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    The current refugee wave in Europe

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    Again, leave them to themselves... their societies need to evolve on their own and they first need to have majority of population backing the same idea.

     

    As it is, there are too many diversified groups that have different agendas, even opposing each other.

     

    There is no Arab spring... that's a term created by the wishful media in our countries, who wanted to label the events over there to the EU spring of nations from 18-19th century that moved many nations into the republican type of government, with elections etc.

     

    In none of the middle-east countries you have governments that follow that suit... Egypt - military heads having the actual power, Turkey, also military guys making sure that the governments remain secular, etc.

     

    None of the societies there actually desires such a form of a government in terms of majority of people... You have some groups that want that, but they are not majorities. The culture there still cultivates strong leaders and religion, with shariah being the fundament of law.

     

    Igniting the region by arming it, and creating more militarized societies is exactly the opposite of what could lead to the changes in favor of more democratic societies with more emphasis on human rights and equality of genders.

     

    Let them fail a few times on their own, and let them evolve on their own... Europe done that on its own, so they can do it to, they might need more time as the idea of democracy is completely alien to them (they are not a greek-roman region of culture) and they were fighting it for the last 3000 years, starting with Greek-Persian wars.

     

    I have no idea, why people think that such a change can be done within few years, let alone even 1 generation. This change needs to be procedural evolution, and needs to span through probably 3-4 generations, but our current "leaders" do not want such slow processes, as they want control over natural resources of that region "NOW". Our societies are also to consumer heavy and with too much mentality of "I want it now" to understand the cultural need in that region.

     

    Again, the "Arab spring" had nothing similar (aside of revolt) to the "spring of nations" that shaped most if not all Western societies. In majority, the people behind the uprising forces were various islamic movements (some of them very radical)... even the Egypt "voted" for islamic party initially, and eventually it forced Egyptian military to step in and remove the "elected" authorities from power.

     

    To sum up... to not meddle in the internal affairs of ME countries, and surely not via making more and more civilian populace more militarized to fight your proxy wars for control over resources.

    So there are several things I don't agree with or maybe you are just unaware of them

     

     

    So Western intervention in the ME has primarily been about two main reasons, to ensure security around oil and the humanitarian precedent

     

     

    You cannot ignore either of these points  for different reasons. Lets be clear when the West gets involved in the ME and various conflicts in the region  it is now patently obvious that the outcome won't be a Western style system of Democracy. This outcome is a good thing by the way as Western countries offer there citizens the best quality of life...so this isn't about the superiority of Western ideology as  its basically been proven in the last 200 years that Western governments and what they believe in are the most effective governments in the world.

     

    The ME  needs to follow its own system of Democracy and yes there is still work to be done but end of the day the overall objective is to uplift the quality of life of the citizens of the various countries in the ME and make there governments and rulers more accountable. This should be a universal goal that we should all support 

     

    Now back to intervention in the ME and  the justification for it from a Western perspective.

     

    Oil....of course the supply and security of the oil use to be paramount to the growth and sustainability of the economies of all countries in the world. And since the majority of oil comes from the ME and the rate of oil production is controlled by OPEC anything that could disrupt this oil supply would be more than enough reason to justify intervention in the ME. So don't assume people really believe that " getting involved in the ME is about helping the Arabs achieve there full potential " ....of course thats not the only reason. The economic impact of having the global oil supply disrupted would be disastrous for the whole world. I would expect the world to intervene on some levels to ensure stability of the region....this is obvious

      

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jan/04/amy-klobuchar/klobuchar-says-us-worlds-no-1-oil-producer/

     

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-04/u-s-seen-as-biggest-oil-producer-after-overtaking-saudi

    But things have now changed as far as the oil supply is concerned. The USA is now the worlds biggest producer of oil this has fundamentally changed the urgency of when the West will intervene in the ME

     

     

    So now intervention is also about the humanitarian reason, for example the USA only started the recent airstrikes against  ISIS because ISIS were going to basically massacre the Yazidi's who were trapped on Mount Sinjar

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/yazidis-still-reported-trapped-on-mountain-in-northern-iraq-despite-us-assessment/2014/08/14/d85337fb-c5d2-4b82-b53a-410467e0db90_story.html

     

     

    So I don't support this view that the West " should just stay out of the ME"  as I have mentioned two reasons, oil security and human rights, that do justify Western involvement in some of the ME conflicts. This cannot just be ignored original.gif

     

     

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    Meanwhile, Coratia closed 7 out of 8 border passes between them and Serbia to limit the influx of refugees.

