What is the fastest possible way to get CivIV?

[Nikolai]

This is no problem, you just buy a good machine together with the game, and bring that one too.

[Ninot]

to answer his question, i'd say: get a job working for a magazine that has high standards and only reviews final builds of games, and become a game reviewer for however long it takes to get a copy.

barring that, i'd say terrorism seems to be a trendy fad to get what you want.

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Nikolai
This is no problem, you just buy a good machine together with the game, and bring that one too.

Exactly! Better than this, you can buy *two* good machine and sell the spare one to AMD or INTEL.
They can't have the 90nm production process ready in 2001, still they can save lot of R&D, IMHO, and pay good money for this. Anyone remember the movie "Terminator"?

And BTW, no software publisher ever let game performance to stop them publishing a game.
"We worked for future hardware, to keep our customers happy for the coming years. You can tune down some visual option and the game will play as smooth as silk also on a computer platform a couple years old".

[Sava]

the fastest way would be to download it off of usenet a few days before it is released

[Addled Platypus]

are the RNG gods still in

[Lancer]

Since time machines haven't been invented...I guess I'll go with buying it at the store. Maybe I'll reserve a copy.

[Adagio]

Couldn't your future you just use a time machine to go back in time and give your present you Civ4 (with all expansions of course) and then he goes back to the future?

[Lancer]

My future me is sitting on a beach in the Phils with a bottle of rum and a blender, and couldn't be arsed to fart let alone time travel.

[Dis]

time travel is impossible, so this discussion isn't very realistic.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Lancer
My future me is sitting on a beach in the Phils with a bottle of rum and a blender, and couldn't be arsed to fart let alone time travel.

Is that healthy? Better out than in i say.

[Lancer]

"time travel is impossible, so this discussion isn't very realistic. "

PROVE that time travel is impossible!

"Is that healthy? Better out than in i say."

Sure, let em rip.

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Dis
time travel is impossible, so this discussion isn't very realistic.

Actually science community is still out for the verdict.

There is some hope for an early Civ IV (if time patrol police don't bring us in prison for this!

[Addled Platypus]

if one was to circle the globe (left to right) crossing the international time line (once a day) you would always be on the same day


..same as time travel, just not going backwards

my experiences from being a US sailor

[Lancer]

I reserved a copy at a local store, cost $5 to do so. Now, if only it really comes out November 15 or before...

[GeoModder]

I foresee a depressed Lancer somewhere in the Philipines. [/murray]