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[quote who="Sarudak" reply="26" id="3058451"]I can't wait! I'm so excited![/quote] And I just can't hide it! Sorry, showing my age again. ;)

Brad, you missed the perfect opportunity to "Hill Street Blues" this one. Should have ended this post with a "Hey, let's be careful out there!" Btw, this post has really got the blood pumping!

[quote who="ddd888" reply="99" id="3058329"]the point imo is that there is NO single player or multi player game there is nothing like that there is A GAME, stat a game should work single player AND multi, always[/quote] Well you enjoy that in your world, in the real world there ARE still single player games, whether you want to admit it or not.

Got an email around noon today (1/18), but it was just saying that it will be available at around 3 EST tomorrow. Didn't get a serial or anything yet though. Guess the serial may automatically get added as well though. FYI: Elemental [Pre-Order] (Download + Retail Box) on 9/17/2009

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="51" id="3057652"](1) FE has over 3 different types of loot: Sausage, Gold, or Sausage (2) FE supports both 640x480 resolution with 16 colors OR 320x200 with 256 colors (3) FE copy protection is that the player is always connected to our server playing ala remote desktop. So there is no code on your machine. (4) Relate to #3, max FPS is 10 frames per second. (5) Music is handled through an optional Ad Lib sound card.

[quote who="askjosh" reply="2" id="3057643"]someone must be a fan of Sienfield [/quote] Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Alright, finally went Imp! Started a Sith Sorceror on Kaas City, name is Qualkech (yep, random named it, but I'm sure I'll have 5 alts starting with Qual in no time), hope to see all you guys in there. bonscott: yes, you have to be the same (either Republic or Imperial) to group, or hell, even to speak with another person.

[quote who="Ryat" reply="39" id="3053962"] Quoting Leo in WI, reply 36Kinda forgetting Diablo aren't you? Diablo's story was lame. Very lame. A fourth grader could write that.[/quote] Wasn't making a point of the story. Which by the way I agree with you. More of the point where you said all they did before WoW was RTS, which Diablo clearly isn't.

[quote who="Ryat" reply="35" id="3052720"]Blizzard only did RTSs before WOW. Story is not as important in RTSs as in RPGs. Hence Blizzard's "awesome" story work for Starcraft/Warcraft was good in comparison to other RTSs but would flop with RPGs. Bioware, on the other hand, has always done RPGs so they know what they are doing.[/quote] Kinda forgetting Diablo aren't you?

Yes. Yes. Maybe. (It'd still have to be a game that interests me) x2 - game at home and on my computer at work (it's nice being the boss) edit: also my laptop is win7 x64, so make that x3, although I don't game often on it, when I do it is 4x games only

[quote who="seanw3" reply="22" id="3043778"]What about space combat? Is it any fun or just tacked onto the rest of the real game?[/quote] Feels a bit tacked on. Granted, I have only done the Fondor mission. Have heard Bioware is planning on expanding a lot of the game in the coming years though, not just more content, but more "game" as well. I'm imagining that is something they might up the ante on in the long run.

What the hell are you kids doing in here, GET OFF MY LAWN!

[quote who="Alstein" reply="35" id="3036499"]Example of zealotry: I did buy the OD stuff on sale two weeks ago, though I haven't used much of it yet. I wanted to give something for FE, and I was curious about the FE stuff. I wasn't going to pay $50 though. I'll probably buy the things I end up using when they go on sale in the future though, there are some good apps there. Also waiting for the client to mess around with it more. Don't like the webpage activation much.[/quote]<

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="73" id="3033336"]From a polish/balance perspective, it is, in its current state, considerably further ahead of even WOM v1.4.[/quote] Wow! Well that is very encouraging. And more than slightly maddening as well, having to wait! LOL, but all good, the time will be well spent I'm sure.

Let's see, gonna go in a somewhat historical order, along with some thoughts on each at the time... Pong (home version) had it at my Dad's when I was a kid in the 70s, couldn't believe it. Asteroids on original Atari... kept me glued, simple game, but I was hooked. long stretch of time with no holy crap... :( I was gaming this whole time, and it was fun, but no defining moments Text adventures

[quote who="IronKaiser" reply="34" id="3032264"] quoting postMy solution was to create custom quests for each sovereign to start with. You would have to earn some of your sovereigns starting bonuses and treasures. That way the player had a motivating objective for his first 100 turns that would get him in and playing. While it might not have solved the specific dilemma that you were trying to address, I hope you kept the brilliant custom quest feature. It so

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="3027012"]The beta is going to roll out similarly to how WOM was done. Around Thanksgiving (and it'll be after it because no one wants to be on beta babysit watch during the 4 day weekend) the first phase will go out which will be to people who joined the earliest of the WOM betas. Soon after, it will expand to everyone who was part of the WOM beta process. Soon after that, it'll expand to everyone who bought WOM by re

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="29" id="3021787"]As has been said before their are ways to make the embarking system less cheesy so units aren't building boats to cross every lake instead of going around. If you require having a harbor on the water then you could say that the boats are just automatically sailing from the harbor to where your units are, and are not being built by the units themselves. That would also require infrastructure and you couldn't just invade other continents wit

Any chance you could throw in a fix for not seeing "goodies" on the cloth map? Just mentioned it in another thread, but seeing as you are rolling solo now, this may be the best spot for such a request. Thanks for the update by the way. Good to see you still grinding away on this!

Looking good, thanks for the update Derek! One question... has the bug where items don't always show up in the cloth map screen been eradicated. It is one of the nastier ones in my opinion. Missing things near you just because you don't want to zoom into the high detail map is very annoying, and still exists to this day in E:WoM.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2983702"]That said, to keep expectations realistic, you should all assume FE will suck and give you cancer.[/quote] Hah! Very nice, glad you are going the new route. And I'm also glad you are keeping WoM alive at the same time. It'll be nice having both WoMs different design and FEs more classical 4x design (at least that is the impression I am inferring) to choose from. Thanks for the update Brad!

I agree with Heavenfall here, I like the chance for both parties to take damage. If it makes more sense to you think of it as both of you are acting at same time, the one who goes first just initiated the combat.

Is this broken again in 1.30? Just ran into what seems like the same issue.

Haven't had any issues with firefox 4 with this site. I don't run very many extensions though, perhaps one of those is the problem.

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="4" id="2819523"]As long as Bill Gates has a hand in MS, it will not happen (Windows is not the best, it just has the best Marketing). Once he has retired, I would not bet against another OS taking over.[/quote] Hasn't he been retired for over 2 years now?