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No! No, no! Nicotine is less addictive than Civilisation. One person I accidentally introduced to Civ burned her PSU on the first game - which lasted 16 hours - all she could muster was "one. More. Turn"....

Then again it's been so long since I played it. One quick game won't hurt. It's just a few turns, is it not?..




I still, to this day, have never beaten the game.

I've come close, many times. Usually outdone by some super AI (I call them all Alexanders, after my first crushing defeat at the hands of none of than, Alexander the Great of Greece).

Never seen the late game Death Robot, never seen the Stealth Bombers... and I have an embarrassing amount of time in this game.

I used to only play on Epic with Random Personalities. Even when I tried Quick pacing, I still didn't get to the very end of the game without losing. Those cultural defeats sneak up on you.

I certainly have nuked more than my fair share of cities though... very satisfying.

What a great game.


Back in the Civ 3 days, I would lose weight playing it.

I'd play for 10-15 hours, and get hungrier and hungrier. But I just had to play one more turn.


When Civ 3 came out I had to install windows on a new partition, lasted about 2 years -- that was last time I had windows at home


First turn's free.


I reinstalled it about a week ago. Then re-un-installed it a few days ago. Yep, still too addictive.


My freshman year roommate failed out of college because of Civilization.




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