Myles

Stuff to make cities unique is almost always good.

No problem. I do want that video though.

check the date on the posts before yours

lol i see zombies

[quote] Balance Changes TERRAN Thor Build time decreased from 75 seconds to 60 seconds. Siege Tank Build time decreased from 50 seconds to 45 seconds. Marauder Concussive Shells now require an upgrade. Barracks Tech Lab Concussive Shells upgrade added. Concussive Shells upgrade costs 100/100 and takes 80 seconds to complete. PROTOSS Void Ray Changed to only have 2 damage le

I love the picture showing your capital blocking off any access to the valley to its east. It goes to show exactly how strategic city placement most certainly matters. With pioneers I think it increases this importance as you now must consider what resources are around locally plus how effective the city is at securing resources farther away.

Don't worry, that's what us grammar nazis are here for. [e digicons];)[/e]

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="182" id="2585106"] but dammit, myles, i thought you were on my side [/quote] Sorry man, I've been swayed by the darkside [e digicons]}:)[/e] Really though, I've changed my mind to the opinion that nearly all the depth created by having a complex economic system can be accomplished using the system they've changed to. If not, I will be leading the charge to mod 'Elemental:WOM Complex'.

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="18" id="2585094"] I thought we were talking about food being "stored locally".. Because, no I don't like the idea of a cit being self sustaining, I just don't want caravans to be meaningless. So your saying even though a resource is "global" caravans are still going to take food there? Or is it that if my city in the desert is starving and they didn't store any food, they have until my "global" stockpile of food runs out until they starve? Tha

I'm not in favor of absolutely no movement around enemy troops. Choices are always better, imo. I would like more if when moving past fortified enemy positions then the enemy ranged units get free attacks and the entire army has the possibility of some kind of ambush attack on the following turn. That way you can choose to take the chance to move past a fortification, but at the risk of taking damage and giving the enemy a large advantage.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="3" id="2585020"]You know what I see when I see or hear of "Cloud Gaming" ? Just another way for companies to "police" the internet. I hope people get tired of this fast and it dies. I SERIOUSLY hope this isn't the future of computer gaming. If it is I may end up going over to totally Indie games and underground software, not to mention console gaming. Next they'll be using this to I.D. people online. Then the forms of discrimination will come into play s

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="27" id="2584926"] Quoting Myles, reply 26 Complex choices doesn't require complex mechanics. This might be true with regard to chess, but it is not with regard to a fantasy TBS. Complexity can add a lot to the depth of the game[play], if the complex elements get implemented properly.[/quote] Like I said before, we'll have to disagree. You seem to think that TBS is some special case in strategy games where depth only comes from compl

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="25" id="2584914"] How can you compare chess or go to a turn based fantasy strategy game? Strategic thinking? Sure, I agree, but if you don't have the necessary talent, you won't be good in it ever. Besides, maybe chess has depth, but I find it utterly boring, while I love to play with a complex fantasy TBS.[/quote] The talent for chess is the same as the talent for a game such as Starcraft or a TBS. It is the ability to look forward into the f

I've never played Dominions 3, so I can't really compare, but I can say games like Chess or Go have as much or more opportunity for strategic thinking than most strategy video games.

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="21" id="2584884"] It cannot.[/quote] Then we'll have to disagree. I'm not of the opinion that adding complexity inherently increases depth while simplicity reduces it. There's too many games that are simple yet have more depth than most 'complex' games.

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="19" id="2584872"] May I ask that what is the problem with complexity? I understand that complex games ain't very popular amongst the casual players, but it's a bad thing if a game has incredible depth + it's complex as well? In my book that is a good thing, but I am not a casual, that is true as well.[/quote] There's nothing wrong with depth using complexity, I would just say that depth without complexity is better. If a simpler way can accomplish

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="175" id="2584681"] Tell me how many times you've quit Civ cuz after a while it just got boring..? I know I do. Every time I finish a play through of DF I am left feeling a sense of awe and my mind is still racing with imagination of the world I was playing in. That's what Elemental needs to create, and That's what a sophisticated, well engineered (NOT simple) economy can supply.[/quote] That amount of replayability in DF does not come solely from

Regardless if the game is actually worth $45 dollars, you definitely need to check the minimum system requirments before purchasing a game. In this case, your laptop is no where near powerful enough to run the program.

I'll say I didn't lie because I'm not arguing strategy anymore, but congratulations on posting developer thoughts from a month ago. There's been 2 patches since then, plus one that was released nearly the same time the developer chat was. If you think things are the same now then you really need to get yourself checked. And Maruaders are also heavily discussed as being OP. You really need to get your facts straight, because most of the non-opinion statements you've made have been wron

I guess Nostalgiatag micro isn't up to par with others because I've seen Reapers outmanuever 3 zealots at time when they were actually moving seperatly and not just following in a pack. And if you get proxy pylon'd then you need to keep an eye on your base better. It takes way too long to get warp gates for any kind of effective rush. And yes, that is why they made them vunerable during warp in. Since this convo seems to be going no where I'll just finish with me laughin

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="49" id="2583733"]Every side has annoying traits to it. The Zerg have Muta blobs that can be very hard to defend against (harder than it is to create them). Protos have cheese where if a probe gets into your base they can make life hell. And Terrans have Reapers. The basic problem in each case is that the counter strategy requires far more thought than the original strategy. That's what makes it so maddening. Pr

[quote who="Splitshadow" reply="38" id="2583401"]Early cannons are bad, but by the time the enemy has a reaper IN YOUR BASE, you can easily have 3 zealots or a zealot and a stalker.d.[/quote] I'm going to assume your just trolling now. It has been shown that it is impossible to get a stalker out by the time a reaper gets to your base and if you continue to blatantly disregard that I'll simply leave. However, I guess that's what you want because you continue to ignore numbers and facts

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="88" id="2583275"] Quoting Femmefatal48, reply 87 K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid. Ehh, funny stuff...this is the game concept, what I hate the most. We can also translate it like "Dumbed down into oblivion". [/quote] More like when two choices give nearly the same result choose the simpler one.

[quote who="Splitshadow" reply="36" id="2583255"]Ah, yes. But with what does your Terran player counter the early mothership rush? What do you do when you see an enemy mothership incoming at 2:05? Nothing! Haha. You guys make it sound like Terran has some sort of uber advantage that lets him tech up to reapers undisturbed and pump out 5-10 of them along with twenty or so marauders before the Protoss player can get his first zealot.[/quote] Huh? Mothership rush got nerfed a

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="32" id="2582971"] 1 Proton canon in base. Zerg players have reason to complain right now. But Protos? No way.[/quote] Photon Cannon, really? I respect you quite a bit Frogboy, but you're completely wrong on this one. If you go early forge into cannons you might as well leave right then. Not only are you wasting 300+ minerals(realistically you need 2 cannons for full mineral line defense) for on early static defense that should be spent