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Yes. It's even easier than with a gamepad.

That just means you did the planning wrong. You are not going to waltz in a location before covering the higher ground for possible snipers.

You're just a sissy with no reflexes.

I was under the impression that AP's core content was done, already. Is that correct?

Settlers 2, Gothic 2 and and Disciples 2 are all good options and of the gold variety.

I thought that in general all the bodies had weird proportions. The dwarves look like bearded orangutans.

My ping to that server has almost tripled and my speed has increased a little bit. Bell did something to our line today and it's a little bit faster than before. It's more noticeable on the wired connection where we've got a full 5Mb/s down! Your connection was probably changed to interleaved to improve stability.

You can save the character and use them when the game comes out, and you can upload the portrait to the social site. You didn't know about the six origins? Humans can be Human Noble or Mage. I haven't really been paying a whole lot of attention. All I knew is that there were origins, not how many there were or if there were any restrictions. Anyway, what I really wasn't expecting was an inability to choose spells and skills at character creation. Meaning that your mage will be almost the same as every other mage, at least as far as gameplay is concerned. Of course, as this is party based, that may be a very minor issue.

I hate you with the intensity of a 1000 suns.

The only thing you can specify is background. However, even that depends on your class and race. If you are human, for example, you never have a choice. Ditto for all mages. Oh, and you have 5 points to assign to your stats. It's all very disappointing. At least, the very meagre options you have could allow for complex consequences on how the plot unfolds and how you play the game. On account of having so few possibilities to cover, that is.

If you happen to follow option 1, I'd recommend Eastern Europe. Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia and the like. Gorgeous cities, good beer, a multitude of cultures, and if you get out of town you should be able to see great sights.

Now Brits were the ones who knew how to be imperialistic, back in their day.

I created a mage, and I couldn't change anything other than race or looks. I was expecting a bit more depth in this department.

No one is saying that Finland is a great military power, only that it's a more prosperous country than the US.

I'm sorry but WoD cannot use statistics in this argument, You see, they lie. In fact, the way he proposed for one to discern the difference in prosperity between the Finns and the Americans is visiting the two countries and seeing for yourself. We can, therefore, assume that WoD has visited Finland, given his certainty on the subject. Finally, with all this in mind I suggest we found the INstitute for ANecdotal Evidence to support this sort of evidence gathering.

So how did you like Finland, Wrath of Dagon?

Yes, they forgot to step on that pesky underclass before publishing that data. They keep getting in the way. wat

The USSR wasn't looking to annex a bit of Finland, they were looking to conquer Finland outright and had an army which dwarfed anything the Finns could field. The Russians were beaten back. Also, I'd like to know what magical definition of prosperity is it that you use in order do define the US as more prosperous than Finland.

1. He thought the moderators weren't very competent. 2. No. By the way, you even posted in Ender's Goodbye thread, Jags.

metadigital left due to real life. As for Ender, he left because he had issues with the moderating team.

Actually Finland isn't part of the Soviet Union because they defended themselves against the Red Army. Oh, and Finland is a much more prosperous country than the US in about every way imaginable. Admittedly, the US has a much better conventional army, but even that isn't usually very helpful when fighting irregular warfare.

As far as imperialism goes, the problem isn't that the US is imperialist, but rather that they are so bad at it. Really, it's like the US government thinks imperialism is an elaborate way to undermine their own international position.

If playing a mage really was like that it would be awesome. Imagine a DMC type game where you could pull those kinds of moves.

Iraq having WMDs was a an actual lie, Saddam had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, and Iraq has never attacked the US. Also, the US's most dangerous enemy in the Middle East was and is Iran. The only power in the region capable of opposing Iran was Iraq, except of course, that after the invasion Iraq is now a hotbed for American hatred, with the Iraqi Shi'ites waiting to take control as soon as possible. So, in all likelihood, a few years, instead of there being one major country controlled by extremist, fundamentalist America hating Shi'ites there will be two countries: Iran and Iraq. Hooray for America. So, not only was the Iraq invasion an unprovoked attack, it was also a really, really stupid and badly managed attack.