global warming

[La Fayette]

Hello, youngsters!
I'm 63 and no longer worrying with job hunting .
But I did experience that, many years ago (when the guy tells you 'I have really enjoyed meeting you, but...' and you would really enjoy having your left fist bumping his nose).
Good luck to you, from the bottom of my heart.

[SlowThinker]

I will be 113 in the august you babies...

[JCP]

Originally posted by GP
(Oblig. Kerm. P.: Never move 2 engineers or settlers onto a tile to fix pollution if it takes a movement point. It is more efficient to leave the one worker doing the job...since the movement points are lost. So if you have a roaded square (or a flat terrain square, for an engineer), feel free to double up. But in all other cases, just use one dude)

Generaly, when I've to doble engineers on cleaning pollution, it's in a emergency situation, to reduce instantly pollution and prevent global warming.
In that case, one mouv lost is not the matter.

[TCO]

Granted in that case it makes sense. But otherwise, don't do it.

[JCP]

No age to be Civ addicted
I'm 53.

[ramses II.]

Welcome to the club. I'm 47.

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by SlowThinker

I will be 113 in the august you babies...

That would be in game-turns

SG[1]

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
That would be in game-turns
SG[1]

Humans don't live that long, silly.

[debeest]

I hate job-hunting worse than almost anything; you guys both have my deep sympathy.

I'm 46 and surprised at the apparent average age of the people checking in on this particular thread. I remember a thread a couple years ago that just asked everyone's age, and there were lots more youngsters.

And if we thought we were off topic before ....

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq
Humans don't live that long, silly.

Ah, M. le Marquis - you may have missed the discussion over on Civ2\Multiplaying in which SlowThinker stated that taking one hour to consider his first move would be typical - extrapolating from this I meant the actual elapsed time to make 113 game turns

SG[1]

[ablative armour] ... and we should always keep in mind Xin's excellent tutorial on how to utilise more than two Settlers/Engineers on a single task ... [/ablative armour]

[Straybow]

Hmmm, let's see. 1 hour for the first turn, 2 for the second… that comes to 6,441 hours or 268 d 3 hr. I'm amazed he's every finished a game, or did he say once that he hasn't?

63, fifties, forties… For once I don't feel like an old fart here on Apolyton.

Gotta get off my ass and do something

GP, I know what you mean. After a while I just got a job, any job. Desk clerk at a motel, now night auditor. No money, but it has advantages. Usually a few hours every night with literally nothing to do, so I can do this .

To actually play Civ (or HoMM, MoO) I'd have to bring my computer in… which I have done when desperate for a fix.

"I gotta TBS jones, I gotta TBS jones, I gotta TBS jones, ooo-ooo-ooo."

[Straybow]

debeest, I literally missed your post, mine being one minute after yours then I picked up reading following that… and I hate to break up this love-fest or open up a whole discussion about PCness (getting even further off the topic).

Offhand I'd say McCarthyism is a different kettle of fish from modern PCness. Overreacting to Kruschev pounding his shoe on the UN lecturn shouting "We will bury you!" (with his proverbial finger on The Button) is not to be compared with a bunch of eggheads overreacting on global warming. However, had Sid made loyalty oaths a game feature with severe negative effects if neglected I'd say the same thing I've said about Sid's global warming: it is a misguided ideological intrusion upon gameplay.

Within the game the effects of almost any negative impact (unhappiness, corruption, pollution) can be addressed directly. Rules.txt allows anyone to undo the absurdities of some game features. Gw is not among those that can be corrected within the game model nor via rules.txt, and so I find it more offensive.

I remember back in the days of Civ, doubly unhappy "black faces" were introduced as a patch. I don't remember gw being part of Civ. Does anyone know if it was introduced as a patch?

[Scouse Gits]

Sorry - GW is in the original (my copy is 1.04 IIRC) manual - but yes it is one of the few hard wired game features - I don't remember if black faces were introduced by 2.42 - but they have the feel of a hack so I would not be surprised - Hey could this be an on topic post?

SG[1]

[TCO]

I'm still a slug...

[Straybow]

No, no, no, I mean the original Wonder of the World Civilization, not the glorious Renaissance WoW Civilization II (which never expires, and which many players prefer over the Industrial WoW Civilization III).

AFAIK black faces were always part of Civ2. In the Civ patch they may not have been black, but deep red. I can't check because Civ was never on the computer I own now. [eyes get misty with nostalgia *sniff, sniff*]