Recent content by Rvil Plum

I posted this in the Civ 5 discussion rants thread, but it deseres a wider airing, hence posting it here as well. ----------- Having played all of the civ games, expansion packs and most of the best mods to death and beyond, I was extremely disappointed by the way in which Civ 5 had been...

Having played all of the civ games, expansion packs and most of the best mods to death and beyond, I was extremely disappointed by the way in which Civ 5 had been dumbed down, because for me at least, it just wasn't challenging or entertaining enough. Civ 5 was so bad and in so many...

Advisors from Civ 2 were amusing, and the civ that wasn't a proper civ, (Call to Power), had some memorable early units, even though the late game space units / sci fi elements were a bit OTT, but it did speed up the late game when you could drop in units from orbit. Civ 2 Dragoons were fast...

You are entitled to display your ignorance about ancient and modern world history in this forum, but you are not entitled to use this forum to propagate you sick bigotry and overt racism as displayed by your comment , "The Palestinians are almost inhumanly evil". You have been a remarkable...

Saladin = No idea what "The Almighty dF" is on about, but there again neither does he/she, so I wouldn't worry about it. If you read back through this thread the guy/girl keeps making one unfounded claim after another. First he demonstrates an appalling lack of knowledge about the early...

1) Why do you think it's idiotic? 2) The "Kingdom of Jerusalem" you refer to was an 11th - 14th century crusader kingdom, so I have no idea what you are talking about. 3) As you mention "King David" I assume you mean a unified Jewish kingdom that may or may not have been formed circa...

I have been thinking about the power that the royal prerogative gives the monarch to protect the constitution, in comparison to the US safeguard, (i.e. their supreme court), and under what circumstances the monarch might exercise the ultimate doomsday power. I am a UK citizen so I don't...

Doesn't the Queen still exercise her royal prerogative in Canada? The powers of the royal prerogative in the UK are very wide ranging, and act as the ultimate protection / safeguard of the constitutional itself, as they give the monarch the ultimate doomsday power to intervene when the...

First knee jerk reaction was = Polynesia? Someone has been taking to many happy pills again. Second more thoughtful reaction = well errr gosh, and I suppose yes. Not in the top 3 of possible additions, but yes it's a definitely a worthy civ for inclusion. They would look out of place and...

No, they should not be included for all the above stated reasons, and for the following. There may be a lost civ that is rarely touched upon in history books, as there is so little archaeological evidence of their true trading network, military power and/or culture influence, and this lost...

Review scores were of my own making, so they were worth mentioning - LOL. The only games I give 90%+ scores to are truly exceptional games like Morrowind, Deus Ex, Stalker, Gothic 3, Thief, Company of Heroes, Half Life, (just the original + episode 2), Fallout, Operation Flashpoint, Portal...

Your choice, but most people think Civ is one of the greatest series ever produced, if not the greatest, and you are complaining about lack of support in the BTS thread, which is an expansion of Civ 4. So, let's just set the record straight shall we: 1) Civ 4 is produced = good game, worthy...

I had a very long war once with the Zulu, (thousands of years), as I was testing to see if I could do a 3 city culture win on Emperor, (the answer was no I couldn't - LOL). My power rating was really bad with only a 3 city empire, so the Zulu kept relentlessly attacking me. I didn't have the...

Yes, it' a very, very different game at the higher difficulty levels, and you have to unlearn a lot of the tried and tested tactics / strategies that you learned to the lower difficulty levels, because they simply won't work any more. The easiest type of win, providing you know how to do it...

I nearly always go for the gamble, but when it goes wrong, it goes wrong big time, and I have wondered if that single event may have cost me a few games in the past. The period of stagnant growth usually costs me at least one settler and a wonder, and a long period of slower research and GP...