RB1 - Cuban Isolationists

[Own]

Meanwhile, back at the Succession game...

 

[Sirian]

Meanwhile, back at the Succession game...

Nope, sorry. The SG is on hold for a few days. Are you skimming, now?

I suppose I could stop posting until the game resumes. Would that be better?


- Sirian

 

[Own]

No, please keep posting Sirian .

 

[eldar]

Keep posting, and keep making us mere mortal gamers feel inadequate

 

[Andygal]

lurker's comment: when will you be getting your new computer?

*nag*

 

[Garath]

All Hail Sullla, King of DDR!

I mean, I account myself a pretty decent player, and I can maybe *pass* Can't Stop Falling in Love Speed Mix. AAAing it is... impressive.

Now, I can do that and more on Stepmania, but that's an entirely different story, as Sullla will know.

Garath (biding his time until Sirian gets a new computer by waiting for, and then playing, Epic 1)

 

[Sirian]

*nag*

Three day shipping for some parts will mean probably Thursday before I have everything here. Could be Friday. Worst case, could be longer, if something arrives not in working order (unlikely, but you never know.) Plus I have to assemble it, format and set up my new RAID drives, and then install a bunch of software and copy over reams of data from my old drives. Civ4 will be among the early items installed, but there is also Doom 3 and Age 3 sitting here, and I -WILL- have to have a peek at those, too.

It's been ten years since I laid out two and a half grand for a high end system. Back then, it was $500 bucks just for the memory (16MB! Two 8MB strips, $240 apiece, sheesh), and the monitor (top of the line and lasted me ten years -- I just replaced it a couple of months ago, when a worthy gaming LCD monitor finally came out)... the monitor back then cost me $1k. My eyesight sucks, so the monitor is the one thing I chose that was absolute top of the line. Now the memory and monitor are cheap (even top of the line monitor, which once again I had to have), but the motherboard and CPU are up there, and getting four hard drives instead of one tacks on a fair piece of change. Back then, there was no such thing (yet) as a "3D graphics accelerator". A 4X speed CD-ROM was a big deal. Windows 95 had just been released.

I've been doing budget upgrades and moves since then, but now that I finally have broadband internet (just came to my area in summer 2004 -- I was actually still operating off of DIAL UP when I started working on Civ4, and yes I have played Civ4 multi over dialup) I am ready again for a machine capable of running the latest shooters at high quality.

What the heck, right? It's been a good year. I met my target on saving up enough dough to secure a key investment property. With some wiggle room past that, I might as well splurge a bit on the one instrument I use the most: my computer. (If you knew how little money I spend in general, though, your jaw would drop. Hey, you learn to conserve when you sometimes go a whole year without making a cent, because you care more about working on what matters to you than you do about pulling a paycheck. I've done that more than once -- there are down sides to any potential choice -- but it was my choice, and I wouldn't change a thing. I love being me! I hope you feel the same about yourself. If not, you might want to figure out why and make some changes. Life is too short to burn chunks of it on being miserable.)


Once the new rig is operational, I should be good to finish out RB1, as well as play Epic One. Then I have to set up my Civ4 site. Busy busy busy.


- Sirian

 

[Griselda]

Psst! Since this game (and thread) are on intermission anyway, I think I can mention that Epic 1 is now open without being OT. Right? Enjoy!

 

[eldar]

DDR: Okay, I'm impressed. Even my mate Andy can't manage those sort of scores. (And he's not exactly the kind of person you'd look at and say 'now there's a decent DDR player!')

Tetris: I've surpassed 500k (with 220+ lines) once on the original GB Tetris, and 400k many times. All starting at Level 9. On one occasion, I've hit 200k made up entirely of Tetrises. I'm still to find a version that comes close, and I'm just as annoyed that the GB version doesn't save scores. However, I'm still impressed - nearly 300 lines on any version of the game is a damned fine effort

 

[ugignadl]

DDR: Okay, I'm impressed. Even my mate Andy can't manage those sort of scores. (And he's not exactly the kind of person you'd look at and say 'now there's a decent DDR player!')

Tetris: I've surpassed 500k (with 220+ lines) once on the original GB Tetris, and 400k many times. All starting at Level 9. On one occasion, I've hit 200k made up entirely of Tetrises. I'm still to find a version that comes close, and I'm just as annoyed that the GB version doesn't save scores. However, I'm still impressed - nearly 300 lines on any version of the game is a damned fine effort

Let's just go even further off-topic...but. Don't say ``almost any version'', because they are all different! From each version of tetris to the next you can have vast changes in score. I've played that exact game Sulla is mentioning, and he's right. It's a split second, you're NOT going to get any better than your ``damned fine effort''. Bah.

