Recent content by FatCatAttack

Forum polls can mask their reasons for WHY they like a particular decision they don't change the fact that they voted for it all the same. Polls are good ways for people who are still part of the community but don't feel comfortable engaging with the community to have a voice. Not everyone...

1upt and getting rid of the hideous stack of doom still remains the best decision of all time. Like someone else already mentioned the caustic nature of this forum is what keeps people from posting and gives off a false consensus. That's why Civ V design decisions constantly win anonymous...

No clue as to what his real name is. But the forum's mods have a history of confirming things like that and no one questioned him. Monster with 21 faces is the guy from the failed MMO APB for example. Others like the guy who worked on Left 4 Dead go by their real name. How is that...

You change the meaning by framing my analogy in a context you designed rather than what I meant. Then you implied that you had "nailed" my argument. That is a very passive aggressive strawman IMO. Yes the discussion is complicated but if I leave anything out feel free to point it out and I'll...

Again you are cherry picking now with selective quoting. We have to talk about catapults because we are talking about the general progression of the game. You are doing some projection here as you redefined the context from the beginning by crafting essentially a scenario type of situation...

Actually both you and the other guy did not address the other things I brought up in my first post choosing instead to cherry pick. Civ is highly abstract. A Mech Infantry can represent all those things. It's abilities however are that of it's symbolical representation. You don't think an...

No not feasible at all. Firstly for a hill to be bothered to be taken you'd have to get specifically lucky with a mountain range with ONE opening covered by a hill. Otherwise as I said in my first post: simply walk past it. Secondly you're trying to directly translate the battle instead of...

Stack of Dooms don't make sense because they don't represent combat as it occurred in the history of civilization. And I'm not referring to grognardy details like attrition either but basic stuff like a smaller army beating a larger one when both are at technological parity, the power of...

Stack of Dooms were terrible, terrible, terrible and Civ V is greater than Civ IV for this change alone. SoD's made combat topsy turvey. Not only does it completely remove the possibility of relatively small but plucky countries who out fought larger forces of being viable but also it devalues...