Recent content by fret

Is there a similar map showing the actual historical limits of Roman influence?

I'll repost what I was commenting against, as I think it has been lost in some sort of left vs right idealogical position - "even more" - no it isnt, its less "draining more" - no it isnt, its draining less "wasteful jobs" - they are hindering productivity, not helping "contribute back" - 100%...

But welfare is lower than public sector salary. So firing public sector worker is a net gain.

If one did provide research it would be a lesson in cherry picking. The rules are you pluck an amazon jungle baby at 1 day old and place it in a middle class family with a doctor and an accountant for parents, chances are the amazon baby will do pretty damn well at college and in life...

What a curious comparison. In the west you avoid being ostracized by avoiding saying something derogatory... in the middle east you avoid being ostracized by avoiding saying something complimentary.

I don't believe that my 'up to 100,000 euros' will be protected come what may. Not that I have anywhere near that lol. If there is another massive crash and there are real problems and bank collapses akin to 2008 RBS.... Yeah I might get my taxpayer funded 100,000 units, but it will probably...

I am a humanist and I do consider myself superior because of that viewpoint. I am able to be a morally good person without the need of a nonsensical higher authority telling (forcing?) me to act in that way.

...my ever increasing collection of classic games. Mostly Sega stuff that I never owned back in the day but have slowly gathered over the last 20 years.

What you posted is a load of crap. Consumer protection has nothing to do with patience. Unilateral mandatory arbitration without any statutory underpinning is a big spiky cactus up the butt hole of gamers. Digital media products are treated differently to physical good, and the sooner that...

cybrxkhan hits the nail on the head there with the use of the word 'flexibility'. SC4 certainly offers that, great big buckets of it. Ive been having fun with SC5 over the past few days, but that is all it is, a bit of fun. There is just no challenge in it. I don't think it is going to have...

Yeah it's just a shame the 'magic bullet' had to be fired at such a great franchise. Still, at least it wasn't a Civ title that 'took the big one' for the team.

Because EA financial year end is Mar 31st. ...see above. I think this vid explains the problems of EA perfectly, just replace 'Bioware' with Maxis, and 'three dudes' with 'Will Wright'... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6TmTv6deTI

Interesting Reddit someSim3modderDude uses same modding tools as Sims 3 on Sim City type thread - http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a8bw7/how_to_mod_sim_city_2013_getting_started_basics/

While it doesn't answer your question directly, the following post, in the context of poor AI pathfinding, explains a lot about the number of agents and their effect on the traveling salesman problem...

_______ issue a patch that reduces the number of agents even further* and sell them DLC which allows bigger city tiles. *(which they have already done since launch, allegedly )