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[quote]For example, in your 3 examples Spore, CIV and Galciv, there is no such distinction.[/quote] What? I agree with Spoor and Galciv, but CIV (at least CIV IV, Civ 1 was obviously too primitive and I skipped 2 and 3 so I can't comment) the personalities are very different. Generally there are 3 different sets of what every personality says in responce to anything, based on likes/doesn't like/neutral, and then the different personalities make very obvious different

[quote]The "Black Plague" of Europe was not "caused" by rats, the rats were simply the spreading agent of the outbreak. The "cause" was the abhorent piss poor sanitary practises in the major cities of Europe of the time. [/quote] Well, europe was actually better than parts of asia at the time, where I guess sanitation must have been worse. The black plague actually caused less deaths in europe than the 30 years war (which was happening around the same time, and often the b

well, I'm sure you could find less.... demoralizing? words. Well, I'm sure you know what I mean. But I think it is personally reasonable to give people karma for their avatar. Heck, I almost gave wintersong karma for the fire emblem pegesus knight ^_^

yay!

Or how about a polo. With the logo only on the front or back. Like this. Would you want the logo on the front or on the back? If you could decide? anybody's feedback is best. I'm trying to get a general idea of what other people want to see ^_^

That would be awesome. He should send random links to the elemental forums from time to time, like "Duuuuudddee.... did you see this post that guy made *insert link here*. I swear these guys are craazy! : D ", or tell bad jokes like "I sent my cavalry to take out red. Apparently he's finding it un-bear-able! LAWLS!!! " Only then would they really seem like a good drunk player AI [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

sadly, as much as I wish crying about it would make it come faster, it won't. But I have a deal for you. Check in the forums next week and I'll give you something that you can you can turn that excitement into other than drool as we wait for for the journal. I promise [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] ~Signature roar

no, yes, it shouldn't be major at all. Like a disease should strike and cause a blip in your production and such for a little. Similar to the mana changes when 'conjunctions' occur in the original MoM (except money and production, not mana, and only effecting certain areas) So if a channeler cast it on a town, that town would hurt, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I also imagine it a late game spell like 'corruption' was in the original MoM.

Well, they say if you want something done right away, you should do it yourself. so I did. Here are my button up T-shirt designs. What do you think? (much higher resolution for the real shirt) Front back respectivly

diseases and such are a major problem for mideval civilizations, so that seems like that would be a reasonable random event. I think it would really set the flavor for struggling to rebuild the world, since once population gets to a big size a disease is very likely. Making it a spell just lets you spread out the features. So if you make a diseased animation and all that for cities, it will be worth the time and effort. no matter what it i

We will know more by June I'm sure.

thanks. its appriciated [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

yeah, I took the step to try it out. I don't know what all the features are yet >_>; I have just been playing by finding what buttons DO work and using only them (like when the aircraft nears aliens, there are like 10 buttons, and I only have found a use for like 2 of them)

[quote]For fire you could do something like Heat wave (Global Warming?) that could cause famine resulting in starvation. Not a disease but it would have the same end result on population.[/quote] I don't think we should try to find the same effect for every element. The elements should be different. I think that only like 1 or 2 should be able to create disease and famine, and 2 or 3 should be able to counter it (notice the 2nd number, the number of count

If there is a spell that causes disease, I'd say there should be random events that cause it too. Depending on how bad it is I would put it untir major event or minor event (maybe there could be different levels of outbreak) Yeah, quarentine on a city should lock down all trade. I can see earth and water having natural cure spells that would cure disease as well.

I'm really excited about windows 7 now for some reason. Everything I hear about it is positive. Surely it keeps the good aspects of vista (I'm a network tech support agent, and vista is so much easier to troubleshoot than XP)

sorry, I counted some of yours as his. My mistake. I glanced around and qucikly guesstimated all three of us having in the 20's earch. (and I said 'almost' because I had like 5-10ish less then either of you according to my count.) *Party Bear joins with the other celebrates*

YAY Island dog's post about our avatars was updated to include me link For any new guys that come due to said Island Dog's news, I said somewhere "post any requests" and that remains true (you can post in this thread). exsting custom avatars inclued sky sharks, bear cavalry, and a guy on a flaming horse. (most of them arn't used by anybody already either >_>; ) I can't promise anything that awesome, but I will al

hey! I helped! T_T don't forget about me. I did one of the official avatars that spartan and luckmann missed and many variants so that people have even more choices. I think I created almost as many varients as either of the other two >_>;;;; *update* : Thanks for updating the post to include me [e digicons]^_^'[/e]

Don't forget that it needs to be very evident in how the AI acts to you. MoM was plagued by the AI's sounding mean and upset with you, even when you did friendly things like try to offer a spell exchange and you were so far more advanced then they that had nothing to give you.

[quote]In many games such as civ4, the enemies only agree to peace treaties when they are on the brink of extinction.[/quote] I think Civ 4 was a very bad example. Because in that particular game, they do sometimes start to talk peace the moment they start loosing a war. Especially certain personalities that try to stay 'peaceful'. Do you not play on hard? (noble I guess its called) On that setting or higher the AI will attack you only when it thin

And this cow is giving it I say. [e digicons]:moo:[/e] (or getting one too and enjoying it :P He's just to excited at whatever he's doing) *pixel be gone cream. Go pick up a bottle today!* (also, the bear changed the lights)

[quote]Muggle[/quote] I am so ammused that that word has been officially added to the english language. I have personally heard at least one non-harry potter source use it in a serious conversation (it was a TV show or movie, I don't remember which) and 4-5 years ago it was officially added to the oxford english dictionary.

[quote]If someone builds the pyramids in egypt, why am I not allowed to build pyramids in south america? [/quote] I think its effected by what will cause influence. The 1st great pyramid will be the most influential. So for things like culture, the mayan pyramids wouldn't do as much. This excuse may not work as well for a great library which should be full of info no matter how many exist, but maybe we shouldn't have that be a wonder. The uses-a-parti

You are 100% right. I've said the same thing before. I think its nice to have it with the logo sometimes, but I feel there should always be a picture that is just the image of whatever. Blizzard usually does it right, and Master U pointed out his C&C3 wallpaper. I think the company who is most sinful at putting the logo where it doesn't belong is actually nintendo. Like if you visit the wallpaper sections they provided (or at least used to p