Because Civ is a single player game. It isn't meant for multiplayer, and multiplayer has always been a terrible experience. I'd prefer if they dropped it entirely and spent more time on polishing the AI or released it earlier. Because they shove in a half baked multiplayer we get a worse game.
I've had lots of fun playing Civilization 4 over LANs, so please allow me to disagree, for the most part, with your statement.
That said, the AI in Civ 5 is rather flawed.
Heh, incandescents used to pop and CFL's used to dim on me all the time. Three years since I've gone LED-only (from reputable brands) and not a single lamp has died yet. Out of about 50. That suggests to me that there might be something to this.
Think about it. Our greatest right is the right to vote. If you can't trust people with a gun how in hell can you trust them to vote? This might explain everything.
One person with bad voting sense is a fraction of a percentage point—hardly of interest. One person with bad shooting sense is a classroom full of dead teenagers—kind of a big deal.
Does that make more sense to you now?
or do proper crop rotation with crops that help replenish.
And what exactly is wrong with using fertilizer? Even the iron age farmers knew about spreading fertilizer although they mostly referred to it as manure or just shit. But continue down the luddite path if it makes you feel better about yourselves.
Over-fertilization pollutes the groundwater. This has already been problematic and a reason for agricultural reform in the Netherlands.
My Alienware M11R3 can play Crysis (and warhead) with decent FPS. Mind you not as well as a desktop, but then again my desktop isn't 4.5lbs and can be taken anywhere (battery life is better too, darn UPS for the desktop weighs as much as it does and only lasts 10 min, the laptop at full burn, ie gaming, runs for 2.5hr).
I take this LAN parties all the time, WAY better than packing up a whole desktop. Maybe I'm just getting old, but not having to spend 1hr setup/tare-down is very nice. Sit down, plug in, turn on, play games. And the heated keyboard keeps you hand warm while you play.
That notebook is not an Ultrabook, however. It's too thick.
With video games costing tens of millions to develop nowdays, $600,000 for a multiplatform 3D game seems like a very low figure. Will they really be able to pull this off?
This is about porting the game, not creating it from scratch.
The eye is a very complex organ though, so we would be behind. I'm glad to see progress, but even so, 4 months is a little short-term to say "no bad health effects". Given the cells are embryonic stem cells, I'm more concerned with the 10-20 year range.
As someone also suffering from one of the diseased potentially cured by this, I may not be ready to wait up to twenty years for long-term results, since I may very well be blind by then, thank you very much.
With that said, four months is a very short time.
If only from the simple perspective that an interpreted, garbage collected language (such as Javascript) is inherently less efficient than a compiled language (C, Pascal, whatever) -- and it therefore is going to burn more CPU cycles than are required to perform the functionality the game provides. AND IT IS THEREFORE NOT GREEN!
Playing computer games is rarely green, no matter what language it was produced in.
...I'm all for it. But by how much will it extend the battery life? And when they say it will "Drastically" change the notebook market I doubt that; netbooks folks won't care about 3D and Desktop Replacement folks don't care if their machine is plugged in. Mabye in a smaller segment of mobile gamers this will make a difference.
I'm one of the "netbooks folks", and the prospect of being able to play video, or even basic accelerated games without running out of juice in less than half the regular time sounds great to me.
While I do think Firefox is bloating, and really think they've made some questionable decisions (such as force-feeding the terrible Awesomebar), I can't think of anything wrong with this move.
I actually like the awesomebar; it made it much easier for me to store and access bookmarks, solely by using the keyboard. I did find it had negative effects on my computers with less than 512MB RAM.
In other news: "Google Chrome Extensions are not supported on your browser. Please download the Beta Channel of Google Chrome to install extensions."
All I'm saying is: It's just new, give it some time to mature. Then you're allowed to rant again.
That's either informative, or you're trying to make matters worse for someone.
Really, what were you trying to accomplish by posting that? Maybe next time add a better guiding text.
Really cool, I'm especially impressed it doesn't crash or mess up when you resize or close any of the windows; it responds as expected.
Yes, it's cheating.
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My Siri is a dude, you insensitive clod!
Those are not 45 degree angles.
Except we're not talking about a race of aliens, but about humans.
Because Civ is a single player game. It isn't meant for multiplayer, and multiplayer has always been a terrible experience. I'd prefer if they dropped it entirely and spent more time on polishing the AI or released it earlier. Because they shove in a half baked multiplayer we get a worse game.
