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Reply to Master of Magic: not that great in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Ellestar" reply="56" id="3382010"]Even for Star Control II, Space Rangers are arguably better.[/quote] This is heresy!

Reply to Master of Magic: not that great in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Jack Trowell" reply="50" id="3374779"]From my point of view, in a new MoM game where you could have the option of playing without any other AI wizards (there could still be independant town or minor factions), and have the game become a game of survival against the map until you could reach one of the victory conditions (casting the spell of mastery, having a hero complete some sort of ultimate quest survive until some predetermined turn like in civilization, etc ...), and the fun

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="453" id="3373635"]That's not really workable. People are not going to accept downloading 10GB or whatever for every little update. And there is still the matter of the installer which would need to place the files. .[/quote] 1. Most indie titles have size measured in MB not GB. 2. For a 10GB title you use the "universal patch" method. 2 files total (initially self extracting 10GB game, and a single small patch file which later g

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="449" id="3373450"]And no, putting up a ZIP of every change and requiring users to piece together all the ZIPs to get the latest update is not realistic would be a support nightmare.[/quote] Of course they don't piece together the latest version from a variety of zips. Users only need to get 1 zip with the latest version of the game. You can save on bandwidth by having a universal patch, users install on top of their v1.0 downloadable, th

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="443" id="3372116"] The reason developers are using Steam have nothing to do with DRM. Valve has made Steam compelling to developers through things like Steam Pipe (i.e. I copy my files onto a remote directory and the game is updated), the underthehood features of Steamworks (it gives me all kinds of debugging info when a user crashes, very easy connectivity features, FREE hosting -- that's a $15k per month freebie for us).[/quote] Fr

Reply to Star Trek Online: Divide et Impera is one of the worst missions in the history of video games and the reason I quit in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Dedzone007" reply="17" id="3371573"] My only question is, why the hell did you play it so long in the first place? I was a beta tester and I left it there, especially since I wanted to pay Klingon and that race was a mere after-thought. Almost one of the worst MMOs in history far as I am concerned [/quote] You mean why I played main quest missions and nothing but main quest missions with 0 grinding and sidequests for less than 2 days? When I

Reply to Star Trek Online: Divide et Impera is one of the worst missions in the history of video games and the reason I quit in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Thanks ImperatorPavel, that is useful to know.

Reply to Star Trek Online: Divide et Impera is one of the worst missions in the history of video games and the reason I quit in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

1. I did post it on their forums too. 2. I posted this in the general PC gaming discussion. 3. They deserve to be bashed for making one of the worst quests in RPG history and making it unskippable core plot quest. But the way you phrase it is so odd, as if you are implying I have an axe to grind against them and because of that any legitimate complaint I raise can be ignored, which is just stupid

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

Gaunathor is correct. Many games link back to steam even if bought on steam's competitors or a disk in the store. But GOG does not allow that (and as a result they do not have certain games which have such a deal with steam).

Reply to Star Trek Online: Divide et Impera is one of the worst missions in the history of video games and the reason I quit in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

The game STO was released on February 2, 2010. This mission was there in its current incarnation at that time and people complained on it in the forums in 2010. Originally the game had 2 playable races, klingons and federation. Federation had ~50 their plot missions and the klingons were there only for PvP. Recently an expansion was released which added a mission chain for the klingons, as well as adding the romulans as a playable race with

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Star Trek Online: Divide et Impera is one of the worst missions in the history of video games and the reason I quit in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Star trek online is unusual for an MMO; sure there is the pointless boring grind. However, STO also has a series of about 50 special unique missions per faction which are done in order, constitute the plot, and will take you from level 1 to level 50. They are listed here http://sto.gamepedia.com/Episode So you can choose to ignore the grind, play those missions as if it was an offline RPG, and when you finish all the missions quit th

Reply to Are you going to use an offset swarm mechanic? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

it would be nice if swarm took into account whether they are alone or have formed a line. Also there probably should be a limit to how many attacks a single unit may perform thanks to swarm. \

Reply to [bug] Just jumped 113 levels in one go in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]I ran out of skills to pick, that was it. Couldn't back out.[/quote] That is a pretty serious showstopper bug.

