Caedus
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Latin sort of does the trick, with all the acc. and nom. things (sorry I forgot most already
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Thanks Klaas, you make me feel better
. Makes me remind that I should do something, so that my posterity keeps remembering me. -
Aha, ok then I didn't get it. Just make it a helluva game, that gives homage to it's source, and I'll don't need Tolkien Bridge Tycoon (sorry Randy).
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Hey, I thought we had literate people around here
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Mwah, looks decent enough. But I'm waiting for the real game
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Passwords and tolls can all be scripted for scenarios.
I'm really not sure if this is such an important thing that the team should look into it.
There's really more to this than you guys would think.
That sounds a bit contradictory
. @Black_op: nice change of the undertitle of this topic
. I think this will make a good insiders joke, when the game is finished.Passwords do play an important role (what to think of "Melon" when the Felowship wants to enter Moria?) so it would be cool if players can set a password on a gate and then share it with others (and maybe let those passwords be stolen). But this should be a researchable tech.
And it would make interesting problems, because just gates can't be neutral units, in the sense that if they are captured the new owner can use them: he has to know the password.
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Faerie Star (from the Smith of Wooton Major)
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Tolkien Bridge Tycoon.
But we want it simple then? Here it is:
Place soldiers near bridge/gate (in that radius) to collect toll. Can't make it more simpler.
But I do vow, that whenever I have the chance, I'll make a tower and walls were I collect toll. Oh yes.
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Apples on Fire
(I hoped we could finally stray from the LotR theme, but noooo
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Okido. Now I know it for in the future.
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Ok, that sounds good too. Just the guards I mean. But they would still need some place to live in and a place where they can store the collected money.
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The Cave of Chrysophylax (don't be scared, it's from Farmer Giles
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http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/pompeii/
That's one site about it (you'll find some more using google). The book is about an water engineer, who is responsible for the Aquaduct in the area around Pompeii. It takes place during the week that the Vesuvius erupted and buried the poor city.
Great novel, in my opinion
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Hmm, maybe I translated it wrong from Dutch to English. I meant Ghost/Spirit/Wight that sort of thing. The thing that Aragorn is afraid of Frodo might turn in, after he is being stabbed by the Morgul Blade.
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Ok, but then it would be nice if people were informed of it (maybe describing it on the button). I didn't know this, so I've thrown away some of my votes.
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Ah, but those points were you would build the towers are automatically points that you want to defend: they are a source of income and provide a strategic advantage!
The radius idea sounds good, but how could you deny access to units that haven't paid yet? Without a gate this can't be realistically done I think, and having preset points at gates and bridgeheads would allow players to build a walled section with a gate and a tower (see posted pictures) to ask tolls, without making it too difficult.
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A poll gives two options:
1. Choosing to vote on something
2. Choosing to see the results by clicking on "See Results ('null voting')"
I think that the second option should show the results and still give the reader the possibility to vote, because that is what I see on other IPB/phpBB boards.
But when I click on "See Results" on these boards, then my vote (which is: 'voting null') gets saved an the system thinks that I've actually voted, thereby cancelling the possibility to make a 'real' vote.
Is this a bug, or has this been done on purpose?
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But isn't the top part of the page a seperate php file that is called with an include code?? That's not so smart, because as you see, it gives some problems when you want to change it.
And what about the menu on the left? I hope that that is a seperate php file? Because if you would want to add a link to a guestbook (or whatever) someone has to do a lot of changes.
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So, what suggestions do we like the best so far? I still seem to still like mines the best, for it's themed and also stays unique. Any other thoughts?
Shameless selfpromotion
!But fortunately, we both know you are joking and mine is better
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I was trying to make it work out simple, so I'm sorry if I missed that goal
.Why I suggested to make a building specially for tolls? Because if you would place a normal tower somewhere, it would need to know to what gate it is assigned if it collected tolls. A special "toll tower" wouldn't have that problem, because you can only build one at a gate (or bridge etc.).
I agree that a gate should be opened a X amount of time, to allow whole groups to pass: it's easier and more playable.
In this case, that means that gates, underground entrances, and bridges are going to collect tolls if a technology is researched.But just a bridge can't collect a toll, can it? It would need some soldiers to bring in the money (and as soldiers are needed, so is a place that they can garrison in needed).
I think a toll tower (with wall and gate) would serve these functions:
1. Denying access until payment is given
2. Easily defendable, so
a. players will actually pay the toll, and do not attack
b. a strategic point (gate, bridge) is better defended
3. Garrisoning soldiers
(So those buildings would not only collect toll Randy
).Why a tower? Because in Middle-Earth, towers were used for exactly that job. Defending strategic spots. Garrisoning a group of soldiers in the wilderness (at a distant bridge).
Garrisoned soldiers would serve this goal:
1. Enforce the people to actually pay toll
2. Guarding the structure and the strategic point
I don't think it's necessary to let the soldiers manually take the money (but it would be a nice touch), because it could slow down the game.
And I really think that trading units should be able to automatically pay the toll, without interference of the player, so the player can set his attention on other things.
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I might make this look like a big feature, but I think the concept is quite simple. And I'm just anxious to help you people out with concept ideas, because I think that that is what I'm really good at: bringing up ideas; look at them with a practical point of view; explaining the stuff with schematic drawings. Hey, it's not for nothing that I'm going to study philosophy in University from the 1st of next September
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As for Sea-Dinosaurs, it is hard to believe that they only show in big lakes (that may have not even exist when the Dinosaurs where there) and that they no more show up in seas, where they were adapted... About Loch Ness, the problem is nordicity : back a few thousand years, there was probably a freezing land where Loch Ness is, not to mention that it was maybe an Ice Cap... And, if we say that they just come by about a few thousand years, after the Last Great Cold was no more... How could they have got there. Here, I intend the Mokele-Mbembe. The Great African Lakes are way too high, and there are great waterwalls to reach them. Would they have crawled to those lakes, I doubt, since as Whales, there were too fully adapted to sea-dwelling, even if still linked to the atmosphere.
