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[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="12" id="2710801"] Quoting TheBirthdayParty, reply 8 Quoting SumoX, reply 2I can't answer your first two questions, but if you're looking for another "4x" game, I'd say buy Sins of a Solar Empire. I think it'll have a different enough of a feel (heck, it's real-time!) that, even after Elemental is released, you'll still be interested in playing it. I haven't played it as much as I should, but that's because every time I start p

Here is an interesting [few days old] Stephen Hawking interview [kinda off-topic, but ah well]: Stephen Hawking's Warning: Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction http://bigthink.com/ideas/21570 Let's face it: The planet is heating up , Earth's population is expanding at an exponential rate, and the the natural resources

[quote quoting="post"] 3. How can I distract myself the next two weeks?!? I played MoM and FFH 2, but it's not really helping. I've never been this excited for a game in a very long time... [/quote] AoW2-SM / Dominions 3 / Dwarf Fortress :)

[quote who="Spitz" reply="38" id="2710494"]Those long loading screens are a great place to display backstory bits of the Heirgamenon or gameplay tips . I've seen either option done to good effect. [/quote] Yeah, just like in Civ4.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="96" id="2710038"] Quoting DrJBHL, reply 95Well. I see my premise was correct. Any discussion of UFO's will eventually get to Government/politics/conspiracy theories and Sarah Palin. Good grief. Momma Grizzlies on you, Raven X. LoL You know who's thoughts I'd really like to hear on this subject? Frogboy's!! Possibly Boogie's as well. Come on guys, I know you're watching this thread. Let us know, what do You think? I already kno

It would be cool to have a "successor system", but since it's against the lore, we won't have anything like this. [We've talked about it a lot a while ago.] Perhaps some decent coder will be able to mod in a successor system. ;)

[quote who="goodgimp" reply="26" id="2709925"]Since when did 4+ year old hardware become "insane" system requirements? Having a really old machine is fine, but if you don't have a Core 2 Duo these days, you shouldn't be expecting to play brand new games in 2010 - especially not in a genre that typically is very hungry for CPU horsepower.[/quote] Agreed....and now some funny stuff. I suppose most of the ppl know about the game called "Dwarf Fortress". It's an ASCII

I like this! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

A picture is worth a thousand words, so........ -> [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="16" id="2709327"]Yep, pretty close to what I expected as well. [/quote] Yep.

Done. Good poll!

Lol, now this is a dangerous little cannon! :D

[quote who="Inteuniso" reply="92" id="2708528"]I have to ask, what kind of 3D modelers will be compatible for elemental? [/quote] 3ds Max & Maya for example.

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="14" id="2707859"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 1 AoW - SM is the best fantasy TBS right now, but [...]No way, no how. Fall From Heaven 2 takes that prize. [/quote] Nah. FFH2 is an awesome mod, but it has been created for a bad game engine. [...bad for a fantasy TBS.] [[PS. While we are at it -> The Third Age mod for M2: TW is the best amongst the TC mods ma

[quote who="Raven X" reply="70" id="2707169"] Quoting k10w3, reply 67 The videos are a hoax "What looked like numerous photographs and videos of a ship entering the cosmos was actually put together by not a team, but one person. Kevin Martin, a Southern California Weatherman has come forward as the hoaxer to what is likely the biggest hoax ever created. Martin claims he e-mailed the material to TheWeatherSpace.com in an effort to test a

AoW - SM is the best fantasy TBS right now, but EWoM's potential is much bigger. 1. The development team [Stardock] is awesome. They will keep enhancing the gameplay elements, and they are listening to their fans. These are very important things. 2. Modding. It will be very powerful in EWoM. You can create whatever you want. [You can even modify the core elements in the game via Python coding.]

[quote quoting="post"] That being said. I think I will make a frog the size of a dragon as a monster in my game and have it eat whiny villagers and what not. [/quote] While we are at it....my favourite game devs are both obsessed with frogs! Yeah, I am talking about Tarn Adams aka Toady One [developer of Dwarf Fortress], and Frogboy. Weird stuff. :D

Impressive stuff! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

[quote who="k10w3" reply="62" id="2707048"]I found this in the news today: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/05/churchill-ordered-ufo-cover-up/ [/quote] Heh...now check out this:

http://www.game-newswire.com/index.php/the-news/232.html The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), a nonprofit corporation dedicated to driving the worldwide growth of PC gaming, today unveiled its Horizons Hardware research report, an exclusive research study encompassing major aspects of the PC gaming hardware industry worldwide. Among the key findings: Annual shipment volumes for the PC Gaming hardware mark

[quote who="Raven X" reply="56" id="2706786"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 54 I mean, if any other intelligent civs would have the necessary techs to create "warp drives", "jump gates", "time machines" or stuff like that [to solve the "huge distance between the stars and galaxies problem], why haven't they visited our planet? Quoting Annatar11, reply 55 Possibly because we're one in several trillion? <br

[quote]@Tormy: My friend, how come you can believe in alien civilizations and not believe in them having the technology to build a viable space ship? What if that civilization were a few thousand years ahead of us in technological terms? As Humans we are limited by our current technology and also by our current understanding of physics and how the universe works. A species that outreaches our technological understanding by a few thousand years may very well of overcome our limitations. They w

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="3" id="2706500"] The goal is for the cloth-map version of the game to be playable on a netbook. [/quote] It shouldbe playable on a crappy netbook even, if you are playing on the cloth map. [I am not sure about tactical battles however with regard to hardware lag on a netbook.]

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="8" id="2706515"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 5 Oh I ban people from the forums but banning from the game? That seems pretty harsh. You sure about that? I've heard the same thing about Bioware/EA, but nothing really verified. I know one of the gentlemen from Reclaim Your Game got himself banned from all EA forums but not the games I think. [/quote] Blizzard has a good experience in b anning people

Just a note: We can modify the UI as well. ;)