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Okawaru's a pretty solid starting god for anything relying on missile weapons, as he provides ammo, which can be sparse early on. If you're running crossbows, it's doubly so until you start running into yaktaurs (which may or may not go yakitysax all over your face, rendering the ammo issue moot.).

As for that axe, I'd probably avoid it, personally, but it depends on how adventurous you are. There are decent mutations, but you're damn unlikely to get any out of a MUT+ item. And by damn unlikely I mean I've fairly sure you won't, as in it's coded so it's not possible or so vanishingly small as to be effectively non-existent. But hey, you might be the one in X million chance.

Though checking the knowledge bot, it causes glow, not direct mutation, so you could use it for a little while. Just know that if it gets major glow, you can be screwed, and I think any glow at all makes it easier for you to be hit. User beware.

Eh? It's in th'normal game, too. S'just that only turrets (and certain ships, I guess) have the little X thing. Smaller ships have their aiming reticle go from red to green when they can hit their target.

You had one up, then left, then... I'unno. Started one up. Pass is Dwarves, as usualy.

Yeah... I don't even try that fancy maneuvering stuff. Most I do is hit backspace (no throttle) and vaguely attempt to point at my target, spewing missiles whenever possible (Seriously prefer quickfires ). I have noticed some people like, circle strafing me or something. Sometimes it helps them, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on if they manage to shake my aim off of 'em when they do it... and sometimes it works, sometimes it dunnit.

I... I do considerably better in a turret, if the current trends have been anything to go by. Anything that hits from about 1.5-2km out and turns quickly, really.

As a side note, sky rips are freaking awesome. I can just imagine what a fully loaded battleship can do to people.

GLEST is the only freeware fantasy RTS I can remember off the top of my head that has multiplayer. There's plenty of races via mods.

But um, straight up? The fantasy RTS online, with 5-8+ races thing? I'm roughly 80% sure it doesn't exist, at least not in english. Unless you're talking about online ONLY, that is. In which case I'm 99% sure there's not one. Or at least no decent ones

Pass is Dwarves.

Hrglehrum. Maybe. I'd have to redownload it. Deleted the entire thing to clear up some HD space a month or so ago.

Which is of course kindof irrelevant, since most of you clearly aren't paying for any of the games you're playing anyway (the unspoken reason why PCs are "better" than consoles in terms of value for money).

S'kinda' neat. It's been a solid year since I've played any localized PC game that wasn't freeware or outright FOSS. You... you made me realize that. Thank you.

Oh. Wait. Minecraft, last month. Man. I was doing so well, too.

I dig why people jump on the install thing. S'like you said, it's a departure from the standard "I bought it, is mine now" model of selling video games (which was only nominally sold that way in the past) and folks don't really like it. Generally, it seems people either want an actual hardcopy (which can be duplicated as willed) or the ability to duplicate the software as they please. Limited installs really get under the skin of certain subsets of the PC user world. Lots of reasons, not just larceny (some folks cock around with their OS regularly, ferex), but larceny is certainly the first point people like to bring up when speaking against those subsets. It's hard convince people a position that can be used to do "evil" is the better one, regardless if the position is actually used so, the act isn't actually evil in any meaningful sense, or if the position is actually more ethical. S'why some censorship freaknuts like to target fetish material in order to make inroads on limiting more culturally accepted freedoms.

Mostly though, folks just like to yell about it. You were doing really well until that parting shot

Though there's a lot to be said for the whole digital copying thing. Being able to make an extra without doing anything to the original has been giving lawyers fits for a while now, from what I understand. It'll eventually have to go the way of total information freedom if we as a species to going to make any meaningful progress in that arena, but that's probably decades (or more likely several generations) away, more's the shame. I'd love to see what happens when that comes about.