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[quote who="Alstein" reply="72" id="3250736"]What good is technology if the impact makes people's lives worse instead of better?[/quote] It makes people lives better but luddites like to claim otherwise in order to promote their agenda or their misguided theories disconnected from reality. [quote who="Alstein" reply="72" id="3250736"]There is a lot of outrage over the bank bailouts, they are the one bailout I opposed, as I think banks in this country (and worldwide it'

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[quote who="Alstein" reply="72" id="3250736"]I'm taking Brad's assumption that we are in a global race to the bottom, and there's nothing the market can do about it. Governments can redistribute wealth. Flat out , handouts and redistribution is what is needed to compensate for this race to the bottom.[/quote] We aren't in a race for the bottom. Humanity as a whole is improved via automation. And in a hypothetical race to the bottom flat out ha

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="69" id="3250687"]If I own that grocery store, with a modest capital investment, I can have extremely high margins. But what happens to all those people who used to make the goods and used to work there? By 2020, most of the cleaning will be done by bots of various kinds. I'd be surprised if shelving wasn't increasingly handled by bots (RFID would make placement relatively easy and inexpensive). What can the government do about that? T

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[quote who="Supreme Shogun" reply="61" id="3250399"]There's working poor, like your comment may reflect upon and then there is also the real poor, who are homeless and jobless. To which that comment is very insensitive. [/quote] Before the obama depression, the only way to be homeless in america is to have serious mental issue and not WANT help. [quote]Granted he is not of the scale and gross malfeasance of a robber baron, but I would call him "robber baro

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 0.99 Changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

Rather then lower cost for raise/lower it should be made more reliable. I cast it repeatedly on a mountain without being able to do anything much. It also undoes some of the changes (not to mention some raising/lowering occurs when buildings are built near). If each tile had a proper "height" figure (that was visible to player) things would have been better.

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[quote who="DsRaider" reply="58" id="3250306"]http://www.economist.com/node/21564556 [/quote] Interesting. Although it uses the left's propaganda strawmen for the right rather then the right's actual arguments, it does correctly recognize cronyism and monopoly abuse (via anti capitalist behavior, although they do not call them such) as the big issues as well as the fact that 75% tax on "the rich" is excessive. Although it still promotes unfair "progressive" taxes... just

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="57" id="3250246"]The gulf between the rich and the poor is only going to get larger and larger with more automation and globalization. I'm not sure how that can be helped.[/quote] This is not actually true. Pre Industrialization you had serfs and titled lords. Or titled merchants ("royal company" with government mandated monopoly). The so called "poor" in america can afford a car, entertainment, video games, computers, and as

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[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="50" id="3249005"]What surprises me is that no one seems disappointed about an employer trying to coerce/threaten his employers into voting their way.[/quote] 1. It is as much "coercing" as when a father says "if you take up jim's offer to run drugs for him you will get involved in bad stuff and could get all of us killed". Is he "coercing" the child not to hang out with jim? No, he is just warning them of very real consequences (or at least what he

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[quote who="seanw3" reply="247" id="3249123"]The goal should be to avoid spells that one-shot powerful enemies. Magic attacks should do less damage, but be affordable to cast every turn. I think the problem with firedart is that it is the only ranged spell. Focus makes that spell do double damage. It gets way out of hand because none of that is tied to Path of the Mage and firedart increases in power per level. And none of this is going to miss or be resisted or is currently reduced by AI ele

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You know what, shards should not even give spells bonus to power (or maybe only get a small increase at 1 and 2 shards and that it)... Shards should mainly give a pool of "free mana" that recharges to full every turn, but if not used is wasted. 15 mana per shard. So if I have 3 shards I got +3 mana gems per turn (permanent mana storage that can be traded and stockpiled) and a 45 a turn in discretionary pool. If I use 49 mana this turn then I have burned 4 mana gems. W

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[quote who="Emperorjarin" reply="238" id="3248964"]And again, I would remind you that my good pal Herpicus can deal over 60 blunt damage from an equitable number of traits and a Maul. He will also be better armored, possibly have more health (not taking magic traits makes Adventurer's Boon a no-brainer) and not require a single point of mana to deal damage. Again I ask, why would I want a mage when I have Herpicus?[/quote] Exactly! mages SUCK! Derpicus is even

