Sorry to reply again to my thread, but I still seem somewhat devoid of responses! [e digicons];P[/e] I can't believe I have a unique problem, so I am sure that this has been asked and answered before. If no one has a solution, perhaps they know of a place where I can post my problem and expect a more immediate response? I have to say that I am pretty surprised at the lack of official response too - do the Stardockians no lo
Did I not provide enough information.... or is there no known answer.... or has no Stardockian seen this yet? [e digicons]o_O[/e] I'd really appreciate some answers. I bought and downloaded the game 3 days ago and it's still sitting there unused because I really don't know what I can do about all my ship designs. I've got pretty much all classes of ship designed for all the races - starting from scratch is a bit disenheartening. [e digicons]x_x[/e]
Not really,,, lets call it.... 'observational science'. You see a pattern, in this case, how so many book worms wear glasses and then look at what all book worms have in common, IE they read allot, and since you use your eyes to read... aha, aha (Mystikmind points his figer in the air expressing an idea) Reading must be bad for your eyes. There is no escaping statistics, they always point directly to the cause unless God is playing a practical joke or somthin
That's good. But since so many 'book worms' wear glasses, it easily gives one the impression that reading must be bad for your eyes. I think that might be a stereotype rather than being a fact.
I've read an average of 2 books a week for the last 20 years.... and my eye-sight is perfect! I'd be surprised if reading actually caused any more damage than staring at a brightly lit screen!
Another important point for me is that you can carry books(important for me as I have spent a considerable portion of my life travelling)! You can also read them in the toilet..... you can take them on a boat..... you can sit on the beach with them..... you can while away the hours at an airport... you can give meaningful ones to people you care about.... you can find hidden treasures, snippets of the wisdom of the ages in them.... you can learn and grow from them. Books, even more so t
Until recently, I thought they were an elaborate conspiracy designed to make me think I was missing something..... but then I finally found one the other day! They seem a *lot* rarer than the precursor mines. Does make me wonder though, so many AAR's I read seem to have one on their homeworld!! Then again, I never use CTRL+N unless on a gigantic map, I am wedged in a corner with a coup
Funnily, I dont have the attention span to watch films.... I'll get bored and wander off (if it's at home) or just fidget incessantly if it's at the cinema. Books are, and always will be, my first love. Only food and sex are equal for me! I'll cut an inevitably long tirade on the wonders of books short here! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 align="a
First of all as you said, like anything in life, practice is the key to getting better. People who make good ships have probably spent many many hours tinkering in the Shipyard! Aside from that, I find that it helps to think about structure. Dont just go for form immediately as you may find that you dont have the hardpoints underneath to place outer parts correctly. Turning parts 180 degrees can
Here's some basic ideas to work from. On the military front, you need to fairly quickly work towards having a basic defender. This just needs to be a tiny hull (or even a cargo hull if you want to be really cheap) with 1 weapon on it..... make sure you start producing these fairly quickly and put 1 into orbit around each planet. This will give you enough of a military rating to keep the wolves from your throat for a while. Naturally, you need to follow this up fairly soon with some smal
(why dont custom races get a special ability anyway?) They do! Look on the right hand side when making your custom race. I suggest you try Super Breeder with Speed + 2, Morale and Econ. With a bit of room to expand at the start, you are guaranteed to have a very healthy economy which can be used to power your research and military.
MottiKhan: If you would excuse me, I think you are not really following the argument very well, your replies don't seem to tally well with the points made. This idea would not in any way indicate an "I win" button, no one remotely suggested it would or that they wanted one, nor is it about achieving reality (again only you said that).... it's about fixing an in-game loophole that allows people to play the game in a way that one must presume the designers didn't intend. If the
There's an illusion of quality. There's also more profit, or it wouldn't happen.... especially the China-America example. The real reason why Americans buy Chinese products is because China produces and ships them for cheaper than American companies can manufacture them at home and still make acceptable profit margins. People go to a shop and see a T.V. for 25% cheaper.... a lot of people will buy it. Thus, the local industry becomes redundant a
The strongest custom is, I believe..... Super Breeder Speed + 2 Morale Econ With any political party to focus more on a desired area, but I prefer Technologists to make up for the one thing I feel I am missing - Research! The only downside is that, as long as you have a bit of breathing space at the start, you are pretty much guaranteed to win! My personal race of this build is called The Hive. They are a mostly insectoid assortment of semi-sentient sp
You mean to keep them in? Thereby altruistically saving the world from certain doom? Hmmm... I like the cut of your gib... I'll do it!.... although my students might think I have actually finally cracked when I walk into their class later with cotton protuding from my ears!
Hehe playing by principles is MUCH more fun!
I always happily leave the low PQ planets for alien races to pick up. Ultimately they are going to flip to me anyway and I wont have to pay for their maintenance in the early game. When it flips, I get a fully developed (if poorly so) planet and my economy is strong enough to support it.
Not that long ago they seem to have found water welling up from under the earth, so if that's found to be true, then no - Mars isn't a barren planet.
The evil little bastards!! Actually, I have a real termite problem here at the moment.... perhaps they are hatching some evil plot? The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men gang aft agley..... but what about termite plans? Perhaps they're super strategists and I am doomed to ignominous, magical, roof-head crushing!!
You've obviously not had many dealings with termites.... canny wee buggers they are!! Perhaps one of the termites was the witch! Dystopic: Bruce Kapferer, the phenomenological Anthropologist, always used to call me Foucault in lessons then expect me to defend myself while he tore Foucault apar
Relativists do it in a relativist position! Actually Dystopic, looking at your link, I really should have credited my story above to Michel Foucault... for while Evans-Pritchard was the field anthropolgist, it was Foucault that gave the data its true home!
BBC news mostly for general reading in front of the computer. Various sites for more specialist news (on my job, interests or academic subjects) The Bangkok Post for my lunch-break and coffee-time newspaper... the best international English language newspaper in Thailand. What is laughably known as "Thai news" - should be careful or I might get blocked!! /agrees w
Don't worry, I think you've explained why it is nonsensical perfectly. Rationalism and Relativism are diametric opposites. While Rationalism holds that your reason is the most important method of gaining knowledge, Relativism holds that Reason is simply the sum total of your personal experiences, and therefore entirely subjective. There really isn't much meaningful dialogue between th
I personally just dont like that you can buy your way into the good/bad books. Why don't your actions simply dictate whether you are considered Good / Neutral / Evil. This just makes me desire to play evil throughout to get all the strong boni, then buy whatever ethic I actually want to play as, as soon as all the planets are colonised. I agree with SkaxCo as well, there need to be more positive results to Good choices too.
I'm very much aware of what a logical fallacy is ghostwes! I was merely stating that if you judge from a relativists position, then philosophical tools used to judge fallacies are themselves fallacious. You accept their logic because it is part of your system. However, there is not a single logical system, nor is there a single correct one. So they have no inherent universal legitimac
