2009-Apr-16 - player
Player 1-8: This is for switching between the different player's units that you are placing. If you have a unitwow or selected when you switch to another player, that unit will change ownership.
Map Properties: This brings up a dialog box that allows you to change the map terrain type and add a brief description.
Player Properties: The Player Properties screen allows you to set the race, default controller (human or computer) and A.I. scheme used for each player. The A.I. scheme does not affect human-controlled units. The different schemes that are available are:
- Land Attack: The computer will concentrate on building up a sizeable army of ground troops. While it will wow gold kaufennot build any transports or other ships, it will use any that it starts with.
- Air Attack: The computer will build a minimal ground defense, and concentrate on air units and air defences, such as guard Towers and archers/axe throwers. This scheme requires a lot of resources to be effective.
- Sea Attack: The computer will focus on building up a large and varied navy, with only a minimal number of ground troops for defending its town. This scheme also requires a large amount of resources to be effective.
Starting Conditions: This allows you to changewow gold the starting resources for each player. You should generally start each player out with enough Gold and Lumber to build a town hall.
Unit Properties: Using the Unit Properties screen, you can change the combat variables for each of the units in the game. Any changes affect all players. Note that if you change the default values, you should uncheck the "Use Default Data" box. The adjustable ratings are:
- Visible Range: This is how far the unit can see.
- Hit Points: This is how much damage the unit can take before dying.
- Magic Points: This toggle is not currently enabled.
- Build Time: This is how long it takes to build this particular unit.
- Gold Cost: The amount of Gold required to build this unit.
- Lumber Cost: The amount of Lumber required to build this unit.
- Oil Cost: The amount of Oil required to build this unit. In land based scenarios, you can set a unit's Oil cost higher to restrict the number that can be built.
- Attack Range: This is the distance that the unit can reach with its attacks. Note that a unit that normally can only attack in hand-to-hand combat can be given a higher range. wow goldThis effectively gives that unit an "invisible" attack.
- Armor: This is how much damage the unit's armor absorbs with each attack.
- Basic Damage: This is the maximum amount of damage that the unit deals with each attack.
- Piercing Damage: This is how much damage the unit always does with each attack, regardless of the opponent's armor.
For more detailed information on the combat statistics, take a look at The Combat Equation.
Upgrade Properties: This allows you to change the cost of upgrading each side.
Help
The map editor has extensive help files which provide more detail on each of the individual unit properties and settings.
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2009-Mar-10 - likes to pray, starting from Darnassus
Frosted crown from the Eye of the Storm, in fact, This is quite a huge project. Have always felt that when wow goldwe are determined to burn his arms came to this server, I just transferred to admit when I do not enjoy Eye of the wow goldStorm. Full channel, iron full of people, all people could hang overwhelmed. But this is a busy server, there is a lot of warm friends. Quiet friends, we have just transferred at a time when, you give wow goldus help, let us at the server has a new home, a now nearly 400 people of the Society. Give you my biggest impression is that ... ah ... a lot of Simon, and all the good real ah demon.
Nothing to do wow goldwhen my back likes to pray, starting from Darnassus, go. Is a suitable sad place, but also a very romantic place. Maple Leaf movie Down to the time, the whole world is very quiet. World of Warcraft is a very good harmony, wow goldand apart from a copy of the battlefield. Have a very beautiful scenery ~()/~ feathers fortress on the moon or so big so bright, why grassland always feel that it can not compare thunderbolt cliff.
In fact, Eastern Star Real plague the night is pretty good here that have helped me once pastor - Ayres • Ha wow goldgrammar. Since a long time, she has been standing lonely in front of the cave for the failure of the public rescuedregrettable. Remember to do overnight to get their eyes epic mission, I remember first seeing Ha Ayres • wow gold grammar, how beautiful fairy Sisters. That moment on the unsung tell their own heart, much remains to be angels, fairies Sisters to do to protect each and every teammat.
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2008-Dec-3 - five colours in her hair
She's got a lip ring and five colours in her hair
Not into fashion but I love the clothes she wears
Her tatoos alwassy hidden by her underwear
But she don't care
Everybody wants to know her name
I threw a houseparty and she came
Everyone asks me
Who the hell is she?
That weirdo with 5 colours in her hair
She's just a loner with a sexy attitude
And I'd like to phone her cos she puts me in the mood
The rumours spreding round that she co oks in the nude
Cos she don't care
Cos she don't care
Everybody wants to know her name
How does she cope with her new found fame?
Everyone asks me
Who the hell is she?