Cannot report spam, it gives an error message in Stardockians JoeUser Forums

I cannot report spam, it gives me an error message when I try to report it: https://forums.joeuser.com/369371/page/1/#3329939

Reply to This week on the BAD BAD CEO MAN in Business Elemental Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="201" id="3305230"][quote who="taltamir" reply="199" id="3305151"]Nor does the intent imply (as anyone with a brain can realize)...[/quote] That's it, guy. I'll discuss almost anything calmly with anybody, in the hopes of learning something that adds to what I know or contradicts what I believed erroneously, but as soon as you start resorting to verbal abuse, you can listen alone to the sound of your own voice. And I don't care if t

Reply to This week on the BAD BAD CEO MAN in Business Elemental Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="200" id="3305167"] I had a Chinese boss once who didn't want to pay my expense report. You want to talk about illegal.... But in China apparently that is perfectly legal. Basically you have to file your expenses his way, kiss his a$$ and stay on his good side until you get your money back. Apparently also they see nothing wrong with discriminating against white people. He had a few things happen

Reply to This week on the BAD BAD CEO MAN in Business JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="196" id="3305098"]It's a legit question, Taltamir, because the comment by Solam was both all-embracing and a longstanding, recognizable position.[/quote] It wasn't all embracing (unlike YOUR statement "the only recourse is customers" which was due to using the word only), it did not imply that business owners OWN their employees bodies (or property for example retirement funds... this just reminded me of enron), or that employees

Reply to How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="w_dott" reply="28" id="3304951"]Why uninstall Foxit Reader? I never thought that. [/quote] Third shill account in a row. Registered to make this one post, no posts before or after coming in here and shilling for foxit.

Reply to This week on the BAD BAD CEO MAN in Business Elemental Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="186" id="3304558"][quote]Quoting Solam, reply 185bosses should be able to do what they want with their business. It's up to the consumer to buy or to boycott that company.[/quote] Does that mean that if your boss wants to put you in an unsafe environment with locked emergency doors, the only recourse should be consumers voting by walking to another company?[/quote] You are making strawman. An employee's body is not the property of a b

Reply to How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="johnworm3" reply="26" id="3303752"]Foxit Reader is my first choice of pdf software. [/quote] Look at that, another post that: 1. Extols foxit despite doing such being irrelevant to the discussion. 2. Made by a person who just registered to make this post. 3. Made by a person who has not made any other posts before or after, leaving total post count at 1. What a coincidence.

Reply to Misogyny in gaming in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="98" id="3296876"]-Teenage males are mostly retards that will grow out of it[/quote] To be fair to teenage boys, most of them are simply basing their view of the world on a massive quantity of coherent and consistent falsehood which they get from TV, lacking the personal experience to realize that it is satire and not reality. Hence the 'growing out of' part. Realizing that you should consciously guard against tainting your views b

Reply to How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frankief" reply="24" id="3295948"]It boggles my mind that a program is being recommended that comes bundled with the infamous "Ask Toolbar"[/quote] Recommended by whom? This is a thread on how to get rid of foxit (which is the program bundled with ask bar according to your picture). I recommended SumatraPDF which is FOSS and I just tested and verified it is bundled with nothing.

Reply to How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="21" id="3295776"]Anyone here 'just passing through?'[/quote] You know, I had assumed this was just a random thread necro but now that you said that I started thinking and looking and I think you are right. This is spam. This thread was necroed by the following post: [quote who="bernice_wei" reply="17" id="3292824"]What's wrong with Foxit Reader? I have used it for long. Unlike Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader is secure, custo

Reply to How to uninstall Foxit Reader - A Step by Step Guide in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="bernice_wei" reply="17" id="3292824"]What's wrong with Foxit Reader? I have used it for long. Unlike Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader is secure, customizable and easy to deploy on all Windows based systems.[/quote] And doesn't uninstall properly, hence the guide on how to uninstall it in case you want to. For example, because you want to install the superior SumatraPDF program