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Solium Infernum: It's like Candy Land in Hell

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  • fadingathedgesfadingathedges Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I use it out of unabashed googlove... but it certainly has it's issues... I can't tell if you are ::sarcasm::. I think so?

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Well I know it's not perfect, but it's just so damn fast. I hate having to load up IE or Firefox for something that won't display right in Chrome. It's like browsing through molasses. I haven't even installed Firefox again since I reformatted awhile ago.

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  • precisionkprecisionk Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So I read the Rock Paper Shotgun play by play and got a huge boner for this game. Extremely tempted to buy this and join on up for some MP action. Sounds alot like Diplomacy, but in Hell.

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  • fadingathedgesfadingathedges Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Get the demo! The buying will come quickly thereafter, but then at least you can say I tried to resist!

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I downloaded the demo and bought the game BEFORE I EVEN DOWNLOADED THE DEMO.

    But then again, I'm a total consumer whore.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I have done my game start thing for the game.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    All invites accepted, lets roll! Woooo!

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Oh man, my starting position suuuuuucks.

    Right guys?

    Doesn't yours suck?

    so bad?

    anyone?

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Actually my starting position is pretty nice. Too bad my Legion sucks a dick.

    Not nearly as bad as PonyPoniPones though

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  • fadingathedgesfadingathedges Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    You said it was random!

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    fadingathedges wrote: »
    You said it was random!

    It is, at least in part.

    The random number generator did not favor you apparently.

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  • fadingathedgesfadingathedges Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    What's the other part?

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    It is apparently in some way shape or form keyed off of your avatar attributes. Martial Prowess, Cunning, Intellect, Wickedness. HOW precisely I don't think the creator has yet publicized.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    sorry about the lateness of my turn submission, dudes, but i showed my girlfriend dragon age and she has been playing it for like two hours on my gaming PC.

    i've made a huge mistake.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Not a problem. We all have our first turns in now, if you put in yours soon and Drool shows up tonight we might have two turns done in one day. Not baaaad.

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  • kaortikaorti Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Here are the patch notes from the latest patch. It has some game-play changes. Its all I know about the changes as well.

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  • fadingathedgesfadingathedges Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Yeah I just tested out a couple different builds and wow... EdwardfromTwilight has much better stats than PonyPoniPone.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Posted my turn file. My legion is fucking rad.

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  • kaortikaorti Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    fadingathedges wrote: »
    Yeah I just tested out a couple different builds and wow... EdwardfromTwilight has much better stats than PonyPoniPone.

    Evil Multifarious and Penetratus have awesome legions. She rest of us are at a bit of a disadvantage.

    Seriously. EM has nine ranged, two melee and five infernal, plus its fierce.

    Penetratus is hardly worse. 7/5/1 and mountain walk.

    And here you and me are with gimpy little things that the others could walk over. D:

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  • precisionkprecisionk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    So I played the demo. What a cocktease. Didn't realized it ended at turn 25 which so happened was going to be the turn I turn the rape machine on one of the AI's. Looks like I am buying this.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    kaorti wrote: »
    fadingathedges wrote: »
    Yeah I just tested out a couple different builds and wow... EdwardfromTwilight has much better stats than PonyPoniPone.

    Evil Multifarious and Penetratus have awesome legions. She rest of us are at a bit of a disadvantage.

    Seriously. EM has nine ranged, two melee and five infernal, plus its fierce.

    Penetratus is hardly worse. 7/5/1 and mountain walk.

    And here you and me are with gimpy little things that the others could walk over. D:

    Fierce isn't very useful for a legion with 2 Melee.

    Now, I'm not complaining, since 9 Ranged is fantastic.

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  • kaortikaorti Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Ok, how many people bid on the frozen lords? I know I wasn't the only one, and I want to know how many people I've angered.


    edit: wow, everyone has their turns in already.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    kaorti wrote: »
    Ok, how many people bid on the frozen lords? I know I wasn't the only one, and I want to know how many people I've angered.


    edit: wow, everyone has their turns in already.

    i didn't bid, but i would have had I all the necessary resources. i always seem to be missing one of the types.

    honestly the random resource gathering, and the other instances of bizarrely crucial random events, kind of cripple this game for me.

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  • fadingathedgesfadingathedges Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Turn3 is up.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    We are moving at a good clip! Google Wave makes it a lot easier. Also, not hosting!

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    kaorti wrote: »
    Ok, how many people bid on the frozen lords? I know I wasn't the only one, and I want to know how many people I've angered.


    edit: wow, everyone has their turns in already.

    i didn't bid, but i would have had I all the necessary resources. i always seem to be missing one of the types.

    honestly the random resource gathering, and the other instances of bizarrely crucial random events, kind of cripple this game for me.

    I agree with this to an extent. I feel like certain random events are entirely too powerful to be random.

    Like God knocking an entire point or two off of your attributes. Attribute loss is fucking huge, very much potentially crippling.

