General Discussion used to be great. Well, it was awesome but it was still pretty great when I left many a year ago.

Seems like its on a ventilator in 2020 (to be topical).

Weird it is has started rising again so quickly. I had a dream about world 2.1 last week (no lie), woke up and said to my wife "I'm going to start playing CC again." I hadn't thought about the game for years.

As I said, very weird.

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...in an enormous creative outpouring.

I created three kinds of videos:

1. Talking Heads
2. Open Minds
3. Three Words

After making 54 videos in under three months I think it is about time my old friends on CC (are they still here?) had the chance to see what I am up to these days.

Feel free ...

Militarily though (and still economically, since much of China's economy is wrapped up with the US's), the US is by and far ahead of pretty much everyone else. Spending alone is far and away the most of any nation on the planet. Naval wise, there are about 20 aircraft carriers in active duty right ...

Currently on a little tour of 'insanely booming' chinese cities.

A couple of points:

1. Changsha has gone from a sleepy 'town' (had the feel back in the day) that the arriving american would look around and compliment in a vaguely patronising way "Aren't they doing well " to a kind of frightening ...

As China has gradually blocked all forms of western news from my life (which i thank my communist overlords for most surely) I have come to rely on off-topics to provide me with the news that matters. I might well be the only person in CC's history who actually uses this forum as a news service ...

What about the environmental impacts? I know China is resourcefully rich, but this has to be taking a toll environmentally, not just on say forests and jungles, but also on rivers, lakes, and air.

Without question..as an example consider that I now live in a clean(ish) northern coastal city after ...

Currently on a little tour of 'insanely booming' chinese cities.

A couple of points:

1. Changsha has gone from a sleepy 'town' (had the feel back in the day) that the arriving american would look around and compliment in a vaguely patronising way "Aren't they doing well " to a kind of frightening ...

You guys got me.

I have never come home in a taxi pretending to turn right at an intersection to speed through a red without the automated cameras catching them. I've never been to a bar with a Chinese friend who bought a bottle that we couldn't finish and so left it on hold to be drunk at our ...

You can't even cop out coherently. Fail.

Indeed...I may be drunk right now (and rarely contribute to off-topics threads) but I am far from convinced by shickingbrit's analysis of the whole situation.

China is no simple topic. It has layers, deep layers that are simply not reflected in his ...

Look, I don't know what you think this is, but it isn't that.

China will not of itself become democratic for a very long time to come. Its not in its own interests and since the people are quite content, they don't feel its in their interests. They have been brought up in a different world from ...

Look, I don't know what you think this is, but it isn't that.

China will not of itself become democratic for a very long time to come. Its not in its own interests and since the people are quite content, they don't feel its in their interests. They have been brought up in a different world from ...

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YES! AIN'T DONE YET BABY!!


I can confidently predict that the 'great decline' is over.

Long live theWHAM!

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looks like another slide is trending. i predict 9500 by next friday.

Pessimist.

Just because a few players have figuratively popped out to buy a pint of milk is no ...

Gillipig wrote:9748

YES! AIN'T DONE YET BABY!!

I can confidently predict that the 'great decline' is over.

Long live theWHAM!

Still 9802...

somehow Changsha has been right so far...we hit 9804 and then bounced back up to 9815 right now. Never dipped below 9800, despite getting close.

Somehow?

Listen, when I pull a number of out this here sexy ass you should learn to respect that number, and the very succulent rear it came from.

No ...

I was a premium member before but decided not to renew. Though I have been asked why, I did not wish to reveal the true reasons. Now I could very well be the next to exit CC. Here is the last straw, I am sick of being defeated by the CC broken dice.

How can any reasonable person still believe ...

I like Donald Fung's point which was basically that the standard game of Risk is a great thing, CC innovated with team games and that, therefore, CC should concentrate on team games as that is what makes CC excellent.

However I would say that CC's policy has been to do exactly what Donald Fung said ...

CC is going downhill because it picked the wrong business model. Rather than working on appearing welcoming to new players, CC decided to cater to veteran players, many who seemingly have no friends in RL and decides to spend their time excelling at some of the game's most obsolete settings. CC's ...

This may or may not be relevant: Risk is on its way to consoles (Polygon Article).

Ubisoft today announced that it is bringing the global military strategy sim, first launched as a board game in the U.S. back in 1959, to Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. It will be released in ...

9981..I predict we are fairly close to the bottom (into august etc).

It won't drop below 9800 (he says confidently)

I have had this game 14682915 waiting for about 5 days now. Its a good map (actually I think an excellent one) the settings are fair and the team's rank really quite high. You would think there would be someone out there willing to play.

Often I am the guy joining casual games, it is interesting to ...

I do see some connection between those getting 5 stars and membership of MM!

Quite right LA...

Back in the day (heh heh) the suspicion was that the freestyle double turn allowed the most grevious kinds of farming (on speed dubs, 1 vs 1 etc) and was abolished for that reason.

Interestingly, back then a player like demonfork was able to post + 6000 scores (as was herpes, rabbiton) from ...

Team size needs to be smaller and as the playerbase continues to dwindle maybe even the least played game mode or reinforcement type should be cut to consolidate players into other games. As a player of mostly no cards and flat rate sequential the wait for games to fill can be absolutely ...