought "hmm, he must have a settler somewhere";

- you think that the most efficient way of getting your lunch readily available to you is by whipping the chef;

- you think that Gandhi was a SOB and a treacherous bastard.

Kuciwalker · December 30, 2003, 14:23

- you have no problems with war for oil, or iron, or silk...

TheArsenal · December 30, 2003, 15:10

- you try to click on screen shots as if it were an actual game in play.

... not that I've ever done that.

Theseus · December 30, 2003, 15:35

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex
- you think that Gandhi was a SOB and a treacherous bastard.

He WAS... inflicting WW on england like that!

vmxa1 · December 30, 2003, 18:06

I figure I am not an addict because I still don't know all the civs traits and UU's and starting techs. But if you do you might be an addict.

Theseus · December 30, 2003, 20:27

Quote:

Originally posted by vmxa1
I figure I am not an addict because I still don't know all the civs traits and UU's and starting techs. But if you do you might be an addict.

Does carrying the Unit Summary that I posted AT ALL TIMES qualify?

Kuciwalker · December 30, 2003, 20:43

... you understand the corruption system.

Cerbykins · December 30, 2003, 21:56

...you struggle waking up to force your brain to realise the clock says 12:00 -PM-, and doesn't mean 1200 AD

Shamefully, I admit to this being a true story

Theseus · December 30, 2003, 22:06

Kuciwalker · December 30, 2003, 23:16

... you can work up a sweat playing Civ for a few hours

steven8r · December 31, 2003, 11:35

I'm not an addict. I can stop any time I want--after this next turn.

Steven

Plotinus · December 31, 2003, 11:40

You know you're an addict when you cannot understand real history without remodelling it in Civ terms.

At school, in my Civ1 days, I asked the history teacher why Bismarck, having won the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, didn't simply annex Paris and incorporate it into Germany. It seemed very strange to me that he should have defeated all the units in the enemy capital, reduced it to civil disorder and starvation, and then cleared off home again...

Kuciwalker · December 31, 2003, 12:44

... if you thought we should have become Communist before starting a war in Iraq.

Vince278 · January 1, 2004, 01:43

Quote:

Originally posted by Plotinus
You know you're an addict when you're posting on this site on Christmas Day!

Beat me to it.

Vince278 · January 1, 2004, 01:51

Quote:

Originally posted by steven8r
I'm not an addict. I can stop any time I want--after this next turn.

Go ahead. Take another turn. You know you want to. Doesn't it look like that spearman is flipping you off? Go ahead. Stomp him. No one will know. You worked hard. You earned it. You paid good money for this ****ing game. Ooooooo, that felt good didn't it? Go ahead. Take another turn...

Paddy · January 1, 2004, 02:00

Vince, you sure have a subtle way about you

ICBM · January 1, 2004, 02:29

... if you were posting at 'Poly at midnight at New Years.

Guilty as charged.

ICBM · January 1, 2004, 02:31

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.