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Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
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Job/Employment/Making Money thread.
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[StarCraft 2] Dhal taking pro names. PA represent!
GRUBBY WINS 2-0!
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Civilization V: Brave New World expansion announced for July 9th.
Yeah, the keystone units (in terms of jumps of power) basically work down to this (in my eyes):
1. Swordsman - first tough melee unit
2. Trebuchet - first useful siege unit, but still somewhat sucky
3. Archer/Composite Archer - First ranged unit/first upgrade - huge in terms of projecting power early (as well as defending)
4. Riflemen - HUGE jump in power compared to prior infantry units.
5. Artillery - Since Gods and Kings nerfed the cannon (which used to be LOLWTFStupid powerful), artillery is one of the best things to rush, as it's the first siege weapon that can attack cities from outside their range. Couple some artillery with some mounted units and you can swoop in after taking minimal damage.
6. Rocket Artillery - best unit in the game (IMO). Huge range, don't have to setup, big damage.
7. Battleship - Awesome for sieging cities if there's a lot of coastline
8. Submarine - Key to naval supremacy. You can 1-shot a lot of sea units.
9. Fighters - Once you hit the air stage, these become key as the AI LOVES bombers.
10. Mechanized infantry - the go-to unit for endgame.
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Job/Employment/Making Money thread.
Deployed a new app to 7k users today.
Support box is eerily quiet. Today may have been a good day. We'll see if any issues pop up within the week.
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[StarCraft 2] Dhal taking pro names. PA represent!
True story from work today:
Kid comes in and goes to the Kindle Fire tablet display. He pulls up the demo games and starts playing Plants vs Zombies. Having recently repurchased the game, I went over and watched him play to see what he'd do. By the time I get there, he has chosen his 8 plants and started playing.
I immediately noticed that he has no Sunflowers and is only collecting falling sun. I half-ashamedly broke into this speech:
"Kid, you really need to start over. You've got no Sunflowers. They provide sun, which is the backbone of your economy! You need to spend the early game planting two rows of them in a tight top to bottom formation. You can survive early Zombie rushes by using Potato Mines. The recharge on them is such that you can hold off 3 Zombies and have your economy in high gear for the midgame."
"Once the sun is rolling in, you can drop your more powerful, higher-tech plants onto the field. I'd recommend a single Snow Pea in every lane to take advantage of the slow effect. After that, get your offensive plants in place and wall up your front with Pumpkins, Wall-Nuts, or Tall-Nuts. With an adequate offense and defense created, start saving up sun for your endgame plants such as Melon-Pult and Gatling Pea."
The kid stared at me with clouded over eyes. He said, "I don't need to do that, I'm going to use this Mushroom to mind control the Zombies!"
I retorted, "But you didn't bring the Coffee Bean. Your Mushrooms will sleep during the day and be useless!"
"......oh."
A customer came to the register so I had to leave. As I left I said, "I'd start over and work on your build order kid!"
Spoiler:
This is hilarious, as while I'm good at PvZ, my fiance is a goddamned master. She intentionally plays weird combos just for fun. She's in the top 5% of worldwide players for survival, which is pretty insane when you look at the playerbase. I'd introduce her to starcraft, but she might quit me instead of it.
