Not sure I can say the same as OP.
Those dang daily challenges have cost me a LOT of sleep lately and I am personally holding YOU responsible. 
I don't imagine you had much of a role in civ world... but there was a core of us absolutely addicted to it, resulting in many divorces and unhappy spouses.
While OTC doesn't have the obligation to team that made CivWorld compulsory at times, the periodic competitions to test yourself against everyone else in the space with everyone starting on equal footing has folks missing that dang caravan challenge to this day.