You know you've played civ too long when...

[Hendrik the Great]

...you have to start another thread called "You know you've played to long when..." to break the previously set record.

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http://members.xoom.com/thalys/index.html

...yeah. When you see this thread come around again...

[tobyr]

Regarding Coug's first posting above:
"...you can't belive why they don't transform Sahara into Plains."

In the 1940's Willy Ley proposed something similar, in a book about ten proposed engineering miracles. The technique involves cutting through a rock wall somewhere along the Congo, allowing it to flood much of the jungle in the middle of Africa, and turn the Sahara into usable land.

At the time, little was known about predicting ecological consequences. Ley saw the flooding of some of the worst, insect-infested land in the world as a great value. But even if, as he thought, relatively few people would have to be relocated, he expected that the political implications of this engineering feat were such that it would never be feasible.

- toby


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criticalpaths@mindspring.com

[klesh]

...when you post while at your college's library whilst you should be studying your sociology...

[EdN]

When your wife asks about your retirement plans you tell her not to worry, You'll just set Luxury to 100% 1 turn before!

I have a life - I'm the queen of the English Empire!

[Hunter Hutchins]

Oh for the love of....!?!

What happened to the old thread? Did it get too gummed up? This is....a..Sequel!! NO!
no, wait I just read up there

[This message has been edited by Hunter Hutchins (edited March 01, 2000).]

[Teeks]

--When your mom wakes you up for school at 7:15, you exclaim, "But Mom, I have 20 turns left!"
--When you get confused as to why a Research Lab hasn't popped up in the middle your little suburb because the SETI Program began.
--You wonder why America didn't collapse into Anarchy when we sent troops over to aid the ethnic Albanians from Serbian terror.

...And finally...
--You wonder why the U.S. capital has corruption, since corruption is supposed to be eliminated there.


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--Teeks

[tobyr]

You assume that John Possidente's new child must be a spy.

- toby

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criticalpaths@mindspring.com

[Mer'Zhul]

...When you play all night, go to sleep at 7:00 am, and turn a metallic gray

grey for you Brits and/or subsidiaries

[Father Beast]

when you play for 5 days without checking your mail, and miss the deadline for final draft of your EC3 idea.
(korn469 saved my butt)

[Emperor10]

You wonder why the Eiffel Tower hasn't helped the French's reputation...

You can't believe China was ever conquered...couldn't the Great Wall just force Khan's mongol horde to make peace?

Instead of going to the football game, you insist on going to the "collesium"

You believe Evolution is true, yet you build cathedrals anyways...

You are relieved to be traveling in Communist countries, citing that there's no corruption...

You wonder why Clinton doesn't just fortify troops in enemy territory to avoid Senate interference...

You are shocked that even with Leo's Workshop, Florence wasn't able to conquer the world.

[Paul Hanson]

You wonder why every city in Italy doesn`t have a cathedral, because of Michaelangelo`s Chapel.

You wonder why people whine about nuclear war; if they have enough engineers to clear up the pollution, what`s the problem?

How come people don`t generate zones of control? Oh, they do, but we`re allied with everyone.

[War4ever]

your wife gives birth to a baby thus raising the population by one point but your house hasn't gotten any bigger

[af.Ulm]

You wonder why we don't just send out a couple of engineers and build roads all over the world so everyone can live rich and happy.

[af.Ulm]

You always take the train because you know it's faster thain air.

Wonder how stupid dictators really are when they don't change to democracy to produce more trade.

Wonder why armies keep building tanks and other useless stuff, when everybody knows that howitzers are both better and cheaper.

[af.Ulm]

When you recognize duplicates here from the original.

[DaveV]

True story: my 4-year-old son asked me what I was doing at work. I carefully explained my current project, describing it in a way he could understand. His reply: "I thought you were playing Civilization!". Ouch.

[The ANZAC]

...when you wonder why there are now howies and tanks stationed in cities to protect them.

...when you relize there aren't just 36 people faces in NYC.

[Smash]

when you begin to wonder why the government sends income tax notices when you have tax set to 0

you begin to seriously wonder if Civ is addictive

you abandon your garden cuz it aint makin anybody happy

you get mad cuz you can't rushbuild your fence

[Empress]

quote: Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh on 02-22-2000 12:36 PM...when you keep checking the callendar thinking 'We only have 20 years left to get to AC!'

Wow,I thought I was the only one!

...when you attack one of your closest friends when you're injured in order to "repair" yourself...

In fact, I never try to get my units repaired in allied cities, because it's not worth the turn you have to spend for

wow, my comment was larger than the actual contribution to the thread...

Your wife makes eyes at you and you try and find an excuse to fit in a few more turns before going to bed.



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Convenor of the Threadjacking Appreciation Society (new members welcome)

[Paul Hanson]

...you wonder why armies bother with uniforms - surely the large coloured shield is a dead give away?

...why aren`t there any rulers that have ruled for 6000 years?

[The Mad Monk]

You're old and dying, lying on your deathbed, and your hand inches toward the ENTER key:

"one...more...turn..."

[robsky]

...when you plan to get more spare time to play civ by editing earth's rules.txt

...when you seriously wonder where earth's rules.txt is located

...when you wonder how to edit earth's rules.txt

...when you ponder the question who the comments in earth's rules.txt are written for

[The Mad Monk]

I actually did that with MoO2, but it was a boring job that had little real work at that point...

I was also busily corrupting our tech support department with loaned copies of MoO2, Worms:Armaggedon, Total Annhilation, etc.

[Ming]

When you bring the disk to work, and load it onto your work computer!

(I've never done this, but I've considered it )

[Father Beast]

...When you refer to the brightly wrapped packages under the Christmas tree as "goody huts"

[WarVoid]

When you carry a notepad and pen with you wherever you go. So you can jot down ideas for improving the game or writing scenarios.

Or if you've got a 2 gig hd and half of it is used on civ2.

[WarVoid]

By downloading every scenario, mod and anything else I can find. If it's on the web, most likely i've got it. Somewhere in that junk heap.