     

    Croatia NO!

     

    Please Croatia, stop being racist! Now mutti Merkel is sad again sad.png

     

     

     

    We may ridicule them , or call them fascists but Croatia and Hungary are the only ones with any sense. Even if they are  traditionally close to that ideology, they are doing the right thing in this matter. They are guarding the borders responsibly and registering migrants by force.

     

     

    But protecting a nation's soverignity is racist and xenophobic! The feelings of people seeing dead people on facebook matters more than any principle! sad.png

     

     

    Kissinger said about Oil in ME, the same Albright said about minerals in Russia

     

     

    They must be OURS! Lifes don't matter!

    The current refugee wave in Europe

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    So I don't support this view that the West " should just stay out of the ME"  as I have mentioned two reasons, oil security and human rights, that do justify Western involvement in some of the ME conflicts.

     

    This cannot just be ignored original.gif

     

    Yes the massive amount of oils cannot be ignored...

    The current refugee wave in Europe

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    Meanwhile, Coratia closed 7 out of 8 border passes between them and Serbia to limit the influx of refugees.

     

    Croatia NO!

     

    Please Croatia, stop being racist! Now mutti Merkel is sad again :(

     

     

     

    We may ridicule them , or call them fascists but Croatia and Hungary are the only ones with any sense. Even if they are  traditionally close to that ideology, they are doing the right thing in this matter. They are guarding the borders responsibly and registering migrants by force.

    Trying to decide whether to give this a second chance

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    First off, let me say I'm not trying to start an angry debate about the relative merits of PoE here, just get a little feedback on what has changed since the last time I tried and abandoned the game. I was a significant backer, so I have the expansion.

     

    I last played a couple of weeks after release; there were a number of bugs, but those weren't really the defining reasons I stopped playing (about halfway through the game). I thought the plot was on the weaker side, character interactions and quests were pretty good, didn't like the attribute system, but the big problem for me was that combat basically was just really really bland, and in a game as combat-heavy as PoE, that was a big problem. The other elements of PoE weren't bad, but they weren't nearly good enough to hold the game up despite the combat ala Arcanum.

     

    First, I felt characters were all really samey. I got that a design principle was to break free of the stereotypical robed-wizard, plate-mail knight archetypes, but all of my characters felt like they fell into one of two roles - tank or DPS. Hybrid characters, or characters in-between those roles (like for me, Sagani), felt useless. This was even worse with the caster types, whose spells seemed to have virtually no difference. I could have a wizard, whose spells were mostly geared towards DPS, or I could have a cipher, who functioned slightly differently, but was mostly geared towards DPS, or a Druid, who had some neat spells that were...mostly geared towards DPS. For someone who was hoping this would be the second coming of BGII (which at least for me had lots of interesting spells) this was a huge disappointment. (Not saying how I perceived it is necessarily all that there was to it but it is how I felt).

     

    That plus the encounter designs - which I felt, although there were a few standouts such as Roderick's Keep - were by and large very poor, really turned me off the game once I got about midway and the experience started to pile up in a fairly unbalanced way. So my question is - with patches to game mechanics since release and esp. w/ 2.0, and w/ the expansion, does the combat in the game feel better/tighter? Or should I go replay BGII for the millionth time? 

     

    Again, NOT trying to anger anyone who loves the game; just asking for some perspective given my previous experiences.

     

    I had the same feeling OP. This expansion is just more of the same blandness. And no, I don't think it'll get better.

     

    I mean, with 2 expansions , many patches, and mods this game should be replayed. But not yet.

    This is a great game, but ....

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Luj1

    This is a fantastic game.  I wish it had a higher budget, can you imagine what this game would be like if it was like Dragon Age: Origins.

     

    DAO is trash

     

    Scrap the isometric look and go for 3D.

     

    just no

     

    Have full blown cut scenes, including the scripted ones.  Either in game or pre rendered.

     

    yeah no

     

     

    Fully voiced characters (with better voice actors).

     

     

    no one here cares about voice acting

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    youre in the wrong forum buddy

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