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Rules and signup thread here Morning One Slowly, wearily, the Magistrate of Castle Animus hobbled over to the enormous window of his office. The morning sun had a dull shine that failed to warm the Magistrate's aching bones. The blizzard had calmed down a bit, he noticed, but snow still...

A late winter blizzard ravages a small castle on the edge of Ljosalfar lands. Wind howls through the empty battlements and causes drafts through the vacant corridors. The towering greenhouse shudders violently, but somehow remains standing. Yet the plants within, so long untended, have...

This is a small project I've felt compelled to work on, regarding the differences in perspective between NESers on how a NES should be run. There are lots of odd variations on the basic NES concept that can be seen around the forum - games with mathematically driven, calculated stats; games...

Introduction After a couple months of careful brainstorming and planning, I feel ready to give my first NES concept a try. This is a Sci-Fi NES, centered around humanity's colonization of the galaxy. It will place emphasis on international intrigue, believability ("realism" probably isn't...

It's a minor linguistic issue, but it's always bugged me. You know when someone writes a phrase along the lines of "She said what!?", in which both an exclamation point and a question mark are used? Well, which one of them goes first? I personally prefer to use "!?", just because it's more...

In America at least, the religious seem to gravitate towards a particular political view. Going by the definitions of the Political Compass, it seems like they tend towards authoritarian right wing views. Here's what I've become curious about: is this tendency a feature of religion in general...

I'm getting an audio banner quite often on CFC, which I think isn't supposed to be on this site. Sheraton "Four Points." Anyone else getting this?

A subject brought up by a slightly OT discussion on another thread. So, we're a fairly robust species, we humans. Recently added our six billionth currently living member, and adding another 200,000 or so every day. It's fairly well agreed that we could destroy the rock we live on without...

Take it as axiomatic that God exists (I don't want to debate about that here). What does (would) he want? As I understand it, Christians have a pretty specific list of stuff that God wants. Atheists might have their own ideas about what a good should want, and agnostics could have their ideas...

I was playing a game of vanilla Civ the other day when a thought occured to me. I was thinking of how armies have traditionally had two types of soldiers: conscripts and professionals. This is very applicable to FfH. One of the quirks about militaries in this mod is the way that there's...

So, the other day, I went back and played a game of vanilla Civ, with raging barbarians on (as they are when I play FfH). Imagine my surprise when beating the barbs turned out to be more difficult in vanilla Civ than in FfH! Given that this world is meant to be a dangerous one where Civs can...

This thread is dedicated to speculation of what the phrase "time travel" could mean in a realistic context, depictions of time travel in popular media, theories (I use the term loosely) for how time travel might work, and whatever discussions crop up around these three things. As there's no...

I'm tired of people saying "I believe in evolution!" or "I don't believe in evolution!" The theory of evolution can be broken up into several points, all of which rely on the points before it. I intend this poll to determine to what degree people believe in evolution. The first statement is...

Now that this phase is winding down, I thought it might be a good idea to hold another poll on everyone's favorite Civs. I'm fully aware that there's already another poll out there, but considering all the changes that have happened since it started, I'm sure that many of us want to change our...

In a fit of curiosity, I decided to take a look at those religious tier-3 units that I so often neglect. The results of my studies are pretty interesting (to me), so I thought I'd put them down. Fellowship of Leaves: N/A I suppose I can see the logic of not giving these guys a religious...

I seem to be having a veritable explosion of ideas lately, but I'm trying to stem the tide if only because I suspect that many of them are, frankly, crap. Here's an interesting one I've had recently, though. I think it's safe to say that the five main unit types in FfH (I'm counting Melee...

I was going to post the following points in their respective threads, but I believe I have enough ideas here to merit a full-fledged suggestion discusion thread. 1) The AI seems extremely hesitant to upgrade the units that require resources and buildings. Units that don't require any...

I decided to shake up my pattern of playing little but the Malakim and Ljosalfar, and tried out a game as the Grigori. I've played them before, but generally those games didn't get too far (both because of other gaming opertunities and because new patches often come out in the middle of a...

From the start of the game, the player has to choose which techs to research now and which ones to research later. Some techs are obviously more valuable at the moment than others, and these get picked first. A player that thinks ahead will make a tech further down the line his goal, and will...

So I'm trying to get FfH to work on another computer. Vanilla Civ IV works fine (I've made sure of this). I've also loaded some of the mods that come with the game (namely American Revolution), so I know it's not a problem with mods in general. However, whenever I try to load FfH, little Civ...