Recent content by The QC

The only argument that can be made in this direction is if the Spanish were less brutal with the other peoples in the region. I'm not knowledgeable enough to make that assessment, personally. Much of the death in the wake of the Spanish arrival was disease based, so we can't blame the Spanish...

All things aside, Tenochtitlan was an AMAZING city. Do a Google image search for it, it's totally worth it. It was very cleverly engineered too. While it didn't have any technology that the Europeans didn't possess (it probably didn't have any tech that the Sumerians didn't possess, really), it...

I do have a similar feeling. If it's too similar to Civ V, it will go stale too quickly. I hope they manage to make it different enough.

I have to say, personally I dislike what I've seen of the tech web. It's very similar with the one in Endless Space, which was one of the things that put me off that game. There are too many options at one time, which will make the learning period very confusing. Also, the simplified look makes...

I think the best for you would be to catch a moment when Civ V is available at an extremely reduces price and get it for yourself. Nobody will be able to evaluate if you'll like the game or not, not even yourself. In the beginnings of Civ V, I didn't like it in theory, but I discovered that I...

I agree, really. The only reason why I intervened was my feeling that you are casting the historicity of Jesus as being ironclad and protected by indestructible proof. I think it's the more likely hypothesis, but it's still far from certain and it's proven by a very delicate construction based...

I didn't want to imply more than that. I wasn't saying that Carrier is the bringer of truth etc. etc., just that he's the best guy to check out for the opposite view. I think I phrased things wrong there, but I did mean to refer to persons who's existence can be "reasonably questioned". It's...

IRL, I'd go even beyond that. It would be infinitely easier to "terraform" a horrendously mishandled Earth than it would be to do the same for Mars. Short of blowing the whole planet up, there's nothing we can do to Earth to make it more difficult to terraform than Mars or any other planet...

You guys are slightly overselling the case for Jesus's existence. First of all, there is no contemporary source. Josephus isn't contemporary, he wrote his works almost a generation later, and he only makes two mentions that can be interpreted in more than one way. Neither are the Christian...

I think the explanation may in fact be that Empire had a free week-end. I certainly downloaded it then.

I do love 1UPT, but definitely this is the area that they should improve. Cvilians should have infinite, un-penalized stacking. In fact, I'd go further and say that military units should also have infinite stacking, but penalized: stacked military units should not be able to attack or...

So, basically, Civ V is the second most successful non-Valve game on Steam, behind only Skyrim. That's enormous and, honestly, quite surprising. I never imagined it's this popular. It fares even better in hours played, coming up on fifth place, only behind 4 giants: DOTA 2, TF 2, and the 2...

In area, sure. In population, Germany is 2 times bigger and in GDP around 6.5 times bigger. The German army is about 3 times larger than the Polish one and in military expenditure the Germans are 9th in the world, though I don't have a quick way to find a comparison with Poland. Not that...

Man, I realize now that all of the guy's solutions to problems are war-related! How about Germany opens itself to immigration, stemming the population decline with an influx of the best and the brightest of poorer countries in Eastern Europe and Africa? This is the main tool that developed and...

I did think that his vision of the future of Turkey was really bizarre, indeed. I didn't get the feeling that he sees the Turks as Medieval, though, my feeling was that his thinking was Medieval. He somehow thinks that conquering territory is still useful this century, even though there's not...