Aesir Rising

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="8" id="2044045"] all I meant is that if they were cheating anybody it was themselves by deny themselves the challange of a good game. [/quote] I'm singling you out because of all the counter arguments against being able to save/reload at-will in the single player game, yours was the least ridiculous and not quite as presumptuous as others'. I think it's important to understand that when you suggest that I "

[quote]Last thing, I'd suggest a system protection to disencourage save-load cheat.[/quote] For single player, I want to be able to save/load whenever I want. This is for two reasons: 1) I may need to just stop playing for whatever reason. 2) I may need to reload to undo some horrific mistake I did that results in some tragic loss of my well-planned out castle/city/unit/whatever. I do not want to start a new game just to get back to some advanced point in d

Hi, Spam. Put this in your ear. Just do it.

[quote]It was also so incredible targetted at America Public[/quote] One of the key take-away points from An Inconvenient Truth was that the USA contributes a large percentage (we're over-represented in the stats) to the problem - and has done relatively little to work towards an impactful solution. So while the issue is global in scope, Al Gore may have been trying to speak to those that are most contributory to the issue. Americans are the target audience,

[quote who="Tall King" reply="18" id="2043507"] Biofuel will never work(we make it from food and most of the world is starving), [/quote] It is true that you can make biofuels from food products. But it's not a requirement (unless you consider algae a food product in common use). I suppose that's why I see a growing base of support for 'oilgae', posted above in <a title="Oilgae sounds crazy.. But is it crazy enough to work?" href

I couldn't set it up in Firefox. I had to try it in IE8 beta. It worked there. As a side note, it's likely that I have different versions of Flash in the two browsers (and likely IE 8 had the older version, because I don't use it).

re: spells, I'd be interested in a spell 'forge' where you craft new spells. Something players can do to create new custom content. Spells break down into two components: 1) Special Effects (audial/visual) 2) Mechanics (gameplay and ruleset impact) (note to self, and to others... did I miss anything?) Special Effects: Each of the 5 schools may have a common or set of common effects to represen

[quote who="The_Regicide" reply="12" id="2043322"] Infinity engine games aren't turn-based, and don't incorporate Initiative and stuff like that very well. The same is the case with the Aurora/Odyssey/Electron engine(Neverwinter Nights, KotOR etc). [/quote] In the Infinity games, combat and movement were resolved according to rounds, though by default the start and end of a round (turn) passed without user-interaction to provide for an (almost) real-time effect. Howe

[quote quoting="post"] What are some good programs to check for bad hard drive sectors? [/quote] TestDisk I used it recently. It works. But nothing you described indicates that there's a hard disk issue - so be aware that this may not help your situation. TBH, modern OS and drive controllers

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="3" id="2042920"]Can we stick dismembered heads on those spikes, or do we have to wait for a fan to make those? [/quote] Now you're just teasing me for my earlier posting .

[quote who="wilebill" reply="8" id="2042883"]Even more off the beaten path, Etherlords II. You would have to find this one used, don't think it is retail anymore? (I know that even now a moderator is reporting me to Brad as a dangerous lunatic!)[/quote] Etherlords and <a title="Only ten bucks? No wai." href="http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-TGN-W229

It's too hard to read it all and I don't know what to do. I'm sorry, I know you put a lot of effort into that. I write tons of stuff too sometimes. But... it's too hard to read all that *stabs out eyes**pulls out hair**wails profusely*

[quote who="psychoak" reply="12" id="2042560"]Ignorance is easy to fix on your own I know, I'm an asshole.[/quote] Short-term, localized events like volcanic eruptions and dilapidated climate survey sites aren't the types of things that get folks worried. As an observation, one of the interesting features of the google service is that you can search out sources of misinformation just as easily as you can search out valid data.

