Well I know that Sunday I will be tied up watching a metric shiznit ton of football, opening weekend and all. However I play to dig a little more into Guild Wars 2 and do some DDO quests. I've been working on leveling up a Favored Soul interesting class. I also need to play some CMFI this weekend.
I would be up for some L4D2 grouping if anyone is up for that.
<<Still stuck playing text Football management games.
Good timing, too. First weekend of regular season and all.
Starting a 12000pt CMBN PBEM tonight - its going to take some time!
2 other CMBN/CMFI PBEMs
and some CK2 - i have a slight 'family dispute' to fix in the Parma AAR
I will take my A-10 out for a spin and then some Gnomoria.
Guild Wars 2!!!
I cannot shake this Orcs Must Die! 2 addiction. I should have given the game an award when I wrote the review.
I'll be playing Bioshock on Xbox while trying to resolve my Pride of Nations problem with Gamersgate.
Word to the wise, STEAM whenever possible as Gamersgate fouls up orders more often than not.
Probably Saints Row The Third for me to at least grab the middle island. Maybe some Combat Mission Shock Force and building my Academy B-17
Well for me, some Guild Wars....and some sports fun playing NHL 13 which comes out later tonight:) But most of my weekend will be consumed watching football:)
Quote from: LongBlade on September 07, 2012, 12:44:15 PM
I cannot shake this Orcs Must Die! 2 addiction. I should have given the game an award when I wrote the review.
wifey is gonna soon glom on to the fact that the
review of the software is way past due and maybe she'll start thinking its not work....
Reading some of the threads this week have me thinking I need to tear open my never used, used copy of Age of Rifles and get that up and running. Also, maybe try some Children of the Nile.
I'll be working for most of the weekend so I won;t have much time for gaming. I'm hoping to squeeze in a few hours in the evenings for:
Crusader Kings 2: Continuing my Duke of Tuscany game. I'm slowly working towards forming the Kingdom of Italy. I've got most of central Italy under my banner, and am working at getting a claim on the provinces along the eastern coast. I've now got a couple of kids to marry off (2 sons and a daughter). The eldest son, my heir, is betrothed to the Princess of Sicily. Not sure who to marry off the other two off to. Their both still infants. The youngest son is set to inherit one of my two duchies. Not sure what to do about that yet, I haven;t had to deal with that in either of my two previous games.
Guild Wars 2: Leveling my Elementalist and my Guardian. I'll probably start a thief and a ranger sometime in the next week or so as well. Loving this game. The first MMO that doesn't make me feel like I'm playing WoW with a new set of textures.
Skyrim: Continuing my Wizard playthrough if I can tear myself away from GW2 and CK2.
Distant Worlds: Same as Skyrim. Would like to get some time in but don't know if I'll have the time. I really wish I could get Distant Worlds and CK2 set up one on each of my two monitors. Unfortunately both seem to want to play on my main monitor only.
Quote from: Windigo on September 07, 2012, 01:54:45 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on September 07, 2012, 12:44:15 PM
I cannot shake this Orcs Must Die! 2 addiction. I should have given the game an award when I wrote the review.
wifey is gonna soon glom on to the fact that the review of the software is way past due and maybe she'll start thinking its not work....
Nah. She has no problem with anything I'm doing. Really.
I'm going to try and finish up Heavy Fire Afghanistan and do some RC stuff !
I'm going on a 10 hour deep sea fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico. Hope all of you enjoy your gaming!
Quote from: airboy on September 07, 2012, 02:42:10 PM
I'm going on a 10 hour deep sea fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico. Hope all of you enjoy your gaming!
Fun! Post some pics of what you catch :)
JA: Crossfire & MOO3 with Tropical 1.3.1
Quote from: Cougar_DK on September 07, 2012, 12:39:25 PM
I will take my A-10 out for a spin and then some Gnomoria.
I've only given it a 10 minute spin thus far, but it's up soon on my "To Do" icon list on my desktop. :D
I have a wargames pal staying over this weekend, so we plan to get some Conflict of Heroes firefights done.
I'll be doing my usual dailies in World of WarCraft and World of Tanks, play a few hours of EVE Online with some friends, solo play some Warlock: Master of the Arcane and Civilization V. I may play a few oldies to fill out my time.
Between Liam's soccer and demoing the deck I'll be playing LOTR Online and nursing my pretty hands. :'(
A lot of Thief 3. Eight years on and it's still one of my favorite games ever. I am hoping that Dishonored takes up some of the slack when it's released.
