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Total War Series / Re: Rome II General Info Thread

« on: September 07, 2013, 12:39:45 am »

As far as single player goes the AI is the lynchpin in everything. Without a good AI the sigle player game cannot be good, because your playing against the AI and no one else. TW AIs have never been good, at best mediocre. I remember playing like MTW2 and even that AI on hardest settings, the countries would not fight eachother, they would wait for a border to open up with you to attack you, so while the begining was hard if you got past that point you had a small empire and all the other countries would still have their origonal land because they had done nothing and the rest of the game would be easy.

I dont know if its that the AI is bad, or if the game has been dumbed down too much. As TW and other game series like Elder Scrolls have gone more and more mainstream they have been dumbing the games down more and more to appeal to the lowest common denominator. TW seems to have really dumbed it down, and it will of course get to a point where it is so dumb that you will actually have less people playing than you did before, I dont know if we have hit that point yet but TW is definitely getting closer.

And i dont know of any instances where CA ever updated or fixed their AIs, much less completely re-did it which is what they would need to do in this case. I dont know that they see the shitty AI as even being a problem.


EDIT: Also i would go on their forums and complain about this, but the last time i complained on their forums about one of their games i got banned for a month, so ill just not do that.

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Total War Series / Re: Rome II General Info Thread

« on: September 05, 2013, 06:34:15 am »

I do like the game but it seems in the time ive been playing it that it is too easy. Im playing suebi (germany) on very hard, it has not been hard at all. No one has ever attacked me, i just attack someoen whenever im ready and easily crush them, dont even have to fight battles can sim and win big easily. Third age total war on max hard settings was only TW game i can remember that was ever challengeing, but this is easier than most of what i remember. It would probabbly be really easy with a faction like the romans or something. And in battles you have all these abilities and formations but you dont need to use any of them, your opponent stands there and lets you attack them, stands there while you pelt them with arrows. TW AIs have always been bad, hopefully someone writes a good one.

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General Off Topic / Re: To our fellow muricans

« on: September 04, 2013, 02:56:25 am »

Given the immense suffering the Syrian people are experiencing, suffering that is 10 times greater than anyone in the US will ever know, and given how easy it would be for us to turn the tide in their favor by simply firing some missiles safely from a ship, I can see no reason why we wouldn't help and the only reason we haven't already is because the administration doesn't want to look like war mongerers after having recently helped the people in Libya.

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General Off Topic / Re: HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]

« on: May 08, 2013, 12:33:46 am »

I tried to get into the show. Watched the first two seasons and the first few episodes of season 3. I was enjoying the first half of season 1 atleast, but things started to get boring as all of the build up in the show would just lead to whatever it was building up to being skipped or just not being fullfilling. The story lines also kind of got boring as they slowed to a crawl. By the time i stopped watching at start of season 3 i was skipping every story line except for John Snows, and Jamie and the giant lesbian, and the other black watch guys. Alot of the story lines also seem to be kind of repetitive especially the one with the midget, its just sceme after sceme which all start to look the same after awhile. And just the non stop all talk no action is boring, im into talking if its interesting or intrigueing but it gets old.

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Diplomacy / Re: The steppe winds

« on: May 07, 2013, 08:28:21 am »

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Aside from the pic being outdated, only people really fighting FCC atm are chaos/mates and FIDLGB at 51 members, then you have Fimb coming in with 52. Looking at the FCC side 82 + AOWs 20 makes it: FCC side 102 vs Chaos/Fimb 103. Seems pretty fair, and even then take into account in Fimb that Dracul is not helping in the war, now your at: FCC side 102 vs Chaos/Fimb 102, making this war, perfectly fair. Bring on the battles.

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General Discussion / Re: I've had fun but the time has come.

« on: May 05, 2013, 10:24:21 am »

Whenever I'm drinking maple syrup straight from the bottle i will remember you.

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Diplomacy / Re: AoW vs Illdist and mates

« on: May 01, 2013, 12:07:39 am »

You could win a seige with 10 Rohs with full plate and great mauls.

