Zacharias

My seniority didn't reset

I can't say I agree with what you have been saying but this post just broke the camel's back. I never agreed to give up my rights. I didn't have a say in whether or not the Act was passed. Yet my rights were taken away. You are acting as if every single citizen of the USA knew exactly what was detailed in the Act, and this is not true. Saying "We the People" is kind of a misnomer. I do not have a voice in what goes on up in DC, I vote for people who have a voice there. If DC was thinking about legalizing murder, I wouldn't agree with that. I can write my Senator, Congressman/woman, try to get them to agree with my opinion, but I don't have control over their "Yes" or "No" vote. One last thing, you are comparing a black-and-white act with a rather unexplained act. If DC said "We are going to legalize murder because of blah, blah, and blah", we would know exactly what will happen when the bill is passed. The vast majority of USA citizens didn't have a clue what exactly the Patriot act allowed the government to do. All they heard was "This act will prevent another 9/11", and they let the Act collect dust in the corner. When someone picks up the act, realizes what the act says, and tells the public what it does, of course we have the right to say "This is Wrong". We didn't know what was in the act, we just read the reviews.

I thought this was a DoW, I have to say I'm a little disappointed.

I have no doubt it will be a great game. I can't say I'm a big fan of the Shogun 2 city building style, though. I hope they change it up a little bit, hopefully make it a bit more like Napoleon in that aspect

Well, XX just got a little better.

Is everyone at Fark drunk or just good at making announcements?

I knew who Action Bronson is and I usually listen to Rock/Alternative... Anyways coming from a Rock/Alternative fan, he isn't that bad. I could see him rising to the top in a few years.

A rather blah announcement, but congrats nonetheless

Old Guard is full of excellent and dependable people. I don't know much about OBR but if EEjack likes you I suppose I can hail this o/ OBR and OG!

Despite my nation's age and size, I've been on Planet Bob for quite some time. Hell, I had a nation when CATO was around (my current nation is my third nation since then). From what I've seen, I believe the biggest problem to innovation on Bob is how volatile the environment is to new alliances and new leaders in alliances. The new guys can't compete with the large alliances, who offer upwards of 9 million for the newbies to join. Most micros can't afford to do this, and we don't get any new leaders in the government. For the large alliances, the newbies don't do much other than come online, collect taxes, pay bill and leave. Some of them want a valuable role, but they don't want to wait over a year to even get a wiff of power. Then the chances of even getting an important role are even less considering alliances tend to just cycle through current governments/old time members. We end up in this continuous cycle of micros failing, and old alliances complaining on how they can't find reliable members.

I've been a Total War fan for quite some time. I've had a very high opinion of all of the games. I also own all but one of the Total War games. As the release date draws nearer, almost two months away, I've began to ask myself the question we've been seeing on the pictures and game trailers all around the web, How Far Will I Go For Rome? First, let's talk about the Total War series itself. I haven't played nor do I own the original Shogun: Total War, so I can't say anything on that. However, I have played the original Rome: Total War extensively. There are a few things in particular I really enjoyed about Rome: Total War. I really enjoy the missions you receive from the Roman Senate. Not necessarily what the missions were, but the missions themselves. It made myself feel like I was helping to expand the Republic, not just land wise but with religion and culture as well. I was expanding with a purpose. Occasionally the missions became a nuisance, especially if you are trying to fulfill your own ambitions. Sometimes you'd be forced into a war you aren't prepared to fight, but as you immediately start out with three solid allies, the chance of your utter annihilation was extremely slim, even on the higher difficulties. Also, at the beginning of battles, your general would give an inspirational speech to the soldiers. These speeches would contain things that have happened in previous battles, and the campaign. If the enemies army is about 1/4 or a half of the enemies total fighting force, the general will say so. If he beat the general you are fighting, or lost to said general, your general will say that As an added bonus, the game itself could easily be modified with just a few copy and pastes in the descr_strat file. You could play as the Greek Cities, the Britons, or even Numidia without have to go through the lengthy time of conquering all of the way there. One thing I didn't like was the length of time it takes to upgrade your cities. You can only build one building at a time in each city, which really slows your technological development. Medieval 2: Total War was almost the same as Rome, with a different setting and updated graphics. There was only one thing I didn't like about Medieval. The general's speeches were no longer in the game. Overall it didn't affect gameplay, so It was still an amazing game. Empire: Total War was a good game. Graphics were great, and being able to go to India and a good portion of America was a good addition. One of my favorite additions to the game has to be having buildings all around the province, instead of just in the Provincial Capital. It no longer takes over 30 turns to even upgrade all of the buildings one "level". Also, it is quicker to build an army, for the most part, because you can train more than one unit at a time. One last addition that I liked: you don't have to be in a city to retrain/heal your units. Of course, being realistic, it would make sense to only be able to retrain/heal your units in your home provinces. If you are playing as Sweden and you are in Mexico, it doesn't really make sense to be able to heal a 1,000 + man army in a year. One last thing, missions were practically erased from the game. There are only 4 nations were you received a mission. It made things almost the exact same through each campaign you play. Napoleon: Total War was pretty good. Graphics were amazing, artillery was made more effective, and playing through Napoleon's conquests in Italy, Egypt, and in the War of the Coalition was really fun. Due to the restriction of only playing through the years of Napoleon as Emperor, you were not allowed to leave Europe at all. You weren't even allowed to go on Anatolia. That was a let down, but I should've realized it when the name of the game was "Napoleon: Total War". The addition of Attrition into the game was really cool. It made the game a lot more realistic, and it really gave Russia a true advantage. It really made you think twice about marching your armies into Russia, or even marching your armies nearly anywhere during the winter. Lastly, an addition I wasn't crazy about was the choices at what you can build in your cities. It really wasn't that much of a bother, but it got annoying when having a gunsmith in a territory that was nowhere near the fray was hurting me more than helping me. Shogun 2: Total War. What could you not like about having to control one of the most prominent clans during one of the most turbulent times in the history of feudal Japan, Sengoku Jidai? You really had to think about your moves. Conquering to much at once can make you look like a threat in the eyes of the Shogun. If you say behind to much, you will become easy pickings for your neighbors, who most likely are on their way to try to become the new Shogun. You needed a delicate balance. We see the return of missions, which was a nice plus. Now, for a negative. Your campaigns can get crazy. One minute, you are squishing a defenseless clan The next, the entire island is knocking on your doorstep. So, you need to always change your strategies to adjust to current or potential foes. You might need some archers to take down an enemy who specializes in heavy infantry, so you build an archery dojo. The enemy was repelled. But then, an enemy who specializes in Calvary attacks. You can't simply recruit spear units. First, you'd have to destroy the Dojo and then you have create a Yari Drill yard. 99% of the time their calvary will roll over your archers. It gets rather frustrating when things like this happens. Looking back at these, instead of asking How Far Will I Go For Rome, I've been asking myself, How Much Will I Spend For Rome 2? As you may have guessed, initial price is $60. I have to say, if Rome 2 is like Shogun 2 in terms of "City Building", I can't say I'm willing to spend $60 on Rome. If it is leaning more towards Empire, I can say without a doubt I'm willing to go $60 for Rome. So, what about you? How Far Will You Go For Rome?

