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Hell most Russian gamers can't afford to buy games anyway. You may think "But they can afford the rigs to play them!" and you're not wrong. But they save up. It's a big spend. Once it's done, they start saving up again. There are a lot of poor people in Russia.

That is pretty much the same where I live.

One computer game is like half of the minimum wage. IF it cost the same as in USA. But they charge twice as much for it because of tax, shipping, etc. Do the math.

I remember that episode of one of them weird shows (something Zone or something Limits or something) where aliens visit us and are totally disappointed about how we kill each other with our primitive weapons and so on and so forth, and the leaders promise to fix that if he gives us more time, and we disarm and get rid of all our weapons and then declare world peace and crap. Then the aliens come back and laugh because they were disappointed that we sucked so much at violence, and he expected us to IMPROVE our weapons to be able to join their Empire. So they end up enslaving Earth or something.

Quite funny, and I didn't see it coming the first time. That was ages ago.

So in the future people are just retarded and they build their houses on top of deadly time bombs?

Idiocracy?

Sergius--That's partly there to keep you from turtling; but face it, a human is likely to do the same thing if you aren't on the offensive enough!  I know I would.  Cavalry to intercept is good.

The enemy can go beyond enemy lines straight from their Fog of War, stand in a constructed spot and pillage it in the same turn. No interception can prevent that.

And I wasn't turtling, I was actually invading another country. Every. Single. Turn. I would get an enemy horse (I had tanks and artillery BTW) ride right up to some mine or farm and destroy it, even when I had put a LOT of guards in fortifications along the border. Eventually I had to put a single soldier every two tiles along the border so that I would have *any* chance to stop any incoming tard with a stick poking it at my mines and collapsing them.

The worst part is that they kept doing this during the times we were in freakin' truce: they would get a ton of bowmen and crap between my lines without me noticing and declare war again and then mass pillage.

It wasn't like this in the first Civ, and it was much improved in Civ 4.

As to whether a human would do it or not: that is not the point. A human opponent would TRY. But Civ 3 made it disgustingly easy to do. Computer or human.

Meh, I don't get any virus from it. Besides it's on abandonia so you don't need to get it from some fake torrent.

If I can get a capital ship sim, I want it to be possible for a Battlestar Galactica like plot to spontaneously generate, in a totally emergent way. That is, with no scripting whatsoever, just random

Radiant AI for space game ftw (not the crappy version that was shipped with Oblivion, but the actual wizard-burns-own-dog-to-death-cuz-it's-barking version)

Armour-Geddon.

It's a strange game where you macromanage a base and build bombers/fighters/tanks/hovercrafts in an alien planet, trying to get materials to build more and assemble parts of a neutron bomb or something. These are a combination of real world tech (the vehicle bodies are pretty much 21th century stuff), but you can put a laser as a "anti-light armor" weapon, and arm your tanks with tank shells and stuff. They handle pretty interestingly, specially the hovercraft which is a real-life version with skirts and all. And a bitch to maneuver.

You also could drop teleporters with your bomber, but I think could drop only 4 or so and they were indestructible, because the map is huge. They work more as "checkpoints" for land vehicles. Oh and don't ever expect your bomber to come back, you're pretty much going to wait till the last second you have to live to drop the telly as far away as possible

Anyway I thought the game was frustratingly hard. There is a time limit and you can run out of minerals. You can pick up more minerals with your tank I think and your base mines them very slowly. Even though I never made much progress I think it was a fun time sinker, heh.

But there you go.

I used to play the Amiga version, on an actual Amiga. I think there's a DOS version too.