CK2: Third try as Count of Breifne. I have claims, but not enough soldiers. It seems like there is never enough money to go around. And people keep dying on me.
Bison, is DDO free to play? I always see you playing it.
Quote from: MetalDog on September 07, 2012, 08:50:45 PM
Bison, is DDO free to play? I always see you playing it.
Yes, DDO has been free-to-play for quite awhile.
The reason it didn't do so well for an MMO, after it came out, was because you used to be pretty much forced to group up to do the quests after a short time into the game.
They've since done a couple things to make it more solo-friendly last I saw, but the biggest is adding AI mercs you can hire to fill out a party with. But I believe those generally cost some small amount of real money in the shop as cost. Still, you won't need to do so for a little while into the game and you get some free mercs on a new character anyway. ;)
The game really is quite different than the usual MMO "Kill 10 Bazonga Beetles and return to me" stuff, and keeps a fair amount of the 3rd Edition D&D rules at it's core. 8) For that reason, I always plan to return and play some more (damn yous, time!).
Quote from: MetalDog on September 07, 2012, 08:50:45 PM
CK2: Third try as Count of Breifne. I have claims, but not enough soldiers. It seems like there is never enough money to go around. And people keep dying on me.
Bison, is DDO free to play? I always see you playing it.
You know it brother! Its a great Dungeons and Dragons game.
I am working part of the weekend. The other part will be step and some friends house who enjoy boardgames so that should be fun. I might try and get some CMFI if I have the time.
Finally starting up Napoleon Total War. I might also play something a bit more 'shoot people in the head', too. Oh, and I've got the War of the Roses Beta installed.
Board game wise, it's less playing and more culling. I have WAAAYYYY too much stuff that never gets played and it's time to send it off for store credit to buy more stuff. it's the circle of board game life. Sent off one big box a couple weeks back, and I'll probably have another packed up for Monday.
Somehow I've gotten off on a Third Age Total War mod for M2TW detour and can only think about ways to quickly develope heavy infantry before I'm up to my ass in orcs and should I even try to take-on Mordor or just hide from them and hope they don't find me. Where's that damned ring when I need it.
I now have three Counties and I am Duke of Connacht. My wife and I had three daughters. The eldest married a Portugese Prince who agreed that issue will be Matrilineal. They propmtly went out and had a son. I married the second off to the King of Scotland (almost sent the proposal to the King of England. Good thing I didn't though. Norway gobbled him up :-). Less than a year in, Andrew I died in an accident. Number 2 married the Duke of Moray. The youngest is still being tutored.
Will crank up the latest Xenonauts build in between working on my Grav Armor modue for Vassal..oh and taking the kids to see The Wiggles...
Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue is the only game i play besides a card game on the mobile.
Dark Souls for the PC may well be my latest gaming fascination. It is the most difficult RPG I have ever played but it has kept me coming back. May do some sorties in War Thunder as well.
Trey
^Welcome GA.
Quote from: Nefaro on September 07, 2012, 03:12:14 PM
Quote from: Cougar_DK on September 07, 2012, 12:39:25 PM
I will take my A-10 out for a spin and then some Gnomoria.
I've only given it a 10 minute spin thus far, but it's up soon on my "To Do" icon list on my desktop. :D
Just make sure you have the latest version. The previous couldn't load save games :o
Its a good little time killer, my only complain is easier access to stats, the boxes is way to small and don't remember the last settings. And maybe some more indicators of how life is in your town :)
But I keep getting back to it, so it sure has the sandbox-just two minutes more ;)
Quote from: Cougar_DK on September 08, 2012, 03:05:31 PM
The previous couldn't load save games :o
Wow. That's one of the dafter bugs I've ever heard of!
Quote from: Huw the Poo on September 08, 2012, 04:06:28 PM
Quote from: Cougar_DK on September 08, 2012, 03:05:31 PM
The previous couldn't load save games :o
Wow. That's one of the dafter bugs I've ever heard of!
Yeah, but it was quickly fixed. A great thing about indie game developers :)
Quote from: Huw the Poo on September 08, 2012, 04:06:28 PM
Quote from: Cougar_DK on September 08, 2012, 03:05:31 PM
The previous couldn't load save games :o
Wow. That's one of the dafter bugs I've ever heard of!
It's actually in Alpha still. So it's not even feature complete yet - there will be bugs. We bought-in early. :D
Ah, fairy nuff.
I ended up playing the River Crossing campaign for L4D2. I died about 25 meters from the damn helicopter. Fracking hunter surprised me and my "team mates" left me to die. Jerks.