That weirdo with 5 colours in her hair
She was all i thought about
The girl i cou;dn't live without
But then she went insane
She couldn't take the fame
She said i was to blame
She'd had enough
And shaved five colours off
And now...
she's just a weirdo with no name
Everybody wants to know her name
How does she cope with her new found fame?
Everyone asks me
Who the hell is she?
That weirdo with 5 colours in her hair
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2008-Dec-3 - Anecdote manner
They at length exhorted him in making a devout genuflexion, to forget his ancient food, for the purpose of repeating without ceasing, Amen, Amen. The priest, instead of Ite missa est, sung three times, Hihan, hihan, hihan! and the people three times answered. Hihan, hihan, hihan! to imitate the braying of that grave animal."
What shall we think of this imbecile mixture of superstition and farce? This ass was perhaps typical of the ass which Jesus rode! The children of Israel worshipped a golden ass, and Balaam made another speak. How unfortunate then was James Naylor, who desirous of entering Bristol on an ass, Hume informs us??it is indeed but a piece of cold pleasantry??that all Bristol could not afford him one!
At the time when all these follies were practised, they would not suffer men to play at chess! Velly says, "A statute of Eudes de Sully prohibits clergymen not only from playing at chess, but even from having a chess-board in their house." Who could believe, that while half the ceremonies of religion consisted in the grossest buffoonery, a prince preferred death rather than cure himself by a remedy which offended his chastity. Louis VIII. being dangerously ill, the physicians consulted, and agreed to place near the monarch while he slept a young and beautiful lady, who, when he awoke, should inform him of the motive which had conducted her to him. Louis answered, "No, my girl, I prefer dying rather than to save my life by a mortal sin!" And, in fact, the good king died! He would not be prescribed for, out of the whole Pharmacop?ia of Love!
An account of our taste in female beauty is given by Mr. Ellis, who observes, in his notes to Wray's Fabliaux, "In the times of chivalry the minstrels deal with great complacency on the fair hair and delicate complexion of their damsels. This taste was continued for a long time, and to render the hair light was a great object of education. Even when wigs first came into fashion they were all flaxen. Such was the colour of the Gauls and of their German conquerors. It required some centuries to reconcile their eyes to the swarthy beauties of their Spanish and their Italian neighbours."
The following is an amusing anecdote of the difficulty in which an honest Vicar of Bray found himself in those contentious times.
When the court of Rome, under the pontificates of Gregory IX. and Innocent IV., set no bounds to their ambitious projects, they were opposed by the Emperor Frederick, who was of course anathematised. A curate of Paris, a humorous fellow, got up in his pulpit with the bull of Innocent in his hand. "You know, my brethren (said he) that I am ordered to proclaim an excommunication against Frederick. I am ignorant of the motive. All that I know is, that there exist between this Prince and the Roman Pontiff great differences, and an irreconcileable hatred. God only knows which of the two is wrong. Therefore with all my power I excommunicate him who injures the other; and I absolve him who suffers, to the great scandal of all Christianity."
The following anecdotes relate to a period which is sufficiently remote to excite curiosity, yet not so distant as to weaken the interest we feel in those minuti? of the times.
The present one may serve as a curious specimen of the despotism and simplicity of an age not literary, in discovering the author of a libel. It took place in the reign of Henry VIII. A great jealousy subsisted between the Londoners and those foreigners who traded here. The foreigners probably (observes Mr. Lodge, in his Illustrations of English History) worked cheaper and were more industrious.
There was a libel affixed on St. Paul's door, which reflected on Henry VIII. and these foreigners, who were accused of buying up the wool with the king's money to the undoing of Englishmen. This tended to inflame the minds of the people. The method adopted to discover the writer of the libel must excite a smile in the present day, while it shows the state in which knowledge must have been in this country. The plan adopted was this: In every ward one of the king's council, with an alderman of the same, was commanded to see every man write that could, and further took every man's book and sealed them, and brought them to Guildhall to confront them with the original. So that if of this number many wrote alike, the judges must have been much puzzled to fix on the criminal.
Our hours of refection are singularly changed in little more than two centuries. In the reign of Francis I. (observes the author of R?¦cr?¦ations Historiques) they were accustomed to say,
Lever ?¤ cinq, d?ner ?¤ neuf,
Souper ?¤ cinq, coucher ?¤ neuf,
Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.Historians observe of Louis XII. that one of the causes which contributed to hasten his death was the entire change of his regimen. The good king, by the persuasion of his wife, says the history of Bayard, changed his manner of living: when he was accustomed to dine at eight o'clock, he agreed to dine at twelve; and when he was used to retire at six o'clock in the evening, he frequently sat up as late as midnight.
