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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
LadyCrimson replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Yeah if you needed high safety rating that was a pita. Although I remember if you were by a river you could just build a bridge and mini-wall off the far side of the bridge, then draw walls around your actual city to the edge of the river on the other side (had to go to the water, not a river-rock). That counted. And there were a lot of buildings (farms and such) that most of the time you didn't have to wall off, but I don't remember if you had to wall in almost every single thing (farm workers included) for 100 safety. Once you have cash rolling in you can wall off practically the entire map sometimes, leaving several edge tiles open for invading armies to spawn, but that just gets silly. -
I've looked at Grounded many times, because that is closer to my current gamestyle zone, but something about it doesn't appeal. It could be as simple/shallow as not liking the artstyle, but also maybe the child/teen focus. Not sure. I haven't bought/tried it yet, is all I know. I remember at some point deciding I wanted four or five mules vs. more npc's. I probably tried at least once to do the game with six mules and 1 npc but I can't recall if I succeeded/failed. I do remember at certain points getting them across bridges or other obstacles was a major chore. But they were fun/cute/silly awesome.
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I think if I was a potential publisher, this might concern me. Depends on what you mean with it's your "source" - lightly or heavily "inspired" by or actually using recognizable chr names, likenesses, situations etc. eg, possible copyright/permission rights getting/costs issues. I'd guess you could always go the Kickstarter/Steam early-access type route vs. being formally published by someone else, too.
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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
LadyCrimson replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Caesar 4: --I found/remember the UI button that turns off the Advisor speech lines. Phew. --I am remembering all the things I didn't find enjoyable re: C4, which includes some UI usefullness irritations (not the speech) and the terribad army/combat stuff and glitches. --I used a cheat (these are dev-built into the game, not 3rd party mods) to "unlock" all campaign scenarios to be visible under the "custom scenario" tag so I can play any whenever I want vs. forced campaign order. --I then used a cheat code to give myself denarii at start of map and have been using every mission map as a freebuild map. This might make me play C4 for longer than two days. Edit: I miss Prima's paper game guides. I still have C3 and C4's, which I have been using to remind myself of stuff like housing stage requirements. So much more useful then some random YT video or poorly organized/used wiki. >.> -
For a while now it's mostly been about whether the forum software is functioning properly. ========== In terms of the thread topic. Let's see, I've played fully: KOTOR2, FO:NV, Dungeon Siege 3, Pillars of Eternity 1. The first two were and still are the favorites. Ones that I have purchased but never went much past a couple play sessions: NWN2, South Park, Outer Worlds. I liked PoE1 a fair bit for most of the run but I haven't had a desire to play the sequel at all. I think what I want from, and the reasons I play, any games, have changed a lot, or perhaps it's more that they've reverted (away from RPG's). Although I'm expecting that the odds will be high that I'll purchase Avowed soon after release, more likely because I'm curious vs. a huge desire to play it. Maybe it'll surprise me.
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"Take more advil if needed. Could be menopausal related, more exercise (motion is lotion, hey!), diet changes perhaps, wait and see" etc. So no. Most of such care I've already been doing anyway. Menopause hasn't been too bad for me, far as that all goes - dry eyes and some skin issues, I think the sleep sweats are over - but we'll see how that goes over time. I would like to avoid any hormone therapies.
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What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
LadyCrimson replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
Caesar 4 - every time I open the advisors panel to check something: (animated group of people doing verbalized voice lines) "Our city needs more workers. We do not have enough jobs for all of our workers. More attention must be paid to the city's prosperity. Rome considers your efforts ... mediocre. Our city needs more workers. We do not have enough jobs for all of our workers. Our city needs.. Rome considers... We do not have.. More attention must be.. Our city.." OMG SHUT THE HECK UP, I just want to check how much grain is in the granaries. -
What are you Playing Now? - Back to the Grind
LadyCrimson replied to majestic's topic in Computer and Console
lol, I'm becoming a little "bored" of messing around in C3 again, and was considering installing/checking out C4 myself. I never did finish the campaign for that one. Maybe 2nd to last map. Being the early 3D attempt, even some of the bigger the maps felt so small and restrictive, so you couldn't build with great design variety. So near the end of campaign I found it all too fatiguing. Later impressions games, like Pharaoh/Emperor, I did also like, but I couldn't stand the monument building (and never "mastered" them as a result). I'd clear all objectives and then have to sit and wait for stupid monuments to finish. -
First I had the bad arthritic knee episodes (mid-late 30's maybe?). Then it was the hands (off and on late 40's?). Apparently, in my 50's, it's now time for ... the hips. It's not constantly painful, but they're stiff and feel weirdly a bit socket locked thus balance, turning, rolling (sleep is sporadic lately) is unstable and certain motions can trigger pain flares like my leg/s is/are tied to a moving horse. Here's hoping it's like the knees/hands where in 6-10 months it may still feel a bit"off," but yet use-abilities are close-ish to normal. Wonder what it'll be in my 60's. Elbows? Good times.
