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[quote who="StevenAus" reply="15" id="2809290"] Quoting OMG_pacov, reply 11OK - your thread title is driving me crazy... trying to think what that phrase is from - I think it is rock of love and brett michaels acting like a goof, but not sure. I think it is just that it is an update from Frogboy and frogs hop, so "hoppening". Best regards, Steven.[/quote] I was thinking a cross between that and Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles "What's happenin' hot s

Don't know if I'm missing it, but I'd love to be able to hover over a unit/city and know to which faction it belongs. Or at least when clicking on it, put the faction in as one of the details that is shown. All in all, getting better and better, still getting some crashes here and there on win7 64 bit (on two different computers, one with a GTX260 one with an ATI 5970), but nothing reproducible.

[quote who="AmbiMurder" reply="14" id="2637341"]So if I preordered the game before making my Impulse Account i'd supose that they would eventualy email me the key right?[/quote] Make sure when you do make your impulse account you use the same email as you pre-order with. It will definitely cut down on any possible headaches.

And yes, by pre-ordering now, you are guaranteed to be in Beta2.

[quote who="MorganDeWitt" reply="11" id="2632001"]Does this mean that if we want to get into Beta 2 we have to pre-order before it starts?[/quote] I believe there is also a somewhat limited open window that they take orders before locking it back down.

[quote who="Paul Foegle" reply="2" id="2630023"]I just want to be able to pre-order it...[/quote] Not sure if you care or not, but pre-ordering through any retailer will NOT get you into the beta. Only pre-ordering through Stardock directly gives the option of entering the beta.

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="9" id="2628863"] Quoting Romothecus, reply 6Yeah, but when was that? I don't think the beta is currently open, so recent pre-orders won't get access in an email like that.The email was in response to my pre-order, 30 Sept '09. Your pre-order confirmation email makes no mention of this? That's strange, if there's no serial number in that email I'd expect there to be some mention along the line of "we'll send you another email when beta opens up

[quote who="taltamir" reply="444" id="2628495"] Not so with Steamworks game like Civ 5. Not only will Steam and Steamworks have to be installed, it will have to be running in the background just to play, even in offline mode. If Steamworks worked like Windows Live did for Fallout 3 or the way Impulse works I wouldn't have a problem with it. But instead it's invasive and pushes itself on me just to play a single player game. Thus I won't stand for it and I won't ev

As long as you purchased the game directly through Stardock you are good to go... if you ordered through some third-party site (I don't even know if that was available for the limited edition) then you would be out of luck. With Stardock you always have the option of downloading the game. You'll never even need to put the physical disk in your PC if you don't want to.

You are correct. Make sure you have "show pre-release versions" checked in the Impulse settings.

There are many of us beta testing currently with Win7 64 bit, so you should be fine.

[quote who="Aractain" reply="31" id="2624957"] why do you have a cat in a box as an avatar? [/quote] Cougar crossing ?? :)

[quote who="zigzag" reply="30" id="2624907"]Let me preface this by stating that I love Stardock and I'm committed to buying Elemental. I don't think it's fair to say that Elemental is the evolution of strategy games. I think it's one direction in which strategy games could go, but I don't think it's the one that they should. I've always favored strategy games with relatively few rules (i.e. games that are relatively predictable) and relatively few roleplaying elements. I

[quote who="TarponCrest" reply="12" id="2623471"]Good stuff! I am starting to think that there is a surprise in the works over the way the tactical battles will be handled for it is being kept out for now (Surprise us "Frogboy" with some new awesomeness like you did with the spell editor). Off topic of sorts but... I been wanting to pre order but noticed the warning that I will not be charged until I actually get the game. I can be like an absentminded professor and well I ra

[quote]If you don't mind my asking, why don't you like to have your consoles online? I can understand with the 360, you are pretty much forced to buy a $100 wireless adaptor, but the Wii's is built in. I've had mine connected since the beginning, although I admit I don't go online very often.[/quote] Only if you want wireless connection. My 360 has been plugged in via CAT5 from the beginning.

From what I recall Xbox360 has a ton of old games also, think I bought Joust, Contra, Frogger, Galaga, and some others.

I know when I tried this method, it didn't work for Dragon Age origins when the two machines didn't have the same operating system. I'm not sure if that will be the case here, but keep it in mind if something goes wrong.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="252" id="2616130"]That 2K response just as easily applies to any number of options. If game updating and mod handling was their primary concern, there were plenty of other options that wouldn't have required bundling a third party store with the game.[/quote] Agreed, if it just bundled Steamworks, which in turn didn't require an install of Steam, I doubt many of us would have a problem. It is most definitely the tying together of Steamworks a

[quote who="TCores" reply="237" id="2615624"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 232 I want the old days where I'd start up a game, consult with my friends (voice program, IM, forum, etc.), one hosts and the others connect, and voila! -- we're playing. No third party. And updating being as simple as clicking on 'update' when firing up the game and it checks automatically, or perhaps I visit the game's site or similar repository and DL the patch and apply it myself. <b

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="33" id="2554776"] Quoting travitar, reply 22Brad, Any chance you could get Random House to publish a Kindle version of this book as well? Thanks again for everything, Travitar You beat me to it. Would love for this to be a Kindle book.[/quote] Well, Kindle edition is up for pre-order!

Well, well, well... good news, clicked on the link, and there is now a link to a Kindle edition!! Thanks, Pre-ordered!! Pretty sure I talked about this in the much older thread about this book, gonna go and update that thread also if I can find it.

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[quote who="VicenteC" reply="50" id="2604228"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 49 This might have been true in the beginning, but after they got their foot in the door they pretty much beat down any competition to a bloody pulp anytime anyone even attempted to compete with them. They've had enough legal issues that say exactly that, with enough blood on their hands not to be able tojust claim they deliver what consumers want. They're right up there with Intel in shady business practices. I am

Crash to desktop while moving sovereign. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5804849/debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5804849/DxDiag.txt Most recent zip file in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic was not from today, but from 2 weeks ago, not sure why that didn't generate.

[quote who="Naithin" reply="2" id="2602106"]Good to know, Thanks very much for the answer TCores. I'm hoping that now is a good time with Beta 1 seeming to be wrapping up shortly, that perhaps Beta 2 will accept a few more people into the mix. [/quote] It won't be just a few more, EVERYONE who has pre-ordered automatically gets into the beta as soon as Stardock opens it again, which shouldn't be that far away. What ordering now will get you