Tridus

If you're going to buy this, don't buy it from Gamestop. There's shady things going on.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="5" id="2986816"]Given that the beta was supposed to be "feature-complete", I'd say pushing back the release is the same as pushing back the beta.[/quote] That. If the release was pushed back significantly, a feature complete beta would need to be pushed back with it.

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="32" id="2984501"]And I thought 64-bit was only for bigger maps, but if it helps with other things then good cause I'm not interested in bigger maps. 32-bit machines are limited to using 4GB of memory; the limit for 64-bit is.. a very large number, which is practically unlimited with current hardware. Which is great all around, although the effect is more pronounced when you're trying to compute with/display a lot of stuff, i.e. playing on a big

[quote who="Emperor_Nero" reply="5" id="2979470"]I have several Stardock games, and by the way the forum buzzes it seems as if WoM will stop being patched post FE final release.[/quote] We can only hope so. Put the resources where they'll do the most good.

If you just got it and learned that, contact [email protected] and you might be able to get a partial refund on it. Because yeah, the MP support in this game is a disgrace and really makes the entire company look bad. It's a far, FAR cry from Sins on that front.

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="18" id="2984235"] Quoting kona0197, reply 12External hard drives are a better choice. Bluray burners are still quite expensive. You are thinking short term storage. I am talking about for archiving things forever. And from a quick look at Newegg Blu-Ray discs are better priced for the capacity they provide. Which in the long run (or if you are archiving lots of data) will make Blu-Ray cheaper. Plus the failure rate of discs is likely to

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="65" id="2984761"] Quoting Lantros, reply 64 Yesterdays newsletter was a joke. None of the games were aviable for me. What are you complaining about?? I didn't even get the newsletter [/quote] If you're not eligible to buy anything in the newsletter and they should KNOW that from your account info, then sending you the newsletter is at best a waste of your time and at worst an insult.

RPS DID trash it today: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/18/from-dust-does-need-online-badly-ported/

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="6" id="2984496"] Quoting Cruxador, reply 5Making Kenata's weapons mod a core part of the game. But that would be easy, where did the $1M go? I'm pretty sure Kenata can't charge royalties for a mod [/quote] Paying for a team of senior managers to spend six months debating if it should be added or not? ... wait, that's my day job. :P

[quote who="Jafo" reply="11" id="2984056"] Quoting Tridus, reply 8Glasses-free 3d TV doesn't work because the viewing angle is so small to get the effect properly. You can't have your friends over to watch something because they all have to crowd around in the small viewing angle. It's an impressive tech demo, and not practical at all in real life. Yet.[/quote] Well, let me know when they have something that works as well as my 2d TV from anywhere in the ro

[quote who="larienna" reply="57" id="2984133"]People will not play a multiplayer game that takes 50 hours to play. Especially considering there is only 24 hours in a day. So if you can manage to create a game mode where a game last between 2-3 hours, people will play. It worked well with Civilisation revolution because a game last in average 5 hours in single player. There was even lightning mode that made the game progress faster.[/quote] That's funny, Civ 4 had

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="1" id="2983818"]I think if 3D at home has any future, it'll be once someone figures out how to make it work without the glasses. The 3DS is a brilliant piece of tech, and made me a big fan of the 3D. If I had to wear glasses, I could see myself simply opting to not view 3D at all.[/quote] The usage so far suggests that most people actually turn the 3d off on the 3DS and leave it off because it doesn't work unless you're perfectly stat

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2983702"] War of Magic, for instance, didn't bother with rivers because, even if they were in, they'd just be cosmetic. Fallen Enchantress maps have rivers and they matter in terms of providing income and labor bonuses to cities built near them.[/quote] Now that's good news!

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="51" id="2983703"] What would be the problem with an additional DD service? You'd still have your option to continue using Impulse. And next April you can add the game to steam, or any other DD service that Stardock signs with. I don't see how a Stardock store would inconvenience you. Am I missing something? And what happens if a new DD service should hit the market? Should they be denied the opportunity&n

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="46" id="2983436"]I'd just like to second the calls for something like 'spam-free beta tester' logins for the bug tracking, and for a Stardock-based way to download the game & updates.[/quote] Nothing personal GW, but a thousand times no. The absolute last thing I want is yet another download service for one game. Stardock has already done that TWICE. Third time and I'm out. Besides, FE is still under the Impulse exclusive wind

[quote quoting="post"] Multiplayer Since I don’t want that dangling out there, multiplayer matters to me personally but we know the hard statistics on the % of people who play turn-based strategy games MP (and I mean industry wide). The word tiny comes to mind. That said, Elemental will be receiving multiplayer love anyway. [/quote] By "Elemental" do you mean FE or WoM? And by "love" do you mean feature parity? If we can play MP FE and do everything you

Not really. DF has a lot of personality and interesting mechanics. Come back when the expansion (Fallen Enchantress) is out. That looks like it'll be a much better game.

I'd like a development journal saying how they're going to fix multiplayer to bring it up to feature parity with single player (and thus be worth using). In that area, I expect nothing.

Then maybe they shouldn't be drastically altering the game every patch if the AI can't keep up? This is effectively a SP game, the AI being able to play it matters.

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="170" id="2980989"]I'm surprised that people don't seem to play singleplayer anymore but on second thought, that must be because those games that track gametime are MP games like Call of Duty and StarCraft II.[/quote] It's not that people don't play SP, because they do. A lot of it. They don't *finish* long SP games on average. Basically every 360 game and these days a majority of PC games have achievements even for SP, so it's fai

... since he's the OP, I wonder if he realizes he's calling out himself? [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="13" id="2981299"]I think the goal for the AI in FE will be in a completely different league than that of AoW's. I for one am glad tactical combat will be limited to features that the AI can properly handle.[/quote] Considering that the AI for WoM is in a completely different league (in the wrong direction), I'd be happy if it got into the same league. TBH I'm not sure where all this wellspring of confidence in the FE AI is coming from. There

[quote who="seanw3" reply="9" id="2981075"]Don't lie Tridus. AoW sieges were good, but the AI couldn't use walls correctly. They come out and are easily tricked. I remember I was halfway done building my Trojanic Horse when they just came out to fight me. AoW is one of the greats, but it has very different core rules to work with. And the AI for this game has much more complexity potential. That is kind of Frog's selling point as a person. That and the B

[quote who="Bellack" reply="5" id="2981057"] Quoting seanw3, reply 2All these things seem to be hard to get the AI to do. If we could absolutely know that the AI is not going to be able to use most of these features for a few months after launch, would you still want them? Keep in mind that multiplayer will not have tac battles. Hold on. Is that official that MP will not have TC? If that is the casre then there is no point in playi

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="160" id="2980808"] Actually, Australians have seen the price of games increase dramatically. SEGA Master System games retailed for AU$80.00. At that point in time, the AU Dollar bought around US$0.65. Nintendo 64 Games retailed for AU$100.00. At that point in time, the AU dollar bought around US$0.85. Xbox 360 games retail for around AU$110.00. The AU Dollar currenty buys US$1.01.[/quote] Well, sucks for the Australia