Frogboy made a post stating that Havok was being a little ridiculous with their demands of compensation for 64-bit programming, but later he said there would be a 64-bit version, but it may not be available at release. I'm looking for these posts, but they were in random threads and not anything specific to the issue.
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I don't see that city building as complicated at all. Things are a bit cumbersome, but it's not hard to figure out what you need to do. Also, the devs have said they DO NOT want cities to snake in all kinds of directions to accumulate resources, which is why they introduced the pioneer unit to secure resources outside your cities' reach. I think all that needs to be changed is the available city space vs food vs housing. That along with making cities look less blocky would go
I'm pretty busy this weekend to do a decent write up. Better just to wait for Iteu.
Well, I got a match and played my first turn...then the game froze [e digicons]X([/e] Happened after I had clicked to end my turn and waited a little bit. Could have happened when the other player ended their turn, from my uneducated point of view.
Anyone giving it a try yet? I'm looking for an opponent now but no one seems to be on with me.
Like kyrogre said, it'd probably be hard to find a processor that is single core, but I would suggest a higher speed duel core over lower speed quad core.
Right here Raven. Since you're just starting a new game, all you have to do is move the contents into a new folder and start the .exe, though you're pretty smart and shouldn't have any issues starting the game, just figuring out what to do after that. LOL. I had a hell of a time just figuring out how to dig a tunnel the fist time I played.
Raven, I too can't play with the ASCII without my eyes bleeding, so I play using Mayday's graphics pack and it makes everything into 2d sprites. Or at least almost everything, there's a little ASCII still there, but not much. Here's a screen shot for comparison. EDIT: NM, the picture won't show up no matter what I do, so here's a direct link. http://img8.imageshack.us/f/52363393.jpg/ <
It's been a little while since I played DF(since right after the release of DF2010) but I'd love to get in on this. I'm not really that good, but I understand enough to not get us killed unless a ridiculous raid or monster shows up. Then I'll make sure we die a horrendously funny death that emanates fun.
I thought Stardock had made it pretty clear that adding stuff like this is a breeze compared to programming the editors and the game engine. I think Brad said they could add a spell or building in 6 hours, while making an editor or significant game engine changes takes more like 6 months.
I'd like to see it, and know how it all happens, but I would not want to experience it.
[quote who="caross73" reply="85" id="2645357"]Yeah, but its not the SAME 50% some of us are much more bananish than others. (Finding a bit of homology between genes absolutely essential for all terrestrial life is nothing surprising) And at a certain point between any two stretches of DNA there HAS to be measurable similarity. There is only 4 letters. [/quote] True, and the fact is a lot of our genes don
[quote who="scharchuk" reply="82" id="2645343"]That could be what we shared with our common ancestor. You do know that we share DNA with bananas as well?[/quote] LOL, we share more like 50% of our DNA with Bananas. They found specific genes that we share with them and not with every other animal. EDIT: When I said them, I was referring to Neanderthals. Sorry for the wrong pronoun usage.
[quote who="scharchuk" reply="78" id="2645321"]We're too genetically different to interbreed with them, Servius.[/quote] Science says otherwise. Recent studies have found that 1-4% of DNA from certain groups of humans are from Neanderthals. Source EDIT: Interesting note, scientists believe some of the major differences in DNA between us and Neanderthals is in the bone structure and
[quote who="caross73" reply="77" id="2645308"] As for the definition of purpose, I think its sort of important. Otherwise you start thinking that there is all some destiny and that we MUST breed ourselves into extinction because breeding is our purpose. The only people we need to satisfy is ourselves, there isn't some external hall monitor telling us where to go and what to do, so what we choose as our purpose is really important.[/quote] It's a semantics argument. There is
[quote who="caross73" reply="73" id="2645293"]"Fire doesn't/can't do that." The original life killed itself off by creating oxygen as a waste product. I'm not sure I would say that those primordial organisms weren't alive. [/quote] Stromatolites are thought to have produce most/all of the oxygen we use today, and they are still around in Shark Bay, Australia. However, I'm over this discussion. Were arguing over the definition of purpose an
[quote who="caross73" reply="65" id="2645275"] I agree, but if they didn't DO it, they wouldn't be alive. So its not like its some additional trait added on after the fact to give us a reason for them, for why they do the things they do. Its just what they ARE already, independent of what we may think of it. Life is essentially defined by the ability to reproduce. Of course the line between it and fire is pretty narrow. There are other traits but reproduction is the
[quote who="caross73" reply="65" id="2645275"]If life didn't do things to survive, life wouldn't BE. Survival is what grass is. Green is what grass is. If survival wasn't what grass is, grass wouldn't BE. If photosynthesizing wasn't what grass is, grass also wouldn't be. It would be something else. If life didn't survive, it wouldn't be life. Purpose is something you have attributed to it. A reason. It doesn't exist outside of your hea
Everything life does is to survive. Grass is green so that is can survive, thus survival is is purpose. If grass were red it would have harder time getting energy from the sun, but it's purpose is to survive, so it's green. Purpose explains why things do what they do. Life does things to survive, thus that is it's purpose. Purpose does not require rational thought. All it requires is is external forces. Asteriods have no intended 'purpose', they were left around for no reason
[quote who="Myles" reply="58" id="2645256"] Quoting caross73, reply 56 Myles, when you can demonstrate how a bacterium cares whether it lives or dies, then I will admit that life has a 'purpose' other than just a 'defining characteristic'. [/quote] You seem caught up in the process of rationalization and understanding, which I agree animals other than ourselves lack
[quote who="caross73" reply="56" id="2645250"] Myles, that is a purpose you gave it. Life itself doesn't care. If it doesn't reproduce, it doesn't reproduce. The universe doesn't have an opinion on it.[/quote] Ah, the universe=/=life. Life does care, life does reproduce, life does have an opinion. Look at any primate. It will let it's offspring die so that it may survive and produce more offspring in the future. It's a painful choice in the process of survival. The univer
[quote]Or to put it ANOTHER another way, survival is what life forms ARE, its not what they DO.[/quote] No. Surivial is an action, a process, a choice. Survival is not a state of being. You actively pursue survival, you don't just survive because you are. I also don't like the ethical quandaries this raises, and I'm one who generally supports fringe ideas such as this. But there's a difference between harvesting stem cells from embryos and creating a living, breathing, THINKING creat
[quote who="VladimirVladimirov" reply="2" id="2642130"]Great!!! i couldn't be happier... now a few more popped up in my mind.... 1. do i have to be online to play singleplayer? ... i think it was NO .. but to make sure 2. do i have to be online to play LAN? 3. Steam(sux) doesnt allow modding.... every time the game is launched it restores the files to the original state... so any mods i made go to waste.. i hate that... i lov
[quote who="Anomander" reply="6" id="2638574"]I've read and seen that too... 'Simple Combat' its not really what I want to hear. We've been promise 'Tactical combat' but it seems its taken less of a priority now. At this rate it will just be for show only! [/quote] This is the kind of crap we don't need. There was just a developer journal on tactical battles and their importance has not been changed. Places like IGN like to jump on one word and make it seem more meaningful
I like it. It would add a unique feel to each game and potentially provide points of interest.