A doom stack is just any large army bundled together onto one square. Infinite City Spam (ICS) was a thing even in Civ II - once I even hit the maximum number of cities playing a ridiculous Civ II game.
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Broken_Erika
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Not hard to do on good sized giga-maps, the max total cities is 255, although with ToTPP you can have pratically infinite cities.
What is ToTPP? I've only ever been able to have 255 cities.
That's not enough to allow for good coverage of Naumachia in the Lalande scenario.
Ah, okay. I've tried to read that thread, and it's 99.9% over my head.
Broken_Erika
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Essentially, it's more units and cities ingame plus far more units in the units.bmp file, more terrains, more techs and LUA scripting allowing scenario creators to do all sorts of neat things. Like giving units ranged attacks.
livinginaz
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The age old trick of min-maxing (not sure if this was viable in Civ2) meant you could sit with less than 100 gold in your treasury every other turn but still barely support the mass stacks. Disband immediately when viable. Doomstack replenishing should not be required if it has dones its job correctly...
Sounds easier to position your Kineticores and Wizards in places to take care of multiple map levels at once, and add Dragons and Gyrfalcons for units that don't need to land in a city or base each turn. For land conquest, I prefer to send in a diplomat, spy, Salmagundy, or whatever and use bribery. It's less destructive.
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How offensive a word is "screwed," in the expression, "I'm screwed," i.e. in an unfortunate situation.
Is it PG-13, or R rated?
Is it NSFW?
The phrase is effectively interchangable with "I'm effed," and that is a highly offensive word.
Does it get screened by CFC's filter? That one I'll have answered in a moment.
Edit: So, a "no" to that last question. So it's like a tame-enough version of "I'm effed."
Is it PG-13, or R rated?
Is it NSFW?
The phrase is effectively interchangable with "I'm effed," and that is a highly offensive word.
Does it get screened by CFC's filter? That one I'll have answered in a moment.
Edit: So, a "no" to that last question. So it's like a tame-enough version of "I'm effed."
Considering that I use it at times, it can't be that bad.
Once upon a time in 2005 or so, I ran the Iron Pen writing competition on another forum. That forum had weird ideas about the autocensor. If you tripped it there, you got a spinning green skull in place of the offensive word.
So imagine my shock when I posted someone's story for Iron Pen and a spinning green skull showed up in it. I PM'd the author to ask which word he used, as the autocensor had been tripped. He said it was "crap" - which is a mild alternative to the other word that is part of many forums' autocensor list.
So I shot a quick message to the admins, explaining the situation and telling them that since I was likely the most easily-offended person on the forum (over 15 years ago I was offended by many things I take in stride now) and the word "crap" didn't offend me, could they remove it from the autocensor so I could post the story and give the author a fair chance in the competition? If I'd let this stand, some readers/voters would have either mocked him for the skull, or would have focused on wondering what the censored word was, rather than considering the quality of the story. The field would not have been equal.
They decided I was right, removed it, the story was posted, and everything ended well.
But I wouldn't recommend using "screwed" in this context in formal situations. It's definitely a casual, everyday informal thing.
I have just found out that OpenAI, the people who make ChatGPT, have open sourced their speech to text software. It may be a bit cutting edge for what you want, but I would be surprised if there was a better system out there.
Google London Metropolitan area?
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Stone \ Cold / Fish
Technically, it's this:
Greater London - Wikipedia
Area = 1,569 km2 (606 sq mi)
Generally, you can think of it as all the continuously urbanised bits inside the M25 motorway, including the "City of London" (= mainly the financial district, "EC" postcode, IIRC; the City is administered separately).
In between those two levels, you have the region colloquially known as Central London, which is basically all the bits served by or enclosed within the London Underground Circle Line.
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I'm partial to the old "slap a shed on top" school of design:
(it was in truth a testbed and not intended for combat, but still....)
In the army, who's job is it to read manuals, like the "Land Operations Manual"?
From the beeb report on the state lying about rubber bullets, they say:
I had always assumed that when one hears of an army manual these where documents written to be read by soldiers. This would appear not, so who is supposed to be reading these documents?
From the beeb report on the state lying about rubber bullets, they say:
Documents uncovered during the inquest revealed that in 1971 the Army's own Land Operations Manual stated baton rounds should not be used against children.
But this instruction was never passed on to soldiers.
I had always assumed that when one hears of an army manual these where documents written to be read by soldiers. This would appear not, so who is supposed to be reading these documents?
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