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Well, people, I think you may find out - and if not you, your children definitely will. Conventional oil peaked in 2005, the new substitutes have drastically lower EROEI, and are ecologically damaging, other resources are running out fast too, soon, just maintaining what we have will become prohibitively costly, and after that, it's off to a steady, but terminal decline. Oil production in North sea falls 17 percent a year. The Malthusian trap has already sprung.

Be aware that TRIM is not supported on SSDs connected in software RAID - I found the hard way when I deployed 2 SSDs in FreeBSD RAID 1 (mirror). SLC vs MLC - the difference in durability is tremendous. In a deployment with about 700 writes per second on peaks that happen every 5 minutes, 24/7 (rrdtool database with constantly updated data), 2 OCZ MLC discs (I believe it was Vertex) lost their ability to write reliably in about 3 months. A pair of Intel SLC discs i

Hello, Asus PA246Q had good reviews. It all depends on whether you can stand the horrible WLED backlight or not. I found out I could not, so I reduced my demands to absolute minimum and found out that I will rather have worse colors and viewing angles than the horrible stroboscopic ghosting the combination of WLED + IPS (PLS) showed me, and I jumped for one of the last old, and discounted Benq G2420HD TN monitors, and I am quite happy with it. After a few weeks, the perceived do

AD topic - Minecraft is significantly faster when run under 64bit Java, with large enough memory available. Too bad Dwarf Frotress cannot, and will not be able to take advantage of 64bit systems.

Preferably, I discourage anyone to learn from Diablo at all concerning game design. I hate that game for the simplistic grind it transformed good old rogue-like games into. Especially don't learn from the latest iteration that could be best described as "mediocre cellphone game".

[quote who="Ashbery76" reply="7" id="3146521"]One cannot moan about a game design for being a poor player.[/quote] That is absolutely unfair assertion. There is a plenty of bad design in the game, plenty of balance issues, and plenty of bugs. Being in the beta stage, some of it can be ironed out, but programming a competent AI is no small feat (and probably impossible, but a competent-looking AI would be better than what we have). There are very strangely designed mi

I could not do any of the proposed workarounds, because the kingdom I wanted to kill was the only one I was in contact with. Attack should circumvent any diplomacy - no more talk, just slit their throats, let the sand drink their blood.

Rock paper scissors is evil incarnate. Bad, very bad, artificial, gamey, like a zombie gnawing off your leg. Annoying. Play Empire Earth series. You will see.

Burntsoul, that's a lot of assuming you are doing, and I will step right into it - the assumption that on release, the game will be 100% polished, playable and done, is IMO utter fantasy and I am willing to bet money against it. Look at any reasonably complex game of today - it's never finished on release date, and support often drags on month, or even years. That is because on release, the user base is usually significantly expanded, the new users will discover new problems and bugs,

... but I don't want to talk, I want to kill you. Still, all I get is the talk cursor. Even if I manually select Attack command, click on the target unit, it still changes to talk cursor... and they are too busy. Seems a bit retarded. Oh - and unit selection is still living hell. I manually select all my three heroes, want to move - no more moves. Okay, I click end turn, the two heroes besides my sovereign ninja-deselect, so when I want to finally move, I find out I am charg

Technical comment - please choose a proper, informative subject for you thread. "OMG devs read this" is horrible, because it does not say anything specific about the thread's content, it only conveys your feeling of self-importance. If you think the message is so important, use a private message.

Agree with the OP about the UI. It just simply seems that programmers in general underestimate the importance of UI, because they are used to work with all manners of debug information cluttered in a small space, so they think "I can read it just fine, so it's probably fine." That is a grave mistake - as someone observed asking a programmer to design an ergonomic UI is like asking a mason to draw plans for a building. It seems that the mason should know all about buildings, since it's

Just create a solid, working, interesting single player version, then care about the multiplayer. The initial decision to scrap multiplayer and create as good as possible game was IMO the correct one. People demanding multiplayer are usually very vocal, then most of them never play it anyway.

I still think something like a "tavern" similar to Homam series had would do a lot for immersion - a place or window where random gossips like "travellers from the east report increasing numbers of shrieks attacking the caravans", "Smiths in the kingdoms thrive due to increased number of demand for blades from the Empire", "a red comet has appeared on the night sky, a bad omen of coming wars and suffering", "distant desert on the north is rumoured to hide great treasur

The more I play the game, the more I realize what hampers my enjoyment with the game the most: it is the static nature of the world itself - and I don't mean the landscape, though volcanoes, tidal waves, or something like Hell terrain spread from FFH2 would be nice. No, I speak about the interactions between the mobs and the AI players in the wilderness. Kingdom and Empire aligned heroes should attack each other, and wild animals (depending on an "aggression" characteristic, perha

I think Steve Jobs led his brainwashed followers ... eh, loyal users through the prickly maze of new and confusing technologies by giving them omens easy to use, white and aesthetically pleasing devices to calm down their agitated minds. Now, when he made his last step into the Great Unknown, what can his disciples honest admirers do but t

What Windows 8? There will be no Windows 8, just a thin client that will stream everything (including your saved data, your visual theme, your calculator app) from and to some "cloud" somewhere.

Poor unit selection - those little cirlcular highlights and highlights with arrows, what do they mean exactly? When i click at the enemy now, who will charge him? Just my sovereign? Everyone? No one? I can't count the mistakes I made by poor selection of units. Who is selected should be immediately, visually clear. Sadly, it isn't. <span style="color: #ff0000; background-color:

First, before anyone pesters me about merging my analysis below with some other thread, I will provide an explanation why it cannot be done. Well, look, it's not possible. And why? These are MY observations, and I want a separate thread for them. Capiche? Bono. There are three categories: improvements , <span style="

Nevertheless, it's a bit silly as a form of feedback and should be precisely defined.

Okay first - a quote from Wikipedia (I know there are better sources, but still) about hammers being THE specialized weapons against heavy armor. The point was - they could damage without penetrating the armor: War hammers were developed as a consequence of the ever more prevalent surface-hardened steel surfacing of wrought iron <a class="mw-r

What does it mean when it happens in combat? Is it a sound of metal weapon hitting the armor, or does it mean the opponent parried? Or did the blow was not strong enough to hit?

I'd just say that it's completely counter-intuitive that plate is good against maces. Blunt weapons were the very thing brought to the battlefield to counter the heavy armor like plate, because a mace can bend armor and possibly impede mobility, and can also deliver blunt trauma through the plates. When heavy armor became obsolete due to firearms, maces and hammers disappeared from the battlefield too. Blunt should be worst against soft, leather and cloth-type ar

I can say only one thing: Wow! They are trying real hard. So many changes...

Crusader Kings is one hell of a sleek, polished game with insane depth. I have made several attempts to play it, but the things I try never work out the way I presume they would ;-) To be clear, I don't blame the game for it. What is admirable is especially the interface which is incredibly well-design, packed with information and ergonomic at the same time. As for the game being RTS - this is loses a bit of the original meaning of the term, because there is in fast clicking actio