Undead armies are a dying breed. If you want ultimate evil represented in your game world, ensure you cast your vote for spells that turn units of your enemy to do your own bidding.
From Questions for August 2009 : In either case, we plan to start making public to those interested in seeing the sausage factory that is game development our internal bug reports. ... You'll be able to see all our foibles in the journals area starting next week as the good, bad, and ugly of the game's develpoment starts to come together. O
Aion mostly, with about 30 minutes of play time (each) for a bunch of strat games (Empire Earth, DoW2, CoH). I keep looking at Dawn of Discovery and East India Company and am trying to figure out which one is better for me. I don't know enough about either to make an informed choice (I would only get one as they appear to have similar themes).
[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="18" id="2323718"] But I still don't want that in the actual campaign. I want the campaign to be crafted like a well-written book. I want there to be miniscule details and plot twists and fleshed out characters and personalities. I want it to feel like I'm playing through a good book. And a heavily randomized campaign simply cannot provide that feeling.[/quote] I'm on board with having both an Official Campaign and
[quote]I hope PBEM will be included as a multiplayer option.[/quote] While I'm not necessarily interested in PBEM, your wish prompts me to ask if the game will allow multiple campaigns/games to be managed at a time. Not to play simultaneously, but to (for example) be able to start a campaign, save it, start another campaign or MP game, save that session for later continuation, start a PBEM game, save that, etc... then pick up again seamlessly when I wish to continue any of those
[quote who="starkers" reply="25" id="2323460"] Put bluntly, Google is NOT interested in you or I, Joe Blow or the general public... just its paying clients and advertising revenue.[/quote] Agreed. Same can be (and is) said for Microsoft and it's web services. My objective in this topic is to try to fill in the purposely ignorant gaps when one side of the discussion champions one company over the other. Can we call this a dr
[quote]I know that... to submit error reports; to provide update requirements/data, etc. So??[/quote] Research some Microsoft technologies and implementations for things such as: Windows Genuine Advantage and its associated wgalogon.dll process for most (all current?) Windows OS versions. and my personal favorite, the euphemism for untrustworthy computing known as the "Trusted Computing" model for Vista and 7. <p
If you get anything from this topic, it should be a sense of paranoia. And my prior response to Starkers wasn't intended to prove Google was better than Microsoft as far as data collection - but to reject a prior (in this topic) statement that could mislead readers that MS was somehow 'better' wrt to targeted adverts based on MS' data collection on its web service customers. I'm strongly in the camp that says MS' web services and data collection p
[quote who="Spartan" reply="25" id="2322488"]So what is the count now? 80 for "longer", two (2) for "current" and two (2) "maybe" posts? [/quote] I can't help but feel like we're 'getting it wrong'. Those participating in game forums at all, I'm told, account for a small fraction of a given game's overall player base. Those that express strong interest in participating in Q&A and pre-release testing are, I'm told, an even smaller sub-set.
This is a rare, if not unique**, opportunity to experiment with development cycles. For that, I'm curious to see the outcome. So, I would support the proposal. I say this with the assumption that I'd be playing through all of those alpha/beta/gamma cycles. If the game were unavailable to play during the proposed time period, then I may be less interested in being part of the experiment. If I'm going to be part of this experiment, then I want the full Monty.&nbs
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You've all named my personal favs. For fun, and just to be different, I'm going to name a few names from ancient history that some of those names named above would cite as inspirations: Django Reinhardt Mario Maccaferri Andrés Segovia And a few session guitarists that, between them, probably accounted for half of all the 50s and 60s Rock, Motown and R&B hit singles you've probably never heard unless you:
I can't believe this is even in question. Here folks, have some five year old news courtesy of Google (of course): Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail Then Google up some info on aQuantive , Razorfish , Massive , or any of the other advertising companies MS owns to discover what you can - not about
[quote who="Jafo" reply="14" id="2320066"] I'll just Bing it Exactly There WAS a time when "I'll just google it" was the utterance of the dickhead and/or socially inept too....[/quote] I confess. I use Google (guiltlessly) as an verb - despite Google, Inc.'s attempts to shun that trend. In fact, I may be doing a passive-aggressive rebellion thing and specifically using the term because they don't want me to do so. It's
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I can't discuss algorithms, but I can discuss from a results-oriented perspective. What I'd like to see is a scout that spirals out in increasing concentric loops around it's starting point. The 'starting point' being the nearest unexplored or otherwise visible map node. I need to know the immediate surrounds before I want to see a scout bee-line outward to an extent then run a grid or criss-cross for a bit, then bee-line in on a tangent or right-angle before beginning a
[quote who="starkers" reply="9" id="2320004"] ...that bastard google analytics thing is running [/quote] That's one of the easy scripts to block. Unless you're using IE or Chrome.
I'm slow to change on some things. Took me a few years to switch from Alta Vista to Google (which around 1998 or so was using a modified form of Alta Vista's engine, iirc). I'm used to Google now. I know the search syntax. I know which links in the search results are paid-for ads vs real results, and I'm expert at blocking its cookies and scripts that are irrelevant for my search requirements. I don't know Bing. Yahoo has never been the best (read: fast
[quote who="landisaurus" reply="14" id="2318521"] Quoting Aesir Rising, reply 13 I'm later to the party. Yarlen made me pre-order today though. And you have less excuse. Its pretty bad when one of the devs has to make you preorder when you're as involved as you have been.[/quote] One of these days, maybe I'll stop procrista... procresta... aww shucks, maybe I'll stop taking my own sweet time.
[quote]*sulks and mutters* I bet Sauron never had to play nice.[/quote] He did. After the fall of Morgoth (Sauron's old boss... a being that makes Sauron look like a Girl Scout...), Sauron was set upon by the Men of Numenor and allied Elves. Seeing an opportunity, he fakes repentance and over the course of years gains a position of trust and ultimately serves as advisor to the King of Men. Who (of course) folds under Sauron's subtle manipulations and wages war agai
[quote who="tejondour" reply="12" id="2287201"]Late to the party, but here I am![/quote] I'm later to the party. Yarlen made me pre-order today though.
[quote]like to setup a good system for donations to the prize pot,[/quote] Entry cost perhaps. Those contributing have a shot at the prize. Though tbh, I'm not driven by cash prizes (money is good, but without a disinterested 3rd party judging it, I'm more concerned about seeing a prize awarded to someone that figures out how to game the system, instead of producing the top model/mod).
[quote]In either case, we plan to start making public to those interested in seeing the sausage factory that is game development our internal bug reports.[/quote] Whether I'm involved in alpha or not, this sounds like it will be a good read. Those not chosen for alpha ascension should feel somewhat participatory in the process when these reports are made public.
You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to know that if it's got cactuses in it, it's a desert. Maybe there are deserts without cactuses. That's fine, but let's count the number of people that care. Done. Either way, those so-called deserts would have no place in either a video game, or a Sergio Leone festival. Just so you know.
You can make alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs from bits o' cactus. From your post, I'm pretty sure you already know this though.