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cRPG Technical problems / Re: Kicked from Server

« on: April 28, 2013, 10:09:08 pm »

There are some people in the servers, someone ask them how they got in.

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General Discussion / Re: Jesus' Stone Wall of Fame + Challenge

« on: April 18, 2013, 10:55:55 am »

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone", I guess this makes sense given Jesus is without sin.

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General Off Topic / Re: Most of the rest of the world every day

« on: April 17, 2013, 02:13:27 am »

You would think by now the American government would stop giving Visas to Saudis.

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: Is there a strat reset coming soon?

« on: April 08, 2013, 05:49:37 pm »

Just wondering because this strat has been up for more than 6 months now. I don't know how eu is doing but in my opinion na is about ready if Hospitaller loses this war. I know some people are probably gonna say i made this post just because we were wiped. Its partially the reason. I just want to know if there really is a point to restart the grind part again if its just going to be reset after we have built up some gold.

Ya NA will probably become stagnant if Hospitaller loses. Thats pretty much what it comes down to on NA, its over when Hospitaller wins or loses the current strats everyone vs Hospitaller war its the way it was last time except it still took along time to reset even after Hospitaller had won. Its unlikely the other clans will fight one another, by that i mean some combination of a war between FCC/TKOV/Fimb whatever, these 3 are the largest/strongest clans now with occitan badly wounded and hospitaller with their membership being largely inactive, if they were on a map with just themselves they probably wouldn't even fight then. Still they traditionally dont reset untill they have more features to add.

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General Discussion / Re: Crouching Shields

« on: April 05, 2013, 08:55:29 pm »

Ive been playing great lancer for a while now. Yes it will block arrows and attacks, however for some reason the sheild comes up at a very bad angle to the point where it is very esay for an archer to just shoot you despite the fact your sheild is up, because it really only protects your left arm in the position its in. It doesnt give anywhere near the protection that you have when your just holding up the sheild yourself. I was dissapointed by this, i thought the sheild in the couch position should be much more effective, cover up your chest and what not instead of jsut your left arm.

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Announcements / Re: New promotion video poll

« on: April 05, 2013, 01:01:05 am »

It seemed i like each one better in one area than the others hard choice:

1st one had the best pacing and music.
2nd one had the best combat sequences, liked the sounds of combat in there too it brought it more to life.
3rd one had the best video editing, the visual quality of the video was good too.

I picked 3 due to superior editing and second best pacing and combat scenes. Although the video didnt make it as clear that CRPG is a mod and how to sign/up and whatever but at the same time those very scenes that were included in the other 2 videos made them a bit more boring.

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General Discussion / Re: Free loompoint

« on: April 04, 2013, 09:37:15 am »

I am currently giving away a free loompoint, there are just a few questions I would like answered. I just request only NA players answer.

1) when I am in game, do I effect your experience, and if yes, how so?
Not really, one of many mildly annoying courser lancers.

2) am I viewed as a troll or as a negative impact in any way?
Not really.

3) how do you view the clan I am in, and who is your most favorite and least liked person?
Unreliable and Unstable due to the Kutt betrayal as well as the clan(s) you all have been in constantly collapsing and reforming under a new clan only to collapse a few months later and reform under another clan, you are like an African government. Dont really have a favorite, least favorite maybe Arathian.

4) why do you need the loompoint?
So i can sell it for repair money.

5) how would you like me to change my gameplay to give you a more desirable experience?
Kill your team mates when your on the other team. When on my team follow me around while on horseback, when my horse dies give me your horse. Also carry 2 extra steel shields for me in-case mine breaks.

And in the event im not playing at the time and you are, i would like you to tell everyone that you accidentally saw my penis one time and it was huge, and that you would totally suck it if you where gay.

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General Discussion / Re: 1H+Shield is op.

« on: March 25, 2013, 11:22:46 pm »

Sheilder is generally an easier class to play moreso meant for beginners. Once you learn to fight (block/feign/chamber etc.) then 2h becomes a good option. Even so sheilding is still very good, makes it alot easier to fight multiple opponents and gives you more surviability.