How about the Geriatric Space Patrol? Clapper Continuum? Alzheimer’s Alliance? Also, don’t forget the tag line for the Depends Dominion: When You Absolutely, Positively Can’t Wait Hydro BTW – Borg999, this is all your fault
I like this idea in general, and think the 'point' system or a % chance is a good way to avoid gaming the event. These points would add up, so a player or AI could generally arrange to minimize but not completely eliminate the Civil War – if it were triggered. Factors that increase chance of Civil War: • Evil race (++) • Evil leaning race (+) • Morale where there is negative population growth (++) • Morale where there is no population growth (+) • Random event (+)<br
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The planet will show up on your colony screen, but all production has the helpful word "NEVER", indicating (as Kyro says) that you'll get nothing until you research that colonization tech. Of course, you may get the tech when you invade - kind of a welcome-to-the-neighborhood present. Hydro
Master Wyndstar, I respect and admire folks who can see possibilities and have a first rate strategic mind, and you clearly fall into this category. This is even more true for folks such as yourself who are generous enough spend your valuable time to share your findings in clear, exquisitely reasoned and readable prose. I’m not sure why people are complaining to you, though. As far as I’m concerned if folks don’t like the All Lab/All Manu strategy - or any other strategy for
Hmmm. An empire just for Geezers. How about the Depends Dominion? For when you truly, absolutely can't wait... Hydro
Another game for honorable mention: SimEarth. Watching and participating in Earth’s evolution was a kick, and the terraforming Mars scenario was a hoot. Sadly, it simply won’t work on post-XT PCs, and no emulations I’ve tried has worked. **sigh** Hydro
GW Swicord - I LOVED SimEarth! Watching evolution and getting a condensed version of billions of years of Earth's history was wonderful (I'm a geologist - go figure.). I particularly liked the terraforming Mars scenario. I've tried to get it to run on my newer PCs via various emulations, but no joy. It is still sitting in its box...waiting. Hydro
I had the DLs show up in the later portion of a DA game a while ago. I had 3 transports nearby and invaded immediately. End of problem. It would have been a different story if it had been early, though. Hydro
slabster, I like the hard analysis, which is missing from my AARs. This helps me understand and de-black-boxify the game. I have to admit I’ve been a bit lazy in ferreting out the mechanics of the game so your work is appreciated. It’s like deconstructing GalCiv2! My only suggestion is to use more paragraphs, spaces, and bullets to break up the text a bit and divide the major subsections/topics. This might be especially helpful when you dive into the nitty gritty of the product
Most of the global warming climate model results I've seen (summaries of, anyway) show the USA Midwest getting drier to much drier: think Oklahoma (fairly dry, hot) or West Texas (hot, arid to desert). Florida is a largely former coral reef that is just above sea level, so it doesn't take much of an imagination to think it will return from whence it came... Hydro
Oz, You have it the nail on the head: even if anthropogenic global warming is true, are we willing to pay the price to stop it? Right now China is bringing on line enough coal fired power plants to power Britain EVERY TWO YEARS. By 2010 China will emit more CO2 than the USA (who is the Bad Boy poster child for most of the world), and China’s CO2 growth rate is exponential at this point. And this doesn’t even consider India, which is also developing rapidly (growth rate last year was ~10
Wow! I love the use of lots of screenshots. This just shows that a defeat can be a great story! Hydro
GJD - thanks for the tips! There are too many choices and not enough time, so I browse through the various SF awards for good SF book candidates: Arthur C Clark SF Award: http://www.sfsite.com/lists/award-arthurcclarke01.htm British Science Fiction Awards http://www.bsfa.co.uk/index.cfm/section.awrdlist Hugo Awards http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html Nebula SF Awards http://www.dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/ If there are others
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It’s interesting to know of the bug, but I’m not sure it is a big deal. After all, it is now apparent how to minimize it - don’t reload. This does to some degree affect the level of difficulty due to AI advantage, and if it the bug presents too much of a challenge I can just move to a different difficulty level. Fair is fair. That said, I am by no means a power player: I play for fun, and GalCiv2 if fun. Brad and his team have done an outstanding job and I appreciate their efforts. <br
GalienEvil - Actually, I’m pretty sure our sun’s temperature has been increasing since life started 2-3B odd years ago. During this time the Earth’s atmospheric temperature has been more or less stable, or at least stable enough to maintain life – kind of a life-centered feedback loop, where CO2 and the greenhouse effect are a vital factor. Eventually as the sun becomes elderly its outer fringes and energy output will crispy fry Earth, but that singular event is billions of years away. <br/
Friend Oz, My much-abbreviated summary of the causes for global warming is below. This summary is based on the article in the Skeptical Enquirer: Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming by Stuart Jordan, senior staff scientist with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. I tried to keep the summary accurate and concise, and any errors in my summary are mine and I apologize in advance. If you’re interested in the entire text, it is available at the Center for
LostHero, Nice story with an interesting premise! You may want to post future AARs in the AAR section. The images are fine, by the way. But please consider using a spell checker and kindly use capital letters with your sentences since that makes it much easier to read. Thanks! Hydro
What did you have in mind? A fictionalized version of the more technical AARs? Or fleshing out some of the existing short stories? I'm not sure paying is a terribly good idea, though. Most sites like this do have some Fan Fiction, which is submitted simply because the game has inspired the authors. Hydro
Well, I’m 43, not married, but always looking for The One. I detest first person shooter games as mind numbing and twitchy and generally dislike RT game as click fests. That leaves, of course, turn based strategy games. I recall many hours behind my blinding amber monitor of my oh-so-hot XT in grad school playing Populous. Later I graduated to Civ, Moo2, and then fell out of computer games for a while – until I discovered SMAC in 1999. I was traveling on business and had lots of free time in the
Braddock – you asked for what struck me as wrong in Crichton’s discussion. There were several, but the one that caught my attention and set off my BS Detector was his discussion on Consensus Science. In the speech text he states that consensus in science is irrelevant. His point is that science is not a democracy where anointed ones will decide what is true. Further, this statement is meant to impugn the statements made by all the major scientific organizations in the US, Europe, and t
There are two pages. All the detail is in page 1 of 2. Hydro
NaytchGC – why, thank you! They’re fun to write, but take a LOT of time. Sadly Real Life has intervened to remove most of my free time **sigh**. I read Starship Troopers ages ago and Ender’s Game (with its many sequels). Loved them both – a lot. They’re all safely tucked away in my SF library. I have a few Virge, but not Fire on the Deep . I don’t have any Stross. I’ll put both on the list, although if they’re out of print I may have to scour used book stores. Dune was go
Out of curiosity I read the article. It did get a chuckle out of me since, although there were some intriguing ideas, it was full of assertions and ‘facts’ that struck me as just plain wrong. Of course, Mr. Crichton is selling his point just as hard as those he criticizes. He has an agenda – and is pushing it hard: he cherry picks his examples, sets up strawmen (the SETI formula – and his silly hook statement that got us all to read the article), and then obligingly knocks them down –
Good luck! I'll keep my eyes pealed for 'Wyndstar' in a few months! Hydro
Wonderful story. Excellent AAR! It certainly IS epic! Hydro