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Quote from: pisskop on August 20, 2016, 08:38:43 pm

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whats stopping a follower of chaos, that already makes their home in a hybrid portion of timespacechaosland, from just... occupying a new body?

You can only do that if you're a daemon. Human followers, no matter how corrupted, are still anchored to their bodies.

I'unno man, I'm pretty sure a corrupted biologis could figure something out. Maybe even a plain ol' heretek. Never mind the full on sorcerers. If there's not the occasional psyker roaming around the imperium doing body swaps for giggles, I'd be terribly surprised.

... could almost swear something like that shows up in one of the novels, actually. Something about one of the (human) antagonists showing up in a different body.

Where do I start with getting into battletech proper. I mean as in the stuff besides the mechwarrior games. Like the books and the tabletop and such

Jeez, this is a bit belated. Book wise, I can tell you most of 'em seem pretty self-contained. There's trilogies/series and an overarching history, but generally you can just pick up any of them and not really have much in the way of problem. I... can't really say more than that, because I think it's been well over a decade since I last read a BTech novel and I can't even remember any names, much less which one to recommend starting with, but... yeah. I just jumped into whatever I could find in the bookstore when I was younger, and it didn't seem to hurt enjoyment et al much, if at all. So just get whatever if you're not acquiring the entire btech library in one go. Can't recall much, but I don't remember any of what I read (maybe a half dozen to a dozen of the books?) being particularly terrible, so there shouldn't be too much of an issue on that front.

... there's also some pretty nice fanfics out there, if you're into that sort of thing.

Yeah, looks like some sort of odd miscommunication between bundle stars and the SR2 folks. Seems like the thing wasn't supposed to be in the bundle to begin with, and there was some sort of snafu (details probably locked behind contract agreements, judging by the look of some of the dev communication about this) that led to the unredeemed keys being voided instead of something more... elegant. Definitely a bit unfortunate.

For what it's worth, it looks like SR2 might be going for about seven bucks within the next week or two, if your friend is still interested. Lil' bit more, but eh.

Survival type setups are usually where it's most represented... swarms of aliens, stuff like that. There's a handful that are sold, but most of it's probably found in custom maps for other games and flash junk. Doesn't seem to get much love out of anyone professional, anyway.

Interesting idea, but arizona's already among the cheapest in the nation, as far as I can tell. Trying to drive values lower than it is like arguing with an idiot -- it'll pull you down to its level and beat you with experience

Plus my immediate area's already about as low as it gets before the pricing starts demonstrating just how much you want to not live there, iirc. Rural north florida ain't exactly ball breaking, or all that poverty would be even less sustainable.

That was what I was thinking about, although in that case they had the option of making diagonal moves take 1.4 times as long as orthogonal moves. That clearly isn't an option in Civ since it's strictly turn-based.

Just using hex tiles and avoiding weird non-Euclidean square grids is more intuitive really.

Bloody things are a sodding nightmare to navigate with just about anything except a mouse, though. Hex movement and thinking around it has always been kind of a pain in the ass if you've spent much time beforehand dealing with square/4 or 8 directions based stuff, imo... which has kinda' been the standard most control interfaces in the last few decades have been designed around. So it's pretty likely hexes are going to be at odds with a lot of what someone's been trained to see normal. Regardless of how unintuitive it's supposed to be.

Personally, the intuitive has long been those non-euclidean squares. Takes the same amount of time for a queen to move in any direction, dagnabbit.

I love how desensitized y'all are. The director of Abu Ghraib is running prisons in the USA now with suspicious deaths going on, and Americans are just like "meh". It's like I could point out that Literal Hitler is running law enforcement in some state, and you guys point out "well not every state is run by literal Hitler. The rest are only 30% Hitler."

... well, what exactly do you expect us to do? Basically everyone that's not in the immediate vicinity of the bastard thinks that he's a bastard, but there's only so much you can do about it besides express discontent and whatnot. Which people do. Regularly. Occasionally pretty loudly. Which is about the extent they're capable of unless you want them to round up a posse and drive probably-hundreds of miles to go murder people, and then end up in prison and/or killed by cops.