December 23rd, 2012, 17:44
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(December 23rd, 2012, 17:30)novice Wrote: (December 23rd, 2012, 17:12)Dantski Wrote: Am I the only one who gets frustrated with people using numbers to indicate directions instead of using the directions themselves? I very quickly disabled seeing numbers in Civ 4 after starting it and don't understand why you'd keep them.
Agreed, I have to go looking for a numpad every time someone uses numbers. Very inconvenient.
Shouldn't there be one on your keyboard? 
Since we are at it, whoever thought that making the numpads on keyboards and phone differently was a good idea needs to get <insert nasty way to die here >! I know theses things just have their history, still very annoying.
mh
December 23rd, 2012, 17:48
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A lot of laptops don't have numpads.
December 23rd, 2012, 17:55
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(December 23rd, 2012, 17:48)NobleHelium Wrote: A lot of laptops don't have numpads.
I know, but don't most of them have those numpad keys printed on the 789UIOJKL keys as a second function?
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mh
December 23rd, 2012, 18:04
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My iPad has no numpad, and as you say, numpads vary from phones to keyboards anyway so who knows what is even meant with the numbers.
I have to run.
December 23rd, 2012, 19:07
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I also prefer cardinal directions. I have a much clearer mental image of what a compass looks like than what a numpad looks like. But others are constantly mixing up the cardinal directions. So I guess if given the choice between accurate numpad directions and inaccurate cardinal directions, I (narrowly) prefer the former. 
If you know what I mean.
December 24th, 2012, 03:02
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(December 23rd, 2012, 17:55)mostly_harmless Wrote: (December 23rd, 2012, 17:48)NobleHelium Wrote: A lot of laptops don't have numpads.
I know, but don't most of them have those numpad keys printed on the 789UIOJKL keys as a second function?
mh
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December 24th, 2012, 03:26
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I think I'm going to use
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Or we can use Nethack-style movement keys 
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December 24th, 2012, 03:59
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Can't we all just agree to use left, right, up and down? Of course Noble would have to change his avatar to some shoes with L & R written on them... 
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December 25th, 2012, 14:21
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This turn will probably take about 90 hours. 
December 26th, 2012, 16:11
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What's even worse is the fact that the German team hasn't even logged into the game yet some 72 hours after the turn first started. Yes, I know that they were locked out for half of that time because of the way this mod works, but the point still remains. We are definitely running the full 96 hours for this turn. Sigh.
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