Paradox doesn't do it for me anymore (cept CK2, but for entirely different reasons), and Total War is only good for battles.
Its a shame, really.
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Paradox doesn't do it for me anymore (cept CK2, but for entirely different reasons), and Total War is only good for battles.
Its a shame, really.
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I still can't tell if its nostalgia that makes everyone go wild for it, if it really improved game-play by a significant amount.
Have you...ever actually played EB?
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Is anyone else really annoyed at the assinine light bulb regulations that are going into effect in 2014 in the USA? Apparently I have to start buying lightbulbs that cost ~10 times as much, generate worse lighting, and here's the kicker, burn out far more regularly when your power surges on and off for brief periods of time(particularly in the winter) because you aren't living in some stupid city.
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The reasoning is crap in my case. We wind up needing lights in fixtures that don't get a lot of on time, in environments that get cold during the winter, and there are minor surges on the lines. Too many fixtures to pay for the cost of putting in LEDs since we don't actually have them on much, and compact florescents light like crap, cost 10 times as much, fail significantly faster, and in no way make up for their manufacturing cost in energy savings considering how little they're on. I'm convinced this is the fault of some douchebag legislators that have cousins that sell these pieces of feces.
This is another one of those cases where the inconvenience to a few is well outweighed by the benefit to the many. The capacity of the electric grid is an issue. The price of adding to the capacity of ever more people burning ever more lights is much higher than the cost of switching.
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How are they going to enforce the rules effectively in the countryside?
They will not sell those bulbs to the public anymore. So when the users run out, they won't be able to replace them. Except with the new tech bulbs, or new light fixtures.
In this case what I would recommend is to just buy a 1000 incandescent bulbs, and set them aside. They're dirt cheap right now, store forever, and on a farm you ought to be able to find a place to put them until you need them.
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As I get older, the more I begrudge the metropolitan. It's a personal failing, I know. But yea, that's probably what I'm going to wind up doing. It's just that I know I'm going to run out of them at some point, since I don't really want to be in possession of 1000 bulbs. Murphy would dictate that I then immediately manage to run over the mass of them, or knock them over, or a racoon will do it for me, after having done so.
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Depends on that which you value. And where, exactly, you live. Rural poverty rates are always higher than urban ones, it's just not as dense. Like I said, it's a personal failing. I'm very fortunate. I just get tired of reading sentences during political debates from all sides that include lines like "Yea, those guys are sympathetic parties, and this'll hurt them, but there aren't enough of them to actually care about it." I don't like reading it about me, I don't like reading it when it pertains to others, but it's easier to remember and get bitter about the ones you expect to impact you.
EB is the best mod out there for any Total War game ever. But the AI still can't put up a fight and the campaign is still fundamentally broken. Maybe EBII will be better. But after realizing what a silly concept the whole franchise was I just don't have any hope left. What's the point of playing anymore? And why doesn't CA have serious competitors? They'll have to stop releasing junk then.
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Market for it is too niche to throw all that money into development.
Also you've clearly never played the Saka or Sab'yn on VH/VH before.
Also also EB's alpha should be just around the corner.
So? There's still a large crowd disappointed with the pile of steaming crap that was Rome II.
I always put battles on medium; they've said it's only balanced on that difficulty. I once played the Sweboz on hard, and I kept losing to this one stack. I reloaded over and over, and no matter what I did the battle played out the same way, no matter where it was fought. Not just in the sense that they won, but the progression of the battle was totally unaffected by whatever tactic I used. I forget the details, but it turned me off of the whole idea.
Sab'yn is easy no matter what difficulty you put it on. I've annihilated entire Ptolie stacks with half a stack of skirmishers.
EBII, you mean. Which is what I said.
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It's a sliver of what is already a very niche market. Not really worth the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars of investment it would require to get skin in the game, especially when you're fighting a brand as entrenched as the Total War series is. It's simply not worth it. Same reason you don't see all that many AAA civilization-type games.
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