Kamamura_CZ

Copyright infringement is of course not a theft. There are factual differences (by stealing a bike, you are denying its use to original owner, unlike in copyright infringement), and for example in Czech law, if you make a copy of a protected song or a game for your personal use only, it's not even punishable. I know you Americans love your "wars" on terror, drugs, etc, but until that TTIP crap is signed, you will have to respect that laws are different in different countries

[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="25" id="3503242"] You're advocating committing a criminal act. I'd be surprised if that weren't against the forum rules. [/quote] It's only a criminal act because those in power are strong enough to bribe it into the laws. There were times when saying that there is no god was also a criminal act, one punishable by death. Laws are not expressions of some categorical imperative

Well, I finished the game and it was a strange one. Every other faction but me and one Cultist faction died by themselves, have no idea how. I have been sprawling and turtling a bit, playing as Wind Walkers, and the cultist had many villages and a huge army, and started to be really aggressive. I know I could not stop them, they had better stats, and on top of that, their units were counters to most of mine (ranged slayers). </

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3508186"] NSA at it again? [/quote] NSA can use built-in backdoors in Windows and SSL, TLS and so on.

I have played one game with the latest patch, and the problem is that the AI empires are imploding just by themselves. I got three messages of AI destroyed before even meeting them, and the only empire I fought with (pretty balanced war on the borders) suddenly imploded too. I was not even really winning. I wonder what's the cause - independents laying siege to their capitals and they don't notice, or what?

Far Cry 3 was nothing special, and the story was really lame (resembling something a marketing department cobbled together while high on cocaine). Fourth sequel thus does not interest me.

Endless Legend sale on Steam - for 16 Euro. I just bought it, fantastic game.

AFAIK Alien Space should be a similar game, but I did not play it.

Hello, played it last year on PS3, highly recommend it, it's really very well made. AFAIK there is only a remake for the PS4, which is of course superior in terms of frame rate and gfx quality. I don't think that PC version will be coming in a foreseeable future, the game was part of the Sony strategy to have attractive exclusives to lure people to their platform. I bought PS3 quite cheap for the Metal Gear Solid games, Last of Us was a nice surprise.

0 growth just means people are too happy to reproduce, which is a paradigm called "The State of Philosophers" described by Plato. Once the populace reaches this depth of wisdom, there is very little you can do to convince them otherwise. For most of us, it's and out-of-reach paradise. Oh, I cannot stress this enough to the younger gamers.... people... just pay more attention than we did!

Also, don't look at daddy's naughty magazines. The devil can hide between sheets of paper too!

Luckily, free market fairy tales are hopelessly out of fashion. The wealth did not trickle, the "invisible hand" (whatever it was supposed to be) failed as a substitute for rational, knowledge-backed, informed decisions. The result of these experiments were costly, but the people still may salvage their planet before it becomes a barren, toxic wasteland. Economic systems relying on constant expansion (or "growth") are clashing with the very laws of physics themselves.

@Tattyhat - you are just a douchebag. Everyone can see that there is a lot of detail in this game, which is exactly what you won't find in phone apps. They tried a few really interesting concepts, of which many did not work, but you can't just brush off a massive effort like this... unless you are a douchebag. It's true that the game does not have a competitive AI, but none of the the modern 4X games have it. You are mostly playing PvE, optimizing cities, collecting

To OP - do you have some benchmarks to support your impressions? There are many tricks to give the impression of speed, like Superfetch.

Are you aware that you can force VSYNC ON via your drivers? Tearing usually occurs if you have low framerate and VSYNC off. If you switch VSYNC on, it will be replaced with stuttering and heavy mouse input lag (can be alleviated by selecting hardware mouse). You can get an optimal solution if you have GSYNC-compatible monitor and GFX card. In this mode, the framerate is variable and the monitor starts refreshing precisely the moment it receives a new frame. <p

After I saw what Arcen Games did in AI wars, I wondered why more developers don't adopt the same approach, and try to design a game where the computer plays according to the same rules as the human player, only to fail again and again. Most classic games like Civ5, Master of Magic, Endless Legend, all Elemental games, etc. have AI that cannot really formulate any sensible plan on the strategic level. It can pretend to compete only after being given secret cheating bonuses, so it can mass

Oh, such things are very much possible. I remember returning from a pub crawl once, everything was sort of a blur, and I made a lunge against the keyhole with my trusty key, but the door dodged it and I fell down the stairs. Vicious things, those so called inanimate objects.

It's a matter of personal taste. I like Endless Legends much better, it has far better interface, more interesting lore and factions, looks better and features more focused design. The areas where it's actually worse is the AI, the AI in EL is next to non-existent. Combat is weak in both games.

Had lots of fun with Kohan Ahriman Gift in MP, Kohan 2 was OK, but not that great. Great games anyway.

Sorry, no more rabbits in bags. I'll wait till I can see what I am buying.

Well, gave this one a try, and as Endless Space, it feature a really nice, eerie atmosphere, similar to Endless Space (the music is a great part of it). And the interface is simply fantastic, just compare it to... ehm... other turn based fantasy games. And hexes, yes. But the combat is rather weak, and does not make much sense - how comes you travel multiple turns across a few hexes, and in combat, the units suddenly run around the same space in terms of combat turns. It does not make

I don't believe how trolled this thread has become by one silly comment. Back to the topic - anyone played the beta? How rough/polished is it? Is there anything worthy of attention in the game?

[quote who="psychoak" reply="4" id="3493934"] I'd say it's great, but it seems Notch just wants to crawl into a hole and avoid the world, so he's probably not going to do anything revolutionary with his... extensive budget. [/quote] Why would he crawl into a hole? I bet he will throw parties and drink proudly.

Tremendous success for Notch, this catapulted him to the wealthiest elite. Quite an exception, not having to wait in a line of corporate bigwigs, polish someone's backhole or waiting for an elderly family member to kick the bucket. For 2.5 billion, it was really a no-brainer, can't imagine anyone saying no to such an offer.

The weakest point of any Stardock game I have seen so far was the story, atmosphere and lore. I don't think it's a good foundation for a solid RPG. I enjoyed Galciv 2 as a strategy, but the lore was totally forgettable. Same goes for the Elemental franchise.