PWR to the Cubans! I had crashing problems as well Sirian, but to fix them I...

(Ref: System is a fast machine with 6800 Ultra, GB Corsair)

- Downgraded my drivers (nVidia), then I could start the game
- Changed VM size to 4 GB, then I could start the game on a big map
- Stopped playing Tilted Axis (worker order bug)
- Waited, downloaded the patch

Haven't had any crashes since...

Oh, and I love CIV .

 

[·Imhotep·]

Since we are all waiting for Sirian to continue the rout of the worlds' non-cuban population I hope you have a mind and answer a question. Well, I've finally received my copy of Civ IV and I'm quite impressed by it - even on minimum settings it looks awesome (yes, I'd like to have a high-end machine too *sigh*). Great game ! MP games with a friend - never had so much fun when sitting in front of a PC (except when visiting nice websites ) . But I'd like to ask what you can do against city unhealthiness for it is my main problem once the cities grow big. Okay, I built hospitals and tried to keep the forests alive. No more chopping . But it's really tough to avoid city unhealthiness even then. I know it does no harm except burning food for nothing, but I'd like to adjust this so that the cities can grow bigger. Thanks for your interest, back to DOS.

Regards,

Lord Timon

 

[Sullla]

Ways to combat unhealthiness:

1) Get food resources (acquire them yourself or trade for them). This is the main way to gain additional health.
2) Build city improvements that directly add health (aqueducts and hospitals).
3) Build city improvements that indirectly add health (granaries, harbors, grocers, etc. with certain food resources).
4) Found cities on fresh water.
5) Keep your forests intact and don't chop them.
6) Late game - research Genetics or adopt Environmentalism.

That's what comes to mind off the top of my head.

 

[ChrTh]

Ways to combat unhealthiness:

1) Get food resources (acquire them yourself or trade for them).

*snip*

How willing is the AI to trade corn, wheat, etc.? Do they treat it on par with a strategic resource like iron, or do they value it less?

 

[Mike Lemmer]

They definitely value it less. They won't trade with you unless they have 2 or more of it & you have more than 2 of a resource they want.

 

[DementedAvenger]

They definitely value it less. They won't trade with you unless they have 2 or more of it & you have more than 2 of a resource they want.

I've found they value health resources about as much as happiness resources (except ivory, of course), but less than strategic resources.

I have to disagree with the last part of your statement, though, as there have been many times where I've traded my only health resource for a happiness resources that the AI has in abundance. All they care about is if it's their last resource - they have no problem taking your last resource.

 

[Own]

All Hail Sullla, King of DDR!

I love DDR! I can't pass Legend of Max or Max 300 on heavy, but can on standard. I've also gotten an A on both heavy Can't Stop Falling in Love and Afronova. Yet I'm still the worst of my group of DDR fanatic friends .

 

[knupp715]

Originally Posted by Sirian
The problem with Tetris, however, is what too much of it does to my head. If I play much Tetris, I start to dream about it. My mind gets locked on to seeing the various shapes and fitting them together, all hours of the day, even if I am doing something else. Takes three or four days of no Tetris to get the dreams and "seeing the shapes" to stop.

Not only that, but if you play it long enough you will "hear" (or think you hear) the tetris music for days on end. It won't get out of your head!!!


(Edit)
P.S. I think it's amazing how extremely popular and addicting Tetris is. It is such a simple concept, and yet so many people love it. I haven't played that much of it, but the thing about the hearing the music, it's true.

 

[Sirian]

Ways to combat unhealthiness:

1) Get food resources (acquire them yourself or trade for them). This is the main way to gain additional health.
2) Build city improvements that directly add health (aqueducts and hospitals).
3) Build city improvements that indirectly add health (granaries, harbors, grocers, etc. with certain food resources).
4) Found cities on fresh water.
5) Keep your forests intact and don't chop them.
6) Late game - research Genetics or adopt Environmentalism.

That's what comes to mind off the top of my head.

7) Play an Expansionist leader.
8. Research Future Techs.
9) Remove (chop) excess Jungle.
10) Avoid pollution causing buildings, or build Recycling Centers to negate their effects.

 

[Own]

How many days has it been ?

 

[Renata]

I feel so old. I played Tetris in the arcade.