I think the AI's somewhat better this time. He camps on the high ground sometimes. The solo cavalry charge into your spearmen doesn't happen so much. He's pretty good at assaulting strongholds.
Shogun 2 good, my friend. Consider wisdom of the warrior. He who stick flaming katana down throat for entertainment just as wise as Chinese man who dance in sour cream till his feet are white.
Wizardry - a truly addictive game that ran on an Apple II+ with 16 kB of RAM. Warcraft I - hello RTS genre Nethack - a highly successful, open-source community project. The source code itself was extremely hacked up, and the game had Easter Eggs galore. Play balance was seriously screwed up, but no one cared because you were too busy unlocking all the game's secrets. MUD!!! - the first internet game that I know of.&nb
The nets don't have to go out that far. The company can save a couple thousand dollars by cutting the length of the nets in half. Suicidal people would have to climb on the roof and make a running start in order to kill themselves; that is highly unlikely. The nets need only deter--not actually stop someone athletic and intent enough that they make a run for it. If we cut the nets in half, I anticipate suicides will only go up by about 1 or 2 a year but we save $20
I'm on FF 3 and don't have any problems.
[quote]I couldn't get past the third level (following his path) on the Alexander the Great campaign. [/quote] The Greek campaign is actually the hardest. Do it last. I think diplomacy played a critical factor in that one, because there were so many computer players. Napoleon was just gobs of fun. Do that one first instead.
The AI started cheating on Tougher; it was even-steven on Tough. To not suffer attrition in enemy territory you could bring supply wagons along with you. A great trick to take out your opponent was to take out his supply wagons. His only counter would be to build more supply wagons, and that means building less guns.
Just major in Computer Science; it's not too hard. Usually you can choose electives within your major according to your passion. But another factor is that a lot of the talent pool simply doesn't go into gaming. Salary-wise, gaming is not the most lucrative field you can go in. If the gaming companies were willing to simply pay for what they want, they would get it. But they don't, so...they learn Business Enterprise stuff instead and go work fo
Rise of Nations:Thrones & Patriots was totally awesome. That's basically a RTS version of Civilization. I've seen it run for like $10 at the retail stores now, bundled with the original.
Whoa! Look at that butt on that Law Suit. I wouldn't wish that fate on anybody.
I would love to work on HOMM2 period, but I have to admit, I come home brain-fried every day and I don't feel like coding yet something else. I guess I could elaborate on one of the problems, but the other two (that I won't be) are actually the more interesting/promising by far. It's to load-balance an internet server farm or cloud. You have incoming requests from all over for CPU, memory, disk load, etc.. All very random. Whe
I guess I'm one of those guilty people using AI for corporate greed. I'm doing research in neural nets and I'm trying to train them for a very specific application, and I'm laser-focused on solving about 3 specific problems with them. I seriously, seriously doubt that the academic community will suffer because of the work I'm doing, because I'll probably be publishing a couple papers and maybe filing for patent on this. In fact--2 of the problem
Here's the part of the thread where I act surprised.... OH NO!! I can't believe this! I'm so surprised! I can't believe this is happening!! That part of the thread is now over. Carry on.
I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of Civ V to Civ IV on the latest patch. I haven't heard enough good things to justify not sticking with Civ IV.
[quote]Very true, Lords of Magic was buggier (for me) than Elemental was when I first played it, but Lords of Magic was far more fun.[/quote] As someone who gritted his teeth through one game of LOM: Ouch!!
i was wondering for awhile there. maybe frogger did a hit n run. note to frogboy: do not eat jiminy cricket. jiminy cricket is not food.
I guess my actions speak. Impulse had a half-off sale of Elemental last weekend; I still didn't buy it. And yet I'm still logging in here.
That's a water ride.
[quote] But I guess it must be different for Disneyworld because we don't have to pay extra for the fastpasses[/quote] That's good information to know about Disneyland. I'm thinking maybe a trip to SoCal is in order for us. I visited downtown Disney in Anaheim before, and my impression is that park may not singlehandedly justify a full-blown vacation from out-of-state, but there are plenty of other things in SoCal to do as well.
[quote]Unless your child is set on it, I say skip it all together and go to Seaworld![/quote] And if you're lucky, you can see a trainer get eaten by a killer whale. :)
The fast pass is hardly unique to Disney. Most major amusement parks have them now. What really stinks on Soarin! at Epcot is, the Fast Passes almost monopolize the seats. Those waiting standby don't get on that much. It really, really sucks to wait in line on Soarin! without a fast pass. I don't think Epcot is primarily for adults at all, except for maybe the International part. My 12-year-old nephew liked Epcot the bes
Oh and another one: your 10-year-old I bet would like Lilo & Stich. That's at Magic Kingdom. They've got this stink bomb that's part of the ride. It's hilarious. I guess it's also getting to be the time of year when the water parks will be open. I don't have any experience with that. But they're there.
Sure thing. The best times to ride the rides with the really long lines are when the park first opens and when it's about to close. I would say the absolute worst wait time is Soarin! at Epcot. In fact if you don't get a fast pass you might not even want to bother. At your income, you probably should get Fast Passes for everybody. You've got more money than time--make the most of your time. When you're at Epcot, I like German
I think I'll be holding out for Civ V to sell real cheap. Bought Civ IV + all the expansions for like $7 and it did not disappoint.
I call Galciv3 as well. Dibs don't work here--it's majority rules. [e digicons]}:)[/e]