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I just stumbled into these forums and, lo and behold, I find that RiFE has been revitalized! It's by far my favorite 4X game and I am giddy with joy! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've started up an old RiFE game, a few days ago, now I have this Ashes of Erubus to look forward to once...

LOL Oh well.. But, you know, you could have gone RoK and built some Dorfs to take a city outside of your Hidden Valley.

Unless you install the hotfix for barbs, or run the SVN Public Beta Version (Which really should be cleaned up and released as a new Public Release, IMO.) you're going to run into a heck of a lot of barbs that shouldn't be there. But, if you wish to keep playing this version, the only thing to...

RiFE proved, at least to me, that FFH2 could be better than it was. RiFE successfully improved gameplay and depth to an extreme degree, much like FFH2 took the standard, somewhat boring, Civ IV game and stood it on it's ear and made it do magic tricks... :D Good and Evil aren't as arbitrary...

Thanks to you and Kael and the dev teams, et al, I don't play vanilla BTS. :D So, I don't have the dislike for the Espionage system that you have voiced in the past, probably because I don't know much about it. It would be nice if there were an active element involved with Guilds, but I...

Did you do a full install using the downloads and patches or did you use the SVN client? If the latter, did you install it over an existing install of the RiFE mod or install it to a new directory. Installing the SVN beta version into a new directory will require you to copy the fpak file from...

Absolutely. Pure Good and Pure Evil are, in a word, boring. Each must have their fatal flaws, their "ambiguities" and each must always have a point-of-view than an observer can understand and relate to, in order to have the most engaging appeal. Frankenstein was not evil, but the good Dr...

Perhaps I did not explain myself sufficiently, despite using up a lot of internet ink.. It's the player's perceptions that are the most important. For instance, Valk brought up WoW. WoW is built around the idea that a player's perception means everything to how they view their character and...

Names are important. They define how something is perceived from the outset. I fully understand "Alignment", at least from the classic AD&D perspective. I also understand the social component and think that it's a "Good Fit" for the game. But, the game's "Sides" were not initially designed...

A Savage Bandit popped on Turn 3, marched through the Jungle and ate my city before I could pump out a second warrior to have any hope of defending against it.

A comment on general game-play.. I see a problem with this that relates to its general appeal as a game mechanic. This has primarily been a "Good vs Evil" game. The player, to find out which Civ's are "Good" and which are "Evil" often doesn't have to go further than looking at the...

Well, I have an idea that might help introduce an additional game element. ie: Guild Wars (Not the psuedo mmo) Basically, Guilds not only afford you whatever bonuses and uu's you are going to put in, but they also allow you to conduct something like a "Trade War." So, you get Guild X...

I just re-read it... I had to revise it for length and revised-out a few necessary bits. :D Oh well, stuff happens when you're in a hurry, trying to get something down. That little dwarf's stand at Podunk Nowhere mad me re-assess the value of fortification bonuses.. And, watching the AI...

LOL! A ponderous, wide-beamed, scow, I'm sure. :D

I don't remember what it was for that game. But, judging from my play habits and that it was likely this was one of the first games after a patch, it wouldn't have been higher than Prince, if that. BUT, the AI performed.. wonderfully! The AI's SODs would come marching in and then the...

My "best game?" Well, the most entertaining and nail-biting game I have yet had in Rife was long ago, in some forgotten release. But, it was.. awesome. I was playing the Bannor, so it must have been right after a patch or one of my early games. I always play the Bannor first, on any stable...

Stumpy was one of the survivors of the Dwarves/Lizardmen event. I had plenty of units, at the time, so I marched him off to the far north and stuck him with garrison duty in Podunk Nowhere, a barb city that I had capture many turns ago. Stumpy's list of promotions was not impressive. He was...

I've been playing the DS9 scenario.. but have no idea what it is that I'm supposed to do. :D What are the static events that take place and when do they occur? What is my goal? How is it effected by the event list? Should I just declare war on everyone? Also, the game gets horribly...

And now, the ugly spectre of attempting to fully translate a fictional universe that is only half-formed itself into an open ended, fully formed game raises its shaggy head... :) Translations are difficult and translating from "entertainment fiction" to the complex reality of a game governed by...

Absolutely. That's really all you can do with a Star Trek 4X game. If you try to load it down with flavor, it just won't work - Star Trek didn't have that kind of flavor to begin with. The Star Trek franchise is more suited to adventure games, arcade/tactics games and, possibly...