That's why I said metal/rock. Anyways, whether or not you view them as metal is irrelevant. They are good band, in my opinion. Obviously you don't, for whatever reason. If we all liked the same music the world would sound rather boring.

They are metal/rock, not punk, and about as far away as pop as possible. Anyone with ears would know that. By your thinking Areosmith and Black Sabbath are punk/pop. You couldn't be more wrong. Please, try again. I don't care if you don't like them, but atleast have a reason you didn't just pull out of your ass.

Brotherhood of Sithis - [url=http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=509991] Zacharias[/url] - PROOF OF LEADERSHIP = [url=http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?/topic/116307-crap-protectorate/?hl=%2Bbrotherhood+%2Bsithis] Protectorate Treaty with CRAP[/url] Shows me as Head Councilman, and I have the longest amount of time in the alliance

Everyone is still welcome to join!

I'm more of a Metal/Rock/Alternative fan myself. You won't catch me listening to that, atleast any of the new rap. A7X in my opinion kind of slumped with the Nightmare album. My favorite song on there was Nightmare, all of the others were rather so-so.

That's right my fellow Avenged Sevenfold fans, it's here. A7X's 6th studio album has been announced to be released on August 27th. Another thing the band has released is the cover art for their new album "Hail to the King". It's more cartoonish when compared to their other album covers, but according to the band, they are going in a slightly new direction. ""The new album has a lot more of a [black] Sabbath / [Led] Zeppelin feel to it than 'Carry On'," frontman M. Shadows said of the upcoming album last year. "There's definitely more Sabbath in what we're writing, and we're proud of 'Carry On', but this album is going to be on a whole new level." Good ol' fashioned Rock n Roll mixed in with the last of the pure Metal bands? One can only predict success. They haven't had a bad album so far. However, this is their first album with their new drummer Arin Llejay. It is said without question no one could fill the shoes of Jimmy "The Rev" Sulivan. Arin has done a great job thus far of keeping the Rev's sound. If anyone could fill The Rev's shoes, it would be Arin. No one should worry about a change in tone or sound in A7X's "Hail to the King". I'm not. On payday, I will have this album preordered and will be blasting this album into my skull on release day. I hope you do too!

They must be shaking.

Interesting.

I mean, honestly, I was expressing my opinion. Saying "come fight me" makes you look incredibly asinine. In all reality, you are just reassuring everyone's opinion of Grata.

That's bull shit. NG is full of sadists who's sole pleasure is to treat people like shit and increase casualties while doing it.

Hardly think this is necessary....

The new additions look good, but as some people pointed out, this will create more problems than it intends to solve. In all honesty, ghost issues can be taken care of rather quickly. All of the coding it will take to solve that issue (and partly to "trim" the semi-inactives from the game) isn't worth it.

The good ones, as it seems, tend to leave. Why must you leave us with the bad...

Times are changing.