melkathi

How did you do for food? With only three soldiers I had some trouble with theft, but sending everyone else out hunting except for a scout patrolling, at least a lot of the time I can mostly eat what we hunt. Also started tinkering. Upgraded my carts twice and my tools once and am now constructing more barricades.

Expeditions: Conquistador I spend a lot of time getting lost in the jungle. Am now at a point where I can get my first native member for the expedition. Need to decide what to do. Only have one racist follower, so the morale hit isn't that significant. More of a roleplay dilema: do I try and convince someone to leave behind their village or do I leave them there...

Actually I have had one night-time minor random event so far which seemed to be based on the background. I am making a fairly wild assumption here, but it seems you have a chance to unlock discussions in camp with your followers about their motivation to join you. At least one of my scholars and I had a very interesting chat. Also, the leadership skill does get a boost from followers later on, but never as much as the other skills. Leadership does not get a boost by class, but by follower rank. As you can have a max of two sergeants and one lieutenant, it seems that you can get a bonus from three followers. It also remains to be seen what the native only class "shaman" works out as. Probably the same as the spaniard only "scholar" with slightly different combat abilities. I would assume that extra soldiers are especially usefull if you are aiming for an aggressive playthrough, even though soldiers may be cautious, peacefull altruists. I went for one of each so that even if someone falls ill, gets kidnapped or whatever, I still have a spare.

Played a bit. First impression is very positive. You start out making your character. There are a number of skills you get to assign skill points to: Tactics, Diplomacy, Healing, Survival, Scouting and Leadership. Then you choose the ten members of your expedition. Each follower has a class (doctor, hunter, scholar, scout or soldier), some starting euipment based on class and very important, three personality traits which dictate how they will react to your decissions during play. So if a character is racist and you treat the natives well, they will not be happy. On the other hand, if they are open-minded, then enslaving the natives may rub them the wrong way. A narcissist likes to be appreciated - use your xp too often to level up other characters and they'll resent it. I guess it makes sense to try to have your expedition made up of mathing personalities. But with three traits per characters, some conflicts are unavoidable. Based on their class, folowers also add to your skills. Combat is turn-based. You have enough move points to move in the light green hexes and still attack, or you can move in the dark green hexes and not perform an action. There are attacks of opportunity for firing a missile weapon in melee, or moving past an enemy in melee etc. Based on class and level, characters have various skills. On the world map you move around as your movement points allow you. When you run out of points or you want to end your turn, you set up camp for the night. You have to assign food to every member of the expedition as well as tasks. Based on class, characters can perform various tasks more or less well. Soldiers are good at guarding, scouts at patroling etc. Events may happen during the night and the area you are camping in will make guarding, patrolling and hunting more or less difficult. Oh and Drowsy, I got the last name through the random button, so I couldnt resist

Downloading now...

Sitting in a pub with Roberts, talking about how cool it would be to make games?

Melk if you are playing it on PC you should use a Controller? I used a Controller and had no issues around camera control, plus it makes the combat much easier I am using a controller. Though it seems that if it isnt an XBOX controller things are wonkier than with a keyboard?

Tried to play Sleeping Dogs. I hate the driving. I must be missing something: When on a bike, how do I look up so I can see the traffic light? When in a car, how do I look left or right when comming out of a side street, so I can see if I am clear to turn into the main street?

Well on later tiers they mention the early version of the game being available on Steam (period, no mention of a DRM free download). As I understand (and may be mistaken) The Cave was a Steam exclusive, so I am holding off until they explicitly explain that they are not going to pull a Shadowrun Returns.

Many people will agrree with you on the Dune books. Honestly, I wouldn't mind only having read the original book and not having read any of the rest. I think I mentioned it before somewhere, his son's books are the reason I have decided that should I ever become a famous author and have kids, in my will I'll forbid them from continuing my legacy "Old Man's War" is enjoyable for people who like that kind of books, but "Agent to the Stars" is by far John Scalzi's best book and very much unlike that series - so you may still like it. Let's face it, we just aren't the target audience for "Hunger Games". We are too old and too male. It's aimed at teenage girls. I didn't really think you'd enjoy Haldeman. From what I understand his political views are very much not aligned with yours. Either way, stay clear from books 2 and 3 in the Forever War trilogy. I think Heinlein may be much more your thing. That collection you ordered you can't realy go wrong with. Do let me know what you think of the books (especially And Now Wait For Last Year, as I really enjoyed that). I have no offline friends at the moment who read this author :/ edit: anyway, anyone want to be friends on Goodreads?

