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  • #31
    read the religon part

    make a sacrafice

    then eat the book and sacrafice (hey I am BBQ'n chicken)

    then play non stop for at least 10 hours
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    • #32
      Originally posted by Platypus Rex
      read the religon part
      make a sacrafice
      Hmmm, I'll try to go straight into monoteism, if you don't mind. I don't like sacrifice: they tend to be around human beings and often fired back with the old priest as last offer to the new gods...
      "We are reducing all the complexity of billions of people over 6000 years into a Civ box. Let me say: That's not only a PkZip effort....it's a real 'picture to Jpeg heavy loss in translation' kind of thing."
       - Admiral Naismith

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      • #33
        I'll read a little while installing, then play for a while. Will wait for the next bowel movement before reviewing in depth.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by asleepathewheel
          Will wait for the next bowel movement before reviewing in depth.
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          • #35
            Originally posted by Lemmy
            Play first, read later.

            It's Civ, and you're a polytubby, do you really need a manual?
            Not really. But I love manuals. Specially Civ manuals.


            Anyway, I voted “I'll read some of it to get important concepts then play- finish it later”, because my real choice isn’t there. I’ll read the manual and play my first game at the same time. That’s the beauty of turn-based games.
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            • #36
              Originally posted by CyberShy
              Reading the manual is one aspect of the enjoying ritual!


              Agreed. And I really love my Civ manuals.
              Of course, I want it be in-game also. So, why not have both?


              Originally posted by asleepathewheel
              Will wait for the next bowel movement before reviewing in depth.
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              • #37
                Originally posted by CyberShy
                Reading the manual is one aspect of the enjoying ritual!
                Absolutely! I hope they include a good manual and not the crap the some games come with these days. The manual is an important part of the game experience.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by awckie
                  Absolutely! I hope they include a good manual and not the crap the some games come with these days. The manual is an important part of the game experience.
                  The main bottleneck with game manuals is they get ordered for printing in time for the planned release. Therefore the final artwork and book layout has to be "gold" well before the actual game is "gold" -- sometimes there are differences between the two because of this gap, to say nothing of after patches!

                  OTOH, "print on demand" is becoming more available and perhaps that is leading to being able to update the content on the fly as well. Otherwise we will have to rely upon the likes of Poly.

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                  • #39
                    i read it from the moment i unpack the box until i finished installing and setting up my first game...as soon as i see that i can move my settler i throw away....
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                    • #40
                      Ill read it whenever the fancy strikes me.
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                      • #41
                        what is a sacrafice?
                        I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Lemmy
                          Play first, read later.
                          Sounds like the old Greeks: "Primum vivere, deinde philosophare".

                          Primero vivir, después filosofar

                          Live to the fullest and then philo about it all.
                          If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Datajack Franit
                            what is a sacrafice?
                            Lo traduco come "un sacrificio (alle divinità)", anche se c'è un errore ortografico nell'originale inglese. Ciao
                            "We are reducing all the complexity of billions of people over 6000 years into a Civ box. Let me say: That's not only a PkZip effort....it's a real 'picture to Jpeg heavy loss in translation' kind of thing."
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                            • #44
                              chances are, I won't have a manual
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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                              • #45
                                Pirate(s!) scum...
                                Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
                                I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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