illmunkeys

It's a pdf now: https://forums.elementalgame.com/434518

I second the PDF/ePub. Reading on a monitor is meh.

Rather than scrolling, left click and drag. Its a better way. But yes, window locks for those who hate to drag.

Corrupted an air shard I had built on already. Error message that the shard couldn't be destroyed because it would break the contiguous-ness of my city. Air shrine disappeared and death shrine appears. Cannot build on the death shrine. Air shrine still adding mana to my pool despite being destroyed.

Opt out. Pop-ups are annoying.

Left click. Drag. Much more efficient than side scrolling.

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="100" id="2965135"]illmunkeys: 1. "Brick and mortar" stores: the kind you walk into physically and buy something and walk out with it. A physical establishment as opposed to an online 'virtual' one. Got it now? 2. You persist in thinking I don't understand you. I do. You and I are simply diametrically opposed on some issues. But that's ok, as long as it's done respectfully. What I personally believe is in #85. [/quote]</

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="77" id="2964737"]Copyright protection only goes so far. It won't eliminate "the market". If losing net privileges means nothing to the thief, then neither will these measures. However, I'm betting they will. Actually, I'm loving the 'brick and mortar' store example more and more. I believe the merchants deserve the protection and the thieves need hounding off the net or reforming their ways. I believe that if peop

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="57" id="2964616"]So, I've yet to hear a viable alternative. BS - yes, but no alternatives.[/quote] Why does their need to be a viable alternative? Copyright works. Seriously. It does. Content creators need no more protection. GAO wrote a paper in April of 2010, trying to objectively access the affects of piracy: "Three commonly cited estimates of U.S. industry losses due to counterfeiting have been sourced to U.S. agencies, but

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="51" id="2964537"] I still say that if you have to, you can sue in small claims court. I believe it would be solved long before that, though. Also, since you're not moving pirated files, there shouldn't be any question of what you're doing, and you can prove it. [/quote] No I can't prove I didn't steal. I can give them all my hard drive and I can tell them, "Swear this is every hard drive I've ever used." Bu

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="45" id="2964416"] Again, there are appeal procedures. I wish the pirates - hell, thieves, and their criminal empires didn't make this necessary, but they have. [/quote] No, the appeal procedure is a joke. I shouldn't have to pay the cost of an independent review. The prosecution should. And then, who chooses the independent party of the review and if the independent review rules against me, do I have to take the ISP to court to

[quote who="CarGuy1" reply="27" id="2964233"] Quoting kona0197, reply 15What about someone using my network to pirate something? I get in trouble instead of the one who pirated the files? Not cool. There's no excuse to have an unsecured network. If you are unsure how, here's a starting point.[/quote] Blah, blah, blah. IT guys _always_ say "This is easy. click here here here. Then .....

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="26" id="2964227"] So, I return and ask, what "freedom" and which "rights" are you losing? Even in the unlikely case you are warned, there are ample opportunities to rectify things and not repeat a mistake. So where's the harm?[/quote] Really? Well, I now have to be afraid that everyone I let on my network does the correct thing. Whee! An "independent review" that I pay for? Ie: I have to come up with evidence I'm innocent? Inn

Nope. Not buying it. The ISPs should not be able to levy fines or strikes or force me to "appeal a case" without evidence brought against me in a courtroom. I don't steal, but I don't want to have to appeal an accidental identification. They are putting the burden of evidence on the one being charged - a complete reversal of how our law works.

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="11" id="2956498"] Mass Effect 3: still torn on whether or not this is my kind of game... perhaps i should buy Mass Effect 1 on Impulse for cheap and try it out[/quote] Actually, you'll be more likely to make a decision if you play 2. Exactly like Dragon Age 2, Bioware "stream-lined" the game. Some consider it leaps and bounds better. Some... don't. I personally haven't had enough time to put into 2 to tell you one way or the other.<

Copyright already protects a creator's interest. The law already gives content providers enough power to prosecute and end any infringing material. Kyro has it exactly right: this is more power than necessary to protect IP. It has the potential to stifle correct usage of copywritten material. Even now, take-down notices are used incorrectly. This bill could have a chilling effect on free speech.

I really dislike micromanaging transport ships (personal opinion, yours may vary). I think it would be far easier for the AI pathing to have a tech that allows (certain) units to disembark from land to water without the need for any ships at all. This way, harbors should be used to put to sea only attack vessels. It would also be great to link trade routes through harbors as well.

Alpha Centauri - a strategy game I played far longer than any to date Neverwinter Nights - BG2 and Planescape Torment are far better games, but the mods had me playing again and again and again Lords of the Realm 2 - Yep, I played the crap out of this Zork - Seriously tickled my funny bone when I was young (and still does) Nethack - This game has more ways to die and more ways to play than every modern game on the market The Oregon Trail - probably the

[quote who="StarReaper" reply="84" id="2916299"] Sins of a Solar, made lots of money, Mount and Blade made lots of money, Total War, Civ5(even if its no good) is going to make tons of money, yes the list gets shorter every year as game makers make more fluff for the console, but graphically PCs destroy console experinces. There are alot of PC games still made and released. Gamestop chooses not to carry them. Hell between the 4 stores locally they only ordered 100 copies o

Alright, I don't get the crazy rage here. 1. Gamestop isn't any more evil than the next publicly traded corporation. They make a shit-ton off used video games, they have some exceptionally poor staff in some stores, and they do in fact make marketing calls to people who sign up for their club. My experience w/ them is to walk into their stores, nod or say "Just looking" to anyone who approaches, and zip to the used games section. At the counter, just say "no" to pretty much ev

I thought this was an interesting twist. I wonder if its some type of experiment: will people buy the game sans DRM over one packed w/ DRM? They really should allow other retailers to provide the game sans DRM and offer discounts on other games within GOG's catalogue to entice people to join GOG. I have already pre-ordered Witcher 2 from CD Projekt and I don't think this would change my mind. I was always going to buy this from them - GOG is too awesome not to suppo

Some have already pointed it out, and I concur: they don't have to let hacked boxes on their network. If you choose to hack, you choose to void your warranty and you choose to play offline. They are never going to take you to court for hacking your own box - selling services to hacked boxes or distributing material on how to hack a box is a completely different subject, of which you may get pinged for ala Geohot. I just wish Sony, MS, and Nintendo would stop forcin

Release: War of Magic: D Fallout: New Vegas: A Civ 5: C Dragon Age: A Now: War of Magic: B- Fallout: New Vegas: A Civ 5: C Dragon Age: A The Witcher: A. I didn't play this when it launched, but their impressive ability to not abandon the game and improve it with huge, free patches/DLC was awesome and convinced me I had to buy it. I have really, really high hopes for the next one. Betwe

[quote who="Infantes" reply="10" id="2881258"] So you think that Twilight became so successfull because they simply copied? I´d rather guess they became so successfull because they delivered something new (well, not new like in "nothing even remotely similar ever existed", more like in "a new mixture of known elements"). Vamp-Diaries seems to have been able to ride the shockwave that Twilight triggered but such things never last for long. The best recipe for a

[quote who="dragon512" reply="126" id="2882848"]I do this stuff for a living... In general the argument that python is slower is False. The question is which python are you using.. Cpython, Stackless, IronPython, jython etc... [/quote] Actually, that's wrong. Lua has a much smaller footprint than Python, which is why its faster. Anangara points out the PyPy is the only implementation of Python that comes close to Lua, which is correct. If we were arguing