That's why I suggested him to you Though I haven't read that one. What Scifi had you been reading up until now?

Babaganoosh13, do me a favour? Don't put in links that take us directly to a payment option? Clicked the first of your links suddenly I was halfway through the process of backing the project...

Love the video. But as others said, gameplay has me worried.

Finished playing the Skyward Collapse demo. I think I'll probably buy the game. It seems that it can get quite interesting and tricky at later stages.

And now, forever I will read your posts as if they were said by Omar Little. Back on topic: Played some more Skyward Collapse. The greeks had a nigh invincible unit due to magic artifacts which was going through the norse towns like Morrigan through disaproval points. Finally managed to get Ullr to strike the unit down and give the norse some respite, then a rogue chimera came rushing at the norse. No rest for the wicked I guess. I summoned an elf to take out the chimera. Then the Upheaval happened. The earth came alive raising mountains where there were none. The chimera survived, the elf died in the confusion... With the tiny norse village behind vast mountain ranges now, the chimera will have a feast. Still, not all is bad. As I was prepared for it, the Upheaval did more good than damage.

What are you looking for in Sci-Fi? I loved Philip K. ****'s "Now wait for last year" for the human relationship parts, John Scalzi's "Agent to the Stars" for the light hearted humour, Samuel R. Delany's "Babel-17" for his perception of the importance of langauge. I am ambivalent about Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" series - it could be great, but his compulsion to add random orgies ruins the flow... a bit like a bioware RPG And the short stories "The Martians" break the timeline and story the same way prequel series do for most books/comics/tv Possibly why Ben Bova's "Mars" while less memorable to me, also left me with no hard feelings towards the story... Then again Frank Herbet's "Dune" is always worth a read through for people who haven't read it. Even if it's just to then read "A song of ice and fire" and shake your head at suddenly apparent similarities If it is military sci-fi you are looking for there are always the classics: "Starship Troopers" and its theories on what responisbility means for a society. "The Forever War" aproaching military sci-fi from the opposit political spectrum "Ender's Game" and for newer military sci-fi, less deep and more light reading, John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" is not bad either. But Sci-Fi is a very vast genre, that encompasses very different types of books. Which can make it hard to find the style that suits you. I for example am mostly bored by aliens with lazorz ~pew pew.

If you don't mind a Deirdre cheesing with Green Wave tactics?

To be fair, I did two palythroughs of Civ V. I gave up on XCOM... Its just that with AC I did a playthrough as the Gaians. Then I did one as the Spartans. When I finished htat I did one as the Morganites. After that I returned toa few playthroughs as the Gaians. Then I played as University... See where I am going ?

And all that just so you can then play a game that's boring compared to AC :/

And now for something completly different. I have been trying the demo of Skyward Collapse. I'll post screenshots of the intro below: yes those are ingame screenshots

Ah so we are finally turning silly? Awesome, I have been holding back for too long: A long long time ago I can still remember how PC Gaming used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those pixels dance And maybe I'd be happy for a while...

Meh, I get enough boring fantasy in CO That's why I always return to characters a bit more unique: Like Cowbot, "Moo stranger." But that's it for CO screenshots from me (until I take a good one of Gingerbread) so,*wavies* For the next post I already have something special planned

Why are all those people in the fireworks screenshot looking exactly the same? Or nearly the same (the women wear different boots at least) ?

A small break from the graphically advanced games: Jump Run! Seriously?

Fantastic argument you have there "I could say, but since you wont be able to guess what I would say if I said it, I don't need to say it and will just say that I know something you don't" But maybe there is a reason you don't want to name them? Maybe its something too embarassing to post... *wanders off to search the internet* Didn't find a good candidate. My search-fu failed me because of the language barrier. There seem to be some strange japanese PC only publishers you could be refering to? But I'll bite: Exclusive PC publishers... NCSoft, Paradox, Kalypso, PerfectWorld. I take it Bohemia Interactive is too small? Meridian4 has 89 titles in their catalogue on PC and 5 on mobile. Focus Home Interactive has mostly PC games with only a few that allow for console also getting a consol version. 1C Company has eight upcomming PC titles and one of them will also be released to XBOX360. Does PopCap release on console? But you are basically only interested in AAA titles, so many PC exclusives don't count. Does the Total War series count as AAA even though its not MMOs?