onomastikon

Is this also why FE will be F2P for most of us with significant DLC?

[quote who="onomastikon" reply="34" id="3156735"] I have had only very poor experience with DLC so far (see below for brief elaboration*), so I voted I have 64-bit but do not like the idea. Even if I had had wonderful experience with DLC functionality, I am not a big fan, because I believe a game should be much like the thing people used to call "albums". Remember those? Those things (used to be flat and round and made out of vinyl) were something like bundles of songs similar to the thi

I have had only very poor experience with DLC so far (see below for brief elaboration*), so I voted I have 64-bit but do not like the idea. Even if I had had wonderful experience with DLC functionality, I am not a big fan, because I believe a game should be much like the thing people used to call "albums". Remember those? Those things (used to be flat and round and made out of vinyl) were something like bundles of songs similar to the things people call "playlists" today, and some of th

Thank you for the replies regarding AI, gentlemen. May I ask: How is the pacing? Is it as slow and all-encompassing as Distant Worlds? (And general comparisons to DW are welcome.) Or as quick (but, sadly, as repetitive or, I might dare to say, as boring) as Armada 2526 Supernova? Thank you, much appreciated

Is, however, the AI poor? That's the $64,000 question to me.

Thanks. OK, if I were to fly to New York City, could I buy beer in a supermarket there, or would I need to go to a specialty store or distributor? But I can still buy large-caliber firearms without a problem, right? (Also no irony intended here...)

Excuse me, where do people in the USA buy beer (if not in supermarkets)? (

How does it stack up against DW?

... and it would not solve the problem of insufficient army balance and the suboptimal way the AI deploys them

[quote who="Disturbedcomputer" reply="8" id="3147419"]Quoting Zubaz, reply 5That was not the closing scene . . I hope you stayed until after the credits. What he said[/quote] What I said.

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="5" id="3147345"]That was not the closing scene . . I hope you stayed until after the credits. [/quote] (Hope to have made clear in my OP that I mean the final scene before the credits; I realize the two space villians had their chat, and that the American audiences got to view the team in the schwarma restaurant, which we in Germany did not get to see.)

Hey thanks much for those replies. I am fairly sure there was some attempt at a "subliminal message", but it could have been a bit of advertising ("smoke Camel cigarettes") for all I know. Would any of the smart people here know where I could find a still shot of the scene I mean? I seem to come up blank. Thank you.

Just saw The Avengers in the English version original at a cinema in Berlin -- quite enjoyable, methinks. In the final shot before the credits roll, we see the Stark building, heavily damaged, so that the STARK logo is blasted away, leaving only an A and a bunch of wiring and damaged concrete. In the area to the right of the A, in the wiring and damaged concrete, it appeared to me that there was some attempt at an etching of a kind of "subliminal message"; I'm not sure how to say th

[quote who="FrenziedFan" reply="11" id="3143962"] Quoting onomastikon, reply 10 Does anyone know where the post by Brad is asking us to vote? It has apparently been deleted, you can no longer find the thread, or Brads posts in his post history. I could not even find my own post. [/quote] [e digicons]:O[/e] Yikes!! [e digicons]:X[/e]

Does anyone know where the post by Brad is asking us to vote?

There was a post by Brad Wardell on this about two weeks ago, I cannot seem to find it. Has it been radically edited, or even removed?

I consider myself a cineast, I love good films, especially bizarre ones and ones that can be considered part of the sci-fi genre, even if that is fairly loosly taken. I like everything from well-established artists (Kubrick, Kurosawa, Tarkovski, Fassbinder, Van Trier, etc.) to weirdo fringe stuff you can only see at film festivals (which we have a lot of here in Berlin). At the college where I teach ethics, I run a monthly "Philosophy and Science Fiction" evening, in which a meaty sci

Finally got enough time in to vote. 0.91 is a significant improvement from E:WOM and I feel things are heading in a general positive direction. I voted "poor". I think it was close to being "fair", but I often felt that I was working for Stardock rather than having a fun leisure-time activity. The main issues for me were probably pacing, balance, and development. PACING: While I think the bugs and stability issues I experienced were within the realm of the a

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="185" id="3136929"] I don't want to sound defensive but I thought I was pretty clear in precisely the kinds of feedback I have said makes me think a person is looking for a different game -- requests for elimination of the technology tree or that it all be randomized. I think (I hope) people can see the difference between feedback suggesting that cities need to have more meaningful choices in them or that sovereigns need to get

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="3135581"]I think maybe this game isn't really for some of you guys. I mean no disrespect but I think some of you may want to just find another game to play. [/quote] I hope I am reading that wrongly. It sounds frighteningly close to the phrasing of some of your posts in June of 2010. That sort of thinking didn't turn out so well for you.

[quote quoting="post"] Move random events away from being random and into being “choices”. For instance, an event that currently just random makes everyone go to war instead turns into a council where everyone votes on whether to have a war of finality or an emissary comes and demands you give them 10% of your income, if you fail fortresses appear on the map that begin attacking everyone. Have weapons and armor that are “better” but cost significantly m

Alright, thanks much for these helpful replies! I suppose a part of my worry was that I have not gotten past step 9 of the "war" tutorial, which seems to be the fourth tutorial or so; although I've tried it four times now, the script gets stuck when my little "army" attempts to disembark at an island. Just makes me a bit more apprehensive than I'd normally be.

Because RTS has never really been my cup of tea (much more a TBS kind of person), I have so far never purchased a Paradox product. This one, however, has caught my eye, and has been wondering if this might be worth the risk. I have downloaded the demo and so far been somewhat dumbfounded by the tutorials, which seem to hang a bit for me. While I like the idea that there are thousands of tiny little shiny things that may or may not have any sort of impact on the other bits of stuff float

Seems that threat assesment might need to be adjusted a bit. In the second example of the first video, it seems that the AI was hoping on luck to be able to out-maneuver the monsters based on a number of variables all of which were difficult to predict. But in the first example (the drake), the AI had ample, simple and, it seems, fairly consistent and unambiguous information available to it but did not assess the situation correctly.

[quote who="GP1628" reply="27" id="3118488"]Are there any Scenario or Campaign writers out there? This game has scenario commands. But the previous Illwinter game was mostly just modding commands. So the player base is a lot of modders, and not much for writing scenarios or campaigns. I would REALLY like to see more downloadable solo-play stuff with creative quests and worldwide events available.[/quote] Why don't you try your hand at Battle for Wesnoth,