Deacon_Raptor
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I personally think that it is.......I am a very creative person, and I have noticed that my output is WAY less, and a lot worse quality, when the moon is between half and new, whereas when the moon is between half and full, my output dramtically increases, as does the quality of my work. The nights when the moon is full (or extrememly near fullness) are the best nights of all for me. I can stay up for hours, literally, being creative.
Have any other of you creative minds out there noticed if this is true or not?
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And vise versa. A fan-based project, like TLA, won't have as many of the bells and whistles, esp. graphically, as most of the commercial-grade products......although that is not a bad thing. I STILL play Heroes of Might and Magic 2 (from like 1996), even though the graphics/sounds are at the very minimal level of tolerance, because the gameplay is SO good. A game does not have to have great graphics to make it a great game. However, that discussion is really more for the hall of intellectuals.
At any rate; there is too much stuff about LotR (and so) out there as it is, however none of it IMO is really good. Hopefully TLA will break that trend.
Speaking of, when is the new website coming out? Im hoping itll have a lot more info than the old one......cant tell anything from that, no info
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My thoughts exactly Caeser lol...wow.
How did you do it....it has the look of a painting and yet somehow it more looks like it was made to look that way. I dunno, little inconsistencies etc that make it look like it was made to look like a painting.......if you what I mean then fine, Im having a moment where my sentance gets too involved for its own good; by the time its done I probably wont know what I was trying to say anymore lol.
Awesome job man
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I also thought that they werequite good in RotK....except as Rinion pointed out I am not sure why he made them have a greenish tinge to them. Maybe to make it so that they didnt all blend together?
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Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Demo here lol
I have played it for ~8 years now I think its been.....and I still play it, even today I played it in fact. Possibly the best TBS game ever made, it pwns so much
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Welcome Felagund
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Yeah, but on a more technical note...I wonder how they did it; like the WoW thing. I know little about WoW, but I mean is that even possible for anyone except Blizzard to do? And if not, I would not think that Blizzard would go along with such a thing.
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Right. So some early hard wars could account for the population difference.....think if a war the size of the American Civil War or WW1 had happened in the year 1000...over the course of the next say 500 years the populations would have been significantly lower.
BTW, plz call me Raptor, or Kevin.....Deacon is my clan tag
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preeeeeeetty lol
Thats one thing that always amazed me about Tolkien's scripts, they were always so beautiful. Easily the most beautiful written language that I have ever seen.
Soemthing kind of interesting, that yours are a different style than his. I remember there were 2 primary scripts from the appendices (Quenya and Sindarin I believe the two were). So he d/led the wrong kind?
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It's funny to me how this thread got so off topic and yet stayed so interesting.
And yeah, Caeser, I could come up with something better, but then, my example got the point across didn't it?
The whole war - casualties point is also a very good one Caeser......since population grows expenentially, one death 1000 years before WotR might cause a -500 population growth (note that Im just using round figures as examples here, I dunno exactly how much of a decrease of population growth there would be, but if you figure 2 children per set of parents, of the course of 1000 years, and a generation taking ~50 years, thats 400 there).
So some of the skirmishes and battles of the early years might affect population of the WotR era by millions.
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Some of it is probably because I am a linguistic noob, but I have never had much luck translating directly from English to Tengwar, I believe it is. Of course, I have only been using the tables found in the appendices for LotR...which are noticeably lacking several key letters needed to correctly translate.
Anyways, show it to us Caeser, looking forward to seeing it
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Welcome to the community!
I highly recommend Walagata.com btw.....far better than ImageShack or any of the rest of that ilk, assuming you have image files of your drawings.
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Got it here several days ago as well. (Wednesday I believe it was)
What do you all think of the game? Now that the XP error is fixed, Im extremely happy with the game.....it was a very difficult time period to design a game around, I think few people who play it/have reviewed it understadn that; I think ES did a great job on a tough subject.
Props to them.
So who all else plays/how good are you?
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Exactly the point I was about to make Caeser.
I mean, yes they are more than books to us, however, in the final reckoning, they are books (written as histories) detailing a Fantasy Realm. Meaning, who knows, maybe Morgoth pronouced a curse over Men that made them sterile after 2 births. Who knows......it seems to me that representing Tolkien's world should be the top priority, not saying that well, this doesnt make sense so lets change it. Yes there are believability problems with Tolkiens various works......in the bio of him I have (forget author) he says right in there that Tolkien was constantly rewritting and changing things.
As such, we now have a cacophony of conflicting ideas. But I think at a certain point, like with this population problem, we just have to step back, and accept that for whatever reason, things in Arda just dont work the same as they do here.
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Nice
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Aliens
In all seriousness, the old canal theory has always sounded more plausible to me. Cut 'em, use rollers to bring the blocks down to the canals, move them by boat. Now, as to how they actually built them into the Pyramids, possibly some kind of crane mechanism. I really dont know about how they actually built them from the blocks though, a great mystery to be sure.
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currently no - but we'll start a recruitment haul shortly after the new forum-driven webpage is up ...
hmmmm......when will that be
Seriously though, it sounds pretty cool.....it currently sounds to me almost like the Quests part from Lords of Magic, if any of you are familiar with that reference.
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dont suppose you need any help
btw, release just this part after 0 AD or the whole thing?
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Ahh, now I see. Thanks for clearing that up, now Im really excited about it
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mmm
Everybody's Fool - Evanescence
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So, this sounds like an RPG then? lol, looking from the website with the civs and stuff I thought it was an RTS. Sounds cool though, looking forward to it!
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Bescause the Orcs feared the Elves. Case in point, Glamdring, Sting, etc. The Elves made weapons which were specifically designed to kill Orcs. They had very good weapons and armor, and even just a few could kill a whole raiding party of Orcs, because of the sequence whereby magic weapons alerted of Orc presence, Elves hid, killed from long range with archery.
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Orc raids perhaps? As I noted Orcs are very weak, however, humans are weaker in very small numbers. In the expansion west of American history, people were often spread miles and miles apart, living in small individual houses, or small towns of 200 people at the most. Such a spreading would be ideal for Orcs and the other various aggressors.
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K; Ill check it out.
Do you play much on ESO? If you do, we should try and get some games in
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