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1UPT IMHO is best served by a greedy algorithm. All your units have a desired destination, except now your paths are boolean buckets (i.e. your paths are composed of tiles which can be 1 (filled) or 0 (empty)). Rather than do a brute force relaxation algorithm to find the optimal AI (which would mean ridiculously long turns), I would pick my slowest, but most heavy-hitting units to move first and get first divs on the buckets. Actually, in the spirit of gre

Civ and Galciv both have governors, which do a similar thing. It's just an attempt to reduce the micromanagement. Neither really overhauls the TBS genre, and the governors normally don't play as well as a human would. I never use them when the game's not already "won". IMHO in order for this sort of thing to work, the governors have to be mandatory. Earlier I think it was Jon Shafer who criticized Civ V's game design--something about

I'd like to compliment how nice my wife looks in her new dress. Mostly because if I don't, I'm a dead man.

The problem I have with TBS is the time it demands from you. Your typical RTS game is over in like, 45 minutes? A large TBS game, 45 minutes is one turn.

I guess I will just let my actions speak for itself. I never bought WOM, but nonetheless I am still here. I *want* FE to succeed, and I'm back here all the time waiting to see if Elemental is finally worth investing my time in (note: I said time, not money. Time is the more expensive commodity). And yet here I am, spending my time on the Elemental forum. Go figure.... p.s. I think those "Galacti

I'm liking the pirate. But no matter, I've got three froggie kids, I'm already spoken for. Bwahahahaa I'm getting laid tonight. Yup. Yeah buddy. *ribbit* Ahem excuse me.

Right now I'm playing the full version of KB: The Legend and it's playing tricks on my mind. Never mind that I first started King's Bounty on Armored Princess and now I'm going back and playing the first one. Now The Legend has me constantly thinking about what it's like to have sex with a frog. You know, you kiss the frog, she turns into a beautiful princess...but she's still a frog. This is very disturbing. Now my

I'd like to compliment myself for being such a great guy. I once knew this guy named tetleytea. What a great guy.

I can see both sides to the Ph.D. thing. The problem is that Ph.D.'s are generally regarded as upper class. Why do you have middle-class people paying for Ph.D.'s to achieve upper class.... Is that reality? Not exactly, on multiple counts. But the perception is understandable. However, in economics, growing the education level of your constituency is categorized as growing your economic base. It's like a farmer spending money

It's because Euclid died. And you know WHY Euclid died? Because he's one of those blasted Ancient Greeks.

You know those ancient Greeks are all dead now. They died. And you know why? Because of their bad logic.

[quote]My unit in Iraq [/quote] This explains where you're coming from right there. It's an awfully tough pill to swallow to say that your full-time career you do for a living is founded on a lie--and when it's military personnel that makes it all the more politically incorrect on top of that--but unfortunately that is what I'm saying. Partisanship has nothing to do with it.

[quote]Random complainers aren't compliant.[/quote] We need compliant complaints, as opposed to noncompliant complaints or compliant noncomplaints. You should complain to the complainants that they're noncompliant complainants.

MHO but I don't think Obama has committed treason. I don't contest what you say, but it doesn't measure up to flat out lying about WMD and resulting in the deaths of well over 100,000 people. The crimes he committed cannot be overstated.

[quote]Oh yes.... wanted to ask: Does anyone know who's getting away with treason, and who's letting them? Grizzyloins, you never did say...[/quote] George W. Bush did. You asked...I answered....

[quote]This topic and thread is filled with the mad rantings of racial and socio-economic class prejudice[/quote] I disagree. I mean, when we refer to trailer trash, it's not a bash on socio-economic status at all. It's the trailers we're bashing. I mean if we didn't have trailers, we wouldn't have trailer trash. And besides, when there are tornadoes, trailers kill people.

[quote]in more than one charitable group during the 'Feed the World' campaign back in the 80's.[/quote] Don't you know? We are the woooooooorld. We are the childreeeeeeennnnnnn.... We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giviiiiiiiiingggg.....

Don't say where babies come from! There might be little kids on here, who play violent action games with lots of blood.

[quote]Another thing that pisses me off severely... all these high and mighty snob types who wish to appear better educated than the rest of us and use a foreign language [often French] to describe their feelings or an attitude toward something way up there, fantastic and/or beautiful. Like WTF is that all about? I mean, what's wrong with "Oi, that's bleedin' good, init"??? No need for a plum in the mouth there, and it's direct and to the point.[/quote]

[quote]The Rothschild myth, a favoured staple of the usual anti-semitic conspiracy theory dross[/quote] Dude. Grizzly just said in the OP he's trying to keep religion out of it as much as possible. You're the one who brought up "anti-semitic", not him.

Dern it, now you're having to make me form a new complaint. Okay.... Why does the media feel compelled to let us know all about Kim Kardashian's divorce? Do we really care? Okay, so they fought like cats & dogs negotiating the prenup and it was obvious they should not have gotten married in the first place. So, a couple people were stupid and got a divorce? Boy, that's never happened before.&nbs

#767 Why can't Halloween trick-or-treaters come looking for fruit, nuts, and trail mix? That way when I buy Halloween stuff and not quite enough trick-or-treaters come over, I'm not stuck with 5 packs of candy I have to eat.

[quote]because he's watching the daily check-ins.[/quote] What is Stardock's revision control tool of choice? Mercurial?

Can't you just create a virtual machine?

[quote]People who wanted a good thread.[/quote] Not everyone here cares about this thread being good. [e digicons]>_>[/e] Someone should have gone to work in a gutter costume, 'cause this thread's going in it. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]