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DF General Discussion / Re: What are you going to play, Diablo III or DF?
« on: May 17, 2012, 07:11:28 am »
Probably going to skip diablo 3. This whole online thing with all the problems that it entails is not for me. I don't really care to play with random people and experience horrible lag or getting dropped because unstable connection etc.

I do have a lot of friends playing it so it's kind of too bad not to be able to play with them, but knowing them they're going to get bored soon enough.

Still have diablo 2 on my computer with interesting mods (something else that will be missing in the new game it seems) to keep me busy if I really feel like it. :)

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DF General Discussion / Re: Advice For Beginners
« on: May 17, 2012, 06:50:29 am »
Doors are cheap and can stop all kinds of disasters waiting to happen. Playing with water, wild animals, moody dwarves will be a much more pleasant experience!

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DF General Discussion / Re: Another video game referencing DF?
« on: May 17, 2012, 06:41:19 am »
Quote from: Brotato on May 16, 2012, 04:25:17 pm
Actually, only guy dwarves have beards, IIRC.
Back in the days it wasn't all that simple.  ;D

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Other Games / Re: Europa Universalis III
« on: May 16, 2012, 07:01:54 pm »
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on May 16, 2012, 07:45:54 am
Quote from: snelg on May 16, 2012, 03:24:11 am
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on May 16, 2012, 12:17:40 am
my Pan-Asiatic Deccanese Empire
Was that in Divine wind? The pain!
No, worse. In Nomine. (Before there was a 'hunt rebels' option on the army panel.) I actually gave up about the time I hit Denmark. (~1550) I could have easily conquered the rest of the world, France having been shattered early on, but I didn't want to put up with another 8 hours of 'set speed to max. Wait three seconds. Pause. Send nearest army to fight the rebels. Unpause. Wait three seconds, et cetera ad nauseum.)
In nomine was actually pretty doable without the horrible infamy effects things didn't really get that bad (unless, yeah -3 stability constantly still hurt I guess).

The problem with using the hunt rebels option is that the stacks of rebels in asia (at least in India) get larger than what you can comfortably fight while staying under the supply limit. So if you have them just standing or walking around like they want your war exhaustion is going to skyrocket. In the end you have to do it manually anyway. And it's still a pain.  :-\

I've found hunt rebels option quite useful for smaller (perhaps overseas) areas though. But then there's usually not too many rebels there anyway...

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Other Games / Re: Europa Universalis III
« on: May 16, 2012, 03:24:11 am »
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on May 16, 2012, 12:17:40 am
Quote from: Azthor on May 15, 2012, 09:59:06 pm
Errol, how-on-earth did you manage to reduce your infamy enough to unify Japan and annex Ming, Korea and Manchu by 1473? As far as I am aware, that'd be possible with personal unions, but unifying Japan and defeating both of them before 1423 strikes me as a bit too extreme. In fact, it seems Ming lost territory, but wasn't fully annexed, so a PU is out of question.
You could do what I did with my Pan-Asiatic Deccanese Empire and just ignore the infamy limit. Coupled with ridiculous stability costs and general overextension, it means you get about six rebellions a week, but a big enough army can take that on pretty well. Through a hail of meteors and other events, I had reached a stability of -3, so I was just going crazy on Ming. I'd end a war, break the truce immediately, and repeat. I was just going for the fastest WC I could get.

(Granted, I had Land 5 when I reached Poland, and they had Land 16. Fun times. Brutal, mind-bogglingly bloody wars, but fun.)
Was that in Divine wind? The pain!
The rebels in asia are such a pain in the ass since they're pretty large and you take attrition damage for trying to match them. Coupled with that infamy and stability I'm surprised you put up with it. I had such a horrible time with decent stability and an infamy not over the limit.  :(

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DF Announcements / Re: Dwarf Fortress 0.34.08 Released
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:02:25 am »
I guess the only question now is "when will the first theme park be uploaded for us to visit in adventure mode?".

Many thanks for the new update!

