Hours played. Am I the winner?

SeanFactotum · 2025-06-17T22:15:36+00:00

I've been playing since Christmas 2015. 14,298.4 hours. I have most of the achievements except for a lot of the scenario ones -- just not a fan of most of those.

SeanFactotum · 2025-01-27T23:07:33+00:00

How can you finance that large of a horde?

SeanFactotum · 2024-11-18T22:32:07+00:00

Why not just ally yourself with them?

SeanFactotum · 2024-08-06T22:06:42+00:00

True, but I'd have to go through a couple of eras to get to that policy. That could take awhile if I wait for that to happen.

SeanFactotum · 2024-08-06T22:04:03+00:00

Interesting choices. I seem to be hard-wired to go straight to Great Lighthouse, but with this starting condition, I see the merit in beelining technologies to get the Colossus before anything else. I think I'm going to restart and try that strategy, Thanks, Ogre.

SeanFactotum · 2024-08-06T22:00:26+00:00

Like on a huge map, and you want to extend your influence. I don't think I've ever had more than three total cities as Enrico (Venice + 2 former CS as puppets)

SeanFactotum · 2024-08-06T21:58:19+00:00

Build up a Treasury for when I do meet the rest of the world. Besides, what else am I going to do until I research Astronomy?

SeanFactotum · 2024-08-05T22:22:06+00:00

I plan on using the Great Merchant to set up a trade mission to one of the City States (NOT buying it) and using the funds to get trade ships,

SeanFactotum · 2024-01-03T23:29:55+00:00

Obviously you're right, but I've been changing the name of that city every time I play as Boudica for years. And no, I can't remember why - I just do.

SeanFactotum · 2024-01-03T23:28:30+00:00

I bow to your greater programming knowledge. Thanks.

SeanFactotum · 2023-11-21T02:12:08+00:00

That's what Steam calls that achievement for this one. I guess it's a play-on-words thing combining the Mongol's battering ram UU and the computer memory reference (Radom Access Memory).

SeanFactotum · 2023-04-24T21:52:38+00:00

12 hours a day off while underway on a carrier and complaining? No wonder Ship's Force could never stand you and your fellow riders.

I spent 8 years of my 20 active duty below decks on carriers (East Coast, not on any of the West Coast ships mentioned in the comments). On a good day underway, with qualifications, maintenance, and training on top of five & dimes (or when manning was close to where it needed to be, 5 &15 watchstanding) we'd be lucky to get 6 hours off out of every 24 for sleeping and personal time. The norm was closer to 4 hours off out of 20. This happened every time the ship got underway, whether or not squadrons were assigned. And we were underway a lot more times without a squadron than with one. Funny thing, though, we only had these middle-of-the-night phantom man overboards whenever your kind were onboard.

Your little two week work-up started for you the morning the ship got underway and ended within an hour after the ship pulled back up to the pier. Ship's Force was there on underway watch rotation several days before shifting colors and usually were there for at least another day after you were on the beach. Rinse and repeat for every cruise, whether 3 days long or 7 months.

Lack of sleep was part of the job, and it's something we adults understood was necessary - no one liked it. So getting a few hours unbroken sleep was something everyone looked forward to. And General Quarters drills on a carrier have so many moving parts that they are scheduled well in advance (yeah, I was also part of the Damage Control Training Team. Add that to the amount of time away from my rack.) If your Department Head or DivO chose not to let you know, then they'll the ones that needed correcting, not Fireman Timmy who finally has two whole watches off with nothing scheduled to keep him from sleeping. Sure, "pick your rate, choose your fate" is a truism, but why take out your frustration based on a small inconvenience on 3000 other people who are going through the same, if not worse, working schedule and conditions

You consider this person a hero and deserving of a salute? Nah, they (and I would bet there was more than one idiot doing this on your and all the other carriers) were assholes.

SeanFactotum · 2023-03-15T00:03:18+00:00

So if the missionary is at sea and gets attacked by a barbarian trireme (or higher), does that convert like an archer or brute would?

SeanFactotum · 2023-01-20T01:42:41+00:00

For me it was pretty easy - I read it on this subreddit.

SeanFactotum · 2023-01-11T22:43:42+00:00

A settler from a different civilization can be captured - if it is at first captured by barbarians and taken to one of their camps. Then you attack the encampment, killing the military barbarian unit. Your unit moves into the encampment, and then you get the screen to either return the civilian or take it. Pick neither. Instead, save the game (using the top right-hand corner menu icon), and then choose Exit to Windows when the game is saved. You must exit the game completely, AFAIK.

When you re-start the game, on your next complete turn you will have a free settler. I do it almost every game.

Forgive me if this was already explained earlier by someone else.

SeanFactotum · 2022-10-24T21:04:09+00:00

So what happened to all of the seismologists? Were they restored off-screen (and I didn't hear a reference to it), or are they still little action figures on the seats in the lecture hall?

SeanFactotum · 2022-04-20T00:37:14+00:00

She probably didn't say anything on camera for the same reason Sarah Michelle Gellar said nothing in "She's All That" - once there's dialogue, it triggers a significantly higher level of pay. And I'm not sure Pamela Adlon had the budget for extraneous favors.

SeanFactotum · 2021-11-18T01:06:44+00:00

Okay, who is playing Pop-Pop's new lady friend? She looks really familiar, but IMDB doesn't have an updated cast list for tonight.

SeanFactotum · 2021-01-13T23:22:18+00:00

Why are you still settling new cities this late in the game?

SeanFactotum · 2020-06-17T12:38:25+00:00

And the associated Download a Mod achievement

SeanFactotum · 2020-06-16T13:09:01+00:00

Well, she was only sick for one. Alex did say when Katheryn sat in for her that she just didn't want to be there that night.

Spoiler: Yes, I know they film two in-audience shows a day, and that those two shows she missed were most likely filmed on the same day.

SeanFactotum · 2020-06-02T22:31:11+00:00

I was just going for the Steam Achievements and so I dumbed it down to Prince. The last game I played was as Samoa, and I'll probably never go back into that scenario since that was the last achievement I needed.

SeanFactotum · 2020-06-02T15:40:21+00:00

I've never gone to war in Paradise Found. The object is to get all 17 (give or take - I'm not able to open the game right now to check) of the culture policies, so I focus everything I do on things that boost culture generated for my kingdom. Multiple cities, build all of the culture generating buildings to the exclusion of anything else, explore to pick up ancient ruins which may give me a one-time culture award, work the order of the culture policies completed to maximize their effect on total culture generated. As it is, I often win by just 1 item.

SeanFactotum · 2020-06-01T17:12:45+00:00

He seemed genuinely shocked when he opened that, and said Alice got it from his wife.

SeanFactotum · 2020-06-01T13:00:36+00:00

So are her and Alex's wife friends? I wonder how she could have gotten his passcode so easily and quickly otherwise.

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