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[quote who="Hortz" reply="19" id="2326381"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 4 Quoting Hortz, reply 2 It's not that it is just cartoonish, but that it's extremely minimalistic. Because a game that could potentially have 32 players and hundreds, if not thousands of units should have graphics like Crysis, and should only be playable on computers that won't exist for another 3 years. Gee, that makes total sence. Oh, and that's sarcasm, by the way How can anybody make

Oh, me wants more screenshots. Btw. last time I played a lottery I won... nothing of course. [e digicons]X([/e] Anybody knows when the Pax is. (Too lazy to google. [e digicons]O:)[/e] ) Edit. Ah, Annatar flew back in time to answer my question before I've asked it. Sneaky Annatar, very sneaky. [e digicons]:ninja:[/e]

Yeah, there is really a lot of improvement in the graphics in the last few months. It's fun watching how the game evolves. It makes you feel involved and shortens the time till the beta. So keep the screenshots (and the twitter updates) flowing. :D

Looks pretty pretty. :) The first picture makes me wonder though, is the map 3d or are mountains and hills just bumbs in the landscape like in CivIV?

[quote who="eetmorsqrls" reply="16" id="2222784"]hmmm, necro failed [/quote] Haha, your power has left you, evil squirrel!

[quote]And I will second this But they did it in MoM and CIV so I think we can expect it Though wouldnt be awesome to see a 20,000 people settlement take up like 10 map spaces and 20,000 visible little houses we could count!? lol right...[/quote] Since cities will spread on the map (each size increase gives you another tile to spread your city towards, ie. no one-tile cities like civIV, but multiple tile cities) I think we'll get a good representation of city sizes on t

[quote who="Gir92" reply="3" id="2053669"]Have you not heard of Dragon Age: Origins?[/quote] [quote]You can play the game from the traditional Baldur's Gate perspective by zooming out and controlling the entire party as a squad. It's more enjoyable, however, to zoom way in behind a single character and lead them around with the standard WASD setups. Attacking and interacting with objects is handled with a simple right click; there's no need to click for each attack. F1-

Looks very nice. I've only two little peanuts I don't like. The power lines/fences are much too regular and thus look a bit silly/artificial. The black lines are mostly fine, but when they're used at the bottom of the buildings/wall they make everything look like it is floating. I wonder if it would look better with improved shadows or more detailed grounds. Else, it looks very good and is pleasing to the eye. Oh, and I second the request fo

Considering the level of suck the show had reached in the last year, I'm not sure if I care. (And seriously, are their writers sadists or did they just want to test how annyoing the could make the President and Adama? I would have been much better if the Cylons would have succeded in wiping them out eventually...) [e digicons]-_-[/e] /rant

Greatest fear: The campaign and writing. The campaign in GalCivII was very lackluster and to me quite boring (though it got a bit better with the expansions). The writing in the game wasn't that good (though it had quite some funny jokes in the tech describtions and diplomatic messages) and it just wasn't very atmospheric. (And I still can't stand the grammar errors in the game texts...) Greates hope: Revival of the isometric turn based games, be they RPGs or strategy g

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="7" id="2050612"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 6 The whole middle ages RPG is getting a tad bit overdone. I'll agree with this. A Sci-Fi RPG would be a very refreshing change! A GOOD sci-fi rpg.[/quote] With Lord Kona in my party! [e digicons]:smitten:[/e]

Shorter WIllythemailboy: Global Warming is a a conspiracy of climate scientists to get more grant money. Or: Climate =/= Weather, I don't know the difference. Or: Weather stations are systematically flawed (probably by the global warming conspiracy cabal which has manipulated them all I guess) and they just agree with the measurements of satellites (holy cow, they now have artificial satellites in space that can measure temperature, what will those wacky scie

Yay for global warming. I like hot weather. Well, it will suck for the USA (does the word Dust Bowl ring a bell?) but since I'm from an area that will always have enough water, yay for me and sucks for the rest of the world. Btw. did anybody else get Bingo at the denier buzzword from psychoak? Cause I don't want to share my Bingo price from the Secret Global Warming Scientist Conspiracy with anybody else. [e digicons]>_>[/e] &nbs

What you're asking for is to preserve the random number which is used to calculate battle results. CivIV for example had the option in the game creation menu to preserve this seed during saves or to generate a new one when the game gets loaded. Personally I always played with that option off, since I just hate it when I lose something because RND thought it was a good day to be mean against me. ;) That said, an-always-possible-to-save option

[quote who="Tova7" reply="12" id="2043986"]Love the circle avatar...how'd you do it?[/quote] Use transparency for the area around the picture you don't want to show.