There were Sky-Dinosaurs as well, Pterodactyl being only the best known. Even though they are not dinosaurs for a lot of paleologists, they could have lived until know. But we don't see them.
And, for the Earth-Dinosaurs, we didn't see one. Bizarre how this can be strange. We only see those dinosaurs in water, a place about which we are curious but don't know a lot... About Earth, we know, and about Sky, we see it each day of our life (except we have no window and stay locked inside...)
Ha, nice names but not correct
. Dinosaurs were giant reptilian-like creatures with hips that allowed there feet to be positioned straigth down (unlike normal reptiles).
Ichthyosaurs were giant reptiles living in sea and Pterosaurs had wings and could fly. The last two species were not dinosaurs. I hope I translated the names correctly, they're from Dutch.
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That pledge seems to favour one group (those who believe in "God")over another group (those who don't) and that's wrong, in my opinion, because a nation based on liberal (liber=freedom) should be impartial and so should it's pledge be.
And besides: who said that God gives the USA his blessings?
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I can see that there is much 'blue blood' around here
. As far as I know, my fathers ancestors were farmers in the south of The Netherlands (Limburg) and my mothers ancestors were merchants/sailors in the cities on the west of The Netherlands (Den Haag, Scheveningen).
Nothing exciting
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Erik, you say that the Bible hasn't changed much (why the "much" word?) since the original apostles died. But how can you be sure of that? Would such a powerful institution be able to change a few things. Back in those days (after the fall in 476) only an elite group of people could read and write. The Church was the only large surviving remnant of a decaying Roman empire. Oppurtunities enough for them to alter things if they wanted to.
For example: maybe Jesus had a female apostle, to show that men and women have the same rights in the eyes of God. I can imagine that the Church didn't like that at all and tried to erase references to that in the Bible. That would not be too difficult in a time when the strongest ruled over the others (the Dark Ages) and there was no time for science.
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Ok, let's drop the issue about sex, if you want. That quote stated that homosexuality has no other purposes then sexual gratification. I asked myself "what is wrong with that"? And homosexual people can also live together without having sex with each other at all. I love my father and my best friends, but that doesn't mean I want sex with them. Wouldn't homosexuality be comparable?
But this is going off-topic.
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What I meant about Genesis and dinosaurs, is that the Bible states that God created the world in Seven days, while modern science has proved that the world is more than 4 billon (9 zeros) old and that the current species of human walk on this earth for maybe 2 or 3 milion years. The book Genesis doesn't let room for evolution. Why do you think that Darwin's ideas very hated at first? Because humans would be related to those 'horrible hairy monkeys' (or: human=animal)! That is not nice to hear, when you were thought that humans were the guardians of the earth and the animals living on it.
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Well I read some about the statings of Thomas. I searched for a website that explains the contradictions of his writings in good English. Sorry that I didn't write it myself:
Arguments to Prove the Existence of God. -- It was in this work that he proposed his celebrated argument to prove the existence of God. This argument was afterwards proposed, though in a modified form, by Descartes, in the seventeenth century, and it is still a subject of controversy among writers on philosophy. The famous argument is as follows: Every man has an idea of God; even atheists, who deny the existence of God, must admit that they have mental conceptions of such a Being. Now, what is the idea of God? It is the idea of a being greater than which nothing can be conceived. But such a being necessarily exists outside of the mind; because, if it exists only in the mind, we could think of something greater, namely, of this same being as existing outside of the mind. Therefore, that Being greater than which nothing can be conceived necessarily exists.This argument was at once assailed by Gaunilo, a monk of Marmoutiers, on the ground that it was not lawful to conclude from a mental conception to an objective reality. St. Thomas Aquinas,[7] without mentioning St. Anselm's name, rejects his argument, because in it there is a transition from the ideal to the real, from the subjective to the objective. What is conceived may exist, but the fact that we conceive it does not prove that it does exist. In other words, the conclusion of the argument should be: Therefore, when we think of the Infinite we must think of It as existing. From this, however, it does not follow that the Infinite does exist, unless you begin with the supposition that there exists outside the mind something greater than which nothing can be conceived; and, if you do this, you are guilty of a petitio principii, because you begin by presupposing the thing to be proved. This has been the general verdict concerning St. Anselm's argument, although there have been in every century some who maintained, and there are still many who maintain, that it is a valid proof. The necessity of repelling Kant's attacks against all metaphysical ideas caused men to consider more attentively the objective character of our mental conceptions, and it cannot be affirmed with absolute certainty that there is no possibility of making the argument valid by justifying the apparent transition from the ideal to the real.
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ete...aamp1.htm#Argum
Said in short: Thomas believes in God and tries to prove that he exists. But that is not he correct way: one must objectively reason and try to come up with something. Because I think this is impossible (or to difficult for us at least) I'm agnostic. With the things we yet know, it is not possible to prove whether or not a god exists.
I'm aware that the above only comments on a small part he wrote, so I want to invite you to find something else about Thomas to help your point.
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I hope that I didn't made your vision about me more negative
, but I like to discuss these things in a decent matter.
First Age Showcase: Noldor
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So this means that other players can 'steal' equipment by killing the original operators and then send in your own (ie. with the catapult)?
Anyway: great job
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Well, it shows the following for the battering ram:
But this isn't stated in the other descriptions, so what does that mean
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