Isn’t this functionality already built into the default web UI?

Link to the original blog post by the developer: https://medium.com/@julianmckinlay/total-war-rome-ii-and-creative-assembly-my-statement-ten-years-on-d964f65b0a8f

There should be options for hard difficulty that are due to the AI being better, not just getting massive buffs.

Some of the examples given were about the AI not even knowing about certain game mechanics!

Direct link to patch notes; https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-notes-1-1-5f1.1687527/

Or this one if the above doesn’t work? https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2.1147/

I was more thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps

More than 1 million cubic kilometres of lava. Enough gasses to cause a mass extinction event.

Ugh, life took ages to get started. Lazy bacteria!

It’s still a hell of a long time if you consider that the entirety of recorded (ish) history is only a few thousand years long.

Updated comment to remove an order of magnitude.

It’s not X turning into Y when it comes to evolution. There were all kinds of different dinosaurs, that evolved I to all kinds of different niches. Most of those then went extinct due to rocks falling from the sky, or the entirety of India turning into a huge volcano etc.

So it’s not that a T-Rex turned into a chicken, it’s that T-Rexs lived alongside other dinosaurs that developed feathers and filled more niches etc. those that survived eventually became birds. (Have you ever seen an Emu up close?!? No wonder the Australians lost to them 🤣)

Disclaimer: I have no specific knowledge. Also, remember this happened over (billions? hundreds of millions) of years.

Other comments about just not noticing feathers are valid too.

Wow, this is a long read. Well worth it for anyone who got caught in Rome TW2’s hype and subsequent disappointment.

Would be good to see what other games he later worked on. Will try to remember to look him up on linkedin when I have time

It’s probably a single dev that made the decision, then moves onto something else. They (probably?) don’t have the ability to just raise a recurring PO etc to easily pay you and don’t care enough to worth through the paperwork.

If you had a paid licencing model they may have done it, or just found another lib/ wrote their own.

What is their monetisation plan? Currently they don’t seem to have anything other than donations?

I just hope (foolishly) that with the current hype that it’s AI will be a focus. I hate that because it cheats things that would work on me don’t work on the AI etc.

It would be really cool if they made an API for the game so people could build their own AI

yeh, thats what I mean, who knows what the state of the market will be in 25 years, unless its an insurance backed guarantee, be very suspicious of it.

Or that they were expecting to be out of business by then…

It’s refering to a defunct games company: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bullfrog_Productions_games

Nvidia IS making a profit on it though. It’s the whole “in a good rush, sell shovels” thing.

the tournaments one is very well reviewed. The Norse one is worth it if you want to play the Nordics.

Royal Court is mostly only good if you want to make the game easier (you get lots more equitable artifacts etc). It sounds like they are improving this to make the actual court bit more interesting.

The event pack/friend and Foes are normally considered not great, possibly even negative, but it sounds like they are updating them to fix the event frequency.

unsure on the rest.

AMD uses chiplets in their CPUs, you can see it in the picture - they have a CPU bit, a GPU bit and an AI bit.

Much like you can buy SKUs with or without graphics you will be able to buy models with or without AI.

Oh it WILL cause security issues. It’s just a tradeoff against if they are worth the benefits.

Do you have integration with other health and fitness apps to retrieve non phone step counts?

I have a Garmin watch that does all my health tracking etc.

Have you seen how slow their site is normally? Just request loads of obscure random pages and it will just eat their IO.

Throw some standard ddos on top to obscure things and your good? (Bad)

Edit: I know nothing about their storage, so I may be wrong. It just feels like they are held together with spit and prayers at the best of times.