Yeap. CK2 is certainly a lot more interesting in all of the alternate history shennenigans and politics that you can get wrapped up in (and put a story to it) rather than the pure gameplay, which has a steep learning curve and you WILL get lost a lot in wondering 'what do I do now?!' until you figure out how to fill in time playing eugenics with a dynasty and eventual empire.
Heck, I'm not a particularly imaginative sort of person; I favour pure elegance and utility rather than any fluffy poetry and yet I'm able to conjure out a really messed up situation, which is no where near as 'bad' things can get since I take the safer options most of the time. Hence the traditional male heir instead of risking it with a genius attractive Empress of the newly formed Irish Britannica who will be following her father's footsteps in staking a big claim in the next Crusades as ruler of the largest unified army outside the Holy Roman Empire (those damn pretenders...). Female rulers have a really shoddy time getting married because of the bias against Matrilineal marriages so it was hard to get a good political marriage plus good genetics plus retain control over the dynasty. And then there's the whole menopause thing while a 70-80 year old male ruler can still get a young 18 something damsel preggers.
ANNNNYYY HOW....
The talk about that launcher and custom packs sounds great. I really want to give IC2 the flick in the next server iteration.
So I possibly went on a Minecraft bender and built baby's first tree farm & steam boiler system; now standing around wondering what I should do with all this power. Maybe baby's first AE network, so I understand the magic.
You should give like a 24 hour notice about when new server is going up.
Also fuck you guys I'm claiming spawn (for spawn capital/trade area), which means spawn needs to be in a cool area.
Edit:
I think that maybe we could use a theme like this:
You should give like a 24 hour notice about when new server is going up.
Also fuck you guys I'm claiming spawn (for spawn capital/trade area), which means spawn needs to be in a cool area.
Edit:
I think that maybe we could use a theme like this:
High-Tech SPQR? I'm all for that
I've actually yoinked the server off line to do some archiving and maintenance. I'll boot it back up in 1.5.
Consider this an advance warning for 1.6
I will be taking the server down as a 1.5 server for good this Friday around 11pm UTC
I'll be generating different map seeds tonight, posting them for comments/voting with the Horizons pack (it has BoP, that's good enough) Take time to fly around, see if it's nice enough, maybe earmark a spot for where you want to build (and post a screenshot so people know you claim dibs on it)
If a decent pack isn't available for the server to move to 1.6, I'll dig around to see if Horizons has the new-fangled universal configs and frankenstein the mod pack I want to be running.
Edit:
Actually, I'm going to load Horizons up on the server. Get in, play around with the new mods, find out something new and interesting to use them with and when stuff is stable enough with TE being revamped, we'll add the great new ones into the frankenstein that's IC2Ex-less
Also, another note: Once we've decided on a map seed to use for the full pack, I'm going to wait for @Radiation to find a good location for the spawn town, then I'm going to edit the level file TO MOVE THE SPAWN THERE
Also I guess my plan for unlimited cheap nuclear power will have to be done in single player. Oh well, it was always the only reason I wanted IC2 anyway. Bee-fired liquid boilers it is (again)!
Well, it does include a mod called 'reactorcraft' so maybe you can build your nuke plant with that? I notice a disturbing lack of power armor but there are a number of different magic mods it seems, besides thaumcraft4.
Well, the terrain generation is rubbish at the moment. ATG so far has done nothing but generate islands with a hill in the middle. Project Redstone continues in RP2's glorious footsteps and shoves lava pillars in the middle of nowhere without any regard to how it fits in the landscape and there's no Natura...
Horizon isn't a full featured mod pack. It's more of a showcase of lesser used mods. Some of them I think I understand why they're in that status
What do I need to be added to the server list? I want to try and get in on the new server shenanigans.
Also got my first quarry going. Trying to get power to be more sustainable then "manually shoving lava into geothermal generators" Need me some blaze rods for advanced solar panels.
Communists do not go in search of land that suits our desire.
Communists force the land into the shape we desire.
But we are forcing the land into the shape we desire. Move Mountains? Pfft, granny could do that with a quarry. We alter the fabric of time and space and rewrite the spatial coordinates.
