Frogboy

[quote who="TwoWolves" reply="2" id="3394613"] Its the suing bit that gives me the willies. I just don't understand it, IT is made of algorithms and somewhat obvious idioms that mirror the natural world yet people seem to be able to claim "prior art" on using them.[/quote] In my experience, 99% of lawsuits would result in a loss for the one filing the lawsuit. Certainly in our case, I've never had a lawsuit against us that I thought there was any chance w

[quote who="Crono908" reply="16" id="3394153"] Like all the other DLC, it was bought without a second though! Thanks Stardock, for a great game, a great experience, and keep up the hard work! Your loyal fan (and wish stardock was publicly traded) P.S. To Froggy If bunny slippers were your idea, are we going to be expecting bunny armor at some point? [/quote] ;) <

Heh. I like bunny slippers!

[quote] I don't think I'm alone in fandom in pretending that sucky sequels simply don't exist . (I mean, it's weird how they went straight from Star Trek IV to Star Trek VI without a fifth movie, isn't it? And I keep hoping they'll make a sequel to The Matrix ...)[/quote] You are definitely my type of people.

[quote who="Grilled Cheezz" reply="24" id="3393256"] Whoa, Brad, whoa, rebooting SC with brand new aliens would be playing with fire. Those of us who've been playing PC games for 30+ years have grown very fond of our early IPs. Mucking around with these too much will certainly bring flames of wrath scorching the forums to ash (sneering at you, Simcity). Bringing Paul and Fred on board or, at the very least, getting them to publicly endorse and praise any new g

In 1.3, the enemy sovereign should never be traveling alone except at the very very beginning of the game. So I'll keep an eye out for that.

I wish I could take credit for this but I saw the loot back DLC for Legendary Heroes today. What astonished me most was just how much better the game can look just with improved artwork. That is, give units better (visually) armor, weapons, and other goodies and it really shows off how advanced the engine is.

Nothing was touched with tactical. Just strategic.

PLAY IT! PLAY IT NOW!

[quote who="Cykur" reply="3" id="3386104"] Interesting, there have been a number of articles tying success to people who don't require much sleep. Seems like many CEO's / Executives claim not to need much sleep, though I'm only familiar with the anecdotal claims -- not sure if a study has been done on success vs sleep requirements. Not to deflect your thread from the flame warriors site, just thought it was interesting you don't need much sleep.[/q

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="223" id="3386298"] Hankers is correct......well partly correct. There haven't just been the 'two sides of AGW' discussed here. Some of us have also posted about our life philosophies as they relate to the environment which to me anyway, is the part of this thread which is most interesting. I mean in the end does it really matter that we 'chose a side' in the AGW debate? Have we &#3

[quote who="Kamamura_CZ" reply="214" id="3386248"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 209 I'm skeptical on AGW and I'm neither misinformed nor ignorant. Then you must know something world's climate scientists do not know, and in that case, I urge you to rush forward and publish a paper about your findings.[/quote] Sounds like the same appeal to authority that the Jehovah Witnesses who come to my door make when they insist that "the scientists" have

They'll go into the final v1.3.

[quote who="Borg999" reply="57" id="3386022"] A lot of analysis of the "true meaning" of the book going on, but if you read between the lines, the true meaning of the whole thread is: The rich are worthy, the poor (and middle class) are not worthy. This is just another veiled argument for providing the wealthy with corporate welfare at the expense of education, infrastruture, tempoarary unemployment benefits, etc, etc.[/quote] That is a prett

Tonight's check-in: + Improved algorithm that allows AI to detect different types of threats to its cities and units + AI prioritizes pioneers more when there is good land its LOS (and less when there isn't) + AI prioritizes maximizing its army size before going into battle + AI more willing to sacrifice non-champion led armies to soften enemies before sending in champions/sovereigns + AI now makes use of a "ready for battle" flag to determine which armies

Tonight's check-in: + Improved algorithm that allows AI to detect different types of threats to its cities and units + AI prioritizes pioneers more when there is good land its LOS (and less when there isn't) + AI prioritizes maximizing its army size before going into battle + AI more willing to sacrifice non-champion led armies to soften enemies before sending in champions/sovereigns + AI now makes use of a "ready for battle" flag to determine which armies

[quote] Brad...you should be enjoying whatever wealth you've acquired and not be concerned with what other people think. You and your family come first, anything after that...anything you do or don't do, is between you and your conscious...if you can live with that...that's all that matters.[/quote] This really isn't about me. I don't know if you've read about the Phil Fish thing. That's what got my mind on this topic. </

Tonight's check-in: + Improved algorithm that allows AI to detect different types of threats to its cities and units + AI prioritizes pioneers more when there is good land its LOS (and less when there isn't) + AI prioritizes maximizing its army size before going into battle + AI more willing to sacrifice non-champion led armies to soften enemies before sending in champions/sovereigns + AI now makes use of a "ready for battle" flag to determine which armies

v1.2 is better than v1.1 in terms of AI. But that was mostly fixing "low hanging fruit". v1.3 has been a lot lot more work (which is why it's taking longer). Path finding in these kinds of games is a notorious challenge. Computing power hasn't done much to improve pathfinding other than make its stupidity work faster. Every time I work on a game I think THIS time, the path finding will be perfect because we can use X computing power and we'

I'm back from vacation and working on it. The AI was getting far too paranoid about dealing with the monsters. There's a fine line between risk management and bunker mentality. It didn't affect all AI personalities. The "Expansionist" AI personality was unaffected.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="22" id="3385585"] Rich people sure love Ayn Rand [/quote] I don't know about "love". I don't think her philosophy "objectivism" is any more realistic than any other utopian ideology. But I will say this - if you want to be successful (however you define it) then it probably isn't a bad idea to look at the habits and philosophies of people who are successful, particular if they started out with very little.

I had someone tell me that I have a responsibility to be nice to people because they're dependent on me.

[quote who="Elestan" reply="35" id="3383949"] I'm wondering what the deal is with "On The Go Technology, LLC". It looks like they're a mortgage software company. What do they want with a video game franchise?[/quote] Yea. It was odd. I don't know anything about them. But if someone complains about Stardock getting the Star Control IP, the alternative would have been On The Go Technology. It wasn't a choice between Stardock and

I honestly think Phil would be better off having partners and being part of a larger company. Reading the comments directed at him made me absolutely disgusted with the gaming community (in general). This is precisely why I prefer to make strategy games. The demographic who I'm working for matters a lot to me. Anything that weeds out the scum. :)

[quote who="Alstein" reply="2" id="3385199"] The downside is, you get folks angry enough , they won't want to buy your products. It's really hard to change the mind of someone who is convinced of your worst. That said, the more successful you become, the harder it is to maintain good PR.[/quote] More like, impossible. Even EA and Activision were once beloved. I've had people (even you I believe) think I was horrible despite two d