[quote who="Island Dog" reply="25" id="2770063"]The last data I seen was that Windows has about a 90% market share, 6% for OS X, and about 1% for Linux. [/quote] Wow, really? If I'm not mistaken, Linux used to be pretty much neck-in-neck with Apple. Of course that was before Apple's relatively recent big-time marketing push.
[quote who="Gene1966" reply="22" id="2769840"]Linux's day is coming especially as MSFT continues to increase their ASP. [/quote] Linux fans have been saying this for almost two-decades. "Any day now Linux will reach critical mass, and then everybody will have to start taking it seriously!" Without a big marketing budget behind it, I think Linux will always be a niche operating system (at least for the home consumer), and I say that as someone who has used it
[quote who="Tridus" reply="20" id="2769556"]If a Linux port is going to cost $100,000 to build and support...[/quote] If it costs that much to develop and maintain a Linux build then the developers did something seriously wrong. If it's designed right, a cross platform game shouldn't require much more work than a single platform game.
[quote who="AlphaSite" reply="8" id="2769340"]Actually, if i remember its also used for the general animation system.[/quote] Probably not, because Havok is not used for general animation. It's a physics engine.
[quote who="MrCapitalG" reply="1" id="2769125"]Honestly, I think older people's jaded and anal view of looking for the issues and bugs...[/quote] I disagree with that. It has been my experience that it's younger gamers who can be unreasonably critical, as if they're so intent on looking for flaws that they forget to simply have fun.
All that matters in the end is whether or not you find a game enjoyable to play, and believe it or not, a game doesn't have to be a finely polished AAA masterpiece for it to be fun.
[quote who="Twohawks" reply="15" id="2769147"]As long as windows dominates the PC market as it does this is not likely to change any time soon..[/quote] I agree, but the thing is, games could be developed cross platform with little additional resource overhead. If a software project is designed from the beginning with cross platform support in mind (in other words, no DirectX) then 99% of the work is done because all the versions could use a common code base and only the "hooks"
Some of the death animations use Havok ragdolls- for instance, when a mighty wallop sends a unit flying through the air - but otherwise it doesn't seem to be used in the game. I think they licensed it back when tactical battles were intended to be real-time, which makes sense, but there's really no point to it now.
[quote who="DKL" reply="9" id="2768990"]Someone reported it working on Wine in wine app db, so it does not seem to be a lot of work to polish some compat issues.[/quote] The biggest problem there is getting updates since Impulse doesn't work in Wine.
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="10" id="2769040"]Once the S-word releases a version for Linux...[/quote] S-word?
[quote who="hairrorist" reply="5" id="2766177"]Guys, its a promotional mockup, like most of the early screenshots. This is bog standard in the industry.[/quote] What is commonly referred to as a "bullshot". [e classic]:D[/e]
[quote who="luketan" reply="4" id="2768906"]If you were laid off the stigma is still there (maybe less than if you are fired i agree)..I mean employers will think why you and not the other guy? Since companies "layoff" the ones they feel are least valuable, the unspoken implication is that you were not that good.. otherwise they would never dream of asking you to leave..[/quote] False. More skill/experience generally means a higher salary meaning that your head is sometime
I'd love a Linux version of Elemental, but since the game is dependent on DirectX then I think it unlikely since the rendering engine (among other things) would need to be completely rewritten.
I disagree with the "key component" argument. It'd be one thing if there were only two civs in the base game in which case I'd consider a third civ to be a pretty big deal, but when the game comes with almost two-dozen out of the box, the argument is less forceful. I will agree that an additional civ is a really nice bonus, but I disagree that it's an essential one. That said, I dislike the whole notion of exclusive free content based on which retailer you buy the game fro
I'd like to see a "retreat" option added to the battle screen so that you could fight, auto-resolve, or retreat. Of course there would have to be some sort of penalty so that it's not a "free" option (maybe all units lose hitpoints equal to 50% of their maximum health, so that if a unit is below 50%, it'll be killed).
Hello, troll.
So I guess you want the Civ 5 fanboys clogging up the forums with useless trolling... :shrug:
Wow, the Elemental tech tree is a lot more extensive than I thought.
[quote who="Filthgrinder" reply="2" id="2766847"]Who are you, and why should we give a hoot about your review? Sorry, but I am getting sick of these player reviews, just as I am sick of the "I didn't pay for beta" whining topics. Can't people just stop making new topics for their reviews, and post them all in one Player Review topic? Like they did in this one? [/quote] I couldn't agree more, but I guess some people think their opinion warrants its own redundant t
[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="21" id="2766447"]While the volcano/resource idea is neat in gameplay terms...[/quote] That's all that matters. [e classic]:D[/e]
[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="9" id="2766643"]Same in GalCiv. When your fleet has reached the critical mass and the enemy's "main fleets" are crushed, you are just snowballing across the galaxy. Lots of clicking with no challenge left. Yay.[/quote] This is common in pretty much any strategy game with AI opponents: they don't give up no matter what. Maybe someday someone will design an AI that is able to recognize when it is hopelessly outmatched and sensibly con
I believe it is Stardock's goal to maintain compatibility across versions. The only reason 1.06 "broke" previous saves is because Stardock was getting support tickets with save files from the beta , so in order to create a clean slate, they simply hard coded it so that previous saves wouldn't work in order to force everybody to start a new game.
[quote who="alborrelli" reply="13" id="2766277"]And please.. please please introduce truly random events. I'd love to get that message at the beginning of turn saying, "sorry dude, a fire burnt down the XXX in your city"... or "sorry chump, theives made off with 20 chrystals" from your vaults... now THAT would rock.[/quote] That would suck, actually. I hate random events that arbitrarily punish the player. It would be somewhat acceptable if the events were preventable, but
[quote who="dirtforker" reply="171" id="2765884"]Most likely, you'll all be playing Civ5 in 2-3 weeks and these boards will be a wasteland.[/quote] In other words, the haters will be gone leaving the rest of us in peace. [e classic]:D[/e]
[quote who="marlowwe" reply="168" id="2765761"]Considering that the name of the game has 'civilization' in it, I'd imagine ANY civilization would be a key part of the game. And if a civilization is not a key component of the game, then what the hell are we playing? From a designer's point of view how can a Civ game be good when you can just cut and paste different Civs in and out without it affecting the whole game dynamic?[/quote] If the game is properly balanced then the civs should