Recent content by Tholish

This is a mod I made just for my personal enjoyment. I just threw together a bunch of stuff I liked. Not a lot of programming, just XML. First, I just made up compleely new civilizations and leaders, all totally fictional. The leaderheads are various obscure ones I selected, but they make...

For Civ VI, just go to all the things we wanted for Civ V. Which was many many things if you look at old threads, many great, many dumb, many contradicting each other. So "what we need for VI" is basically the flip side of the "what's disappointing about V" coin. From my experience so...

This problem is exactly why I quit trying to do anything ambitious with modding (other than working on a little mod for my own enertainment). It was quite discouraging to know that there was this insurmountable limit. It looks like Asaf has solved the unsolvable problem. Bowing down thing...

Oh, I will. Anyway, I finally got the top left half to work adequately. I stick this if (zoomX<1) { distance=0-zoomX; if (tileX<distance) displayX=0-((tileX-distance)*zoom); }; if (zoomY<1) { distance=0-zoomY; if (tileY<distance) displayY=0-((tileY-distance)*zoom); }...

That would be the easy way. Just a duplicate map array for the near edge sections to show that it wraps, and how. After exhaustive experimentation, I have discovered a way to mark such a mapped area by deleting every other pixel (so that nobody gets confused, thinking its the real map)...

I'm trying to write a civ like game from scratch, but it is to have diagonal wrap: go off the top edge and you come out at the left side the same distance from the north pole (upper left corner); go off the bottom edge and you come ouat at the right side the same distance from the south pole...

You could make a matrix of all the genres and just crossbreed them. In fact, you could crossbreed RPG and RTS as Massively Multiplayer. The geography is multiple feuding principalities being played RTS style by one group of players, for whom the RPG players are a random civilian element, while...

I picked my screen name because it is my name on AOL. Back in the late 90s when I first got dial up internet I signed up for AOL, and had to pick a screen name. My real name was taken, as were several varaints, and in frustration I just picked a random name that popped into my head, which was...

In fact WW1 involved commando style raids and daring exploits--it wasn't all "over the top." Also, there were more theatres than the Western Front. So an FPS like Call of Duty, except set in WW1, would not necessarily be without potential.

The first game I got hooked on was Sim City 3000, then Age of Empires I, then Age of Empires II, then Civ III, then Civ IV. I've played plenty of others, but those are the ones that I just went gaga over for a long time. For instance I've played through the entire Half Life series (without...

Here's another one My idea is to create a Turn Based Strategy Game of my dreams in phases of increasing complexity. 1. Claim. This will be TBS reduced to the most basic level. The board is a grid of identical green squares, and each player starts with an army which is represented by a black...

The idea is that rather than just discussing existing games, or discussing possibilities for games that don't exist by referring to these ideas tangentially in other topics, those that have ideas for games that would have to be made from scratch could have a place to post ideas for new games...

As a consequentialist (look it up) my ethical judgements are all based on the results. Scenario A: Someone is driving their car and hits a kid who ran out into the middle of the street because they(the driver) weren't paying attention. They were not intoxicated and were following the speed...

I usually take some a bag of Ramen, carefully crunch it up in the bag with my foot so it isn't all stuck together, then put it in a pan along with the spice packet. I pour Spicy Hot V8 in the pan and cook the Ramen in that instead of water. I open a can of sardines and throw those in and mush...

Yes. We all die. That makes us a dying species. As you get older you realize how little time you have left and what a waste it is to invest all this into making you, then just delete it. And others also of course. There should be an Apollo Program to end death. Then to deal with the...