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cristos · Post by **cristos** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:11 am

hey, slitherin, please make a few more celt missions, I was dissapointed in the length of the campaign.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:00 am

We had trouble finding the missions we did and making them fit in to the campaign. I'm sure if you've got ideas then they could be modded in to create a new campaign or bolt on to the end of teh existing campaign!

cristos · Post by **cristos** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:32 am

maybe, during a fight with romans, you get captured, and end up a gladiator, then you join spartacus? that gives a whole other set of battles.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:34 am

Yes but that doesn't seem to fit in to the Celtic campaign very well. There are hundreds of minor conflicts we could cover, but we had to pick & choose the major ones. The research is the killer - it takes longer than actually creating the scenarios. Working how to fit it into the existing campaigns is also a challenge. You can only add them to the end otherwise you end up knocking the difficulty level out for all missions after it. Creating whole new mini campaigns might be the way to go.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:20 pm

iainmcneil wrote:Yes but that doesn't seem to fit in to the Celtic campaign very well. There are hundreds of minor conflicts we could cover, but we had to pick & choose the major ones. The research is the killer - it takes longer than actually creating the scenarios. Working how to fit it into the existing campaigns is also a challenge. You can only add them to the end otherwise you end up knocking the difficulty level out for all missions after it. Creating whole new mini campaigns might be the way to go.

Research is a pain in the ass.

magobarca · Post by **magobarca** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:07 pm

Research

Depends. If you have the love and desire for a subject then research can be fun. If you expect 110% accuracy it can be a drag. Owning some of the works of the classical historians and modern historians makes it easier, and a compooter for the web can help. If you get paid for it then it is even more fun and easier.

Being graded on research for school projects can be a drag, but it is good training.

Magobarca

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:34 am

Dang magobarca, you are worse off than I thought lol.

I have a series of questions for you, if you don't mind.

1. Do you learn better in school.

2. Do you learn better on a family trip.

3. Do you learn better on your own terms.

I gave a similiar poll to 30 kids in my school who were seniors at the time,(I was too).

About 80% said option 3, 15% said option 2, and about 5% said option 1.

I understand you saying it's nice to have your research paid for, but if it's being paid for you will usualy have some kind of dead-line.

cristos · Post by **cristos** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:44 am

If you guys were willing to put in the time and effort to make a new campaign, I'm sure that all of us out here would be ecstatic.

Say, have you guys considered making a dark/middle ages game along the same lines as legion arena? that would be pretty sick.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:47 am

I don't have the love to.

I would love to do one on the Punic Wars.

magobarca · Post by **magobarca** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:07 pm

Dang magobarca, you are worse off than I thought lol.

I have a series of questions for you, if you don't mind.

1. Do you learn better in school.

2. Do you learn better on a family trip.

3. Do you learn better on your own terms.

I gave a similiar poll to 30 kids in my school who were seniors at the time,(I was too).

About 80% said option 3, 15% said option 2, and about 5% said option 1.

I understand you saying it's nice to have your research paid for, but if it's being paid for you will usualy have some kind of dead-line.

Yes, but work has deadlines!!! Unavoidable usually. "Hurry up and wait.' events also occur, and are unavoidable in many situations.

To answer the 3 questions: 1) It depends on what the subject is., 2) I don't take family trips I think in the sense that this was asked to high school students, however, we continually learn from all situations that occur in life., 3) Sometimes yes and sometimes no, the latter true because critique and even guidance from those more knowledgeable is sometimes necessary and an added benfit.

Also, I don't quite know what this means: 'Dang magobarca, you are worse off than I thought lol. '
You say you are 19, well at 19 I had one year left of my 3-year active duty military time, and am now 52 and have done a few things in my life, am degreed in Geology although I haven't used it since college, do have some physical problems and have had, so I am a bit lost here cocerning your statement. If you choose to enlighten me as to your meaning that would be interesting to some inconsequential degreee I suppose.

Hmmm, I could use about 1 million denari or sestarres or $ though. Got any spare change??

