“So you want a granary so you can eat? Sorry I have to build another tank instead. Also, his cities are filled with starving people (90% of his world’s population died from nuclear annihilation or famine from global warming) because, he says, he has to keep building war machines to sustain his combat efforts. It is this that perpetuates the war ad infinitum.”īecause of the continual fighting, he was forced to abandon his democracy and adopt a communist state, because his Senate kept overruling him when he wanted to declare war. So I can only assume that peace will come only when they’re wiped out. “Even when the U.N forces a peace treaty. Every time a cease fire is signed, the Vikings will surprise attack me or the Americans the very next turn, often with nuclear weapons,” Lycerius wrote on Reddit. All other nations have been destroyed or absorbed. His Celts are locked in a 1,700-year war with the Vikings and the Americans. Now in the year 3991, his world is down to three super-nations, each competing for dwindling resources, and a planet left scarred by multiple nuclear wars. He doesn’t play every day but returns to what he called a “hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation” when he has some free time. But when the third version of the game was released in 2001, Lycerius said, he was already deep into his current game and wanted to see how far he could go. Players can manage resources, build armies and engage in diplomacy in an effort to grow their civilization into a world leader.
The “Civilization” franchise is a series of strategy games that allow players to grow small tribes into large, sprawling nations.
His epic struggle pushed the game to its limits, further than developers ever imagined or planned for. And it helped him imagine something else: a bleak, war-ravaged future version of Earth.Ī member of the social news website Reddit who goes by the name Lycerius posted his results from a decade-long game of “Civilization II,” a turn-based strategy games in which players build their own society. Can you imagine playing a single video game for 10 years?
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