Sombre

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    Currently cursing the UK Royal Mail. I sent the contract to my new flat on the 20th of May, by First Class, and by recorded delivery. The best of the best, basically. Now it's the 26th, and I'm tracking it. It's still at the sorting offices, and it's going no more than 20/30 miles. Normally, this wouldn't bother me, but because it's meant to be in by Friday/Saturday, it's making me increasinly worried and frustrated. I've since e-mailed the accomodation place to inform them of this terrible situation. I hope it's sorted soon or I'm in trouble.

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    Day 1: Dropped next to an ocean so I can get clams. Aptly named "Rapture". No God or Kings. Only men.

    Day 2: Moved my scout West, and found an indignious tribe, who granted me a pair of their residents as further scouts. We moved Westward, seeking fertile lands, and used our second party to scout South, as we train a worker in Rapture so we can produce farming and worthwhile sustenance for the nomadic German people. Everything's coming up Germany.

    Day 3: We continue what we set forth the previous day. Things are still looking prosperous.

    The lack of other civilizations is worrying. Are we the only ones on this barren earth?

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    Just played for 7 hours, and hit Mexico.

    It's a rockstar game. Very repetitive and kind of "Go here and do this thing". "Now go and do this". "Now wrangle a horse"

    It's not BAD, it's just a bit...boring.

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    Kind of lame bumping a thread like this, but I haven't been able to discern much from videos or reviews.

    Anyways, I'm thinking of getting Dragon Age for the summer. How does the combat work? Do you press X every time you want to swing ye olde mighty sworde, for example, or do you just tell your peeps to attack and then switch up which attack they use and heal them and so on as they're busy beating a helpless rabbit into rabbit prune? (Aka, is it real time/aggressive or, err...passive?)

    It's a lot like World of Warcraft really friend. Say you play a wizard. You'd select your target, and cast spells from a taskbar, and inbetween that, you autoattack with a staff. Your party will play by AI commands and behaviours you give them. If you've played Final Fantasy 12, you'd get this better, but to boil it down, you give a person either a pre-defined set of behaviours (IE "Brawler" on your melee. They'd just run in and use as many skills as they can. Medic on healers means they'd target and buff your characters) or you purposefully program them to follow a stringent set of rules. For the most part, you select your man and click "die" on a baddy, and theyre very capable themselves. I hope this answers your question.

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    Collaborative gaming is an awesome idea, although I guess the chances of everybody who sign up actually getting to to play are slim, especially with newbies earlier in the chain. How long would those 6 months to a year take in non-dwarven time? Also, how much effort do you have to put into reading up to be able to play?

    Also, I'm completely interested.

    6 months is like, 2 seasons ingame. I couldn't say without testing, but that'd be roughly 5/6 hours maybe? Depending on who/if we get people, I'm sure we can collaborate things quite well. It's a surprising amount of depth, I'm afraid. It's the kind of thing that's pretty hard to get into, but that's just because of the SHEER depth that goes into it. It's essentially an engine built for emergent outcomes (Think a tile based FARCRY 2 I suppose). But that's one of the good things about it really. Even if you fuck up, you still have something brilliant to write about or experience, and let the next person catch up on it. I'd suggest reading the Boatmurdered for the kind of thing we'd have to put up with. I can field a lot of questions if you have any.

    Also this.

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    So, Dwarf Fortress aims to become a 'fantasy realm simulator', but it's not quite there yet. In its current stage, you can manage a single colony of dwarves and guide them either to riches or their demise. The simulation aspect of it is pretty deep; each dwarf will have their own unique personality quirks, appearances, skills, etc. Dwarf Fortress has a bit of a reputation as being hard to get into, and given the game's default look, it's not hard to see why. While the base game is completely in ASCII, there are mods (like Mike Mayday's ) which make it a bit easier on the eyes.

    So, would any of you be interested in a succession fort? What that is basically, is we get 4/5 of us, play it for 6 months/1 year game time (Can decide if we get people), do a thorough writeup, and pass it onto the next person

    For an example, see Boatmurdered here

    Would anyone be interested in this perhaps? Players of all skill are welcomed and encouraged! Having an experienced player pass it on to a new player is also fun, as reading about how they manage, or don't, is often hilarious!

    There's a lovely robust and indepth guide here should it interest you somewhat

    Would love to get this kind of thing underway. Thoughts?

  16. Posted

    Campaign Diary of General Murdoc

    "How To War Politic Your Way to Victory"

    Page 2

    Week 5 and Beyond

    Sombre decided to attack everyone! This actually helped a lot, it kept others busy and took stars away from them. I had mostly things under control because after getting a bunch of territory from dpp my science was no where near James, but good enough to become nearly twice as fast as anyone. So yesterday was about acquiring as many stars as possible before James and Jennoa turn on me.

    Using Sombre's strategy and taking Dpps advice, I created a ton of fleets and just attacked everyone early this morning. Even if I lost stars on a response, I set way points where, if I played some odds that I guessed at, I would get to 131 before a significant retaliation from Jennoa or James.

    Closing Thoughts

    For some reason I was really expecting to become invincible but it never happened. I imagined a 1000 ship fleet cutting a line in the galaxy as an epic destroyer, but never got there. I think with James resources he achieved what I wanted to do, but never took the opportunity to do it. I took a lot of risks and figured it was smooth sailing after Squid, but I never really recovered to a place of safety since that fight. After Wurtsi there was a nice little rest and I did rebuild a lot, but never to the point of comfort to be able to defend and attack at the same time.

    Usually when I attacked it was all or nothing, if I lost the offense, I had no defense and would have been destroyed. I didn't have the numbers, I didn't have the tech, the economy; I had allies that apparently could be trusted until the end. So a special thanks to JamesM, Wurtsi, and Jennoa; despite your best judgement you trusted me and in the end living up to my word for 2 out of three isn't bad. :)

    I'm like a motherfucking caged lion. From Hells heart, I stab at thee! With my last breath, I spit at thee.

  17. Posted

    Just trying to make the game a little more interesting. If I could keep the others fighting longer that was one more additional second I wasn't being considered for an attack.

    At one point, I realised James was wiping out a guy, so I sent him a ton of weapons to reduce his fleets incase I was to fight him.

  23. Posted

    Greetings true believers,

    So here's the problem. I've been playing a lot of games on this laptop. From Dawn of War 2, to WoW, Dragon Age, and everything inbetween. However, some games often fall short in FPS. Mass Effect in particular, and The Witcher often get 10/15FPS with absolute minimum settings.

    I checked my dxdiag, and realising that my drivers were dated at the 22nd January, 2009. Fiddlesticks!

    Checking the ati website, I was frankly overwhelmed at how much there was, and It was all a bit confusing. Because I'm not entirely sure what chipset to go for, I'm still unable to sort this out. If anyone could directly point me to what I should get, I'd be in your debt. Love you long time, etc.

    I hope that this driver update (I think they're factory drivers, doh) will help fix the FPS in some of this stuff. If it doesn't, what would you guys suggest?

    Cheers in advance!

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