It depends on what you are optimizing. Performance then it is probably best to go for large. AI then I would want you to optimize medium. I mostly play medium because I find large has too many cities for me to micro manage. I like to top out at around 10-12 cities at most with roughly the same number of outposts. Any more and it is too hard to track what is going on. Your 'fire shrine in the south east' getting destroyed can take 2 or 3 minutes to find. When you go to
[quote who="taltamir" reply="311" id="3201064"] You don't have those games, they are just associated with your account. When steam finally goes under you will lose every single one of them.[/quote] You do realise if your house was damaged by fire, flood or another natural disaster and you lost all your cd's you would be screwed, however if they were on Steam you'd be ok? Which would you say is the more likely thing to happen to
[quote who="tancred1425" reply="305" id="3197545"]I can't stand Steam. I was given Empire: Total War as a Christmas gift, and I have only played it twice. Because of Steam. Why do I have to be logged onto the internet to play a game I paid for? This is the same reason I will NOT be buying Diablo III. Forcing me to be online to play a game that I bought to play on my computer is not acceptable. If I want to be online, I'll buy an online game. I lov
So in the EU there would be nothing they could do to stop you selling your account then? That is the only way i can see to transfer games, and then it would be an all or nothing deal.
[quote who="Pheace" reply="195" id="3174121"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 194 Unfortunately zechio has got it spot on. Steam abuses its customers and it's sad that most customers don't even know they're getting abused. Strong words. How exactly do you feel 'abused' by Steam?[/quote] Didn't you read the list:- It corrupts perfectly good systems It will stop you
And now Steam corrupts your system! So a round up of why Steam is evil:- It corrupts perfectly good systems It will stop you from getting a job It will start to take photos of you to check it is you that is playing It forces you to play Lord of the rings Online... Online It will steal all of your games without any warning It will attach electrodes to your gonads (ok this one hasn't been mentioned yet, but I am sure it soon will be)</
[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="137" id="3169896"]- They are no better then Facebook or Linked-in for compiling pieces of personal information and selling it. You should be affraid that a potential employer will one day be able to put the pieces of the jig saw puzzle through the personal info traders and see your logged hours in a game service and not hire you. [/quote] So now it will be Steam's fault that you don't get a job, is there anything that Ste
Valve taking pictures of me? Paying for a Steam account? Good to see the anti-Steam arguments haven't changed over the years. What if all of a sudden it was found out that handling DVD's gave you a skin disease? And what if it was discovered that by using Steam your manhood would grow by 10%? You'd be happy you used Steam then! Well since we are using fantasy arguments why not? Strange that people know how to manually patch games, find online servers etc. a
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="115" id="3168976"]Am I the only one that thinks that a lot of these complaints about steam are either completely incorrect, have nothing to do with steam itself or are just about the way the industry is moving? I am continually amazed by people's ability to argue without the ability to reason or use logic, or obtain and use information about their argument. EDIT:I want to say I posted this
given that most forum users here are in the Beta anyway, saying that they will lose a customer is akin to telling someone you won't accept their free sweets.
And I still want to know exactly how Paper beats Rock. I mean, come on! Seriously if I was in a fight with some dude and I tried to beat him by wrapping him up, he would kick several tonnes of shit out of me. Rock would totally kick Paper's arse every time. Paper is just into hippy love shit! And I'll tell you something else, you try and beat me with that paper, rock, scissor crap I'm gonna whip out a flamethrower and totally pwn your arse. That is all I have to say on the
If the Walmart comparison was true Kickstarter would not be as successful as it currently is. There will always be a place where gamers make games for gamers. For example Wasteland 2 recently raised just shy of $3million in donations to help fund it.
IIRC Start Steam online (yes I know this is the sucky bit, you have to authenticate your account online before you can take it offline). In the options top right select restart in offline mode. Steam will now be offline until you restart in online mode, including when you restart that computer. If this doesn't work you need to make sure you account name and password are saved with the check box when you log in. Using this you should b
[quote who="DGB246" reply="42" id="3168213"]Brad, I can appreciate why you would like Steam on your end; they are a reliable distributor that pays up on time in full. But for me as a customer I get really fed up with them. The reasons being: 1) If I buy a disc in a shop I still have to spend hours downloading the whole game via Steam's servers - thats f'd up; don't they store the game on discs anymore? If you have to go through Steam anyway, why bother having discs
Nerfing Tarth so that the game is harder for players on Insane difficulty is a strange solution. Firstly Insane difficulty is about finding the exploits, without them you shouldn't be able to win. Secondly what you are suggesting would easily make Tarth the weakest race, you want to give every other race Tarth's abilities, how is that fair? And thirdly you seem to want to force all players to play the game your way. Personally I like to play as Tarth. They are great at the ear
I love Steam. I think it has been a major part in the resurgence of PC gaming. I love the fact that they cater for all levels of gaming, but still have a quality procedure before they will allow a game to be released on their client. I think the main anti-Steam people are just misinformed or like to fight a cause. The amount of opinion spouted out as fact against Steam is ludicrous. The idea that somehow Steam is responsible for making games licences only, this has pretty mu
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="61" id="3150091"]Challenging remains the best AI level without AI cheating. But for it to get better, much of it has to come from me getting better at the game and watching how others play the game. So often times, when someone says "Why is the AI doing this?" it's because that is what I'd be doing in that situation. The player is effectively playing me except with lots of statistical analysis.[/quote] you must be quite proud to see
There is a post on the Warlock forum in steam that is knocking E:FE. "I've played Warlock - it's excellent. I've played the first Elemental. It was one of the dullest things I've ever done. I've yet to play Fallen Enchantress so it's impossible to reach any conclusion but the odds sure favour Warlock at the moment. <img class="inlineimg" title="Smilie" src="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/v4_images/smi
