Mister Polifax said:The trolls strike again.
I don't know, Brandis seems quite legit.
Where are you gettin' this trolling stuff?
Mister Polifax said:The trolls strike again.
Synelor said:Mister Polifax said:The trolls strike again.
I don't know, Brandis seems quite legit.
Where are you gettin' this trolling stuff?
robindelang2 said:Synelor said:Mister Polifax said:The trolls strike again.
I don't know, Brandis seems quite legit.
Where are you gettin' this trolling stuff?
Brandis said:well... yes
he did answer right anywaySynelor said:Brandis said:well... yes
I'm sorry dear sir, but this was directed to robindelang2, not you.
SOD Faiths are like but not related to real life faiths.Mister Polifax said:Only if I can join them, I am a christian and would be offended if my religion was made out to be evil.
Faith depends on what type of Faith troop you will have.Wump said:I think a faith based crusade would be cool. You could utalize the faith units. Perhaps even have it be a random faith wach game with slightly different troop trees?
This is one of the key reasons fictional religions are the only ones used. If you want to think of any of the religions as your own on your own game, feel free. You can also dress only in pancho's and dance the polka continuously while playing the mod in your own home, on your own system. For the purpose of developing a mod that is fun to play for a large number of incredibly different people, religion is acknowledged as a force in game, but specifics are never offered.Mister Polifax said:Only if I can join them, I am a christian and would be offended if my religion was made out to be evil.
MorrisB,MorrisB said:Seriously Daedelus, I believe you continuously overreact the issue.
If I happen to face such a problem, I seek more fair gamers to play with, not a different mod.
No s...tuff, there I was outside Suliaymaniyah (spelling optional, invent your own, it genuinely doesn't matter, the locals call is Suli to avoid confusion), Iraq and I was getting schooled on why the Safavids were just a disaster for the peopleS(! ethnic Persians are almost a minority in Persia). A quick check of wikipedia will indicate that there hasn't been a Safavid in power in over 260 years, but man they keep that stuff fresh in their agonies in the Middle East. Then they started going off on the inaccuracies in the historical soldier's yarn, 300 that just came out on film. I deeply respect the Kurdish revolutionary who was working to save decent people in the Islamic Republic Iran and overthrow that atrociously corrupt regime. I really don't want to get schooled by him again, so I'm trying to keep religion out of this mod. Like a bad penny, sooner or later I'm going to turn up in Kurdistan again someday and I hate getting out-intellectualed by people I respect on stuff that doesn't matter.MorrisB said:I have relatives in Israel who I visit occasionally so I know a thing or two about fanatics as well. Heck, once I beheld the explosion of a bakery in live action. However, I am fairly sure that the terrorist who blew up the bakery, along with himself, had other reasons for his deed than getting his ass handed to him in an online multiplayer match.
No matter how you look at it, it's an entirely fictional medieval-themed video game we're talking about. If we made a game where you shoot arabs/israelis, your worry would be actually relevant. But as things are now, the biggest threat we're ever going to face is the potential of some multiplayer trolls, a few of which are always around to begin with. People who don't tolerate others for ethnic/religious purposes are, in most cases, raised to be intolerant in the first place; a game does not influence this in any significant way for either better or worse. At best, it merely provides opportunities to manage/roleplay things in accordance to one's fantasies and/or views, in the context of the game, and that, all things considered, is a fairly innocent activity.
I respect your view and understand the points you make, but chill out.
On a secondary note, we are quite derailing this topic (not that it's a constructive and useful topic in the first place, but still). I say we should settle this debate at this point. Leave worrying over in-game religion representation to me, and feel free to criticise after we actually implement quests and NPCs in connection with SOD religions (which is still a long way to go).