NTJedi

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="58" id="2331886"] I give up arguing with you about this, because you misunderstand most of what I say, ignore most of the rest, and misconstrue the remainder as something I never said at all. [/quote] I disagree, also I wasn't at an "arguing" level only a discussion level. Perhaps to save us both time you should not reply to my postings and I'll also avoid your postings.... just trying to find us a way to avoid the lo

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="40" id="2331621"] If Stardock skimps on the unit descriptions and histories of the units they think most people will be familiar with, the result will be awkward. More exotic creatures would have more fleshed out text assets and then unicorns, vampires, etc. would get a couple sentences? If Stardock invests time and effort into including unit descriptions and histories (which they should, IMO, regardless of their choice of caste), then

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="14" id="2331637"] Except that the magic system is intended to be, from what I can gather, the crowning jewel of the game; and so expecting it to depart from the norm is, well, sensible. [/quote] I haven't seen anything to indicate the magic system is the "crowning jewel" of the game. Link referencing equivalent of "crowning jewel" for Elemental or is this another empty gut feeling ? I must recommend you

I enjoy many of the old D&D games on the PC, but the graphics and fonts for this game are painful. I play games with poor graphics such as Dominions_3, but Knights of the Chalice has graphics from the 80s.

[quote]Can you reccomend a good mp3 player?[/quote] No, but I can recommend ice cream during the summer. :)

[quote who="Coelocanth" reply="82" id="2329906"]2 expansions. The Kingmaker box contains the Premium Modules Kingmaker, Shadowguard, and Witch's Wake (the same three Premium Modules that are incldued in the Diamond Edition of NWN). They are not expansions. [/quote] It's currently being sold as a premium module by Bioware, but considering Kingmaker provides not only the modules, but due to the "new features" Kingmaker expands on the original game.&n

[quote] They released two expansions, not 3. [/quote] 3 expansions: Shadows of Undrentide; Hordes of the Underdark; and KingMaker (each has a box) [quote] This is a silly argument, IMO. NWN is a great game, yes, and the design of it, where you can get basically unlimited community content and new adventures is what's kept it going. And it's the game that I've spent the most hours on by far. But (IMO) the stor

[quote] Except for MMORPGs that are neary assumed to come out in "beta" status, if a game comes with bugs, it gets hammered by reviews (you have the recent Demigod example with multiplayer). It doesn't matter it gets great after several patches, the damage to the game for the general opinion is already done. [/quote] The games initial release is important, but game patches play a huge role because all games have major bugs causing not only crashes, but even permanently stuck wher

Thanks... awesome list. Hopefully one of these days I'll have enough experience to be considered.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="13" id="2329530"]On the reaching-the-devs point, I guess you're a bit new to the Stardock game group. They definitely follow the forums and they definitely respond to player feedback. The changes to espionage through the two GC2 expansions are a fine example. (And on an editorial note, I suspect that your chances of getting an idea into a busy dev's head tend to be inversely proportional to the length of your post about the idea.) [/quote] Yes, I see the

[quote]So my question is, would you guys like to see a few heroes who are very customizable, or lots who aren't? How many heroes and skills should, in your opinion, become the standard for the genre?[/quote] The number of heroes should mainly depend on the size of the map, yet other variables such as custom made maps and number of opponents may also adjust the number. A small map with 3 heroes would be normal. On the 64bit map sizes for Elemental which may use 4GBs of

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="5" id="2329252"] There is no story. Boogie just came in and said that right off the bat Poor eets. He had to hear it from Boogie himself. [/quote] So I estimate either eets is very good friends with the developers at Stardock and due to personal interests was banned from the alpha OR eets somehow antagonized one or more of the developers thus received the personal denial mess

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="5" id="2329192"]Just to let you know... I had to completely reinstall my system after the first time I tried to install SP3. The SP went sour, and nothing I could do would get rid of errant files. Nothing worked. Period. I would suggest you back up any critical files before you go to SP3, especially if your system is a bit dated. [/quote] I know long ago when I was working for Microsoft the most common cause for upda

Has anyone counted the number of individuals from this topic which have pre-ordered? I'd estimate it's around 200, but I'm just curious. My pre-order post is several pages back, but somewhere in here.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="11" id="2329340"] Heh. I don't have the kind of memory to throw down a list like that with any speed. Also, I meant no insult by the copy-paste remark; notes are a good thing on many occasions. Took me until about my 8th year as an undergrad to figure that out... [/quote] The only one from the list which wasn't from memory was Wall Crushing which I recognized while having the AoW:SM editor open. I've actually crea

[quote who="Vicente" reply="74" id="2329273"] The quality of the single player experience of NWN should be meassured by the quality of the single player campaign that came in the box, as that's what the majority of buyers are going to experience, not by the quality of other things you can get on the internet. [/quote] By that statement even patches should not measure a games quality because they too come from the internet. Any games quality is measured by what's provi

[quote quoting="post"]Ok, I know Serivce Pack 3 for Windows XP came out a while ago. For those who have upgraded to SP3 from SP2, do you need to reinstall programs after you upgraded it? [/quote] It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall any programs... the updates may change files by adding new functionality, but rarely removes functionality which would prevent an application or service from working correctly.

So what's the story behind this tale?? It's like reading only 20% of a murder mystery... can anyone fill in the blanks?

[quote who="Bingjack" reply="69" id="2328628"] I only said the single player RPG of NWN was "weak", not "very weak". I would never exaggerate like that But like I said, discussion over. opinions vary. [/quote] Actually within Reply #57 you're exact words, "NWN was certainly driven by its multiplayer, as the single player game was very weak." As the discussion continued your opinion flexed between "lukewarm" and

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="8" id="2328672"] Quoting NTJedi, reply 7 ... All of what I've listed can appear as natural abilities without using magic for summoned units. Come on dude, the list above actually has "magical" in it, and I can't parse this last bit to save my life. Are you sure you weren't just pasting from some copious collection of notes on game coding and modding? p.s. Knockback was awesome fun in Champions, no

[quote]Today I spent a lot of time working on the story elements and timeline for Elemental to make sure it goes along with the book. There, I said it. There’s going to be a book that comes out at roughly the same time as the game.[/quote] I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about this book earlier in the forums or a developer journal, but it's new information for many of the new community members.

[quote who="Sammual" reply="6" id="2328597"]NTJedi - I think the OP wanted to see what kind of abilites we hope to see without using magic. Just special (Non-magic) equipment or special training. [/quote] The majority of what I've listed can appear as natural abilities without using magic for regular units. All of what I've listed can appear as natural abilities without using magic for summoned units.

[quote who="aeortar" reply="67" id="2328455"] why are you so desperate to disagree? [/quote] There's a significant difference between the view of "very weak" and the view of "average". Using details I explained how NWN was not "very weak".

I'm a fan... only recently found this topic.

I've added a few... obviously some are for heroes only. Assassin: Requires Stealth and allows the ability for the unit to engage with a random commander of an area and the commanders personal guards. Resistances: Fire/Water/Air/Poison/Life/Death... depending on the unit each of these resistances may vary from -200% to 300%. I wri