[quote]It's an additional campaign that the book buyers get.[/quote] How is that tracked? Does an e-book version get me the campaign? What options do I have for getting the book in digital format?
[quote]Want food local? XML. Want to have a reputation system? XML. Want NPCs to have abilities? XML (plus some changes to the .dxpacks -- DesktopX -- to display it to the player).[/quote] *cough* Does this mean modders could do crazy stuff like implementing the 'detail-heavy' camp of resource management, where you had iron producing cities shipping iron to your metal makers to pound it into swords etc etc? Mwa ha ha! I love it! (I pro
[quote]STANDARD WARNING Elemental is probably the first game we’ve had a beta of that was well known before the game was released. With Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations the beta testers were more “hard core” and I remember how those betas went (my team of therapists keep trying to get me to “move on”). Suffice to say, by the time we close the beta, MOST users will NOT be happy with it. With Sins and GalCiv, terms like “broken&rd
Does this changelog apply to the patch that just hit Impulse, or to an update pending? (Since there isn't a 'Beta 2B is here!' thread)
[quote who="lwarmonger" reply="49" id="2663117"]I believe at this point they probably are working weekends, or at least half weekends.[/quote]I don't think they release builds on the weekends anyway.
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="1" id="2662557"]As it says, beta is closed to new preorders until Beta 3 starts (date unknown, don't ask, but it's not this week and neiher next, and most probably not the next to the next week ). You can preorder now and whenever beta 3 starts, they charge you and (if they successfully charge you) then you can download the beta (need to have enabled the option to see betas in your Impulse client...).[/quote] Actually, I think I saw Brad post that beta 3
[quote]dragon age system was shit basicallly if you started with 2 3 buffs you couldnt cast anything how can be fun a system that prevents you to do things?[/quote] How fun is a system that doesn't prevent you from doing things? I remember certain BG2 fun, like 'time stop', 'improved alacrity', and then using minus to spellcasting time items to unload essentially your entire load of magical spells 'instantly'.
[quote who="Sanati" reply="56" id="2663090"]Ya I don't think Starcraft 2 is a good example. Blizzard thinks that it's some sort of "e-sport" and so they are being anal about balance.[/quote] Thanks, that's a much more succinct... and effective... way of putting it than I could think of.
[quote who="Sareln" reply="47" id="2663067"] Patience, there's a changelog up so it can't be too far away. [/quote] It's not out yet, and it's six PM SD time. Ergo... tomorrow. Except they don't work on weekends. Ergo... Monday. You shall wait until Monday! :P (Unless they be burning the midnight oil... I pity their families if so)
[quote]I mean if you look at Blizzard and Starcraft 2 (which I know you're a huge fan of) you can see they spent over a year in a phase you want to condense to 3 weeks.[/quote] You'll also notice that they've only been publically balancing the MP portion. Starcraft II is two games. The SP they haven't released, because it doesn't need fine-grain balance. The MP game is a highly competitive version, with three sides each of which must be in a
[quote]@Ron Lugge, I don't think you realise that there are timed turns in the context Ellestar is talking about. You're thinking of Classic turns and PBEm while he's probably talking about, correct me if I'm wrong, minute long simultaneous turns. I think everyone agrees that the former is a test of decision making without time pressure while the later is a test of decision making with time pressure and the speed with which you can make those decisions.[/quote] You make a good point,
[quote]but it was the only game in the last dozen that I found so much as ONE iron outcrop.[/quote] FYI, it was only one map -- they're using a static map for the moment, not a dynamically generated one.
[quote who="Tomasp3n" reply="39" id="2659818"]Bet you the threat radius the AI uses is the same as the sight radius of the unit/settlement. It's been stated that the AI should be challenging WITHOUT cheating, at least on the "normal" level[/quote] A) that ignores the possibility of having scouts out to watch outside your direct visual range. B) the AI isn't supposed to cheat on NORMAL difficulty levels.
[quote]Question: Do you take into account the visibility radius of the player when evaluating pPlayer->GetAreaThreat(x,y,radius) or does the AI 'cheat' in that it will be able to evaluate with a constant radius?[/quote] I bet you the answer is 'yes'... :D
[quote who="Sareln" reply="103" id="2657808"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 102BTW, in beta 2-B Civilization and Warfare are getting disabled and Diplomacy, Magic, and Adventure are being enabled. That'll be interesting. Will it blow our minds?[/quote] The very idea of it just blew my mind.
[quote who="Nemesis7884" reply="51" id="2656466"]are roads still working in 2a? i researched caravans, but never got an option to send one?[/quote] You train them, like they were a military unit. [quote]Yeah, but I doubt that the diplo/magic/adventuring buildings will have anything in common with the eco/civ type buildings. So, if the current system won't be changed, all of the cities will be the same on the eco level at least. IE. You will be forced to build the exact
[quote](IMHO it's physically impossible to be more dexterous at the age of 29 compared to the age of 19)[/quote] Generally dexterous your correct, but for specific tasks practice will tell. And clicking on a specific point on the screen rapidly is a very specific task.
Ellstar, there is a huge difference between 'clickfest' micro which emphasizes reflexes and dexterity, and civ type micro which emphasizes thoroughness and patience.
[quote]I'm pretty sure Niven's Ringworld was made of neutronium, which differs from unobtanium in that it is actually a specific material predicted to exist in certain well-defined conditions.[/quote] [quote]I respectfully wish to point out that Niven's Ringworld was composed mainly of scrith .[/quote] I concede defeat! Apparently I was confused, and I apologize abjectly.
[quote]And how did a metal from a sci-fi world that makes islands float pop into anyone's head from reading elementium? [/quote] Because Unobtanium is actually a technical term frequently used by scientists to discuss theoretical materials with unusual / rare properties necessary for a given thought experiment. Ringworld was made of unobtanium, and any hypothetical dyson sphere would be so as well.
I cannot believe I actually need to say this, to point out this slim, [i]slim[/i] possibility, but... [quote]Thanks for the info, I had never heard of it in the fantasy genre. I suppose it is Stardock's nod to WOW.[/quote] Or maybe it's a reference to the name of the game? Elemental, elementium... It seems incredibly obvious to me, so I'm not sure what's up... am I more 'in tune' with the idea, or something?
[quote]Not sure if this is a bug but I was looking at one of my cities last night and all the farmers were doing exactly the same thing at the same time in every garden in my city. Some kind of random delay on animation starting might be appropriate.[/quote] If possible, a minor variation on speed -- they aren't just time delayed from each other, they also do things at different rates.
[quote who="harpo99999" reply="21" id="2653396"]from what I remember from M$ the ram limit for 64bit xp is about 8gb, vista 64bit is 12gb & the win7 64bit is 64gb. the numbers are for the workstation/professional versions NOT the server which is larger again and then there is the enterprise server which is the largest of all, but linis 64bit apparently could give the theretical dataspace 2^63-1 harpo[/quote] Do I really need to give the long version? It isn'
[quote who="Grove12345" reply="15" id="2652794"]so anyone know what we would expect from a 64 bit enhancement? Im new to the 64 bit thingy[/quote] Short version: 32 bits limits memory to 2GBs, 64 bits means we can break that limit (something in the vicinity of a couple of terabytes, if I remember correctly). If you want the longer version, I can give that too...
Wow Frogboy, just answer everything for us! :D