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You mean put a limit on the amount of elite units you can have at one time so that you can't steamroll your enemy with an unstoppable all elite army MoM style?

Plus if magic is powered entirely by magic you could remove the visual component entirely. Why bother making a visible fireball when it wastes energy and reveals your location when you fire it? Now if you conjured an actual ball of real fire, then the visual component would be unavoidable.

Its not an MMO but if you want a game that can consume your world you could try Dwarf Fortress.

If you are truly desperate you could always try Runescape. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

Lots of games try to be realistic but to be honest none of our computer hardware is capable of rendering graphics realistic enough to fool our eyes just yet. If you aim for a goal then you can achieve a high degree of graphical realism but if you reach too far then you end up with three things. Brown, Bloom and Boring.

My point was, magic doesn't make sense. To use magic in any sort of setting whether it be a game or a story you have some explaining to do. In a closed enviroment you are free to make magic as crazy as you want as long as you keep it consistent. If you declare that in your world mana = fruit, then if you come across a mad guy holding an apple you can safely assume that a fight is brewing. The problem is we have an open system. The vast majority of gameplay is going to be dependant on user gen

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="13" id="1983460"]But you're still breaking physics, trust me! You're adding energy into the world that doesn't behave like energy should [/quote] Thats the point of the laws. Magic is mundane energy (or matter) that is created out of nothing and becomes nothing once we lose control over it. While the magic is active or "real" it behaves to the tune of normal physics. So knocking over a trash can with my foot would require a transfer of kinetic energy.

Double boo to the hard drives! I recently lost one just 1 day after its RMA return limit.

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="9" id="1982967"]You're making leaps that I don't follow. The ability for magic to permanently alter the state of the universe in no way would mean magic needs to be free. There can be a whole lot of rules that govern what can and can't be done with magic, even if magic can break energy conservation.[/quote] And those laws are? If magic was free I could say "I am going to cast a spell that will teleport the entire planet into the sun" and you have to co

Ah thats probably it, firefox is currently using Flash 10.

Couldn't find the first dog and I suspect it just wouldn't display for me. Rats.

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="5" id="1981642"]And that's why I find that arguing the laws of thermodynamics or "Ice needs water" is over-the-top nitpicking - granted, raising the argument of thermodynamics by myself was in itself a counter-argument against an argument that was voided in it's inception because I already said Heat and Cold, but who's counting? [/quote] Ice is simply a water crystal. If not water then what substance is your ice composed of? The perfectly acceptable answer

Hmm, thats strange. I was trying to upload the new fire crystal medallion to use as an avatar but the button in the account menu that says "upload" doesn't work when I click on it. The remove button worked just fine so now I have no avatar and can't set a new one. Is something wrong server-side? Edit: I seem to remember using flash to upload last time. My computer has been crashing a lot recently and I just had to replace a lot of system files. Is it possible that my flash plu

One game I have my eye on is Armada Online. Armada was an old dreamcast game but two of the developers purchased the property outright and are now making an mmo out of it. Its quite fun but there is not much to do as of yet because the game is very much in alpha testing.

Well when you think about it, pyromancy and cryomancy are the same thing, manipulation of heat or the lack of it which amounts to the same thing. The problem with ignoring the laws of physics is that things no longer make any damn sense. To give you a classic example, the ever burning torch. First of all, normal fire is a combination of flame, air and fuel. Knock off one of those from the trio and you no longer have what can be considered an open flame. Most o

great stuff!

The way I see it, pyromancy has nothing to do with fire. Fire is the logical result, but creating fire is not as efficient as creating heat. Heat is predictable and invisible. Fire on the other hand means combustion, there must be some sort of fuel involved or there will be no flame. Conjuring fuel and the heat to ignite takes more effort then conjuring heat alone. Also you can't forget the laws of thermodynamics. Even in a fantasy setting with magic involved the rules of physics stil

Its nice to have circles for once. Endless squares are just boring and MMOs in particular are full of them.

Completed! Heh I got stuck on #1 for the longest time and then I slapped myself because it was so obvious.

I think unit design should run on templates. That way if you change a template then your industrial base will automatically work its hardest to update all units to the new standard. You could even get more technical and specify how many units to upgrade per a certain amount of time. This would help if you were giving out equipment that relied on experimental, expensive or just rare materials.

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="20" id="1979969"]Yeah, but its a godsend for people like me, who know a foreign language mostly by meaning and hearing and thus don't know the exact spellings of words. It makes my posts readable where there was before only a garbled mess. [/quote] Same here, I have written output disorder. What that actually means varies from person to person but for me it means by hand I write very sloooooow. Typing on a keyboard is no problem but it does spill over in

Good and Evil don't really mean anything alone. So killing people is evil, compared to what? Without "good" evil essentially becomes meaningless. A while back I was thinking up fun ideas for MoM 2 since there was a chance that Stardock would be making it. Of course now we have Elemental instead so its a good time to break them out of storage. As I imagined it magic is divided into pairs which oppose each other. The first up is Earth and Air. In general terms it would be

The vast majority of popular games on Steam are all multiplayer. So the phone home every day thing isn't much of an issue. It doesn't matter if you can't log in to use team fortress 2 because you wouldn't be able to anyway. I think Impulse will pull to the fore as soon as it increases its stock of singleplayer games. I actually only own two non-valve games on Steam. the first is Mount and Blade which I recieved a cd key for so I can install elsewhere if I want. The second was Starscap

The system is rather annoying because I suspected where the second clue was but I walked past the page twice before the dog actually loaded onto it. Got stumped on #5.

I guess it just doesn't bother me. Steam is lightning fast on my computer and if I didn't have internet access I would be reading a book. Both systems are equal in my eyes because they make you run the exact same starting gauntlet, even if the race is easier on one side of the track.