Recent content by PPQ_Purple

So your simple solution is to rewrite the game from the ground up? Honestly, as someone who maintains a commercial multithreaded application as a day job I can tell you that this is pretty much what would be required. As others have already said multithreading is hard. You need to structure...

No but it is a nice way of reminding the player that he let that evil into his game and making him pay for it.

It boils down to the fact that reviewing a piece of code to see how and if its going to work without knowing anything about how it was written basically takes as much effort as just writing your own anyway.

It's impossible to know without plugging it into the rest of the DLL and testing it. But I would advise you to consider the fact you have to ask that question.

As a professional software developer this sentence hurt my soul.

Honestly, the UN is not badly thought out at all. It is vastly, massively, extremely and fundamentally unfun and game spoiling. But I genuinely think that is by design if for no other reason than because that is precisely what the real life UN does as well.

I feel the exact opposite way. I find the regular pace of the game too fast and prefer modded ultra slow game speeds and massive worlds. 200 turns is how long it takes me to get warmed up to a game and 800 or so is about the point where I am half way done. And no, I do not use any automation...

Combine what he said and what I said though and you basically have a free promotion for the unit through the whole empire. If he wants just access to the promotion instead of actually granting it that can be done easily enough as well. Create the custom promotion you want. Now create a second...

Honestly, I don't think we will. If anything I think that if AGI does happen it will happen due to a deliberate, difficult and directed effort to create it. It's just a thing that's too complex and has far too many moving parts for it to appear on accident.

Apologies, but due to the explicit moderator command just above your post I will not be making further replies on the subject.

Honestly I don't think they do. Well, not any more than any nation does. Which they all do to some extent. Perpetual expansion is just the standard baseline for all nations. But I don't really see Russia as deviating much from that baseline and into especially conquer hungry territory. I mean...

I think we agree in principal if not in the details of the analogy. Basically I think, and you seem to agree with, is that the current approach will yield useful tools for the future and that it will reveal principals and lessons that we can eventually apply to future more general AI projects...

As I said, they are grabbing land. But they aren't doing so because they really want the land. It's just a coincidence that carving chunks out of a country and stealing them is a really good and efficient way to ruin that country. Kind of like how if you're lopping off someones arms and legs you...

Honestly I am just waiting for the west to declare ISIS a friend and ally like they did the Taliban. :( All the while innocent civilians are dying and people are cheering. This is not a land grab. Not really. As you say, it's an attempt to turn the Ukraine into a Mexico. Stealing some land is a...

And because, let's be honest, it's a failed narco state that can't even control its own territory properly. And the US likes it that way. If you look at the history of Mexico-American relations you'll find about the same general relationship as historical Russia and Poland. And that's no...