Recent content by Tarquelne

Cool! I wondering what new civs might be added. While Kush seemed a good one, I thought it's relative obscurity would keep it out of the game. Great to see I was wrong.

I'd guess the lack of connection to an existing big-IP is the biggest factor: Not only are a lot of people going to go for the more accessible looking games, they may not even look beyond the most popular titles when shopping. I suspect the game being confined to ancient times is a factor. I...

So glad to find this! Thank you. Still on my first game, and feeling like the sequel to Civ4 has at last arrived. I was happy to see all those little numbers and icons ... But what do they mean? Like, really mean. Finally: Details! Now I'm going to go see if the stuff I've already learned from...

It can work. It worked well for me. I think the mistake is thinking of it as a way of dating. It's more of an alternative to dating. You wait until a friendship grows naturally into something more, and then start doing stuff as a couple. Yes, someone has to put themself out there first, but this...

Personally, a decade of some people continuing to support a bad, bad, BAD decision makes me more likely to vote and/or pay attention to them. Wait ... no, "less likely." Sorry. I get confused sometimes, because this was a really tough decision. But, after much thought, I finally decided that if...

You persist in the belief that forum debates are about increasing understanding, don't you? Wrong. They're about finding at least one thing you can plausibly - perhaps even genuinely - misunderstand, and then replying to it. Bonus points: be offended. The only way to get anywhere is to craft...

Hi there! Interesting ideas Jojo_Fr! I think you're right about the AI - I gather it'd be a HUGE task, there are so many quirks to the Scions. I'm not actively doing any Civ stuff (so PMing was a good idea, though I don't even come to the forums very often). I can point out a couple of boosts...

One of the forum's less endearing qualities. I stopped posting, and mostly stopped reading, after I set up my ignore list. I populated the ignore list with posters I'd decided it was a waste of time to read or engage. OK ... fine. Now I can just talk to the interesting people, right...

Hey, this is awesome! Hankering for a good 4x I recently dusted off Civ4. Now poking around the old forum ... noticed this: Yup! I'll cop to wanting to control and determine every little thing about my baby. But it was created with a LOT of help from others and I'm just thrilled anyone's...

Ooo, there are people here! I was curious. I tried "Endless Legend" recently. At first I thought it awesome. Pretty soon, however, I concluded that there wasn't enough game under all the attractive innovations. Good concept, not so good execution of the nitty gritty. I tried Civ4 again and...

Assuming the 1000 figure above is correct, and the figure on police-caused fatalities in the first article I found is correct, for every police-caused fatality in Germany there are 62.5 in the US. That is adjusted for population. The figures are two years apart, but in 2010 Germany had more...

It was once claimed to me by a misogynist that moderate feminists say extreme things. So now I avoid moderate feminists and hope moderate feminists avoid them too.

I don't know about "libertarians" in general. But if you mean those who seem terribly naive, hopelessly idealistic, and completely misanthropic by turns, then when confronted scornfully tell you to go read Mises, I think the problem is "." That's right, the period. Lots of people don't like...

I believe I've got it pretty much figured out. Thanks, guys. Barley, as a commodity, would have commonly been used alongside precious metals - and everything else - as barter. Precious metals and barley, though, were in high-demand and relatively portable, so they were used as a sort of...

Right! Koku. I should have remembered that from Japanese-themed computer games, if nothing else. That'll be worth investigationg. Downloading some info on the Dojima Exchange now ...