Kantok

Things are looking great so far.

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="65" id="3021894"]MHO but I don't think Obama has committed treason. I don't contest what you say, but it doesn't measure up to flat out lying about WMD and resulting in the deaths of well over 100,000 people. The crimes he committed cannot be overstated.[/quote] They can and you are. Go read the actual reports about what we knew and when. The administration had every reason to suspect there were WMD

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="63" id="3021882"] Oh yes.... wanted to ask: Does anyone know who's getting away with treason, and who's letting them? Grizzyloins, you never did say... George W. Bush did. You asked...I answered.... [/quote] So you think Obama has too? He's continued and/or expanded every national security practice the Bush administration implemented. You just don't hear about it anymore for some odd

[quote who="leeboy26" reply="60" id="3021864"] Quoting Grizzyloins, reply 57 Those that take an oath of loyalty to a certain nation but then attempt to twist said nation in order to follow another agenda are the treasonous b*st*rds. I believe nearly all (a vast majority) of the members of our govenment (U.S.) and others, use their position to enhance their own agenda or the agenda of this or that organization rather than to do as those that elected them w

[quote who="jackswift85" reply="59" id="3021863"]The only people I know getting food stamps & living in trailers are ones that are almost done with their PhD candidacy or DVM degrees. Yeah, pretty lazy people that are a drain on society... [/quote] Why should taxpayers be paying for someone to eat while they get their PhD exactly?

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="55" id="3021840"] The industrie is telling you that there is next to no chance you can get pregnant, if you take the pill / condoms. They are also telling you that there is next to no chance that your breaks will fail, that it is save to take a plane, that you wont die of heart failure at age of 18 ect ect. Point is: No one is intelligent, wise and learned enough to understand ALL the consequences of his own action. You

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="32" id="3021836"]I'm all for making it "difficult", but it shouldn't be "annoying" to do. Difficult implies it's hard to accomplish, for example limits on how many you can transport and so on. Annoying implies it's a fucking pain in the ass to have to click through 20 boats and 20 units 10 times each. It's like the combat orders in Dom3 for units. It's difficult to find a good balance between combinations, but it's just pla

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="53" id="3021830"] Oh thank you, i wouldnt have known. You can do better then that, i hope.[/quote] Why? You didn't with your "Really? You fully expect to have a child everytime you have sex?" response which purposefully misconstrued what he said. But sure I'll further explain my point. Just because he made a point bluntly doesn't mean he's being trollish. He said what he believes in clear

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="29" id="3021787"]As has been said before their are ways to make the embarking system less cheesy so units aren't building boats to cross every lake instead of going around. If you require having a harbor on the water then you could say that the boats are just automatically sailing from the harbor to where your units are, and are not being built by the units themselves. That would also require infrastructure and you couldn't just invade other continents wit

[quote who="Jafo" reply="49" id="3021791"] Quoting Kantok, reply 46My Dodge Ram 2500 is built for it. Highly unlikely. They are 'truck technology' [an oxymoron]. You need to take a close look at truck crashes to understand the dynamics. As for collision avoidance...they have the inherent stability and 'safety' of sliding down a razorblade using your balls as brakes. The most common fatalities will be through simple roll-ov

[quote who="seanw3" reply="27" id="3021673"] "Oh hey, I have this idle army. Let's ship them overseas and conquer someone because that's so easy." -President Bush, 2001 The time a turn represents and the number of people being transported would make it work for FE. I think there should be some cost, but enabling the AI to use the system effectively, whatever it may be, is my top interest. [/quote] At this point I'm not willing to sacrifice

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="41" id="3021752"] You come off very ... trollish here. Even if it might not be your intent. [/quote] Trollish and "disagrees with me" are not synonyms.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="44" id="3021772"] Quoting kryo, reply 43 then saying that those natural results were an accident or something that "happened to them" rather than something they brought on themselves. Once upon a time Motor vehicle collisions were NOT referred to as 'accidents'. They're never accidents, but 'natural results' of [typically] stupidity on one party or another...or both/all. When I make a race-call in Formula One o

