Hackbar

You have 1 week to arrange for my upgrade, or I'll just buy a second copy to make sure I get my LE. Don't push me! I'LL DO IT!

double post. I seem to be having a lot of trouble with this lately. :(

If we go with a more traditinal turn-based, there needs to be something for players to do when it's not their turn. I would propose to allow access to the unit creator and city summaries at the very least, perhaps even 'planning' bulding construction and unit training to begin next turn. I would love to see some kind of magic that could be used on other players' turns, as well. Perhaps some kind of time-altering spell that allows some of your units to move or spells to be cast out of the norm

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="27" id="2554554"]I suppose it's too much to hope for a purely dynastic win, though...trying to read A Clash of Kings slowly, not having that much success... [/quote] A dynastic win would be awesome! Unfortunately, setting oneself up to inherit the whole world doesn't help much if sovereigns don't start dying. Since there's no assassination and all and the sovereigns sound pretty hard to kill, I'm starting to wonder what the dynasty system is for, be

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="8" id="2554090"]@Hackbar: victory condition means that if you achieve it, you win. It cannot be a Quest Victory if you get the artifact (supposed end of the Quest Victory) and end having to win the game by a militar victory (that i's not even assured with the artifact because if not the other players would go 'GG'). [/quote] I understand this, yes. I'm not opposed to a quest victory condition in principle. I rather like the idea. I ju

double post!

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that this bit of storyline is somehow related to the concept of 'victory by questing.' If so, I have a simple-sounding request that may end up being very difficult to implement in a satisfying manner. I don't want the 'I win' quest to take the player to the victory screen. If it fits with the storyline and concept of this silver orb, I'd like to see the player sovereign who succeeds in the quest to retrieve the silver orb take

There seem to be awfully few spells in game right now, limited pretty much to the terrain-altering spells and summon fire giant. I got the impression from the 1G preview and the latest patch notes that I should be seeing more than just 4 or 5 spells, especially with a sovereign that has all 6 books of magic. Are there really only these few spells implemented, or is there a bug preventing me from seeing, for example, volcano to the face?

In my current save I am unable to capture enemy cities, even though I can fight and defeat the defenders. AI players, however, have been taking my towns left and right with no problem. I have also had a recurrence of the 'rivers going out to sea' bug in the same game. I will try and upload screenshots if requested. Dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/Dkz1Pi78 debug.err: http

I'm beginning to thing sovereign stats are broken right now. I made a sovereign with maxed-out strength, dexterity, and constitution, and he died fighting a single black widow. I've seen the pre-made sovereigns (with lower strength, dex, and con) take on more than one black widow and win.

[quote who="xGhost4000x" reply="10" id="2546669"]Q: Can I haz beta yet? A: Damnit Ghost stop spamming that question, we already told you to wait till Beta 2! (Dream A: Sure ghost here ya go, enjoy the Beta!) I can dream. [/quote] A more realistic Dream Answer would be "Sure, Ghost. But remember, you've brought this upon yourself. Soon you will be clawing out your eyes from sheer, liquid not-fun as we write our autosaves to

So, let me get this straight: each of the 10 nations will have their own tech tree, but only 1 such tree is currently finished so they're all using the same one? But eventually as you finish them the others will have their own? What about custom nations? Do you choose one of the 10 trees to mimic, or will the be a generic 'custom nation only' tech tree, or some other system? Or did I just open up a huge can of worms you hadn't gotten to yet? More importantly, will the game still

I just want to say what whatever else we can do with our essence had damn well better be good enough to make a city-spamming player with an army in the thousands seriously reconsider his decisions. Though I'm a bit afraid to see what it might be if it is. XD

I like most of what you've suggested, but I have a few issues. Either heroes will have to be pretty common, or they will have to be entirely non-essential to city function and able to act as 'governor' while off fighting wars or adventuring for extended periods. That said, I like the idea of a trade-off between bonuses granted by having them sitting in the governor's office (I'm assuming city resource bonuses in addition to the certainty that the hero will be present to defend the city if att

[quote who="Sarudak" reply="99" id="2543897"]Ok... But what's the advantage of not turning that mining outpost into a huge city? [/quote] Easy: You don't have to spend gold building houses, etc. for that city, and you don't have to provide food for the growing city. (meaning you have money and food free for the expansion of other cities)

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="42" id="2539293"] I think the rabid fanbase for the game that is actually out needs to come before the one for the game that doesn't come out for another ~5ish months Because the Sins fans are liable to pick up the pitchforks if the pirates don't get balanced a little better [/quote] Having not played since before the last expansion, I have no idea what you're talking about. That reminds me, I need to go buy the last expansion. My credit card com

I'm not sure about putting a cash value on increased fun, but I'm pretty sure the 'pitchforks and fire' can be quantified in terms of the replacement costs of damaged hardware and real estate, training costs for new hires to replace the deceased and injured, medical bills and lawsuit settlements for seriously injured employess, and advertising costs to reverse the bad PR of being attacked by an angry mob, but I think that may be taking things a little too seriously, right? I'm di

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="36" id="2539163"] It's the same IT team. Game development teams (whether at Stardock, Ironclad, or Gas Powered Games) send their "stuff" to QA which then graduates to the servers to be distributed to the worldwide server network. Whenever something "big" happens, lower priority items tend to get pushed. [/quote] I'm sure if you told your IT team about the rabid fanbase and our easy access to pitchforks and fire, they would be able to f

In the finest traditions of anime, that is the textbook representation of the spell she is about to cast, projected on the static background behind her for dramatic effect. This is an indication of how immenseily powerful and awesome (c) the spell in question is, as well as an indicator of its dramatic importance. Clearly, the procipinee is about to show its spines.

Wow. Next beta is going to be huge. I'm a little concerned, honestly. So many changes at once seems like it will make the whole beta testing job harder. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to be getting my hands on more features soon, especially the custom race option. I just was under the impression that it was good beta testing practice to tackle things one at a time so that you can more easily identify which changes broke things and whatnot. I keep thinking we should be getting new builds ever

[quote who="Ashbery76" reply="28" id="2504938"]I hope the 20 or 30 people who will play mulitplayer enjoy it. I will not. [/quote] I, for one, plan to play the living ****out of this game, and I know at least 3 others will be joining me via LAN or internet depending on the day. If this will make it easier to do so then I love it!. You have no idea how many truly great games are simply not played among my group of friends because there's always one of us

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="65" id="2428839"]well, I definitely thing certain techs should disable researching certain other techs. Some-one can't be the best at everything, just have their own flavor towards everything, and further research increases their flavor towards the extreme. [/quote] I've always felt like techs locking each other out is a cop-out, except in the most obvious circumstances. (I would agree that the same civilization perhaps shouldn't be able to simultaneou

If I queue a unit to train in a city, run a few turns, then save and quit, the city's unit training queue will be empty upon loading the saved game.

You are a horrible, horrible tease, mr Frog. You know we don't even have the cloth map beta yet, and you're already doing a 'making of' piece? ;p It's amazing to see how much the game has changed from one month to the next. I'm very impressed with the work, though there are elements of the Oct and Nov 2008 screens that I wish had made it into the current build. The Nov one is horrible zoomed in but looks very painting-like zoomed out, and the Oct one looks almost too simple and abstra

[quote who="Netaddict45" reply="63" id="2371696"]If I were to put monty on it, it would be this thursday or next monday/tuesday. [/quote] You'll have to find a faster coder than Monty, then, or you'll likely be sacked.