September 25, 2002, 10:21
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CIV 2 - Like a pair of comfortable old slippers
I haven't played CIV 2 in about 2 years...
...until recently that is.
Every day I take a train to work, an hour and Half each way, and my usual way of passing the time was to read a book. You can imagine how expensive that gets (about £6 a week - not including the cost of new book shelves or wives etc)
About a week ago I installed Civ2 on my company laptop, next best option (or so I thought) as NT4 is incompatable with CIV III. Sat down in the carrage, logged in and...
....AAAAH and it all came flooding back  .
There is something about CIV 2 that CIV 3 fails to capture. Not sure what it is, or whether I will keep the feeling over the next few weeks, but I am enjoying it now.
...roll on the end of the day 
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September 25, 2002, 11:23
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Just one more turn ... 
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September 25, 2002, 11:24
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... and welcome back ...
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September 25, 2002, 12:07
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Well, I'm off home now...
...those damn Persians are going to feel my wrath 
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September 25, 2002, 12:26
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Excellent! Welcome to the Civ II player club!  So everything isn't yet lost when it comes to good old Civ II. Unfortunately I have been too busy now to play Civ II.  But when I have spare time, I'm sure you can find me playing Civ II.
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September 25, 2002, 19:26
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Originally posted by Th0mas
Well, I'm off home now...
...those damn Persians are going to feel my wrath
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I can see it now...organising the siege of Susa, with eyes on seizing Persepolis...and you forget to alight at your station... 
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September 26, 2002, 04:19
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Originally posted by Scouse Gits
I can see it now...organising the siege of Susa, with eyes on seizing Persepolis...and you forget to alight at your station...
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Ah, but even that is covered, I travel between the terminuses (termini?), Caterham to London Bridge..I am even guaranteed a seat..
...Anyway Persepolis has already fallen and its population enslaved by my English Legions. 
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September 27, 2002, 02:20
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Here's what I told my cousin:
For me, Civ is the cute girl next door. Civ2 is the girl next door, all grown up. Civ3 is the girl next door with too much makeup and perfume, with no respect for my friends and too many friends I'd rather not hang around.
Oh, and CTP(2) is girl next door with body piercings and tatoos, but once you get past that she's a good friend. 
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September 27, 2002, 04:45
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.....You're Stange
( and based on that analagy what is SMAC?, ...an experiment with the boy next door you would rather forget... and anyway you were drunk and it was dark?)
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September 27, 2002, 06:49
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Originally posted by Th0mas
.....You're Stange
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... a sentiment that applies to most of us here
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September 27, 2002, 07:46
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AHHH! it's now all going WRONG!
This will teach me to play Barbarian Wrath 
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September 27, 2002, 08:19
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Looks like elephant soup for lunch...
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September 27, 2002, 08:25
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Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Looks like elephant soup for lunch...
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...I'm putting my money on a Norwich Sandwich.
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September 30, 2002, 07:42
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Originally posted by Th0mas
( and based on that analagy what is SMAC?, ...an experiment with the boy next door you would rather forget... and anyway you were drunk and it was dark?)
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May I suggest, in the same vein as the original, that SMAC is the girl two houses away, wearing the enigmatic expression that's quite simply out of this world.
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September 30, 2002, 07:47
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Originally posted by tonic
May I suggest, in the same vein as the original, that SMAC is the girl two houses away, wearing the enigmatic expression that's quite simply out of this world.
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September 30, 2002, 08:28
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As long as we're doing metaphors...
SP = masturbation
MP = group sex
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September 30, 2002, 10:09
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Originally posted by Th0mas
...I'm putting my money on a Norwich Sandwich.
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... why don't you put your money on a good diplo and, instead, sit on the city walls looking the angered Exbarbs give themselves a good fight?
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September 30, 2002, 10:44
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Yup - elephant soup...
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October 1, 2002, 05:57
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Originally posted by Messer Niccolò
... why don't you put your money on a good diplo and, instead, sit on the city walls looking the angered Exbarbs give themselves a good fight?
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That's hardly a fair fight - and just not cricket old man.
Only because I should have thought of that myself... 
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October 1, 2002, 06:09
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OK Th0mas - 'fess up - what happened?
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October 1, 2002, 16:22
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Me, Strange? Nooooo.
Well, to paraphrase from When Harry Met Sally, there are two kinds of women in the world: high maintenance and low maintenance. So what is SMAC? The worst kind—a high maintenance woman who thinks she's a low maintenance woman.
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October 2, 2002, 05:22
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Originally posted by Scouse Gits
OK Th0mas - 'fess up - what happened?
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..nothing embarassing to confess (yet ). I've had a self-imposed Civ II hiatus (using train times to clear huge email backlog).
..Work getting in the way of CIV ..UNACCEPTABLE  
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October 2, 2002, 07:53
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Really -- Get your priorities straightened out, Th0mas!
-Jrabbit
(@ work! )
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October 14, 2002, 05:30
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Originally posted by Th0mas
Ah, but even that is covered, I travel between the terminuses (termini?), Caterham to London Bridge..I am even guaranteed a seat..
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Terminals? What's a terminus? How are you guaranteed a seat?
On topic: Let's just say I never took my comfortable old slippers off
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October 14, 2002, 05:34
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Terminus - where a train terminates (or starts) a route ...
In the UK today getting guaranteed a train is more unlikely than being guaranteed a seat
Just one more turn...
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December 8, 2002, 13:47
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I also found the old slippers. Civ3 killed any Civ like expierince for me for a year, then I find civ2 again
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December 9, 2002, 02:35
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Thomas, I looked around a little, didn't see a units.gif set like your screenshot… got a copy you could attach?
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December 9, 2002, 10:26
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Civ2 is more easy going than Civ3.
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December 9, 2002, 13:19
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It is amazing that the slippers are still comfy after all the wear that they have had through the years........but they are. When someone tries to buy you a new pair make rude noises at them.
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December 10, 2002, 02:13
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i thought this was an old thread... So how'd Norwich fair in the face of the barbs?
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