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Post by Sonic on Feb 9, 2009 8:52:24 GMT
Very excellent map work there. I'm a bit disappointed that there was no heavenly signs to show that a God had fallen, but, you know, shit happens. And God knows. It happened to him. I bet he wishes he hadn't linked up with the side he did now. I also like the way that UN immediately convened to end the war after their God died too ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) :thumb:
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Post by coffers on Feb 9, 2009 9:37:19 GMT
I sure the Gods will not be happy with you. Watch your back. Kevins brother might be looking for revenge. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) KUTGW! :thumb:
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Post by Sonic on Feb 9, 2009 9:38:40 GMT
It's almost Friday the 13th too isn't it?
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Post by coffers on Feb 9, 2009 9:41:23 GMT
In that case his name will be Jason.
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Post by Moo on Feb 9, 2009 10:14:33 GMT
Jason, Angel of Dead Angels. You're screwed.
Mind you, I said that last time and you weren't. Very interesting read, s1utster. A major :thumb: for knacking Kevin. So the map hasn't changed a huge deal (I think) but you have overcome a huge obstacle in Kevin and can now push on? What did the UN think of you telling them to fook off? Are they going to slap your wrist?
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Post by coffers on Feb 9, 2009 11:07:49 GMT
Indeed; it is going to be interesting to see how they respond. I guess that Stu has some major rebuilding to do now and treasury replenishment will be needed.
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Post by coffers on Feb 9, 2009 12:00:01 GMT
One question Stu: will this thing play ok on a laptop with an inbuilt 256Mb graphics card?
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Post by Sonic on Feb 9, 2009 12:27:17 GMT
Coffers, interested? ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) And your right too, Jason is what Moo said. I keep thinking of Kevin and Dogma, but that would be Alanis :cab:
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Post by Moo on Feb 9, 2009 12:27:54 GMT
You wouldn't be interested though, Coffers, just like you weren't with the glof. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 9, 2009 12:28:24 GMT
I'm playing it on an inbuilt card which I think has 32mb, so that would be a very comfortable yes, Coffers. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) I guess running 2GB of RAM helps, but if you're running less that doesn't mean the game won't run, just it'll run more slowly, especially if you ALT-TAB a lot like I do.
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Post by DC on Feb 9, 2009 12:35:01 GMT
This seems quite a violent mod.
KUTGW
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 9, 2009 12:36:45 GMT
Aye. Normally I'm such a peaceful fella, but the game keeps making me punch people.
Somebody call the Daily Mail.
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Post by hornet on Feb 9, 2009 12:41:08 GMT
Nice warring. Why did they vote to end the war, not vote to win the game? Can they not do it while they're at war? Also: is there anything stopping you from declaring war again the next turn? I've never been on the end of one of these UN War Resolutions, so I'm not sure how it goes.
War. Huh. God God (with a pointy thing sticking out of his vital bits), y'all!
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Post by DC on Feb 9, 2009 13:01:20 GMT
UN Resolutions last for a set number of turns (10 I think, might be 20).
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Post by coffers on Feb 9, 2009 13:20:05 GMT
I'm playing it on an inbuilt card which I think has 32mb, so that would be a very comfortable yes, Coffers. ![](http://www.geocities.com/jacquesdebohun/smilies/grin.gif) I guess running 2GB of RAM helps, but if you're running less that doesn't mean the game won't run, just it'll run more slowly, especially if you ALT-TAB a lot like I do. I have 2Gb of RAM too so it does look as if my thing will cope with it. Yes I am interested but I'm struggling to think where I might fond a time slot if I do decide to buy it.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 9, 2009 14:21:07 GMT
UN Resolutions last for a set number of turns (10 I think, might be 20). Aye. This. Peace treaties enforced by the UN are binding for ten turns. You can choose to defy the UN resolution and just keep on fighting, but if you vote (even if you vote no and lose) then you have to abide for ten turns.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 9, 2009 14:33:30 GMT
Yes I am interested but I'm struggling to think where I might fond a time slot if I do decide to buy it. That will be the key. I switched on on Friday after work at about 9pm for a quick blast to tidy up the map and get my settlers out and something happened™ and I ended up switching off at 3.30am. :nark:
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Post by elth on Feb 9, 2009 14:45:47 GMT
Something always happens...
