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Atreides
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Stronghold as...
1. An investment
- initially it's a money sink that prevents players from feeling they're too rich, or create tension of not having enough to do everything you want initially (XCom)
- eventually players want returns on their investments - bonuses to their characters (class development), profits (merchants) or influence (lord)
- can you upgrade your merchants to a level that your characters are interested in checking their stuff regularly? Merchants stock the crafting components you want, instead of players having to scavenge for them
2. An extension to the character
- possibly class specific specialization based on building investment selections (wiz research tower vs commerce buildings vs political court vs balanced?)
- Evolves visually/figuratively to reflect the character's personality/ideals. Noble or foreboding?
- stokes ego - prestige and pride
3. More gameplay
- quest and character development
- how does the stronghold affect the surrounding area and people and vice versa? Are you considered weak to be conquered, or so successful that people want to join?
- trading in Storm of Zehir was fun, but how to tie it closer to the story? Perhaps you could enter contracts then influence the price through major events (BG1 iron shortage) through quests and story development - more "on topic" and better pacing
- politics, actions, consequences and spin. It's presidential debate season afterall
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I'll cheat and name a few memorable ones
- Dakkon's Circle. First time I understood the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom
- Stale Mary's communication reveals depth beyond the zombies' face value
- Senator Palpatine's cunning, manipulation and corruption - Evil should have lots of style and non-violent opportunities with incentives beyond petty greed
- MotB's spirit hunger - a corruption that reinforces tempatation and power
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Yeah Victor lying dead was a huge problem for me. Closed off that ending real good.
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Yeah, Caravan's a great way to make thousands of caps a time and it's stacked in favour because the AI can't use face cards to sabotage your caravans while you can. Biggest challenge is probably to build a tight deck but even then it's quite easy.
I have no idea how roulette works, and the max bet for blackjack's 200. Caravan it is for me.
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I like liquid assets.
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Reason we're working longer's cause we live longer. Gotta accumulate more to fund our longer expected retirement. Extending the retirement age helps both ways. Gets us saving longer and delays relying on savings. Course the markets wrecking havoc on the savings doesn't help either. Feel for those who have less as they need to start relying on it. Just illustrates that you should start moving your investments to less risky instruments as you approach retirement.
Sucks though.
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Steam sucks for forcing patches to download not to mention having to use it to install the game. Whatever happened to games being installed by DVD, disk check to verify that you don't have a pirate copy and patches that allow the user to decide if they want it installed or not. If this is the course Bethesda and Obsidian are taking for future games, well I guess I won't be buying them any more.
I hear ya.
I just got my hardcopy and it says the key can't be validated in my region.
For reference, here's the New Vegas page of a well known vendor in Malaysia's capital.
"We're not taking any new orders at the moment as the Asia edition appears to have a region lock."
https://www.tsb.com.my/product.cfm?id=1527&...;cid=3&pc=1
I just get bad experiences with Steam.
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An opinion on the Chinese real estate bubble http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com...hinas-real.html
I wonder how well the government-linked companies and financial institutions manage their risk. Not just economic risk, but overall business risk (think poor financial underwriting and understanding of the financial contracts they were getting into that lead to the subprime crunch).
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Maybe they'll cry themselves to sleep and dry the tears with hundred dollar bills.
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Wouldn't it be possible not to hit the Lvl Up button or ignore the cool weapons if you think they're overpowered?
Kinda reminds me of Vis complaining how there's no Iron Man mode and the game doesn't delete his save game if he dies. Then I suggested that he could just not save/reload it.
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Find it weird the dude could've survived in his room without food for so long, even though he was on drip.
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Welcome back, Commander
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China still has extreme poverty, but there's no denying as a whole how far they've come in a relatively short period of time. They'd make an interesting case study.
The last chapter of The Undercover Economist: How China Grew Rich is a short read. In general the book's a nice read, quite traditional economics in the sense that capitalism and free markets within reason are the way forward.
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Increasing production per person I think. Tech and education usually help.
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Half a million into the private sector could cause private sector (new) wages to go down. Or retrenching older workers to hire younger, cheaper, tech-savvy and perhaps hungrier people.
Good for employers.
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Sounds responsible and encourages national savings.
Think the taxes set up to discourage huge withdrawals on eligibility may reign in your scenario.
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Yeah, besides the obvious distribution benefits it seems to be evolving into an outsourced verification and patching system for publishers that don't maintain their own. Helps that it should be around for a very long time too.
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Steam connects fine over routers.
Your problem is particular to you.
Not just to me, apparently
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article...=6776-MYXU-0480
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I can certainly understand the rage.
On my PC Civ5 box the "Internet connection and acceptance of Steam Subscriber Agreement required" is among the blocks of small text at the back of the box. Although I have internet and used to be able to connect to Steam (before I got my modem-router), it turns out Steam doesn't connect well over routers. It was very frustrating/heart-in-mouth but I managed to get through enough just to register and activate offline mode, which isn't exactly conspicuous on their troubleshooting pages.
Steam offline mode:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article...=3160-AGCB-2555
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I'll need all the luck I can get to get Steam running that one time, and the others when I need to patch the game/dlc.
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Hopefully I won't have to activate my hardcopy through Steam. I had too much pain activating my Civ V and dl'ing the dlc maps because Steam doesn't like routers.
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Would a gauss rifle be under guns or energy weapons?
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I want an otaku trait.
Make NPCs react to PC differently depending on his appearance
in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
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Somewhat related - I wonder if the engine's robust enough to do checks/trigger quests based on appearance.
Quest example, an anonymous contact agrees to meet at an inn and will only approach you if you're wearing a ruby ring and silk scarf; or recognition of a secretive guild.