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Almost sounds like it might be the system backup or whatever that is acting up... vaguely remember something similar happening to me a bit back. Being as competent as I am with such things (relatively little), I'd probably suggest just going through your services and disabling them one by one until you hit whatever's causing it (or don't, in which case you've strongly pared down what could be the source of the issue.). Might at least help identify what isn't the problem.

Which is sometimes half the battle. _{Well, probably more like a quarter or a fifth, since knowing is half yo joe and knowing what isn't the problem would probably be a component of that.}

Wait... crap. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? I guess it's more the "been holding tongue" part...?

Most of the lesbians I've met have been pretty attractive, honestly. Least not below the standardized curve of human appearance re: personal aesthetic preference. I've never quite grokked how that particular line of criticism is supposed to work, I guess. S'more a "you're aligned with something I disprove of" than "X actually exhibits negative traits salient to the attributes being addressed", perhaps? Tends to leave me going, "Wait, shit. Am I supposed to punch you or thank you for that?"

Maybe I just need some sleep, dunno.

Should have been more clear: For me. I've yet to find an MMO-styled anything I can actually play more than a couple weeks (at absolute maximum) before getting so magnificently bored with it I can't bring myself to touch it for several months. Stuff gets same-y, end up having to put it down for a while so I can forget that.

Mind you, I do the same thing with pretty much all games, but MMO-styled stuff has a much longer cycle period than most things. Variety, spice of life, hundreds of other things I could be playing instead, etc., etc. Most games stop being fun if I'm playing it several times a week for weeks on end, yeah.

Didn't help that SDGO doesn't entirely fit my tastes for a robot-thingy Too much melee and pansy bots, Frumple needs dakka and proper dakka providers! Less beam swords and puny lasers, more giant honking space cannons, bullet spam, and M³*. More Zaku less Gundam, etc., etc.

*Macross Missile Massacre

Elimination of the Rock, Paper, Scissors system

well shit

Time to reinstall and give it another go.

Seriously. You can win the entire game by finding a human province or two and constantly pumping out the moderately armored spearmen and no-armor archers.

... maybe against someone who's asleep... or the AI, ha.

Or with gratuitous amounts of caster support and maybe a few SCs/thugs thrown in there, because without that it's bloody trivial to splat an indefinite number of basic indie recruits. At which point you're doing a lot more than spewing chaff and archers out of a few indie provinces...

You can win the entire game like that the same way you can win the entire game using nothing but your pretender. It's possible -- and if the enemy has no idea how to respond, not even difficult -- but incredibly easy to neuter. Dominions offers a bucketload of methods for dealing with single dimension strategies.

I'd like proper tactical combat. Please, make my dreams come true forever Dom4. I love you.

Few things would be nearly as capable of potentially killing the game for me in one go. Dominions is one of the few standouts still remaining of the Ogre Battle ethos to combat, and by the gods I want more of that. We don't have nearly enough.

Quote from: snelg on June 20, 2013, 03:03:24 am

Didn't Dominions 3 already have seasons with various effects? Though you didn't see the map change I'm pretty sure it affected the cold/hot scale and some events.

Hm. Far as I remember it was just the little 'season' symbol changing.

Appropriate heat scale shift (summer hot, winter cold), certain units are more powerful during certain seasons, and winter in particular was bad for health and aging -- old dudes were more likely to take age related injuries and/or die, maybe some disease related stuff. May be some other stuff... season specific events, junk like that. Somewhat subtle effects, but potentially rather big deals in certain scenarios.

Hrg. I'll have to look into Memory Alpha again, then. Been twice, but other than making a couple dozen schematics (that I apparently can't use yet) all I got out of it was a few diplomacy XP quests (which I'm still not entirely clear what the point is beyond excusing some boring quests ).

Then maybe selling, I'unno. Dumped like 120 or something anomalies into something the fleet was building. Probably rather do that than selling 'em if it comes up again... EC bank's doing well enough for what I've been doing so far.