Guest posts by Chromatophore

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Forum Game Archive / Re: Chess Time by Rainbowninja

« on: July 20, 2011, 03:14:35 am »

Here is the score from Pervepic's and my first round matchup, with a few suggested improvments for my side:

[Event "EtG Open"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2011.07.13"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chromatophore"]
[Black "Pervepic"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A55"]
[Opening "Old Indian"]
[Variation "5.e4 Be7 6.Be2 c6 7.O-O a6"]
[TimeControl "300"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. d4 h6 2. c4 a6 3. Nc3 d6 4. e4 c6 5. f4 Qc7 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be2 Nd7 8. O-O
e5 9. fxe5 dxe5 10. d5 Be7 11. Be3 g5 12. h3 Bh5 13. Rc1 Ngf6 14. a3 a5 15.
Nh2 Bg6 16. Bd3 (16. c5) 16. .. Nh5 17. Ne2 Nf4 18. Bb1 Bc5 19. Bxc5 Nxc5
20. Nc3 a4 21. Kh1 (21. g3) 21. .. h5 22. Qf3 h4 23. Ng4 Nb3 24. Rcd1 Nd4
25. Rxd4 (25. Qe3) 25. .. exd4 26. Ne2 Nxe2 27. Nf6+ Kd8 28. Qxe2 Qe5 29.
Ng4 Qc7 0-1

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Cards / Re: Card Fortunes List

« on: July 19, 2011, 08:07:35 am »

This isn't on the list of unknown fortunes, but the fortune for Water Pillar has 'Sapphire Pillar'.  Any of the other pillars have unusual/outdated names on their fortunes?

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Cards / Re: Card Fortunes List

« on: July 17, 2011, 03:43:34 pm »

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: AI improvements

« on: July 16, 2011, 01:36:38 am »

It would be quick to code a check for
1) enemies
2) anything that has death triggers

to apply for virus

also, sorry for bad english. I am tired

if you can't code your own brain then you are thinking too hard

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: AI improvements

« on: July 16, 2011, 01:17:25 am »

At least a year after it was first mentioned, it is still true that AI will detonate virus and retrovirus for no reason.

it doesnt know whether it has a bonewall, soulcatcher etc or not (perhaps)... is it no reason

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General Discussion / Re: [POLL] What is your favorite element?

« on: July 15, 2011, 10:43:32 pm »

do most people vote by the element's theme/nature or by how strong the cards are or how?  i am having trouble picking a favored element

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Religion / Re: God's Perfection

« on: July 15, 2011, 09:43:57 pm »

   2. Do you believe him to be...for lack of a better term: the physical(spiritual, whatever) embodiment of love?

Just wondering, because i'm not terribly familiar with the texts of the Torah/Bible.  Where is this coming from?  I thought Jesus was all about love and God was more about vengeance

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Religion / Re: Pascal's Gambit (Bear with me)

« on: July 15, 2011, 06:25:39 pm »

No, it's ok. There's a really cool video near the end of the other thread if anyone's interested.

I tracked it down.

I think this very nice Youtube video dispells Pascal's wager nicely.

(Youtube being intellectual? Oh my)

Not terribly insightful, but it has some pretty horses and it sums up the "refutations" of Pascal's gamble with destiny (or what i understand of them) pretty nicely, if a bit slowly and with perhaps a hint of spite.

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General Discussion / Re: What is underworld

« on: July 15, 2011, 07:58:03 am »

refugees & outcasts or other social undesirables

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,13922.0.html (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,13922.0.html)

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Religion / Re: Pascal's Gambit (Bear with me)

« on: July 15, 2011, 07:14:44 am »

Pascal's argument doesn't admit the possibility of of a God who rewards a person who does not believe in things that they do not have evidence for.

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Game Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Airborn weapons

« on: July 15, 2011, 05:09:54 am »

The problem with this is that it doesn't seem to be the main function of shields.  They're meant to be defensive, not adding another angle of attack.

Also, flavor-wise, flying weapon actually makes the weapon itself fly.  Wings makes you fly, but you can still only hold one weapon.

It would make sense that if both players have wings shields that they can hit each other with melee weapons

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General Discussion / Re: elite queen???? (is it pointless)

« on: July 15, 2011, 02:45:47 am »

Maybe this is too obvious but +  makes UG (unstable gas) come to mind.  I don't have any upped queens so i haven't tried it but you could probably use the extra fire quanta for some explosions

Also there is a link to CCYB in willng's post and fractal destroyers means use the fractal card on lava destroyers (upgraded lava golems)

Here is a thread (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,14781.0.html) that has a bunch of commonly used EtG abbreviations