Recent content by Ethan211

Dale, how much time have you spent programming this patch vs. posting on here to defend the changes you've made? I demand that you not only answer my question, but also make me a pie chart and include, in Excel format, the full breakdown of contributing data, complete with dates and times.

Oh wow, I must've missed somewhere that the prices don't change, I thought the entire bug was that your tax rate never went up. If this is the case, it takes the bottom right out of the smuggling argument because regardless of whether you're sneaking the goods past the king's bean-counters...

Screen FTW. Less Work + More America = Better Mod Were you thinking of having Africa on the map so you could take advantage of the trade mechanics that are already built into game for when you're trading with the Indians? That might be cool, but I think you would have to use too much of the...

Did you stomp him out after he fell? You know that if you don't, he'll be back at full health the next turn, and there's no way you'll get two critical hit rolls in a row, not a chance.

That's funny, way to stick it out.

While it's not great, I wouldn't say Col2 is bad, it's just that it pales in comparison to the unbelievableness of the first one; I mean, for me, Colonization forms one part of the holy trinity of Games From When I Was a Kid, the other two being Doom and X-Com. Now if only Doomsday were more...

Hmm... I'm wondering now how the randomizer behind the scenes works, because even if the outcome of a battle is determined long before you even give the order, even if all possible battles were determined at the beginning of the game, as long as the win/lose chance that the battle had when it...

Or make them all rebel against your whitey tyranny:D

Wow, another really interesting idea, about having to fight some of your own people. I just did a little reading and I guess this did happen to some degree during the real revolution, though it sounds like most loyalists just tried to keep their heads down, while some fled and a few fought with...

Well, if you've evaluated it thorougly using save/load, then I would agree that the unwinnable battles thing sucks and should've probably been programmed a different way. As far as changing the mechanics of combat outside of RNG, I would be wary of anything that's going to drag combats out...

Ooooh, the mention of Louis Riel got me thinking, maybe some of the new colonists born in colonies with a high native population could be Metis, with smaller bonuses than full-blooded natives to working outdoors but no penalties to city work.

This is a friggin' awesome idea.

If you like, attach a save game to your post and we'll try to see if you made any obvious mistakes. Did you have any printing presses / newspapers built, or any of the founding fathers that give a boost to bell production and were you using Elder Statesmen in your city halls? Rebel sentiment...

Amen. For fear of sounding like a broken record, I remember this being one of the things they got closer to right the first time around.