Dereliction

[quote who="Stanley Tarrant" reply="9" id="2553262"]Here is how to stop piracy. Make it an actual crime. If you are caught, you face a year in prison or a $5000 fine. simple. Sure, your odds of being caught might be less than 1%. But if you were caught you would wish you had never done it.[/quote] Nonsense. You erroneously assume that threats of jail time are an effective deterrent, and even that the point of incarceration is the same. If that were t

First, I just wanted to say that "data driving the AI" (via XML) is a fantastic idea so long as, like anything, its done well. Second, I'd like to add my $.02 as a sort of "food for thought" contribution, based on my (now long-past) experience with this sort of thing. As a brief background, during the 1990s I developed/co-developed a very successful fraud analysis, detection and reporting system, used in the back-end systems of financial institutions' credit-card process

The biggest worry regarding Civ 5 vs. Elemental is that, should Civ 5 come out first, devs here might get so caught up in the turn-based fun that Elemental finds a severely pushed back release date. I mean, have you seen how excited Frogboy is about all this? A little disconcerting. Therefore, voting for an early Elemental release is the only logical thing to suggest. Let the Civ 5 devs push back their game because of an addiction to Elemental, right? Oh, and hurray for "Year

"Blank Canvas" -- Customization/Player-Led Sandbox -- Master of Magic was in many ways a "blank canvas" containing generic races and an abstract background. This allowed the player to "invent" the world as if in sandbox of sorts. Imagination led the story, not the other way around. Diversity -- While diversity caters to "blank canvas," it really is a feature all its own. The useful</