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Reply to Social Screen – politics, succession, magic, gender, etc in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Interesting idea. It reminds me of the social engineering gameplay mechanic in Alpha Centauri.

[Suggestion] New game mode in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Premise: If I try to win a research victory in Gal Civ 2, everyone tries to obliterate me right before I achieve it. Why? Because as soon as I win, everyone else loses. So a research victory is really a research/military victory. It never comes down to a pure research race. But the game doesn't need to immediately end, does it? What if everyone else didn't lose as soon as I won my research victory? What if only other peop

Reply to [Suggestion] Female friendly features in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

It's not a political correctness complaint. It's a suggestion to boost sales based on industry experience.

Reply to [Suggestion] Female friendly features in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Perhaps you should look at this thread I was going to add to that thread, but it's about incorporating population gender as a gameplay element. Not really the same. I second these suggestions, although I hardly think it is only a female think to enjoy changing the appearance of your character. I absolutely agr

[Suggestion] Female friendly features in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Greetings forum-goers, Before diving into my suggestion, I'd like to introduce myself. I used to work in the games industry (casual games and FPS) on the business side. Beyond being involved in the business strategy, for fun after work I contributed to beta testing for several games (e.g. Turok, Army of 2). I've since moved to a management consulting firm but I like to stay involved with the games industry; that's the reason I'm here! I have a few simple suggest

Reply to Elemental: Tough love for beta 1B in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Yes sir! I will go play Demigod until Beta 1B. [e digicons]:X[/e]

Reply to Elemental: Tough love for beta 1B in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Pigeonpigeon and Cephalo, I wholeheartedly agree with your ideas. Let me add some of my own detail around the concept of specializing in resources. First, resources should not be necessary. If collecting a resource is something I must do, regardless of the situation, then it is not fun, because it is not a choice . It becomes a game of logistics, not strategy. Secon

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Hey Dystopic, Wikipedia has a fairly accurate, albeit very technical, explanation of inflation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation Since you're a student you can also just go to the University bookstore, pick up an introductory economics textbook, and read the chapter on inflation. My university had a 2 week returns policy, don't know about yours.

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

i don't know if you missed this, but i trained as a sociologist. i know statistics quite well. While commendable, you still need to be careful when using economic statistics, as it seems that you don't know the conventions with which they are prepared. misleading? to whom? the problem with a lot of economics training is that it's overly focused on things from the top down; statistics are tools for a

Reply to Poverty, An economic necessity? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Hi everyone, Usually I don't pipe up in these debates, but it bothers me when people use statistics without understanding them. All me to introduce myself. I'm a Finance and Economics graduate from Canada and I now work in the video games industry (Threewave Software, we make FPS games) as a finance professional. Dystopic, the first graph you use looks misleading because it shows absolute amounts, and not growth rates. It's true, the bottom percentile grew by a pitifu