I'm happy to see the "Letter from the Designer" and wish it were longer. I miss the golden age of computer gaming where the manual came with the game, was a minimum of 50 pages, and a third of that was design notes. Even Sid Meier is nerfed nowadays.
Sir Malcolm
Well, it turns out it was a marketing stunt. I'm glad it wasn't real, but I hate being fooled.
Good Old Games, or GOG, closed its doors. I bought many games from them and will miss their presence.
MoM is the best game ever = opinion. X-Com is the best game ever = fact.
On another subject, what is this series of goodies for people who buy the book? The Amazon link provided mentions nothing of goodies. And do these goodies apply to the Kindle Edition?
You gotta love some of the nonsensical names the random name generator pops out. My favorite so far for a sovereign was "Mlusesfarb." I thought it would be a fun thread to just list some of best random oddities that have shown themselves so far, whether it be names for cities, characters or entire worlds.
Ditto. I noticed that if I elect the auto-resolve option, it doesn't crash.