Raiddinn

I am not really sure that we are talking about what a "Warrior Caste" usually entails. A caste system generally means that society is divided into clear groupings and ranked against each other with relatively little potential to move from one caste to another. Usually, whatever caste your parents were in is what caste you are going to be in. So there might be a caste system that breaks down like this: Royal Political Warrior/Military Enginee

[quote who="smeagolheart" reply="16" id="3426342"] Quoting Marty Ward, reply 14 Is it just because of the name? You can't overcome the bug by renaming the city, can you?[/quote] Considering I haven't ever experienced the bug and I always rename all cities, it is a distinct possibility.

It is a pretty powerful thing to be able to double your exp from quests, especially if you can also buy quest maps and do infinite quests. Even standing alone, the ability to double you exp from quests provides a pretty good levelling advantage. I don't think it is worth 2, but I also don't think it is worth 1. I would say it is worth about 1.5 traits, but the only thing to do then is round it up to 2. Better it be too weak than too strong. I would

If my suggested fix (renaming it) fixes the problem and allows the city to level up, then signs would point to yes.

[quote who="Crastiloowa" reply="8" id="3425386"] Quoting Raiddinn, reply 6 Try renaming the town to something else instead. Have you seen this work?[/quote] I have never seen the bug. I rename all fortresses to "Fortress", all towns to "Town", and.. you get the idea. That applies to all cities that I found and that I conquer. I am willing to bet that some of those towns probably had the right name to have it get bugged and that rena

So it's clear that the government has a price target on milk and is giving subsidies to hit that price target. Why? Is it because Americans won't pay any more for it and because fair price is more than that? The difference seems like less than $10 a week for almost all families. I drink a lot of milk and my household still only goes through like 3 gallons a week. Doubling the price of milk would add like $12 a week or like $50 a month. I wou

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="1540" id="3426028"] I had a dream that I was taking this thread seriously and discovered that Geoman is actually a bot with an infinite looping error.... while(peopleResponding) { typeRandomness(seed); hitReply(); }[/quote] I had a dream that you were a good human being that was respectful to others and things like that. Then I saw this response and woke up.

Just wondering, why does it make sense that they should only be good in the early game and not the late game? The only traits I ever choose are ones that are good long or good the whole game, so I wouldn't use it if it was only good in the early game. I might use it if it was +1 Attack, +1 Defense, +1 HP per unit. I do kinda like the sling idea, or maybe call it a throwing spear.

A burger flipper might have less use for statistics than you have, but they have WAY less use for calculus than you have. Not all statistics are lies. Statistics and economics are tools for understanding the world around you and for communicating that information (in the case of statistics). Statistics just tends to be a tool that most people don't really understand very well and which as a result most people kinda just tend to assume is being used in an acceptable w

[quote who="Jafo" reply="183" id="3425938"] Surely you have heard of the phrase...."lies, damn lies, and statistics"? It sounds like you are currently doing stats/economics at school and feel a need to justify your choice. I've been a practising Architect since 1973...and kinda tend to use 'geometry, trigonometry, and calculus' along with anthropometrics and even sciagraphy and a whole bunch of 'stuff' before economics and statistics. Here&

Whether we like it or not, the school system as it stands now elevates literacy and math to the highest tier of importance. What that means in practice is that you can't choose not to take those subjects any year that you are in school. Usually, science is hot on the heels of those two and history/social studies is a distant 4th. Regardless, people are going to be forced to take math whether th

I don't know or care really whether anyone out there is good or evil. I am not here to judge anyone. If there is a creator or higher power out there, that is who everyone has to answer to. That entity certainly isn't me. I just try to do as much good in the world as I can and recognize (and help others recognize) evil for what it is. I did my time in the service too, but that doesn't absolve me of my need to continue doing good for others now and in t

