What are you playing? (Redux)

[Ed Anger]

Team Fortress 2. My inner pyromaniac is enjoying it.

Finally got somebody pissed off. Playing King of the Hill, and I gun down 4 people. So I hit the taunt button, being super low on health and not really giving a shit. Teammate tells me via mic that I need to take the objective.

So I proceed to follow him on the map, and press the taunt button near him, with a variety of classes. He explodes into profanity on the mic and gets kicked.

I'm awesome.

Love the new avatar MB.

SANDVICH IS DELICIOUS!

[Zoupa]

You're running cottages aren't you? tsk tsk tsk. Once I switched to specialist economy, there's no turning back my friend. Get the pyramids, run farms instead of cottages and watch you population explode. Convert them to specialists. At 0% on the science slider, you get discoveries every 5 turns for most of the game.

I mix it up. For the most part, I do build farms on every square that allows farms, rarely using those for cottages/workshops/other.  I build some cottages for the income, usually on plains terrain and later build some workshops on green terrain. I leave some forest for lumber mills for more production/hammers later. I also try to found cities near one or two hills/mountains for mines/production. Other towns I build in heavy farm areas, near rivers and seafood, intending large pops but less production.

I never really tried a specialist economy, but you reminded me about it. What do you do for production, since you also need buildings, wonders, military?

Farming everything helps out, since you can then run priests and engineers for the added production. I run bureaucracy as soon as I can so that my capital turns into a wonder factory. Little tricks like building wall street in the city where your religion was founded also helps. I try to have a city continually producing missionaries and auto-spreading it. It helps your income, you can ask other leaders to switch religions once half their cities are of your religion and that improves relations.

[lustindarkness]

Thinking seriously about buying one of those new sleeker PS3's as I have a huge selection of blu-rays at my disposal at work, and I've been gaming more on the PS2 and would like to try some newer games. Only 299 CAD and taxes. seems fairly reasonable considering what you can do with it. But first I'm getting a new extended zoom point and shoot camera.

Seems like a good deal, slimmer, more hard drive capacity and lower price. I may get me a second one myself so I can play at the same time as my son, the PS3 hog.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

You're running cottages aren't you? tsk tsk tsk. Once I switched to specialist economy, there's no turning back my friend. Get the pyramids, run farms instead of cottages and watch you population explode. Convert them to specialists. At 0% on the science slider, you get discoveries every 5 turns for most of the game.

I mix it up. For the most part, I do build farms on every square that allows farms, rarely using those for cottages/workshops/other.  I build some cottages for the income, usually on plains terrain and later build some workshops on green terrain. I leave some forest for lumber mills for more production/hammers later. I also try to found cities near one or two hills/mountains for mines/production. Other towns I build in heavy farm areas, near rivers and seafood, intending large pops but less production.

I never really tried a specialist economy, but you reminded me about it. What do you do for production, since you also need buildings, wonders, military?

Farming everything helps out, since you can then run priests and engineers for the added production. I run bureaucracy as soon as I can so that my capital turns into a wonder factory. Little tricks like building wall street in the city where your religion was founded also helps. I try to have a city continually producing missionaries and auto-spreading it. It helps your income, you can ask other leaders to switch religions once half their cities are of your religion and that improves relations.

playing the demo I found that sending out missionaries helped to spread whatever "word" I was peddling also.

[KRonn]

Farming everything helps out, since you can then run priests and engineers for the added production. I run bureaucracy as soon as I can so that my capital turns into a wonder factory. Little tricks like building wall street in the city where your religion was founded also helps. I try to have a city continually producing missionaries and auto-spreading it. It helps your income, you can ask other leaders to switch religions once half their cities are of your religion and that improves relations.

Good ideas. I usually do very little with missionaries, except sometimes to bring religion to my new cities. Bureaucracy idea is good which I didn't really think of; I've often not used that since other civics give wider benefits.
It is clear to me that I do need to experiment more with my strategy in the game.

[Scipio]

I have installed BG, TOTSC, BG2, BG2ToB, and Tutu.  Next, the widescreen mod!

G3 widescreen mod works very well.

[Syt]

I shall report:

The HTC cell phone's touchscreen is not very adequate for playing Legend of Zelda (NES) on a virtual gamepad as the directional buttons are tricky.

KOEI games are fine, though. I look forward to playing "L'Empereur" on my morning commute. I still need to test GBA/SNES/Genesis emus. I have installed ScummVM and will test the old Lucasarts games, too.

[The Brain]

Played some Civ IV again, this time with the expansions. Man, I kind of realized why I never get into it.

1. I already played Civ almost 20 years ago. It's still the same game.

2. How the fuck did I build a Zeppelin without knowing about combustion engines or industrial hydrogen production?

3. My machine guns get a beating from (waves of) trebuchets and macemen? ffs

Time to find a really good turn based strategy game. Suggestions?

[The Brain]

Playing some more Civ IV. I like the idea of Civ and it's a nice polished product. We shall see...

[Seen]

3. My machine guns get a beating from (waves of) trebuchets and macemen? ffs

Suggestions?

Build one/two, fortify behind a castle and im pretty sure you could withstand a stack.

Dont be such a wonderwhore 

[HisMajestyBOB]

Been playing vanilla HoI2 as Japan. Finished off China in 1938 and went with the "Divide into puppet warlords" option (it feels more realistic). I remained at war with Sinkiang, but didn't really care, since it let me keep my consumer goods quite low. Then in 1939 I took Sinkiang's capital, but before I could make peace (they rejected the first offer), the USSR declared war! Out of the blue!

Possibly realistic (the USSR didn't want a Japan-dominated far east), but my army is such crap that I'll stand no chance. I'll probably go back to an autosave. Me = wuss. 

[The Brain]

3. My machine guns get a beating from (waves of) trebuchets and macemen? ffs

Suggestions?

Build one/two, fortify behind a castle and im pretty sure you could withstand a stack.

Dont be such a wonderwhore 

[KRonn]

Playing some more Civ IV. I like the idea of Civ and it's a nice polished product. We shall see...

AI tends to build a lot of military. And when the AI players invade, I find they can hit pretty hard, lots of ships and units. 

The newer tech units always have a clear advantage I'd say, even if they may get worn down by too many attacks by lesser tech units.

[katmai]

trying out champions online.

[Grey Fox]

trying out champions online.

how is it? Is there a trial?