[quote]- 3DNow...is that an intergrated video card that is being ignored in favor of the ATI card?[/quote] Thought 3DNow was a set of AMD chip instructions... similar to MMX, from quite a long time ago.
You guys are in the wrong galaxy.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWYi8xuX9M Just the music at the beginning had you in the right mode to play this, one of the best PC games of all time.
Keep up the great work Frogboy! Beta defintely getting better, but a good decision to delay.
[quote who="SirBedwyr" reply="11" id="2564492"] tetleyteacomment 8We can have wireless, but we can't have cell phones. Go figure that one out. My best understanding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft#USA_Channel_reuse The EMF issue is a touchy one. Self-righteous tech users sputter angrily and reference Mythbusters and the like. While they're right that most of the stuff on a modern jet is shie
[quote who="Raven X" reply="12" id="2581690"] Quoting Hawawaa, reply 3Yep new comp in Feb so Ill get a V64B. If its better than Windows Me ill bear the pain. Don't get Vista, get Win 7. If you're getting a new system it should come with Win 7 anyway. Trust me, it's a HUGE improvement over Vista. Win 7 has all the good aspects of Vista minus all the shit that makes Vista suck balls.[/quote] Think you are about to give yourself a big Homer DOH! You did rea
[quote who="Jafo" reply="33" id="2581125"] I admit though that I still don't like how in both Vista and 7 that Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't just immediately open the Task Manager. Ctrl+Shift+Esc[/quote] Or right click the taskbar and "Start Task Manager" if mouse is already in hand.'' And to throw my 0.02 on the topic; best Windows version by far!
Now this is great news. I think some good Karma kicked in for you Frogboy (and second hand to all of us!)
Most likely will never even fire up a single game of multiplayer.
Aroddo: Is that 2nd one the "death road" in South America?
[quote who="travitar" reply="22" id="2554444"]Brad, Any chance you could get Random House to publish a Kindle version of this book as well? Thanks again for everything, Travitar[/quote] You beat me to it. Would love for this to be a Kindle book.
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="81" id="2552845"]https://forums.stardock.com/373887/page/4 32 player multiplayer. This is a big one and will take a lot of work but it we are requiring that the game handle up to 32 players playing together. To make this work, it also means that games need to be automatically saved (to our servers regardless of whether it’s on a custom modded server or ours) so that stopping and starting games later is easy.[/quote] Is it poss
Frogboy, Are you considering any type of experience loss or (x)-turns of debuff when a sovereign lose a battle and is sent to a home city?
I'd say go with a worker unit, but make that unit either able to rejoin a city as population or upgradeable to a different unit type later.
[quote who="segallion" reply="37" id="2549470"]"Our plan is that sovereigns do not die until their final city is taken UNLESS they are attacked (or attack) on land of the opposite arcane alignment (life/death magic influenced land). If you’re sending your sovereign into battle into the Fallen territory (or vice versa) and lose, it’s over but that’s a case of the player making a very deliberate decision/risk assessment. You cannot be assassinated. " <br
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="3" id="2549503"]Yes, single player saves are local...though I hear 'saving to the cloud' option is getting popular amongst gamer-types. Back in MY day, saved games required a friggin' BATTERY in the cart, or worse, a 26 character password you had to re-enter Kids r so spoiled nowadays [/quote] Saving to the cloud would indeed be a great option, as long as it is that, an option.
I am 99.99% certain he was talking about multi-player. For any stardock single player game, you have no need to have internet.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="38" id="2544931"] That's awesome. Go tell the Firaxis dudes to stop screwing off and get to work on that X-Com sequel. [/quote] I'd rather they stop working on Civ5 (for now) and do a SMAC2, that is a franchise long LONG overdue for some new blood!
[quote who="DoomBringer90" reply="28" id="2543266"]tuco make sure you have the latest version of flash[/quote] And it has to be flash for IE.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="25" id="2542921"] I hope so. 2K seems to have narrowed what digital distributors it wants to put titles up on. Bioshock 2 is only on Steam and D2D for instance.[/quote] Bummer, hopefully you guys can wrangle it onto Impulse! Would definitely buy it there, else I'll probably get the boxed version, depending on what DRM they use. If it is not on Impulse and has some really draconian DRM, may have to pass on this, although that
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="24" id="2541669"] Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...[/quote] Quite brave, even to be joking about something like this :)
Am running the 5870 myself, loving it so far, it had been a long, long time since I had been anywhere near the top of the video card food-chain.
My opinion is DLC should never be about playability. You should not be paying extra for gameplay. They can sell all the DLC they want for customizing looks and the like. But any kind of gameplay advance should either be in the game, a free patch, or else in an expansion.
The ONLY way to get in the beta is to preorder via impulse. Pre-ordering at a store will not get you in. As to the when, there is usually a small window around the opening of the beta, so it usually is not just people already on the pre-order list, but also people who buy within whatever time frame that Stardock will lay out.
Wow, awesome post!
It'll probably make a great netbook replacement. But as an e-reader, it should be called the iFail. Who the hell would want to stare at an LCD screen for hours on end reading. You may as well just read on your current PC with a flatscreen. This thing is basically a large iPod touch with optional 3G. Note, I do have both an iPhone and iPod Touch, so I am not a complete Apple hater.