Wintersong

Elemental: War of Magic at $5... [e digicons]:omg:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] Give me 10!!! *cough**cough* Sorry. I consider interesting prices those who are at 20€ or less. Those under 30€ can be considered and those above 30E only if they are truly special (at least aparently) or I have personal motives. We have here in Spain distributors like FX Interactive or Codegame who sell games quite cheap, no one over the 20€ mark. Which is great. And yet, p

Why should anyone care if God (why should we believe "God" is the true one? Why not the kami? Or Titania? Or Chtulhu? Or...?) exists or no? More precisely, why should anyone try to stomp their ideas into the rest of the population like if they were pure truth in a can? People should be more worried about being able to get along with other people, specially with people that thinks different (as long as that "different" isn't a "let's kill/destroy/dominate anyone who doesn't agree with us"... O

If the game was playable in a window (or alt-tab friendly), I could use any text editor. If it was or even if it wasn't, I would be able to use pen and paper too. Or just my memory (altough in my case it's of selective nature which isn't very good). But if it's not a lot of trouble, I would prefer an in-game tool that allows me to record details in a text form: be it events or just some kind of diary (or just to write a note to myself for the next time I continue that game). Not that I w

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="11" id="2130124"]Yes, an even log will be 100x easier to implement than a story generator....and the notes ides should be doable (just add an empty 'Event' wher eyou get to fill in the details...then you even get the timeline of when the note was posted). [/quote] As there is no cookie DIGI*CON, I give you this: [e digicons]:pizza:[/e] [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

[quote quoting="post"]So a person who buys say Civilization V off of Impulse[/quote] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] Can I preorder now??? [e digicons]:pout:[/e] On topic, I must say I'm quite impressed (more than usual that it's already quite a lot) with Frogboy (and Stardock). Honestly, there isn't any point I disagree with. Also, your honesty is always welcome, Frogboy, you capitalist frog![e digicons];)[/e] Time to check Phase 3.

BoogieBac, could you consider to add a "notepad" to the game? So I can open it and add whatever information I need to record. And that whenever an event (popup/window/message/globe) appears, it has a button that adds the relevant text of that event to the "notepad". The text file for that game's "notepad" could be edited in and out of the game so the player can add and/or delete as needed. Also, make sure that Elemental comes by default with a clock so we can know when is too late to

Flashbacks a la Gal Civ II in 3, 2, 1... Winty: "So I need to send my troops to protect City03. The better route would be through River02 and Forest04, altough Mountain01 would be slower, it would be also safer thanks to my Keep02 in that area..." [e digicons]XD[/e] Obviously, it not just (and only) about the "looking cool world". It's more about the feeling of such world (while looking cool if possible [e digicons]:drool:[/e] ).

Good luck, Stardock/GPG!!! I really need some spare time these next weeks or I'm going to begin to choke with so many games in my computer to play with. [e digicons]XD[/e] Seems a very nice package for a collector's edition. At least quite better that some collector's editions that I won't mention. Are we still on time to suggest the content for Elemental's collector's edition?

Me wants Beta 0. Now. So many free hours during july and august's afternoons/evenings... And still 22 vacation days to use for this year... Damn Stardock, forcing me to choose my vacations according to a Beta. [e digicons]XD[/e]

Any chance of having Civilization IV Complete in Impulse AND being able to bind it with my retail copy?[e digicons]:pout:[/e] As I also have the vanilla Civ IV (with a manual that I expect to be thin compared to Elemental's.... really[e digicons]:D[/e] ), that could also be nice, altough I only play BTS. On topic, could I ask for a Earth map for retail made in Elemental? I really enjoy playing such maps. And that 224x160 seems really nice and scary too... Don't dare to imagine the 6

1 & 2 & 3: Elemental: War of Magic. The rest would be nice distractions when I feel the need for a change of pace. Specially if we can try to add mods during the beta. XD

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="1" id="2122116"]I don't know. I always envisioned Elemental as a pure-fantasy game with no adbvanced technology. Not to say that Stardock shouldn't try to create a fantasy-scifi hybrid at some point, but I would like to keep Elemental "pure". [/quote]Spelljammer or Planescape feeling for the win.

[quote who="pyalot" reply="3" id="2121150"]Breaking news, you're a flametard. Next at 11: more flametards [/quote]I suggest you to ban yourself from using the internet from some years until you mature and/or grow more self control. I suppose that some people find extremelly difficult to reply to something they disagree with with an "I disagree.", "You are exagerating, sir.",... [e digicons]:puke:[/e]

I was talking about real books. [e digicons]:blush:[/e] I do not read e-books. When you buy a game, you pay for the right of owning the box, the manual, the disk and the right to play the game in it(NOT to own the game per se, as if you had created it). I want to buy a game, install it without online activations, serials,... and that as long as I have the proper hardware (computer) and software (drivers and OS), I can play the game as long as I want (be it months, years or

My suggestion for pyalot and the ones like him (and for which I'd not suggest to hold their breaths while they wait for their desired solution) would be to stop buying any games at all. That's the only way to avoid any kind of DRM. That, or make your own games and make sure they don't use any kind of said DRM. After all, videogames are not as vital to one's life as, lets say, food, water, air... And "fun" can be achieved by other means different to videogames. As far as I know, books don't ne

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[quote who="Ralsar" reply="6" id="2107928"]Demigod's beta has wore me out with the "This game will be an utter failure if Thor's Hammer's slow effect isn't reduced to 4% instead of 5%!!!111" type of attitude... [/quote] Some people think that they know more than what they really know and/or that their opinion'll only be taken seriously by using menaces of epic failure if what they say isn't done. Also, some people'll always complain no matter what.[e digicon

I'll be happy if they give us some info about those alphas they'll be playing...

[quote who="Xehr" reply="20" id="2096447"]Large Developer - Put my game on the bigger userbase with the better DRM and we know people will buy our hit no matter where it is put.[/quote] Better DRM? Compared to Impulse you mean? Or in general? People getting caught in Relic's forum playing pirated versions were funny to read. They were playing pirated versions a week prior to release ignoring Steamworks. Also, Impulse doesnt' force me to install the client before I can install my game,

"As new titles come out bundled with Steamworks, which requires a user to become a Steam user in order to play the game (something I would normally think that the press would raise alarm about if this were being done by say EA or Microsoft or even Google), the Steam user base has continued to increase." Not just play the game. Even to INSTALL it!!! [e digicons]:thumbsdown:[/e] Very big nod to the comment about the press...

If you are without internet connection, you better have another game that you want to play installed... You could prevent such situation getting Steam in offline mode once the game is installed and fully patched, only getting Steam online whenever you read in the official forums that there is a new patch. Only interesting if you don't care about multiplayer part. Still, it's not good.

The disk may come with the "latest" Steam and GFWL clients but it still needs to check versions seems. So you'll have to install the newest clients whenever you decide to install the game again in the future. Appart from that, you only need to download patches. I have Steam to autopatch the game but I read that I can configure it to not autopatch the game on start. Unlike Impulse, Steam requieres you to start the service whenver you want to play the game. It doesn't seem to

People not noticing the internet requirement are people who can only blame themselves. The game box states it quite clearly. Online shops can be tricky with their advertisement tough. Steam may be the devil of DoW2 but it doesn't requiere any credit card (fortunately) (yet?). My internet connection isn't the best one but I have quite good download times. Downloaded the beta in just 45 minutes and that's the longest download time for me (included patches, switchi

The game installs from disk but first it must check that you have the latest Steam version installed... which means that you need an already up to date Steam version installed or you need an internet connection(as the box already advertises anyways) to update the ones that comes with the game.