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[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="7" id="2412912"]I strongly oppose these suggestions as a horrible waste of developer resources, and as a boring attempt to be political correct whatever the cost. I'm so tired of this female sexism, I'd almost wish I lived in the time before computer games..... [/quote] So... doing something very simple that makes the game more commercially interesting to the other 50% of the population is politicial correctness and sexism? I

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="21" id="2413651"] Can you imagine playing multiplayer and waiting as your opponent visits the hairdresser for the fourth time this game?Simple solution to that: disable it in MP. [/quote] Or - you can do it while you're waiting for some other action. The Peggle addon for WoW works that way. When idle, it opens up and you play. If you get put into combat, it pauses and hides itself automatically. Quite handy when raiding and waiting fo

I tried halo 3 and couldn't get into it. Aiming compared to playing on a PC is like using a gun mounted on a drunken camel.

[quote who="Strand" reply="32" id="2412086"]Quoting Tridus, reply 30Tachyon: The Fringe. Totally different then what you usually do, but the world needs another good space fighter combat game. There really hasn't been one in years. Be honest, you just want Bruce Campbell to do the voice acting for the main character in another game. [/quote] I don't care about that. You could replace it with "Tie Fighter" and get the same idea across. :P But seriously, this genre doesn't

[quote who="Nosrick" reply="85" id="2412024"]And out of curiosity, since I pre-ordered a little later, will I be dropped in on Beta 1B, or Beta Phase 2? [/quote] If you're not in it now, the next group getting in is beta 2.

Tachyon: The Fringe. Totally different then what you usually do, but the world needs another good space fighter combat game. There really hasn't been one in years. :(

The problem right now is that the only way to harvest resources is by building cities near them. So you can wind up with a ton of cities just due to that. I'm hoping that as the beta goes on we get some kind of "outpost" option that lets you build say a logging camp to harvest a resource, but isn't a full blown city. With that in place, the need for a zillion cities goes down and the cost of building lots of them should slow ICS down some.

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="70" id="2410617"]I agree and I've been very concerned as well that a few developers are 'pushing' too hard for a system which is toooo simple. I want to have resource piles of not only gold, but also wood, iron, meteorites, crystals, stone, etc., etc., . Simply allowing nations to build anything despite lack of resources is unrealistic and feels wrong. [/quote] and raising volcanoes is realistic? :D The problem SD seems to be h

I notice that on that list Impulse doesn't get an exclusive item. doh? The only real problem I see here is that almost every store has some extra goodie. That's just silly. The actual content DLC (as opposed to the goodies) being available at launch isn't the problem, its included in the game anyway. All that does is put a dent in the used market for the game, since you're not getting as much as someone who buys it new.

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="28" id="2407159"]The Stone Prisoner is included in all new versions (regular and CE) of the game. It's 10+ hours of more gameplay plus a new character to add to your party. If you end up buying a used version of the game then you can buy it later on for $15. Wardens Keep is a $7 DLC and again adds several hours of gameplay to the game and a keep for you to have as a homebase (and other items). It is only included in the Digital Deluxe version for

[quote who="cephalo" reply="21" id="2408686"] They had something similar in the Final Frontier mod for Civ4. I have to say it wasn't very compelling. The thing you want to watch out for is that resources can easily become irrelevant. It means that a huge empire is a huge empire, and they don't need wood because they make up for it by being a huge empire. In FF, I learned to ignore resources and focus on expansion, because the effort needed to secure resources was the

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="27" id="2406630"] I immedietly thought you to be a religious american and when I checked your profile I was right [/quote] I'm an atheist Canadian, and I agree with him. Stereotyping sure is fun. [quote]If your wife objects to scantily clad women then that's because she's jealous. I can't imagine kids complaining. If they got questions then you just explain that gamemakes want young males (which are the gamebuying majority) t

[quote who="porternielsen" reply="1" id="2403253"]My only plead/ suggestion with this is please keep the women modest. I never understood games where the women wore next to nothing, for several reason. 1)It wouldn't be comfortable to fight in what some games dress women in. 2)It provides no protection from the elements. 3)It provides no armor 4)The game should sell itself, not some imodest twit on the front cover of the box. If we have women in

It's called Kumquat3D. We get to see it in beta 3. :)

[quote who="Raven X" reply="2" id="2404609"]The price is the same for the download as it is for the Boxed AND Download together. Just do that. [/quote] Not when I ordered it, it wasn't. The box version has shipping added on. On another note, it now says "Elemental [Pre-Order] (Download + Std. Ed. Box): $54.30 ". Does that mean there's going to be a special edition box? And if so, can people who already pre-ordered the box version upgrad

I'm kind of confused by the different versions on Impulse. The more expensive one appears to mostly have bonus items as downloads. Does it include some actual content as well, or is it just the items and such?

I guess I'm not really clear on how this will work for gameplay mods. Mods that change art are one thing, and don't really matter a lot. If my Sovereign looks normal and yours looks like Hello Kitty, the game plays the same way. But if I start a multiplayer game and I'm using a mod that adds things to the tech tree, and I want that mod to be active in the game I started up, is that going to be possible? If so, I'm assuming it will just grab the needed data from me when you joi

They shut down the demo before I got a chance to actually play it. So, now its a game with no demo. Oh well, no money from me.

What do you need Hamachi for? According to the beta roadmap, direct IP connection is going to be in.

Gamestop is basically a pawn shop these days anyway, they're useless for PC gaming.

[quote who="Netriak" reply="5" id="2401102"]What I primarily notice with Impulse is how glacial patch downloads are in comparison to a full game archive. When I install a game from scratch I get a steady 10 Megabytes per second, allowing me to download a big game in a couple of minutes, which is as it should be. However, whenever a patch is released, the download speed is about 200 KB/sec, a mere 2% of the full game download speed. While I understand the reason for this behaviour,

[quote who="ChuckCS" reply="30" id="2399606"]You do not need Impulse running to use any app installed through it, and there's an option to create (automatically or after a prompt) desktop shortcuts on install in the prefs. Really? Normally I double-click the program on Impulse and say yes to install and I don't get another menu till it's done and thats only if it needs to reboot the system or something. It has never given me the basic options of an installation such as where to ins

GFWL is a good idea that went horribly wrong. On the Xbox, making a multiplayer game requires less work then on the PC (or PS3) because a lot of the necessary stuff is already built and provided by Xbox Live. It's a good thing. Doing something like that on the PC would also be a good thing for game developers that don't want to have to deal with all that stuff (it'd also mean that if it works in one game, it should work in all of them, since its the same network code).<

[quote who="Denryu" reply="13" id="2398284"]In a different post Brad mentioned that possibly owning a resource might produce 1 per turn of that resource but a town might generate .1 of the resource. This is what leads me to believe that the simplest model (do you have a resource or don't you?) is being discarded for a bit more of a quantitative model (how much of a resource do you have?) I could be mis reading the tea leaves here though. [/quote] The idea was that havi

[quote]Kryo has been documenting these. I’m torn between wanting to put up an interim build this week that lets people have the bug fixes sooner and waiting until next week when there’s a lot more features. By waiting until next week, we don’t have to fixate on a build and more will get done so we’re leaning towards that.[/quote] I agree with that. :) In the picture of the battle screen, you say that level is irrevelent (which it is), that battle