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Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 18th, 2003, 03:57 AM
Replies: 1,859
Views: 162,653
Posted By teal
Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.

Geo: Sorry about perhaps sounding a little harsh. I'm sure that if I had thought a little more I could have found a nicer way to point out your typo.

But I think my charicature of the forum...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 17th, 2003, 11:40 PM
Replies: 1,859
Views: 162,653
Posted By teal
Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">huh?! Wasn't the theme of this thread, "let's all be super precise in our language and make sure that we never ever say anything that isn't 100%...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 30th, 2003, 11:50 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 7,511
Posted By teal
Re: Is this gamey?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is rather offensive.[/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I would like to publicly apologize to...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 30th, 2003, 08:28 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 7,511
Posted By teal
Re: Is this gamey?

Yes. What happened was I saw a post and said, "oh look a message by Fyron I bet I'll be extremely ticked off by it" and sure enough I was... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 30th, 2003, 08:02 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 7,511
Posted By teal
Re: Is this gamey?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In your opinion, yes. That opinion is not shared by a very large portion of PBW players (perhaps 50/50). So, this is why things like this MUST be...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 30th, 2003, 06:47 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 7,511
Posted By teal
Re: Is this gamey?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I shouldn't refer to cultural icons since this is a worldwide forum. My apologies. I might have spelled his name wrong. He is the host of "A...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 30th, 2003, 06:45 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 7,511
Posted By teal
Re: Is this gamey?

Back to the original question: Is gifting a planet to a doomed ally a gamey move?

I am with Geo on this. A lot depends on what the motivations and reasons for this are. If it is psychological in...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 30th, 2003, 06:32 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 7,511
Posted By teal
Re: Is this gamey?

I never really understood the idea that "if people understood that it was a Last man standing game they would be more hesitant to trade technology".

Assume there is a game with 4 players: A, B, C,...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 23rd, 2003, 05:48 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 6,393
Posted By teal
Re: Question about general strategy: missles vs. fighters vs. drones vs. direct fire, etc

Actually I mostly agree with you. Especially for multiplayer games where anything that paints a target on your own forehead must be very carefully considered as I have learned when trying to play a...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 23rd, 2003, 02:00 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 6,393
Posted By teal
Re: Question about general strategy: missles vs. fighters vs. drones vs. direct fire, etc

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Your right! I definately suck. How else to explain how I have failed to get very far at all against my enemy for 50 turns despite having what he...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 23rd, 2003, 01:58 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 6,393
Posted By teal
Re: Question about general strategy: missles vs. fighters vs. drones vs. direct fire, etc

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not exactly. Yes this thread was originally started when I got to thinking about the beserker trait and what *could* be accomplished with it. ...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 23rd, 2003, 12:56 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 6,393
Posted By teal
Re: Question about general strategy: missles vs. fighters vs. drones vs. direct fire, etc

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As you have no doubt figured out now it is actually quite easy to do this. Simply get 4 of the 5 highest ranked players in a 6 player game to...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 12th, 2003, 04:16 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,472
Posted By teal
Re: why can\'t you trade specific techs?

Each time you trade a tech it only trades one level of that tech. Trading "Warheads" for example will trade one level of Warheads. In order to trade warheads 2 you have to trade Warheads, Warheads.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 12th, 2003, 03:23 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 10,054
Posted By teal
Re: OT - No-Call list

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I always thought the constitution was a compromise between the Federalists (as much founding fathers as anyone else) and the Anti-Federalists...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 12th, 2003, 03:06 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 10,054
Posted By teal
Re: OT - No-Call list

U.S. Constitution. Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to... ...regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

If somone...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 12th, 2003, 07:14 AM
Replies: 100
Views: 15,151
Posted By teal
Re: A thought on the Talisman / Live on Pay-Per-View: Geo vs. Fyron

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's not a fix. Anyone in their right mind would take 100% hit chance over big damage (unless in a situation where the big damage guns hit...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V July 12th, 2003, 07:07 AM
Replies: 194
Views: 25,917
Posted By teal
Re: Philosophical Quandry: Piracy

Personally I find EULAs to be slightly immoral.

Since the company has a monopoly on the product they are distributing in a sense they are coercing you into agreeing to the EULA. (admittedly a...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 22nd, 2003, 07:44 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,382
Posted By teal
Re: Boarding and Ramming Targets

I just tried this in the simulator with targeting set to nearest, nearest, nearest, nearetst. The results are the same.

Situation: Enemy fleet has one BB armed only with minesweepers and 7 Light...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 16th, 2003, 03:16 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,099
Posted By teal
Replacement player wanted for "Donnerkrieg" on PBW

There is a replacement spot available in the game "Donnerkrieg" on PBW. The game is still in the early stages and the player withdrew for real life reasons and not game reasons as far as I know (I...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 16th, 2003, 03:05 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 9,741
Posted By teal
Re: New PBW game : "Mediocrity"

I posted my turn as soon as I got backon Thursday... Someone else didn't have their turn in which is why the turn didn't process... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 7th, 2003, 05:19 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 7,630
Posted By teal
Re: POLL: Backstabbing

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well seems there are some other former Diplomacy players here. Not suprising given that the two games tickle many of the same parts of the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 6th, 2003, 11:03 AM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,037
Posted By teal
Re: Strategy Articles!

Eeek! Didn't mean for a simple (that's strange) question to be so prominently displayed in a popular thread for all to see!

Quick Stone Mill, post another strategy article so my silliness can be...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 6th, 2003, 01:12 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 6,197
Posted By teal
Re: Increasing turn speed

Is this really that big a problem? Ruatha, you were saying it was only this game (NCG:3) which seemed a little bit slow. I would guess that >90% of games with 20 people in them go at an average...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2003, 06:31 PM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,037
Posted By teal
Re: Strategy Articles!

After doing some further testing (and reloading the original saved game). I think that the problem was that I just won the game on the turn that I made the planet (or else well before making the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2003, 06:19 PM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,037
Posted By teal
Re: Strategy Articles!

Tested it again by starting up a high tech game and making a planet maker very quickly. No problems. My repair bay III repaired the ship the next turn. No idea what happened that first time... ...
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