Lord Jorge, I think Frogboy has a lot of shrines dedicated to him. I think the real issue is when you start praying to him or making sacrifices. By the way does anyone know if he prefers lamb or goat?

I think he prefers goat

when the goverment of your house becomes "room federation"

when you want to conquer the squirrels before they steal your technology

when you build an economic starbase at work

when you name your car and save the design

when you hate the "one mor turn" quote

when you bump

When you think that building a Discovery Sphere would help you with your PhD!

And then curse yourself for being too good/evil and not qualifying for a neutrality learning center.

27)when you make a shrine to frogboy

When you are thinking of telling your wife that her frog decorations only remind you of the game.


When you find yourself planning mods for the game only to realize the last programing languages you used were Pascal and Fortran... (Curses to the guy who never returned my C+ book during Desert Storm)

When you're in a tense conflict with the Drengin that could spark off into an intergalactic war any moment, and there are two alliances. You scan data everywhere, looking for a possible outcome that won't decimate the universe.

You then try and click and realise you've gone purple from forgetting how to breathe for over 80 seconds.

(And by the way, when Terror Stars make it into the game, and it escalates to galaxy-destroying conflict, I'm writing a note on my desk informing my parents to go to Stardock should I die of asphyxiation )

When people talk of colonizing Mars, you think "Why bother, its only 4 squares?"

LOL! That was funny!

When the Robot man says, "a few more turn's won't hurt", but by the look in your wife's eye's you know robot man is horribly wrong.

LOOOOL!! That was the best so far

You know you're playing too much GalCiv II when you look for the cameraangle changing button on the remotecontrol to change the camera angle in a Babylon 5 episode.

When you think all your problems in life are going to be fixed in the next patch.

You know when..

.. you start naming the tree's in the yard with "Bradell", "Arcea", and "Iconia" among others..

.. you use a digital camera and PhotoShop to substitute the less "favored" of your family and friends for the alien race portraits..

.. you start listening to the evening news and wonder how much "social" money was wasted..

.. you realize the AI in the game is more logical and entertaining then most of the people you know..

You get frustrated talking to people because there is no relations slider to tell you how much they like you.

You use your alarm clock to tell you when you should go to bed.

Your wife has left you, the kids moved out, the heat is turned off, but you don't notice until you finally see that "Victory!" screen...Then start another game to help you cope.

You become confused when you watch the news because the anchors are all living humans.

You know where Drengia is but you can't find Peru on the Globe.

You can no longer eat meat since it makes you feel like a Drengi (mmm... we love good flesh)

You think that the UN's problem's can be solved by building more embassies.

You pay more attention to the ship designs in Sci-Fi movies than the plot.

You can remember all the dates that major events happened in your last game but you can't remember your anniversary.

When you realize that the TV has not even been turned on in over a month.

LOL, only 40 hours in 3 days, I got that beat, I been averaging 15 hours a day playing it since I bought it, a week ago. Oh, I have no life... But I do play tons of games. Beat Oblivion 3 times already, Civ 4 too many times to count, Doom 3 a few times, Any many chars in GW.

You know you play GalCiv too much when you have dreams of researching Adamantium armor then sell it to the military for thier armor divisions.

skelton42

And then curse yourself for being too good/evil and not qualifying for a neutrality learning center.

I knew i shouldn't have put those solar slammers on full power...

When the Robot man says, "a few more turn's won't hurt", but by the look in your wife's eye's you know robot man is horribly wrong.

I can relate to this...

You know when you've played too much GalCiv when:

You wear off the paint on your left mouse button...

Your dogs are looking at you imploringly - and you realize it's four hours past their walk time...

You really feel that you owe Lord Vega an explanation as to why his daughter came home from a party on your influence starbase 1027 wearing Terran Alliance accessories!

Bill

You post on Galciv2.com when you're supposed to be studying for your Latin II Final exam.

"Sed magister meus, ego nôn lûsî! Labôrî!!! Verô!"

You know you have played too much when....

Your wife asks you who Cari is and why you were saying "Oh Cari, Oh Cari" in the middle of the night!

Cari, I hope this does not offend. I thought it was funny.

when you want to conquer the squirrels before they steal your technology

now THAT was funny, those squirrels alone are what keep me playing.

its even better when i tell you that i live in the country and have constant fights with real squirrels about not leaving my bird feeders alone.

i literaly often think to myself the bastards are raiding my starbases again

When you've come up with more than three new minor race names based on your cow-orkers

When you go in for Lasik surgery and you ask the eye doctor if he's researched Laser IV yet.

When you leave the room for more coffee, only to return and find your girlfriend with a screwdriver in hand, PC case on the floor, furiously attempting to dismantle it

When you come home from work and see your PC by the garbage. True story.

When you see this company's logo on a truck driving past: Link, and think "Isn't that supposed to be like, gray?"

Your latest get-rich-quick scheme involves welding surveying apparatus onto your toddler's tricycle and telling her to go out into the neighborhood looking for anomalies; especially ones that look like abandoned space yachts.

Seriously, do I am the only one not to like Civilization 4 ?

Not by a long shot. It is badly programmed, made GC2's release bugs look like minor blemishes, looks like it was designed by Fisher Price (a children's toy company, for those who don't know of this company), has the most annoying tutorial mode ever created, and badly tarnishes the Civilization franchise (and Sid Meier's personal reputation). My opinion of Civ IV is that it is one of the worst Civ-style games ever made, and doesn't even hold a candle in comparison with the Apolyton version of CTP2, or with GC2.

When you leave the room for more coffee, only to return and find your girlfriend with a screwdriver in hand, PC case on the floor, furiously attempting to dismantle it

When you come home from work and see your PC by the garbage.

Definitely grounds for breakup/divorce. I consider myself lucky to have a fiancee who is as much of a geek and a gamer as I am.

Doom 3 a few times

I was so disappointed with that game, i beat it the weekend I got it

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ok, back on-topic, you know you play too much GC2 when you start to wonder just what boil-juice really tastes like.