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Originally Posted by Jacks

I suppose you may be right, hockey does occur in the real world though.

And individual games only last about 2-3 hours.

Civilization 2 exists in the "real world" too.

I just don't understand your problem with this thing. What's the difference between playing the same game off and on for ten years than playing multiple different games off and on for ten years? I mean, he still played multiple games, not just Civilization 2. Not to mention, he also had a life. He didn't play it compulsively.

He's still valiantly trying to save that world, imagine if he had devoted 10 years of spare time on something that might actually help real people?

Y'know, he's not actually trying to "save" it for some weird, backwards moral reason. He's tinkering with it out of pure interest.

With all due respect, you seem to have this twisted view that this guy is a loner who has been playing a game constantly for a decade, and thinks he's doing something morally good. He's not. It's just something that has turned in to an experiment, basically. It's like doing a study how X reacts to Y, or how X responds to doing Y. It's an interest, not an obsession.

I'm missing something here, the guy hasn't been able to finish the game by beating the other nations in war? I mean, when you got to the point were you are the dominant superpower there is no problem fixing up the whole world and buying everything for every city.

In the man's very own words, "The military stalemate is air tight. The post-late game in civ II is perfectly balanced because all remaining nations already have all the technologies so there is no advantage. And there are so many units at once on the map that you could lose 20 tank units and not have your lines dented because you have a constant stream moving to the front. This also means that cities are not only tiny towns full of starving people, but that you can never improve the city" and then, "My goal for the next few years is to try and end the war and thus use the engineers to clear swamps and fallout so that farming may resume. I want to rebuild the world. But I'm not sure how."

He's been slowly figuring out how to "rebuild the world", and is being helped by the Civ 2 community as well. It'll be interesting to see how it'll develop. Makes me want to pick up Civ 2 after all these years, but I was young back then... game now kind of intimidates me, for some reason. Maybe one day.