Also fired up Skyrim to do some dungeon delving. Good stuff. I think I need decide what I want my guy to do, because I think I spead my level up points in too many directions.
I'm on the great grandson of my original character. Duchess Caitlin I the Great, my mother, and Aed's granddaughter, was poisoned, allegedly, by her own son. As hated as she was, the mass approval of Abel's ascension to the Ducal throne proves it, she was the Great for a reason.
I was handicapped until recently as I didn't know you could pay for improvements in your demesne. You can upgrade your castle, city and church. I had no idea until the early reign of Caitlin. But I aim to correct all that.
What years does CKII encompass? Does it span into the Renaissance?
1066 - 1462 then its EU's turn, but you can import the data - god knows how
Quote from: MetalDog on September 09, 2012, 04:04:33 PM
I was handicapped until recently as I didn't know you could pay for improvements in your demesne. You can upgrade your castle, city and church. I had no idea until the early reign of Caitlin. But I aim to correct all that.
I believe that's the easiest thing to overlook in CK2.
I typically start with improving the tax-increasing stuff in the castles in my own demesne for a couple-three levels apiece (generally the castle walls IIRC). Then the garrisons can get some attention for boosting my troop levels.
While a somewhat simple part of the game as a whole, I'm very happy with how they implemented the improvements in this one as opposed to Sengoku, for instance, or the previous CK where there were notably fewer options.
Thanks 'Geek. I am looking forward to playing as an eastern despot in the 14th - 15th centuries fighting for survival against the advancing Ottomans.
i look forward to reading all about it
Quote from: Gusington on September 09, 2012, 04:33:39 PM
Thanks 'Geek. I am looking forward to playing as an eastern despot in the 14th - 15th centuries fighting for survival against the advancing Ottomans.
King Of Georgia? On a 1066 start, anyway. Don't think you'll last until the 15th century that way, however. :P
I was thinking of Wallachia.
Quote from: Gusington on September 09, 2012, 04:38:13 PM
I was thinking of Wallachia.
Wallachia is controlled by Pagans in the early scenarios. But there are some later Start Date scenarios too ..
Now we're talking.
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 09, 2012, 04:21:40 PM
1066 - 1462 then its EU's turn, but you can import the data - god knows how
You can import CK2 into EU3 or the upcoming EU4? Can you then import that save into Victoria 2?
Couple questions about dealing CK2's succession laws. In my current game as the Duchess of Tuscany, I have two sons. With my current laws of succession the primary title and lands go the oldest and the duchy of Spoleto will go to the youngest. When the youngest inherits will he become a vassal of his older brother or will he succeed completely from my control? Whats the best way of handling this situation in the future? Since Tuscany is in turn a vassal of the HRE I can't change my succession laws to anything but elective monarchy. Its going to get really annoying if every time I have a new ruler I have to get a casus belli against the lands that were part of my demesne. Is there a way to get a casus belli against another duchies title instead of having to take each province one by one?
yes, ck2 rolls into eu, and eu rolls into vicky - its a work of art really but it looks very complicated
as for succession, he will become completely seperate from you - it just happened to me in game, 3 sons and 4 provinces - i as the eldest got the capital and 1 other, the 2 other brothers got one each - kill your brothers and go get them back - you should have claims on the titles - this is medieval europe!!
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 09, 2012, 05:44:15 PM
yes, ck2 rolls into eu, and eu rolls into vicky - its a work of art really but it looks very complicated
as for succession, he will become completely seperate from you - it just happened to me in game, 3 sons and 4 provinces - i as the eldest got the capital and 1 other, the 2 other brothers got one each - kill your brothers and go get them back - you should have claims on the titles - this is medieval europe!!
Thanks, neither of my two previous games got that far, and in both of those I only had 1 son and 2+ daughters.
I didn't know I would have claims on the titles. I figured I would have to get my chancellor to forge a claim on them.
You should as the eldest get the claims... I thought the same but I got them on my fathers demise
And then try to get your inheritance laws changed so that your first-born gets the whole dealio in the future. Hopefully he's not a sickly, possessed and hunchbacked guy who avoids the company of the fairer sex, has a Diplo rating of 1, and regularly attempts to kill you. :P
On an equally cheerful note, the crown law system isn't yet where it should be IMO since the biggest ruler in your area has a large effect on what you can do - even if he's in a completely different kingdom than yours. :-\
Finished up the weekend playing the great great grandson of the dynasty founder. It's 1181 A.D. I currently (still) own four counties on the Isle of Ireland. Three contiguous (Breifne, Connacht, Tyrconnell) and Desmond on the southern tip. My vassals seem to like me well, although my brother is trying to kill my heir. After a botched arrest, said brother fled to Leinster lands on the English Isle.
