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  • Play against Sid!

    This is apparently in the latest PCGamer (Nov.):

    Play Against the Maker

    Want to put your civilization-building skills to the ultimate test? We'll give you a couple of months after Civ III:PTW's late-October realease to get in some serious practice, and then one lucky reader will be able to square off in a multiplayer showdown with none other than Sid Meier, the game's creator. We'll have a couple of other representatives from Firaxis, as well as PC Gamer's own Civ III champion, ready for the ultimate battle for global domination.
    To enter, just send an email to civcontest@pcgamer.com and get in some needed practice. We'll inform the randomly chosen winner of the official challenge date, which will be sometime in late January 2003, and in a future issue we'll report the winners and losers, plus who cried and who died. Good luck.

  • #2
    Just got that issue. Sure enuf. I can take ya, Sid. And all your friends.
    Last edited by WarpStorm; September 18, 2002, 12:35.
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    • #3
      I wonder how much time Sid has actually spent playing any of his games.

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      • #4
        I entered, but what are my odds?

        pretty crappy if you ask me.

        anyway, Firaxis should let me be a ringer for them.

        I could pass for Soren
        "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
        - Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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        • #5
          damn it! i posted the same thing 2 minutes ago on the general forum!

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          • #6
            I can just see Sid Meier sitting down to play:

            "Mmmmmkay, where's the DOS prompt? Or can I actually launch from within Windows 3.1?"

            "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
            -- C.S. Lewis

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            • #7
              Watch out for Sid's sneak launch attack of a stack of I.M. Picky specialised units. If they don't "approve" of your civilization, you don't get any border extensions!
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              • #8
                Originally posted by jdd2007
                damn it! i posted the same thing 2 minutes ago on the general forum!
                Well you were only 5 hours later than this thread.......
                Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                • #9
                  I think it's just a way to get more people to buy PtW.
                  Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                  • #10
                    Thats fine and does not hurt anyone. I suspect he will just look on why an ace tester will come in to handle the action. We have plenty of people here who can make them sweat.

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                    • #11
                      I guess it's quite hard to get to have an MP game with Sid, isnt it?
                      Vini, Vidi, Poluti.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Terser
                        I can just see Sid Meier sitting down to play:

                        "Mmmmmkay, where's the DOS prompt? Or can I actually launch from within Windows 3.1?"

                        Possibile, considering that Sid didn't had anything with Civ2 or Civ3.

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                        • #13
                          Death to Sid
                          Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                          Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                          • #14
                            Sid is probably not good at civ3, but the other Firaxis guys would maybe be a bigger challenge..
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Terser
                              I can just see Sid Meier sitting down to play:

                              "Mmmmmkay, where's the DOS prompt? Or can I actually launch from within Windows 3.1?"

                              well, since this is one of his favorite sites, he probably pick up a few good tactics
                              Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                              Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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