Emperor_Nero

I really like your post and I wasn't trying to offend you or anything. You are one of the few people to come here and actually provide real critique and not just a blather wall of whiny text. I personally like the customization. I can build a faction that are a cult of death worshipers that don't wear armor and cast evil spells. (Well my sov at least) I agree that a default sov can have some set units with little customization but I don't to be forced to choose between archetypes

Metacritic won't let me do anything, but I'd rate it a 7.5 - 8 in it's current state. After a few patches it will probably become a lot better with performance issues fixed and balancing done. Then I'd say 9 or so.

[quote who="G_Kar" reply="2" id="3270867"] Quoting Emperor_Nero, reply 1 quoting post Do you know how many people are killed by the drug cartels every year in Mexico and South America? What about all of the drug related murders? Decriminalize narcotics, and all of the above is gone.[/quote] Then how do you decide who gets to use them after you decriminalize them? The war on d

[quote who="Ben Yeoh" reply="11" id="3270861"] Quoting SOLOSOL, reply 3 For example, I still stand by what I said I mentioned that having customizable units as a core mechanic for FE is a good thing. It's just that having too much at the expense of uniqueness and flavor probably isn't. It sounds like the same design issue that Jon mentioned in his blog before - namely that more choice doesn't necessarily equate more fun. But here's a compromise so indulge me fo

[quote quoting="post"] Burgers and cola kill much more people annually than all illegal drugs and terrorists combined. [/quote] Just wanted to call bull shit on this. Do you know how many people are killed by the drug cartels every year in Mexico and South America (Alone, not to mention those running the Golden Triangle or running through Asia)? What about all of the drug related murders? I'd much rather take my chances with a burger and

If I could get much larger map sizes and new stamps to make my random generator generate cooler random maps I would gladly buy a pack that included maps, but buying just a map pack is a waste of money in a 4x game that already has a pretty powerful generator and very powerful modding tools.

I like the FE has a lot of different play styles that can work. I have found for me that settling 4 - 5 cities at the beginning and building up a nice champion army supported by some rank and file units then I can get a nice force to roll into midgame. It is more of a turtle style game play in my opinion. I tend to remain fairly isolationist until I have a lot of research or a strong army amassed - then when someone starts knocking on my door I go and bust theirs down. Usually by midgame

Have you actually tried that or are you just speaking theoretically?

[quote who="Valentine82" reply="27" id="3270466"] Quoting Kalin, reply 26 Quoting Valentine82, reply 11 I have, all empires are nearly identical to one another, all kingdoms are nearly identical to one another, the differences are minor at best. At least in Total War similar kingdoms have different starting locations. Sure a single unit difference may exist late into the game, but that they're still practically identical. Wait, wait... are you r

[quote who="Goncyn" reply="8" id="3269969"]This is a major disappointment. I have Kickstarted at least a half-dozen indie games in the past several months, and every one of them has let me redeem it on Steam. I have purchased 7 Humble Indie Bundles, and every one has given me Steam keys for the games. None of these projects can possibly have MORE resources than Stardock. If Stardock wanted to give us Steam keys, they could, but for some reason they refuse. I would be much happier if I could r

Honesty Frogboy, I as a lover of FE wouldn't buy a map pack - especially at $4.99. I haven't even played the ones that have came with the game. I'd rather play random maps. If you added maybe a couple new civilizations that had their own special things that would be sweet and it would be worth $2.50 each.

Can I design a henchman with say 1) 3 traits (cook, bard, scout) and do not provide any skills etc to it? What is the disadvnatge of doing that? It would be the perfect supporter (better without the scout, but still..) I think that would make a pretty weak henchman in my opinion. I would give mine life magic, shield wall, and something else. It's going to make him very expensive to build if you lob on three of tho

[quote who="Sythion" reply="3" id="3269690"]Insert Obligatory "Holy Grail" reference here.[/quote] Challenge accepted! It's just a flesh wound!

Hey, and if you screw up your champs bad enough before level 4 you can still turn him into someone that just sits on his ass and does nothing while giving your benefits.

Civ 5 was a bad game, Civ 1 - 4 were excellent games that kept me playing probably 500 hours in total. HoMM were okay, not really my style but they were decent for what they were. I like your review, but calling Civilization simplistic game play really shows you never actually tried to delve into the games. This game takes a lot for Civ, a lot from MoM, and a lot from GalCiv 2.

After reading through this thread I think most of the points you make are just objective and are from the point of view of someone outside of the niche 4x genre. What other 4x games have you played? Seriously set down and devoted a hundred plus hours into? I personally put 200 hours in on Civ 3 and at least that on Civ 4 + FFH2, not to mention the hours I spent on Alpha Centari, X3, Colonization, and several others. The truth is that these games are an acquired taste and if you don&

Isn't it a bit unrealistic to send a govenor out into the wildress to get better at governing? 'Here son, take this spear and this helment and come back with the ability to research better!'

Macs are overpriced for what they can do. They no longer have the special business software or creative software they used to have. Everything you can do on your mac I can do on my PC cheaper and more user friendly. I don't use Windows 8. I probably won't. I am sticking with 7 because I really like it and it works very well. It's like all of those people still using XP S3. They like it, so they keep it.

[quote who="athelasloraiel" reply="19" id="3269056"]Id love EU or Crusader kings in fantasy settings... as to bug reports. Make a general sticky and moderate the thread. Please! add in game bug report tool? Shortcut? how can we get good mods into steam? Is it expensive?[/quote] Correct me if I am wrong here, but Valve makes the game producers include their Steamworks DRM in the game if they want to be

I have noticed that these forums are so much more mature and can carry a discussion and even arguments without them devolving into trolling and ignorance. I am a regular with nearly 5000 posts on another forum and the forum is large and has a huge moderation team that has a turn-over rate higher than a McDonalds griddle.

[quote who="taltamir" reply="124" id="3268014"] Quoting jwdR1, reply 95Don't leave out Stalin, Mao, and other 'atheists' which have as much or more blood on their hands. They weren't atheist they were religious zealots who believe very very strongly in communism. Which is a religion that does not tolerate other religions PS. Still waiting on an answer to "how can you be both jewish and muslim at the same time" since the op claims to follow BOTH kashr

What about turning spies so they're double agents? Is that possible? It might get a little convoluted though. Maybe you send a spy to an enemy city and if the sov is in the city there is a certain % chance to capture the spy. You can either execute or turn him into a double agent, but he would cost a certain amount of influence. Just brainstorming here.

[quote who="Kamamura_CZ" reply="16" id="3267426"]On Brad's defense, bagginess is not always bad. Dwarf Fortress is the baggiest game I have ever seen, and some count it among the World Wonders.[/quote] DF is so addicting that it isn't even funny. Give it a good interface and better graphics and they'd make millions off of it. It just seems the game can't be replicated. Look at all of the games that are coming out or have came out that try their damnedest

[quote who="jwdR1" reply="61" id="3267149"]Mmm, I wonder how many posters on this thread consider themselves tolerant. The OP has an issue with the game having pork items. Heavenfall was kind enough to provide a reasonable solution to the problem. The OP can now make the salted pork, salted lamb, peanuts, or whatever. I would have expected the tolerant to leave it at that and respect another’s obviously deeply held beliefs. Instead we have 3 pages of f

I thought warlock was a terrible game. I played as much as a I could and then discarded it. It was like Civ 5 painted with a fantasy brush with some very poor mechanisms. I felt that Warlock was a very boring game and could have just been a Civ 5 mod where it would have been passable at best.