Spartan

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="1" id="2327823"] Coming from you, that photo does not seem so innocent.......... Oh, come on, it's not like it's got a massive phallicly shaped object resting between it's legs... Wait... SPARTAN! That was my first thought. Maybe i am just a perv(ect) as Aahz would say.Isn't that pervert?[/quote] What? [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] Double meanings and cryptic messages are a sign of true intelligence and of cour

To all the people that were selected... Congrats! You had better not

For me it was the setup options, diversity of the game elements and dynamic play. [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e]

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="4" id="2327013"]I think its because the new development plan is still pending. so nobody wants to post something that might not be true.[/quote] I'll send out some emails to media contacts and try to drum up some stories in the next couple days but first I need to update the avatar thread.

[quote who="Kanaric" reply="23" id="2327015"]This game + expansion is probably one of the greatest games ever created. I play it until this day, ridiculous replayability, awesome mods, overall this game if you like strategy is GOLD. I play it multiplayer as well, it is fun. The Grand Campaign can take weeks to play, though. Not a bad thing, this is a kind of game though that you dont really need to finish to the end of the t

@Nesrie - No worries. Also I agree with your position about "clean code". That is one reason I offerd to help pay for the update. I also think Paradox games are unique and always wanted SD and PI to merge and make something wonderful for gamers.

In my not so humble opinion eye candy should be icing on the cake. The game play and related mechanics are the cake.

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="25" id="2326383"]Sorry for anyone that didn't get in...'Damn you, random number generator!!!!!' [/quote] So all the invites have been sent out already then? [e digicons]:'([/e]

Hmmm... Sounds like the fat lady just sang... [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Minor update for stories related to the alpha selection. Sadly found none related to the change in the development plan.

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="15" id="2326181"] On the other hand, I'd like to speak up to any other defending fighters in the War on Verbs and say that one large reason that 'related' thread was such a failure is that "to fail" is a verb. Part of what makes the enemy so insidious in the War on Verbs is that they despise (or just can't understand?) the fundamental Indo-European sentence structure of subject-verb-object. Sure, it can sometimes make very good evolutionary-linguis

I hope SD lets us know when the emails are all sent out at least.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="11" id="2326156"] Quoting Ron Lugge, reply 10... More like changing publishers 3 times, with 3 different visions for the game, and a way overambitious design idea didn't work well for them That's more or less my impression as well. I lurked on the MoO3 boards for the forever-time it took them to move through those three publishers and eventually ship a 'product.' What I got right after RTM didn't seem at all like a masses-hate-complexity version of 't

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="18" id="2326058"]Have you played the game much? It is not a "multiplayer" problem persay. There are a certain number bugs that come up more often in multiplayer games, because there are, you know more players getting events than just one. If they fixed the bug it would help singleplayer and multiplayer. Thanks for being honest though, I guess companies that release a product are no longer required to fix a feature of the game so long as you don't care about it.[/quo

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="4" id="2326077"] I am leaning towards beta 1 being only cloth map in order to let beta testers have more input on the game mechanics (fewer assets to change if we accept a suggestion). I think that's a good idea all around. Inevitably beta testers will disagree with and/or have suggestions on mechanics, and it will be handy to be able to change them around more easily. If you're closing the beta for a few months, does that mean you've settled

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="10" id="2326098"] play-through story HaHa...dont know what kind of story you could really cobble together out of an Alpha playthrough, but I assure you...you're not missing out [/quote] So says the man with the keys to the kingdom... [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="24" id="2325703"]Good choice! I for one am currently thinking about buying the DA book to get a better impression about the underlying story and such. [/quote] I'm under the impression it is a very good book. If you are serious about the game it would be a worthy investment for the immersion factor. Shoot part of me hopes that some of the creative people on these forums with lots of free time would take it upon themselves to wri

[quote who="simone1977" reply="15" id="2325578"]Thanks everyone for the avatars![/quote] States the person without one - sigh.... [e digicons]v_v[/e]

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="22" id="2325582"]Ah, I see... Doesn't look n sound too bad either. But if I had to choose I guess I'd opt for SW:TOR. On a funny side note "TOR" is the german word for "goal" (like in soccer - not a personal goal). I may have to make some hard choices Like quitting your job or dumping your g/f? [/quote] It is two very small companies (owner) and a wife (also owner) as well as a couple little de

Good stuff. You should conisder doing a weekly gameplay survey exploring different systems and related options. Regarding the results for two and three, it does not surprise me. I bet the average age of people in this community is 30+ and many of us 40+. Most kids would select such an option because of ignorance methinks.

[quote who="ToJKa" reply="2" id="2325614"]"Don't buy a Windows before the first Service Pack is released" is my motto [/quote] It pretty much used to be mine until Win7. Simply put one can't wrong with Win7. I figure many companies that skipped Vista will upgrade to Win7 shortly after the first SP however. This OS should change many peoples mind about M$ seriously... It is worth every penny - now how many times as someone said that about a MS product?

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="25" id="2325562"]Stop hyping yourself, its just alpha. *runs for cover*[/quote] Yeah it is not Zydrate!

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="23" id="2325371"] Well, if that's the case then I imagine a lot of very happy people must have e-mail in their in-boxes. Well, they still have a few days, but *I* wouldn't put it out any later than tomorrow, simply to give those lucky people time to get it back in 'on time' before thursday release. I'm sure you know exactly to whom you should pass your feelings. trouble is, when those very happy people discover what is in their inbox

Yeah Mucha, Mucha, Mucha and MORE Mucha! Mucha for the WIN!!! [e digicons]\o/[/e] The following is a stained gass set based on Mucha: The following is a poster set on the same: <img src="http://www

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="16" id="2325475"] Quoting Spartan, reply 14I sooooooo wish for a CK2. I truely love that game. Me too. The original will just never be fixed enough to play multiplayer. It crashed on us all the time but CK2, where they build the code from the ground up would be awesome and most likely stable. Unfortunately that is definitely a niche game, and I doubt it sold real well. Here's to hoping though.[/quote] Personally I don’t really care for