Why not just do both? Have autoroads work very slowly while manually constructed ones will be fast due to player involvement. Losts of unanswered questions here. The problem is we still do not have any idea of what our roads should be like. I still say road traffic levels should be indicators of enemy presence if the enemy military is using one of your roads. Extra speed over initial stealth, a tradeoff.
But in Elemental the population = military. Will it be so easy to raze a city if a population can fight back? I suppose weapon control laws are a hot political issue in elemental. Historically kings kept the populace unarmed due to fear of rebellion and armies could completely trample over entire (defenseless) kingdoms. It would make a nice civ trait choice like egalitarian. Choose to raze cities and the populace will be forced to defend themselves afterward, fig
Help! The Government are SAVING ME! Yea! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] -Any *rosy family* modern disaster movie story. You'd think we'd see more R rated ones.
Two Words: Human Trafficking! [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] Population explosion leads to population migration. If there is a housing shortage then people migrate to a better climate. Prestige could influence where to among other variables. Let's say the sov used super aphrodesiac like bunnies spell on city A because the city had an excess of food without a dependable method of transporting it to other cities. Unfortunately, now
Showed this to a friend and his question made me speechless. "Why is it fantasy worlds have every creature of the night but no black people like me?"
I got annoyed when playing Populous aka the god games. How could those sims have another super mega disaster every 60 secs or less and still not adapt technology to deal with it? That army reeling from Procipinee's shock and awe campaign is another example. "Doh!" or "How many times can we keep doing this?" Edit: Frogboy has my permission to use the shock and awe as an in game joke.
Then I certainly hope Lightning Rod is in the tech tree. [e digicons]:S[/e] Hey it's realistically feasible, it's lower tech. Study ancient Japanese arcitechture (somewhat influenced by Chinese) and you'll see they built with very clever design tricks to resist earthquakes.
It's obvious few here have tried Coke offshore. Real sugar FTW.
Go with the Galactic Civ 2 route of Good and Evil plus a racial modifier. *Good* Human kingdoms would convince other human tribes to join, nonviolently. *Evil* fallen races would just enslave or consume them for food, by force of course.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2524892"]Federated IDs wouldn't be mandatory. No service is going to require you use someone else's ID. [/quote] Wrong! Frogboy, read Craig Mundie's (Microsoft executive) proposed changes/treaties being hammered out at the UN. http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/01/30/drivers-licenses-for-the-internet/ Internet ' Drivers Licenses ' have near zero pub
Here is the other problem that has not been discussed in-depth enough: specialization population centers vrs non-specialized population centers leading to how that ties with resource acquisition, management, disbursement and trade. The Devs have talked about the dilemma of a game's victor being decided long in advance before it is over. If a kingdom has lost a few cities then it's no big deal but if even one specialized super city is gone, well for your average AI it mi
If an enemy army occupies a road/trade route within your borders then any leader worth his weight will take notice when all the traffic suddenly stops or slows to a trickle without explanation. Theoretically it's balanced because while you know something must be out there, you don't know any details of what or exactly where. Last time I checked roads are automatic and not manually built like in civilization, preventing abuse. Your opponent can use th
America already has a slew of dysfunctional social programs. Our track record speaks for itself. The problem lies where maintaining the institution and any votes it generates trumps practicality and producing results. Sometimes I wonder if one more program is really what we need.
NASA under Obama is slowly moving away from space exploration and reprioritizing according to demand. One of those priorities is global warming. Monitoring Earth temperature, CO2 levels and atmospheric disturbances is now deemed more important than space exploration. All this was brought to light during the recent global warming scandal being investigated. If anyone here disagrees with the president's decisions then write to your elected official. After the las
They chose this format to supposedly improve gameplay on console. Think HaloWars and the confined bases. Sad I know but what did you expect. Due keep in mind that one of the biggest complaints of its predecessor was the difficulty over previous titles. I fully agree C&C Generals was a good game after ZH. I just wish the modding options were more flexible to make it a great game.
Go study Chile, there is such a thing as privatized social security. Chile was one of the early modern nations to implement modern socialist social security and one of the first to go broke as a result. The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of OTHER peoples money. Let's sum up how socialism works. You take from party A , give to party ME , and tell everyone it is going to party yoU.
Wow what a good idea! Reward the player for generations of expertise over that player who just stole and implemented it 5 minutes ago. Maybe this should be handled through additional extra techs to research that are very difficult to acquire or untradable. Kinda like horseback riding 1, horseback riding 2, horseback riding 3, ect. You can get horseback riding 1 but not 12. I'm a thinkin tech assimilation mechanic.
Pollution: 16 naval ships = all the cars in the world! [e digicons]o_O[/e] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html This is why I am skeptical of green activists. It seems when it comes to saving the earth they completely missed the boat. If I ran the movement I would stick to realistic goals and concentrating on battles easily won with maximum benefit than radical totaltarian ideals like changing world e
China is a far bigger long term threat as a peaceful nation than a active war monger. Do the math, economically they win and we lose, a war would distrupt that. As for occupation, America using WMDs to win are completely out of the question. China's human resources are almost unlimited by comparison. A possibly far greater threat than China is America losing much of its sovereignty to global government, the new world order, globaliztion or in other words change. 
Guys look, stem cell therapy is already available for pets. Some live, some don't survive the process. It hasn't made breaking news because it involves a different type of stem cell other than fetal and the public is conviced it absolutely has to be fetal or it's bad. The less obvious problem is that no insurance company will ever cover stem cell therapy in any form, far too dange
Considering SW is driven by The Force, a supernatural something that can define any outcome, victory should still be possible under any condition. Anyone who has played SW:KotoR 1&2 knows it can manifest abilites far more powerful than seen in the movies.
Woah! Armed UN Security Silences Journalists ClimateGate Questions At Copenhagen on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwVviE7o74 So it appears when questioned about the matter they decided to sick UN thugs on the reporter. The UN obviously needs to be humbly reformed or worst case dismantled. Strong emphasis on worst case.
Quests with multiple outcomes are a plus. *Booming Voice* Quest: Find the Dragon Egg Variables: Found within X turns starting from quest initiation till game over 1) D.Egg is recovered very early from player focusing much time and enormous resource expenditure to complete it. Result: Player can hatch it, allow it time to mature in growth, and train it into godzilla with wings. 2) D.Egg is recovered late game, lazily. Result: Throug
Should surrender always be a Winner Takes All? Say the 'heir' is contested by another 'heir' planted by my enemy of equal to near equal standing. Does that mean the nation will partially become a new indepandant, fracture into city states, usher in a civil war or get divided up between nations unevenly? Here is the catch, how high standing my female asset is on the pecking order could determine how much of the empire is 100% guaranteed to be mine IF I don't get the w
China and India represent a modern shift in what defines a (future) superpower over previous ones. Initially Europe, the UK in paticular, had operated in a very overt method of direct control by colonization. The US and Soviet Union followed a somewhat more covert method during the cold war. China's behavior is realitively benign by comparison. It is not actually conquering nations but focuses on expanding itself in any way possible. That includes consuming any f