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[quote who="Emperorjarin" reply="228" id="3248909"]Exactly. As it currently stands, I find myself using magic in primarily a support role, even with a mage who has level 4-5 in all elemental books and life magic, simply because it's far more efficient for me to have a high-powered champion or group of troops. Part of this is by design; spells like fireball and blizzard have a cast time, and while that's important for balance, by the time I get my spell off, the enemy army

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[quote who="seanw3" reply="46" id="3248892"]Do you think Romney would ever be able alter the tax code the way his platform suggests? Those loopholes are still there because of the influence that corporations have over our government.[/quote] I hate the term "loophole"... there are no "holes" written into tax code at behest of lobbyists. lobbyists go for direct cronyism via government funding (celindra, acorn, endowment of the arts, PBS, etc)... Or government mandated mo

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[quote who="seanw3" reply="42" id="3248482"]Anyone read the purposed list of tax code changes Romney has in his platform?[/quote] I did, most made me go "hey that makes sense" Although in the debate he backtracked and was engaging in the same "rich v poor" BS obama was which is not what is in his platform.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="37" id="3247868"]Let me use a "hypothetical" example. Let's say you made a game, I'll randomly call it Galactic Civilizations. And let's say you have it published by say a fictitious company called Strategy First. And the royalty reports show they owe say a million dollars. Even though you haven't received a cent in cash, you still have to claim it and pay estimated taxes on it. Now, a year later, when you

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I played sins at length. I was generalizing about RTS not talking about sins in particular.

Reply to [Questionnaire] Are Monster-Faction Interactions a Problem? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

This is not a poll, it is a questionnaire inviting long drawn out discussions (the likes of which were already done to death in other threads). A proper poll should condense the various view points from such a discussion into a single question and multiple choice answers where you pick out ONE of the answers and vote for it... aka, people's sole answer should be "I vote A" or "I vote D" on the poll.

Reply to Frogboy, what's wrong with monsters getting a "I'm extremely hostile and actively target any intrusion on my turf" radius? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="14" id="3247733"]Please all vote in my monster poll.[/quote] link?

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="30" id="3247728"]To put it in video game terms, think of taxation as a royalty. If my game is doing gangbusters, then I don't care as much if the royalty percent for the other party is high because I have enough. On the other hand, if things are tighter, then an increase in royalties can be problematic. And that's the issue we face here. [/quote] Well... 1. Every business goes through ups and downs. If the taxes are ra

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Very good point jam3. Simultaneous enemy move is a big issue. TBS means turn based strategy. It means each player takes a turn not a rapid real time strategy that is paused until the player hits "turn" and then it happens real quick and pauses again. One more issue to add to the list of things that NEED to be solved before the game goes gold.

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[quote who="Alstein" reply="11" id="3247699"]Monsters could use some more interesting behavior, but that's stuff for a 1.1 or 1.2 patch.[/quote] There is not going to be such patches if the game is a flop and it will be a flop if issues are not addressed. FE is rife with unresolved issues and pretending they do not exist is a recipe for disaster.

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[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="26" id="3247678"][quote]If any new taxes are levied on me [insert threat] [/quote] This is the actual content of merit and speaks volumes about where the real entitlement mentality exists. You are ridiculous if your position is that productivity and profits to the wealthy over the past 30 years justify a decrease in taxes after watching the results from 2004 until now. Dissipate fractional reserve currency on schedule or else...[

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The problem with the balance of each faction only having ONE/FEW overpowered things means that they are forced to focus only on that to the exclusion of other strategy. And it makes it more difficult for the AI. Each faction should have multiple viable paths of growth

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="18" id="3247653"]Let's stay on target, this isn't about LGBT or religion or Republicans vs. Democrats.[/quote] Ah, sorry. I already wrote up a response before seeing this... Well I am willing to discuss this elsewhere if you insist. But I think this is exactly about those things. You have liberal media spreading lies about a "conservative" (since when is sound fiscal policy being conservative? what the hell happened to the parties?) CEO to f

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[quote]Republicans are anti LGBT rights and they champion teaching creationism among other things, I will never vote for a party like that, ever. I live in Kansas, I know damn well what these Republicans are like, and no matter what other ideas they have, as long as they are filled with these types, I will never vote for them. [/quote] The leftist media makes the claims above, but lets look at reality. First of all, "teaching creationism" is NOT a republican thing and republicans offi