[quote who="Draginol" reply="17" id="2042188"]Just remember, all these buildings are totally customizeable by players. Think GalCiv II ships.[/quote] That's very nice to know. I know you don't like the comparison (since you probably had the idea before it) but Elemental sounds like it has as much customization as Spore, but with an actual game behind it. :)

[quote who="idunno116" reply="9" id="2040427"]I guessed there would be some sort of faction named after the Altarians and there it is, faction numero uno. I wonder what its strengths and weaknesses are.[/quote] Considering that I really really hate those goody two-shoes in GalCivII, I now have another reason to play the Fallen. [e digicons]}:)[/e] [quote]Kingdom of Yoren[/quote] But I find it more curious that the Yor seem to have been meat once, before

Considering that I always play GalCivII in the icon view and have battle animations disabled... why would you even want to add more graphics then just the cloth map? ;) Besides the cloth map looks very pleasing to the eye (not the mess that CivIV is when zoomed out...) so I'm really looking forward to play the bare-bone beta. :)

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="25" id="2040251"]Whats HoMM 3, and what was the random map generator like?[/quote] Heroes of Might and Magic III. If I remember correctly though, it's random map generation wasn't that good though. [quote]Wouldn't it be nice to have the source code to Civilizations or HoMM and their random map generator algorithms? Are there a

[quote]If aliens invaded earth, don't you think we'd all team up to fight them (I hope so)?[/quote] Nope. I would of course side with the Aliens for the proposed "dictator of earth" post they've promised me. Or in other words, why would I want to help my enemy fighting of a dragon, if that dragon devours my enemy for me? [quote]However, I'd also love the ability to disable specific events - at least the major ones.[/quote] Totally agree. Imho tha

Ok, first I'm a bit disappointed in the seeming simplicity of the stats involved in the system. While we don't know how combat will work out in the end, I really hope it's not as simple as in GalCiv with only attack, defense and hp and a bunch of special abilities or in CivIV. Combat in CivIV was imho always boring, since you only had some stats and some special abilities, which made combat very predictable and boring. But we'll see how it will play out in the beta I guess. I'm prepared to co

[quote]Having to personally oversee lesser tasks that would in real life be handled by someone you would appoint / elect in a game where you’re suppose to be a king always bugged me. [/quote] Of course the whole thing needs to be automatic, with a setting to either not reinforce a troop or to prioritize it. But the costs need to be similar to troop production to balance reinforcing experienced troops with new troop creation. Basically the proposed system w

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="4" id="1986730"](Why have I not been rewarded with any karma yet? )[/quote] Why do you lie? [e digicons]:P[/e] [quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="4" id="1986730"]There's also another method, much better then these 2 mentioned; the Europa Universalis/Hearts of Iron method (Paradox entertainment). It has sliders for upkeep and reinforcements. It costs you gold and draws recruits from your manpower pool. It als

[quote]It is true that I'm not a climatologist and that my knowledge of physics comes from other people. However, those guys with Ph.D.'s also got their knowledge from other people. Also, I have seen numerous sites which state that there are over 18,000 climatologists who say global warming is a fraud. Also, I know that the government spends billions of dollars funding huge numbers of the climatologists who say global warming is a problem. After all, we have to save the planet right? So

[quote who="Sarissi" reply="19" id="1979751"]Spell checking doesn't mean much when the word is spelled correctly, BUT, it is the wrong word. As in Loose vs Lose, for instance. (one of my pet peeves)[/quote] Yeah, but its a godsend for people like me, who know a foreign language mostly by meaning and hearing and thus don't know the exact spellings of words. It makes my posts readable where there was before only a garbled mess. :)