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July 20, 2025, 03:37:09 AM

we're back, baby

Quote from: Morphiend on August 30, 2006, 11:30:45 PM

Also, shame right back at ya, no Firefox?.

It's in my apps folder, so it's accessible. I use Safari for 99% of browsing, Opera is on there because I was testing it a couple weeks ago. I do like Shiira and Camino best, I think. Camino > Firefox :P

Guess I should include my work desktop too, featuring my doggies. :)

1, 2, 3... Aaaaawwwww.

The shot in the bottom left is like a MySpace picture. Over the head, only the face in focus.

I bet she's fat.

I am one of the herd.

(Censored area showing an icon to something I'm not supposed to tell people I have... or technically it's okay to tell people, but they frown on it and are trying to make it not okay, so I'm just not going to poke.)

Y'know, looking at this, I use about 5 of the things on that desktop. Should probably delete a few...

But then what would happen if I tried to find the invoice I sent for that fucking football copy writing project and I couldn't find it? What then? No, best to leave it there.

Maya Unlimited? Hope you bought that as a student :-D

Background image at work:

Quote from: Trippy on September 02, 2006, 06:02:04 PM

Maya Unlimited? Hope you bought that as a student :-D

Yes.... "bought."

I was a student at the time, if that helps.

Quote from: voodoolily on September 02, 2006, 07:27:21 PM

Background image at work:

If there was any doubt before that you were a girl I think that would have settled it.

Mine hasnt really changed since the last thread.

Quote from: Llava on September 08, 2006, 10:17:49 PM

Nerd.

I was going to change my start button to have my name in it, but thought that would be too vain.

It would be cool if someone explained the joke.

Quote from: Strazos on September 12, 2006, 08:05:43 AM

It would be cool if someone explained the joke.

That is never true.

Usually I have wacky desktop replacements at home, but been too busy with moving and whatnot.

I hate having cluttered icons all over the place, so I sort out all my shortcuts into a taskbar menu.

NSFW. Just changing to a link until you can fix.

You wanna worksafe that, bub?

Quote from: Rasix on September 12, 2006, 03:45:32 PM

You wanna worksafe that, bub?

Nah, not really. Too much hassle going through the Photobucket hoops again, so a link is just fine.

Those lesbians have maxxed out your CPU resources.

Cool.

Fall from Heaven any good Lum? I've just been keeping to vanilla or sevomod, havent went full out on the fantasy mods.

It's still got some balance issues (the elves pwn thanks to being able to keep forests when improving; somewhat counteracted in later versions by having no siege equipment whatsoever) but overall has more "flavor" than vanilla and is surprisingly deep. The religions and races all play very differently.

Some examples:

The Orcs (Circle of Flame or whatever they're called) start out allied with barbarians, which is pretty huge as the barbs get some monstrous units very quickly (including a red dragon about 100 turns in). However, they can't keep any cities. They automatically raze everything they occupy. Orcs are hard to control!

The Kuriotate, which are pseudo-Byzantines, can only build 4 real cities. All their other cities are clamped as "settlements" which can only grow to 2 pop and can't build anything past a very limited set of improvements. However, those 4 cities have a development range of 4, not 3, which means they quickly become huge monstrosity cities. A civ tailor made for perfectionist builders.

There's a *harmful* religion called Cult of the Dragon. If it spreads to your cities, they LOSE culture. Enough culture lost, and they die off. Hope you have an inquisitior handy. Especially devastating if you take over a city with the cult active, as you probably just destroyed all their cultural improvements.

The magical system is pretty darned good, better than you'd expect from a Civ mod. Basically the mages that you build use Civ 4's levelling system, and as you level, you gain levels in magic schools (the schools you can level in are controlled by mana nodes that you own or trade for). Casters generally are support troops (heal spells, summoning units, etc.) and won't engage in combat directly, so the game gives them a small trickle of experience every turn (it does the same for heroes as well, which tend to be more melee specific although there are caster heroes as well). The AI does a fair to middling job of using magic, it seems; you fight quite a few summoned creatures.

The late game "thousands of units slowing things to a crawl" is counteracted somewhat by hard caps on high tier units. You can only build 4 paladins, 4 flurry archers, etc. There's also end-game spells such as "Genesis" which turns everything nice and forest green, perfect for all your elven archers to raise sudden havoc.

Basically if you've been jonesing for Master of Magic 2 this will work as a suitable replacement, even in its current incomplete state. Warning, though, startup takes a LONG time due to all the wacky scripting and new units.

The mod's only about 1/3 done, but still eminently playable. The developers are going through and giving each civ "chrome" as they progress; it's pretty obvious which civs are "done". The non-chrome civs work fine as AI opponents.

Quote from: Lum on September 13, 2006, 07:33:14 AM

Basically if you've been jonesing for Master of Magic 2 this will work as a suitable replacement, even in its current incomplete state. Warning, though, startup takes a LONG time due to all the wacky scripting and new units.

Sold!

Once I have more time on my hands I will definately have to look into this. Thanks!

I thought Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic was a decent MoM2, but I'll be checking out that Civ4 mod!

Work machine(laptop, with secondary display)... Smudged over some server names and other possibly sensative info, but you can see I keep a lot of garbage on my desktop.