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^ I have gotten a few profile backgrounds with the pointy points, and a few forum smilies but the reason I haven't spent many points is 1---to qualify to get the game-related ones one has to have a certain amount of hours played in them, and since I play mostly Offline, Steam thinks I don't, and most of the forum smilies/icons are too minuscule or too game-specific re: forum posting anyway. Their forums is the only social I do. 2---I have not done enough Steam-tasks to qualify for most of the profile-altering or whatever features. Or something. Re: the cards, I meant more that I don't even know how to trade them to others - I think someone tried to explain that, and some other Steam-y social actions, once, but I promptly forgot. I just thought they were some way to make a little bit of wallet cash somehow. I probably would've loved all that social Steam rewards and the like if it had existed back in the mIRC chat days and I was really into only socializing more. 25+ years too late for me now tho.
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Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
LadyCrimson replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
The Playstation channel link requires YT login, so I had to look for another. Looks good, I never played the first one, so I'll have to research it more re: interest. But yeah, Ian is fantastic. The following is testing purpose: (edit) posting embedded video is visible in post-editor and when first posted it seemed like it worked, but it disappeared immediately with a page reload. I also noticed a video post in way off topic that was similarly a giant blank space. Perhaps it's the forum having fits, not YT/embeds. But it's only recent embeds, not the older/previous postings EditEdit: Another test, a music YT video: ---- nope that didn't work either. EditEditEdit: tried turning off Ublock. Still disappears when I reload a page. Odd. They do still appear on my tablet (like on Keyrock's phone). Could be browser or forum related weirdness. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
LadyCrimson replied to Raithe's topic in Way Off-Topic
I think she's very beautiful but I don't disagree re: disproportion vs. average. I've (initially/first glance) reacted similarly when someone has the opposite - a very tiny mouth vs. rest of face - as well. We tend to expect certain average measurement points (ratios?) in faces, seemingly beyond only culture bias. It's why a haircut can sometimes dramatically change what others think of appearance - the hairstyle changes perceived ratios. All kinds of videos/articles/studies on that stuff. -
Random video game news... Games are Randomly News Worthy
LadyCrimson replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
For some reason I can't see whatever (I assume a) video Keyrock posted, it's just a giant empty space. So may I inquire as to the game title? -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming at you at 24fps
LadyCrimson replied to Raithe's topic in Way Off-Topic
1 - That Crow remake looks like it's tossing anything that made the original at least a little impactful, outside of fun/otp violence/mayhem, away. Zero interest. 2 - never really noticed/thought about it before, but Kyle MacLachlan's chin does seem like it has extraextra bone protrusion or something. Certain lighting/shadowing makes it really stand out. The guy in the new movies is a little less "weird", but it seems to still be fairly prominent/deep dent between chin and lower lip. Maybe it's considered a requirement for the role. -
"War" campaign assignment 10. One of my fave campaign maps, because large but not especially tough enemy army sizes, center lake, native-land to deal with (they buy your goods too, bonus), and various other fun stuff. Long ago I learned you could simply wall in map wolves (top center) and I've done so ever since, so I wouldn't have to build an army of prefectures (police/firefighters essentially) in the first months (or ever) to deal with them. Cheese tactics ftw. Gatehouses as walker roadblocks and one house shanty shack by wall towers to provide "employment" access, included. Ballista towers are/were op'd. The maps I found most difficult - or at least annoying - were the desert ones because fire risk was dramatic and a lot of your work force was soaked up with prefectures. >.> I may still be "too familiar" with the game overall but I'll say one thing about city-builders - if you like the genre, ofc - if you want to kill tons of time, getting absorbed in designing/planning can sure make you not realize how much time has passed. Altho the Julius/Augustus mods have a MUCH faster speed multipliers (up to 400% vs. 90-100% I think?) so that's helped re: any waiting periods. Anyway, still a great game, even without all the QoL of modern ones.