Drowsy Emperor

Could you let us bandwidth challenged unfortunates (me) know your thoughts on the game? I would sign up but I have about 500 mb left on this months usage. I signed a Non Disclosure agreement but no worries, after the beta is done (I received an email stating merely that I will be notified when it begins) I'll report as much as I can. Considering how obsessively I played Alpha Centauri, this one should be right up my alley.

Signed up for beta testing of Pandora

For ****s sake I can't keep track of everything I want to play anymore

Ah, that's everyone really and it does make sense - what do some strange villagers across the world who share none of your customs matter to you ? Not much compared to someone in your city getting wasted. Hell, think smaller, even within a city people just shrug off violent murders as long they're not too heinous (and the victim is the 'right' type). Sure, but I had to underline the hypocrisy of on one hand criticizing me for being outspoken against the islamization of europe by bleating the usual line: "its only extremists, but Ahmad is a moderate and he's a very good friend of mine, and you're the BAD white extremist that's rocking this nice boat we're on" while on the other hand giving unconditional support to military action that has shown itself unwilling and incapable of discriminating between those nice lines. On one hand he's criticizing me for my position (and I'm not advocating wars or any sort of offensive military action - merely strict immigration policies and deportations), on the other he's justifying policies that have left a lot of those same muslims, "extremist" and "moderate" alike very much dead. That my friend, is a steaming mountain of bull****, and no one in the muslim world is fooled. The schizophrenic idea that giving minorities a special status and EU citizenship is somehow going to make them forget that not so far away, people of their own faith, maybe cousins or relatives are being bombed to dust is naive and whomever adopts it deserves to have it blow up in their face. Which is precisely what's happening. Really what EU and US is doing is trying to buy internal peace with political correctness, while at the same time pursing policies that incite its minority populations. The hypocrisy grows to ever more obscene levels in this situation considering that I on the other hand have the indirect historic experience of islamic invasion and domination and have a very good idea of what "coexistence" looks like whereas the only historical experience he can draw upon is one of colonialism and the recent oil grab wars - and has the gall to preach democracy and tolerance at the same time. I guess tolerance comes easy when your armies are keeping the "barbarians" in check.

Where did you learn your history from, Monty Python?

Lost all interest right there. Get with the times, it is hip to be f2p. Yeah, give the guys the benefit of the doubt they're the people who made 1999 Homeworld. I don't know what its going to be like but they sure have (and had) the best artists in the business.

Its a strategy game but no one knows what it'll look like or how it will play. Gameplay reveal in july.

Ladies and gentlemen... Mothership has arrived sorta I nearly came from all the HW references. http://blackbirdinteractive.com/media/ And I give you: http://blackbirdinteractive.com/contact/beta/ beta signup - Major gameplay reveal coming "shortly" expected in june - Hardware IS Free-To-Play - Hardware is NOT a Facebook game. - Hardware is a stand-alone, that has a client-server architecture. - The social elements are clan support, leaderboards and in-game chat. - Hardware will bring a full 3D experience. - Blackbird have GRANDER plans with the IP than just a single f2p game. - Shipbreakers shares DNA from Homeworld but has no IP connection. - "Hardware to usher in the next era of RTS revolution" like homeworld did. - Hardware expected to arrive on both PC and MAC. - Closed beta to begin Q4 2013.

Nowadays the game would be praised for its claustrophobic atmosphere Well it is claustrophobic for sure. That's actually cute. That sort of spontaneous silliness is something newer games sorely lack because they're so occupied with providing masturbatory fantasies.

Ah it would seem the much vaunted British politeness has gone out of fashion. How touchy they grow when the horror is on their own cut lawns but oh so casually glossed over when people die in droves somewhere not so far away, written off as collateral damage. If you're incapable of showing sympathy, expect none in return. My last word on coexistence with the religion of peace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Tower Enjoy your ignorance.

Obviously this discussion was bout the so called "Islamic fundamentalist terrorists", the mere phenomenon of religious fundamentalism is blatantly older than that. The point of what I was saying is that the Iranian revolution was an inspiration to today's "terrorists" because it showed that an Islamic fundamentalist republic, not dominated by the west, could be exist even though the US opposed it. In short, it was a propaganda victory. This goes hand in hand with the downfall of the project of secularism in the middle eastern countries and the Islamization of all the major political figures, leading to a global revival of Islam as a political project. The transformation of Turkey from a very secular country to a heavily Islamized one in a single generation is enough proof. What Islam is, is open to interpretation. But to deny the existence and political aspirations of the major players in the Islamic world of which terrorism (while other acts are mere results of propaganda and individual activity) is just the visible manifestation is idiocy. I have seen with my own eyes how covert and over funding by Saudi Arabia and other muslim countries is turning non political muslims into fundamentalist sects in Bosnia and southern Serbia, implementing whole projects of indoctrination through (legal) religious universities serving to create a subversive populace out of a previously non radical one. They do this by essentially implementing a closed system of upbringing and education that goes around the standard methods of socialization (schools and public opinion) and by making them economically and politically dependant - which results in a generation, wholly divorced from its surroundings. To ignore that war... Besides, arguing over this is pointless. Your coexistence with Islam is going so well that there's a terrorist attack practically every month where there previously were none, or merely sporadic ones. Most of those terrorists were born in your system, but completely outside of your cultural paradigm. If you don't think that's a problem that can only grow in the long term, you're simply clueless.

