Recent content by Torakami_Bltzen

fifty decades= 50x10= 500yrs U.S. is missing a nuke too?! jeez you'd think they'd keep better track of such things!

I chose "attack of robots/machines". The reason I chose this is that I strongly believe that as soon as 2050, robots will surpass humans in all aspects of knowledge. After that, robots will no longer need humans to program them, as they themselves will be better at building better robots. As...

I agree that there are definitly risks to having nuclear weapons and, to a lesser degree, nuclear energy and nuclear powered ships, etc. However, the potential benefits of nuclear power are too great IMO to warrent the banishment of nuclear power. Of all countries with nuclear weapons, N. Korea...

Recently, a group of college students from Drake University organized an anti-war protest. It was a non-violent and simple protest, one which every American citizen should have the right to participate in. For the first time in decades, however, the United States government has demanded that...

because sadaam messed with texas

I'd rather have life in prison. Except if it was solitary, in which case death. I think most prisons nowadays have basic cable, and a library, and let you write... I'd probably just read and write books. Better than dying in my opinion.

I sortof used the wrong words when I said primitive societies. I meant in the past, more wars were in the name of religion. There are still wars that are based on a fundamental difference in believe structure. Israelis vs. Palistinians for example. Now I know that there are assuredly economic...

Depends on how advanced a society is... The more primitive, the more wars are probably focused on religion, more advanced societies are definitly more geared towards economic gain.

Well if you are a Christian who believes in biblical literalism, light is good and darkness is evil because god says so. Light is associated with knowledge and enlightenment in many religions. When something is illuminated, it becomes clear and visible and you can learn about it. It's like...

In my opinion, a lot of the world's hunger problems would be solved by better governments, not GM fish! I like the term "terminator fish" by the way.

does anyone have a link to a good OCC thread (where someone describes their OCC game) on a high difficulty? (maybe emperor+)

widdowmaker.. do you use this city placement in higher difficulties (emperor+?) I've been under the general impression from what I read here that it's most important at higher difficulties to pack your cities in fairly tight. I think i'm going to play a regent game when I get done with the...

How did your civilization culture reach 20003 when your city culture was under 20k? how did you get that extra little bit of culture?

I'm practicing my city placement and settler flooding so I started a huge chieftain game with 7 opponents. I decided to use RCP for the first part of my game. I made a 3 ring, 6 ring, 9 ring, and 12 ring using all possible city placements not blocked by water or mountain. I have TONS of...

keep rolling archipeligo maps until you get a small island that you are alone on... and surround the entire coast with units so there can't be any wars.. at least until marines.