What Sid Meier has taught me - Page 4

HolyWarrior · April 11, 2003, 00:16

Civ has taught me that fascism and Hitler never existed

Civ has taught me that the Arabs never existed

SMAC has taught me that fundamentalists are masters of subversion and stealing enemy secrets

Civ2 taught me that a diplomat on the ground can bribe a bomber to change sides in mid-flight

Colonization taught me that guns not stored will spoil

Civ1 taught me that a trireme could circumnavigate the world

Civ1 and 2 taught me that rivers tend to run in circles

Kuciwalker · April 11, 2003, 00:33

Civ3 taught me that I can discover the locations of enemy submarines just by attempting to launch nukes at them.

St Leo · April 11, 2003, 01:23

Civ has taught me that land-based vehicles cannot transport troops.

Inverse Icarus · April 11, 2003, 01:27

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Originally posted by St Leo
Civ has taught me that land-based vehicles cannot transport troops.

i modded civ3 so you can.

Hueij · April 11, 2003, 01:33

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Originally posted by orange
Hueij, Uber - who is that girl?

Uber is right, Sire...

It's the Foreign Advisor from Civ2. She still makes me dream of her sometimes

Urban Ranger · April 11, 2003, 05:33

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Originally posted by Hueij

Uber is right, Sire...

It's the Foreign Advisor from Civ2. She still makes me dream of her sometimes

Sweet dreams

Urban Ranger · April 11, 2003, 05:43

Tweaked

Tattila the Hun · April 11, 2003, 06:30

Civ1 and 3 tought me, that all the smart people in my empire look a bit like Sid Meyer.

Interesting question would also be, what has Russ Meyer taught me... But that's for another thread.

Stefu · April 11, 2003, 07:31

Civ taught me that nuclear missiles are dandy tools for scouting.

Jack the Bodiless · April 11, 2003, 07:33

Civ1 and Civ2 taught me that a Stone Age culture, after a single act of industrial espionage, can build tanks out of wood, leather and flint. Despite lacking engines (presumably pedal-powered), they perform as well as regular tanks.

Civ3 taught me that iron is rarely used in the modern world for anything except rails, and a surprising amount of military hardware is made of rubber.

Sikander · April 11, 2003, 08:26

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Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Civ1 taught me that no government is ever Fundamentalist.

Civ2 taught me that Civ1 was wrong.

Civ3 taught me that Civ2 was wrong.

Civ3 also taught me never to preorder anything from Firaxis... ever again.

You funny!

Sikander · April 11, 2003, 08:49

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Originally posted by Sandman

Civ taught me that only one country can grant women the vote, even if it's a dictatorship, and that granting it involves a huge engineering project.

Well they need a lot of women's bathrooms at those polling places!

Eli · April 11, 2003, 08:54

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Originally posted by skywalker
Civ3 taught me that I can discover the locations of enemy submarines just by attempting to launch nukes at them.

What?
This is brilliant!

SpencerH · April 11, 2003, 09:35

Civ1 taught me that I should stockpile camels as construction material.

Civ1 taught me to always attack and defend with a single unit (unless in a city or fortress).

Civ2 taught me that aircraft have shadows.

SM Gettysburg taught me that cannon are the queen of battle (actually Napoleon and the army taught me that)

SMAC taught me that the clones love me

Civ3 taught me that no matter how large a continent I control there will always be some resource I lack.

Civ3 taught me that I'm bored with the current crop of TBS games

Civ3 taught me that BR was the driving force behind Firaxis

Shaka Naldur · April 11, 2003, 11:03

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Originally posted by Tuberski

You aren't this guy are you?

ACK!

no, don't worry

Alex · April 11, 2003, 12:56

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Originally posted by SpencerH
SMAC taught me that the clones love me

You mean the drones, don't you?

Civ taught me that rolling dices can be pretty annoying even when there is no money involved.

SpencerH · April 11, 2003, 13:22

drones, clones same thing ............

CyberGnu · April 11, 2003, 14:41

Jack:

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Civ3 taught me that iron is rarely used in the modern world for anything except rails, and a surprising amount of military hardware is made of rubber.

You never got your army-issue condoms?

CyberGnu · April 11, 2003, 14:45

1503 AD taught me that africans spend all their time jumping up and down in the air for no apparent reason.

1503 AD taught me that if you run out of tools you can't build a smithy to make new tools. Your agrarian settlement can still survive for another 100 years or so, however, presumably by digging in the dirt with pointy sticks.

1503 AD taught me that even if it takes 3 months to sail tor your new colony, all the tobacco produced there is instantly teleported to all your urban warehouses.

CyberGnu · April 11, 2003, 14:48

Oooh, let's not forget:
Command and Conquer taught me that all tank drivers drink heavily before heading out to battle.

*no, you idiot! Don't go around the lake!!!! Just wait for the guy in front of you to get through the gate, and you can get through too!!!! Aaaaaaaargh!!!!*

St Leo · April 11, 2003, 15:57

Total Annihilation taught me that human pilots are as easy to duplicate as AI ones.

Alex · April 11, 2003, 16:06

Hey, this is a "Sid Meier taught me" thread, stop threadjacking it.

monolith94 · April 11, 2003, 16:13

" Civ3 taught me that no matter how large a continent I control there will always be some resource I lack."

Take some courses in geopolitics and you'll see just how true this is.

SpencerH · April 11, 2003, 19:37

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Originally posted by monolith94
" Civ3 taught me that no matter how large a continent I control there will always be some resource I lack."

Take some courses in geopolitics and you'll see just how true this is.

Yes, iron, coal, and saltpeter are such rare elements. Please feel free to start another thread and enlighten me as to the geopolitical wars that have been fought over a countries requirement for a strategic resource (as used in civ3).

ThePlagueRat · April 11, 2003, 21:03

Is not USA the biggest consumer of fuel per capita?
We know they buy large quantities of oil from outside. Not for building units as in civ3, it's actually a luxury in RL. It's not like civ3 where you have 1 oil source and then your okay, but they need more and more. What would happen if all that oil didn't get to the USA? many angry people I guess. What would you do if that was implemented in civ3? An oilwar perhaps?

DarkCloud · April 11, 2003, 21:43

Colonization has taught me that the revolutionary war never ended becuase the Americans sank all the british ships... before the british sent their full force over... so, therefore, a peace treaty was never signed

Alinestra Covelia · April 15, 2003, 17:00

Sid Meier has taught me that a single great game is only a single great game. It doesn't prove you're a genius.

Also if somebody comes along and does something better than you do, you're not going to win back your reputation by taking it to bits and simplifying it.

Sid Meier has also taught me that I'm no longer entertained by "hilarious" leader figureheads. It may have worked for Civ, but the people who played that when it came out are now 10 years older. 13 year old teens are now 23 year old gamers who won't take nursery school humor sitting down.

Zero · April 15, 2003, 18:02

Civ3 has taught me that when both you and your enemy is near death, no one can retreat from the battle. and that one of you must die!

SMAC taught me that the greenpeace tree hugging hippies can turn instantly into money loving greedy pigs once you conquer them. (and will beahve as such too)

Zero · April 15, 2003, 18:06

Civ3 has taught me that if your people are very scientific, you can only make 1 breakthru in technology per ages.

Thud · April 15, 2003, 20:37

Civ2 taught me that allies routinely threaten their friends with nuclear weapons.

SMAC taught me that the U.N. was actually functional, and can unite Earth to build a massive spaceship to another star.

SMAC also taught me that, though the UN could accomplish this mighty feat, a transendant civilization with teleportation technology cannot.

Civ3 taught me that modern tanks are made out of kevlar.