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Other Games / Re: Carmageddon plows into Kickstarter
« on: May 09, 2012, 12:39:21 pm »
Will be looking forward to this.  :D

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends Updated! - Hecarim, the Shadow of War - 1.0.0.138
« on: May 07, 2012, 04:51:38 am »
Quote from: Micro102 on May 07, 2012, 03:09:20 am
It's not the weekend, it's the matchmaking. No matter how good you are your gonna lose around half your games.
It's the truth (I think).

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends Updated! - Hecarim, the Shadow of War - 1.0.0.138
« on: May 06, 2012, 03:14:52 am »
Quote from: baruk on May 05, 2012, 10:56:35 pm
Quote from: snelg on May 05, 2012, 11:11:32 am
Thanks for the tips guys!

Played around with Poppy a little and it seems to work pretty well, especially in the beginning.
What kind of items are good for dominion? So far I've started out with prospectors blade and boots + 2 pots and then built for triforce but I've no idea if that's a good choice or what to build after that. The suggestions are all Ability power-ish items if I recall correctly but I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not either.

 I like to start with sheen and 2 points in Q for the proverbial "tons of damage". After triforce, I generally go for a hextech gunblade if things are going well.
Thanks, I'll try that next time.  :D

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends Updated! - Hecarim, the Shadow of War - 1.0.0.138
« on: May 05, 2012, 11:11:32 am »
Thanks for the tips guys!

Played around with Poppy a little and it seems to work pretty well, especially in the beginning.
What kind of items are good for dominion? So far I've started out with prospectors blade and boots + 2 pots and then built for triforce but I've no idea if that's a good choice or what to build after that. The suggestions are all Ability power-ish items if I recall correctly but I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not either.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends Updated! - Hecarim, the Shadow of War - 1.0.0.138
« on: May 04, 2012, 08:32:30 am »
I'm playing on the EU-NE server since a while back. There's quite a few Polish people who have a hard time with english there but at least they don't curse at everyone too often (I think).

Then again, I've not played that many games yet so perhaps all hell breaks loose once I get to 30?  :-\

Just discovered dominion is pretty fun too. You're stuck with people for a much shorter time if things go bad. I've no idea what champions are good here, though it seems like some would have a great advantage. Any suggestions?

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Other Games / Re: Victoria 2
« on: May 01, 2012, 06:06:03 am »
Quote from: Felius on April 30, 2012, 08:54:34 pm
I hadn't played Vicky 2 in a long time but I have been coming back to it recently. I've saw they've launched an expansion for it, A House Divided. Is it worth for the full price? Considering that I don't really care for the American Civil War that is?
Quote from: snelg on April 10, 2012, 02:09:14 pm
This one links to the dev-diaries of the expansion among other things.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?459403-Important-pages-for-V2-fans-including-reviews-dev-diaries-wiki-and-the-demo!
Have a look at the dev diaries etc.

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Other Games / Re: Grim Dawn
« on: April 22, 2012, 05:56:06 am »
Looking forward to the game, had a lot of fun with titan quest.

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Other Games / Re: One of those annoying "suggest me a game" threads...
« on: April 16, 2012, 06:34:10 am »
Quote from: Jopax on April 14, 2012, 12:04:59 pm
There's that somewhat old RTS-ish game called Kohan (there's more in the title but I forget what), it had a sequel (which was kind of sucky).
Kohan was great! The sequel was so-so. I remember playing around with the editor and placing neutral monster nests all over the map. Good times!  :D

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Other Games / Re: One of those annoying "suggest me a game" threads...
« on: April 14, 2012, 07:08:09 am »
Knights of honor (similar to the total war games and games like eu3 etc. Haven't played it in quite a while but it's surprisingly awesome).
Dominions 3
Ai war

Not sure what the laptop would think of these but:
Supreme commander - Forged alliance
Supreme ruler 2020 / Supreme ruler - Cold war (haven't played the second one but it seems very similar and entertaining)

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