Damn you kryo. Every time I read something and get ready to make a point you steal my thunder! [e digicons]>:([/e] [quote who="seanw3" reply="36" id="3021671"]So do we apply the same hardlined philosophy to every part of life? If that were so I would be fine with it, but this country favors the 1% over all others, even the law. Law only applies to the poor. The rich get off pretty damn easy, even for murder. People make mistakes, like pregnancy, and there should be a way

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="24" id="3021396"]Holy fuck, this thread sounds like the ramblings of a syphilitic mind. We bitch about how are children ion school don't know math and science, well I say fuck math and science, maybe we need to teach them logic and reason. This topic and thread is filled with the mad rantings of racial and socio-economic class prejudice, and we pretend that it's not. People, if you want this kind of bullshit in your world, then k

[quote who="seanw3" reply="32" id="3021622"]In my mind accidental pregnancy is when you intend to enjoy sex but do not intend to have a baby. Then you find out you are pregnant and decide that abortion is not an option. Sure, the argument can be made that every sex act comes with the responsibility of what that act was originally intended for, but many people delude themselves into thinking that the two things are separate events and are therefore surprised when they become pregnant. Then the

[quote who="Alstein" reply="22" id="3021608"]I liked the Civ 5 transport model. With some modification it could work in Elemental, but only if the AI can handle it. [/quote] Please no. Civ 5's boat model was terrible. It completely removed all strategic planning necessary to move between continents. Invading another continent should be a serious undertaking requiring planning and preparation. It absolutely should NOT be "oh hey, I hav

[quote who="seanw3" reply="18" id="3019048"]I forgot that you can bring them back. That is a big relief. [/quote] I missed that info whenever they said it. That is good to know.

If you'd like someone that is significantly worse than Derek to make your AI look better give me a yell.

I think the point about garrisons and and rebellion is a good one and in your implementation would help with the SOD problem. I just thing that there are other ways to go about it that also give the game greater strategic and tactical depth. Given the choice between no rebellion and nothing, I'd certainly take your rebellion mechanic. I just thing other concepts go farther and provide more (and that rebellion could be incorporated into those anyway)

[quote who="seanw3" reply="91" id="3018951"] Is that what we learned from WWII? In my book the evil side is the one that slaughters millions of innocent people. That puts America at the top of the list. Next would be Russia and after that Germany. Dresden and Hiroshima were much greater travesties than anything the Nazis did. Evil is an empire that puts any goal above human life. America is by far the worst. We were the cowards of WWII, waiting till the last possi

[quote who="HenriHakl" reply="90" id="3018924"] Quoting Kantok, reply 81 The winter was a problem, but the scorched earth defense had nothing to do with Germany's problems with the Eastern Front. Scorched Earth is a viable tactic against enemies that use the land they conquer to resupply themselves. Relevant for Napoleonic invasion. Not (particularly) relevant for 2nd World War. Also, it's wrong to suggest that the Nazi advance into Russia was ill-planned. It'

[quote who="seanw3" reply="86" id="3018673"]*The French and American Revolutions were part of the industrial era. *Rome fell apart largely due to factionalism, lack of a unified nation, among many other factors. It is fine to talk about the abstract concepts that cropped up in WWII, but I am noticing alot of people making comparisons that don't correlate to the era this game takes place in. It is a good notion that magic can in some ways take the place of techn

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="7" id="3018640"] Outposts! What is the function of outposts in FE?They're for placing near resources and things in cases where it's not worth putting a full city. To my knowledge, we don't know anything about specific mechanics yet.[/quote] I get that. I was hoping to get a little more info out of Brad. Those unknown specifics you mention.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="3018611"]There's an outpost in there, a couple of keeps, some mines. I think town centers have to be at least 10 tiles away. Obviously you could build up the land but I think what your'e seeing is an outpost (in FE, outposts != settlements).[/quote] Outposts! What is the function of outposts in FE?