Recent content by soundjata

Of course... In isolation one should prioritize aggressively settling an archer/copper city before building the Oracle using organized religion. :hmm: To be fair I read a rather disgusting mixture of correct and incorrect instructions. Those AIs are not ready to cook my food :o

I loved how you coined a modern disease. Going faster. Stealing time. But why???? Time is unlimited :hammer2:

This is fascinating. Democracy, institutions, security architecture... A whole lexicon is getting obsolete. Cadavers, everywhere. Do not cry for the system that is already dead. Cherish the one that will grow on its corpse instead :love:*

I had cashew nuts. Really good cashew nuts :yumyum:

Interesting thoughts. Movements. The post world war political/economical/mediatic status-quo is cracking? Democracy is dead and its body is hung in our face whatever the media we consume. Whereas on the 5 continents, universal suffrage is the sacro saint king-making simulacrum. Few countries...

The bigger you are, the harder you fall :D

Let us take the ant nest as an example of a society without a monetary system. Now let us introduce a gold-coin, that the ants can trade between each-other, in exchange for material goods. What kind of difference will that introduce into the regular ant society in your opinion?

Exactly. Any monetary (or economical) system automatically leads to a situation of monopoly. (or relative monopoly if you prefer) It is a simple fact that anyone can observe anywhere they look.

Like a snail, building its shell, calcification is what we do. I saw Hong Kong: huge iron & concrete bars. Money bars. I hear about war and reconstruction. Economy is pointless. It is a lie. An hallucination. It is not a condition for our existence but a jail, a sufferance. Redemption is outside...

What a shame, we can only see an infinitesimal fraction of an ocean of beauty then :cry:

Only 4 billion maps? Quite disappointing :sad: I assumed all maps = all possible tiles ^ (number of tiles in map) but there are patterns of course. Doesn't the map generator fix the (1,1) tile first, then the (1,2) tile, etc... ? Each new tile having constrains relative to the already placed...

This game does not get old. It can not get old. I've just made a super rough calculation over How many different maps can the game generate?. The answer is pretty big: greater than 10^1000. The number of All possible games of CIV4 is terrifying :run:

I like S2 one tile north (on the ivory) The improved ivory is a mediocre tile anyways. (2f2h1c) You don't know fishing yet do you? Be careful on your fogbusting. There could be barbs spawning on the S1 and S2 spots (for example) right now :run:

Wonderful! It takes grandiose aspirations to burden yourself with the task of cleaning the internet. Can I be your Sancho Pança?

Writing letters that make commodity prices go up and down. He's just a normal crook. I think.