I found this article interesting....from the site Rock-Paper-Shotgun....a 10 year long game of Civ 2.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/12/fate-of-the-world-the-decade-long-game-of-civ-ii/#more-111604

That was an interesting read. Thanks for posting.

Rayfer,

I was going to post that this morning. But I decided not to, but glad someone did. I read the reddit thread about the game, I didn't know that Civ II had global weather events like ice caps melting, etc. I've never seen it in III, IV or even V.

A 10 year game of Civ II, I can see that with some guys here with WITE or WITP, but Civ II?

Maybe they'll play it so long that the sun goes Red Giant.

Civilization II was the best in the series, in my opinion. But I never played a game of it for 10 years!

I've played a couple that seemed that long!

Interesting article - rather surprisingly also featured on this mornings Today programme on BBC Radio 4 drawing parallels between Civ and an Orwellian distopia amongst other things !

Fascinating article, thanks for posting.  I am wondering just as much about how he kept his computer running for that long as much as how he kept interested in it for that long!

I was reading that this morning as well! I can't believe the guy stuck it out for so long, especially if its on the same PC. Does Civ II have save files people can transfer? I can only imagine if this guy got his HDD wiped in a storm or something.

A clear sign of a good game design is a game that can play almost endlessly without breaking in some way. How many games have you played where you max out resources forever in the first 1/3 of the game.

This story has even caught the attention of Sid Meier himself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/civilization-developer-sid-meier-surprised-gamers-decade-long-game-results-in-dystopia/2012/06/14/gJQAfkLxcV_story.html

Originally Posted By Reich36 (15 JUN 2012 6:38am)

This story has even caught the attention of Sid Meier himself.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/civilization-developer-sid-meier-surprised-gamers-decade-long-game-results-in-dystopia/2012/06/14/gJQAfkLxcV_story.html

 

 

 

 

 

..and used for free advertising of Civ 5.

I don't see why anyone would be surprised at the eons-long war and blasted wasteland the earth had become - technological progress abruptly ended long long ago (pretty much all progress really) and the very limited resouces in Civ games were continually reduced in nuke-fests.  

What's interesting about this thread/story is it raises the question of what conditions actually create a "stalemate" in a game.  I would guess that if you strictly broke down the production, population, and resource totals for the surviving factions, that there would be a numerical imbalance somewhere that could be exploited, but is overlooked somewhere.