I have an heir and a spare with another baby on the way. I am in my thirties, in love with my wife and biding my time and improving cash flow and infrastructure. I can raise three thousand levies total and always keep enough cash on hand to hire a merc company (75gp hire and between six and eight gp retainer each month).
My ultimate goal would be to lead the British Isles uniting it all from Ireland, but I first need to take over my island.
I didn't get any gaming at all in the end. My daughter was either playing Skyrim when I did have some free time or I was just vusy - DIY, cutting grass, cleaning - oh - or making my B-17 model - so it wasn't all work
Quote from: MetalDog on September 09, 2012, 11:44:42 PM
My ultimate goal would be to lead the British Isles uniting it all from Ireland, but I first need to take over my island.
LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kNHiGIKGQ
Quote from: Nefaro on September 10, 2012, 07:55:41 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on September 09, 2012, 11:44:42 PM
My ultimate goal would be to lead the British Isles uniting it all from Ireland, but I first need to take over my island.
LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kNHiGIKGQ
Heh. That was my first thought as well.
Quote from: steve58 on September 07, 2012, 02:19:20 PM
Reading some of the threads this week have me thinking I need to tear open my never used, used copy of Age of Rifles and get that up and running. Also, maybe try some Children of the Nile.
Speaking of Antique games. I played free-to-play WWII Online. What a horrible game. But it can be vaguely fun. Sort of like
that psychotic girlfriend you had in the 10th grade who buried dead animals in your yard and formed a club to have
a stamp made with YOU ON IT.
On a lighter note: I've played this game (WWII online not "A stamp made with YOU ON IT v2.0") off and on since London in '02.
it has steadily gotten better BUT it was so awful to start with that it has only now reached the vaguely amusing level.
The nice thing about Free-to-play-WWII online is that you are officially cannon-fodder forever and you can give up all dreams of glory
and just settle down and shoot those clever, elite, well-armed, well-coordinated jerries.
And all in a setting of almost surreal crappiness. The most mystifying thing is -- since the game system really cannot represent cities
why are there endless battles in the amazingly bad city-scapes? The landscapes are kind of nice so why didn't they just make a total
sandbox of okay landscapes and skip the amazingly bad city-scapes?
I didn't play anything this weekend...no time this time.
Quote from: Nefaro on September 09, 2012, 08:02:30 PM
And then try to get your inheritance laws changed so that your first-born gets the whole dealio in the future. Hopefully he's not a sickly, possessed and hunchbacked guy who avoids the company of the fairer sex, has a Diplo rating of 1, and regularly attempts to kill you. :P
On an equally cheerful note, the crown law system isn't yet where it should be IMO since the biggest ruler in your area has a large effect on what you can do - even if he's in a completely different kingdom than yours. :-\
Would change the laws if I could. Unfortunately, crown laws in the HRE prevent me from doing that at the moment. If only I could just get the Duchy of Lombardy under my direct control. I could then declare independence and stand a reasonably good chance of being able to hold off HRE armies that would be sent to show me the errors of my ways.
One more question, I just noticed that my duchesses husband is the heir to some duchy in Denmark. When he inherits would those lands become mine? I arranged their marriage as a matrilineal one, so I would assume those lands would go back to the Kingdom of Denmark when the duchesses husband dies.
i think theyll be his, but you MIGHT get a claim on them
I love that scene so very, very much.
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Quote from: Martok on September 10, 2012, 08:21:42 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on September 10, 2012, 07:55:41 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on September 09, 2012, 11:44:42 PM
My ultimate goal would be to lead the British Isles uniting it all from Ireland, but I first need to take over my island.
LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kNHiGIKGQ
Heh. That was my first thought as well.
As well as mine as I posted it :-)
Quote from: Kushan on September 10, 2012, 01:54:34 PM
One more question, I just noticed that my duchesses husband is the heir to some duchy in Denmark. When he inherits would those lands become mine? I arranged their marriage as a matrilineal one, so I would assume those lands would go back to the Kingdom of Denmark when the duchesses husband dies.
I don't think you get those in a matrilineal marriage. I could well be wrong as I don't recall having that exact situation before.
As stated, you
may get a claim on them but I wouldn't even count on that. Your next-in-line would likely have a claim on it, if not inherit it outright after both parents die.