Chibiabos

Chibiabos

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Reply to Banished: New City Building Game in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Its tough. I have played several games, got good, but then I've had trouble again with several massive population collapses. Managing resources is such a pain when you can be swimming in food one minute, then suddenly the next its all gone and my population plummets from 150 to 40.

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Reply to Sovereign Like Leader in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I dunno, that wouldn't be very GalCiv-ish. Leaders in GalCiv are more disembodied. I like the sovs in Elemental (though I miss the dynasty/children from WoM, hope they make a comeback), but its a different game.

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Reply to A Role For Gas Giants. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Seabrook" reply="45" id="3445465"] I remember in Master Of Orion 3 there was a race that can colonize gas giants or similar worlds. How about a new similar race in an expansion maybe. They can live and survive in gas giants. Oxygen worlds are hazardous to them. A unique way to play this race. Their worlds are usually huge but few.[/quote] Molecular oxygen is a gas. However, its a highly reactive gas, so much so that its molecular form is qui

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Reply to What are you going to name your star? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="18" id="3413293"] Quoting OsirisDawn, reply 16 Nicoles Rest ... after my wife who died in 2010. I can relate. I'm sorry for your loss. [/quote] Unfortunately, I can as well. Maybe we should start a widower's club? I might call mine 'Raven' in honor of my own late wife (she died in 2006).

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Reply to Banished: New City Building Game in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="31" id="3444377"] I finally picked it up, and played more than a few hours of it. It's a fun city builder, but somewhat slow-going and leaves you with wanting more after you get most of your buildings established. I like it though, and need to put more time in. I just hope the developer puts some more time into this. [/quote] In unrelated news, the release of the GalCiv 3 alpha has been del

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Reply to A Role For Gas Giants. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="6" id="3443943"] 2. You can create metallic hydrogen in a factory more easily than extracting it from the inner 'mantle' of the gas giant, with millions of earth atmospheres of pressure crushing you. It's just not feasible.[/quote] Oi, the misunderstandings, it hurts me >_ Metallic hydrogen isn't some funky isotope of hydrogen that, when you know where it is, you can go extract it, an

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations Fans - Introduce Yourself! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I must confess, I pirated GalCiv I ... but yes, did eventually buy it legally, and then bought GC2 legally. And today I finally caved and bought Founder's Elite. I've been playing TBSes since the original Sid Meier's Civilization (no roman numerals). Master of Orion II maintains a special place in my heart, and I also still occasionally fire up a lost gem, Interplay's Mechanized Assault & Exploration from 1996. I enjoyed Sword of the Stars as well

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Reply to Please bring back marriage and children in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

I miss the dynasties. I hope they make a comeback. Maybe in some future iteration with a more epic span of time for which one generation is not adequate. Maybe even have it to break from the cliche tradition of you, personified as the sovereign, not having fantasy-immortality; with a dynasty, your sovereign could and would eventually die from old age, if nothing else, but if you had married your sovereign and produced offspring, the game wouldn't end and your offspring s

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Reply to WTF is happening at Fukushima? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Anyone who thinks Fukushima and Chernobyl are the only nuclear disasters needing cleanup, and we're safe in the USA has really not studied the issue. Hanford (in southeastern Washington State, USA) was closed down decades ago but isn't even close to being cleaned up. In fact, just a few years ago a major new underground water contamination was discovered that threatens the entire Columbia River system downstream -- all the way down to Portland, which is the largest city

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Reply to Galaxy Size - Largest Option in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="RedDwarf999" reply="3" id="3424508"] Lets finally see a game with no real limits. The limits should only be imposed by the system resources and common sense. If you don't mind waiting 5 minutes between turns as the computer chugs through and iteration then so be it. I'm usually so deep/lost in running a sprawling empire that a reasonable wait would not even be really noticed. But people who are type 'A' can choose a smaller number of s

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Reply to Frogboy's cousin gone from this earth? in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

Its not really ironic, given it acquired the name because the species was native to an island Darwin actually explored. We're having a problem here locally in the Pacific Northwest I just saw on the news today of a sudden rapid die-off of sea stars (commonly misnomered "starfish"), one species in particular has in just a few weeks completely disappeared in the vicinity of a pier. A common jump to conclusion among locals is it is the result of toxic pollution carried on the c

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Frogboy's cousin gone from this earth? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/20/us-science-darwin-frog-idUSBRE9AJ1B220131120 - (Reuters) - A frog named after Charles Darwin has gone extinct because of a deadly amphibian skin disease, scientists believe. Darwin's frogs were named after the father of evolution, who discovered them in 1834 in Chile durin

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Reply to A General Solution to Poverty in Economics Elemental Forums

[quote who="Megyn" reply="5" id="3420033"] The best way to lift people out of poverty is to set them free. There is a strong correlation between freedom and wealth.[/quote] Where? Not in the U.S. The vast majority of wealth in the U.S. is inherited ... there is no freedom in the inequity that some people start out ahead and others are disadvantaged by being born to a family that isn't well off.

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Reply to The Second Amendment thread in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

Guns don't deserve rights, and certainly this experiment that more guns in the hands of less responsible people has been a disastrous failure. I'm tired of being shot at because I'm not heterosexual .... granted its only happened once thus far, but once was too many times ... I have also had a lot of friends and family friends who had some close call "whoopses," including a classmate in high school playing with his older brother's gun and accidentally shot his friend in

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Reply to So how can you start a Steam game without Steam ... in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="6" id="3414869"] Quoting MottiKhan, reply 5 If playing offline is the goal, perhaps Steam's offline mode would work. Playing without having steam load, online or offline, is the goal. [/quote] ^^ This, as per my OP for those who read it . Several folk mentioned in another thread that they can kill Steam while playing their game using the Windows Task Manager, and

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Reply to Investigating GalCiv 3 - What are your concerns with Steam? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="amrbean" reply="55" id="3413338"] Quoting DivineWrath, reply 49Please don't be like that. People can be sane, not like Steam, and have good reasons for it. Except we keep hearing the same reasons over and over again. And those reasons, in this thread among others, have been debunked. 1.) "Steam doesn't have mod support"- It has great mod support. 2.) "Steam is always on!"- But you can put it in offline mode. 3.) "What if Steam fo

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