(Firaxis, please read) RIDICULOUSLY EASY-TO-IMPLEMENT suggestions

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Aro

Why?
18 civs, 40 names for each, equal to 720 names. No big deal. A secretary can do this. The receptionist at Firaxis building can do this?

It's not just typing out the names, which would be easy. It's finding the correct name and spelling for it, making sure it's a city and not a state or region or somesuch, finding out if it's just a modern name of an older city, and doing the necessary research to find the most important 40 cities.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by yin26

Har, har, har. If you stated your opinion once, why do you state it again afterwards in a slightly different manner?

Just helping people who don't/can't read, I guess. I'm helpful that way.

That's interesting, considering I was replying to sophist and not you.

[yin26]

Man, if you're drunk, I want some!

[Patroklos]

2D

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by yin26
Man, if you're drunk, I want some!

Same goes for you. You obviously can't see the order of posts. You read it from the top to the bottom.

[Aro]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear


It's not just typing out the names, which would be easy. It's finding the correct name and spelling for it, making sure it's a city and not a state or region or somesuch, finding out if it's just a modern name of an older city, and doing the necessary research to find the most important 40 cities.

Yep. So... ?
Honestly, it not seems to be so difficult. A computer, someone with half-brain, one week and a broadband connection. What else is needed?

[yin26]

This is awesome! It's like I'm on a drug talking to the Cheshire Cat! ...pulls up a chair, gets popcorn... Is this a train wreck or a burgeoning love story? Yin unpresses the pause button and sees if the following replay of court testimony leaves any clues...

Exhibit A: Lord quotes me:

quote:
Originally posted by yin26
Man. I love quoting so much of myself with you! Keeps me deeply engaged:

Exhibit B: Lord quotes me again in the same post:

quote:
4. While my sense is that this is something an intern could fix and wouldn't therefore jeopardize work being done on the AI, etc., if push came to shove, this is a low priority as long as there's an understanding to fix it down the road.

Exhibit C: Lord ends these two quotes with the following:

Har, har, har. If you stated your opinion once, why do you state it again afterwards in a slightly different manner?

Exhibit D: Oh, the plot twists don't stop there! He claims a few moments later:

That's interesting, considering I was replying to sophist and not you.

Nope...he wasn't replying to me at all! He was just using my quotes to get back at Sophist. Genius. Ladies and gentlemen of the court, I submit to you that Sophist did it in the Library with the candle stick!

[yin26]

(little excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, though the Poly version is better)

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

[asleepathewheel]

Intern? That would be Trip, wouldn't it? j/k j/k

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
I have my doubts that there is anything like a "geography/history researcher." Firaxis isn't Blizzard or Bioware, and I'm sure they have a fairly tight budget. I think you over-estimate the amount of people that would be willing to research around 720 names, and they run the risk of people leaking the information. This isn't about the capital of Russia, it's about obscure cities that the average person wouldn't know about.

Apparently you are confused, Yin. I replied this to sophist, but for some reason you replied to me stating "Once again, the Intern." Posting an elaborated opinion, then posting a small opinion strikes me as rather odd. You were the one who responded to something I said to sophist, not the other way around. Once again, I'm going to tell you to read the thread from the top to bottom, not vice-versa.

[yin26]

Yep, I replied that to you because you were arguing the tight budget angle. Thus: The Intern. See? And I did it curtly like that to save time, assuming you'd actually read the stuff that has already been said. Anyway, I'm kooky with my assumptions. Bad habit.

I've got a contact high!

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by yin26
Yep, I replied that to you because you were arguing the tight budget angle. Thus: The Intern. See? And I did it curtly like that to save time, assuming you'd actually read the stuff that has already been said. Anyway, I'm kooky with my assumptions. Bad habit.

I've got a contact high!

Except the fact that being curtly made it seem as if you were changing your opinion. You said yourself that if there were more important things to work on, then this would be a low-priority. And since I assume that the interns are fairly busy, then this WOULD be a low-priority item. You can't change your original statement just so there is absolutely nothing you will agree with me on.

[yin26]

Lord: Well, sorry if my curt version made you think I was changing my opinion. The whole thing was bizaare and funny. Carry on. Poly family. Hugs and kisses. It seems we agree anyway: Use the interns for this but only if there isn't something more important to be doing.

[Aro]

I bet Firaxis will read this stuff, after all...

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by yin26
Lord: Well, sorry if my curt version made you think I was changing my opinion. The whole thing was bizaare and funny. Carry on. Poly family. Hugs and kisses. It seems we agree anyway: Use the interns for this but only if there isn't something more important to be doing.

/me gives a hug to Yin