Recent content by Iranon

For me, it's Gaians = University > Morganites > Peacekeepers = Hive > Believers > Spartans. Gaians on top might be controversial because they struggle to get to +2 Economy. The inability to use Free Market is a very real drawback, but softened because it would negate many of their natural...

"Once you have enough minerals..." reads like "It's a good purchase if you ignore the purchasing price". Clean Reactors are dubious unless you are getting them for free or are doing something fancy like rehoming all units to a throwaway base to play around pacifism drones. For just one...

Believers can play a fairly normal game, without heavy focus on tech stealing. They're the only ones who can run Democratic without tanking their Support rating, and don't need to choose between free minerals in new bases and easy population booming. Other choices include Free Market/Democratic...

With the Gaians, I like to strip mine Planet to an extent that would make Morgan blush. Crawl fungus, aggressively develop and crawl other single-tile yields, work as many boreholes as possible. Mind worms are another resource to be harvested, so Greenwashing is good. Few or no forests: Awkward...

Bah, I wish kids these days with their fancy modern music would get off my highly-pixellated lawn! I think computer game music from the 80ies is in many ways more memorable because it's more unique, trying to get rich sound out of limited technology. The Cybernoid 2 title theme probably...

Well, that IS bloody obnoxious. I'll do a little dance of joy the day software companies stop trying to annoy their users into doing something.

Most that would make it on my top 10 list haven't been mentioned yet. Dwarf Fortress Nethack Aurora Ultima 7: The Black Gate Star Control 2 I Wanna Be The Guy Master of Magic

That doesn't make him/her wrong though... upgrading to Windows 7 would also have been a waste of money if Vista worked fine for you.

I don't think that's the problem, it looks bad because it's an awkward compromise cobbling together mismatched parts. Not convinced about the old-style start menu squished flat, imo the removed visual fluff helped bring order to it (windows 8 start screen was designed to not need such). 3d-ish...

Same as all Windows versions that actually change anything. Microsoft gets more love for less work shipping glorified service packs... but that's not something you can do indefinitely.

that's a lazy half-measure. Following that line of thought, they should ditch inefficient mouse-driven interfaces altogether, and learn to love minimalist window managers.

How far do you want to go for configurability though? I like old-fashioned *nix Window Managers that can give you pretty much any interface you want, in functionality as well as appearance (provided you know how to express it in their configuration syntax). Won't see mainstream acceptance...

Regarding Jaguars: Besides rushing, harassment and super-medics, they also mean you can wage effective catapult-driven wars without strategic resources. Regarding units without a counter: That crown belongs to Skirmishers, Phalanxes aren't even close. Earliest unit to counter Skirmishers once...

Keyboards really depend on your requirements, you can spend $150 on a fantastic keyboard and be utterly unhappy with it. Beyond fancy features, loud styling, and being good at registering simultaneous keypresses (this is the hard part because there's some dishonesty there for general purpose...

I wouldn't consider Bowmen for the "most useless" title because they can realistically save your bacon. They are a contender for "most embarrasingly overshadowed" because Skirmishers.