Recent content by AgaresOaks

It pains me that people can read the entire writeup and still get the wrong idea. Culture in of itself is an AWFUL defence if you're just concerned about ideological pressure. Culture is a decent last resort to slow down an opposing culture victory. But at that point ideological pressure...

This. You indeed remembered correctly. It's not common for games released within a month of the steam sale to go on sale. I mean, look at the current sales. About 1 in 4 games released in the last month are on sale. And those are all indie releases I think -- and being indie isn't assurance...

Today I learned that Montreal is in Australia. Kind of odd that in the fictional DX universe it's in Canada, though. I guess Canada annexes Quebec in the future. Seriously though, don't be so dramatic. A delay of a few days isn't going to kill you. Complain about games not getting brought...

For SC addicts they have an awful lot of spare time to spend cranking out MMOs. Just like everywhere else, there's a portion of Korea that enjoys TBS games, just like every other genre.

On the strategic level, the AI is fine, really. It handles things half decently except when it picks a REALLY bad strategy (stick to one city) and never adapts out of it. I've seen it ICS well and I've seen it handle a 3-4 city strategy well. (barring diplo victories, which are just stupidly...

I find it wonderful that people with no AI experience say these things are trivial or just the matter of hiring the right people. They aren't. If they were, we'd have nothing to research. I love it when someone cites, say... XCOM as an example of wonderful AI. It just proves my point. XCOM...

7 or 8. All that needs to be done is fixing Research Agreements (you could put another 50% on their duration and cost and they'd probably STILL be too powerful) and fixing the AI so it can actually do 1UPT.

Man, it totally bites no one thought patches would ever break anything and that there should be a way to revert patches since Steam can't do that. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9233309&postcount=75 *is tired of seeing problems no one wants to fix and then having people run...

Great. Let's just have 100 range artillery and 50 move tanks so things scale properly, then. Oh wait. 2-5 are basically completely irrelevant because your industrial/modern era units will utterly crush bowmen of any type. Is it unrealistic? Sure. Does it have any impact on gameplay...

It's abstraction, people. Those things are "melee" because compared to their contemporaries, they had significantly shorter range. If things were to scale up properly, you'd basically see only artillery late game because it'd outrange everything by SOOOOOOO much there'd be no reason to get...

No one can write that bad and get published, the very concept is lau-- http://books.google.ca/books?id=JwhVRkbFhQcC&pg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false ... COUP DE GRACE THIS ABOMINATION. NOW. Before I... Superflous... semicolons.... Blarggsdgsdg#%)(!*. Ahem. I lost composure there for a minute...

King. Typically play Emperor on Civ4 and I've played some Ro3K, so I'm familiar w/ 1UPT in a grand strategy game.

Hitler Ate Sugar is STILL just as bad an argument as ever. Jack Thompson defending Mass Effect suddenly does not make it a bad game. If you're going to argue it sucks, argue it sucks on its own merits. Disclaimer: this post was for demonstrative purposes. While I coincidentally hold the views...

To my understanding, Steam doesn't let you downgrade patches or update to a previous patch. (this is from what I hear from users, I have a bricks-and-mortar copy) This causes problems running mods built for patches which aren't the current one. Will there be some way to downgrade if you later...