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Hey mek and welcome

Happy Birthday

Im a bit late but Happy Birthday Hope you had a great one

Great turns Depending on how I fast I will be with my uni stuff, I’ll squeeze in my turnset tomorrow, or Thursday I’d rather leave the ship building fun for ganto though

Thanks a lot!! No new info, but that song sounds good

Doha, Qatar

Sounds like a plan to me Who are we attacking Tim?

Interview with Blind Guardian It’s in German, so I dont understand a word of it, but I suppose they discuss the band’s role in Sacred2. Also includes parts of the new song that’ll be featured int he game – I think Interview begins in the second half of the video, its mostly wow stuff before that

My advice for Oblivion: get mods. Well, if you're playing on pc. I could never go back to vanilla, mods keep the game enjoyable and challenging. And yep, shame about the quest lines. But tbh, while Morrowind offered more quest, they werent very varied either. Main quest was awesome though

Overkill - E!....limination let it be the day of old school

I was a bit disappointed that half of the trailer was basically footage from the previous movies, but the moment the Indy theme kicks in, I was just … happy The crate says Rosewell, 1947 UFOs!! UFOs! btw there are two versions of the trailer, a US and an international version. The latter without the American flag, the former with less guns. Maybe I can understand the flag, but the guns:)

Sopron, Hungary

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do Never thought that Nightwish and black metal could go together PS Nice sig, been using that pic for wallpaper for the past few weeks. Very relaxing just to look at it

too bad spears lost that tiny little chance they used to have Im not very familiar with late game wars, and Ive never even tried a late conquest, but if you think its feasible, then my vote goes to conquest. Should we keep some of the conquered cities btw? Or just mow everything down?

renegotiated old deals and set up new ones, extorted money from all civs except the Egyptians, used the gold to upgrade units also set the research to 0% for one turn so we can upgrade all catapults to cannons Turn 1. upgraded all except one catapult Turn 2. As for the war with the Japanese... I don’t think we can win by domination, but the space race is a bit boring and we can still go into building mode when we wish, and war is just too much fun... the backbones of our army, the cavalries are getting outdated quickly, we might as well use them up... as I see things, the border cities are all defended, and we can move units pretty easily between them, and I plan to produce defensive troops in our core cities... so Im pretty confident we wont lose cities, though we may have some serious problem with pillaging so... War is declared on the Japanese!! immediately: Turn 3. Clearing up attacking Jap forces only serious stack is near Djenne our suicide cannon causes collateral damage. It may be a good idea to buy lottery tickets today as the cannon wins at 9% odds also moved all available troops to Djenne Turn 4. Electricity -> Industrialism (Tanks!) ok, its getting scary we wont lose cities, we wont! we wont...right:) loooong series of attacks on Djenne... Turn 5. the defenders are still standing ... so are the Japanese I send 2 more suicide cannons to soften up the attackers, and also fresh defenders arrive at the city Toku is settling faster then we can capture his cities, we razed the newly founded Yokohama we have a slight problem up in the north: cavalries cant really handle the garrison promoted rifles, so I have to use infantry to attack and also have to leave some behind to guard the new cities. Timbuktu is producing units pretty fast though, I hope its gonna be enough another loooong attack the Djenne Turn 6. Djenne still standing one final failed attack on Djenne Turn 6-8. minor skirmish Turn 10. Industrialism comes in TANKS!! yay or not, we don’t have oil wells, so the next tech is Combustion Our forces arrive at Nara Turn 11 first peaceful turn Turn 13. ombustion-> Flight captured Bombay Turn 15. main forces meet another Japanese stack, no casualties, but we sustain serious injuries Accidentally pressed Enter. Yes, accidentally. Honestly. Didn’t move any units we have a stack of mostly defensive troops in Gantobury, with some tanks added, they’ll make a proper army. Still haven’t used the Great Artist Speaking of tanks, oil is being hooked up, took a while to move the workers there the empire notice the Japanese city North of the Inca, we’ll have to ship units there unless the Incas change their mind and let us pass their lands Tokugawa’s core cities are still untouched, and he still shows up with fresh stacks from time to time, so the war is definitely not over yet Save

Seconded. But we have to be more careful with Tokugawa, he’s churning out troops all the time

They didnt tell you what the presentation should be about? My guess would be that they expect you to basically advertise yourself. Why do you want this job and why should they choose me over the others. My experience with any presentation is that they should be visual. Though its only 3 minutes, maybe you can prepare some Power Point slides to summarize the main points. What kind of job is this?

