What will you sacrifice when you get Civ4?

[Brundlefly]

20 hours a week. I went for months spending that much time with each of the Civ titles in the past. I think I used the game to escape from the anxiety caused by the fear of failure of trying to succeed in some new activity that would actually be productive.

What sorts of activities? Like picking up chicks. Imagine if you devoted 20 hours/week to just approaching chicks instead of 20 hours/week playing Civ. You would be a straight-up pimp in no time. But it's not limited to that. Taking courses to further my education. Practising a musical instrument. Volunteer work. These are all things that were more worthy of my time than CivX.

I came to this realization earlier this year, finally. I dont really play computer games anymore. I'm more focused on self-actualization now. I'm curious about Civ4, but I wont be buying it. I'd like to be able to play for 2-3 hours a week, but I know that if I buy it I'd be right back to 20+ hours / week..

[Nikolai]

Chicken.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by vStauffenberg
This thread has opened my mind! ever since civ4 was announced, i've been sacrifying time to a false cause: i've addictively been reading apolyton-threads about civ4 where actually, deep inside, i was seeking to play civ4, whose impossibility i was simply unwilling to accept. what a fool i was! but this is over now. i will stay away from apolyton and devote all my time to better, just causes, like my friends and my studies. and actual civ4-games in november!

so long suckers!

Have a nice one. Not necessarily a big one, though.

[Addled Platypus]

lets sacrifice the DL

[TheArsenal]

Same as now, television.

[Jaybe]

Television is an even worse "opiate of the masses" than Civ is.

[conmcb25]

My marriage.

I cant stand her anymore anyway

[Dis]

Originally posted by bfg9000
20 hours a week. I went for months spending that much time with each of the Civ titles in the past. I think I used the game to escape from the anxiety caused by the fear of failure of trying to succeed in some new activity that would actually be productive.

What sorts of activities? Like picking up chicks. Imagine if you devoted 20 hours/week to just approaching chicks instead of 20 hours/week playing Civ. You would be a straight-up pimp in no time. But it's not limited to that. Taking courses to further my education. Practising a musical instrument. Volunteer work. These are all things that were more worthy of my time than CivX.

I came to this realization earlier this year, finally. I dont really play computer games anymore. I'm more focused on self-actualization now. I'm curious about Civ4, but I wont be buying it. I'd like to be able to play for 2-3 hours a week, but I know that if I buy it I'd be right back to 20+ hours / week..

self actualization

sounds like one of those things you hear at those business seminars.

Some people like me still couldn't get a woman if they spent 20 hours a week talking to them. I'm a hopeless case.

[Lancer]

*coughfilipinascough*

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Dis


self actualization

sounds like one of those things you hear at those business seminars.

Some people like me still couldn't get a woman if they spent 20 hours a week talking to them. I'm a hopeless case.

Vegas is the floozy capital of the world. All kinds of drunk women in the casinos and the bars. I refuse to believe that anyone who lives there cannot get laid unless they have a hump on their back and they climb bell towers..

[Jaybe]

Brundlefly, don't act like an ignoramous. It also takes money, drive to do it, and maybe even SOCIAL SKILLS to "pick up" women.
Anywhere. Vegas is not that exceptional.

As long as civ keeps changing over the years so it doesn't get old, it is MUCH more cost-effective for hours of enjoyment than sex-addiction.
Actual LOVING relationships would be probably be another matter, of course.

[General Ludd]

There's no such thing as a cost-effective waste of time.

[Wise Ass]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
lets sacrifice the DL

If we disband him in our capital do you think we will get enough hammers to complete CivIV a turn earlier?

[Aro]

Originally posted by Wise Ass


If we disband him in our capital do you think we will get enough hammers to complete CivIV a turn earlier?

[ElConejo]

Originally posted by Wise Ass


If we disband him in our capital do you think we will get enough hammers to complete CivIV a turn earlier?

Absolutely genius. NOW LETS DO IT!