kyogre12

[quote]You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to know that if it's got cactuses in it, it's a desert. Wow, that line is either comedic genius, or the result of sleep deprevation, and I can't tell which. Just in case, it's rocket scientist, and cactus grow all over the place, we've got prickly pears in our frigging yard, even in this drought we still measure yearly rain in the inches.[/quote] If I recall correctly, the "rocket surgeon" thing came from Ted Stevens,

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="12" id="2288222"]I think what they wanted and most of you fell for it was just some upfront money so they could take a nice long summer vacation on your dough. lol I never liked paying someone for work not done because of this. You get all kinds of promises and perks promised and blah blah and in the end you end up waiting on them to do something they promised months ago. What a nice excuse using Demigod as a reason for the setback and you all still waiting to

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="16" id="2287468"]Do you have GC2,TA? That's what the mod is for.... here is the main page: https://forums.galciv2.com/355228 I never could get used to the gimp UI.... I suppose if I had the inclination to learn it, I might make some headway..... [/quote] I have the Ultimate Edition

[quote]Well, you could start rasising money to get me a new version of Photoshop and one of those pen tablets so that I could put my friend Grant's drawing skills to good use and finally make some halfway-decent race logos for my Metroid mod, but other than that...... [/quote] Why not get Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/ It does everything Photoshop does, but for free. Other than that, all I can offer is karma for making a Metroid mod[e digicons]k1[/e

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="9" id="2287416"] probably would've been on time if they hadn't pulled Elemental people for DemiGod work... I thought the late June alpha release was adjusted for the Demigog delay... it was. Then adjusted to July because they want to "polish" the alpha for some reason. [/quote] pshhh[e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Who needs polish? I'd be happy with 1's and 0's.

[quote]For a peek at the time and effort it takes to make a cloth map icon (time-lapse) check out the Elemental twitter: http://twitter.com/TeamElemental [/quote] Hey![e digicons]>:([/e] It's my job to keep people updated of the Twitter updates: https://forums.elementalgame.com/357077 If other people start doing it, I won't get karma anymore[e digicons];P[/e] And what else am I supposed to do in my (rather plentiful) f

[quote who="CaesarsGhost" reply="7" id="2287396"]probably would've been on time if they hadn't pulled Elemental people for DemiGod work... [/quote] I thought the late June alpha release was adjusted for the Demigog delay...

Updated again. There's another one of those awesome time-lapse videos[e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

[quote]The scientific definition of a desert is an area that receives on average less than 250 millimeters of rainfall each year. So... they are not misnamed deserts, they are definitely deserts. In fact, most deserts are not covered in those stereotypical sand dunes we always see - they are often rocky, and they are often covered with low, hardy vegetation. I have been in many deserts like this, and let me tell you they feel very deserty - they might not get crazy sand storms like in the Sah

Maybe because its not zoomed in all the way you can't see the smaller plants at the base of the cacti?

New update.

I just put up the first (and so far only) update from week 3. Because week 2 didn't have a lot of updates, and it doesn't look like week 3 will either, I'm just going to combine them in the same thread.

This just made my day![e digicons]k1[/e]

A couple months ago there was a new story about how some airline (don't remember which, I think is was some South American one, but I'm not sure) actually did this. If I remember correctly, they did where every pound over some weight limit you were, you had to pay $5 extra, or something like that. And, like Silver said, it created a bunch of backlash because people considered it dicrimination. I'll see if I can find that article. EDIT: I can't seem to find that article (it was a

Just so you know, I am back from vacation, so I can dedicate more time to this(usually). If you're wondering why there is no "Twiter Updates Week 3" post yet, it's because there are no updates to post...

[quote]Quoting kyogre12, reply 15 No, the point of using multiple, less powerful missiles as that you didn't need to get them as high. Instead of one really high missile taking out the whole country, you would have multiple missiles taking out smaller sections, which wouldn't require as high-powered of a missile because they wouldn't need to go as high. That is false. If you don't get the altitude, you don't get quite the EMP. The range and strength of an EMP detonated w

sorry for the double post, but this was posted while I was making my first post and I had to respond. [quote]taltamir, while I agree with you that ManSh00ter is underestimating the power of EMP's, I think that you are not taking into account the incredible unlikeliness of such an attack. It is slightly MORE likely than direct hit nuclear attack.[/quote] How is an EMP attack more likely than a direct nuclear attack? A direct one required much less resources, can be p

[quote]They could do it with multiple nukes+missiles, which wouldn't need as powerful missiles, like the OP, but that is still very unlikely. To get an effective blanket EMP instead of a localized one, height is extremely important. To trigger the effect, the bomb must be above the atmosphere. Skimping on the missile is probably a mission-fail[/quote] No, the point of using multiple, less powerful missiles as that you didn't need to get them as high. Instead of one really h

Even a slow rise in water levels would be disasterous. Untold amounts of land would become unusable, and there would be serious overcrowding in surviving cities. taltamir, while I agree with you that ManSh00ter is underestimating the power of EMP's, I think that you are not taking into account the incredible unlikeliness of such an attack. You could, theorectically, wipe out the entire country with one nuke, but it has to be high enough above the planet that it is all but impo

Personally, I think that any sort of research victory should take a huge amount of time to complete, no matter how much +research speed ability you have. What I didn't like about the technological victory in GalCivII was that by the time anyone started researching it, they probably have very fast research, so you would get the warning that they started, then 30 turns later they won, and there was nothing you could to to stop it because it took 28 turns to get to their planets. Researc

[quote]Too bad people don't take global warming that seriously. I guess its true what they say about people being like frogs in hot water... if the change is gradual enough, you can boil them alive and they won't even blink.[/quote] Agreed. What bugs me even more than people's refusal to take it seriously, however, is their idea that "it isn't our fault, so we can keep pumping s*** into the atmosphere without worrying about anything" Maybe (although I don't think so) they're right and

Thanks Cykur for posting those links about EMP blasts. I had one of those links in my post on the first page, but I didn't get back to my comp in time to post that. [quote]As a former Ham radio operator - I've had to study the ionosphere and other parts of the atmosphere a bit (Ham radio operators love to bounce radio waves off the ionosphere). I can tell you that the atmosphere isn't that smple - there are many layers to it, and the height of these explosions happen above the ionosph

[quote]1) I never said it was 1 nuke. From the first paragraph: 5 container ships in the gulf of Mexico fire medium range SCUD missiles high into the atmosphere until it reaches far above Kansas and other states. That's because SCUD missiles have a maximum altitutde of about 150km so I said 5 container ships shooting them above various states to get the blanket protection.[/quote] Well, you didn't exactly word that well. Maybe it should be changed to "until

I'm going to go with... July 9 4 pm GMT, but I'm going to pray to Frogboy[e digicons]:frogboy:[/e] that it's sooner[e digicons]:drool:[/e]

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