The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Erik Setzer]

Don't ever mention that name again, it annoys me...

Someone got the reference

Warlord Zsinj? I want to say the planet's name started with an A, it's where Lara claimed to be from, and he made the comment to his second-in-command.

Hey, it's been a little while since I read the Wraith Squadron books, I had to buy replacements a few weeks ago, I can't remember *every* detail. :-P

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I also don't think I expanded the housing quick enough for new families, so I think if that doesn't do it I'm going to end up with a dip in population.

Well, on the bright side, if they start dying out due to cold and starvation, you no longer have a housing problem.

[Psychosplodge]

That's it exactly! I suppose on a wargaming forum people would.

that depends on which ones die.

[Erik Setzer]

I'm a big Star Wars fan and the X-Wing novels were my favorites, especially as they didn't involve Jedi doing insane Jedi stuff, Superweapon-of-the-Week, or anything like that.

Also, Zsinj was a very amusing bad guy, and those books introduced the world to Lieutenant Kettch.

R.I.P., Aaron Allston...

[Psychosplodge]

Did I miss that, has it been mentioned on here? or have I just forgot it?

When did that happen? I suppose that means the wraiths are now completely gone.

[Erik Setzer]

Not sure where I saw it mentioned, might have just been looking up his list of books one day, but Allston passed away in February last year. He was only 54, too. That's five years more than Douglas Adams, but still, way too early. And I think Wraith Squadron got shoved into "Legends" status along with the rest of the EU. Ah well.

I'm still not sure where SWTOR falls on that spectrum. It should theoretically be Legends, especially as it refers (in often error-filled ways) to other EU stuff, but it's still running and having story added to it. People think Warhammer: Total War is going to be odd coming out after the world's been destroyed, but it's sort of a "historical" game in the setting and works that way, whereas with SWTOR theoretically the story you're playing never existed.

[Psychosplodge]

Oh of course they went legends, but some legends stuff is still being written isn't it? or is it stuff that was commissioned but unreleased when things changed? But I meant wraith squadron was pretty much his baby, so if he's gone have they gone from legends to thats all foks?

[Erik Setzer]

Yeah, they've probably had all the stories they'll get now. I'm hoping X-Wing sees some rules made for them, at least some of the pilots like Face.

[Psychosplodge]

And Kettch of course

[Psychosplodge]

So I persevered with New Oldtown and it's looking very likely that I'm about to have a population crash through my earlier lack of housing expansion, as the houses I am building now get occupied by people past breeding age. Acquiring stone seems to be my biggest problem. Suffered my first deaths (two old age I assume, and one quarry accident). Then getting the builders to actually build...

[Erik Setzer]

Went to GOG.com just before going to bed last night, saw Banished still at $5, purchased and downloaded it. That sounds like too much fun to skip on, and having put ~120 hours into Civ V in the last month or so is making it a little too "samey" (I had to start challenging myself to win without fighting anyone except Barbarians... and then accomplished that). I'll try to get some time in on it over the weekend, and it might suck me in from what I'm reading here. Only problem there is I'm trying to actually get a complete play-through of New Vegas done for once (seven hours in and I'm still not actually to New Vegas yet, because sidetracking is FUN!), and I'd also like to get through Fallout 3 (didn't realize how much there was to that game, I must not have gotten far) before Fallout 4 comes out. DA:I, the Witcher series, and Skyrim will have to wait until I find more time that isn't being taken up by people wanting to chat all night on Skype...