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So, where does the energy of electromagnetic radiation fit in to your three categories?

Endless space has an interesting system...there are 4 branches to the tech tree, and for each branch you complete (technically you just research the top tech), the tech victory technology becomes much cheaper....still the game balance forces you to invest at least somewhat in all the branches, it works in encouraging you to research virtually all the technologies...

[quote]facility does not become obsolete in the end game. [/quote] Maybe it is just me, but I like the model Civ V has on this...3 of the 4 victory options basically start hitting at once...around the time the tech leader is starting the space race (ie technology/science victory), the culture leader is about to dominate everyone else and the commerce leader is about to win the UN elections (ie diplomatic victory)...in short, by the time you are cleaning up the tech tree, you HAVE to f

I'll be honest, I like the minimap of GC2 Beta better than the GC2 one...

From a modding perspective, unlimited (or just a very large number) would be nice... I don't know the cap on the recent total war games but it is kind of cool that basically every province has a unique faction controlling it instead of the general "rebels"...strategy games have worked with very large amounts of factions all on the map at once...

Benchmarks are usually crap...not uncommon for a computer to run well in the benchmark but not actually perform well in normal gameplay (and vice versa)... I'd be more in favor of real time stats...and I agree with OP, having easy access to that information is actually useful for an alpha or beta as it points to where improvements can be made... Sins is nice in that there is a dev.exe that gives certain information you otherwise would not have access to....it's a great

There tend to be 2 reasons why there is a limit on races: User interface -- this is the common issue for games with expansions...a UI is designed with the intent of supporting only so many races (in GC2's case, ten), and then an expansion comes along and adds more races -- now what? Changing the UI, while doable, can be a pain in the ass -- kind of an issue of diminishing returns... AI relations -- each race added increases the workload on the AI thought pro

[quote who="MottiKhan" reply="67" id="3417003"]Saying things like "I understand the physics of..." and then claiming to be joking when called down doesn't make one look very smart. It's pretty funny though. [/quote] Maybe from your perspective...this is the third thread that has discussed the realism of "green stars" (one on GC3, one on GC2, one on Sins)....each and every time, someone tries to claim they "understand physics" and use "science" to explain why green stars are re

Might as well start adding in the monopole magnets and FTL neutrino guns....

[quote who="joeball123" reply="60" id="3416780"]Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles within a given volume. It may not strictly speaking be defined by kinetic energy, but it is a measurement of it, and absolute zero is defined as the point at which the average kinetic energy of the particles in that volume is zero, which leads to the conclusion that the velocity of said particles is also zero.[/quote] You just really can't take a joke can you?</p

I find this thread extremely ironic because over in the Sins forums we have people complaining that sieges are lame since it is 100% orbital bombardment and doesn't involve troops at all...

[quote who="Starbound_Dust" reply="55" id="3416693"]Interesting, but I'm not convinced. Something like this should have been big news in the science community but this is the first I'm hearing of it.[/quote] It's not a big deal because negative temperature has been known for a while....it has been part of the thermodynamic theory for quite some time and quantum mechanics fully supports it...

[quote who="joeball123" reply="52" id="3416462"]No. Absolute zero is the temperature at which the kinetic energy of atoms/molecules/subatomic particles/anything else has gone to zero. Having something be at a temperature less than absolute zero would imply that the kinetic energy of the particles involved was negative, which requires either negative mass or imaginary velocity (if you have both negative mass and imaginary velocity, your kinetic energy is real and positive, but your momentum is

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="49" id="3416374"]Let's see, space is at absolute zero (total cessation of atomic motion) so a green star causes atoms in space to go even slower?[/quote] They start going backwards ...

Maybe green stars are cold stars...instead of giving off heat, they give off cold...

[quote who="Phaedyme" reply="35" id="3415835"]Oh, as far as green stars in the game: I like them. They're kinda aesthetically pleasing.[/quote] I personally would prefer teal...

The gamma burst is even worse....damn thing nearly gave me a seizure....

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="30" id="3415529"]hypothetical experiment take a child and raise it but for this childs first ten years of life you tell it white is blue when the child turns ten ask him/her what color the sun is and they will say blue because they would believe that white is called blue[/quote] It is simply semantics...your experiment is not fundamentally different from a Hispanic child learning that the sun is blanco instead of white...at the end of the day, we

@MottiKhan I am fully aware of how black body radiation works...obviously though you are not... Just because the peak wavelength of a star falls into the green range of the visible spectrum does not mean the star is green...the very diagram you post in fact shows exactly why this is -- in order to have a peak wavelength in the green range, you must inevitably emit lots of red and blue light, which we as humans see together as white light...thus our star is white (with some yel

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="16" id="3415368"]let me ask you a philosophical how do you know that the green your mind tells you is green is the same as the green my mind tells me is green[/quote] What color does the sun look to you? Does it look green?

With telescopes we are easily able to see an immense number of stars, none of which are green...even if there are green stars, it's apparent that they are so rare, statistically we would never expect to see them in a realistic random map generator that technically could spawn them... I might as well say unicorns do not exist, at least not to our knowledge...you might actually have better odds finding a unicorn than finding a green star... You are of course welcome to cling

Ugh...here we go again.... [quote who="MottiKhan" reply="6" id="3415162"]So there are green stars, including our own. Our eyes just deceive us is all.[/quote] [quote who="MottiKhan" reply="8" id="3415190"]Actually, the article says that there are purple as well as green stars. Just because we can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.[/quote] First, let me pose a philosophical question: what is green ? I mean, it is a color, but how would w

1) CHOICES THAT MATTER One of my most favorite "decisions" I ever had to make in a video game was in Mass Effect where you choose between saving Kaiden or Ashley. I LOVE this choice because SOMEONE HAS TO LOSE...there is no "perfect" way to play where everyone lives -- one of them MUST die and it is totally unavoidable...AND, it is a choice that you have to live with for two more games... In the context of strategy games, choices that have deep and long-lasting (or

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="31" id="3410934"]Yes, scient's patch and GooglyBoogly's fixed datalinks. It's going pretty well.[/quote] If you are in to modding it, you may be interested in yitzi's patches....allows you to change a lot more things and it fixes some bugs too...

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="22" id="3410643"]SMAX, alternating between the Gaians and the Consciousness.[/quote] Those were my favorites too....do you play with the unofficial patches?