"dongle" is such a weird word I'm amazed anyone can say it with a straight face.

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Y'know, usually when a game talks about The Spawning Pools we're in horror territory, not cozy. :grin:

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Good for them! We can speculate on their motives, but in the end they're doing a good thing and I'm not going to argue with that.

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Too deep they delved . . .

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@Eldaking: Interesting points. Read your commentary at the link and yes, that does reflect my experience. Although I've occasionally gone to look at youtube commentaries about playing Civ V and VI, and been flabbergasted that they always seem to be talking about really early rushes to try to conquer everyone right off the bat like it's a wargame, and leave me thinking "But aren't we trying to . . . build a civilization?" I definitely prefer to put off military stuff while I try to out-expand and out-advance and out-economy the opposition. Every time I consider making a military unit in a 4X I'm always thinking "But I could make a productivity building with those resources!"
(Although I have tried a couple playthroughs of Civilization V as England with the express idea of starting wars as soon as I have longbows, defined in the game as "Long range light artillery that don't need setup!" It's just fun to besiege helpless enemy cities from outside their range.)

Maybe I'll try The Last Federation again. I actually rather liked the weird combat.

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@Grifter Nope, they're not. Britain did a weird stupid law and now that function would invite legal trouble, apparently. Liam had to do a number of unhappy changes to how the place works.

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Odd. First off, "village builder" and "10-21 minutes" don't go together in my mind.
Then there's "roguelike". So, what, all your villages die?! I don't want my villages to die!

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Say, eldaking, I tried The Last Federation years ago and I kind of liked it but I ended up stopping because I couldn't tell whether I was doing well or not. I found it very difficult to figure out whether I was really making progress towards the goal, how important it was to research technology and how much would represent doing a good job at that, how well I was doing on the diplomacy side and stuff. Got any tips? How do you move from "Seem to be doing OK making dough on missions" to "Getting somewhere in the bigger picture"?

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Hardly a surprise. The current British government is completely useless. (The previous British government was a wrecking ball operated by clowns)

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Ten years?! It can't be that long . . . I bought it when it had come out pretty recently and I still haven't gotten around to playing it yet!

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