Top 5 reasons why I HATE Civ 2

[Rasputin]

Originally posted by Chris 62
You are Raz, among the worst I ever saw, but who cares? I sure don't.

well i think winston actually has a problem with it...

but seriously the stupid AI is the reason so many have turned to MP , only to find the game limited by the fact that MP was an addon not a fundamental design. there are so many "loopholes"
to exploit in MP due to this, see mings "Cheats and Bugs" thread over at Civ3 Ideas for Firaxis for more details

[Juggler]

My brother is a very annoying person who likes to mess up my games and gets on my nervs (usually when I'm playing games like Civ2).

[fittstim]

Hey I love Civ II too.

Yeah the AI is frustrating but the thing that REALLY annoys me is #5, the pop-up.

Ok, you can turn off the pop-up to let you know when military and non-military units are built. And you can turn off the WLTKD pop-up and the famine pop-up and the population unrest pop-up. Probably others too. But...

You can't turn off the city improvement pop-up, and even if you can (I say this only because I can't check right now - wrong computer), you wouldn't because not only is that bad city management, you would eventually get another pop-up that says that the city is building something it has already built.

The real problem arises towards the latter stages of the game when I have between 150 - 250 cities all over the map. Alex 14 is right, it really takes me at least 10 minutes of hitting enter before I have access to the control panel. And I use a predesigned "autobuild" file to direct the building so that I only have to click "continue". Otherwise, it would take hours to go through each turn.

The frustrating thing with this is that you can't save, load or exit the game during this process. Imagine if you do something wrong by mistake. On my computer (laptop), it's oh-so easy to mistakenly hit alt-h (go home) instead of alt-j (move left). Imagine a scenario where this was my last move of the turn in which I wanted to attack something but instead sent the unit home by mistake. I then have to wait 10-60 minutes continuously clicking return before I can reload the game.

Plus there's no way to save and exit if you suddenly find yourself in need elsewhere. "Hurry up! We're late for the dinner party" "Sorry, you'll have to wait an hour before I can save my game...".

If Civ III addresses this issue, then the game will be perfect (almost - see AI comments above and below). I suggest an easy fix, if you save during the process, it's automatically saved right before your last move.