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The Outpost idea seems to clearly be a copy of their Mechanic from GalCiv2. Even Frogboy did a supposed slip reference as a joke in the original post about the outpost upgrade system. I say if you are going to take an idea that worked previously then take the whole idea not just part of it. That being said I don't think there is anything wrong with it but I think they should actually fully copy it's mechanics. Use Pioneers to upgrade the outpost and resources in

So it seems our friendly Stardock is not the only one who has release day crash issues. There are a lot of people in the various Civ5 forums reporting their games crash after only 10-20 mins. I know Elemental has had some crash and out of memory issues but those tend to happen after hours of play not minutes. Stardock is a smaller developer so we tend to over look those kind of things more but it's just sad when a big studio devoted to a major franchise does it, especially when you consider m

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="16" id="2780009"] > And your comparison to physcial objects that can't be simply copied isn't really a valid comparison. Car can be copied; plan of house, too.. same for clock, parfum, drugs, alcohol, mobile phone, etc ... Custom catch a huge amount of these copy each year... this is piracy too... in some case, it can be very dangerous to use pirated/copied product... phone battery who explode, drugs who don't heal you but have toxic product in

More fun reading from http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100517/1609539448.shtml Swedish Police Say Anti-Piracy Law Has Harmed Ability To Catch Criminals from the consequences dept We've pointed out many times in the past the "unintended" consequences of certain activities, and it looks like the entertainment industry's worldwide effort to push for more and more industr

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="12" id="2777076"] I think that you forget a other group, people like me... who have several other reasons to use pirated software... Let take a example that i have already post on these forum... when "sins of solar empire" was released, i have first download a pirated version... Why ? Because the game was not planned to be in the European store before a few month... Am i ashamed ? Certainly not... when it was released in my country, i have buy

I figured this thread was a great place to post this give it's title. So the my friend who lives in Missouri calls me up today to tell me the store near by broke street date on Civ 5. But because it requires a steam activation he still can't play it. He's sitting there stuck with a copy of a game he's already paid for that he can't play because of some stupid DRM. Now I know some of you may argue that he shouldn't even technically have a copy of the game yet bec

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="10" id="2769839"] Quoting lbgsloan, reply 2 -Allows them to take away game access whenever they feel like it (Steam can already do this). And how exactly are publishers involved in this process, if we're talking about steam? what benefit do they get? [/quote] For one it allows them to maintain a bit of control over what users saying about their games or the company in the forums. I know EA changed this policy/terms of use a whi

Actually this sounds like like Fame in MoM. Capturing cities and such earned you fame while lossing them lost you fame. The more fame you had the more people would approach you to sell you items, heroes looking for work, and so on. The Heroes you had didn't really contribute their stats to your fame score but it was still a global stat that would effect how popular you were.

It's getting very annoying that about every other military tech I research the game says a "New Unit is Available". Not to mention it's terrible at naming the unit. It's quite annoying when I got 5 unit designs and 3 are named Duke but all 5 of them have the SAME STATS. The AI tries to design a new unit everytime you get a few new military techs but it simply designs the SAME unit that you had before since no new equipment was researched. Not to mention it would be nice to have some consisten

[quote who="Eisenhund" reply="6" id="2768054"] I wish we had more data. Generally all we see are the doom and gloom, "Lost 10 Megabucks from pirates. Ninjas retaliate." I'd like to see how much money it takes to place in DRM while just using a more free-flow form like SD. What is the cost increase versus sales versus sales lost.[/quote] Well the problem is the hype mongers basically do this simple formula to come up with how much a company "lost" due to pirates

There is so much in MoM it's gonna be hard to cover it all but I'll try to be brief as well as descriptive so you know what I'm referring to. Leader Customization This is one of the places MoM really shined because based on what you picked would determine a lot of how you played the game. You could choose between 5 Schools of magic Nature, Chaos, Life, Death, and Sorcery. Unlike Elemental you could take up to 11 Books in each area and the number

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="23" id="2757953"]The dungeons and questing for example, along with the focus on NPC's, is heavily reminiscent of Sierra's Lords of Magic. [/quote] Wrong! Most Fantasy Strategy games these days can trace their roots back to MoM. For example MoM was the first to have "hero" units in a game. Something that LoM, AW, Heroes of M&M, and so on have copied. Though many of them expand on curtain aspect of MoM while dropping others, such as city managem

I thought the whole article was kinda blah. I mean they basically were saying the more companies should got the small game up front with lots of DLC route. Which personally I hate. When I play a game I like to play all the way through it. Not play part of it then wait 2-3 months to play another part then so on. I know games like Dragon Age and such made a bit of money off their DLC but personal I never got any of it cause by the time it came out I had already beaten the game and didn't feel l

