No Posts for two days in here

[Symphony]

Way to take a stand! I hate mean people too.

It's just so brave, brought a tear to my eye reading this.

/golf clap

You prefer everybody circle-jerk endlessly about how horrible the game is? That seems to be what the people who passionately hate the game want, both here and over on TWC: endless validation of their opinion. That'd certainly up the post count, but would it really be any more productive or engaging?

At this point, those people have decided to hate the game, and voice their hatred and disappointment every chance they get (whether the topic warrants it or not). Their minds are not going to be changed. Every complaint has been lathered, rinsed, and repeated ad nauseum. Any attempt to engage them results in an ad hominem dismissal of "fanboy" or "apologist", and doesn't result in any new conversation. There is literally no more conversation to be had there.

The people who enjoy the game, regardless of its faults, have no traction; why would they stay and "take a stand" over somebody's else's legitimate disagreement on a game forum, especially when they know there's no possible resolution...when they could be off playing the game instead?

[ReluctantSamurai]

The silence is deafening.........

[Kamakazi]

Tell me about it... I check in here every day or so hoping for something to talk about

[easytarget]

You prefer everybody circle-jerk endlessly about how horrible the game is? That seems to be what the people who passionately hate the game want, both here and over on TWC: endless validation of their opinion. That'd certainly up the post count, but would it really be any more productive or engaging?

At this point, those people have decided to hate the game, and voice their hatred and disappointment every chance they get (whether the topic warrants it or not). Their minds are not going to be changed. Every complaint has been lathered, rinsed, and repeated ad nauseum. Any attempt to engage them results in an ad hominem dismissal of "fanboy" or "apologist", and doesn't result in any new conversation. There is literally no more conversation to be had there.

The people who enjoy the game, regardless of its faults, have no traction; why would they stay and "take a stand" over somebody's else's legitimate disagreement on a game forum, especially when they know there's no possible resolution...when they could be off playing the game instead?

Insidious isn't it, you were drawn in anyway.

[Symphony]

Insidious isn't it, you were drawn in anyway.

Well, yeah, but I'm a known sucker.

[AussieGiant]

We are just floating along on life support here at the moment. That's not a bad thing. I got the feeling that most of us played Rome II quite a bit and as a result we had something to say to each other.

Now for what ever reason we don't have much to say to each other. That's either a result of us all just casually playing Rome II or having put it down for good.

I will always come here for tips and advice until it's shut down.

....forgive me for asking ;-)

But does anyone have any tips for winning Caesar in Gaul? I'm getting agent spammed to death and I have no counter.

[BroskiDerpman]

I got R2.

The terrain reminded me of an old flight sim I played.
I'll go grab some graphics mods to ease the game on my eyes. Any suggestions?

Edit:

@ Hooahguy

My opinions change. (And so do many people?)

I admit I have made a rash statement against the .Org in this thread but oh well; I can't change what I said when people have already read what I have typed.

I do believe your quoting of an old post of mine from around release day to be really unnecessary though.

And this person describes it well in his/her response to you.

Also looks like classic condescension on your behalf. Well done, everyone wins.

I'll stop here, I don't want to further cause a flame war with the moderators.

Cheers and have a good day.

[Hooahguy]

No problem with changing your opinion, at the very least you could explain they changed.

[Sp4]

I got R2.

The terrain reminded me of an old flight sim I played.
I'll go grab some graphics mods to ease the game on my eyes. Any suggestions?

I used GEM for a while. It looks quite good. Remember to turn the unlimited GFX memory thing on in settings.

For prettier units, DeI, although that is a total conversion and a little 'heavy' if you've not played vanilla before.

[Myth]

Some of the RII stuff is on Steam sale at the moment. I'm waiting for the last day to get everything but the latest DLC at 75% off.

I started a new Sparta campaign last night. I got a weird bug where I couldn't levle up my army (the button had disappeared). I had to quit and restart the game to resolve it.

I was frustrated and left when I fought a 20 minute slugfest with my Spartan hoplites, backed up by 6 slingers and 3 javelins versus similarly arrayed Roman armies defending a minor settlement. Autocalc had given me horrible odds due to the ships parked nearby. But I know that ships eraly on are manned by weak skirmishers, so I bought 2 mercenary shock cav and wrecked them as they debarked.

I didn't count on literally sitting there for 20 real life minutes on 6x speed, lookng at 2 blobs (one of hoplites, one of Hastati) pushing into each other in a narrow street choke point.

Look, if I'm going to lose, make me lose. If my hoplites can shred Hastati in a city conquest (they could do so in Rome 1), let me do it in reasonable time. DON'T make me wait for my general to inevitably die so I can get chain routed (or something similar happen to the enemy). City assaults feel like a chore to me, that's why I AR 90% of them unless I have superior quality troops or tons of artilery so I can just fry the AI blob. It's too bad that most battles in Rome 2 are either city assaults or city defenses and that is of minor settlements 3 out of 4 times statisticaly.