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[quote who="Vinraith" reply="13" id="2276719"]I'm aware that some people form attachments to specific services, but when you have a diversity of services that all work well and have no real disadvantages I really don't understand that. It's exactly the same as the throngs of Steam-lovers that won't buy from anyone else, it just looks totally irrational to me. [/quote] It's perfectly rational for me - I know Stardock, I know their support, I know Impulse. I am more content buying

I was a goon. :P

That doesn't necessarily make sense. People inevitably form preferences for their service. I didn't buy SoTS from Gamersgate, for example, but as soon as Ultimate showed up on Impulse I bought it because I happen to like Impulse. For me, between Impulse and Gamersgate, Impulse is my preferred way of getting stuff, and I only check Gamersgate for sales - the only game I have from it is King's Bounty because it wasn't available on Impulse until very recently.

:P Most of my PVPing was done in large fleets before Apocrypha and its server overhauls, when it was just a coin toss of which side loads grid first and wins while everyone else is either lagged to death or staring at blank space while really getting shot at and 40 minutes later cloning at a station.. :P Haven't tried it since the expansion, though I hear it's gotten much better. [quote]Is it worth it? Can't say based on few days playing... EVElopedia actually lists some wars

Now now, don't go around making people mysteriously disappear after getting their SD account information through sinister means of torture. ... That's my job.

But there are two pages of Paradox games on Impulse already :P

[quote]Plus, some people don't put their real e-mail addresses in out of paranoia.[/quote] Well, everyone needs a valid email for SD, since that's where purchase information and serials and such get sent.

Either that or the selected people will get an email. I doubt they'd post a list on the forums, though.

BoogieBac didn't seem very optimistic on Tuesday about it being today.. he said it wasn't looking too good because they still had a lot of little things to polish.

Next week would be nice, but with the holiday I kind of doubt it. So I'd guess sometime the week after. Wouldn't mind being wrong on this one though (wrong with an earlier release, not a later :P)

[quote who="Sammual" reply="15" id="2251789"]Elemental != MoM2 So far it looks like anyone who wants MoM2 will enjoy Elemental a lot, just don't expect it to be MoM2. Sammual[/quote] Yeah, which is basically what I tried to say in my post. It will obviously have many similarities, just treat it as its own game in the same genre, not a sequel to MoM ;)

Good stuff! Finally some gameplay :) Can't wait for the beta even more now.

Miniature giant space hamsters. Discuss.

[quote]Wow. I thought the bear cavalry stuff was mostly light-hearted fun among forumers alongside a legitimate request. I never would have thought someone would view it as a problem.[/quote] You thought right. FlyGuy completely missed the point of what the "bear cavalry" is. It's not an attempt to say "OMG, PUT BEARS IN THE GAME!". It's a suggestion to allow more exotic unit creation besides "Guy on horse". That's all. It's evolved into a running joke since, but I g

[quote]A lot of developers restrict their betas to North America only. That sort of thing always upsets the rest of us. I don't know if you were thinking of it, but please don't.[/quote] I sincerely doubt geographic location will have anything to do with it. Traditionally, Stardock has never discriminated based on location ;)

[quote]Icaros[/quote] Icarus* We'd also need an Agent Herman, and whispering "Laputan Machine" to it would make it surrender while whispering back "I am not a machi....." God, that was an amazing game for its time.

[quote]How much for a license to be able to play the alpha? Seriously.[/quote] Arm, leg, and half of an ear. Also, someone keeps mis-spelling "cavalry". Right-most medallion in the top row (the guy riding the horse) is named "calvary". I blame MITTENS.

Slight detour on the discussion (great news btw!). Spartan, do you want me to continue updating Sins news bits? The link between modcraft and clansofsin still doesn't look to be restored, so I don't know if you want to wait or have a wall of news posts at some point :P

Fuji apples are the best apples. Oranges are good too, but I'm with Kitkun - no peeling = win.

Bears. It's always the bears.

They don't stack :P (And it gets 80%)

Well we know players will be able to design their own units and upload them to a database, yadda yadda a la Spore. So there's bound to be some customization - but as far as body types/shapes? I dunno if it would go that far.

Well, at the same time I don't think the idea is to have 4x Sims.

[quote]boy[/quote] You mean frog. [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]

[e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e] Seconded, and I'll raise you a [e digicons]:borg:[/e] . Trailer looks good :P