Frogboy

[quote who="cww256" reply="12" id="3095628"]I am in the same boat as Winnihym. I'm on Win 7 64 and have all latest drivers, but can only get about one game in four to go past about 20 turns without having FE crash as soon as I end the turn. Its a little frustrating. I realize its beta, but its really difficult to even try to test, because I have no feedback on what to try to detect/avoid the crash. [/quote] Have you posted any of your crash logs? I know

My guess is next week and it'll probably be v0.90.

Totally number of canceled pre-orders in 2012 (for all reasons):

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="37" id="3094998"]Like we have a choice? (if you need certain software for work). And I agree starkers--that interface is bug-ugly.[/quote] Increasingly, we have choices. People can stick with Windows 7 and either Microsoft will make Windows 8+ a better user experience or they'll move to other OSes. A lot of developers are in the position right now of having to choose between WinRT and iOS development.

Consistency is what kills them. That is what makes this such a train wreck. Let me live in the desktop OR live in Metro. Don't have me jumping around two totally different experiences and usage paradigms.

The idea of switching from say Word to a weather widget that is running 2560x1440 is baffling. And let's keep in mind, most of the UI involves moving from the bottom left (or top left) to the top right (or vice versa). They should have let the WIndows phone team design this. They knew good UI.

Screen dirt = 1. We actually call them "fatigue points" in UI design. The typical weapon in FE has no initiative modifier.

Here's my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqpryu5SRI

Request is in.

This is definitely my favorite thread right now. I know Derek is reading it as well as we've talked about ideas and such that are posted here.

It should be called Microsoft WINDOW 8. They're trying to get rid of the S in Windows.

I made a video outlining what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqpryu5SRI Keep in mind, this is on a fresh install. This is the ideal environment. Wait until you throw in a mix of Metro and desktop apps together. I don't know about you guys but I have a lot of things installed.

What the Lifehacker video can't show you is what it's like when you're trying to do work on it. For instance, load up say Office or Photoshop and a Metro app. Switching between them is a huge pain in the rear. You launch everything from Metro and then have to jump back to the desktop experience. I hope no one is missing the irony that the Metro examples are...widgets. It would be like if every DesktopX widget required you to go to a full

[quote who="Savyg" reply="14" id="3094778"]Once people get past the initial shock and WinRT apps start popping up it'll make a lot more sense. Speaking from the dev preview, once I learned it I loved it (aside from it very obviously being not ready.) Sadly won't have my copy of the CP til pretty late so I'll let ya know when that happens, but I enjoyed what I used.[/quote] Really? You think we're going to see a Metro version of Office, Photoshop,

[quote who="Sarudak" reply="16" id="3094674"]Can anyone make an argument why my proposed solution is flawed?[/quote] Yes. Two reasons: (1) Most items in the game don't do anything to initiative. That is because the system is balanced around a bell curve so that most items have no effect on initiative to remove "screen dirt". Your solution would result in most items now having an initiative effect which would be a big negative to UI approach ability. <

There's a bug with mages, thanks for the report.

[quote who="Chasbo" reply="8" id="3093753"]They are not books unless they have paper pages.[/quote] Lol. They're not video games unless they come in a cartridge.

[quote] Also please make monsters much more aggressive against improvements, armies and settlements - it really breaks immersion when I see AI players building villages and outposts right next to swarms of monsters and the monsters simply ignore these things -[/quote] Turn up world difficulty. That's what controls that behavior.

During different seasons of the year I try to do different types of books. Spring and early Summer: Fantasy Mid to late Summer: Business and Science Non-Fiction Fall: History Winter: Sci Fi I change it up each year but it's just a weird little thing I like to do to make look forward to "the next season". [quote] Brad .....it's called 'sleep'. You should try it some time...[/quote] You know me. I en

[quote] I'm not accusing: let me just point out that when we were debating things like these, a couple of weeks ago, we were rather bluntly told that suggestions that felt too disruptive WEREN'T basically being considered. Now in this very thread many are suggesting things that feel to me more disruptive than what we were suggesting then (I was talking about removing a couple of ugly mechanics from the tech tree, personally). So what's ch

I'm going to lock this thread but I will respond to it. Have you ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? Since Stardock/GPG published the Gamers Bill of Rights, it has been used, as a blunt instrument against us thousands of times. No issue was too trivial or too small for someone to try to use the GBOR as a blunt instrument to attack us with -- regardless of the validity. At some point, playing the GBOR card loses its impact. Especially when it has b

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="106" id="3093163"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 105Thus, you would then suddenly care an awful lot about having the political capital to recruit the Knights of Azok (not sure if they're in beta 2 or not) or be able to train Warlock Adepts or Summon a Dread Ithril. I don't know what any of these things are.... [/quote] They're units in the game. In my game anyway. God knows what's in beta 2. That's like, 3 week

I've seen reports of this and I have no idea what causes this. Let me whine to my IT guys and see what they say.

Thanks, Mulaflaga! Looks like it was related a goodie hut being removed from the world list. Fixed!

[quote who="Aharaza" reply="77" id="3092552"]I want to vote excellent so bad. But whenever I load up the game it just does very little to me. The factions all feel so much the same. Teching up in games is so boring that I do not want to play this game many more times then 4 or 5. The spells all have the general "meh" feeling. [/quote] I understand what you're saying. But ultimately, as a 4X game, it has a tech tree. The tech tree in itself isn&