I do not appreciate having to go through your download client in order to run your own games, where they can track it. When you download, it should have an option to put an icon on your desktop, you should be able to run it entirely locally on your machine, and it's none of anyone's #$!#$##!! business when or how often you run it.
[quote]I like the graphics, its very HoMM for me.[/quote] If by HOMM you mean HOMM1, I can assure you HOMMV's graphics are definitely NOT HOMM1 !
Actually, there are a few people on here who sort of did. Seriously. Like myself, I was technically still a HS sophomore for about a week after I started college. I drove back from college to take my finals. In fact, I highly recommend it: if you are talented at all, drop out of HS early and take college for dual credit. Our public school system sucks. The only way I see HS being better than college in any way is if you're also a stude
Sleep is relative. In college it's overrated: every minute in the day or night is a minute you could have spent sleeping. There is no day or hour when you are any more or less likely to be asleep. Then as a dad, sleep becomes hugely important. As in, you are soooooo close to getting to sleep, soooooo close....then...DENIED! I had a teammate in college once who was a new dad. The result was not pretty.
Sure was a quick match between me and Froggirl. Frogboy, you and Froggirl didn't.... ?
Make that another $50 I saved by reading this forum first.
IMHO wargaming at the tactical level has never been better than now, but it's because of RTS. I remember for the longest time there was talk of putting Advanced Squad Leader to a computer game. That was never going to happen--the rules for ASL were soooo complex, no one was ever seriously going to code that. So some people looked into it (Atomic Games, I think?), and they just said to heck with it all, just do a squad-level RTS. And along came Close Combat. T
Back in the 80's, 1UPT was just about all there was. All the Avalon Hill and SSI wargames were 1UPT--and these were on 5 1/4" disks, CPU's were measured in megahertz and memory in kilobytes. I don't particularly remember the AI being any worse than it is today. I think it was easier to deal with the AI than it was how to design the UI to handle stacks. They didn't have a mouse and 3-D engines back then.
1UPT IMHO is best served by a greedy algorithm. All your units have a desired destination, except now your paths are boolean buckets (i.e. your paths are composed of tiles which can be 1 (filled) or 0 (empty)). Rather than do a brute force relaxation algorithm to find the optimal AI (which would mean ridiculously long turns), I would pick my slowest, but most heavy-hitting units to move first and get first divs on the buckets. Actually, in the spirit of gre
Civ and Galciv both have governors, which do a similar thing. It's just an attempt to reduce the micromanagement. Neither really overhauls the TBS genre, and the governors normally don't play as well as a human would. I never use them when the game's not already "won". IMHO in order for this sort of thing to work, the governors have to be mandatory. Earlier I think it was Jon Shafer who criticized Civ V's game design--something about
I'd like to compliment how nice my wife looks in her new dress. Mostly because if I don't, I'm a dead man.
The problem I have with TBS is the time it demands from you. Your typical RTS game is over in like, 45 minutes? A large TBS game, 45 minutes is one turn.
I guess I will just let my actions speak for itself. I never bought WOM, but nonetheless I am still here. I *want* FE to succeed, and I'm back here all the time waiting to see if Elemental is finally worth investing my time in (note: I said time, not money. Time is the more expensive commodity). And yet here I am, spending my time on the Elemental forum. Go figure.... p.s. I think those "Galacti
I'm liking the pirate. But no matter, I've got three froggie kids, I'm already spoken for. Bwahahahaa I'm getting laid tonight. Yup. Yeah buddy. *ribbit* Ahem excuse me.
Right now I'm playing the full version of KB: The Legend and it's playing tricks on my mind. Never mind that I first started King's Bounty on Armored Princess and now I'm going back and playing the first one. Now The Legend has me constantly thinking about what it's like to have sex with a frog. You know, you kiss the frog, she turns into a beautiful princess...but she's still a frog. This is very disturbing. Now my
I'd like to compliment myself for being such a great guy. I once knew this guy named tetleytea. What a great guy.
I can see both sides to the Ph.D. thing. The problem is that Ph.D.'s are generally regarded as upper class. Why do you have middle-class people paying for Ph.D.'s to achieve upper class.... Is that reality? Not exactly, on multiple counts. But the perception is understandable. However, in economics, growing the education level of your constituency is categorized as growing your economic base. It's like a farmer spending money
It's because Euclid died. And you know WHY Euclid died? Because he's one of those blasted Ancient Greeks.
You know those ancient Greeks are all dead now. They died. And you know why? Because of their bad logic.
You know, a nice big game on a couple big monitors would be quite fun. I never played on more than a single 21". It may be time to resurrect this on a twin 24" config.
[quote]My unit in Iraq [/quote] This explains where you're coming from right there. It's an awfully tough pill to swallow to say that your full-time career you do for a living is founded on a lie--and when it's military personnel that makes it all the more politically incorrect on top of that--but unfortunately that is what I'm saying. Partisanship has nothing to do with it.
[quote]Random complainers aren't compliant.[/quote] We need compliant complaints, as opposed to noncompliant complaints or compliant noncomplaints. You should complain to the complainants that they're noncompliant complainants.
MHO but I don't think Obama has committed treason. I don't contest what you say, but it doesn't measure up to flat out lying about WMD and resulting in the deaths of well over 100,000 people. The crimes he committed cannot be overstated.
[quote]Oh yes.... wanted to ask: Does anyone know who's getting away with treason, and who's letting them? Grizzyloins, you never did say...[/quote] George W. Bush did. You asked...I answered....
That's what I want to know, too. Maybe it's just Windows 7 compatibility?
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