metadigital

That's so US. Let's have a lead designer for every design aspect. Just like Vice Presidents for every part of the company. I'm Vice-President in charge of Door Opening and Greeting.

That Victoria is meant to be a good game (still haven't got off my lazy bum and bought it yet, though).

It's a fair cop.

I did. I still feel most of it is fluff. It's my way of "enjoying" the game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Boy, you're a tough marker. Let me know when you finish a game, I'm sure it will be excellent, given your stringent principles on content.

I'm not sure what you're advocating, Steve. Are you suggesting that political discoveries are freebies across civs, so that when one civ discovers communism, say, anyone can change to it?

maybe he has trouble following ...

All true. The Carthaginians were just a bunch of bankers, who paid mercenaries to fight all their battles for them. They were a respectable world power whislt Romulus and Remus were still suckling on their wolf-mother's teet. it took the brutal single-mindedness of the Romans and warfare, and three Punic wars, to finally topple their mediterranean trading empire; the Romans borrowed more than a few of their ideas (plumbing, economies of scale for farming, etc) before they obliterated their empire and paved their capital city and made up propaganda about their culture to try to remove them from history (He he). Trade has never been well represented in Civ; I really liked the way Rome: Total War handled trade (where a sea port drastically improved trading ability and income). I guess that ties in with the comments about improving sea vehicular speed and range, whilst de-emphasizing the railroads (a bit).

And the umpire takes away a point! (Low blow from the Player!) Naughty move, there, discouraging all attempts to resist box-moving and dumbing-down by ridiculing the game, rather than applauding the design. Restart!

Still makes Deus Ex the Best0xz0rs Game EVAR!!11!!!1!!!

So it was really a secret Pentagon initiative? (No wonder there were chairs costing $128,000 ... this is where all that grey budget went ...)

One of my old professors was of the (laudable) opionion that programmers should be given the worst pcs in the company, so that they made their code as efficient as they could. Only problem is Micro$oft has monopolised seemingly the entire sotware industry, including developer tools, so that their inefficient procedures demand super resources to do any development. I remember the brouhaha when Apple brought out an OS that was bigger than a 360kB floppy disk! How dare they, just for those silly little icons to load up and smile at you.

Sounds like a bun fight. (No wonder it was buggy.)

Metadigital is of the considered opinion that Ender is actually possessed of very unsound mental faculties.

He was looking to see if it was the one that left him scarred ... (Personally, I don't go near anything until version 3.1)

:D Thanks. :cool:

So why did you post it in my lovely Civ4 thread? Edit: "instigation style tactics" is quite a quixotic notion, if left unexplained. But, as I was there at the time, I have interpolated to extract my observations, above.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> GOLD

Did you manage to complete your mission in the ten second timeslot available? For the same reason that you can see animals mating prior to the watershed and humans mating only after it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah! Society wants more dogs and cats, and people who mate with dogs and cats, so there is no restriction on that sort of viewing.

Defence pleads special dispensation, M'lud. A wife is a special case, and does not consitute a legitimate example for the "every person" case, as stated by the prosecutor. Most people's jubblies are like most people, and therefore not worthy of a perve, unless the perver is a repressed coitus-starved teenager, in which case the pixelated colours on the HiRes washing machine read out are almost as useful for auto-eroticism.

Well, I would like to see more secret services in Civ4. The ability to control the population through the media, build an illuminati ... but what about you and your ex post facto post editing?

I find the more we try to restrict sex, the more fascinated we are by it. I'm sure if we were all nekkid all the time, no one would care about catching a peek of anyone's jubblies, since it'd be so meh. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Most people's jubblies aren't worth a first look.

Yeah! We need a more Nordic / Norse / Wiccan concept of brutal beatial rape, killing and bathing in the sacrificial blood (and then eating it).

I'm not sure if you are proposing a tactic for Civ that you would like to see, or have used in the past. Please explain.

Terrible, apparently.

We we talking about the dumbing down trend due to the multiple market-segment targeting of the suits: if a game sells well on the PC, let's cost expenses and dual develop it for the console as well, and have one-and-one-more times as much money! This is true, I did enjoy the body throwing, a feature that was not surpassed until the penultimate level in [Half-Life 2[/i]. :D