Houssaie gives the following authentic notice drawn from the registers of the court, which presents a curious account of domestic life in the fifteenth century. Of the dauphin Louis, son of Charles VI., who died at the age of twenty, we are told, "that he knew the Latin and French languages; that he had many musicians in his chapel; passed the night in vigils; dined at three in the afternoon, supped at midnight, went to bed at the break of day, and thus was ascerten?¦; (that is, threatened) with a short life." Froissart mentions waiting upon the Duke of Lancaster at five o'clock in the afternoon, when he had supped.
The custom of dining at nine in the morning relaxed greatly under Francis I., his successor. However, persons of quality dined then the latest at ten; and supper was at five or six in the evening. We may observe this in the preface to the Heptaemeron of the Queen of Navarre, where this princess delineating the mode of life which the lords and ladies (whom she assembles at the castle of Madame Oysille, one of her characters) should follow to be agreeably occupied, and to banish languor, thus expresses herself: "As soon as the morning rose, they went to the chamber of Madame Oysille, whom they found already at her prayers; and when they had heard during a good hour her lecture, and then the mass, they went to dine at ten o'clock; and afterwards each retired to his room to do what was wanted, and did not fail at noon to meet in the meadow." Speaking of the end of this first day (which was in September) the same lady Oysille says, "Say where is the sun; and hear the bell of the Abbey, which has for some time called us to vespers; and in saying this they all rose and went to the religionists, who had waited for them above an hour. Vespers heard, they went to supper, and after having played a thousand sports in the meadow, they retired to bed." All this exactly corresponds with the lines above quoted. Charles V. of France, however, who lived near two centuries before Francis, dined at ten, supped at seven, and all the court was in bed by nine o'clock. They sounded the curfew, which bell warned them to cover their fire, at six in the winter, and between eight and nine in the summer. A custom which exists in most religious societies: who did not then distinguish themselves from the ordinary practice. (This was written in 1767.) Under the reign of Henry IV. the hour of dinner at court was eleven, or at noon the latest; a custom which prevailed even in the early part of the reign of Louis XIV. In the provinces distant from Paris, it is very common to dine at nine; they make a second repast about two o'clock, and sup at five; and their last meal is made just before they retire to bed. The labourers and peasants in France have preserved this custom, and make three meals; one at nine, another at three, and the last at the sitting of the sun.
The Marquis of Mirabeau, in "L'Ami des Hommes," Vol. I. p. 261, gives a striking representation of the singular industry of the French citizens of that age. He had learnt from several ancient citizens of Paris, that if in their youth a workman did not work two hours by candle-light, either in the morning or evening (he even adds in the longest days), he would have been noted as an idler, and would not have found persons to employ him. Mirabeau adds, that it was the 12th of May, 1588, when Henry III. ordered his troops to occupy various posts at Paris. Davila writes, that the inhabitants, warned by the noise of the drums, began to shut their doors and shops, which, according to the custom of that town to work before daybreak, were already opened. This must have been, taking it at the latest, about four in the morning. "In 1750," adds the ingenious writer, "I walked on that day through Paris at full six in the morning; I passed through the most busy and populous part of the city, and I only saw open some stalls of the venders of brandy!"
To the article, "Anecdotes of Fashions," we may add, that in England a taste for splendid dress existed in the reign of Henry VII.; as is observable by the following description of Nicholas Lord Vaux. "In the 17th of that reign, at the marriage of Prince Arthur, the brave young Vaux appeared in a gown of purple velvet, adorned with pieces of gold so thick and massive, that exclusive of the silk and furs, it was valued at a thousand pounds. About his neck he wore a collar of S. S., weighing eight hundred pounds in nobles. In those days it not only required great bodily strength to support the weight of their cumbersome armour; their very luxury of apparel for the drawing-room would oppress a system of modern muscles."
In the following reign, according to the monarch's and Wolsey's magnificent taste, their dress was, perhaps, more generally sumptuous. We then find the following rich ornaments in vogue. Shirts and shifts were embroidered with gold, and bordered with lace. Strutt notices also perfumed gloves lined with white velvet, and splendidly worked with embroidery and gold buttons. Not only gloves, but various other parts of their habits, were perfumed; shoes were made of Spanish perfumed skins.
