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October 29th, 2012, 14:23 (This post was last modified: October 29th, 2012, 14:29 by KingOfPain.)
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Best wishes for our East Coasters! My thoughts are with you.

Live web cams of Areas Affected by Hurricane Sandy, including a live stream of storm chasers on the New Jersey coast.

And HD cam at Time Square. Good to see people are still out and above
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/

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October 29th, 2012, 14:31
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This is two years in a row a hurricane has hit my hometown pretty badly...while I skirted the edge of it at college.
Merovech's Mapmaking Guidelines:
0. Player Requests: The player's requests take precedence, even if they contradict the following guidelines.

1. Balance: The map must be balanced, both in regards to land quality and availability and in regards to special civilization features. A map may be wonderfully unique and surprising, but, if it is unbalanced, the game will suffer and the player's enjoyment will not be as high as it could be.

2. Identity and Enjoyment: The map should be interesting to play at all levels, from city placement and management to the border-created interactions between civilizations, and should include varied terrain. Flavor should enhance the inherent pleasure resulting from the underlying tile arrangements. The map should not be exceedingly lush, but it is better to err on the lush side than on the poor side when placing terrain.

3. Feel (Avoiding Gimmicks): The map should not be overwhelmed or dominated by the mapmaker's flavor. Embellishment of the map through the use of special improvements, barbarian units, and abnormal terrain can enhance the identity and enjoyment of the map, but should take a backseat to the more normal aspects of the map. The game should usually not revolve around the flavor, but merely be accented by it.

4. Realism: Where possible, the terrain of the map should be realistic. Jungles on desert tiles, or even next to desert tiles, should therefore have a very specific reason for existing. Rivers should run downhill or across level ground into bodies of water. Irrigated terrain should have a higher grassland to plains ratio than dry terrain. Mountain chains should cast rain shadows. Islands, mountains, and peninsulas should follow logical plate tectonics.
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October 29th, 2012, 15:49
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What is a little funny is the mess Sandy is making of people's online gaming. The Steam chart of online users is jumping up and down like crazy! lol
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October 29th, 2012, 22:39
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Keep safe, everyone. My best wishes for you.
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October 30th, 2012, 01:00
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Amen.
Erebus in the Balance - a FFH Modmod based around balancing and polishing FFH for streamlined competitive play.

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October 30th, 2012, 11:06
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Thanks KoP.

What remains of eye of the storm passed just south of me last night - lost of wind, but no damage here. Unfortunately, my cousin had a tree come into their living room - but everyone ok. Now I guess we wait and see how bad the resultant flooding is going to be.
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