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I'll be back to defend my title in the fantasy league! Seems the key to winning is to discover those hidden gems that are cheap but do well, combined with a couple of star players. Who will this year's Michu, or Baines be?

I have taken Brandenberg to becoming the might Kingdom of Prussia, and despite some setbacks have established myself as a major power. Working my way to becoming Germany, but Austrian emperor did some ruling that prevents HRE from attacking each other so I had to leave the empire to fulfil my...

That's the game I was just about to try out! Though I hear that they suffer from trade node placement issues which might suck. Anyone tried multiplayer in the EU games?

Fuck France

Yep, trying out Switzerland as a learning experience atm. Never got into CK2, but spend way too many hours in EU3.

Nerf Alliance. They now start with 100 less gold per game!

They gave up because Alliance dominated early and their strat was blown so little chance of them coming back.

Demo is out for EU4 but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Don't even know what the restrictions on it are, but should be enough to give a taste of the game.

Everyone knows Arsenal is a stepping stone. Since RM isn't happening, he wants to get some CL action in to setup a real move somewhere.

Whats the best way to work out what games you've watched and how to go about watching the replays for the ones you haven't to get courier view counts?

the EU series for sure is the best grand strategy. As a long term civ 3/4 player, it took me ages to get into EU. Kept hearing about it, trying it and giving up after a couple of hours. Was only on my 5th or 6 th attempt that I followed a step by step guide that everything started to click into...

I'm actually on holidays in Adelaide atm. You have no idea how disappointed I am to miss the match between my two main teams. I try to take some comfort from the fact that the MCG is a shit ground to watch soccer in. It's not really working though 8(

Would love to see Liverpool stick it to Arsenal for trying to play games by dealing Suarez to Madrid for Higuin + 30m. Gives us a ready made replacement for the next couple of years along with cash to invest in youth and denying a rival a obvious upgrade. Benteke probably a good option...

Kligons keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it does.

One of the best books on writing I've read is Becoming a Writer :http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Write...orothea+writer In one, one of the pieces of advice given is to write first thing in the morning, for 15 minute, while you're still half a sleep, so that you can capture your dreams. It's all...

Here's a short story I wrote last year. I actually think it might work better as a longer piece so I've been playing with that. In the meantime though, I thought I would enter it in a short story competition. It's a tad long since the competition is for 1500-3000 words and this is at 3126, so I...

Sorry it's late, Uni's been kicking my butt so far. I think you could lose the first three paragraphs of stevie waking up. Doesn't really add anything to the story and any details you might want can be inserted in later, like him suffering a hangover. The clue counting seems a little...

Interesting read. Always hard to make any comments based on just the first chapter. This is particularly true of the evil guy since we don't find out much more about him or why he chose Lily and did what he did. While it's great that you drop us into the action straight away, you may want to try...

Interesting idea, and challenging to base it on music which I think is hard to describe via text, not being familiar with the piece personally. First up, beware adverbs. Do a find on 'ly' and examine if you need them or if they could be replaced with a better verb. eg when you say "the...

Great feedback there Arch, Here's my submission to keep the thread going. Still trying to find a good title for it though.

pretty sure it was 2 people for most of it"s development, a husband and wife team. May have expanded once it got picked up by paradox / steam.

Any of you guys played Mount and Blades? It"s a good example of what a small team at home are still capable of producing. Something that is fairly unique and fun, even though it lacks the polish of professional studios.

No one has brought up developers who buff or fail to nerf their own playing class, or skills they like to use? Or does that not happen anymore?

Gamasutra - Opinion: Creating Balanced In-Game Economies interesting article about economies and balance. Probably nothing new for anyone on this board though.

If only there was a way to test those changes, provide feedback, release it to smaller a number of players and get an outside perspective from them.

AA"s ftw!! NGruk, you guys working on a making of documentary at all?

well, while I don"t like the lack of information, I do appreciate Moorguard and Nguk taking the time to chat about MMO"s in general. It"s good to see developers trying to stay in touch with their potential player base as well as the current trends and concerns in the industry.

not like we"re going to get any real 38s info anytime soon.

battlefield 2 / battlefield 2142 were pretty close! granted, less MMO, but more balance!

The first question I would ask if I was creating a company to enter the games market, was could the company survive the complete failure of a product? If not, then the scope / scale / budget should be dropped to the point where the answer is a yes. Obviously no one wants a complete failure...

who was it that sent him money for a musical keyboard?

Do you mean Otavia? If so, feel free to keep on believing he"s a she.

I don"t really have much to add.

I think this is BS. I missed the early days of WoW but can"t imagine people keep logging in and rerolling to experience all this fantastic content they missed the first time around. I"m much more convinced they intended to rush through it and get to the end game content that really mattered, and...

by these days I assume you mean the last 8 years. Developers need to learn this and design accordingly.

I think Mark Jacobs made a very good point that companies need to have the resources to cope with the inevitable setbacks that MMOs are going to face when they enter the market. Attemping to make a great, fun, stable, polished game straight out of the box is certainly admirable, but it"s not...

Sorry to derail the derail, But grats on the new middleware option Curt. Can you release any real info on why you chose that option and what advantages it"s going to have for your company? My first concern after reading through the press release is that its aimed at providing higher...

I prefer the term logical to realistic, and I prefer games, as well as any creative work like books or movies, to have a consistent logic to them, no matter how far outside reality that logic is.