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Reply to Elemental would sell better as a subscription game than as traditional product in War of Magic Stardock Forums

That's the same slippery slope as DLC, which leads to let companies develop the barest of bone of a game, and making gamers pay for the rest of the content in little bits. I don't fear this from Stardock, which is probably the most dedicaced and honest company in the video game world, but your idea simply sucks.

Reply to So the game seems to favor "Glass Cannons"... (commentary and suggestions) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Spyndel" reply="17" id="2746684"] Addressed above. Few other tactical games do this, for good reason, IMO.[/quote] Damn, sorry. I parsed through the thread to see if the point had been already made, but obviously missed it. Doh, and I hate when others do it :-/ That being said, after reading your reply, I really don't agree with your point. I don't see how not using the "attack and retaliation at the same time" has any link with high-attack/high-de

Reply to So the game seems to favor "Glass Cannons"... (commentary and suggestions) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Err... There is a very simple way to fix the "glass canon" problem. Just make it so that the attack and the retaliation are done at the same time. So even if the unit is destroyed, it still inflict damages on the attacker. I don't see the need to add another layer of complicated mechanisms when a very basic solution exists. It's actually the system already used by MoM a long time ago, by the way.

Reply to Game changing elements from Master of Magic (PICS) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Serkon" reply="86" id="2746524"]It stings when you see a game like MOM still delivering a more 'fun' experience. You cannot help but to compare these two similiar games to one another and when the much newer game drops the ball on what we feel have become fundamental concepts to the genre, thanks to the pioneer games like MOM, heck yes we aren't happy.[/quote] I think that what stings the most is that, as the developers admitted themselves to love MoM and to wan

Reply to Game changing elements from Master of Magic (PICS) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Wauthan" reply="69" id="2745904"]This thread is getting seriously weird. If MoM was somehow resurrected using todays technology everyone would hate it. The balance and bugs where horrible in the last official patch and the concept was almost cartoony in simplicity. Face it, you don't actually want MoM. You want something new. Something better. And definitely something different since you all obviously played the game until the floppy discs shattered, and thus already know each and

Reply to Game changing elements from Master of Magic (PICS) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Baleurion" reply="63" id="2745713"] If they just straight copied MoM at least they would START OUT with a great core gameplay experience, which they could THEN modernize and build upon. Sometimes its pointless to reinvent the wheel, especially if the wheel turns out to be a hexagon that rolls chuggishly.[/quote] I'm... afraid I have to agree here.

Reply to Elemental Poll is up: How do you like the game? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Rather disappointed. There is potential in it, but as for now, the game simply is lacking. The problem being, it would require to be rebuilt from the basis to become really shining, and I'm not sure that even Stardock is willing to basically redo the whole game. The UI is very bad, lacking clarity and intuitiveness - there is still basic gameplay features that I do not know how to use, and I'm far from being a newcoming to the gaming scene. It's clunky, not easily readable and

Reply to What are the best TB Fantasy RPG/RTSs out there? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Anyways, I keep hearing people mention other RTS games like dominion and MoM etc. I would be interested in trying a new game while I wait for Elemental to get polished.[/quote] It seems that, despite hearing people mentioning MoM, you still haven't played it. Just do it. Honestly, despite its age, it's still by far the best of its kind. Nothing comes even close to it. It HAS flaws (very unbalanced mainly, but also very bad diplomacy), but the good is so m

Reply to Game changing elements from Master of Magic (PICS) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I also share the OP's thoughts about MoM. But then the problem is : basically, the more I think about it, the more I simply realize that I wanted "MoM 2.0". Basically a graphical upgrade, rebalancing and maybe adding some perks. I'm not sure that I do EWoM justice, because I've a hard time judging it on its own merits and not just comparing it to the "MoM 2" I wanted to get.

Reply to GalCiv2 AI vs other games' AI in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Anyone saying that the Civ IV AI is "great" though needs to define what is great. It's easy for a game like Civ IV to have an AI that beats you if it cheats. The AI in Civ IV cheats very early on in the difficulty levels and cheats severely as you go further up. Civ4 AI cheats a lot when going up the difficulty levels, sure. But even at "no-che

Reply to GalCiv2 AI vs other games' AI in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If I compaire it though to Civilization and Alpha Centauri and those games i'd say the AI is simular to SMAC if not slightly worse but FAR better than any Civ game. Hu ? Civ3 and Civ4 AI dust the floor with SMAC AI... So I fail to see how you can have an AI better than Civ's but worse than SMAC's ^^

Reply to GalCiv2 AI vs other games' AI in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The GalCiv II AI is quite a remarkable piece of work. Sure, a good human player will always be able to beat it, but an average player will have a tough time on settings where the AI doesn't cheat, which is an incredible feat. Civ3 and, even much more, Civ4, also have excellent AI. Soren Johnson gets all my deepest respect for this work (having programmed this AI single-handedly). Even an average but experienced Civ player will have to play correctly to win a Civ4 game on nor

Reply to *SPECIFIC* Suggestions for Improved AI Aggressiveness in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

1. The AI's primary function at the higher game levels has to be to DEFEAT of the human player at all costs without cheating. No. The "everyone vs the player" syndrome is precisely one of the most annoying trick that AI use in countless games, and it's one of the most irritating feature. I like the AI precisely when they DO NOT differenciat

Reply to Tech speed in 1.1 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

No, that's not true. A bonus of x% stays the same regardless of the tech costs as it is applied on the research output, not the tech costs. I think what he meant was that, as tech takes longer to discover, bonus to research translate in a larger absolute number of turns where you can benefit from these tech (if you take 20 turns to find a tech, a 10

Reply to Tech speed in 1.1 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I guess I'll have to mod this speed out, and slow down the tech by two or three. But well, do anyone know where this is found in the config files ?

Tech speed in 1.1 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

... it's became WAY WAY too fast ? 0_o I took a rather good start, with many very good planets (difficulty normal, I know, I know ), but still... I had the tech put as "slow" in the galaxy settings, and despite that I've always half of the tech requiring less than 3 turns to research, and many of them only 1. I'm barely with the version 2 of research building (the one just after the basic research center you get with x

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I apologize if what I suggest has already been asked, but I don't have the guts to read the entirety of the pages ^^ So, my suggestions : 1) Make the main interface a bit easier to navigate : - A "details" button when you select a single ship, just like when you select a fleet (so that I can still issue orders when I forget the hotkeys). - The ability to upgrade ships in fleets. - The ability to filter the ship

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Beginner's Strategy Guide in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

I would think that clicking on a ship and then clicking on a destination would be the basic definition of an intuitive interface, but apparently that's too simple for you. What a freakin' waste of 50 bucks this game was. Actually, it IS how it works. Like any non-absurdly-programmed game since