    Still it's a good game overall

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  • kaortikaorti Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    kaorti wrote: »
    Ok, how many people bid on the frozen lords? I know I wasn't the only one, and I want to know how many people I've angered.


    edit: wow, everyone has their turns in already.

    i didn't bid, but i would have had I all the necessary resources. i always seem to be missing one of the types.

    honestly the random resource gathering, and the other instances of bizarrely crucial random events, kind of cripple this game for me.

    I agree with this to an extent. I feel like certain random events are entirely too powerful to be random.

    Like God knocking an entire point or two off of your attributes. Attribute loss is fucking huge, very much potentially crippling.

    Still it's a good game overall

    I'm pretty sure that isn't a random event. It's a card you can play. There are two versions. One knocks a point off of everyone, one is targeted, but costs the person who plays it 10 prestige.

    Edit: Really, there aren't any random events in the game. Someone is responsible for everything that happens to you.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Yeah, I generally hate games that are wicked random (RISK, I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU, MOTHERFUCKER), or games that have absolutely improbably random outcomes (BATTLETECH HEADSHOTS FROM A 25-TON MECH ON A 100-TON MECH THAT MURDER THE PILOT ON SHOT *ONE,* I'M LOOKIN' AT *YOU,* ASSHOLE), but SI's pretty good. Those events may have a random target, but they're played by a player. And combat resolution has just enough random to it to make it interesting - you never know exactly how it's gonna play out, just in case the level bonus rolls against you. It's frankly, pretty sweet.

    (Watch, I say this now and I just got rocked on T4 by it. Just wait.)

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  • precisionkprecisionk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    So I played a small test game last night against the AI and got thoroughly raped six ways to Sunday. Going to start a new game and try a few different strategies. I need to read the manual more. Should be down for some MP perhaps next MP game we have.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    kaorti wrote: »
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    kaorti wrote: »
    Ok, how many people bid on the frozen lords? I know I wasn't the only one, and I want to know how many people I've angered.


    edit: wow, everyone has their turns in already.

    i didn't bid, but i would have had I all the necessary resources. i always seem to be missing one of the types.

    honestly the random resource gathering, and the other instances of bizarrely crucial random events, kind of cripple this game for me.

    I agree with this to an extent. I feel like certain random events are entirely too powerful to be random.

    Like God knocking an entire point or two off of your attributes. Attribute loss is fucking huge, very much potentially crippling.

    Still it's a good game overall

    I'm pretty sure that isn't a random event. It's a card you can play. There are two versions. One knocks a point off of everyone, one is targeted, but costs the person who plays it 10 prestige.

    Edit: Really, there aren't any random events in the game. Someone is responsible for everything that happens to you.

    Getting tribute is extremely random, and it's a poor decision for something so absolutely vital. The only way to mitigate it is with high Charisma, which is why Charisma is the most important stat, and it doesn't even mitigate it terribly well.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Actually, that is a fair criticism.

    In other news, my turn is up, and I was the last for this round.

    LET'S DO THIS.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Despite my legion's relative strength I'm the first one to get slapped with a demand. Or maybe because of it.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I am particularly mad because I have tons of resources - except ichor.

    I have zero ichor.

    Ichor is necessary for every single Legion in the game, and almost every artifact.

    There is no way for me to guarantee I will get ichor, absolutely zero.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Yeah but there is almost always some other place to invest resources when you're short on one. In SI you usually have to adjust your strategy to the resources you get, not the other way around.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Sometimes the game does that, and it's always aggravating. Just...cockblocks you relentlessly out of a single resource, giggling behind its hand.

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  • kaortikaorti Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    You could always arrange a trade of resources. As an added bonus, anyone who accepts your emissaries to cant make demands and insult at you for a while.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Drool wrote: »
    Yeah but there is almost always some other place to invest resources when you're short on one. In SI you usually have to adjust your strategy to the resources you get, not the other way around.

    there is literally nothing i can buy, right now. the only thing i can do is make combat cards, which is very contextual and limited. maybe some rituals.

    it's just irritating that i have no control over my economy, when the game is largely resource-driven.

    when i said i had "tons of resources" i meant "all i have is souls pretty much."

    the RNG is a dick

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  • kaortikaorti Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    If I was short on Ichor, I'd be pumping my deceit and intellect, while demanding more tribute. Either you stop needing ichor or it eventually shows up.

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I downloaded the demo. The structure of the game is fairly simple once you get the hang out how it works. However with other Human opponents I can only imagne the level of betrayal and douchebaggery that would make this game awesome as well as add a ridiculous amount of depth.

    Count me in for next game!

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Smaug6 wrote: »
    I downloaded the demo. The structure of the game is fairly simple once you get the hang out how it works. However with other Human opponents I can only imagne the level of betrayal and douchebaggery that would make this game awesome as well as add a ridiculous amount of depth.

    Count me in for next game!

    I for one have realized that a decent rank is important for human games, because without one, your insults and demands are fairly puny and everyone will just accept them and laugh at you sitting there with your beefy legions.

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