I've had lots of fun playing Civilization 4 over LANs, so please allow me to disagree, for the most part, with your statement. That said, the AI in Civ 5 is rather flawed.
BitTorrent Sync stores deleted files in a hidden subdirectory by default.
Heh, incandescents used to pop and CFL's used to dim on me all the time. Three years since I've gone LED-only (from reputable brands) and not a single lamp has died yet. Out of about 50. That suggests to me that there might be something to this.
This is what I started reading the comment section for. Now I can go back to what I was doing. Thank you.
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Milosevic.
Think about it. Our greatest right is the right to vote. If you can't trust people with a gun how in hell can you trust them to vote? This might explain everything.
One person with bad voting sense is a fraction of a percentage point—hardly of interest. One person with bad shooting sense is a classroom full of dead teenagers—kind of a big deal. Does that make more sense to you now?
or do proper crop rotation with crops that help replenish.
And what exactly is wrong with using fertilizer? Even the iron age farmers knew about spreading fertilizer although they mostly referred to it as manure or just shit. But continue down the luddite path if it makes you feel better about yourselves.
Over-fertilization pollutes the groundwater. This has already been problematic and a reason for agricultural reform in the Netherlands.
My Alienware M11R3 can play Crysis (and warhead) with decent FPS. Mind you not as well as a desktop, but then again my desktop isn't 4.5lbs and can be taken anywhere (battery life is better too, darn UPS for the desktop weighs as much as it does and only lasts 10 min, the laptop at full burn, ie gaming, runs for 2.5hr).
I take this LAN parties all the time, WAY better than packing up a whole desktop. Maybe I'm just getting old, but not having to spend 1hr setup/tare-down is very nice. Sit down, plug in, turn on, play games. And the heated keyboard keeps you hand warm while you play.
That notebook is not an Ultrabook, however. It's too thick.
With video games costing tens of millions to develop nowdays, $600,000 for a multiplatform 3D game seems like a very low figure. Will they really be able to pull this off?
This is about porting the game, not creating it from scratch.
Hey, moderators are people too, you know! Foolish people, perhaps, but people nonetheless. (You insensitive clod!)
The eye is a very complex organ though, so we would be behind. I'm glad to see progress, but even so, 4 months is a little short-term to say "no bad health effects". Given the cells are embryonic stem cells, I'm more concerned with the 10-20 year range.
As someone also suffering from one of the diseased potentially cured by this, I may not be ready to wait up to twenty years for long-term results, since I may very well be blind by then, thank you very much. With that said, four months is a very short time.
Mind altering drugs?
Worked for me...
If only from the simple perspective that an interpreted, garbage collected language (such as Javascript) is inherently less efficient than a compiled language (C, Pascal, whatever) -- and it therefore is going to burn more CPU cycles than are required to perform the functionality the game provides. AND IT IS THEREFORE NOT GREEN!
Playing computer games is rarely green, no matter what language it was produced in.
...I'm all for it. But by how much will it extend the battery life? And when they say it will "Drastically" change the notebook market I doubt that; netbooks folks won't care about 3D and Desktop Replacement folks don't care if their machine is plugged in. Mabye in a smaller segment of mobile gamers this will make a difference.
I'm one of the "netbooks folks", and the prospect of being able to play video, or even basic accelerated games without running out of juice in less than half the regular time sounds great to me.
While I do think Firefox is bloating, and really think they've made some questionable decisions (such as force-feeding the terrible Awesomebar), I can't think of anything wrong with this move.
I actually like the awesomebar; it made it much easier for me to store and access bookmarks, solely by using the keyboard. I did find it had negative effects on my computers with less than 512MB RAM.
So... that would be a good thing?
Oh yeah, nobody's removing extensions.
In other news: "Google Chrome Extensions are not supported on your browser. Please download the Beta Channel of Google Chrome to install extensions."
All I'm saying is: It's just new, give it some time to mature. Then you're allowed to rant again.
Check who has Deleted you from their contact list on MSN at http://checkmsnstatus.com/.
That's either informative, or you're trying to make matters worse for someone.
Really, what were you trying to accomplish by posting that? Maybe next time add a better guiding text.
Really cool, I'm especially impressed it doesn't crash or mess up when you resize or close any of the windows; it responds as expected. Yes, it's cheating.
Not lolcats, that's for sure.
If you read more closely, you would've noticed it said "FreeBSD". Note that FreeBSD != GNU.
"This was no easy decision to make, but I'm afraid were going to have to let you... BRAAAAIIIINS!"