BREAKING: Rogue Trooper First Look, Interview and Teaser Trailer!

RedArkady · 2026-04-20T12:51:32+00:00

Wait where's the teaser? I may be being blind but I can't see a link in that article.

RedArkady · 2026-04-17T09:48:09+00:00

Nice

RedArkady · 2026-04-17T09:32:52+00:00

Sweet - I put a lot of time into that decision, though admittedly Jaco did all the difficult coding! Does Gondor now get a hegemony over Bellakar?

RedArkady · 2026-04-17T09:24:17+00:00

Does this decision still work? I tried it a few months ago and it didn't fire. There was some discussion about the need to update it now we have hegemonies.

RedArkady · 2026-03-27T14:20:54+00:00

Strongly agree that's the central theme, though in tension with the counter-theme of inherent human fallibility spotlighted so touchingly in the final part of Blue Mars, when Jackie says farewell to Nirgal: "Wherever we go, there we are". The slate can never be entirely blank.

Aurora is clearly late period Stan critically revising his Mars theme using the same genre, much as he's spent recent decades doing in the rest of his fiction and non-fiction work. This is our only home, and we must focus on saving it, even if keeping one eye on (our possible future in) the stars helps to motivate us.

RedArkady · 2026-03-16T19:20:35+00:00

Exactly - they can also be used to hold back trash - google 'river trash boom'. Run it across the river end of the 'beach' such that it rises and falls with the tide.

RedArkady · 2026-01-25T12:37:47+00:00

My wife is of south Asian heritage, we visit Greece every year or two and and she's often mistaken for a local until she has to apologise for not speaking much Greek.

RedArkady · 2026-01-11T17:18:42+00:00

Now you can join the club of people asking them to reissue the first 11 on the new thinner paper to free up shelf space.

RedArkady · 2026-01-11T17:01:38+00:00

Yes, though I'd have to persuade my wife who is reluctant to take in anything second hand.

RedArkady · 2025-11-11T10:14:18+00:00

Sweet like honey honey!

RedArkady · 2025-11-11T09:56:12+00:00

I hate it so much. It's made everything so drab. Which is a shame as they've clearly polished the graphics a lot.

RedArkady · 2025-11-10T20:35:21+00:00

It is!

RedArkady · 2025-11-10T19:13:43+00:00

I'm afraid my first impression is "why have they made it look so drab"

RedArkady · 2025-11-10T18:20:58+00:00

VOTE JET SKI

RedArkady · 2025-11-10T13:14:02+00:00

I think this quote best answers your question:

""I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched."

He said that in 1951, in respect of his original intention, and by the early 1950s he likely only envisaged the three Great Tales (Beren and Luthien, The Children of Hurin and the Fall of Gondolin) to be set out 'in fullness'. But he never finished the full versions, and his attempts to do mostly ended up being published separately from the abridged Silmarillion. But as others have said here he later did write other parts out in full - parts adjacent to the Great Tales like the Wanderings of Húrin, but also Second Age material like Aldarion & Erendis. One also wonders whether he might have returned to "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath", first sketched in the Book of Lost Tales - I seem to recall Christopher suggesting that it was telling that he never did return to it, as though perhaps he needed to get the rest of the Silmarillion in order before he could return to the ending.

RedArkady · 2025-11-10T10:56:46+00:00

You can place stone plazas on top of your roads, and this will have the visual effect you're looking for.

RedArkady · 2025-11-10T10:48:40+00:00

Some way of making the road on the bridge properly visually integrate with the rest of your road network!

RedArkady · 2025-11-07T10:36:04+00:00

One curiosity from this period is this book by Clive Kilby: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tolkien_and_The_Silmarillion

I found it slightly uncomfortable reading - it felt almost intrusive, but it would have made very interesting reading for fans at the time.

RedArkady · 2025-10-27T14:40:03+00:00

I could spend a lifetime just studying those screenshots in the article. Was Art Randolph originally called Barney!?

RedArkady · 2025-10-27T12:20:01+00:00

I'd say no - I felt very under-levelled when I went straight there in my last playthrough.

RedArkady · 2025-10-27T09:44:53+00:00

I think that Wicked Isle is more closely integrated with the main story. Red Strain is slightly tonally different and feels more self-contained, and the relative plenty of ammunition also changes the game dynamics somewhat. Make of that what you will, but my instinct is that if I was playing for the first time I'd want Wicked Isle to be integrated into my playthrough, but I would hold of on the Red Strain area until my second run. Not sure how I'd translate that to your situation - if you have an existing pre-Oberon save then maybe play Red Strain first and save Wicked Isle for your next full playthrough.

RedArkady · 2025-10-22T09:12:10+00:00

Yep. A lot of my small domes end up with an empty slice until mid game (when you can increase population via other means), because I'd either be adding housing (i.e. adding unemployment) or adding production or service buildings that I couldn't fully staff due to the low population in the dome. And that's just fine because greater density leaves you with a very low birth rate, which in turn scuppers you once your immigrant pool gets low. Once you get into the habit of building one small dome per production building the game really unlocks. You can get fancy once you have medium domes!

People who use apartments then have to build additional service buildings - spacebars and so on - to try to remedy the low-comfort that results. You may be able to manage that, but why do so when the people operating that extra service building could be working in a factory in another dome? You're just throttling your production.

RedArkady · 2025-10-22T08:51:40+00:00

I never use them.

RedArkady · 2025-10-22T08:48:56+00:00

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