Luckmann

Your info is wrong. But not for the reasons you think it is.

Yes.

Plan? Kind sir, you give them far too much credit.

Of course it should. You're not some abstract god or some eye in the sky. You are the Sovereign. On another note, I think "survey threads" are generally frowned upon. Yes.

[quote who="TucoBenedicto" reply="11" id="2515392"]Fallout 3 sucks badly. gameplay 10/10? That's a joke. I can think about half dozen FPS-RPGs and none of them is worse than FO3 in gameplay.[/quote]Most of the scores are a complete joke. Sound 9/10? Story 9.5/10 ?! Fallout 3 is a "passable" game at around 6/10, even if you don't compare it to previous installations of Fallout, including Tactics. Because if you do, it's goin

How about no?

[quote who="xGhost4000x" reply="6" id="2524685"]I don't think I've posted 500 times yet. It doesnt matter if it's fun to me. I read history books when I'm bored(working on Lords of the Horizon currently) and I find that entertaining, surely Elemental can match a history book.[/quote]Hah. I can 1-up you. I'm sorting 10k leaflets into stacks of 100. How's THAT for boring? :p

Everything looks better. Hogs resources like mad. Run forced AA in Diablo 2 for lulz.

Minidumped?

[quote who="aeortar" reply="43" id="2523305"]That means they're a good thing. The more people "exposed" to videogames, and the larger the audience, the more money there is in videogames, which means companies can make more money producing videogames, in turn leading more companies to produce games/existing companies to produce more, and be able to spend more on producing them, meaning we get a wider selection of games to choose from, as well as more games which have had more money spent on th

[quote who="Splitshadow" reply="39" id="2521497"]Casual games don't do anything but pollute the industry. Making crappy games that appeal to a large audience doesn't do anything but expose more stupid people to videogames. If you wish to contend that Miley Cyrus did more for the genre of rock music than Thin Lizzy because Miley Cyrus brought rock music to more people, brace for laughter beyond the comfortable decibel range of your ears.[/quote]This.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="4" id="2522898"] [...] It was enjoyable playing with your friends too. They kind of messed that up a but with NWN 2 though.[/quote]Obsidian made NWN2, not Bioware. But I agree. NWN was fun to play with a friend. NWN2 was a clunky, badly optimized POS.

[quote who="TheColourOfHeartache" reply="76" id="2522878"] Populous actually has nothing on Dominions. Volcanoes *shrug*, try creating a second sun in orbit to adjust global temperatures. [/quote]You clearly haven't played Populous. We're talking leveling mountains and tearing the "Happy Valley" a new chasm. Things that (unfortunately) cannot be done in Dominions. Dominons may be able to lower or turn up t

Apple? Hahaha, no.

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="68" id="2519883"]Frogboy changed his mind? "Channelers have a very long life (hundreds of years – they’re effectively immortal in our game but they’re not truly immortal)." https://forums.elementalgame.com/374288[/quote]To me, it sounds more of a lore issue. By saying "hundreds of years" you effectively say that they cannot die of old age in the span of a game, but can still choose to kill them off or progress time from a lore perspective.

Awesome, awesome info. Good job, Winter.

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="69" id="2522041"] Quoting RisingLegend, reply 22 P.s- Shurdus, you will never be able to use that rain of fire spell if you don't change your avatar What is more scary, a wizard that looks evil and makes everybody think 'better prepare for a rain of fire spell' or a fluffy, laughing kitty that suddenly, without any warning, is able to cast rain if fire on his flabbergasted enemies? Be afraid of the kitty... Be very afraid![/quote]

Kinetic Barriers and Warp Fields. We just need more power to do it. Somehow.

[quote who="HorseStrangler" reply="32" id="2521935"]Don't get me wrong, I'm as interested in a cloud city on Venus as the next guy, but I don't think we're going to leave our own solar system in the next century. I seriously doubt we'll ever make it out of the Milky Way. There's no evidence to suggest that any other race has ever made it out of their own near space , on some level you've gotta admit the odds are against us being the first. [...]

Phew. I was afraid we'd get an Americommunistic Moon Base there for a while. Good thing Obama keeps the wheel of history turning in the right direction. The more we follow the path of cyclical time, the sooner we'll get back to something worthwhile.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="13" id="2519993"]Why anyone would ruin a new machine/OS with a Torrent is beyond me. I spent ages with an InLaw's machine which had LimeWire on it.....removing all the porn and virii. You won't get me paying for hosting someone else's downloads....[/quote]" A torrent"? Kind sir, I had over 200 torrents running that I now regrettably had to disengage due to the reset! If he's running Limewire, it's his own fault. [e digico

Excellent suggestions, thanks for the help, all. Suffering from a killer headache and I have a lot of work to do tomorrow before I get started on actually formatting the computer and installing Windows 7 on it. [quote who="kryo" reply="8" id="2519543"] [...] Win7 has all the video codecs--it only really lacks a Matroska splitter and means to process embedded subtitles nicely. But as you can get FFDShow and the splitter alone without using CCCP, I'd reccommend aga

What Anti-virus/Anti-Spyware/Anti-Malware/Firewall would you recommend? Preferably one that can be completely turned off. I used to use AVG, but it conflicted with some programs/games and it had to be uninstalled to be turned completely off. So unless things have changed, AVG is out - which means that I need a new favourite. Preferably freeware, but I'm open for suggestions.

So, it's one of THOSE threads again. I'm tired of Vista now, and a recent upgrade seem to have solved some of my issues, but not all of them. New ones have cropped up and I'm no longer sure if it's a hardware or software issue. The natural thing to do is a reformat. Might aswell upgrade to Win7 in the process. Currently backing up everything and downloading "the essentials". So far, apart from (the latest) graphic and motherboard chipset drivers, I've (re-)downloaded Open Offi

[quote who="Astax" reply="90" id="2512033"]I think there can be a First Born bonus, so that if the first born is the leader he gets a certain bonus for being first born. But others can become the leader.[/quote]I'd prefer to have a "pit fight" system of succession. The first-born isn't favoured. The one to win the glory of the cage is! Edit: Sorry for double-post, but quoting is screwy as usual.