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[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="22" id="2060361"] On a related point, I really like the alternate history genre, but my inner authoritarian wants them limited to folks who've already read plenty of 'non-fiction' history on the given period (the shudder quotes are because Gore Vidal is one of my favorite historians, despite how much the PhD crowd hate hearing him described that way).[/quote] History is but fiction which fits what is known... or thought to be known at least. Not to

"This tree is the largest species of pine, commonly growing to 40-60 meters (130-200 feet) tall, exceptionally up to 81 m (265 ft) tall, and with a trunk diameter of 1.5-2.5 m (5-8 ft), exceptionally 3.5 m (11 ft)." Sugar Pine - Wikipedia And thats just pine trees. Redwoods grow up to 115.5 meters according to wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree ) Yep, trees are big when you don't cut them all down like we

[quote who="General Homsar" reply="22" id="2059791"]When you insist that the galaxy only has three intelligetn species. [/quote] Oh come on, we know there are at least 4. We just haven't met the last one yet. I'm hoping for replicators...

When you have a full 16 capship fleet. All at level 10. And a maximum size fleet. After you modded the maximum size to 100,000 fleet capacity.

I agree with Capn, if there are player created artifacts they should die with the hero, but world artifacts should remain in play.

[quote who="Serik55" reply="13" id="2059533"] this is the platform of StarCraft, Age of Empires, Sins, Dawn of War, SupCom, and Total War [/quote] And don't forget! GLaDOS only runs on a PC. Just looked up halo wars, from the demo movie, it looks like... a dumbed down RTS with graphics like SupCom. Not to dis SupCom, but a new game should at least look better than a game which is what, 2, 3 years old now? Then again, it is running on a 3 or so year old con

Demigod and Empire: Total War come out next month. I plan on buying both. Even got a new CPU for those especially epic battles :D

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="24" id="2059344"] Think of it like the old adventure games where you had to type "pick lamp", etc. [/quote] Ah yes, I played one of those... My first online RPG actually. http://www.ishar.com/ hehe... The hardest part of learning the game is figuring out commands. If a typable spell sort of thing is done, make sure it has a really really big spell list... Nothing worse than having to reword your request to

Unfortunately, in his haste to build a computer for his daughter, he completely forgot to add the replicator and cookie dispensor... [e digicons]XO[/e] By the way, the software always acts logically. It is programed to. You just do not understand it's logic. [e digicons]|-)[/e]

The capital ships on the TEC side are, IMO, not as fun/good as Vasari and Advent, which is why I prefer to play Vasari or Advent, but not TEC. Probably my earliest SoaSE strategy was to build only capships until I got all 16. Sure, their combined DPS was small, but their survivability was unmatched... The trick is to have a good combination of DPS from frigates and survivability from capships and in the case of TEC, hoshiko repairs.

I personally like capships more than any other ships. They are powerful and don't require being replaced to often, if ever. Multiple high level capships can and will turn the tide of battles. On another note, off topic forums are on all Stardock sites, and so someone from Galciv II or Windows Blinds might not know what you are talking about. So for more specific questions on a game related topic, the game's general forum is the best place to post.

[quote who="DrGuppie" reply="12" id="2059278"] Dead cat? How'd the computer kill the cat? Or did you mean the spider? [/quote] *BBZZZAAAAPPPP* I personally use a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811208005 . Works well, and looks awesome in a low light situation :D Glows green like its running on kryptonite or something.

A spell which dispenses pie through my monitor... And a spell which is misspelled so we can point out to them they did not spell their spell correctly :D I want some hugely complex spell... Something like 'use spell A,B,C,D,E, and F together and get uberspell G.' The result of the spell doesn't matter as long as it makes sense from the components and is a really epic result...

Interesting... While looking for news on L4D updates, I found a link to an old article about TF2 DLC. Valve intended to make it free for all users (PC and XBOX), but M$ forced them to charge for it on Xbox, since M$ gets a cut of stuff distributed on XBL.