[quote who="Kantok" reply="168" id="3425420"] Quoting Raiddinn, "Evil and self centered mean the exact same thing." No, they don't. Not even close. I'm self centered, or at least self interested, when it comes to my family's safety, financial security and happiness. I care about that more than I do what happens to pretty much anyone else on the planet. That's not evil. It's perfectly normal and it's entirely pr

Evil and self centered mean the exact same thing. A world where everyone focused on their own personal gain and never gave a thought to the interests of others would be a completely evil world. The funny thing is that is what we are "supposed to" be aiming for. Eugenics is a tool that can potentially be used to achieve an end. Tools can be neither evil nor good, tools reflect the intentions of the wielder. Similarly, capitalism is a tool that people use t

Try renaming the town to something else instead.

All it really comes down to is how much people apply themselves towards getting good at something. Somebody that is willing to apply themselves can get good at pretty much anything. A bare minimum industrial worker probably won't apply themselves any more or less towards whatever job they end up in when the factory jobs are shipped overseas and they have to do something else instead. They will still switch careers, but the core of how they approach life probably won&#3

In the long term, people rearrange themselves to match what society needs. In the short term, the switching costs are too high for most people. There are tons of IT jobs out there if people could just magically change their degrees so they were in computer science and if they could magically have 15 years of experience appear on their resumes. Those are exactly the sort of specialists that society wants, it is just hard to make them appear out of thin air.

All the people on earth could fit into a space the size of Texas. The real problem is cheap fresh water and cheap energy.

Mages are the most powerful class, that has been known since about the time the game came out. Just don't play with mages and a surprising number of instant win scenarios disappear immediately. Why bother with using terror on anything if you can just -1 the casting time off of Titan's Breath? If they are knocked down, they have to waste a turn standing back up again. That gives you the time to get another spell off. With Air magic you are going to

Defenders are really your bread and butter in this game. They can practically win it for you, but you will need some ranged stuff and some healing power. Defenders can increase the dodge of the whole army and increase the magic resist of the whole army. That is going to help you get unit turns and get them more quickly as well as hopefully helping your defenders get a dodge once in a while. More importantly, though, you have things like Stun that sometimes sticks.

[quote who="jecy99" reply="147" id="3424806"] I would say you are under false premises again.. You are talking 8 billion people.. 350 million in the US.... The vast majority of people, and work, are crap jobs, doing things that just cleans up the junk that comes from over crowding.. China has 350 million+ middle class+, and 750m living in poverty.. How would droping those numbers down to half, lessing the drain of resources, be bad?

[quote who="jecy99" reply="144" id="3424798"] It is because a few peoples pockets are being lined with gold..[/quote] I think you are getting this wrong. Nobody ever set out to screw the small farmer. The screwing of the small farmer wasn't ever the cause of anything. The thing that started it all was individuals like you and me who wanted to have a higher quality of life (aka individual greed). Farmer A had a farm with 50 cows and Farmer B had a f

[quote who="jecy99" reply="142" id="3424791"] If you really wan't utopia, the world population would need to be greatly reduced.. [/quote] Actually, the more people in the population the more specialists that the population will support. In the most extreme example, if there was only 1 person in the whole world the job they would have is to be a farmer. If you add a second person to the world, the farmer can probably make enough food that they can feed bot

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="126" id="3424550"]To be honest I think that's a weird thing to do, given the unemployment problem in Europe... it's like stopping one leak with the other ^^[/quote] In America, the problem is that any politician who says that we need increased taxes won't get elected. Any politician that says we need reduced taxes will get elected. It doesn't really matter whether more taxes are really needed in order to save the country or not.

[quote who="Kantok" reply="113" id="3422251"] An example: Which companies ultimately win when Obamacare makes employer insurance more expensive? Small businesses with low insurance purchasing power trying to offer the employees a decent plan or major corporations who can offer insurers guaranteed customers in the hundreds of thousands and have revenue streams large enough to absorb the hit? Under Obamacare employer based insurance becomes a luxury benefit only offered b