SilasOfBorg

SilasOfBorg

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Reply to forum 'ban game' two in Everything Else GalCiv3 Forums

banned for unfair evaluation of human excrement, which contains useful quantities of nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, and hydrocarbons. comparisons to car salesman and bankers are completely unwarranted.

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Reply to Tall/ Vertical Civilizations and the consumption of science in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"]So a planet can initially cost more science than it produces [/quote] [quote who="General Pants" reply="2" id="3666349"] Your implementation makes sense if resources are global, as they are said to be in Crusade. [/quote] Oh, I think I understand what you meant. When you said, "cost more science than it produces", I am assuming now that you meant the total output of the colony would in that case be zero, not ac

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Reply to Tall/ Vertical Civilizations and the consumption of science in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

Hm.. so Big Fabulous Science Planet, instead of working full-out on the Death Ray mk IV, would have to siphon off some resource because the scientists on Planet Crap need help figuring out how to combat a persistent local virus that eats electrical wiring, and also the stink in summer when the native cricket population dies off would kill a bantha from 50 paces, can we maybe genetically engineer a less smelly one, and why in Dog's name did we ever colon

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Reply to Stardock does something that's very underappreciated in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

There's a lot of AI out there that can fairly easily be reduced to a balance sheet of + and - items for things like attitude and decision making. Once you learn what goes in what column, gaming the AI becomes reasonably straightforward. Even some of the better games out there, like Pandora:First Contact, which has had some fantastic AI work done on it (shout out to Ail / Alexander Stumpp!) and plays quite well, falls into this category.

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Reply to Let's talk about small I mean tall empires. in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="General Pants" reply="35" id="3665662"] Quoting SilasOfBorg, reply 30 * make planets, as well as starbases, require Administration (wait! don't shoot! arrghhh!! not the spleen again!!) This is an interesting idea. Or maybe the planet cannot achieve full produc

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Reply to Tech Snowballing in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

In almost all games I've ever played with tech brokering allowed -- aside from being a royal PITA as a player to keep on top of tech trades -- it tends to stratify the civs into layers, and these layers tend to separate. Civ4 recognized this and had a VERY handy overview so that you could, with one F-key, check the status of all other civs vis a vis tech trade opportunities. e.g. 4 civs around the same tech end up brokering/sharing/buying tech f

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Reply to Let's talk about small I mean tall empires. in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

erischild is right on the money. My two cents on tall vs wide: The weird non-linear pop growth is by far the biggest factor against tall empires right now. Spreading out magnifies your pop growth in a patently rediculous fashion -- excepting the Yor, who really do 'suffer' from linear pop growth, in that a small, low pop world will take forever to make more Yor (trust me, this is a major PITA to playing the Yor vs any other rac

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Reply to DEV DIARY GalCiv III v2.0 preview in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="aerez4546" reply="85" id="3664877"] I really think that just eliminating the over-lapping stacking effect of economy starbases would go a long ways to cutting down on the constructor/starbase spam. In other words, just make it so that colonies can only benefit from the effects of 1 starbase. Just that one change would alleviate many of the problems of tech research snowballing too fast late game, problems of the AI not being able stay anywhere close with player pr

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Reply to I'm baaaaaaaaack! in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

What's this? Work on low level engine guts? Surely you jest! Nobody cares about memory leaks and slow turn times and creeping data structure corruption and glitchy saves and game crashes!!!111! Give her some pixels to paint or something! (ahem) It's great to see you back on the team, CariElf! As someone who has quit other games in frustration over any and all of the above, it's nice to know you'l

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Reply to Is Resource Harvesting broken? in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

I noticed the same thing. Seemed really random when it worked at all, I could not deduce any particular pattern (though I wasn't very scientific about it). I do remember one game where one field just spewed resources constantly, sometimes several each turn, and ALL my other resources were completely barren. Weird.

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Reply to [bug] [Rivals 2.0.1.2] Game-breaking: "ally" blocks chokepoint on strategic map in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

[quote who="geniusisme" reply="1" id="3654432"] There are some ways to go: - Use the ship. - Build outpost and cloudwalk. - Start a war. - Stop torturing yourself. [/quote] Ship: tried it. no go. Outpost: interesting. Did not figure game would allow me to teleport around quest obstacle, but perhaps it does.. not a bad solution if you don't mind wasting mana getting in a

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