Frogboy

Frogboy

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Reply to Recommend me a book 2022 in Movies & TV & Books GalCiv4 Forums

Yea, I avoid any Turtledove series at this point. So far in 2023, it's been a bust for a great book. Last couple years were pretty good (for me). Some of my favorites have included: 2015: First 15 lives of Harry August, Mind's Eye, Seveneves 2016: Daemon, Dawn of the Singularity 2017: Brandon Sanders books, Children of Time, We are Legion, For we are many, All these worlds, 2018: Saxon Stories series 2020: Murderbot s

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Reply to 10 yrs and AI innovations in Sins of a Solar Empire II Sins2 Forums

I think a more apt comparison would be StarCraft I to StarCraft II. When SC2 first came out, a lot of people were expecting a lot more "innovation" but that really didn't happen until later since, really, the goal of SC2 (wings of liberty) was really to bring the game to a whole new engine. Sins II is a whole new game. Written from scratch to be a core neutral, 64-bit game. Unlike Sins I which was essentially frozen based on its 32-bit, single threaded engine (pretty amazi

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Reply to Recommend me a book 2022 in Movies & TV & Books GalCiv4 Forums

Ok. I just finished book 10 of Safehold. I...am not happy. First, it doesn't progress very far. Second, the books become quite a slog. Third, it's been 4 years since the last book was written so who knows how many years it'll take just to get Safehold back to to space since they're still basically preindustrial. I really liked the first couple books and they indeed got me hooked enough that I was able to pull myself away from working for a few days

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Reply to Some more random issues in 1.6 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="1" id="3895138"] Is there a way to see when my treaties are going to expire with the various civs? If so I haven't located it. Nice to have? I would really like to see this. As far as I know, the way it is now, you have to carefully watch the notifications and/or periodically check the other civ's opinion of you (at least for open borders). [/quote] Agree. We need this somewh

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Reply to Oddities Under 1.60417998 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="PaulLach" reply="5" id="3894174"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 4 ah ok. So essentially there's a disconnect between what is visually conveyed as visible vs. what is not. Bingo! [/quote] And this is why I told you computers are a fad. This

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