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I'm looking forward to it, if only because it will give more stuff for modders to work with.

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I'm playing a modded game where every single faction is some kind of human. There's 13 of them. Sadly while the game can track the same species for a race for like 2 - 3 factions for some reason it can't track it for 13 so it splits it into different species even if they're the same, but 2 - 3 will be considered the same species.

Anyway, I set it so their ethics are all about the unrest and deviation. What happens is that every faction constantly has rebellions and changes their ethos nonstop. Thus it becomes a game of CK2 in space.

I did this too, although I did it with Fermi Paradox and let myself explode organically, and I didn't have that problem. Did the game start with all those factions separate?

Anyway I almost wish it had happened in my game. Space racism would've really greased some wheels to keep the galaxy interesting. As-is they rebelled but always ended up drifting to fanatic egalitarian / pacifist, having peaceful relations with everyone forever, and finally federating. Still a good story I guess, but not the one I was expecting, and probably not as fun to play through either.

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What became of the dwarves who fled deeper underground when we sacked their fortress? Did they escape somehow, or were they just hiding in a mineshaft until the coast was clear?

Related, what were the dwarves fighting down there shortly before we sacked their fort? I don't remember exactly when that happened but they warned us about the situation but refused our offer to help, then just told us it was dealt with a while later.

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Quote from: Baffler on April 13, 2018, 09:18:52 pm

I hope this is the end of it. I'm not interested in fighting Israel's wars for them.

You been drinking the extreme-right coolaid a bit much?

Israel has been pushing the United States to intervene in Syria since before the shooting war even started, and since then has conducted airstrikes throughout the country, and has occasionally even launched artillery attacks against Syrian army units in order to keep them from advancing too quickly in Daraa. Analysts aligned with various different blocs tend to agree that Israel's strategy is to, ideally, get other powers to intervene and establish a friendly regime there. In absence of that intervention, they'll just do as much damage as they possibly can to their rival while the chaotic situation allows them to act more or less with impunity. The status of the Golan Heights is also a consideration.

In short, what Israelis gain from an American intervention is obvious. What Americans gain from an American intervention is less obvious. I can think of some reasons regime change might be attractive to the USA from a strategic point of view, like checking Iranian influence in the region among other things, but I don't see this strategy paying off where it's been tried already like Iraq and Afghanistan, which have had very mixed successes and at a cost that manages to be burdensome to one of the most powerful nations on Earth, and I'm not so eager to buy it again in Syria. France and the UK again seem just as eager for a fight here as the US is, but I'm not sure what they get out of it. The only explanations I've heard relate to gas pipelines (representative link,) or secret concessions, and I'm not really convinced.

France and Britain seem even more eager for this fight than Trump is. But it looks like blatant bullshittery will drag the USA and the rest of the West into yet another literally pointless war in the Middle East. Trump just couldn't resist taking the b8, despite everything, and ulterior motives abound. It's frustrating.

Pentagon claimed this is a one-off strike.

I hope this is the end of it. I'm not interested in fighting Israel's wars for them.

Faction troops are actually much more intelligent than the bandits, and the big three tend to be better at fighting than the Uman Brotherhood. They're still kinda stupid, but they at least do things like hunker down, tactically withdraw, shift the focus of their attacks, attack at one side followed by a stronger attack from a different direction, hold troops in reserve or protected out of sight by terrain, and various other tricks.