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Probably because it's an adventure game >_>

... more seriously, lot of folks seem to stop playing part way through any particular game. The latest shiny shows up and they go play that, instead. Then the cycle repeats.

Gwerble. Gemless games on larger maps... don't work so well. Once the AI gets going and you start getting fights that regularly include 30+ troll kings or whatev', turns... start taking a while. A fight with sixty or seventy casters in it, most of them probably spamming summoning spells... each battle turn has been taking upwards a full minute. And the fights happily go 60+ turns.

Part of me half wants to start an MP game of it, just so llamaserver can process the turns instead of me

Humans on all ends would just get ridiculous, though, at least if they're all intent on the obvious abuses. Especially once you start getting access to casters that can summon themselves, heh. Armies made up of literally hundreds of commanders, almost all of them casters, on each side, werble. Assuming it can get that high, anyway.

Still. Fun to watch an entire battlefield not-so-slowly filled up with insects. Or elementals. Or undead. Like. Not metaphorically, either. Bugs scragging everywhere. S'great. Just painfully slow.

I think I'd love bicycles if this weren't florida and the nearest town of even most remote of notes wasn't a dozen miles away. Maybe when around the house in the larger town, but then you have to deal with people in cars ;_;

And the heat. Can't forget the heat.

Well. All that and if I hadn't forgotten how to ride a bike. People who say that's impossible are goddamn liars. All it really takes is some time and a notable shift in your balance, apparently.

And why exactly would a government-owned factory be more productive than a private one? If anything, evidence suggests the opposite.

Why would it need to be more productive than a private one? There's literal metric fucktons of waste in a lot of sectors as is, which suggests t'me that overproduction is already happening in a lot of areas and there's plenty of room for reduced production if it means better other things. Like price for the consumer, better accessibility to the general population, hopefully better treatment of employees, etc.

Regardless, the point being made above is that producers operating without or with reduced profit motive (and something of a subsidy, if they're offsetting costs with tax money) are very much likely to be able to undercut the prices of profit-minded producers* and put the exploitative bastards out of business. Even if they're not making as many gewgaws. After all, to win the local economic race, you don't need to make the most, you just need to make enough, and do so at a price your competitors can't sustain.

*Hell, this is basically how several for-profit businesses (walmart being a notable example) already work -- use overall resources to sell near or below cost in a local area to put other businesses into the dirt.

^{And then my GBA broke :I}

Emulaaaaaatioooooon

... if someone is waving their arm in your face while you're driving, you pull off the road, kick them out of the goddamn car, and drive off. Maybe just pull over and put them in the back seat if you're feeling generous. Maiming or something equivalent is also acceptable. That is an arm breaking offense, because it's trying to get you fucking killed. Seriously, I'm quite fond of family and whatnot, but if any of them did that to me when I was driving there would be a family member punched in the face and kicked to the side of the road because sweet fuck what the hell are they thinking?

Though yeah, with the college, check regularly et al. Also make sure to remain cordial and whatnot. Showing up in person can help, sometimes, too. All sorts of normal bureaucratic shove along stuff you could probably stand to do.

Technically there's still some independent servers running. Freeinf took back up the mantel, last I checked. S'just kinda' sparse insofar as playerbase goes E: About 40 people playing a skirmish map right now, actually. No clue how many are speccing, though. Zombie Zone's even up ;_; If only there were a good 150-200 people to play it.

I was actually pretty decent at it -- not one of the best, but pretty regularly carried a squad or did some major contributions for larger teams. SOE's treatment of Inf earned them my unending and infinite hatred. Never will they get money from me, and if I can help it neither will Sony.

But yeah, for thread appropos material, Infantry had/has death-dealing hoverboards. Ramping over walls and lakes and whatnot and then eviscerating people was great.

Question, Frumple: to which game(s) do you refer when you say "Infantry" and "Combined Arms"?

This'un. CA was one of the zones (basically games/maps within the infantry engine) that popped up during the initial freeinfantry period, and it is/was kinda' freaking awesome, imo.

Infantry in general was some of the best multiplayer gaming I've ever experienced. One of the best engines of its sort I've ever seen, and leveraged better than just about anything I've seen as well. Hella' quality, that thing.