[Boron]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
The Ugly:
Certain individuals will whine loudly and complain about how boring this is. These are, incidentally, the same people likely to complain that the game is taking too long, or complain that their turns in a large-map game are now too much work because it takes them 2 hours to complete. This is because they have the attention spans of 6-year old hyperactive children and can't be bothered to concentrate on any task that takes longer than 30 seconds to complete. I place the blame firmly on the fact that they were not beaten frequently enough as small children and did not suffer sufficient hardship and deprivation while growing up. They are thus spoiled and weak, and complain that it is boring if an opponent does not simply roll over and die without resistance.

It should also be noted that the complainers tend to also be the same handful of people. I chalk this up to sour grapes because I always squash them in my preferred slow, deliberate, ponderous, and inexhorable style, which tends to be devoid of any dramatic attacks that tend to rampage unchecked for a bit, then finally fail as the entire mass is caught and annihilated by the defending force, preferring instead to advance gradually, consolidate holdings, and attack only with overwhelming force, or expendable probing attacks.

i too think that children should never be beaten .
But the child beating proposal from norfleet ihmo was only a joke .
it may be distasteful and i don't know norfleet so perhaps i am wrong and he means it really serious. but he has the right of freedom of expression like everybody else here .
the whole discussion about this is really OT .

but in norfleets words lies wisdom :
the guys who always complain when the game Lasts longer and the turns Last longer really have a problem which norfleet called a bit exagerating hyperactive.
they find it useful to blame something else and just never waste a thought that they only lost because they made faults.
but no it is because the enemy uses a unbalanced thing like castling .
i have dom 2 only since 2 weeks and played only patch 2.12 but i can't see why :
-a sphinx may not teleport anymore
-ermor may not use again a vq

the nerfing down of the vq in general was neccessary to make the lichs a bit more attractive i think but it was nerfed down to much a bit ihmo . at least why ermor may not use the more expensive vq at all i don't understand .

so when people continue whining about castling perhaps in the next patch in the same turn in which an army wins a battle in a province with a castle the sieging and defending values are compared immediately and if successful the castle is stormed even in the same turn or each castle costs points even the watchtower or any bad thing like this