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Concerning respawning, while Chris Taylor stated that death must be final, he has also hinted that normal death only means 'defeat' i.e. being knocked unconscious or something like that. edit: found the quote: "Death is death in the Fallout world and there are no Resurrection spells or...

Fairly irrelevant since in either case it's a strawman argument.

'True FFA' huh? Where did I state that I want FFA everywhere, all the time, without consequences? Obviously it needs to be thought through and appropriately implemented like it is in EVE. And EVE has 300k+ subscribers.

Because there aren't many statements on the actual game yet. If you want a clue on how the game turns out you have to look between the lines, which admittedly is hard to do with just a few quotes. I've read through a lot of the dev posts and these quotes stuck out to me as examplifying the...

So it'll be another WoW clone devoid of social/political conflict and with meaningless pvp but full of little achievement maze-grinds to cater to the 12-year olds and addicts. It's the Fallout world. Anything but FFA loot or similar mechanics is an unforgivable design failure. What this...

Because the difference is too high. The negros don't kill THAT many people. Besides, most European nations have issues with minority crimes too. Concerning urban conglomeration, while I don't know it, my intuition says that size doesn't matter that much when it comes to crime when a city has...

Getting my stats from http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/ Both Canada and Australia have fewer guns per capita than Sweden, France and Norway. While it isn't statistical terminology, it makes perfect sense if you try to understand what I'm saying. I'm referring to the issues that...

Australia, low prevalence of firearms, low homicide rate. Canada, low prevalence of firearms, low homicide rate. Switzerland, only nation that goes against the statistics. Answers are ready at hand. Several factors are keeping the homicide rate below its statistically natural level. Most...

Aside the fact that it's basic common sense, the relationship is too big to ignore. It is true that cultural and possibly genetic factors will have a significant impact on homicide rates. This is why it is most valid to compare countries that are close to each other in culture and ethnicity...

So you're dead?

Because countries without a prevalence of firearms statistically have in extremity lower homicide rates.

Yeah selective VAT really is an excellent tool of population management. Shame it isn't done more, but I guess it complicates things for retailers. Must be a way to ease that out in our computerized age though. More taxes on gas is needed as well, but probably not the best idea during a...

The existence of firearms basically means that many more situations end in death than what would otherwise be the case. It's kind of like introducing testosterone into a closed mouse population. Every situation is more tense, and once a situation is escalating there's a good chance that it'll...

An interesting thing to note is that Finland, having the most liberal gun laws in Western Europe, is also the Western European nation with by far the highest murder rate.

We're talking about conscripts, not volunteers or mercenaries.

Or pretty much every farmer army until the French revolution. Conscription only works if it's laden with nationalist sentiment. So figure out some way of enflaring the passions of the latinos for some cause, and you got yourself an army. Maybe something with native indians stealing their...

The best founded/most widespread theories of the extinction of the dinosaurs hold that it was a sudden drop in temperature and sunlight, most likely caused by a giant meteor or a great number/one giant volcanic eruptions sending debris into the atmosphere. The nuclear winter would be worse.

I read a story in the Economist a while back about a major bust by the FBI with quite a few arrests across the US of Mexican cartel people. I can't find it online so I'll link a few other articles that deal with it. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/27/gibler.qanda/index.html...

Aha. Unfortunately this is only one of two major issues with this. The other is the fact that the illegal immigrants are going to, and already to an extent are, import the Mexican 'civil war' with them.