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Quote from: Bouchart on September 22, 2011, 10:31:40 pm

Quote from: BurnedToast on September 22, 2011, 10:05:15 pm

Quote from: Sowelu on September 22, 2011, 05:35:13 pm

2. Ignore specific interrupts.  I know my grav surveyor has 8% fuel left.  It'll hit earth before it runs out, TRUST ME.  I don't need the game to get in the way of my autoturns.  Can I say "Display these warnings but do not interrupt"?  Same for Martian unrest.  Trust me, I am building you that PDC.  I don't care how whiny you are, it won't get it done faster.

As far as I can tell, this is impossible, and it's one of the reasons I stopped playing. I know the moon people I created are mad they are a minority in my empire, I don't care. I know venus's population keeps ping-ponging between happy and mad because civs keep dropping too many colonists and overpopulating it (yes I know they aren't supposed to do this anymore but they still do) there's nothing I can do about it, and I don't care anyway because it's only 0.000001% or whatever. etc.

it's so frustrating.

A lot of those messages can be filtered off, though.

The filter option does NOT stop the turns from pausing, I tried that at one point. It still pauses, just with nothing listed in the event log.

As for the colonists thing, yeah, I forgot about that... I did eventually do that, but they still kept reproducing over the limit anyway and since venus's colony cost was so high even if I manufactured 10,000 infrastructure and shipped it over it only stopped it for a few months anyway (yes I probably should have done the 500 years of terraforming before I sent people there, oh well).

Quote from: Majestic7 on September 22, 2011, 08:52:45 pm

Quote from: Sirus on September 22, 2011, 06:22:48 pm

I kinda recommend getting M&B: Warband first. It has a better tutorial, more freedom, and no guns.
Guns are cool and all, but they tend to be one-hit-kills on pretty much anything. A single lucky shot can incapacitate you.

That is the reason I like WFaS over Warband! WFaS is a lot more exciting due to lethal bullets and it is not completely dominated by player skills in melee. Being shot in the back can take you down, no matter how epic fighter the player is. That is awesome. It brings in true atmosphere of a mass battle. Plus it opens more options regarding fighting; there are many fighting styles available, without any of them being inherently superior. Teamwork matters more as well; it is awesome to see firing lines, pike squads and stuff like that.

The ONLY reason I'm preferring WF&S over WB is because of Teamwork. I have yet in a game (CURSE YOU UBIQUITOUS, PERPETUALLY INCOMPETENT CHUCKLEFUCKS) to see teamwork such as that. I'd love to see a cavalry charge of great skill, only to be stopped by an even grander archer barrage.
 

Quote from: Majestic7 on September 22, 2011, 05:10:20 pm

Most of the other guys were packing armor and heat. I just put on filthy robes, grabbed a rusty saber and charged for the gate. When the defenders opened the gates to shoot out as a firing line, I waited for the shots to ring off behind a corner and then charged in. The gateway was filled with powder smoke, so I managed to skip around the pikemen blocking the entrance.

I ran around the courtyard like in Benny Hill, followed by a couple of guys in plate, but I lost them running like a madman. While skipping across the courtyard I came upon an unsuspecting musketeer and opened his jugulars in improvised surgery. I charged up stairs on the wall and procedeed to death kill murder. My rusty saber gave acute tetanus to the livers of six musketeers. Then someone shot me in the back.

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M&B With Fire and Sword siege multiplayer (WESTRe's massive siege server)

By Armok that sounds like an awesome game! I must purchase this someday.

Of course I started hearing about it the day AFTER the sale