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No no no, it just has to be an RPG like the Puzzle Quest series. Only instead of a puzzle game, you just play Tetris.

At the moment, the tech trees are still not final. In beta 3, the Magic and Adventure trees have barely anything in them, and Sovereigns are completely unbalanced. So, it's possible to win with an overpowered Sovereign not building any cities, but not because of the tech trees. They're supposed to get more fleshed out in Beta 4, so we'll see. But, basically, it's too early to tell.

[quote]can i choose to play the game like a RPG (advance trought the questing and magic tree and build no city) and become so powerful that i can stand and fight with the civilization and warfare tree guys?[/quote] This is how it was advertised initially. However, it remains to be seen how the final balance of the game will come together.

[quote]Serious? Where can I get more info on this?[/quote] There's no real "info". Frogboy's just been posting in threads here and there. I don't remember the thread but there was one talking about how boring water is, and he pitched in saying there were plans on that already, just after release. He pitched in another thread about item creation that the first expansion is supposed to focus on that a bit, too. Edit: Found it. [quote]10) Re The Seas. Indeed. The se

[quote]1. other then water (the sea) keeping the players apart is it of any use???[/quote] One of the planned expansions is going to deal heavily with the water, so you can expect a more "stuff" there. For now, it's just geographical.

Frogboy, are you likely to add modding functionality as requested from the mod beta? For example, I'd like to be able to have quests of the format: "Monster has %chance to drop item, item starts quest." Currently, this doesn't seem possible as all quests are of the "Go to tile, get quest, go to spawned tile to finish quest" format. Would you take these kinds of requests during Beta 4, or are these locked until release and you'll look at them after?

In the early talks about modding, I believe the intention was to expose the AI in Python so that scripters would be able to mess with it. However, stuff like changing the game into Hex is basically an engine re-write, so don't count on that at all. Resources should just be XML based, so in theory can be added easily.

[quote who="Eidolon94" reply="10" id="2695264"]Interestingly, if you enter the names of some of the people complaining about being banned into Google, their profile at "www.steam-hacks.co.uk" is among the first results. [/quote] Which is why I'm skeptical about the mass complaints/Steam groups. Hacking sites have their communities too, so there's no guarantee that everyone in that Steam group is completely random. More likely it's just a bunch of people from the same hacking sit

[quote who="Phoon" reply="14" id="2695178"]Ironic when people get upset about not being able to use a feature of WINcustomize on a NON-WINdows system. [/quote] Also funny when people assume everything has to do with Wincustomize.

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="3" id="2695146"]Obivously all of those players are cheaters. They should shut up and pay another 60 bucks to Steam. [/quote] Really though, there's no evidence that they are not.

[quote]It really doesn't matter if you don't equate them as the same thing. He is talking about a matter of choice, regardless if it is such a terrible thing as rape, or something much simpler, as lying. Just because you have the choice to do something does not mean it should be allowed. You are talking about Chaos, because that is all that would come of allowing everyone whatever their whim may be. Don't attack him because he knew of no other words to use. You are trying to vilify him for no

[quote]So to answer your question I will respond with a question. What would be some reason for someone not to want a game in which you could choose to rape others even though you would never choose that option?[/quote] The two are not even remotely related, and you implying they are is an insult to every rape victim. Congratulations. Everyone knows a willful marriage/union of two men or two women is the same as extreme forced physical abuse, right?

The main difference between building from city and building by clicking the tile is that if you build from a city, it takes up build space in that city. If you build by tile, even if the tile is adjacent to the city, it won't use up any city build tiles. This basically makes building them from the city obsolete, since build space is finite and why waste it when you don't have to.

[quote]Mechwarrior[/quote] The new MechWarrior might still not go the way of Duke Nukem: Forever! But who knows..

Well, they also don't have that much money to just buy the IP outright in most cases. They tried to "license" some in the past, but it never worked out because the IP holders' lawyers just wanted too much. Edit: Also, with existing IP there are already expectations from the players. See every game that's gotten "revamped" upside-down. With existing IP, they have to conform at least in part to what's already there. With their own IP, they can do whatever.

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="20" id="2694181"] Company's like Stardock should be buying up old great titles for future releases....Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel ... I wish. It's too bad the companies that own the rights to most of these games just sit on them. Like Homeworld. Seirra didn't do anything with it afte Homeworld 2, and it looks like THQ is doing the same. [/quote] SD only wants to deal with their own IP, because they can do whatever th

Well, my suggestion is improbable because it already got shot down. The initial consideration for a resource system allowed for extensive item creation. Mine iron, send it to blacksmith to make a sword from, send sword to an alchemist to enchant with some gems, so on so forth. Then you'd be able to design units and equip them with these weapons, as many of them as you have.There would've been several different places that could do something with the items, so you could essentially customize y

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[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="12" id="2692670"]Follow up with some Dead Can Dance tracks without lyrics. It won't get you back to the testosterone tones of the Conan soundtrack, but they'll definitely encourage an Elemental frame of mind. [/quote] If we're going for Lyric-less relaxation, I'll throw in a recommendation for Amethystium.

Your logic is undeniable. And here I got excited..

[quote who="Tridus" reply="33" id="2692651"]and one of the first hits in google for it is this thread. [/quote] Oh my god! Are we, like, on the internet?! :P

[quote who="Greg30007" reply="3" id="2692641"]I love Enya. It's especially good if you want to calm down or just sort of meditate a little bit. For me it also works as background noise..... [/quote] *hi-fives Greg* Once, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away when I still played WoW before any of the expansions, I put on my Enya playlist over Vent during an evening clear of Zul'Gurub (we were easily farming it, so communication during fights wasn

Hey, don't knock on Enya. She's awesome!

[quote]Like i said i think CoH is pretty much the definition of a strategy game. So much tactics.[/quote] Then it's not the definition of a strategy game, but the definition of a tactical game. :P Same as DoW 2. Starcraft is a different beast that applies to different tastes.

[quote]Oh I can agree with most of that(there are Assassin heroes btw, just very very rare). However, Changing it in the xml to have them have few to no combat stats and removing all of the equipment slots wouldn't be all that hard. Throw in a flag to make them unable to be Imbued, and give them a 'Robe' slot and turn off all the others, set str/dex to be static at 10 and hidden, and replace the normal stats with a special table and viola, nonthreatening, but dangerous t