The Punic Wars are very interesting and I think my favorite ancient period, although Mithradates V of Pontus and his resistance to Rome is a close second, and we all I think like Spartacus. The Illyrian Wars and Phyrrus of Epirus are also basically covered in Legion Gold and Spartan.

Legion Gold entails Carthage in Spain, and could be easily modded for a Punic campaign in Italy, Spartan has the Romans as a playable faction so all one would have to do is add some Greek-macedonian and imatation Legionaire types to the Pontic area of Asia Minor, and I don't think that Pontic Phalangites could be barred from serving alongside of Pontic Imitation Legionaires as seems the case in actual history where the Phalangites were superceded by the Imitation Legionaires but this doesn't matter one way or the other IMHO since it is just a game.

Magobarca, Linguini from Liguria is OK, but not like Grandma Silva used to make all those delicous Italian and Sicillian dishes.

Wonderful person and cook bless her soul. Time for some ravioli.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:14 pm

I was saying that to your comment on schools actually teaching you something.

My philosophy is that you learn better when you study something you actually like.

sum1won · Post by **sum1won** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:20 pm

Actually, I find that like it or not, people do learn more at school. They just arent interested in it, so they dont make a lot of connections unless those connections are spelled out.

magobarca · Post by **magobarca** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:40 pm

I was saying that to your comment on schools actually teaching you something.

My philosophy is that you learn better when you study something you actually like.

To answer the 3 questions: 1) It depends on what the subject is., ...

Most probably correct the majority of times, however, it is still possible to like something and not ever learn a lot about it nor be good with it. I lijke Math, but only go so far with it for various reasons, same with sports in the past, etc. I liked history but never unfortunately pursued that path because of the earlier times in my youth and my reaction to the quite hostile etc. anti-military and anti-veteran anti-Vietnam War and anyone assocaited with it and the military etc. attitiudes of some people that I ran into etc. A mistake perhaps on my part not to pursue history etc.

However, you have dodged this question of what does this 'Dang magobarca, you are worse off than I thought lol. ' mean. You say things that have not any relevance, coherence, or meaning at times, and are playing a little game, not good to do.

Chris

honvedseg · Post by **honvedseg** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:53 pm

Actually, I learned quite a bit in school, it just didn't have anything to do with the topics we were studying at the time...

Other than a bunch of dry and boring names, dates, and places, history classes in school taught me pretty close to nothing, and suppressed my interest in the subject for years. They never seemed to want to talk about "why?" or "how?", which ultimately are what make history relevant to current events.

magobarca · Post by **magobarca** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:08 pm

Actually, I learned quite a bit in school, it just didn't have anything to do with the topics we were studying at the time...

Other than a bunch of dry and boring names, dates, and places, history classes in school taught me pretty close to nothing, and suppressed my interest in the subject for years. They never seemed to want to talk about "why?" or "how?", which ultimately are what make history relevant to current events.

I found that more to be true of grade school to high school, and in high school you started getting more of the 'why and how'. College had much more 'why and how', but it was still somewhat wierd and there was a concentration problem for me at the time as I had just gotten out of the military when taking the required Liberal Arts classes, but even latter in the early 1980s there were still wierdness and problems of many sorts etc. Also depends on the teacher and curriculum, if he/she makes the subject interesting and has an interesting curriculum, and if he/she is not harmfully biased toward you. There are always the mundane things to learn and tasks to do though, that is unavoidable with any subject. A lot of BS does indeed exist.

Chris

ste · Post by **ste** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:36 am

Personally I have learned more this year, than I have in the last 2 years of my degree, but I think its a personal thing. Alot of people have motivational problems when they aren't being stared at by a lecturer perhaps?

magobarca · Post by **magobarca** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:15 am

Hi Ste,

What are you majoring in, computer programming or engineering maybe?? Good fields. Mine was Geology but I never finsihed my Master's Degree.

Best, Magobarca (-barcid, to be correct, barca is actually a nickname, thunderbolt)

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