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USPS? Sweet. This Canadian thanks you for using them over UPS. (Seriously, for whatever reason the post office is the absolute best way to ship anything from US to Canada.)

No. But if the LAN is connected to the Internet, people can play on the Internet servers. (When they come online, which will be next week from what I've read.)

[quote who="Lucifon" reply="83" id="2726667"] Quoting Polynomial, reply 81You're seriously not giving us multiplayer until next week? Appreciate the sleepless nights and work gone into getting the game up in time but this just seems like a repeat of Demigod all over again on the forums. Dates for seriously important things moving back. What if your general consumer walks into a store, picks up a copy of the game, and starts playing it then decides to jump on Multiplayer but ha

[quote who="CatfishBiff" reply="101" id="2726801"] Hello, would you mind sharing the graphic card/driver used? Having terrible crashes here on W7 x64 can't seem to figure the reason. Do you have any antivir realtime software enabled when playing? I'm running the following and the performance has been great. 0 crashes and I've played up to around 100 turns. Win 7-64bit Core i7-920 Factory clock Radeon 5870 (Catalyst 10.7 drivers) @19

Have you saved lately? You can check in your My Documents\My Games\Elemental folder for an autosave, and try loading that.

[quote who="Uberwilhelm" reply="4" id="2726484"] Am I the only one who thinks digital downloads should be a little cheaper than the retail box? [/quote] Retailers don't like being undercut by the publisher directly like that, which is why they're not. When the time comes that DD overtakes retail, you can expect to start to see it happen. I agree that it would make more sense, given the extra cost of packaging, shipping, and the cut to the store.

No, a lot of people have been posting confused newbie questions due to the same problem. If you hang around the forums a bit, you might find the answers you need. :)

So is this thread about piracy, tacos, or imperialist privilege? I really can't tell anymore.

The lack of a tutorial is definitely making it harder for people to get into. Try taking a look at the Help Me thread . It may help. For some specific answers: 1. If they won't talk to you, it means you can't recruit them for some reason. IIRC if you mouse over the crossed out talk button, it will give you a tooltip to tell you why. 2. Auto-resolve battles have the AI fight for you. It chooses it based on what the AI

[quote who="Clawdius_Talonious" reply="5" id="2726325"]Things have a chance of coming up, if you don't get it the first time you see it it might not be there the next time, but it will come back around and you'll have a chance at it then.[/quote] This. Take a look at the research screen with warfare selected, it should show you what techs have a chance at coming up. Is logistics there? If it is, keep researching and it'll reappear as an option. If it's not, either you already

With the city selected, look in the bottom left. You should see a bar with a little house icon somewhere on it. That bar is the city level up meter, when it fills with population the city goes up a level. The house icon shows how many people your city can support right now. To move it up you need more houses (and to build more houses you need more food). You get more food by building a farm on a fertile land tile (click the fertile land tile once your city influence covers it, and the

[quote who="EpicMouse" reply="59" id="2726295"]going to pick this up after work today should i wait for the day 0 patch to install it?[/quote] It's pretty easy to patch once the update comes out, so I wouldn't worry about that.

[quote who="Kyorisu" reply="49" id="2726211"] Every pirate that ultimately buys the game who would have otherwise completely ignored it seems like a bonus to me. If they don't buy the game they weren't going to buy it even if the game wasn't able to be pirated, they'd go pirate something else.[/quote] And every pirate who would have bought the game if they couldn't get a free copy instead is a lost sale. Nobody really knows which group is larger then the other, but people who rea

[quote who="Nomad_Soul_" reply="88" id="2726135"]I'd enjoy seeing completely random maps as an option, certainly. I don't understand the people criticizing balance in random maps. Using strategy, diplomacy, and tactics to fight your way out from an initial disadvantage can be a very satisfying experience. Those who want perfectly balanced and symmetrical maps can build them with the map editor I'd imagine. Or download them once others start building them.[/quote] There is n

Good news! :)

[quote who="James009D" reply="19" id="2725648"]Great news, thanks for the update. I'm quite impressed with whats stated here. Can't wait to see it up and running (smoothly). btw, what is a "game tree that was split in two"? What does that mean? Also, what are these late game champion abilities you mentioned? I'm very curious to see what is new, changed, and improved. P.S. Don't break my mods please, LOL P.S.S. Just kidding, more stuff to work with. Modding is

[quote who="Fra2" reply="42" id="2726052"] Now.. this is a little disappointing to me. If tactical battles are already in the game why do we have to wait a future update, at a later date, to use them in MP? Also... could you please tell us which other aspects of the game will be removed and/or dumbed down in MP? Please.. I beg you, make so that we get the full game in MP and not a dumbed down version... I understand others would want a faster gameplay for competitive MP m

This is a sign that the gaming "media" is growing up. The mainstream media gets important details wrong all the time, particularly on technology or science stories. So it's nice to see the gaming media like Kotaku reaching that same standard of gross factual inaccuracy.

In the Impulse settings there's options for where to install, as well as a "prompt for install" option. You can change it there. Might also want to suggest on the ImpulseDriven.com forum that they add a feature to pick up by default if it's installed on another drive.

There's something up with retail copies not working properly due to the street date being broken (shouldn't be out until tomorrow). Have you tried registering and updating it on Impulse? That was the advice last night.

Try grabbing the package from here: http://anywhere.impulsedriven.com/

It's been asked a few times already today, don't feel bad. :)

[quote who="LordTheRon" reply="61" id="2723932"] Well, I didn't say, make the maps imbalanced. I just said for multiplayer I understand the need for truly balanced maps but for singleplayer there is a certain need for balance but surely a need for randomness too. Civ IV is an excellent example of how this can be done.[/quote] Yeah I get that, but the seed thing is being done because the "problem" case was happening in an earlier beta. It won't be necessary once the map sc

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="12" id="2723724"] sure but then the game would be only champions against champions cause all the rest would be like ants for them How are you getting this? I don't think you're fully understanding how it would work. Even if the champion has 60 attack and one of the units in a squad has 20 defense, your champion still only does one attack. So even if it completely mangles that unit, still only one dies out of the squad because there was one de

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="12" id="2724360"] Damage spells like a fireball should automatically do damage no matter what--the enemy should have a resistance based on constitution to save for half damage or to prevent burning on successive turns. In my opinion, rather than rolling against armor, the target's INT score should just be used as a form of spell resist. Perhaps a function of INT and Level, such that you need to bump up INT occasionally to maintain the same resist percen