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="44" id="2767480"] Quoting Brainsucker, reply 40Well, I, myself prefer global resource for 'Elemental', as adding a lot of buildings to one city will surely cost more memory to the PC. What Elemental needs now is not that additional memory cost buildings, but more about balancing issue, new strategy approach, and to reduce the City SPAM on the world map I really don't see how the economy being local/trade based or global impacts the d

[quote who="tjashen" reply="11" id="2766062"] I suppose I could name my cities 'gold town' 'arcane town' etc, but that kinda spoils the flavor of the game...[/quote] Yea I know what you mean. I use to try and do that but even on small maps you get some many cities the names start to overlap. So I've just been trying out adding G/T/A in front of the name depending on which Level Up I plan to choose since in most cases it's obvious from the start. Minus the few times a good resourc

[quote who="seung-kyu" reply="1" id="2766050"]"Hero tends to only die if you get unlucky and the enemy is not wiped out in the first round" Wait, if its auto resolve, why would rounds come in to play I'm confused.[/quote] Ever look at the combat log? First all your guys get to attack then the enemy gets to attack. Distance and all other factors are pretty much ignored in auto-resolve. The only thing that matters is if you make a melee attack the enemy gets a counter attack if it survi

[quote who="Nack210" reply="30" id="2765844"]True. After all, multi-purpose units that rape everything in their way SHOULD be hard to get. Making you get the buildings for each of the special weapons is a nice way of making them more rare. Like I said before, people are, for some reason, thinking that strategy game mechanics we've seen tons of times over the years are now "too complicated". They are not.[/quote] I blame it on the move to push gaming into the "casual" market. It seems

I hear a lot of people complain that their heroes die in Auto Resolve so they have to fight every battle. Well in case no one else has mentioned it I figured out a way to keep them alive the vast majority of the time. Simply give your Hero a Bow. Since archers get to attack without the enemy making a counter attack this works great. Before I would turn them all into casters and learned the spell Melting Touch. The problem was the AI was kinda stupid and sometimes even though the Hero

[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="27" id="2765783"]no, it was the right choice to take out the prereq for building units. the way the game is set up sure if you had a unit with a bow then you would need an archery range. ok thats alright. what about then if you had a unit that you had created that used 3 or 4 pieces of equipment from special buildings. lets say you had 3 cities that had the ability to make these units, other cites had some of the buildings but not all.&nb

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="26" id="2765754"] I agree that it'd have been better to balance instead of remove things like training halls, archery ranges, etc. Froggy says the game wasn't rushed, so it wasn't that they took the quick&easy way and just removed these things for expediencies' sake, they thought this the best solution. [/quote] The command post which you needed just to build any units yea I can see dropping that. But the others I think would of

[quote who="arstal" reply="4" id="2765098"]While I don't think they should grow- [/quote] I think we need to make sure we are all talking about the same thing when we say "grow". For example I get the impression some think they should by like full factions setting up more cities and such, which kinda defeats the purpose of "minor" faction. Personally when I talk about them growing I think that they should build up their city so that it becomes stronger and they can produce

[quote who="thisisretarded" reply="5" id="2765125"] unique items in their shops would be cool too. (edit: other than the "awesome" pressed iron armor that they sell)[/quote] That must be unqiue to a specific one of the minor factions cause I've never seen them sell that armor. They usually are selling a few magic bands or amulets. All of which I can get by simply researching the magic tree. I did have one survive to late game because of their position on the map and they sold a lot of

When they first mentioned they would have neutral cities I imagined it more like MoM. They would simply be cities scattered around the map for you to conquer if you wanted. But instead they are actual faction you can conduct diplomacy with. The problem though is they can not grow, their cities are limited if conquered, and they are just in the way. They should remove the city building limit on Minor faction cities cause most people just wanna raze them as soon as they get them. Next t

I'd like to see some quest with more options in them. The "Yes/No" really isn't much of an option as most of the time it's either accept or refuse quest. In the case of fighting enemy monsters it's more like Complete or Abandon quest. They could do a lot of story stuff with the multiple options but also could have reward choices. Like the smith that always gives you shield which the OP mentioned could give you choice Armor, Weapon, Shield. More then 2 options would be nice.

[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="4" id="2760336"]In the betas you had to build a structure ("training grounds" or something) before you could train units. They removed it because it made the early game quite boring. I think that was the right thing to do. [/quote] Yea it made the early game boring becuase it cost 100 gildar! Things are gonna be slow when your only way to produce units is one of the most expensive buildings in the game and your expected to buy it sta