Funny how in all those games it looks like the tunnels are 3 feet high.

That's all mentioned for debate purposes - everything I said before still stands. And its hard not to notice that Morgoth has a point. What's happening is practically Newtonian. Islamic fundamentalism was born when the US engineered the rule of the Iranian Shah Reza Pahlavi who was widely considered to be their puppet in Iran. Seen as an illegitimate marionette and subsequently overthrown by the masses led by Ayatollah Khomeini - the same masses who overwhelmingly accepted theocratic fundamentalism as an alternative to Pahlavi's rule. The rest as they, is history.

The interesting question here is - is it terrorism if the only victim is a combatant. In a war its not only legal to kill soldiers, it also doesn't matter how its done - as long as it doesn't include torture or killing of POW's. Obviously these are the rules that apply to a war zone, but since today's wars are no longer fought like classical ones - in defined places and with roughly symmetrical armies one can pretty much conclude that there is no reason to limit the area of war just for the convenience of one of the fighting sides. Secondly, the declaration of war is definitely there - xy Islamic groups have openly "declared war" on the west. What is forbidden is not being clearly marked as a fighter of the opposing side. But if one side can drop death from above without even a pretense of fighting a war on equal terms - in other words be not only an invisible, but an untouchable combatant in addition to being so vastly more powerful that its barely a war and more a one sided thrashing - then the other side really has no reason to accept fighting on terms that would lead to its wholesale slaughter. In other words, it adopts what meager means are at its disposal and as long as the victims aren't civilians then its actions can hardly be considered unjustified. So, someone may be appalled - but the fact is that west gave Islamic terrorists the legitimacy given to an opposing side in a war - the moment it actually declared the war on terror - and began to fight it as a "proper" war, not with the usual, internal means used against common criminals (police, intelligence).

At this rate you're going to blow through all the content before the game comes out of beta. Not that that's a bad idea.

You guys seem to be leveling very quickly. What's the level cap in the game?

I recommend FTL overall although there are some parts of it I don't like. There are too many combat encounters (in fact almost all encounters are combat encounters) and a difficulty curve that's actually a sheer cliff. What this means is that the game is rather similar on subsequent replays, the only different thing being the ship you use and a slight shift in tactics (of which only a few are really optimal in combat). It would have been much better if the writing was more colorful and if it included some humorous encounters - to break up the monotony of combat. It lacks personality which would have been easy to add with a few low cost touches like portraits for the crew or an image here and there. 7/10 Good idea opening this thread MW

I don't have the patience to play even very streamlined grind heavy games, which is why I'm not picking up any pre BG dungeon crawls, or anything designed in that style.

Just read some odd news. A man in a village in Serbia Montenegro strangled a bear with his bare hands. It attacked his flock of sheep and he charged it with an axe which was knocked out of his hands. He's in hospital now having suffered serious injuries to his hands and the rest of his body, but his life isn't in danger. His wife found him all bloody in the field. Apparently he held the bear's throat until it asphyxiated. That's some donkey balls for you.

No, they have in fact been confirmed as new Call of Duty installments.

Isn't there a couple out at this point? It is the first I pledged. It does seem to be the first big RPG, for sure. I wouldn't know. Its difficult to keep track of kickstarter since coverage is sporadic in standard gaming sites and some of the games are only represented on their own websites. The only kickstarter game I played so far is FTL.

Alpha Centauri Played as Morgan. I've improved my game, my final score was almost 400%. Played on Iron man (save restricted to exit) and with abundant native life setting. Difficulty level: Thinker, (second highest) I was fortunate to start on an island, really the ideal beginning for Morgan's weak first third of the game. By the time ships were prevalent my bases were already 10+ in size and I was making more money than anyone else on the planet. The first one to fall was Sister Miriam - but she was half destroyed by the time I got to her. Still I made her sign a pact to reap all the commerce bonuses. That was my policy throughout the game. Zakharov fell next even though he was in the lead according to the statistics. His 10 or so bases and my 10 were my core through most of the game. Everything else I conquered was a buffer zone between enemies, I didn't want to waste resources improving them unless I conquered even more so that they ended up deeper into my territory. I convinced Santiago to sign a pact that held for most of the game, held Deirdre off while focusing on the largest menace of all - Yang. The AI cheats like nobody's business in production - Yang had 10-15 troops per city much of the time. I had a bit of a conundrum as to how to beat him since he was very far away and had so many troops and his standard perimeter defense in every base. My troop transports couldn't get through to land and it was too far away for aircraft (thankfully so because I got so wrapped up in building that he could have made life difficult for me). The bastard signed a pact with Deirdre which led to a very irritating occasional use of her bases as staging grounds for air attacks. I didn't want to fight a war on two fronts so I let the attacks pass - he didn't have ground troops and planes can't hold bases... Then I made probably my best decision in the game. I let my bases stockpile energy (1500+ per turn) and I built Probe Foils. I used this to mind control, and essentially buy out his coastal bases and his sea bases (practically a third of all bases he had), since Probe Foils can move a lot and start the movement outside sight range of his needlejets. After a few turns he surrendered and I passed a dozen or so turns in peace after which I achieved transcendence victory.

Will this be the first released of the Kickstarter RPGs we're anticipating?

Not surprising given the difference in appeal in those two historical periods (I realise you were trying to say something else)

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