By the way guys, previously agreed rules will be in place:
No central ME Net and resource generation. Spawn town, yes. Central congregation point, yes. Grand communal feed trough? No. Not today!
You can work together if you wish. Managing your lists of projects and your burn out is your own responsibility.
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Heck, I'm not a particularly imaginative sort of person; I favour pure elegance and utility rather than any fluffy poetry and yet I'm able to conjure out a really messed up situation, which is no where near as 'bad' things can get since I take the safer options most of the time. Hence the traditional male heir instead of risking it with a genius attractive Empress of the newly formed Irish Britannica who will be following her father's footsteps in staking a big claim in the next Crusades as ruler of the largest unified army outside the Holy Roman Empire (those damn pretenders...). Female rulers have a really shoddy time getting married because of the bias against Matrilineal marriages so it was hard to get a good political marriage plus good genetics plus retain control over the dynasty. And then there's the whole menopause thing while a 70-80 year old male ruler can still get a young 18 something damsel preggers.
ANNNNYYY HOW....
The talk about that launcher and custom packs sounds great. I really want to give IC2 the flick in the next server iteration.
THIS WAS NOT AN REQUETS TO DROP THE PRICE TO 20 DOLLARS STEAM, FUCK.
Oh well, I still cant afford it anyway. Still, fuck you steam.
Now I gotta think about pressing the button.
Steam:
"How bout 10 dollars than buttcleft? will you love me now?"
It is 10 dollars today.
I think he's referring to the package deal with all the DLC for 20 bucks total. Seems like a pretty solid deal.
Not even a question, then. Bought.
I don't even want to play 1.6 modded anymore. I want to jump straight to 1.7 and get my mad fish on.
but..you can catch enchanted stuff while fishing in 1.7!
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
Also power armor.
Two reactions.
1) HOLY WHAT THE SHIT HURBLE GUH?!
2) SHAI-HULUD!
Word. EXCEPT! I'm starting a new world -- FTB just got its first 1.6 pack up. It's called Horizons and has all sorts of crazy shit in: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/horizons-1-6-4.35245/
You should give like a 24 hour notice about when new server is going up.
Also fuck you guys I'm claiming spawn (for spawn capital/trade area), which means spawn needs to be in a cool area.
Edit:
I think that maybe we could use a theme like this:
High-Tech SPQR? I'm all for that
I've actually yoinked the server off line to do some archiving and maintenance. I'll boot it back up in 1.5.
Consider this an advance warning for 1.6
I will be taking the server down as a 1.5 server for good this Friday around 11pm UTC
I'll be generating different map seeds tonight, posting them for comments/voting with the Horizons pack (it has BoP, that's good enough) Take time to fly around, see if it's nice enough, maybe earmark a spot for where you want to build (and post a screenshot so people know you claim dibs on it)
If a decent pack isn't available for the server to move to 1.6, I'll dig around to see if Horizons has the new-fangled universal configs and frankenstein the mod pack I want to be running.
Edit:
Actually, I'm going to load Horizons up on the server. Get in, play around with the new mods, find out something new and interesting to use them with and when stuff is stable enough with TE being revamped, we'll add the great new ones into the frankenstein that's IC2Ex-less
Communists force the land into the shape we desire.
New Server to destroy soon!
Dibs on any Mystic Oaks, F all your I.
Also I guess my plan for unlimited cheap nuclear power will have to be done in single player. Oh well, it was always the only reason I wanted IC2 anyway. Bee-fired liquid boilers it is (again)!
Horizon isn't a full featured mod pack. It's more of a showcase of lesser used mods. Some of them I think I understand why they're in that status
Oh yeah, Farlanders, Project:Red are getting booted. ATG is probably going to be shown the door as well.
Also got my first quarry going. Trying to get power to be more sustainable then "manually shoving lava into geothermal generators" Need me some blaze rods for advanced solar panels.
But we are forcing the land into the shape we desire. Move Mountains? Pfft, granny could do that with a quarry. We alter the fabric of time and space and rewrite the spatial coordinates.
By the way guys, previously agreed rules will be in place:
No central ME Net and resource generation. Spawn town, yes. Central congregation point, yes. Grand communal feed trough? No. Not today!
You can work together if you wish. Managing your lists of projects and your burn out is your own responsibility.