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Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years
Have you ever wondered what a game of Civilization 2 would look like after running for 10 years? According to one gamer it's a "hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation." "Lycerius" says that he's been playing the same game of Civ II off and on for over a decade. Some highlights of the marathon session include: 1700 years of war, the ice caps melting over 20 times, constant guerrilla uprisings, and "Roughly 90% of the world's population has died either from nuclear annihilation or famine caused by the global warming that has left absolutely zero arable land to farm." It's too bad you can't build the Hanging Gardens more than once.
He must be a pretty crappy gamer if, in all that time, there are still other civilizations in his way with which to have constant nuclear warfare. If he'd actually eliminated the other civilizations, he could easily rebuild everything.
Also, how on earth did he have so much global warming? That can really only be the effect of poor decisions or poorly waged nuclear war.
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I knew it! Those developers are damn liberal hippies! :)
Seriously though, life defining game series.
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Go look at the front page of any news website /can't/ tell me that this is less interesting than whatever crap the media is trying to feed you today.
Now look at this article
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What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
I for one am sick of hearing about unemployment, the election and Syria. Want to hear about it? Go to News.google, cnn. USA Today, etc.
Absolutely nothing wrong with nerd news appearing on a nerd website. Just because it isn't exciting enough for YOU doesn't mean others won't like it... nor does it mean everyone watches Reddit Live.
This reminds me of 1984 actually, right down to there being three superpowers left in the world. For those who haven't read it, perpetual war is fought over border zones that constantly change hands, with each power too strong to ever be defeated.
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First, I thought this was about a continuously running game... And my fist thought was dang, I bet he wish he started it in a VM, because he could have kept moving it to new hardware, rateh than keeping that old Pentium IV around. But I guess there's a save-game feature.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Deny it exists and do nothing to stop it?
It also shows that Reddit nowadays is often much more interesting than /.
I would LOVE to have stories like this on Slashdot, but all we get is some pro-piracy, anti-microsoft circlejerking. The same goes for the comments, obviously. I remember when the John Carmack used to post here - he does not anymore, and you wonder why?
It is news. It's an unusual, not-normal occurrence. And it's game related. News for nerds. This is the most interesting thing posted ind ays.
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It is cool as frig to see that someone went the distance on it. More often than not, I just said 'screw it' and restarted the game after I reached the main goal and won, or after it was apparent that I was toast. I only went long-term once, and that was only for a month (same schedule, off and on as time permitted). Got way too bored with it at that point, nuked the remaining cities, and restarted the game (or sometimes I'd just go all Anasazi on it and begin to dismantle all my cities to see what happened.)
I usually won it by being the American team up-front, since the game engineered that particular role to be even more aggressive than the real USA could ever hope to be.
Best bet though was to find and identify the aggressive mofos up-front, wipe them out post-haste, and then quickly surround the weaker nations with your stuff so that they didn't expand. Eventually, you could leave them with one city apiece, and you own the rest.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
You mean a media news website like this: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/12/man-plays-civilisation-ii_n_1589153.html
This is John Carmack. Stop being a bitch.
7,338 tanks destroyed by phalanxes
When does this happen in the movie?
you're telling me you don't have Civ2 installed on your desktop? At the very least you must surely have MoO2 or Master of Magic.
No? Not even x-com on steam? Well... frankly I don't think YOU matter.
Screenshots here:
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Um... This story is on Slashdot.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Wow, this guy has some serious management skillz! Maybe he should be running Spain or Greece or the US?
The problem with reddit is that its even more of an echo chamber because of the way they do moderation. Basically its all determined by the masses, like digg was. It used to be (circa 2006) that differing opinions were more visible. Now they are completely buried.
Also 95% of the stuff on there is memes, pictures of girls or animals, people complaining, or self aggrandizing (bestof, iama, TIL) and also constant reposts of the same crap from 10 years ago.
In short, its now a "community" as opposed to what it was when it started, a site which didn't require any email verification and was trying to be as anonymous as possible. Now they have karma, anniversaries (cake) and other "features" which make it more like a social networking site than a link agregator. They want people to build up their reputations, but this stifles independent thought. The delays on postings for non long term users is horrible now. Was much better when it was pseudo anonymous and not as popular. I blame the diggers who came over in 2008 or thereabouts.
all that said, i read it every day, but not usually the comments. Slashdot comments and moderation are far far far superior.
I wouldn't be at all surprised that if in 10 years we'll have some people playing the same Minecraft worlds as well. It would even be more interesting, since your "history" would be remembered as you moved from camp to camp.
It also shows that Reddit nowadays is often much more interesting than /.
A few years ago, everyone was saying the same about Digg--and how Digg was the /. killer. Heard from them lately?
Reports of slashdot's demise are frequently exaggerated.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Agreed. As a news junkie, /. is just a little too slow with new stories, too.
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Give Galactic Civilizations II a try, you'll be amazed by the AI at higher difficulty settings.
Eat the rich.
Just one more turn....
I use the open source 0 A.D. you insensitive clod.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
The thing with reddit is that it can be tailored to your interests. Specially when you focus on small sized subreddits.
The majority vote system has its pros and cons but it's all around a very good site.
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I used to play Civ 1 on a monochrome screen. The first objective was to find the nation with units of the same shade of gray as your own and completely wipe them out.