Lord_Asmodeous

[quote who="Baleurion" reply="53" id="2720593"]. I was a naive noob a few years ago.. I awaited a little supposedly HUGE ZOMG game called Spore.. It was supposed to be a huge massive living evolving galaxy 4x evolution game. Then the reviews came, and handed it GOTY awards, 9.8 scores, praising it as the coming of christ and all our prayers answered. It fucking sucked. Bribed reviews are an infestation and part of the reason why I dont pay any attention to them anymore.[/quote] &

[quote who="Windexglow" reply="67" id="2720385"] Unfortantely the people who pirate games because of the DRM are outclassed dramatically by people who pirate because A: It's free. B: You don't have to get off your ass to do it This game could cost $0.01 and people would still pirate it. Google some statistics on the Humble Indie Bundle, quite sad. DRM isn't to prevent pirates as much as it is to prevent reselling it, and in the case of li

[quote]Tom Chick is a terrific reviewer and a big fan of strategy games. Not that he's the Word of God or anything, but as far as game reviewers get, he's about the best you can hope for[/quote] For a second there I thought you were talking about Yahtzee... ;)

[quote who="kryo" reply="39" id="2720039"] does that make me a beta tester? If you've already been charged, you're considered a "beta tester", regardless of any actual participation or lack thereof.[/quote] Ahh, so should I be led to assume that the delay for pre-orders that weren't beta testers is primarily a billing-related deal?

I dunno, that looked like a pretty epic fight. The AI Notes are good, hopefully those are going to be added in soon.

[quote who="Soulfire777" reply="37" id="2719681"]So many qustions about MODing on day 1? Don't you people want to take a week or two to just play the game and get a feel for it before you start changing everything? heh[/quote] Think of it like Legos. You wouldn't just play with legos as individual bricks, would you?

[quote who="bonscott" reply="43" id="2718947"] Quoting SumoX, reply 41 Most likely they spent three times as much for some Alienware junk system they think kicks butt and couldn't tell you the difference between a CPU and a video card. [/quote] As a totally random aside, Alienware is not the Alienware it used to be. They've come down in price to be comparable with other companies now, and they're pretty good dollar-per-pound. <p

[quote who="Exolhar" reply="12" id="2719221"] Quoting Exolhar, reply 11 Quoting Lord_Asmodeous, reply 8Can you give us a timeframe EST, Froggy? Like 8-4? 10-2? Etc? Can you also please give us your timezone? Sorry about this. I found the answer in another post. Stardock is in the Eastern timezone (-5).[/quote] I specified EST to hopefully avoid confusion. Didn't even realize they were over here! :

I hope to, but I know how my attention spa---ooooo butterfly...

Can you give us a timeframe EST, Froggy? Like 8-4? 10-2? Etc?

[quote who="Taikoen" reply="12" id="2719140"]I think by now Stardock has learned that not [b]1%[/b] of customers will be happy with 100% of the features, functionality, game play, and graphics, but they seem to pretty well have me figured out.[/quote] Fixed that for you. ;)

[quote who="MxM111" reply="32" id="2718748"] When I lost access to beta I actually new about posts that the beta is locked, and we should not update if we want to play (though it was not in large red letters at the time). However, I also knew that there will be release for beta testers BEFORE the actual release date, without specifying a particular date[/quote] Patently false. [quote who="Frogboy"] We’re going to be making the g

[quote who="kryo" reply="24" id="2718665"] dude called Kryo just lost it and just did nothing to appease the people who had a problem (I did not have one, working at the time, I did not push the doom button). There is no need for a dozen threads with the same people complaining about the same subject when there's a sticky on the matter. That is why they were locked. Hordes of duplicate sky-is-falling threads on pretty much any subject (no less one discussed and warned about da

[quote who="Thizzbaby" reply="19" id="2717818"] 1. Its an entry in the hierge.... book , so its not ment to contsantly update. Its pic that appears on his 'card', when you update your sov the card stays the same.[/quote] Which personally I find to be a problem, because so many of the poses require weapons to look right, and it really sucks to have them never have a weapon in their hand in the pic or constantly have a club. It sho

[quote]The games with the fully fleshed multiplayer however(Victoria, Hearts of Iron, AoW2)[/quote] Are entirely not-comparable because they're not turn based. It's really easy to make something like Vicky, HoI, EU3, or any of the other continuous time Paradoxian games, or an RTS like AoW multiplayer, because the game translates with little change since the time continuously flows. TBS is an entirely different monster altogether.

I think people are misreading somewhat. I don't read that as "dumbed down multiplayer" I read that as "Less monotonous multiplayer". Anyone who's played Civ4:BTS Multiplayer on Marathon knows that it can really... really... really drag out, and finishing those games is.... difficult at best. I don't see a problem with a toggle for it or whatever, but saying it is "dumbed down" is disingenuous, I think.

At creation you get the 4 basic elements, and then Enchantment and Summoning. The rest you've got to find.

All very good ideas. Judging, though, by the screenshots in his AAR, a lot of those things you've mentioned are already in it, including Special Attacks and whatnot.

It's called "antiquing". The thing about the map looking worn. [i]Edit: Oh, and good work, Frogboy, you just caused me to go and spend the extra $20 to upgrade to the LE box + Digital Download version with this video. Well played. :) Assuming I can find the link, of course.[/i]

[quote who="Tridus" reply="21" id="2715639"] Quoting clockwerk, reply 18 Oh, I agree. But, perhaps these vendors are paying companies to produce exclusive content. As a consumer, are you going to use Steam to buy vanilla Civ5 or are you going to use D2D to purchase Civ5 with two extra civs? Assuming that the prices are the same and you are not a fanboy of a certain services, you're going to purchase it from D2D. Doesn't the Steam version come with a Civ?

Except we're not talking general content. The maps are cool incentives. Getting a credit from the retailer to a DLC download is a cool incentive. Leaving out CORE FUNCTIONALITY if you don't order from a particular retailer is not an incentive, that's a pretty poor business decision. This is also not "wanting everything for nothing". I want to have access to the same Civs that everyone else that paid the same amount of money I did. If I spent $50 and you spent $50, we sh

[quote who="Hrothgar" reply="10" id="2715457"]I fail to understand how one's failure to take advantage of a particular offer constitutes being "cheated."[/quote] It depends on the game. If I'm playing, say, Fallout: New Vegas, missing out on the preorder bonus is no big deal. It doesn't affect the gameplay as a whole. If I'm playing Civ, and I don't get to have one or more Civilizations because I did not pre-order or I pre-ordered from a different

[quote who="Lord KiRon" reply="10" id="2714791"]150th step and already bored? I play Civ on marathon speed and still consider it too fast! - No time to REALLY use all the technologies you develop. [/quote] Civ4 also has functional AI that battles you pretty hard. Try playing it on Settler or Chieftan. You'll be bored to tears by turn 150.

I have a further question on this, Island Dog. Is this going to be an encrypted preload (a la Steam, et al) or is this going to be a playable preload with 0-day patch unavailable until launch day?

I have been following the beta process from the outside, as when this all began I didn't have the money to plop down a preorder, and by the time I did they had cancelled it (you know, because it was a month from release and all that). So I missed it this time, and I am sad, but after reading over the Elemental BETA forums and the Elemental General forums, I can only say I wish I'd had the money sooner so I could have offered input. :P I agree with the fellow who said th