It's that roman_mir guy isn't it? Trying to destabilise the Fed from his secret Swiss base.

Try Terry Goodkind! It's all those forms of rape, plus added mysogyny, abuse and Objectivism!

A huge recommendation for Stephen Erikson from me as well, but unless you like Objectivism, fifty-page monologues about Objectivism, mysogyny, rape and noble goats then avoid Goodkind - it's a horribly badly-written rip-off of the Wheel of Time crossed with Atlas Shrugged, with gratuitously lavish scenes of sexual abuse.

This would be GRRM who didn't write a book in over five years, then admitted he'd screwed up the plotting and had been trying to rescue the story?

I like all the books; the pace is different during that period, but that's what you get when you're writing such a huge, sprawling epic.

Don't overestimate how many companies care about 0.001% of the market though.

Thanks, I'd not seen that option last time I checked the preferences :)

As someone from the UK I've come to the conclusion a Paul presidency would be a win for me - I agree with a lot of his foreign policy ideas, and FP is where the president has the most influence. I think most of his domestic ideas are, well, naive and simplistic is a polite way of putting it, but he'd be less effective getting them implemented, and they'd affect the rest of the world far less.

If you do get it, Civ Fanatics is where all the mods and modding community is.

Much further. Civs, units, technologies and wonders can be changed via editing their respective XML files, there's an in-game world editor which can adjust terrain, cities, civs and units and import and export maps, Python can be used to customise the interface, write map generating scripts and script events in-game, and there's an SDK which allows you to modify almost everything else - the first big thing I saw it used for was a mod called Better AI which tweaked most of the AI's behaviour based on the strategies players used, made opponents much tougher, especially in the early game.

There are a whole bunch of different games based on CIV written with these tools, one I played was Fall From Heaven, and this was years ago, not sure what's happened in the mean time :)