Borg999

double post...

I've only played two 1.5 games so far (on challenging), and it seems to me the AI is much more agressive and war-mongering. I find it hard to get past the late early game without someone declaring war on me. And since I play an isolationist strategy, their reasons make no sense "You decption is well know"...excpt I haven't attacked anyone unprovoked oe entered anyones land...so where does the deception come in? Despite the new "attitude modifiers" fixes, the AI still seems to

[quote who="2of3" reply="34" id="3421584"]Captains Janeway and Picard team up with 7of9 and assimilate Luke, only to be overthrown by rock throwing ewoks. [/quote] A combination of Star Trek and Star Wars would be my worst nighmare. [e digicons]8C[/e]

[quote who="Kantok" reply="87" id="3421779"] Quoting Turchany, reply 81 And for what it's worth, capitalism has done more to lift people out of poverty and to improve the average quality of life world wide than any phenomena in human history, but lets ignore that completely because the system isn't perfect. [/quote] Capitalism is the most effective system. But it is a tool, and a tool can be abused. The solution isn't to elimin

[quote who="Kantok" reply="86" id="3421777"] Quoting Borg999, reply 84 It is vital for passive investment income shareholders to get every last red (white and blue) cent due to them! Therefore Factory owners should be under no obligation to keep their facilities safe and in working order. Any money spent on such frivoluos safety requirements takes money away from the shareholders. If a factory ceiling falls on your head it's you own

It is vital for passive investment income shareholders to get every last red (white and blue) cent due to them! Therefore Factory owners should be under no obligation to keep their facilities safe and in working order. Any money spent on such frivoluos safety requirements takes money away from the shareholders. If a factory ceiling falls on your head it's you own darn fault! You shouldn't have been in the building. The business owner needs that money to give the s

The solution is really quite simple. Give all the money and resources to the wealthy and allow them to do with it what ever they want, however they want, and to who ever they want. They must be able to operate with complete impunity, So deregulate everything. No consumer protection, no employee safety standards, no environmental protections, heck just no gov't to get in the way of profit. Remember, pure capitalism is next to Godliness. So

[quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="5" id="3420571"] Quoting Borg999, reply 3 Thanks PS! I've been having the same problem as the OP for quite a while. I'll give those settings a try. You're the first person to provide any practical ideas for a solution to this issue (other than buying a new card...). SD didn't even bother to help. Did that fix your problem? [/quote] Yes

[quote who="psychoak" reply="28" id="3420359"] Did you just call George H. W. Bush a conservative? Best case scenario, you could call the Bush family in general moderate progressives. Bush Jr. expanded the size and scope of government far more than most Democratic presidents did, and his father wasn't much better. He got booted from a shoe in second term for raising taxes. Republican is not conservative. The

The best way to help the poor is to have an economically healthy middle class. It’s like crowd sourcing for the economy. More people with more money means more money available to give to charity as well as more money to buy things which can drive profit and fund business expansion and growth . Which would you rather have, 100 billionaires buy a copy of Windows Blinds, or 100,000 middle class people buy a copy…. When more people are doing better economically, everyone wins.

[quote who="Kantok" reply="21" id="3420291"] Quoting Borg999, reply 19 George H. W. Bush called trickle down economics "Vodoo Economics". Just sayin'... And Clinton didn't have sex with that woman and Obama said you could keep your healthplan, period. So what? Presidents say things and have been wrong in the past. Some of them have even *gasp!* lied when it was politically convenient. But thank

Part of the problem is that the job creators, for the most part, create MCJobs. That is low paying,dead end, little or no benefit jobs that will not lift people out of poverty. We need to stop viewing "job creators" as Gods and use the massive corporate welfare the gov't gives corps and wealthy individuals and use it for better education, and job training. I worked for a venture capitalist firm for a couple of years. This concept of "creative destruction is just a lot of BS.

[quote who="Kantok" reply="15" id="3420280"] Quoting smeagolheart, reply 13 Trickle down doesn't work First: So says you? Trickle down is a marketing phrase created by liberals to disparage conservative economic principles without having to actually debate them. [/quote] George H. W. Bush called trickle down economics "Vodoo Economics". Just sayin'...

[quote quoting="post"] Even if you somehow manage to level up a champion how are they useful? I have tried several builds. Early on a warrior with lethal and endurance can be a heavy hitter but by midgame the damage they do is negligible compared to groups of 4 . Not to mention the cost of equipping champions. Items cost a ridiculous amount of gold. A mage can be very powerful if you get them to a very high level but you don't always get a good mage pick. A

I like this idea. [quote who="DsRaider" reply="103" id="3419759"]Since this is the Diplomacy update I may as well bring up a idea I had a long time ago. Right now Alliance victory may as well not exist. It's basically conquest where you don't quite kill everyone, but usually still kill most people. I would like to suggest that it could be tweaked a bit in order to make it an interesting alternative way to play. Change it so you don't need to ally with ever

Yea it happens to everyone who expresses an ideas in a forum where they hold the minority opinion. Just a few weeks ago, some guy, in an indirect/passive-agressive manner called me a Communist, Socialist and an Anarchist in the same paragraph. And then later in another thread, he misrepresented what I had said earlier to "prove" his point. Although, he did have the "courtesy" not to mention me by name when twisting my words. He was on a roll for sure, repeate

Also, Monsters are still hanging around AI cities without attacking. Mid game , and I'm at war with the an AI. I approach one of the AI cities and there are half a dozen different monsters hanging around the city doing nothing. By mid game one of two things should have occurred: -The monters attack, destroying the city, or -The monters attack, but are defeated...so by mid game there are no monsters surrounding the city. Althou

[quote who="merlinme" reply="91" id="3419437"]See AI section in patch notes. [/quote] Yea, a lot of it is "behind the scenes" updates. What I'm not seeing so far is: "A lot of new interactions with players to explain why they feel the way they do." "More interaction with the player about what the AI is doing about others."

[quote who="Crastiloowa" reply="13" id="3419418"] Quoting Borg999, reply 12 Regarless, the issue is you can get multiple duplicates which shoulsn't happen. I would like to see code built into the randomizer that says once an item has been been dropped, it is excluded from the remaining list of available drops for the remainder of the game. You don't want a randomizer then, you want want a shuffle algo

I started a new 1.5 game yesterday, but I'm not seeing any noticeable updates to the diplomacy? What should I be looking for?

Regarless, the issue is you can get multiple duplicates which shouln't happen. I would like to see code built into the randomizer that says once an item has been been dropped, it is excluded from the remaining list of available drops for the remainder of the game.

[quote who="Ericridge" reply="6" id="3419203"] Quoting Borg999, reply 3 But what do you do with all of those horses? Give horses to heroes that don't have one yet and then sell the rest. [/quote] Yes, I know. It was a joke. [e digicons]:)[/e]

Yes, this issue has persisted since at least 1.1. I think the problem is that there isn't a lot of different items in each category as Merlinme said.

But what do you do with all of those horses? [e digicons]:)[/e]

I nice boring but reliable Honda Accord.