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Reply to “Murphy's Law of Hackers” or Cisco’s Security 2010 Report in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

"There have been several large botnets “taken down” as a result of heightened Law Enforcement activity and prosecution. This has resulted in much less spam (90% less, in fact), and fewer attacks, but the number and rate are still alarming." Eh? 90%? Sources, sir? It's true that Rustnock botnet has been taked down, but 90%? Any law enforcement activity cannot solve the problem long-term, because the poorly administered end-user machines are just

Reply to Peak oil is upon us! in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

Fatih Birol from IEA warns about the upcoming crunch: http://crudeoilpeak.info/iea-oil-crunch-warning-governments-should-have-worked-on-it-10-years-ago Jeff Rubin's blog (one of the economists who 'get it'): http://www.jeffrubinssmallerworld.com/blog/

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The Kohinim Council has expected, and in fact welcomes the Pangaean declaration of war. Prolonged peace makes men soft, bellies full and bulging, hands weak and feet unsure. Pangaean satyrs and centaurs may not fully realize that dreaming about victories while feasting and drinking and kissing maenads is not quite the same as earning them on the field of battle, all covered by blood, their and their enemies' mixed together. <span style="color:

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The venerable Kohenim Council would like to congratulate esteemed Hanan'el on defending the Arena Champion title. The tournament was a bit smaller this time; in fact, save for courageous Mr. Offering, who kindly participated on behalf or our northern Lanka neighbors (thank you, Lanka, and thank you, Mr. Offering, at least in memoriam), no nation mustered enough courage to nominate a champion that would challenge mighty Hanan'el in single combat. However,

Reply to God bless you Derek Paxton in War of Magic Elemental Forums

... and if not, we will always have Paris... I mean, Fall from Heaven 2!

Reply to War of Magic: v1.29 beta log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Well, I don't want to be the guy who spits into the cauldron, and I know it's "just the beginning", but I honestly expected more changes to the tactical combat. It's the core of the game, and without spicing it up, the game will be always lacking something.

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Well, I just have a very unpleasant magical accident. That's what I like about this game - dabbling with the darker aspects of magic can lead to quite dire consequences. On the bright side, it's the first time I've ever faced horrors on the battlefield! (I suspect it's not the last time, though).

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Ad turn time limit - I am fine with whatever you guys come up with. I don't mind longer turns (I don't rush anywhere), but there is slight danger that too long turns will make the game too tedious and players will start dropping out. But since we mostly send our turns much earlier than we have to, I don't think this will be an issue. And I agree that stales are best and should be avoided if possible - everyone should have a chance to send their turns properly in an

Reply to New noob game of Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

In my opinion, there is no point in forcing anyone making bad moves just to "help the noobies". As far as learning goes, it's the same think as with chess - if you don't play the best moves, you just nurture feeling of false safety in the new players, and help build false self-confidence that is bound to be shattered later when other players will move against him without these artificial restraints. Moreover, you are twisting the balance of the game, because rush nations need

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Your lawn? Hehe...

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

" Well, that's more like it. Take that, poo flingers." I am confused. Do you refer to the battle outside of the City of Ermor, where Lanka just crushed your PD and beseiged your castle?

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Family comedy at its best ;-)

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="ghostwes" reply="479" id="2946831"]So, I guess I screwed up my orders, causing that battle to go differently than intended. Still should be able to recover from it, however. If I have a commander and squadron that I want to basically hide in the castle for a turn, rather than engage the enemy immediately, what command should I give them? I thought "patrol" would do this, since the commander didn't really have many other options. This did not have the desired effect,

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The Council is sorrowed by the recent death of one of our most prominent masters of the Matters Arcane Dagan, who finally succumbed to a serious illness and old age. Despite losing his voice, he kept on studying and researching till the and, faithful to his only lifetime passion - magic. Last Rites will be performed by one of the Councilmen himself to honor the service Dagan has performed for our kingdom.

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tophat1812" reply="471" id="2946440"]Anyone interested in a a new,noob game of Dominions3? Probably should start a new thread of this,but that is after I finish cutting the grass. After reading this thread i was inspired to find my dominions3 disk and thick spiral rule book. Send some pm's,we shall see if we can get a party together.[/quote] I would love to play, but right now, I am spent, the game quite demanding in terms of time invested into studying spells, unit st

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The Council has heard the news that came across the Bay, and will honor the memory of the fallen Abyssian kingdom as customs dictate - with prayers and incense. The Abyssian flame comes from the fiery depth of the world itself - it can grow dim at times, but it can never be extinguished altogether.

Reply to The games you find truly groundbreaking, original, awe-inspiring and memorable in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Lords of Midnight!!! ... oh my, I remember being on a programmer's summer camp, one of my friends dumped the map data, creating a huge paper map, and we were playing the game on the old Spectrum, using the map to navigate and placing little paper figures on it to mark enemy known positions. Oh... those were the days.

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="aeligos" reply="5" id="2945920"] Punish the victim, is what you mean. That's just brilliant. By the way, Islam follows a similar philosophy when its in regards to rape of the female. Much needs to be defined and clarified should we wish to punish the victims. -.-[/quote] No, you just don't get it. The penalties would actually help, because core of these problems are managers who think security is an afterthought and

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

So... a day off? Great, I am finally going to get some work done, instead of thinking about my Dom3 plans all the time ;-)

Reply to GOG gets EA in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

EA, eh? Those guys smell money. I can picture their management thinking: "Hey, why spend badzillions of cash for development modern, gfx-intensive dumbed down games, when it seems there is a consumer segment that actually prefers the older, non-dumbed down variety? No risk, no investments, just sweet profit. Get it going!"

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Let it be known to all that the Kohenim Council revokes the non-agression pact between the kingdom of Hinnom and Ermor. In three turns from now, all men, giants and beasts able to stand in battle lines are called to raise their hands, weapons, paws, tentacles and claws against the decadent followers of the new, jealous and malevolent god, whose perverse teachings are a mockery to our Grigori ancestors and whose intolerant and twisted followers swarm across the la

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

You can go to this URL: http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Elementalists and ask for resending of the turn file. I just did that for you, the .trn file should arrive to your mail account (provided wonderloss updated the Arco mail contact).

Reply to Why the citizen system is completely redundant and should be scrapped. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Excellent analysis, sir, I agree! Population limits felt like someone hitting me in the legs all the time while I try to run. Aside from whether this will work or not (or whether it makes intuitive sense, which it clearly doesn’t) - well, you can rationalize that with increasing number of studies, you must pay extra cost for the increasing complexity in the form of scribes/administrators/clerks/bureaucrats/whatever. It happens to companies and states, it should happen t

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Question about the rules of the game - when building castles and labs and temples, does it matter if I have a lonely guy doing it, or a whole army? Common sense indicates armies should build faster, but castles have fixed build times in the manual. I know for sure that in sieges, the speed of destroying/repairing the walls depends on the size/quality of the armies. A little off-topic - be sure to try a new game called Frozen Synapse. I found it to be absolutely marvelou

Reply to Anyone interested in a Dominions 3 Newb game?**Running** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Welcome aboard, MC. I suspect you just inherited a bunch of moderately starved mercs and a giant bookcase with countless tomes on the most esoteric subjects. Make good use of it! Concerning Agartha - he is building an autistic kingdom in the very south-eastern corner. You must look hard though - it's easy to miss, most of it is underground ;-)