shadowtongue

God does not require religion. But Religion requires God.

The problem with the current combat system is easily solved by adding a fatigue modifier, such that the more actions units take the worse their defense becomes (you could also hinder their offense, but that doesn't solve the problem) to such a point where they are so exhausted they simply pass out and have a defense of zero. I made a longish proposal a while back on such a system in the suggestions area if you want to look at some of the mechanics. <

Hello auto resolve! Though sure, taking more losses than otherwise may be annoying, but if you're in mop up mode, then you probably don't care about the losses that much anyway. That and just research up the Xeno trees and send your colony data to your enemies, then demand their surrender. It works, though usually you have to spank a couple of their fleets and or glass a few worlds. Hitting their HW usually speeds up t

[quote who="Istari" reply="575" id="2872067"]@Shadowtongue I will now sum up your arguments, but I'll try to be a little kinder (and more honest) than you: You are wrong Istari, because of something I'm not mentioning for some reason. I (and I believe others in this forum) am a mind reader, and I see what you really mean, despite you having denied it, and despite you not having relied upon anything to do with it for your arg

I was really unaware that a statement as stupid as 'Because of what we do understand, a prime mover is necessary.' required any refutation. Indeed I have said that in near every post I have made in reply to your continued assault on the principles of scientific inquiry. I'll ask again. What is it that you think we do understand? Though you've answered that many times by saying that there is much which we do not understand. Then you make

Hell you guys ain't got nothing... I have the 5 1/4 floppies for Lords of Conquest, Wizardy (the first one), The Cosmic Balance, Ultima IV, and god knows what else. Do I have an Apple ][ to play them on? Of course not, but I did. Oh yes I did. In 1981 or something like that. Best game I had back then was a NATO vs. WP thing called Germany 1984 (or 1985 maybe, can't recall). Played the hell out of that

[quote who="Istari" reply="567" id="2871929"] While I get intrigued with interesting scientific theories (whether they pan out or not), I try to rely on what is currently more solid, and adjust when good scientific method shows that one explanation is more evidenced than the current one. So, while I freely admit that there is much that we don't know, I only try to posit based on what we think we do know with a great degree of certainty. For example, I won't take a knife to my throa

Neifel with a 9E 4N (or a tad more on nature if you can swing it) and what else do you really need to do to stomp AI???? Granted, all you learn is how to build SCs, but hey, that's nominally a late game strat for just about anyone depending on their research goal. But really, stomping AIs is not that much fun, more fun to just go after each other, you learn a lot more that way too, and the games don't go on forever.

http://ultracorps.sjgames.com/ Needs a lot of fresh blood. Well I've bailed on it mostly because the community is a bit stagnant at the moment, but the game is still fun, and still free. If you do poke your nose in there tell them licker sent you. Though maybe if you want to be treated decently you shouldn't mention that bit... ;)

Ultimately it's the diplomacy that wins you the game. Sure, being able to run your nation properly is important, but if you don't make any friends in the game you are screwed. Well most games anyway. It's also another drain on your time and energy unfortunately. Yes the tedious micro of the mid-late game can make single turns take over an hour just to get your orders in. Then you have the emails/messages/communications which can

Well not to quibble over your opinion and personal preference, but what about SotS is complex? There are some complex strategies available, but complexity in the design is not that apparent to me. Variety, yes, but I guess I don't see that equating complexity. Anyway, not trying to start an argument, just surprised to hear someone call SotS 'complex'.

I think Brad may have advanced it enough to where the AI can design itself!

[quote who="Alstein" reply="14" id="2866984"] It was unreasonable to expect a small studio to produce a game as good as MoM, while doing it on an all new graphical engine, while producing Stardock-level AI to boot. [/quote] I disagree. Largely because two of those things already existed, and it was not necessary to reinvent the wheel (so to speak). Clearly the vision was and is for Elemental to be much more than Mom was, however, if th

[quote who="Crono908" reply="452" id="2865993"]Have any of you read the compilation of ideas put forth by the members of the Manhattan project in circa 1954 addressing this very issue? I will get a link as soon as I find one, or you can beat me to it. In a nutshell they determined that due to humanities reliance on religion, and religion that makes us out to be "in gods image," that were far to immature and volatile to have any contact with extra-terrestrials. They then went

There are techs in SotS which are available only to the applicable races. Granted they are largely related to their drive techs. But yes, you can salvage any other tech, only that the research time for some of those projects is over 100 turns, so essentially, yeah, you can't get them. Though you can play the scenario which starts with all techs researched I suppose. Then again there's probably a mod or something for BotF where you can

[quote who="Istari" reply="428" id="2863026"] Quoting shadowtongue, reply 427did someone really try to use the concept of causality to prove the existence of god? Seeing as you've obviously read the post and don't need to ask that question, if you have something in the way of a refutation, please post it. I've put this past many people to make sure that the reasoning is sound, and even the most defiant who refuse to believe it regardless, have not been able to refute a word of it.<b

did someone really try to use the concept of causality to prove the existence of god?

Right, so somewhere here there was discussion of this game, but I'm too tired to dig out that thread. Anyway... My daughter has been missing playing Diablo2, and rather than just reinstall it, I thought I'd get her TQ (gold) for xmas since it was something like $10 on Amazon. Great idea right? Well yes, but the problem is that I'm hitting some kind of annoying gfx glitching (mostly fonts, some times te

[quote who="louist" reply="20" id="2848505"] Or missing your cast, which happens more often than not. [/quote] Missing your cast still has you within 2 LYs of target, so at worst you 'lose' 2 turns in transit. As opposed to taking 7-10 turns to get most 'close' stars (depending on how you set your galaxy, but if you play hiver and max the interstellar distances you are a glutton for punishment ;) )

Gems are micro hell (when you are giving them to mages). Equipment is micro hell. Queuing unit builds can be (depends on nation and map size) moving forces to the front(s) is micro hell. Casting enchantments can be (depends on which ones) micro hell. Resetting orders for routed armies/new armies is micro hell. Basically everything in the game is micro hell. Not that it's not worth doing, because the game is generally quite fun, but at some

[quote who="FadedC" reply="13" id="2861629"]Is the game very micromanage heavy? I remember trying the demo awhile back too and really wanting to like it because of all the detail and all the cool races. But I also remember that there was something about it that kept me from getting into it. But it could have been just the learning curve too.[/quote] Oh god yes, the micro is crippling late game if you are doing well. Really why I stopped playing it, just became to

[quote who="louist" reply="9" id="2848468"] Quoting Pbhead, reply 8*reads first sentence* Steam debate BEGIN! I believe you are mistaken. Steam is no mentioned until the second sentence. /debate. I win.[/quote] 4th sentence actually... But who's counting :p Another reason to wait, eventually steam may not be required :p

[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="308" id="2847776"]http://www.disclosureproject.org/access/aboutexecsumm.shtml Quite a list of names of people officially going on the record as saying something is going on. If I believe what reporters and news stories say, from people I have no idea about their integrity, then I'd have to say there is reason to assume such a diverse number of people can be trusted.[/quote] You realize the list o

http://te4.org/ I'm sure some people here know of TOME (Tales of Middle Earth, which is not Tales of Maj'Eyal). Anyway, as the xmas season approaches and some budgets get tighter check it out (again perhaps?) Better than your average roguelike I think.

[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="4" id="2848115"] Quoting Alstein, reply 3Hearing plenty of AI complaints from those who have patched other places. I'll continue to not buy this. There will always be plenty of complaints.[/quote] True, but I am approaching this the same way I am approaching Elemental. Waiting until at least the first expansion is out and patched before even thinking about jumping in. It's go