What Sid Meier has taught me

[GePap]

Originally posted by CyberGnu


Ah, come one, GePap already ruined that when he pointed out how owning the Statue of Liberty made it possible to have a dictatorship and no onw would care...

Hey! That was the funniest comment made up to now! don't you badmouth it!

[CyberGnu]

Badmouthing? The best sarcasm is the one that is eerily accurate...

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by orange
Hueij, Uber - who is that girl?

Civ2 High Council Video, IIRC, she was the espigionge (sp?) minister,with a russian accent.

[Inverse Icarus]

i'm suprised no one has jumped on my "Amercia cannot get a golden age by bombing people" comment

i put that there for you, trolls of apolyton!

[GePap]

Bah, too obvious a shot Uber, too obvious. Plus, how does the US get a GA form bombing someone with an F-15?

civ taught me that all civs in the world begun at the exact same time.

Colonization taught me that there were four different expeditions in 1492

Colonization taught me that the first flags of Surinam, Mexico, and Quebec all looked like the American flag as well

civ has taught me the world will end before I am dead of old age

civ taught me that nukes only kill half the people in a city and cause global warming, not nuclear winters.

civ taught me that no one really has Chemical and biological weapons. Those things only come once man has gone to Alpha centuri

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by GePap

civ taught me that no one really has Chemical and biological weapons.

Except for world war one. (if you recall, there was a "gas cloud" unit in that scenario)

[GePap]

That was an added on scenerio..they don't count since Sid did not make them.

civ2 taught me that the all angry people wear red, and all happy people light blue.

civ2 taught me that people really like wearing hats.

civ2 taught me that even ancient diplomats knew the value of top hats, and that all spies must be french, since they all wear berrets.

civ2 taught me that the army never upgraded its forces with automatic rifles until they got humvees, but thet marines did.

civ2 taught me that light blue was the favorite color of crusaders.

civ2 taught me that even the first subs looked just like Dallas class nuclear subs.

[Sandman]

Civ3 taught me that a battleship can destroy farmland.

Civ3 taught me that 'stealth', 'smart weapons' and 'integrated defense' are similar in terms of their revolutionary nature as pottery, writing and iron-working.

Civ taught me that only one country can grant women the vote, even if it's a dictatorship, and that granting it involves a huge engineering project.

Civ taught me that hordes of barbarians attack only when disturbed.

Civ taught me that an aqueduct can be halted half-way through construction, and converted to a univerisity.

Civ taught me that a small town can produce stealth bombers, if the inhabitants are paid enough.

Civ3 taught me that the entire land surface can be profitably farmed, and that all land requires irrigation, and not drainage.

Civ3 taught me that fur-bearing animals never go extinct, even if their habitats are destroyed.

Civ3 taught me that mountains actually spring from rivers, and not the other way around.

Civ3 taught me that destroying forests doesn't cause erosion and floods.

[orange]

Civ3 taught me that, when programmers don't listen to their customers, the end product is always ****ty.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by orange
Civ3 taught me that, when programmers don't listen to their customers, the end product is always ****ty.

Hell, I learned that when I was born......



ACK!

[Giant_Squid]

Civ taught me that it's only a matter of a few decades and one or two minor technological upgrades between a moonshot and sending a starship to Alpha Centauri.

Civ2 taught me that if someone else builds the Manhattan Project before you, the uranium, plutonium, and advanced fission technology you have collected can be profitably reassigned to grant Women's Suffrage next turn.

Civ3 taught me that several of Earth's major islands do not in fact exist unless you download decent maps from the Internet.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Sava
All Civ games taught me that before I discover Currency, I can collect taxes.

You can actually do that. Taxes don't have to be in the form of $. You can take a share of grain, meat, labour services, etc.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by orange
Civ3 taught me that, when programmers don't listen to their customers, the end product is always ****ty.

MoO 3 is worse.

[Elok]

Ah, Civ 2: you can develop genetic engineering and cure cancer without having the slightest idea what electricity is. Communism is a nearly flawless form of government, and democratic countries will love you anyway. Perhaps most importantly, superhighways are built in individual cities instead of between them. Gotta love it.

[Alinestra Covelia]

All the Civs have taught me that things such as The Wheel, Fire, and The Aqueduct do not actually count as Inventions, as that tech comes halfway through the sodding Renaissance.

I guess they were just "Coincidental things that people do a lot".