Carriages were not then used; so that lords would carry princesses on a pillion behind them, and in wet weather the ladies covered their heads with hoods of oil-cloth; a custom that has been generally continued to the middle of the seventeenth century. The use of coaches was introduced into England by Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, in 1580, and at first were only drawn by a pair of horses. The favourite Buckingham, about 1619, began to have them drawn by six horses; and Wilson, in his life of James I., tells us this "was wondered at as a novelty, and imputed to him as a mastering pride." The same arbiter elegantiarum introduced sedan-chairs. In France, Catherine of Medicis was the first who used a coach, which had leathern doors, and curtains instead of glass windows. If the carriage of Henry IV. had had glass windows, this circumstance might have saved his life. Carriages were so rare in the reign of this monarch, that in a letter to his minister Sully, he notices that having taken medicine that day, though he had intended to have called on him, he was prevented, because the queen had gone out with the carriage. Even as late as in the reign of Louis XIV. the courtiers rode on horseback to their dinner parties, and wore their light boots and spurs. Count Hamilton dcscribes his boots of white Spanish leather with gold spurs.
Saint Foix observes, that in 1658 there were only 310 coaches in Paris, and in 1758 there were more than 14,000.
Strutt has judiciously observed, that though luxury and grandeur were so much affected, and appearances of state and splendour carried to such lengths, we may conclude that their household furniture and domestic necessaries were also carefully attended to: on passing through their houses, we may expect to be surprised at the neatness, elegance, and superb appearance of each room, and the suitableness of every ornament; but herein we may be deceived. The taste of elegance amongst our ancestors was very different from the present, and however we may find them extravagant in their apparel, excessive in their banquets, and expensive in their trains of attendants; yet, follow them home, and within their houses you shall find their furniture is plain and homely; no great choice, but what was useful, rather than any for ornament or show."
Erasmus, as quoted by Jortin, confirms this account, and makes it worse; he gives a curious account of English dirtiness; he ascribes the plague from which England was hardly ever free, and the sweating-sickness, partly to the incommodious form, and bad exposition of the houses, to the filthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes; under which lies, unmolested, an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty."
I shall give a sketch of the domestic life of a nobleman in the reign of Charles the First, from the "Life of the Duke of Newcastle," written by his Duchess, whom I have already noticed. It might have been impertinent at the time of its publication; it will now please those who are curious about English manners.
"Of his Habit."He accoutres his person according to the fashion, if it be one that is not troublesome and uneasy for men of heroic exercises and actions. He is neat and cleanly; which makes him to be somewhat long in dressing, though not so long as many effeminate persons are. He shifts ordinarily once a day, and every time when he uses exercise, or his temper is more hot than ordinary.
"Of his Diet."In his diet he is so sparing and temperate, that he never eats nor drinks beyond his set proportion, so as to satisfy only his natural appetite; he makes but one meal a day, at which he drinks two good glasses of small beer, one about the beginning, the other at the end thereof, and a little glass of sack in the middle of his dinner; which glass of sack he also uses in the morning for his breakfast, with a morsel of bread. His supper consists of an egg and draught of small beer. And by this temperance he finds himself very healthful, and may yet live many years, he being now of the age of seventy-three.
"His Recreation and Exercise."His prime pastime and recreation hath always been the exercise of mannage and weapons, which heroic arts he used to practise every day; but I observing that when he had overheated himself he would be apt to take cold, prevailed so far, that at last he left the frequent use of the mannage, using nevertheless still the exercise of weapons; and though he doth not ride himself so frequently as he hath done, yet he taketh delight in seeing his horses of mannage rid by his escuyers, whom he instructs in that art for his own pleasure. But in the art of weapons (in which he has a method beyond all that ever was famous in it, found out by his own ingenuity and practice) he never taught anybody but the now Duke of Buckingham, whose guardian he hath been, and his own two sons. The rest of his time he spends in music, poetry, architecture, and the like."
The value of money, and the increase of our opulence, might form, says Johnson, a curious subject of research. In the reign of Edward the Sixth, Latimer mentions it as a proof of his father's prosperity, that though but a yeoman, he gave his daughtcrs five pounds each for their portion. At the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, seven hundred pounds were such a temptation to courtship, as made all other motives suspected. Congreve makes twelve thousand pounds more than a counterbalance to the affectation of Belinda. No poet will now fly his favourite character at less than fifty thousand. Clarissa Harlowe had but a moderate fortune.
In Sir John Vanbrugh's Confederacy, a woman of fashion is presented with a bill of millinery as long as herself.??Yet it only amounts to a poor fifty pounds! At present this sounds oddly on the stage. I have heard of a lady of quality and fashion, who had a bill of her fancy-dress maker, for the expenditure of one year, to the tune of, or rather, which closed in the deep diapason of, six thousand pounds!
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