THe funny thing is the uncertainty is causing folks like me to not marry and have children. Maintaining a marriage is expensive, and kids are even more expensive. And this is despite me doing better than most of my peers right now.
For some reason, I was unable to target a bandit archer with the skath longbow. Couldn't figure out why. IN case I got the name wrong, it's the 9 attack, -6 init, double damage skill added bow. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6609288/Untitled.png map in question. It could be my not being able to locate the square b
[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="30" id="3393480"] Quoting Alstein, reply 27 The talk of a government collapse or debts being called in triggering this event is silly talk. When you have a fiat currency, you can print money to pay bills, and you can also default if you wish as well. There's a reason Greece became a complete basketcase and Iceland is recovering despite having worse fundamentals. <br
Regulation can also be mischief though, look at what happens when corporations get to write the laws (groups like ALEC)- if you live in NC, a big reason why your internet service is the worst in the country is true to ALEC writing laws on broadband to stifle competition. A good role for government is to give a voice to the voiceless, but it does the reverse in America.
The talk of a government collapse or debts being called in triggering this event is silly talk. When you have a fiat currency, you can print money to pay bills, and you can also default if you wish as well. There's a reason Greece became a complete basketcase and Iceland is recovering despite having worse fundamentals.
[quote who="Hankers" reply="80" id="3392659"] Not sure if fast-food strikers have thought through their game of chess.[/quote] If the jobs go, then we end up with a society where the majority are unemployed/underemployed. If that happens, America will have to fundamentally change, because democratic capitalism cannot survive such a scenario. I'm preparing for the dystopia as much as I can, and hoping for the best instea
There is a spell later on in the game that gives the +1 per essence. Giving it in the early game was rightfully deemed OP.
I don't think you can blame the regulations when it's been proven those same folks are more effective with a lack of regulations, and are often the reason those regulations are created to begin with.
This is looking super-impressive, though I wonder how the AI will handle things, as Triumph has a bad reputation for AI. If Triumph gets the AI down, this could be a genrebreaker. Between this and Stardock's 2 upcoming offerings, and At the Gates- it's going to be a rough market for TBS games in the next 2 years, but good for fans of the genre.
I actually agree with you that there is a part-time worker trap, and it is caused by government regulation in some areas. That doesn't mean that getting rid of some regulations wouldn't cause a bigger problem. There's a reason why I think a ban on most employers from offering healthcare would be a better solution in the long-term than the employer mandate for Obamacare (I do support the personal mandate with the tax subsidies due to free rider issues
[quote who="parrottmath" reply="257" id="3390320"] I do believe AI calculations do take place during your turn. This in turn gives you a faster next turn and a "better" AI. I don't know if this accounts for the push on your CPU, but calculations of the AI are happening and that is what gives this game it's unique power.[/quote] I did notice an increase in turn times slightly with the new AI stuff, but that's a perfectly acceptable tradeoff, especially
http://www.thenation.com/article/175834/how-become-part-time-worker-without-really-trying#axzz2ciZ707Qy Sorry for the double post, but this is another article that should be read about this discussion. Basically, Obamacare isn't what is causing companies to dump their full-time workers, it's just giving them an incentive to
Given the difficulties Stardock did converting from space to fantasy, I think these guys will have some of the same problems, so I want to wait and see what happens. I think in terms of degree of difficulty, making a fantasy strategy game is one of the hardest jobs out there, next to making a quality fighting game or quality MMO.
[quote who="HG_Eliminator" reply="65" id="3390454"] IMO the cycle will continue till the American workforce can no longer earn anything more that what other countries are paying their labor force. So US. companies can compete with foreign manufacturers. I certainly do not like the Idea of having to drop Americas quality of life to match other nations, I would have liked to see them being brought up to ours instead.. [/quote] I believe
Steam makes a good enough IM program for my friends to be worth using outside of games. It's pretty much replaced AIM for me over the last couple of years. As for LH, direct from developer= Stardock gets all the money - any server costs. Buy from someone else and they get their cut of it.
Unions became "Greedy" when the Soviet Union was no longer a threat, and American business interests stopped being concerned about the American worker turning communist. Also Bargain prices- it's hard to be picky when you don't have many resources- it's why Wal-Mart does great in recessions but during improving times they don't do as well (looking at same-store growth here)
http://www.policymic.com/articles/59981/obamacare-strikes-and-forever-21-cuts-employees-hours Related- Forever 21 eliminating full-time work due to increased labor costs (Obamacare) If I could make one change to Obamacare, I would make it where most private employers are banned from offering healthcare to their employees, unless they can pro
One thing I'd love to see if some form of the dual wield mechanic from the campaign being thrown into the main game. It might be a nice way to balance out sword-wielders/assassins/ make daggers more useful.
It often takes time for people's perception of your quality to drop after you drop the quality. This is why cutting labor costs is so tempting- it doesn't drop the quality of what you already produced, just the future quality- and with corporations being focused on the short-term, that's super-tempting. Unfortunately, there's no real solution to this that wouldn't be equally stupid. You can't legislate companie
regarding the TB issue for GalCiv. I'd like to see something more involved than GalCiv2, but not tactical battles. Maybe something closer to Gratuitous Space Battles, where you can start the battle by giving general orders, but then it plays out on its own. Maybe Space Admirals could give you the ability to give orders after a certain time, based on skill (I'd like to see Space Admirals work like Victoria generals)
It's largely public corporations that view workers as costs. All shareholders tend to care about in the aggregate are short-term profits and lowering risk. It's quite plausible they would sit on a trillion dollars and crash the economy, if they felt they would gain from it. This is why you need the ability for government interference, if necessary in large public corporations, to make sure companies don't deliberately
I'm not arguing that capitalism didn't do good, my argument is that there have been times where it has done more harm than good. Most of those times have come from when it got distorted. What you're arguing is the free market doesn't distort capitalism, what I'm arguing is that capitalism can lead to failed markets in many cases, which can only be fixed by intervention. Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in
The hamburger won't cost $19, prices are determined not so much by costs of labor (which is a tiny percentage as is) but by what the market is willing to pay. From what I've read, the price would only go up only about 17%, if at all. http://consumerist.com/2013/07/30/how-much-would-a-big-mac-go-up-in-price-if-mcdonalds-workers-were
The amount of revenue required for this would be around $5-6 billion. That's not a huge amount of the budget, and some welfare spending could be taken out of the budget to help pay for it. It could be done with a tax hike of about 1 or 2% on the top 1% of Americans, or a small drop in military spending. In addition, that revenue would generate revenue for two reasons a) A baseline would encourage consumption over saving, incr
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="18" id="3389596"] I think the stratification issue is the biggest issue facing our society in the next generation. The fundamental issue is that entry-level jobs have a benefit to society, but not the corporations that create them. Therefore, if left up to the free market, the jobs won't be created, or they will go to folks who need more than a minimum-wage job. its not corporations eliminat