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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="15" id="2916125"] One of the tech gurus think that we will have that in a year - at least the choice part if not the bandwidth part. [/quote] Nice. There currently are "onDemand" style things around right now here. I'd love to see the day that ALL my TV can be bought a-la-carte like that. I don't buy access to a station or a network, but rather I buy a TV show I want to watch, and the only information that needs to

I believe the ISP I have personal (non-consumer related) dealings with, and have specific inside knowledge of (with both marketing and operations). Most of my comments are from firsthand experience and knowledge, not some corporate "statement for the press". I'm not saying that it's solely about making customers happy, and nothing about revenue/profit. Clearly, making money is the point of running a business. But bandwidth caps being about price-gouging "pure and simpl

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="11" id="2916045"]Canada and Netflix: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110329/wr_nm/us_netflix_canada It's pitiful. To prevent customization and competition, they impose "Standard", "Extra super-dooper" and the buzzword "Family" packages. They'll impose 'data caps' any way they can. And the sheep will swallow it until someone tries to organize Coops-Consortia to leverage what we want. [/quote] I'm getting this serio

Much of the reason some cable companies can't give people what they want is because of government regulations. Companies want to give people what they want. I'm not talking about any altruistic reason, it's because if you can give people what they want, you can compete better against competition. Giving only the content a customer wants, would mean a massive reduction in the wasted data being sent out on cable systems (which usually sends all TV channels out, and

To start, I'm going to say I have a background in ISP service, with a bit of detailed knowledge on both the service and technical side of things. I'm a little confused. Are you talking about internet speed, or bandwidth? Those are two very different things, and I'm getting the impression from article that you are mixing the terms here. 1 Gigabits per second is talking only about speed. A full 1080p HD being streamed from, say, Netflix, requires only ~5 Meg

This has happened a handful of times for me as well. It almost feels like it's a goodie hut or quest hut or something that's invisible and unactivatable. Or maybe an invisible resource that you can't select. I know I've researched some adventure techs for resources and nothing showed up despite having explored the majority of the area around my cities...

While I agree that parents should monitor what their children are reading and experiencing on the internet, and it's not societies "job" so to speak to censor themselves... The flipside to this is that Stardock is in the business of having people buy and use their products. They are trying to appeal to an audience to get them to spend money on the products they make. As such, they will want to foster an environment that brings money. That being said, I'm not sure how many chil

Wow. That was very nearly a specific request I made in that thread about improving the AI. Heh. That's actually awesome to hear. As for countering it, I don't think they have spells to protect/prevent. There's the "Spell Immunity" to prevent high level magic from just outright killing an important hero (or your sovereign). However, city protection magic is still limited. In Master of Magic, the Sorcery spells had a number of overland spell prevention stuff. I'd like to

Walls meaning something is a nice idea (bottlenecking and protection from ranged attacks), but honestly? I think the idea of a population defending itself makes the most sense. Have a town produce militia, in the form of a % of the total population. More militant factions have a higher percentage, flaw of peaceful having a lower percentage. Something as low as 10% for a baseline... so your level 5 city of ~800 people might have about 80 able-bodied folk that are willing to pick up a p

Resources gained from researching the adventure tech line pop up the following round, typically with an exclamation. The problem is that it can show up anywhere within 15 tiles of your capital city. That's a pretty huge distance. Typically, I don't research that line (if I can help it), until I've really explored the area around my capital and set up a few extra cities (usually at least 3 in different directions). There's usually something to grab, like a couple food producing tiles,

I recall playing Everquest 2 when they brought out this massive models revamp. They were called the "SOGA" models, presumably for the company they commissioned to make them, or for what they named their venture to push the game to asian markets more heavily. (This was a while back). So yeah. To "appeal to the markets" in asian places (specifically korea I think was mentioned), they had a whole different set of models you could see all the non-animal based races as. Basically,

What I hope to see in the future... is an AI that can determine that the best approach is to bypass small towns and even use terraforming to level mountains that are in the way to get to our capital and cut off the head, then mop up the rest from there. I'd like to see an AI that's spent a lot of time researching spells and gaining mana (from essence buildings, etc) to throw up a mountain pass between you and him to protect himself. I'd like to see a volcano suddenly appear on

The game shows a little symbol over the stack if there's more than one creature hidden in there. I believe you can click on them more than once to select which one you want. Right clicking to talk is a crapshoot in that case I guess... better to select the unit and click the "Recruit" button to make sure you are getting the one you wanted.

It makes complete sense. There's whole buildings and resources that didn't exist in 1.08 that are now part of 1.1. How could the game possibly interpret how you built a city back in 1.08 for the current game mechanics? If you look at all the facts involved, it's really not that astonishing.

To combat the "random horde of spiders" thing that can sometimes happen, research the first level of equipment in the War tech tree. Build at least one unit who has all padded leather armor. This one guy can take on hordes of creatures at a time, simply because their 3-4 attack rating can't get past his armor. I usually research the equipment thing asap, and build at least one unit to protect my town with. From there, I research civics until my housing and research bonuses get to the

So strange! I'm 862 turns into my first 1.1 game, and it hasn't crashed yet. Sorry you guys are having poor experiences.

Ah.. good ol' Xmas. Don't stay out too late, Robot Santa will getcha! And don't forget Kwanzabot, and the Chanukah Zombie!

I've been using magic quite effectively in the late 1.09 betas, and now in my current 1.1 game. First, it is REALLY nice to supplement my prestige, tech, materials, etc, with those city spells. Didn't start with a quarry or lumber mill nearby? New town building up too slow (0.4 pop per turn)? I'm almost forced to take Attunement for my Sov each time because my strategies need the mana pretty bad. I'm 700+ seasons into my first 1.1 game and I still use fertility and enchanted h

It's fun seeing peoples reactions to this update, as a person who's been going through the betas the past month or so. I remember what it felt like when global mana, population as a resource, and spammable buildings first came out... and these guys are feeling it all at once. Quite a shock!

If specialists produced more (not counted as more), that would be nice. As in, a building with specialists instead of regular people produced twice the benefit.

[quote who="Orion66" reply="9" id="2840055"]Beta version was released a few weeks ago. I thought I bought full version of game. Well I was lied like many other users. All versions of the game are not stable on my PCs... [/quote] Do you actually buy PC games without doing any research at all? I'm not talking about trying a cracked version first or anything, I mean just reading up on what the game is like and the reviews for it. Because even a modicum of research would tell you

You win 10 internets. Outstanding!