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Holy tangents, batman!

Yeah, not to turn this into an A vs B thread, but I just can't get myself to play more than an hour of EL at a time. I find it just crushingly boring, and it barely even qualifies as fantasy to me. No magic, and a handful of units per faction? To me, that misses the whole opportunity that fantasy offers - the world should be a whole menagerie of units, magic and otherworldly things.

It still seems to be pretty early, so pacing and balance will come once all the game systems are in place. The developer has also stated that they haven't touched tactical combat in a while, but it's next on their topics to re-visit and overhaul, and they're open to fleshing it out with additional complexity that MoM itself didn't have (like terrain effects, adjacency bonuses, etc). So yeah, in its current state it's not something I want to play right now, bu

I haven't played it, but I've watched both Das' and Tokshen's Let's Play for it. It's definitely early still, but reading the wiki for it, I'll say it does the following right: It keeps the important parts of MoM. These sound like small game mechanics things, but they're the magic of MoM for me: Choosing how to partition your mana budget between researching new spells, storing mana to cast/maintain current spells and s

It's actually a completely different surrender mechanic. In AoW:SM, one side of a particular battle will surrender before the battle even starts if it's outmatched. That's even true of player-controlled empires. It's nuts. In AoW3, what they mean is that an AI opponent will throw in the towel entirely if they are losing the game. It's nothing to do with individual battles, but to do the with entire game. It prevents th

Das is putting up a Let's Play for it (2 episodes so far). The game looks very promising and faithful to MoM, but also still too early to tell how it's going to pan out. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGB6RkFB7ZmPJPQwiiYmAM1kxR3gR6ioL

Bought by Google! http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29155888

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="5" id="3491540"] Do you think though its possible to have multiple founding meetings? Or its by definition there can only be one founding meeting, the first one? [/quote] Well, now that gets into more subtleties of what the intended meaning of "founding" was. If this is just the first in a series of more or less similar meetings, then I'd argue there can be only one founding meeting and a comma should be used (since "first" and "foundin

Oh, actually I kind of take it back then, I think the comma is needed. If there were several founding meetings and this is the first one of them, then no comma. But the "founding" is being added as an auxiliary piece of information and is not part of the main piece of information. It's like saying "The first (i.e. founding) meeting." So yeah, I say it needs a comma.

Agreed, no comma. And if he's using "1." to indicate "the first" of what will eventually be a series of meetings, then that's also non-standard and confusing. It should be either "the first" or "the 1st" if that's the intent.

Part of the problem is the binary nature of US politics. The default assumption has now become that there are only two sets of beliefs, and you must subscribe entirely to one or the other. In reality, most people would naturally have a collection of beliefs taken from both sets, but the nature of current political discourse tries to force them to get fully on board with one set or the other. And ultimately, because of the polarizing nature of the whole mess, many people do s

[quote who="Jafo" reply="8" id="3490796"] A LOT of it is down to luck and circumstance.... [/quote] Yeah, for every story like that there are 100 more where the project made no money whatsoever. ;)

[quote who="starkers" reply="2229" id="3489957"] proponents of global warming are none too bright. [/quote] Fixed that for you... [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Some things can't be unseen.

I've said it before, I'll say it again... Crusader Kings 2 blew my mind how they pulled such an ambitious game off. And there's a massive expansion/DLC to be announced this week, woo!

[quote]I will literally work out my weaknesses by working out! And do it listening to the Dark knight sound track from the Batman movies and something like "Eye of the tiger" too [/quote] We're gonna need a montage! ;) Good luck!

And, after a breather, we're off again!

[quote who="Jafo" reply="8" id="3484439"] Mad Max .... 2015 ... [/quote] That better not suck.

Yep. They can ban people for talking about ice cream cones, if they so desire.

I'm a huge Terry Gilliam fan, so really looking forward to The Zero Theorem on Sept 19th.

It's not the badge, but the monkey, from which I derive my authority.

Quit trolling.

I was expecting a post about anti-viral drugs based on the title... ;)

I think that was the point.

[quote who="Ekko_Tek" reply="2212" id="3483555"] Everyone knows that real climate science is done in the basement with a good internet connection by analyzing spreadsheets and reading articles on blogs, just like Galileo would've done. [/quote] And then arguing it about it on internet forums. That's always a very productive activity, and is never at all just one big circle jerk.