Will user created content be immediately available for others to acquire (with a status of 'unrated' or 'not yet rated' or some-such), or does it have to make it's way through a queue of Stardock moderators to rate it before it becomes available? Without divulging technology - which may not be in place at this point - can we get the workflow outlined so that we understand the process of publishing custom content? Related question: Can a 3rd party site host

[quote quoting="post"] Will their be a United Nations (of sorts) in Elemental? It would be kinda cool to have but dont know if it will fit the theme. What do you guys think? [/quote] Wouldn't be a necessary feature for me to enjoy the game. But I wouldn't hate it either. Rather than U.N., just think "Council", as in "Council of Man" or "The White Council". Modders can create scenarios and add in important NPC dignitaries with titular

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[quote who="Draginol" reply="17" id="2042188"]Just remember, all these buildings are totally customizeable by players. Think GalCiv II ships.[/quote] Thought about modding the art and/or models outside the game using stuff like Blender and gimp but I wasn't aware you're planning an in-game GC2 shipyard type functionality for the buildings. That's very interesting.

-Ue_Carbon hits on all cylinders in that rebuttal. Alfonse, it's crystal-clear you know what you're talking about. I will never be involved in the professional Starcraft circuit. In fact, I didn't know it existed. So bear with me when I reply to your statement, "Rushing strategies must always be viable" with a big fat raspberry! :) Your statement might be more accurate as, "Rush strategies must always be viable for hard-core online players who's

[quote]Actually, I think if the corners were blunted and not bone-colored and maybe the roof a maroon or something (still red-ish, but not so close to the red from warcraft 3) then I wouldn't feel "warcraft 3 orc" so strongly.[/quote] Ok, so here's another The Fallen structure to compare with the one in the top post. I like this better - and probably because it has the feature changes you mention: <a title="It looks rustic and austere. It

[quote who="idunno116" reply="9" id="2041599"]You guys do realize that ork with a 'k' is the Warhammer 40,000 way of spelling orc and not the real fantasy way right? Although, so many people get it wrong these days (a side effect from DoW I suppose) that I'm not sure why I even bring it up anymore.[/quote] I don't know what the 'real fantasy way' is, but Tolkien would probably have told you it's spelled "Orch" - since that's how his Sindarin-speaking Elves would have spelled it. I'm o

I don't like the zerg-rush 'strategy' prevalent on RTS games because you miss out on the base building, resource gathering, and defense aspects of the game that I tend to enjoy. I feel that the game fails if I don't get to at least try to build and research all the units and techs. Also, my observance is that with the introduction of the Zerg in Starcraft, developers of RTS games must balance units so that the attacker gets the advantage. The alternative is that you can tu

Hmm. This is the 2nd topic where I get to talk about Squad Leader . SL and it's successor, Advanced Squad Leader had a focus on (as the game name implied) leadership and it's tactical impact in combat situations. This was factored into gameplay through '<a title="n. Vigorous spirit or enthusiam" href="http://www.merriam-we

I think there is a general lack of sophisticated and noble evil/dark/bad races in games. I tend to play good/light sides, but I also tend to jump at the (very rare) chance to play the bad guys if they're not wart-faced, snot-nosed, sniveling snide snakes living in decrepit hovels. That said, I do like the quality of what I see in the screenshot posted of The Fallen, so I have no specific critique for that. I guess I was hoping that the bad guys in this game might not be so

@Tamren: I think we're in the same ballpark, but differ perhaps in terms of the degree by which elevation impacts a combat result. I get the impression that you would prefer elevation to have a larger impact on an outcome of a combat round than I would. But that's ok, because I have exactly zero indication about how this game will organize a game turn, what variables are involved in movement and combat, or anything else that would lend itself to an informed opinion about t

My Caldari Kestrel, from EVE Online. Small, fast, cheap (like my women) and 4 hardpoints for missle launchers or whatever kit you wanted to tack onto it (also like my women). You can catch it in my old EVE forum sig image. Caldari Navy As a character with over 30 million skill points, I had access and skills to fly 'better' ships in that game. But getting my first Kes