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Post by hornet on Feb 9, 2009 14:46:46 GMT
Yes I am interested but I'm struggling to think where I might fond a time slot if I do decide to buy it. That will be the key. I switched on on Friday after work at about 9pm for a quick blast to tidy up the map and get my settlers out and something happened™ and I ended up switching off at 3.30am. ![](http://www.geocities.com/jacquesdebohun/smilies/nark.gif) This. This. This. Civ's always been bad for the "well, I'll just build my library and then I'll oooh, my research has finished so now I can get longbowmen so I'd better just start all my cities building those, hmm that city looks vulnerable, if I just spend a few turns getting an army together I can probably nick it..." effect, but Civ IV takes it to a whole different level. It's like chocolate-coated crack.
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Post by Moo on Feb 9, 2009 14:52:00 GMT
With crack sprinkles?
Hate those games.
I still haven't bought a new PC to then play a not-yet-purchased FM09 on. And I'm unlikely to, at least until the summer.
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Post by elth on Feb 9, 2009 15:00:24 GMT
It's a crack coated crack filled crack donut with crack sprinkles, and a crack shake.
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Post by hornet on Feb 9, 2009 15:17:08 GMT
Would you like some crack with that?
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Post by coffers on Feb 9, 2009 15:20:03 GMT
It's a crack coated crack filled crack donut with crack sprinkles, and a crack shake. Don't you mean: "It's a crack coated crack filled crack crispy creams donut with crack sprinkles, and a crack shake."?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 9, 2009 16:16:53 GMT
So it's friday, it's been a long week. The pizza and beer have lifted me from the post-work semi-catatonic state I get into in this new job that actually requires me to work and deposited me on the doorstep of a comfortable buzz. With the missus asleep on the couch already, the glass of MacAllen single malt next to me is about to open the door to Chez Buzz, bring me inside and fetch me some comfy slippers.
Apart from the pulsing of the TV set, (volume set so that, like me, it's just a light buzz), the only light is from the the comforting image of my home island, seas lapping against the shore, my perpetual screen of five Man O' War facing the open ocean, standing guard at various points.
The war that had consumed the central continent of Erebus is recently concluded and by all accounts the Elven folk were the winners. They took on both men and Gods and were not cowed, slaying angels of all ranks and burning down the cities of the Gods. The Overcouncil-mandated peace is a tenuous one, as Cardith Lorda, leader of the Kuriotates is unhappy to have lost land, gold, resources, mana and standing in the world but word on the various spy networks is that he has his heel to a cliff - one more step back, one more city lost would shrink his empire enough to free the Malakim from their position as his vassal.
So rather than see his empire shrink from both back and front, Cardith Lorda smiles with gritted teeth and obeys his own peace accords.
This emboldens me to think that I can, for the first time in years, sit in my capital and bring my empire back under some sort of economic control at a more leisurely pace, without the hyper-focus required during the long war we just endured. (Although we did start it...)
After a few turns of running war funding production to fill our empty vaults with gold once more, we bring a little more balance to the empire, putting sicentists back into their labs and touring our cities to make sure that garrisons are refreshed and properly equipped.
The first of our new settlers emerge from our towns and are shipped across the sea from our Home Island to the mainland with Man O War escorts to deal with the increasing Barbarian prescence on the seas - the Barbars are more active now that a great part of the great navies lie on the bottom.
The settlers land and push west, forming towns often on the burned ruins of captured Kuriotate and Basium cities. The ashes of the former Basium holy city of Kaledor are turned over and form the foundations of the new Elven city of Swethen. The fact that the river joining Swethen to the former Khazad capital of Khazak is called the "Kaledor River" is the only indication that a great city of the Gods onced existed here.
I've been back in the game for an hour and am very comfortably numb and thinking of turning off, when I notice that my Blood of the Phoenix wonder is two turns away from completion. When it's done, any of my alive units, (so no summoned spectres and the like), that are killed in battle will be reborn in my capital the first time they fall.
It can't hurt to continue until that's ready and I see what I can begin to build next. It's just a couple of turns, after all...
Five hours later, virtually all of my units have been bathed in the Blood of the Phoenix and most of them have died again, to pass to the after life for good. Most of the main continent of Erebus is on fire and another holy city is in ruins. Valin Phanuel, champion of the Barbarian and Clan Islands and Sphene, slayer of the Angel of Death, both heroes of the Svartalfar are dead, the guild of assassins that had been the backbone of Elven intelligence is smashed and the vaults that once groaned with enough gold to threaten to bring down the castles holding them are virtually empty.
Elven presence on the mainland is a wink away from being snuffed out, the Combine a step away from victory.
Worse, I have to be up in four hours to go to the dentist.
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Post by elth on Feb 9, 2009 16:22:02 GMT
So that went well, then.
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