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Reply to Please change salted pork to salted fish or meat in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I'm not allowed rape my slaves in this game which is unbiblical. Hence this game is offensive to me.

Reply to "Everything in Fallen Enchantress is still bland and uninteresting..." in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

What I meant was for a sandbox game don't jump off the deep end with a setting where so little is familiar. FE bombards you with so many weird names etc you can't (or I can't at least) even start to make sense of it. I'm not saying I wanted another over the top/forced humor game like warlock or homm. But if the game is going to have such a novel setting (rather than a new spin on existing tropes) then the game needs to tell the story not just dump it on the player. Alp

Reply to "Everything in Fallen Enchantress is still bland and uninteresting..." in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I would have preferred a more accessible setting. The usual fantasy tropes (elves, dwarfs, 'n orcs) are popular for a reason. Instead elemental confronts you with a malazan-style (which I can't stand) lore dump ... almost a parody of such... though I don't think this is intentional [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] I'm afraid to say the setting is putting me off. Which is a pity as otherwise the game is pretty much what I was hoping/expect

Reply to The United Planets fails again in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hope this is in the right place, I find these forums a bit confusing.

Reply to Europe vs the USA in World Trade Issues JoeUser Forums

I've kept GDP per capita and income seperate from cost of living (consumer good/purchasing power) here. Otherwise there's a danger of double counting. Google seems to turn up the PPP (purchasing power parity) GDP figures because they're what's referenced in the CIA factbook and it's easy to make the mistake of giving a european PPP figure and then saying their cost of living is higher on top of that. PPP can be a valuable statistic, but you have to know what it is. It's really

Europe vs the USA in World Trade Issues JoeUser Forums

I'm wondering how they really compare. Here are the facts I've managed to find so far: The Economy of the EU (the largest economic block in europe) is 25% larger than the USAs, but the EU's population is about 40% larger. The GDP per capita of the developed countries in Europe (including those outside the EU) is roughly equal (about 45k dollars) to the USA. Europe as a whole (i.e. with the former communist countries) has a significantly lower GDP per capita.

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Reply to how many unrealistic technologies can you list in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]There also was a study a while back that if we take the recent advances in medicine and biology (gene-mapping and nano technology as well) that humans may become virtually immortal within the century. Somehow, I have doubts about this. When the tech first comes out, of course, only the relatively rich will be able to afford the constant gene replenshing appointments, etc., etc. If someone opts to do this to try and live forever, a poor person might become super jealous, or a Christian nut

Reply to Official Carriers/Orbital Bombardment Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe it should win every encounter. You couldn't defeat a ship of the line with a flotilla of rowboats carrying muskets.

Reply to Official Carriers/Orbital Bombardment Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think carriers make sense for galciv2. Ship combat is the star trek kind (approximating napoleonic sea battles between ships of the line, or the first world war between battle ships)... not the star wars kind (modeled after ww2 carrier battles). But not having orbital bombardment seems forced. I can't see why it isn't there (how about adding planetary defences if it causes gameplay issues?).

Reply to Ants... and human flaws in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

We aren't hard-wired, that's our advantage over ants

Reply to Delete in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

a single volcano in a single day puts more CO2 than all of mankind in one year or at least in a month vs the year. so tell me how much are we affecting the CO2 lvls this is not true, vulcanism does not contribute more than human industry to atmoshperic CO2

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

If by poverty you mean having a portion of your population lacking healthcare, adequate nutrition, education, transport, clothing, access to communication and access to the natural environment... then very definitely no.

Reply to Is Stardock making a Fantasy TBS game? in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

For those that have AoW:SM http://aow2.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=612 this mod makes the game allot more MoM like

Reply to Video Games Are Anti-Social and Addictive in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The real words of god would never make anyone feel "uncomfortable". 'Talking to god' would be like having a conversation with yourself but infinitely wiser and more patient, and with no limit to understanding. If you have a little voice asking, 'why aren't you doing this, why haven't you achieved that'... that's not god.

Reply to Video Games Are Anti-Social and Addictive in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Religion should be about god, not whatever lifestyle choices you make. If there is a god worthy of the name it knows everyone and everything inside out. You can't justify yourself to such a being, you can only be yourself. You can't talk about "what god wants me to do".

Reply to I want to but Dark Avatar via download, but I live in the UK in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

It's better really. You end up paying the us price (nearly 1/2 at the moment), not the usual dollars=pounds thing that happens with boxed purchases.

Reply to A 'Dear John' letter to the President of SOE in MMORPG GalCiv2 Forums

wow is a good game (the best newbie experience of all mmoepgs most probably), but lineage ii... that's just poor (there's no level of gameplay on which it stands out, much less surpasses any of the serious competition), I have no idea why it has so many subscribers. Why did you suggest that game as a comparison (just to have more than one to point to)? Lineage ii has far more tedious 'grinding' than any soe game.

Reply to Venezualian prez calling Bush "The Devil" in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

So... we invade iraq to set up democracy. When the regime we are overthrowing is one the US itself financed in a war against Iran... and Iran is a country where the US sponsored a coup to remove a democractically elected government and replace it with a corrupt monarchy. Saddam Hussein was only there because the US helped him stay there... he only had chemical weapons and the beginnings of a nuclear program because the US gave it to him. Iran only a semi-theo

Reply to Venezualian prez calling Bush "The Devil" in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Nowhere wants americans tho... there is no reverse brain drain

Reply to Venezualian prez calling Bush "The Devil" in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

No matter what your political orientation, you can't really dispute the fact that the US is now reaping what it has sewn in south america (especially here, america's "back yard"), afghanistan (taliban) and the middle east (israel perhaps... but more importantly the support it gave to iraq and saudi).