Scoutdog

Bad idea: stealing a copy of Sword of Stars, then complaining to the company when your multiplayer doesn't work.

I have also been attempting to inject excess air into Peeps using old insulin syringes, but they just don't have that much capacity..... it doesn't work all that well.,... although holding one over an open flame is quite a spectacle!

Yeah, even with an age-control system I doubt that it woudn't effect the ratings..... it did with GTA....

Good idea: joining the Unificationist party once I found it.

I assume they tried marshmallow Peeps? The bloating is really quite a spectacle!

Assertive Telepathy: aka. mind contol, for massive numbers of people.

[quote]He doesn't mean they'll literally look like goodie the Civ4 goodie huts.[/quote] I understood that they woudln't look the same, I just did not think that that mechanic would be included.

Good idea: eating Skittles.

[quote]As in Civ style goodie huts. Sammual[/quote] Permanent? Or just for the alpha in place of something else? I didn't imagine something like that fitting into Elemental, but we'll just have to ait & see......

[quote]This is the best way to handle it, do a small, low priced optional digital download that will 'mature' the game. Let that have a different rating to the base game. Kids will still be able to torrent pirate it or whatever but if the kid knows how to do that he can see a lot more than a few polygon nipples.[/quote] Naaahhhh.... If anything like that was made by SD, even unofficially, it would almost immediately be traced back to them and land them in EXTREMELY hot water with most

Well, I don't particularly care about that sort of thing, but I suppose a company like Stardock has to keep the lawsiuts @ bay..... and considering where this country was 40, 20, or even 5 years agou, this current bout of "sexophobia" doesn't seem all that bad....

"Goodie Huts": Aka. Dungeons?

My personal term for it (I don't think there is a standard term): IN Twilight, when you fight Ganon, there are a few white spasrks that drip out of his weakspot. The ESRB saw them (and I didn't until my friend pointed it out to me!) and since they were considered "blood", the game got jumped up to a "T".

Bad idea: get the cops into your fraternity.

"Nipplegate". Kinda like the sound of that...... although I hope Elemental never gets stuck in something of that level of..... oddness.

[quote]One of the best things about Alpha Centauri's research was that you could turn blind research off at the start of the game and be able to select what you want like in GCII and other games if you wanted to.[/quote] GalCiv never had blind research. The tree UI in GC1 was hard to look around in, but you could figure out what was coming even if you had never played the game before.

Good idea: going to college.

[quote]If we stop feeding the troll, it will GO AWAY.[/quote]Except for the fact that we DID stop feeding him for several pages, and he didn't go away....

[quote]I would love to see hundreds of peasant caricatures in a town going about drinking, laughing and selling their wares, rather than 5 really detailed peasants with sweat drops on their foreheads.[/quote] Yes, I suppose it's all about balance... altough in the world of conmputer graphics, as long as the system can handle it numbers do not matter: you can copy and paste essentially infinite numbers of characters, rocks, etc. into existance.

Good idea: voting for me when I run for Congress.

Yeah, even "general category" research could get you easily RNG'd: you and your fiercest rival both research "waether control:rain" spells. He gets "summon Noah's flood". You get "summon light drizzle".

Yeah, sometimes the ESRB does strange things...... I've played Halo, and I would say that it's a pretty solit "t". [quote]So in the US: Guns and fastfood Sex and booze [/quote] I know.... it's kinda sad...... the movie ratings are pretty whacked as well......

Yes, getting RNG'd is quite infuriating. Even worse when you don't see it coming. Plus, it's not how real research works: say you are trying to build a faster car. You would get a bunch of engineers, and physicists, put them in a lab with wind tunnels, engine prototypes, and tell them the specs. They might fibnd out some new stuff to help with later projects in the process, but in the end you get what you decide to research. It's not like you are going to get a vaccine for ebola, or

Good idea: cheching to see if there is another page before posting.

Bad idea: typing before you think. (If only.......)