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I don't have any problem with the balancing mechanics Frogboy put forward. As it is, I can only run a game ~three hundred turns long before I crash, but at that state I've got one large, formidable city, and enough technology and magic to clash with a reasonably intelligent AI empire. That's exactly how I'd have it, too. Maybe some satellite forts or outposts or something to hold onto shards if I need them, but on the whole I'm kosher. Honestly, if I've got to found eleven settlements

Froze at 100%, restarted and now it's stopping at 0%. It'll probably be great when it finishes, though.

[quote who="Vainglorious" reply="83" id="2647830"]I'd just like to point out that the quote on the Bone Ogre's card says "... the fires of the earth mark my range." I assume that this is supposed to be "mark my rage."[/quote] Works better as range. "Mark my rage" makes it sound like you're being given a rage rating. It would mean basically the same thing in either case, that the fires of the earth show where you've been stomping.. it just works better as range.</p

Buddy of mine once told me that AI programming was like spending forty hours a week teaching children not to put pennies in light sockets. There aren't a lot of people I don't envy, but right now..

A guy plays twenty games, suddenly he's a consultant.

Hey, if you need more time, take it. I'd rather have the graphics now and an AI patch in a week, but I'd also rather own a car with power windows. Maybe something half my age. The Oasis looks really good, by the way.

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="87" id="2637395"] Define "good" please. [/quote] Dang, such wit . Take a look at the hair options we have in beta. That's a good example of what the graphics crowd is worried about. [quote who="dsk2293" reply="86" id="2637389"] I guess good graphics isn't for everyone either? To me Graphics AND everything else = gameplay. But I'll stop complaining until I ha

[quote who="dsk2293" reply="8" id="2637397"]Eighted... Is there any special reason for getting our hopes up today?[/quote] Supposed to be this Thursday or next Thursday. Hopefully today, but I doubt it. I've never seen them pick the early option.

[quote who="DoomBringer90" reply="32" id="2634786"]Fine, so you have a supercomputer capable of handling an AI advanced enough to play a complex turn based strategy game at the same level as the best human player on the face of the planet without cheating. The rest of us enjoy being able to play against a difficulty harder than "challenging" without having our CPUs melt into a pile of slag every time we play the game.[/quote] Even the worst player can be more chall

You really bank on the idea that this isnt much more work. You might want to explain that, because as your problem with perspective would suggest, you're talking about a battlefield the size of those you'd find in a Total War, at least twenty times the size of the battlefield your example is using. Maybe more. You have to have room to maneuver if you're going to use any kind of tactics at all. Which brings up all sorts of issues, the least of which is aesthetic. Do we even know how a siege wo

I'm not actually sure you can do the iron boot thing, honestly.. the beta doesnt want to launch, but it's not meant to be taken literally anyway. Things are simple enough as they are, unless the moodlets would add a whole new layer to unit creation (like.. like.. an order of monks having been trained to avoid blows, or a catapult with a crew of certified engineers) you'll end up with a very boring game.

I'm dead set against this for two reasons; A.) "Flying", "Armor".. You're describing, essentially, traits, not moodlets (which literally relate to moods [happy, sad, etc]) B.) Moodlets are an abomination which were considered necessary because at the height of sims 2 there were no less than seven bars, five meters, and god knows how many tabbed menus, stats, aspirations and goals. It was difficult for some people to manage. You can simplify lots of thing