Mystikmind

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="4" id="2877224"]Some things I had happen are that my game crashed after getting Janusk, then when it loaded back up to the turn before the crash, there was no more Janusk and he never showed up. I was able to build a Market before researching Civics.[/quote] Odd things happen on reloads - seems more prevalent than in 1.09e? I will naturally only save a game during my own turn, so how is it that when i reload my o

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="45" id="2877210"]Yes, forgiveness is a strong trait in my western society.[/quote] Oh, please, your too kind, besides i already knew that had to be true just by looking at your Avatar pic!!

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="43" id="2877188"]*vomit* That's my Western Society response to your silly bull.[/quote] Wow, that is such a 'solid' argument i have to immediately fall on my knees in repentance for being so wrong! Can you ever forgive me? Edit: by a strange coincidence, i just happened to come across this story in the news just after making my above post to Lord Xia..... http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/airport-staff-s

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="17" id="2877140"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 16 Quoting Gwenio1, reply 15 (As a note, my current avatar image is a screen shot of my custom sovereign) Where's donkey?? The game does not have a model for that, nor does it have a ch... squid model. Not that I ever got around to making a mate. The one time I played long enough to have a child come of age, it was a dragon and the scales used

[quote who="Dr Franknfurter" reply="41" id="2877133"]it certainly drills itself into your mind, love the others though http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri worth playing just to hear them Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign:

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="15" id="2877117"](As a note, my current avatar image is a screen shot of my custom sovereign)[/quote] Where's donkey??

Some interesting ideas, but not all that exciting to me. what would be exciting to me is if there were more types of Armour/equipment with defense specializations/ability boosting - more like what you find in games such as neverwinter nights or dungeonsiege. In terms of multilayer, this would make it more interesting to anticipate and counter your opponents choices - get a little bit of a 'rock paper scissors' thing going!

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="7" id="2876630"]I think many people in higher management genuinely believe that piracy is a threat and there is something they can do about it (in case it wasn't obvious, I disagree on both counts). People unfortunately have a nasty habit of being irrational creatures, particularly when they feel wronged. When you're in the business of selling a product, you get upset with the cheaters; I get that, I totally sympathize. But I also think that DRM a

[quote who="IROKONESS" reply="37" id="2876817"]Farscape was great. Wild out there fun. Scorpius, Tatianna. Great characters. Dick Tracy would have a thing or two to say about that.... on his video-phone-in-a-watch.. Why didn't the gumshoe help his buddy with the phone shoe? [/quote] Agree, and that blue chick was hot! don't quite know why? But my number one hottest sci fi chick.... , easily

[quote who="markieness" reply="38" id="2877050"]Good music can make a good game/movie seem awesome, or an average game/movie seem good. More than people realise i think. [/quote] Absolutely!

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="20" id="2876678"]I am sorry, but telling us all how you defeat 10 AI is not boasting? I just decided to bring you down to ground a bit.[/quote] Your kidding rite? Sorry but discussion on defeating AI could not possibly be more far removed from being in any way similar or relevant or reason for boasting about defeating people you do not know personally.

[quote who="Dr Franknfurter" reply="39" id="2876862"]"eternity lies ahead of us, and behind, have you drunk your fill?"[/quote] Oh dear god that one is annoying isn't it!!?? (after you have heard it every second turn for the last hour of play)

[quote who="seanw3" reply="13" id="2876904"]The whole point of Asgard tech was to prevent death, which is the overarching theme of Stargate. Sexuality is just kind of like recycling paper at that point. It doesn"t really solve anything. Just felt like geeking things up.[/quote] What you point out reminds me of the original Stargate movie, wherein the longevity of the Alien Ra was integral to the story - and there is your beginning of the idea!

[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="4" id="2876770"]I believe his point is, just in case you overlooked it, is that it is really hard to find caravans that you have sent out to a city only to find out you already sent one there so you need to send it to somewhere else. I don't think he meant the caravans that are travelling back and forth between cities generating gold. I remember reading that the the fix was to stop the call of titans spell from bring EVERY caravan along to the party.[/quote]<

Yes 1.1 killed archers. The way the technology tree has changed for archers is crackers! Mainly because it is far easier to research the most powerful 'Yitheral' (however you spell it?) bow way sooner than basic bows themselves!! Apart from the all powerful yitheral bow in the magic tech tree, actual military bows are nothing more than a curiosity for the end of the game when you don't have anything better to research/build.

On further consideration, repeated use of the spell as is would be seriously inconvenient!

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="5" id="2876600"]DRM as a weapon against piracy has never been a serious enterprise. After all, who in their right mind spends valuable and highly limited development resources pursuing a market whose defining characteristic is a refusal to pay for things? [/quote] Took me a few minutes to comprehend your point. I do not know if piracy is less of a concern to these companies in secret to what they publically make out? But certainly it is less of a

[quote who="Jafo" reply="34" id="2876585"] "Cell phone for one"..... Hardly....Dick Tracy would have a thing or two to say about that.... on his video-phone-in-a-watch.... I think the only 'ground-breaking' thing about Trek was that 'inter-racial' kiss.... and a Comms Officer was a step up from the 'typical' cleaner/maid/slave/criminal element in all the contemporary TV fodder.... And 'timeless'? I guess the poor dress-sense was/is timeless...[/quo

I think by now it is pretty clear to most people that DRM has evolved from it's humble beginnings as a weapon against piracy into a weapon of market dominance, control and the ultimate power of the 'closed platform'. The only thing you can do about it, is to be very careful before you buy.

[quote who="IROKONESS" reply="32" id="2876553"] No one likes to go backwards, that is human nature Have you watched Star Trek? Cuz they're timeless. If anything we're trying to catch up to their technology. Or it inspired us to. In all sorts of ways. Cell phone for one. [/quote] Hahahaha, no i meant the enterprise series in context of the time period it is set in! So basically all the brilliant startrek adventures that came at later 'statrek' time periods ar

I think it is called 'call of the titans'? The spell that calls in all units not garrisoned in a city. I am playing with latest updated game on large map and last night i decided to try this spell for the first time. Initially i had decided to try and upgrade my sovereign as much as possible before marriage. So i rushed the adventure techs and tried to collect as many books as possible as quick as possible, but still, it was a hard slog. H

[quote who="Jafo" reply="29" id="2876477"] "Your having so much fun, i would hate to spoil it, But sadly i did not include the word 'every' in that first line, what a shame eh?" Yes, enjoying it immensely.... Particularly the attempt to differentiate between 'every' and 'always'. In context they are synonymous. But it's all fun.... [/quote] Ok ok i went back and had a good look what i

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="5" id="2876468"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 4The answer to the OP's question is as simple as the answer to the question, is the campaign finished? No, it's not, at least for some unknown share of us who've been following the game since before the public beta builds started. One of the great ambitions for the early project was to create a viable fusion of the TBS and RPG genres. To me, that would require a sandbox mode that essentially played like an RPG

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="18" id="2876492"] Quoting TorinReborn, reply 17 I stand by my estimate that I would destroy you in 1v1 because I do not turtle like you or play like you. I will stand by my estimate that you would benefit from my advice not to embarrass yourself with such foolish remarks when you do not have any idea who i am! (Boasting is of course acceptable among friends and or people who actually know each other) Any professional gamer

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="17" id="2876457"] I stand by my estimate that I would destroy you in 1v1 because I do not turtle like you or play like you.[/quote] I will stand by my estimate that you would benefit from my advice not to embarrass yourself with such foolish remarks when you do not have any idea who i am! (Boasting is of course acceptable among friends and or people who actually know each other) Any professional gamer or even sportsmen will tell y