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I have never played “Civilisation II” but apparently it's as world simulation game where you co-exist or battle it out with your neighbors. A man played it for a decade and brought his “world” to about 4000 A.D., and what he found was rather interesting:
All of the three powers left - the Celts, the Vikings and the Americans -have been engaged constant war for about 1700 years, he said.He added that he wanted to stay a democracy but was beset by internal politics which forced him to create a communist state."I was forced to do away with democracy roughly a thousand years ago because it was endangering my empire. But of course the people hate me now and every few years since then, there are massive guerrilla uprisings in the heart of my empire that I have to deal with which saps resources from the war effort.""Peace seems to be impossible. Every time a cease fire is signed, the Vikings will surprise attack me or the Americans the very next turn, often with nuclear weapons," he said.
Man Plays Civilisation II For 10 Years, World Disintegrates into 'Nightmare Of Suffering'
I used to play Civilization II. It is a really fun game. I have to admit that I got pretty repressive too, it was the best way to force maximum productivity out of my peeps.His original Reddit post is better reading than the HuffPo piece. I thought this quote was interesting:
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.
I assumed that the Huffington Post piece made a story out of it less because it was a gamer's fantasy to play the game that long and more because it provides a plausible scenario of future events. Is this true that Civilization II creates realistic scenarios? I find it interesting that the world evolved into three powers and three powers only.
Civ II is about as plausible as you can get given the computing limits of personal PC's. It tends to simplify many variables. That being said said, the game does a good job of rendering the limitless variables in real life into something tolerable. I don't know ho realistic it is though. The assumption remains that mankind will be stuck on the planet and I think that eventually we will start spreading to at least the rest of the solar system if not to other stars.
