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Well, we know that at least Leaders and NPC adventurers will live of their own accord, but yes, I would hope their are smaller factions as well. Nothing like exponential growth Independents ... but Certainly a Slower Logarithmic Scale of Growth ... influenced by actions of them and other actors of course (with actors including players, adventurers, wild beasts, other independent factions, and other lairs)

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="10" id="2625213"]"Unless of course some player stops it from growing." And this is the one thing that has to be guarded against. If it becomes, Turn 1, go find and terminate all Troll and Spider caves and nests, or else, then what is the point. I can imagine, with Balance in place of course, that a Troll cave could spawn and grow into a menace, in your region, that may cause your ultimate downfall. While cool once, by the 5th time, you are

[quote who="cephalo" reply="73" id="2625238"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 69 Beta1 [alpha], was an engine test, nothing more. The devs are "monitoring" the ideas subforum, so you shouldn't worry at all. I would say that it became that after it was over... now beta 2 must accomplish what beta 1 had originally set out to do, which was to 'find the fun'. Now that has to be done with 3D assets? Maybe I'm just confused about what the plan was. As it is we don't have a fun gam

About the only thing I agree with Cephalo's post is that there (probably) should have been actual implementation of balanced gameplay/mechanics ... as I too thought the main point of Beta 1 was to make a fun game w/o art assets. Asides from that though, I think the OP explains it all. There really isn't all that new with the basic meat and potatoes of the world ... its more a divorce from previous Perspectives of the world. For instance, if FFH you were a whol

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="26" id="2624874"]I want the living world to operate under consistent and logical rules. Doesn't matter if it's fantasy rules, or 'realistic' rules, or whatever. For example, many of the early D&D modules would have a room of goblins next to a room of umber hulks next to a room of skeletons, etc. What did the goblins eat? How did they survive the umber hulks? etc. Such inconsistencies/impossibilities/unrealities strai

Ok ... so I am in Campaign for (well, both Dark Crusade and Soulstorm) playing as the Imperial Guard and ... I remember being able to assign Missile Launcher as a heavy weapons upgrade to my guardsmen squads (and Kaskrin squads) But now all I can build are Grenade Launchers and Plasma Guns ... I want my Missile Launchers and Plasma Rifles!! :( so ... does anyone happen to know if its a patch I need (or if a patch removed it) or what ... I know its an old game b

I suppose the post is more of a comment, as opposed to a specifically directed purpose. If you don't find how similar Tyranids and Zerg are to be odd or uncanny, then you don't have to add. I suppose the real question is which came first? Tyranid or Zerg?

I suppose the post is more of a comment, as opposed to a specifically directed purpose. If you don't find how similar Tyranids and Zerg are to be odd or uncanny, then you don't have to add. I suppose the real question is which came first? Tyranid or Zerg?

Or rather, the Spider Nest is eventually led by a Super-Powerful spider queen, etc ... and the Nest grows, new nests appear ... and the spiders grey tide slowly evelopes the world. muahahaha! [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Well ... I will have games where I go out and explore/ adventure etc .... and other games where I make a massive army of domination. I'll probably play 67% of games melee heavy and 33% of games magic heavy Much rarer will be the game where I sit at home ... never leaving my walls o.O

Tax Collectors back in the day, Tax Collectors were known for skimming, and were in general hated by the populace. (much more-so than today, since most of the money went into their own pocket)

Pathfinder sounds good ;)

Zerg, Tyranid, and Orcs are all Animal/Fungus ... your point being? (although I prefer the lore where Orcs are 100% humanoid animal like in fantasy genres)

[quote who="Bellack" reply="52" id="2624180"] If this game is anything like GALCIV 2 or AGE of Wonders/ MOM then it will be great just as log as you keep the non-gamers (marketing) out of it. Perhaps make them server your developers coffee or something.[/quote] [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Care to summarize the Greyhawk campaign setting?

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Nah, the Empires are in the east, I think Vizier would be more appropriate :3 In any case, I would think words like Seneschal and Vizier would be at least slightly more common than Quaestor. Also, I just don't get any sinister feeling from the word Quaestor xD

Seneschal (imho) is a good suggestion.

I don't think anyone should get a flat research bonus across all schools of Knowledge, but instead being limited to only one (or two) schools. For instance, you could have 20% off the price of your "favored" school, and 10% off the price of your secondary school. One sovereign might favor adventure, while their race is magical (10% off) or something. Or a warlike race might favor warfare, and then might choose a secondary of civilization, magic, or adventure. E

Yea, anything that effects teching (other than knowledge points) should be in proportion to your empire size. So 4 viziers might allow a considerable discount for a small nation, while it might take 20 viziers (or so) to get the same discount for a much larger empire.

I think Magic races should get magic techs 20% cheaper, War races should get war techs 20% cheaper, Diplomacy races get Diplo techs 30% cheaper (cause diplo less useful :p), Adventure Races get Adventure techs 20% cheaper, and "Tech Savy" races get Civilization tech 20% cheaper. Or more simply, "Tech Savy" get Civilization techs 20% cheaper and "War races" get War techs 20% cheaper. (since the discussion is only considering the two)

Obama!! xD wait ... wha-what? Mike Capps? who is this nobody? He doesn't sound epic to me :p As a whole, I would rather PC gaming had nothing to do with Farmville, and I would be interested to know the actual numbers of pirating crippling an industry. I think one of the main reasons console games (on the PC) potentially "suffer" is because Console gamers and PC gamers have a LOT of overlap, and a lot of times people would rather buy such "closed-

How about you can do TWO things to increase your relations with Faction A? Build an Embassy of A in your city, and send a Diplomacy team to their city. If they haven't built an embassy (for you), then upkeep of your diplomacy team will be slightly higher.

Yea ... reminds me of (some) military officers spending most of their time making power-point slides [e digicons] Not that its their fault ... its just the lure of PowerPoint xD