That is an awful colour scheme, shouldn’t the royal domains be a recognisable colour?
That is an awful colour scheme, shouldn’t the royal domains be a recognisable colour?
Isn’t this functionality already built into the default web UI?
Link to the original blog post by the developer: https://medium.com/@julianmckinlay/total-war-rome-ii-and-creative-assembly-my-statement-ten-years-on-d964f65b0a8f
Wow, this is a long read. Well worth it for anyone who got caught in Rome TW2’s hype and subsequent disappointment.
Would be good to see what other games he later worked on. Will try to remember to look him up on linkedin when I have time
It’s probably a single dev that made the decision, then moves onto something else. They (probably?) don’t have the ability to just raise a recurring PO etc to easily pay you and don’t care enough to worth through the paperwork.
If you had a paid licencing model they may have done it, or just found another lib/ wrote their own.
This makes me want to play crusader kings again, ck3’s earliest start is 40 or so years after this?
What is their monetisation plan? Currently they don’t seem to have anything other than donations?
yeh, thats what I mean, who knows what the state of the market will be in 25 years, unless its an insurance backed guarantee, be very suspicious of it.
Or that they were expecting to be out of business by then…
Nvidia IS making a profit on it though. It’s the whole “in a good rush, sell shovels” thing.
the tournaments one is very well reviewed. The Norse one is worth it if you want to play the Nordics.
Royal Court is mostly only good if you want to make the game easier (you get lots more equitable artifacts etc). It sounds like they are improving this to make the actual court bit more interesting.
The event pack/friend and Foes are normally considered not great, possibly even negative, but it sounds like they are updating them to fix the event frequency.
unsure on the rest.
AMD uses chiplets in their CPUs, you can see it in the picture - they have a CPU but, a GPU but and an AI bit.
Much like you can buy SKUs with or without graphics you will be able to buy models with or without AI.
Oh it WILL cause security issues. It’s just a tradeoff against if they are worth the benefits.
Remember, they are not expecting to win, so this isn’t a policy they are expecting to have to implement, just using it to attract more of the right wing vote they are losing to the Reform UK party.
Is this the team they moved it to, or the team they moved it from?
Then you don’t get any new people at all. (Or very few)
I would split digital privacy from the foss and Linux discussions. They attract the same people, but are fundamentally different topics.
It also means you could get deeper into the digital privacy topic which is more useful to most people.
For the digital privacy one, ask for a volunteer (or do you!) ahead of time and get them to do GDPR requests for apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta etc. sanitizer anything they want to hide, but do a demo of what big tech actually knows about them.
Then go though how to prevent that and have a discussion on the pros and cons of that data collection. (Eg I don’t care about Google data tracking as I find the Google location history really useful)
It’s been a while since my politics A level, so I may get some of the terms wrong but hopefully the facts right.
As the UK doesn’t have a formal constitution, it relies on convention and that parliament is effectively all powerful (under the crown) in that if parliament (encompassing both houses in this context) votes for something it can do it. (As it represents the will of the people and has the authority of the crown (less relevant in the modern day))
Parliament can’t therefore lock a decision in such a way that a future parliament can’t change because the future parliament is still all powerful.
In practice though this isn’t entirely the case. You can make a law like you said, and while a future parliament can break it, it would (probably) look bad on them. But what does that do to stop politicians?
A further note on the previous chain - we go have two houses of parliament; the house of commons is the main one with the green benches that most will recognise. It has our elected representatives (MPs) in and (normally) where the PM is selected from.
The house of lords (red benches, appointed members for life) is generally considered the check chamber. It used to be able to block laws entirely, but I believe lost that power semi recently and it can now be overruled by the commons after 2/3 rejections.
Everything is eventually decided by the majority of votes in the house of commons. Even if you put a law in saying that the pm can’t do this without a 80% vote, that law itself could be repealed with a 50% vote.
Theoretically it would only require a 50% vote to remove elections or something crazy. (Although in practice that might not get past the king who technically has the final say)
There is no formal constitution that has more protection like in some countries.
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