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Crusader Kings has a much simpler approach: 1. Choose a Lubeck. 2. Conquer 5 provinces. 3. Wait for previous King of Germany to die. 4. Marry the closest-to-the-king female member, in France. 6. Have her bear you a child. 7. Assassinate all heirs to the King of France, other than your own. 8. Wait for the King of France to die/Assassinate him. 9. Dominate Europe. Other tips: 1) If your intrigue, after Chancellor Modifer, is less than 30 you are facing war with a vassal. 2) The game is set to trigger revolt events if your vassals fall below 90%, and numerous events cause it to fall by 30% or more. Ergo, revolts a plenty in a large empire. 3) Venice and Genoa...If you control them, and a string of provinces between them...you control the game. They can both field an army of 30,000. 4) Excommunication can't be reversed if you destroy the pope. 5) Piety is a load of rubbish, ignore it unless you want to be Papal Controller. 6) Being Papal Controller is rubbish unless you are a small nation trying to bring down a large nation...then it becomes a magic bullet. 7) Never take more than 3 provinces at a time. 8) Invading Britain is not hard.

There is no in-game reason not to be a republic (other than HRE). Same as in Victoria once pluraity starts going up. The only reason to stay a monarchy is that it is your dynasty on the throne.

Ok, before next week can everyone have Mumble installed and set up? Even if you don't have a microphone it is useful because people can respond quickly. Step 1: Go to http://www.mumble.com/ Step 2: Click on the 'Mumble Client 1.2.3' Step 3: Click on Run or Save and then run the install program Step 4: Click next, agree to the licence, click next, then next again, then install, then finish. Step 5: Run the program, enter details: Step 6: Make sure you are in room 4 If you have done all of that, then congratuations, its setup and you are ready for the session, and you can completely forget about it for the rest of the week. If not, post your problem.

Delays possible.

Yeah, stacks tend to be rather useful no matter where you have them... Middle of your empire? Better than being on the far end of the empire. Far end of the empire? Either close to the unexpected enemy, or reinforcement for when things go horribly wrong.

And so Retech's one weakness is revealed...multitasking.

No homework makes teachers something something. Go crazy? DON'T MIND IF I DO!

*Seven years later* 'No...I think we will have to start without him'

What a ridiculous thing to say. 'Oh yeah, the only way to change the temperature of a wire is to put it in a total vacuum, despite me saying that the temperature increases when electricity goes through it.' You run electricity through it, it heats up by a fractional amount (according to you), you stop running the electricity through it and it stops heating up by that fractional amount, thus meaning that the temperature decreases. (Since the heat is not generated purely on the surface and it is not a perfect conductor the heat does not instanously bleed into the air) If we were dealing with something that was absolutely ideal then maybe you would be right...But in practical terms the imperfections and impurities expand and contract, heat is trapped, radiation, twisting the wire, induction ect ect ect all have a minute effect which builds up to the point where the wire breaks or becomes detached from something else. For example, the soldered connection.

So yeah, wire heats up, wire cools down...ect, ect.

Headphones seem designed to break(Nah, the wire just heats up with extended use...or something, Mather will know)...I recommend Sennheiser Wireless Headphones...they aren't cheap, but they last at least 2 years, at volumes comparable with normal speakers. Not to mention they are wireless, so no more garroting yourself while walking.

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Monster cat killer!

"Strong are you with the Internet...but not that strong. Blackspots are upon you, and soon eternal night must fall. That is the way of things. The way of the Internet." Yoda died...nuff said.

:rolleyes: Inverse Square Law Retech.... The kb/s would be absolutely terrible. I am not even sure you could transfer one bit per second through something that massive. Bit per light second? Light bit per light second?

On a plane? Tell me when you figure out the problem there.

I am only repeating what the French and Italian Experts said. I personally I have no real knowledge of what to do in said situation, just was wondering what other people would do when confronted by the situation...And as per normal it became far more hassle than it was worth.

Yup... They have page after page of details for all the possibly problems. Reading said book takes longer than 18 minutes, ergo, you need to decide which one to follow...Glide, Ditch, Restart, ect, ect. And the protocol for restarting the engines takes longer than 2 minutes to complete.

Mmm, based on a case I was watching on TV. Pilot is confronted by this problem, has about 2 minutes to choose to glide or keep trying to get the engines working. About 5 minutes later he stops trying to get the engine working, and decides to ditch instead(Since there is no way to reach the airport). Struck me as odd that they blamed him for that, since it was the logical progression of events...If you have an engine failure, with no discernable cause, you don't risk everyone's life trying to glide 30 Kilometers (Though the mechanical specs indicate that it would have done the journey, and 2 miles more), without at least trying to restart the engines, going through the checklists and such. Also Mather, for future reference, you should slow down if you are attempting to glide, since the plane loses altitude due to airflow(Or something). Also pointing your plane down causes you to speed up and lose altitude even faster(Partly due to you facing down :thumbsup: ). Only through flying totally level, with the propellers 'feathered', could you reach the airport(With a little give and take, obviously)...and you would have had to make that decision within 2 minutes of the engines failing.

Which manual?

17,000 feet before the dive 16,500 feet after the dive

Fuel pressure indicator is dead. Oil pressure indicator is dead. Both were fed from power from the engines (Cleverly). Ignition fails, as does the slight dive. Closest airport is 30 kilometers away, is Palmero, and its water all the way there. Anyone have different ideas?

Retech is arrested for abandoning a plane load of civilians.

Ok. Your flying a commercial plane. You have plenty of fuel. Your engines stop. What do you do?