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LH seems just like an expansion, for which you would pay somewhat less than the original in other games (eg civ). That's exactly the case here assuming you already own the original game. Otherwise consider it as buying the original game + expansion. I guess it depends on if you see it as a patch or an expansion. I think it's got too much new stuff in it to be called a patch, so I disagree with a few people in this thread calling it a patch, although I can understand people cal

I prefer more and smaller updates. Too much changed and it all becomes a bit overwhelming. ie civ5. I am extremely impressed the way you guys are rolling out patches for this.

Doh, yeah that was it. Thanks for that. have some Karma ) One has to wonder though, why this is even an option, or off by default. Oh well.

Noob question here, no doubt. Not sure why this is a problem. I thought you should be able to left click once on the building you want to build and then it would show you where the building would be built as you move it around the perimiter of the city. That's what is happening on all the videos I've seen. So you click on the building in the list, then click on the build location and it starts building it there. However when I click on the building in the building list

[quote who="Grunthex" reply="276" id="3185979"]Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see Steam (and other digital retailers) simply stop selling to the EU given that ruling. If people can start re-selling digital copies (which unlike buying a used physical copy, has absolutely no downside), it might no longer be practical for them to bother with that market.[/quote] All steam has to do is implement a system of moving a game from one account to another. Pretty ea

To those who say you have to be online to go into offline mode... you are wrong. I disconnected my network while steam wasn't running. Started up steam and it says it couldn't connect and asks if I want to try again or go into offline mode. I select offline mode. Steam starts up. Maybe they have something wrong with their steam, or maybe they just need to check things out before posting.

People who keep saying how their winxp is running fine and everything else runs on it, should bear in mind that is because other game producers keep lobotomizing their games to run on 32 bit xp the same way a FE is probably going to be. I'ts a vicious circle that needs to be stopped. People stay with xp32 so game manufacturers compromise their games down to that level, and then of course people can say xp is running everything fine and stick with it. Round and round we go. <p

I like steam, but the only thing that concerns me is steam going out of business. Fortunately their "DRM" is easily circumvented should it ever happen. I am not happy with their differential region pricing, which is harder to enforce with boxed copies. (Price is .au are often $30 more even when we had a stronger dollar)

Whether you find a way to get rid of snaking or not, the current scale of buildings is way off. You need to either massively reduce the size of building squares, which will result in a much larger wilderness (which is what you need) ... or go for the 1 tile cities. I really don't see any point in placing buildings aside from snaking, and I think you should avoid going down the path where building placement makes a different. That is pandoras box, and the game focus

[quote who="Tridus" reply="9" id="3009100"]Impulse Anywhere disappeared? Oh hey, so it did.[/quote] Just back up your game directory. You miss out on the registry stuff, but usually it doesn't matter.

[quote who="impinc" reply="12" id="3009811"]Steam pisses me of in that it MUST be open to run games.[/quote] It depends on the game. A lot of games will run fine just by running the .exe directly (and won't try and start steam in the process) Examples are tropico 4, Bastion. Others, which rely on steam for copy protection insist on starting steam if you run the exe. (for example civ5) I guess you have to then ask yourse

As important as playtesting is listening to your playtesters.

Polishing a game that's going to sit there with a rating of 4.0 is bad business. New game. New review.

WOM basically went straight from alpha to release with either zero or precious little beta, despite beta being deemed to be 6 months or so. Look up beta in wiki and it will tell you [quote]It generally begins when the software is feature complete .[/quote] Yet WOM was having fundamental changes like single or multiple buildings decided mere weeks before release. WOM

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="21" id="2867874"]Mistakes were made and apologies were given. Then measures were taken to ensure that these mistakes were not made again.[/quote] I have great difficult believing that Frogboy couldn't see the severe shortcomings in the game, especially when the forums were overflowing with posts saying that people doubt the game is ready. The game was due to ship and there were various contractual obligations, so it was rushed out the door.

We need Bill Roper workling on elemental. Im sure theres some killer concepts like they used in Hellate London.

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="55" id="2853065"]Even though Elemental ended up on that dreaded list it gotted the least amount of votes! That way we can say that atleast Elemental is the best of the disappointments this year [/quote] Either that, or the least well known.

If you archive a game once it's patched, then you can just reinstall the archive, instead of having to redownload all the patches.

[quote who="GCFL" reply="3" id="2806069"]I personally think the problem is not in the quality of the code (in most cases) but rather the huge variances in hardware that simply did not exist 10 or 15 years ago.[/quote] I havnt done any programming with it, but I thought that was directx was for. I have to wonder, is the problem with directx or the games code?

[quote who="RickeyLee" reply="22" id="2799470"]So? I can only assume that Elemental was NOT PLAYTESTED over various platforms -- or that you KNEW about the problem BEFORE the game was ever released and somebody above you in STARDOCK said -- SCREW EM, TIME is MONEY -- we're gonna release it anyway and deal with the bitchin and moanin. Tricked Ticked Rick[/quote] There was a multipage thread on the beta forum relating to the memory leak that you talk

[quote quoting="post"]Guess I will get Civ 5 and clean this junk off my hard disk.[/quote] Civ 5 requires 2GB of ram. Ive tried to run it on 1 GB system and it just shuts down with an error.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="85" id="2790630"]I look forward to your game and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. In the meantime, go somewhere else.[/quote] What he said was spot on, and this response was completely uncalled for. Guess nothing's changed.

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="310" id="2787426"]Up until that last line, I honestly wasn't sure if you were talking about Elemental or Civ 5.[/quote] Up until that last line I wasnt sure if you were a misguided fool or just a troll. I bet your one of the idiots who rated it 10 on gamespot. Love is blind.

[quote who="D8alus" reply="5" id="2778744"]There are billions of permutations that they cannot account for so there are many issues that simply will not crop up until public release. That, again, is the reality of the situation.[/quote] Its not like all these crash problems suddenly appeared after release. They were well known before release which you would be able to see if the beta forum was still available. Stardock decided to release anyway, fully aware of the

The poblem wasnt testing. The crashing was known about, problem was they decided to release anyway. Apparently they considered a buggy program ready for release, or so they say.