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[quote]Can you imagine how much fun it is to play a 20 year old computer game with the same person you played it with 20 years ago?[/quote] Yep, done it quite a few times recently... (lets make it 15 though ;) ) I can honestly say it is one of the funniest (as in gut-busting) things you can do. Thirty-odd year olds busting their fingers on hyper sports circa 1984 is a staple at our LANs these days. Not to mention the dead-legs that result from someone pinching "someone else's" yellow l

lol at this post, good read castra... I had an almost identical game a few weeks ago, that culture drain thing just hammered my advantage. I remember thinking at the time... meh, that won't hurt too much, but man was I wrong! Talk about the proverbial rug from under feet, it took forever to recover for the tech victory. I just hadn't realized what a massive investment I'd made in culture until I was hoodwinked. It can seem such a happy-gas victory path until it's suddenly strip

[quote]True. I take econ +30, morale +10 and luck every single time. Its kinda boring.[/quote] Yep. And creativity... gives you the research edge every time.

@ Mighty Goobi, One thing I have noticed in Australian politics (I will not stoop so low as to call it democracy here), is that "charisma" is merely a delivery system, much like the housing of a missile. It enables the necessary agent to get to where it needs to go (in our case, this agent is usually some sort of rabid patriotism counterfaced with individual pride ((sports is good for this))) to maintain industrial growth. A good politician therefore, as an agent of industrial

[quote]Fox News admits that it is infact just a tool of propoganda for the right wing. And CNN isn't spewwing out propoganda for the left wing?[/quote] You are hear as the remainder of an unbalanced equation. In other news, on account of this mega event journalists have stopped rolling out hypothetical hand grenades at bored celebrities, thus inflicting a cruel strain on the symbiotic chord which sustains the two industries... people everywhere are begin

[quote]We would setup multiplayer parties where 3 or 4 people would be at two houses. After 20min of getting the games connected we would finally be able to take turns blowing each other up with laser trip bombs and rockets.[/quote] Almost identical experience with mighty duke. Oh the joy of stealing someone elses freeze with somne pistol spam, or stomping someone elses shrink job, or filling a an entire dark room with pipebombs and watching your opponent pause for that split s

[quote]I dont think I Ever beat Faery Tale[/quote] Lol... you and the rest of planet Earth... talk about RIGGED! Got to love those old A.I. that just beelined your character... and if you tried to run, you'd end up dragging around about fifty bad dudes till you found the next town. Speaking of rigged... My game is Agent USA, c64. First game and could never get enough of it. Thing is, I'm still to this day unsure if there is a way to win this thing. Apparently you had to ta

[quote]Hong Kong 香港 Fragrant Harbour[/quote] This wouldn't have anything to do with it being at the ass end of China would it? :D

[quote]kryo, could there be any remote chance that we'd get a slider or drop down box in a patch, to let us choose "low, medium, high" rate of such random events?[/quote] This would be awes.

[quote]But the funny thing is we will go out with a nuclear bang wiping china out with us[/quote] Well that's a relief. :NOTSURE: Tell me... have you ever disconned a multiplayer RTS game because you were going to lose?

[quote]people shouldn't throw around accusations and criticisms without first checking that their own house is in order.[/quote] Pray tell... What exactly is "in order?" Do you have a static copy of the per civilization standard for qualifiying for an opinion? Or do you just adjust the parameters as the need arises?

Except when I turn Mega Events off, the exponential thing happens anyway. So unless my install has something wrong with it (quite possible), you're stuck with that one.

[quote]The "new" ground combat screen is something you might have seen on a C64.[/quote] Lol! Harsh bro... Very harsh. You should boot up a c64 emu and play a few rounds of Defender of the Crown, you may just retract those hasty words. I actually felt sorry for it, it looked that bad, though Last Ninja 2 still holds up.

[quote]A Trade Good is there to "Trade" - you own it, rather like a copyright on software. Someone wants to use your software, they pay, someone wants to use your Trade Good they pay for it. Like the software, you still own the Trade Good.[/quote] So hang on... if I have a trade good it keeps making me money? Do they relate to freighters at all? As in increase income from routes?

[quote]But I want to make a turn-based fantasy strategy game.[/quote] And I for one am very grateful.

[quote]Ubernaught, I also can not properly translate 'sterilize'. It seems to have something to do with curing but I don't think that is your meaning and I don't have enough context to properly understand it.[/quote] Sorry mate, sir Gallant had it right enough. Sterilize does mean cure. The reason I chose the word in this case was because the term "freedom", by its very definition defies ethical allotment. It is as Ghostwes remarked: nebulous, and thus resists the attempts to b

[quote]Chinese totalitarian communist dictatorship? Bad. Freedom? Good.[/quote] It hurts to be this obvious but really... doesn't acceptance of the latter immediatly sterilize the former?

[quote]If you think it is too powerful, don't pick it.[/quote] Fair call that. I just played an immense map with ultra slow tech and creativity and it wasn't too long before I was selecting 100 turn techs and just waiting for that sweet and sudden discovery. In the end it was tech that comfortably won me the game. Cheap I know, which is why I most likely will not choose it again under those conditions. Normal/large on the other hand, should be fine.

Yeah it's rubbish to say the least. I think they have some sort of corporate small man syndrome... if they don't release something that looks as flash in the boardroom as the latest $100 tech demo, they'll be seen as something other than cutting edge. Still, I think in the long run, the PC world is better off without Lucas "arts."

Hi Wrath... Well done on your guide bro. Just thought I'd jump on the robot bandwagon and say that I just played with the Yor tree, Immense map on "tough" and had the most ripping economy I've ever had in GC2. I'll admit I used a couple of tips from posters in this thread, (patience, empty tiles etc...) but all in all they just spank. It got so ridiculous at one point that I was deliberately buying things outright just to keep my cash figure down. Supressed terrors of the 20,00

[quote]But for branches like the weapons there can be a lot more done to make them interesting and a genuine choice in game playing style. Take the beam weapon line for example. Start with lasers like before and have a half a dozen laser techs, leading up to some very powerful weapons. But at laser 2, there is a branch for a couple different things. Examples would be phasors and plamsa guns. They would both have their own tech (and possibly some branches there too). But the top range phasor

[quote]4) Zombie games, movies, songs, books, Christmas cards and poetry have been done to death.[/quote] Undeath actually... and in my opinion one of the last genres with any sociological merit. Some of my best friends are zombies.

[quote]Wow. I have not heard about this.[/quote] Ok then, thanks for your reply, I am enjoying your posts very much. [quote]I make no claims as to the accuracy of these articles; I only post the links so you know what people are referring to here.[/quote] Cheers Ghostwes, appreciate that. [quote]We read in China that in Australia, there was a big horse sickness and all the horses died and all the horse races were cancelled so even our Hong Kong horses were ban

Hi Carbon... I'll assume you're asking me, since you quoted me... I have absolutely nfi what the difference is, I have not heard anything of the kind about the US in regards to such practises. I was simply taking the opportunity to learn from a Chinese poster, in a Chinese thread and perhaps make some inroads into the rumours that float around our media. However, thanks for offering me the ditch of advesarialism, I may resort to it yet.

Mr Goobi, Hi there, I have read your posts with interest and love the suggested idea that you are some sort of propaganda agent, if this is true then all I need from the rest of the world is for Arnold Shwarzetcetera to become president and reunite the worlds of fact and fantasy once and for all. Anyways, I wonder if you would be so kind as to enlighten me on something a number of my fellow Australians believe about your government: Is it true that China execute "crimi