Novosibirsk, Russia

More pics!! Cate Blanchett Shia LaBeouf and Karen Allen and also: Lego spoilers Trailer arrives at 12:01AM Friday, February 15.

The Russians like us. And while we’re powerful enough to win this game without friends, I’d still go after somebody else. Possibly the Incas but their cities aren’t that valuable or maybe the Japanese. But yeah, those Russian cities are nice I guess I had this one coming And nice work finishing off Mansa PS The capital is not growing, its not working on the fish resource again

Izmir, Turkey

Is this your lucky year or what? LCDs dont flicker while the constant refreshing of a CRT monitor can tire the eyes easily, however, setting the refresh rate at about 70-75 Hz or higher will negate this effect. CRTs emit some kind of electromagnetic radiation, which can also be harmful, but especially in the case of new monitors the level of this radiation is so low that it is basically undetectable and does not effect your health. What is actually harmful to the eyes is not the CRTs or monitors for that matter, but looking at anything at a close range. It is entirely unnatural, our ancestors in the stone age and before weren’t actually reading newspapers by the campfire. But you can’t tell the kids to stop reading and studying because its unhealthy. You can only tell them to stop sitting at the computer.

wow, interesting read ganto Ive never tried wow, but from what I read I have to say its brilliant. Both as a game and a business move. And judging Blizzard for their financial incentives are just wrong imho. There are a lot of companies who make a hell of a lot of money by buying up copyright licenses and releasing crappy games every year (coughEAgamescough), so earning fortunes with a good game doesn’t bother me. After all its purpose is to keep players on the servers, and wow seems to excel at this. Im not saying that obsessive gaming is a positive thing, but any hobby can be addictive. After some point anything may have a strong influence on how you spend your days. Gaming is just less accepted socially. At least here. But it’ll change I think, virtuality is becoming a common thing (in the economically more developed part of the world that is). Whether its our escape from a fragmented and atomized society, I dont know. *shrugs*But I don’t see it as inferior to other “meaningful” past time activities.

it's a wild guess but culture?

OK, it was more like 5 turns. Just when I thought I couldnt get worse at maths... Turn 248, 1690AD - Turn 252, 1710AD: continue building troops shipping workers to the southern island to clear that jungle noticed that our cities have relatively small population. Ok, me and my whipping are somewhat responsible for this, but I’ll see if I can build some granaries. Alexander has declared war on Gandhi! our troops are standing at the Malinese border, so why not use them? -> Turn 253, 1715AD: We have declared war on Mansa Musa! Bombing Kumbi Saleh Turn 254, 1720AD: Lost a rifle but: too bad its this close to the capital Turn 255, 1725AD: some pathetic attempt at Gantobury, rifles take care of it quickly Gandhi is losing cities, so why not trade with him while we can? We get Constitution and some gold Turn 257, 1735AD: Montezuma = priceless poor Gandhi Turn 258, 1740AD: Baoding has been founded on a somewhat marginal spot of the island Turn 259, 1745AD: next tech shall be: Tokugawa has declared war on Mansa Musa! he may steal some cities Turn 260, 1750AD: bombing Djenne and on the same turn: Li Po, a great artist has been born in Beijing! – not sure what to do with him, he’s on his way to the front lines Turn 261, 1755AD: Saladin has declared war on Hatshepsut! - Divide et impera And sent some troops to the barbarian city of the island: Turn 262, 1760AD: Delhi has been captured by the Greek Empire!! Turn 263, 1765AD: We have a bit of a problem here: For one Toku may capture the city before we could. he doesn’t have catapults nearby though And his borders are blocking the way to the Malinese capital. He’s Tokugawa so he wont sign open borders of course. Maybe use the artist here Save