[quote who="bleeba" reply="1" id="2056188"]I like the graphic style too. Its fresh and clean and leaves a lot to the imagination. One quibble-I hope the roads to not retain that look. I too thought they were power lines. Now that I know they are fences, all I can think of is why? To keep deer off the road? To keep the elite troop of blind death knights from attaching the fields? To keep the beer wagons from going into the ditch? ok enough<b

[quote who="Samurye" reply="11" id="2055913"]I can't believe you people! Saying that PC's are better than consoless! J/K. I love PC's. I personally think that PC's are awesome, because almost all the best games (read RTS games) are PC only. Which is why I am so mad that Microsoft is making Halo Wars 360 only. What were they thinking!? Anyway, PC>Console like Cake>Pie. Samurye. [/quote] No worries samurye. It is bound to be a crappy game s

If they could add as much detail as The Game from Stargate Atlantis, that would be nice... Hopefully they have the time to implement details such as this to Elemental. And even if they do not, mods will probably add much of it. RP elements which have no impact on the game, such as names, physical appearance, ect, should be added and will enhance the immersion if done properly. I see no reason why custom names would not be done; we already have custom units thanks to their physics simulation c

[quote who="GeneralEtrius" reply="8" id="2049741"]Microsoft's lack of interst in the PC industry besides the Xbox reason I gave is puzzling, considering the fact that they essentially created the modern PC with Windows (by the way, Windows 7 looks awesome). I can't understand why they wouldn't get into the PC industry, considering that it would bring them even more money. Silly, silly, Microsoft. [/quote] Believe me, they are trying. Us PC gamers just refuse to pay for stuff we g

[quote who="psychoak" reply="23" id="2053152"]Considering how much diversity there is to human culture, you're probably asking the impossible. We've had everything from baby eating death worshippers to flower power free love communes... It would be nice to not have the French aristocracy and germanic tribes for the humans in yet another fantasy game though. Even just switching to the English longbow based armies and a new world culture for the token barbarian side would go w

Hope: Epic unending maps... 64 bit ftw! Fears: maps become unplayable every patch like in sins [e digicons]X([/e] The only other fear is Frogboy sells his soul to the devil/EA. Which Is about as likely as a Class 3 zombie epidemic in Antarctica. I also hope for good combat mechanics... I purchased Mount and Blade from Steam the other weekend (was on sale for $7.50) and the combat is really quite fun! It is the only game I have played where I go out of my

If they do go with fantasy, I want them to make the races diverse. Look at the variety of humans and their culture on earth. Most fantasy games take the diversity found in humans and graft a certain part onto a single race. Take WoW culture for example. Tauren are representative of native americans, trolls are representative mostly of african voodoo, blood elves are the drug addicts, undead are the typical 'kill everything' psycopaths, orcs are the gung-ho charge into battle type. If they go

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="9" id="2052897"] well, I probably couldn't vote for it unless we were in a simulation. [/quote] Or a vault... Then again, there is always the THIRD option (as opposed to overpopulation or population control)... Remember the old movie, Independance Day? When I saw that I got the notion that at the rate we are going, humans will become like the aliens in that movie. Like locusts traveling from planet to planet exploiting all resources, th

As I said earlier, as standards of living increase, children per family tends to decrease, which I think has been shown time and time again in studies. My opinion as to the cause would be children can do work, making them an asset to a subsistance farming family rather than a liability as they are in more developed areas (due to costs of college, ect as well as no real use doing work for the family). This is just my opinion, but I would guess it is not to far from the truth, since for a

But... but... but... how did that city end up there? Did they destroy everything on the island to get materials for it? Is that why the island is bare? Is it the remnants of a long lost civilization, the last fortress of a once grand empire? Was it stranded there by the Cataclysm? That picture raises so many questions about the origin and reason (or lack thereof) for building such a big city on such a bad looking place... Oh, and they would be more screwed than if they started on a bo

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="20" id="2051690"] It's wierd because from a historical context, that's not how it is. A few fields can only supply only so many people, and as the populance grows, so does the competition for space and the need of food. It quickly becomes extremely inefficient to grow but a handfull of crops inside the city walls. Now if you add more "modern" inventions such as irrigation and crop rotation, it quickly starts to be a huge waste of space. In "r