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[quote who="DsRaider" reply="35" id="3325750"] Quoting Kantok, reply 34 This is one of the most relevant questions on the survey. As an economics student you hopefully will come to realize that. It's the fundamental question in central banking and the core tension between Keynes and Friedman or, more broadly, between the left and right economic views of the world before you get into the extremes at either end. A persons answer to that question reveals a lot ab

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[quote who="DsRaider" reply="32" id="3325730"] "Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment." [/quote] This is one of the most relevant questions on the survey. As an economics student you hopefully will come to realize that. It's the fundamental question in central banking and the core tension between Keynes and Friedman or, more broadly, between the left and right economic views of the world before y

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Here's mine:

Reply to My New Game: At the Gates in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="enoeraew37" reply="2" id="3317627"]You were lead developer on Civ 5. You either drank too much of your own koolaid or lied about the state of the game up to its release then when it turned out to be a buggy mess you tucked your skirt and ran leaving your team and the customers holding the bag. The concepts look interesting but exactly why should we trust you give your track record? Have you found Jesus or something to differentiate you from Jon Shaffer of the past?[/quo

Reply to The Past, Present and Future of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Stick with FE. Work in finding that perfect balance between more depth in all the systems and the right balance between the systems. You're on to something with FE, it just needs some more love and experimentation.

Reply to I'm a married man! in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Congrats man!

Reply to Is Spell of Making Victory Too Easy? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The problem with it, and with the quest victory, has always been that the rest of the world is completely apathetic once you start down those roads. Hard to believe that the rest of the Sovereigns of the world are your equals when they clearly don't care that you're about to sap their control of their kingdoms in a very direct and personal way.

Reply to Gaming Nexus Reviews Fallen Enchantress and Gives an 8.9! in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Probably the best review yet.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress’s Map Pack DLC FAQ in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Does the Anthys map ignore set game settings? It seems like shards & heroes are both few and far between no matter what I set the map options at. Also seems like the wild lands don't show properly at times. I saw both Morain and Torax in areas that looked like they should be wild lands but without borders, without quite the right number of mobs, and without the wild lands quest when I entered the area. Edit: Does Anthys not scale for the

Reply to Why can AI invade my territory without war while I cannot return the favor? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="eobet" reply="21" id="3291065"]This is a basic feature and there really should be no issue that the options the AI gives you should also be the options you can give to the AI. If the AI can throw your units out of his territory, then so should you be able to return the favor.[/quote] You can return the favor via the Diplomacy screen. The problem isn't that you can't kick their units out, but that the interface for doing so is clunky given how often they send

Reply to Fallen Enchantress Gets a 9.5 from Gaming All The Time in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="7" id="3290731"]It is weird that he would call that WoM a "hit".[/quote] Hence my mentioning of it.

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[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="2" id="3290656"] Quoting Kantok, reply 1Nice review though I'm not so sure that WOM was much of a "hit" for you guys.. He was probably referring to SoASE or GalCiv2.[/quote] His quote: "Elemental was also the name of the world in Stardock’s 2010 hit War of Magic , however this has almost nothing to do with that game." Pretty clear, give the date and the link to FE i

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Nice review though I'm not so sure that WOM was much of a "hit" for you guys..

Reply to Why can AI invade my territory without war while I cannot return the favor? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

You can tell him to leave your territory the same way he tells you to leave his. The AI is just generally pretty vigilant about always threatening you and maintaining border integrity. The mechanic (the ability to violate borders and try to sneak through) is nice, but the implementation is clunky. Really, there should be an option to tell the unit to leave right in the unit window when you select a foreign unit that is in your territory. Having to go into the diplomacy

Reply to DLC in FE Support Elemental Forums

Had the same issue at first. Are you logged into your SD account on the SD store page? If you're not it'll give you that error. There is no option that I saw to log in as part of the process. Log in first, then try to buy it.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="178" id="3286297"]My jet fuel doesn't pay foR itself. [/quote] I heard your new jet was fueled by feeding employees into its engines. Brilliant, really. Skip the paperwork that comes with firing them. Instead you save money on both ends. No salaries and no fuel to purchase to power your jet.

Reply to The Car Talk Thread: What do you have? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

2011 GMC Acadia for me, 2012 Ford Focus for my wife. I also have a 1967 Camaro but in its current state I can't claim that I'm "driving" it. More like dreaming about driving it.

Reply to SD Thanksgiving sale in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="2" id="3281820"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1And if you waited another year or two you could have saved even more. Yea, after a year, a price drop makes sense, but a 33% drop in a couple weeks on a brand new game?...[/quote] You mean people release stuff and then drop the price for holiday sales? Those evil dastardly bastards. Who can possibly keep up with their nefarious scheming ways.

Reply to Why modding FE is worthwhile long term in FE Modding Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wizaerd" reply="48" id="3281797"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 47I'm more than glad to offer a helping hand if anyone has any questions, but sometimes I see follow-up questions that really give me pause as to who I'm actually helping. They just make me go "why didn't you just try it yourself?". Instead of asking a question and waiting half a day for a response, just plug it in and see what works and what doesn't. Open up an XML file, change a val

Reply to 25 Best Movie Villains in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

[quote who="Boudica" reply="2" id="1856106"]I thought the character Jude Law played in The Road to Perdition was a top 25 villain but I don't know who I would boot off your list to put him up there. Hannibal Lector needs to be somewhere in there too. [/quote] Hannibal Lecter should be on the list. You could drop anyone other than Vader and the Joker and it wouldn't be a slight to them. Not only should Lecter be on the list, but he should be somewhere in

Reply to Riddle Me This, Windows 8 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="47" id="3280782"]I don't know. I hear many complaints from people around town that Windows 8 is not a good OS. Time will tell.[/quote] I hear from people on the internet that the earth is flat, that we didn't really go to the moon, and that George W. Bush was secretly behind 9/11 because he wanted to give DoD money to his buddies at Haliburton. People on the internet are often wrong. Find out for yourself. Have you used Wi

Reply to Riddle Me This, Windows 8 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="42" id="3280734"] Exactly. Some of us use a better service called Gmail. [/quote] You realize you can create a live account using your gmail address right? I use my gmail address as my Win8 login and never use live.com. [quote who="kona0197" reply="45" id="3280758"] Oh and I'll bet going to start and all programs and selecting another app in Windows 7 is still faster than switching to Metro. [/quote] You could bet

Reply to Is it a Bug where you can only build Piers/Logging Camps if the town starts by them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Cymsdale" reply="17" id="3278378"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 14You should have to make important decisions about where to place your cities. I like having to make hard decisions like that, meaningful ones. That's not a strategically meaningful decision, you choose the mathematically better option. I think a better strategic decision is: "Do I build toward a resource? Do I build to form a choke point? Do I build

Reply to Who the hell signed off Windows 8 at Microsoft?? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="123" id="3278336"] Quoting starkers, reply 120MS has made Win 8 the cheapest, most affordable OS upgrade ever, It is cheap because they A:Know what it is worth. At 40 bucks, it becomes a disposable OS that people will be willing to dump when Win 9 comes along. B:Knew it wouldn't sell at the higher prices of previous OSes with such a wild departure from tradition. C:Generate high early adopter numbers to use as a sa

Reply to Is it a Bug where you can only build Piers/Logging Camps if the town starts by them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="7" id="3278339"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 6Don't change it, it's fine. Give players the option to decide. Manual Placements = Snaking Allowed Auto-Placement = No snaking allowed. Curtail the AI to behave differently depending on the setting. 100% players happy instead of just Lord Xia. (I know, I obviously exaggerate that last point)[/quote] Except that striving to please