[quote who="Frogboy" reply="24" id="2541669"] Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...[/quote] [e digicons] Noooooooo... how could you sell us out? Everyone knows that magic comes from nanotechnology [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote]I for one would enjoy boar cavalry....[/quote] Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going to cross-breed until I put all of Earth's mundane mounts to shame. The speed of an cheetah. The tusks, size, and weight of elephants. The orneriness of boars. The badassness of bear claws. I call them Cheleboarbears!
[quote who="docbates7" reply="50" id="2540534"] What I am most concerned about is not that the concept art is crap (actually far from it. I think the concept art looks pretty badass and keeping with the general theme of the game). Rather, what really concerns me is for SD to avoid the "tin-like" story experience that plauged GalCiv. I was incredibly excited when the devs stated that they aren't just going to be cut/pasting from the previous installments of these games/overal
[quote]Sounds like a hodge podge of Tolkien and Dragonlance. Stardock doesn't have any creative writers?[/quote] [quote]^^ There's always one in every crowd. [/quote] AW SNAP! Geddit? Because Frogboy wrote all of the stuff? In all seriousness, all of those races are evil sexy.
God, I hope so. I really want to make magical barding for all of my elephant cavalry. And bear cavalry. And elephant-bear cavalry.
Whether the ranger is emo or not, her hair reminds me of Tina Turner's.
You look at Mbuti pygmies, and those that actually live in the Ituri, not the ones that live in plantations. They are healthy as shit. They may die younger, but they get a much better run than we do. Fact is, civilization is a breeding ground for disease and vitamin deficiency. On the other hand, pygmies have been known to kill elephants single-handedly. Pygmies live pretty good lives. They're generally a happy people who only need to hunt and work for 3 hours a day in order to surviv
Steam has had some amazing deals recently, I just picked up E:TW for $10. And, when the DLC included Ghurkas and Amazons... I couldn't help myself. I'm a little suspicious though. Mount and Blade is still $30 on the website. How did they get the price so low? Is Steam losing $25 for every copy of Mount and Blade they sell? What sort of deal did they cut with Taleworlds? I have a feeling Steam is engaging in some very aggressive Price Warfare against Impulse and other
I'm going to defend Demiansky's point here. If you send troops into battle you know aren't reliable, it's likely that they won't be reliable. Likewise, a high discipline unit is certain to be reliable. There isn't much of a random factor here. It gives you incentive to use disciplined unit as opposed to units whom are merely more powerful. Realistic wargames simulate this in a variety of ways. SPW&W has "command & control", which I've never actually used but sounds way too int
[quote who="astrath" reply="7" id="2537514"]There is something like this in ETW but it's so badly implemented that I've never ever had a city surrender to me.[/quote] I've had it happen. Twice. The garrison evidently needs to be really small. It's a nice idea in general as you don't want to auto-resolve it because you can most certainly win with fewer casualties, but it's still a chore attacking tiny garrisons.
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="79" id="2537560"]Avatar again? Oh please.[/quote] LOL! I hadn't even noticed the Smurf-Avatar connection! It make so much sense now!
I hope we get some interesting spells with really off-the-wall effects [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote]And consider that real aliens would likely not be what we hairless apes consider at all humanoid or attractive.[/quote] To be honest, if humanity did meet an alien race which was humanoid and exotic in appearance... we'd probably at least make an attempt. Hey exotic alien race with boobies... care for a drink?[e digicons]:beer:[/e]
[quote who="bluebogle" reply="72" id="2537230"] I don't know... I sure could go for one of those Avatar girls : D[/quote] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] Uh what...? Oh...
I find it depressing that no game since "Close Combat" has focused on battlefield psychology. Definitely one of the most interesting parts of warfare, and definitely what seperates units acting like human beings from acting like mindless bots. During close combat III, I got real attached to my soldiers. Real attached. After each battle I'd read off their names. I'd feel a pang of guilt if I let my soldiers bite it and breathe a sigh a relief if they were just incapictated. Each one ha
I'm not saying it shouldn't be an option, but I encourage everyone to at least try the "hard" route. A lot of the features in games we usually think of as restricting actually make the game a lot more fun. When I first had my pretender horror marked and cursed in Dominions, I said to myself: "Fuck this!" and quit when I couldn't remove it. Ultimately, I found horror marks and curses are interesting enough where even if I was given the option to make them removable, I wouldn't take it. <p
[quote]Just in case, you're not trying to use the social spectrum to classify libertarians as economic left wingers to justify your argument, are you? The current brands of socialism aren't even two centuries old. The old ideas behind them were never applied to large scale economies. You take a chart that puts communism and free market capitalism at two ends of a spectrum, a rather appropriate choice, and then define the middle as normal. The midpoint between no contr
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="31" id="2534813"] Seriously, though, it seems like some magical 'ob/gyn' stuff should be in the game. Lots of folks are up in arms about how weird it is to combine and ageless sovereign and dynasty mechanics. I'd find it far weirder to have proto-semi-demi-god sovereigns who had lots of 'life magic credentials' and no ability whatsoever to magically manipulate at least their own reproduction if they're human, and maybe more if they're Fallen.[/quote] <
I'm not really sure I like this idea. More magic if you cohabit? How does this make any sense? I get your concerns. I think there's a better way to do it. What you're suggesting reminds me of what was used in Black & White. You have to be reasonable. You can't stick to one or two cities and expect to be as powerful or more so than a nation with twice as many. There should be a happy medium. The bell curve is your friend.
[quote who="Ozar" reply="27" id="2534516"] I always get this. Every time! "But it's not a problem if you.." This is completely beside the point and sidesteps my grievance. Let me put it this way. If there were a spell that did absolutely nothing except put a dunce cap icon next to a character's name, I would want a way to remove it. The fact that it has no effect on gameplay does not matter to me. It makes the character look stupid. [/quote] Well OK sir . Let me
[quote]This non-Fallen (natural creature of Elemental) appears only in swamp areas. Incidentally, it has not been named yet so feel free to suggest names. [/quote] I dub thee... Wuffy.
[quote who="Cerevox" reply="25" id="2534398"]Speaking as someone who beat xcom apoc on hardest difficulty by saving every second in order to save-load my way to victory(no joke, litterally every single frame, i saved) and as someone who had litterally 2000+ saves in oblivion/mass effect(oblivion starts breaking around 600+ saves in the save folder), i think saving should be left to the player. If you want to play in ironman mode, more power to you. I wimp out at the very thought of ironman mo
God, that's heart breaking man. I remember up until middle school I really had no social skills whatsoever. I didn't need them, I was so good at just keeping everything to myself. Then Boom! Crushes. Boom! Friends. Boom! Hobbies. When people get honest with me, they tell me that there's something just a little off about me. I don't know if that's due to ADD (if such a thing exists) or my background. But I tend to say strange things and I'm pretty clumsy. I was bullied pretty m
Yes! Back on topic! [e digicons]:)[/e] [quote who="Shadowdragoon" reply="69" id="2534302"] There sure will be much fun in testing this feature out, making all kinds of strange relatives. to bad we have not been treated to see pictures from what the devs have made yet.. [/quote] I have been begging begging to see a screen of the half-breeds. So far: nothing :(
[quote who="Shadowdragoon" reply="67" id="2533522"] Bara? not heard of that one before, and almost afraid to try to find out what it is.. what about adding a Yuri mod? Ofcourse, id probably get it mixed up and getting the Yaoi mod when going for the Yuri one.. getting them mixed is a rather bad thing, and have resulted in a few EHH! moments.. [/quote] "Bara" is basically strong, muscley gay stuff. Nothing really out of the ordinary. Of course, having d