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[quote who="Grimgravy" reply="82" id="2617016"] I agree. Not training units sounds fine to me and fits the lore, but success in battle should lead to improvement.[/quote] A "veteran" soldier on the Kingdom side is trained. When training the soldier, once you unlock veteran training you can pick it as an option, and you spend extra time to get stronger troops. That's the option the Empire doesn't have. Presumably if some kind of unit XP system comes in, both factions

[quote who="Juvantei" reply="85" id="2617082"]Sorry, greatness is MADE not born. Fail.[/quote] Thats what the Kingdoms with their lies and propaganda want you to think.

The main people hurt in this type of model is Gamestop. If EA wanted to *kill* used sales, there wouldn't be an option to buy a code. You buy a new copy or you don't get multiplayer, period. What they're doing instead is adding a fee. So instead of Gamestop being able to sell a used copy for $5 less then a new copy (where they keep half of that $55 and the publisher gets nothing), Gamestop instead sells it for $45 and also sells the $10 code. Gamestop still makes money, and th

Nothing that I've seen has been officially nailed down yet. The developers are known to read and post here. If you've got ideas, post em! :)

[quote who="Outlaw" reply="72" id="2616886"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 20I like that. Guildsmen. I also like Magistrate or something too. How about Magnate? –noun 1. a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.: a railroad magnate.[/quote] [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] (though I made the same suggestion back on page 1 :) ) Vizer is a good one too.

Hexes are great and provide much saner movement, but I think its too late at this point. :(

Well, I think you're right, and wrong. Some things are undeniably true. Demigod's main issue was that in the early going it had connectivity and matchmaking issues. Those weren't really Stardock's fault and they worked hard to fix it, but it kind of snowballed. People moved to custom games and external systems like Hamachi and Gameranger to play, because they worked better. That fragmented the community, and it never fully recovered. Custom games in particular had the problem you desc

[quote who="Raven X" reply="10" id="2616096"] That's true, But, the Kingdoms don't %100 Have To Concentrate on War. The Kingdoms can "Win" through Diplomacy and forming Alliances, it can win through Magical Research, I'm sure there are other ways a Kingdom faction can win as well, Without NEEDING to Rely On Warfare. That's all I'm afraid of. I don't want the Empire Factions to HAVE TO RELY on nothing but Warfare as that seems very limiting.[/quote] I don't see why the Empire coul

Sounds pretty sweet. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] [quote quoting="post"] The Empire also scoffs at the Civics concepts of markets. Deals are made on the basis of leverage alone. Instead of relying on institutions, the Empire relies on leaders of capitalism to deal with it. Players can build Financiers (until we have a better name, feel free to suggest a better one) who enhance the city’s money making. [/quote] You're right, "Financier" isn't a great name for s

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="231" id="2615454"]Civ IV has direct ip. If you know who you want to play with, you don't have use anyones anything. Once Steam is in the picture, they'll remove that I am sure. You will be forced to use Steam if you want to play Civ V. No one is forcing us to buy Civ V which is why a number of us won't, at least not until it hits the bargain bin. [/quote] I'd be pretty shocked if most people playing multiplayer Civ are doing with direct IP. The gamespy

[quote who="tscolin" reply="228" id="2615373"]I don't mean to sound like a valve fanboy i really don't, if a superior product comes ill use it... I also respect you stardock fella's resolve in such things. i however, don't take such a hard line to drm, and consider steamworks to be preferable to ubisofts' and ea games drm implementations. Since 2k games has had its awful history of drm implementation, i'm thankful they chose steamworks over the alternatives. Perh

[quote who="KickACrip" reply="146" id="2613694"]I'm amazed that so many people have intermittent internet connections. I have cable internet, and it's on 99% of the time - and when there are severe storms that cause the internet to go out.. guess what? I'm not getting on my computer to play a game in offline mode, I'm turning off and unplugging what I need to to make sure nothing gets fried. [/quote] Not that I want to wade into this thing, but laptops. People who tra

[quote who="Chipwich" reply="7" id="2609812"]I can't imagine why you are testing the servers when so few elements are in the game but I'm not a developer. [/quote] Two reasons: 1. Because connectivity problems were such a nightmare with Demigod. Get it in early and you get months of testing before release. (It also means features work with MP as you add them, so you won't get any nasty surprises like if you added MP in beta 5.) 2. The AI isn't done yet, and likely

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="9" id="2608202"]quoting postWhen you create this guy/gal, bear in mind that this is going to be an NPC. So don’t max him. He shouldn’t be as powerful as your sovereign so don’t use up your points. Not a single point on anything? Weapons and armor that doesn't cost points are fine? Default weapon is fine? [/quote] By don't max him, he means don't spend all your points to build the strongest character you can. You can spend some

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="52" id="2607656"]I think most of you forget that your opinions are all irrelevant since you all will soon be replaced by your Korean equivalents. [/quote] Nah, Starcraft 2 is our secret weapon against the Koreans.

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="3" id="2606920"]I am wondering if it is a good thing to have so many different attributes with important semantic meanings used for the the same XML tag. I am not really sure that it helps extensibility (adding new priority focus). I guess only time will tell which is more usable for AI coding You could have written your XML that way 50 <b

I don't agree with the second part of the order. Gameplay is king if you want to make a long-lasting game, absolutely. But when I look at games I really got into or games I remember, it wasn't because of art. It was because of the story and the characters (aka: lore). Not the art. It doesn't matter what things look like if I don't care what happens to them.

I'm interested in seeing prebuilt factions and the lore behind them, so I guess that is where I'd rather focus go. Not that I dislike customization, far from it. But I really like the idea of having interesting factions. If anything, in a future patch/expansion, you could add focus to improving customization more easily then you could add the lore in. Though to be honest, I'm still finding the subject hard to grasp. I just want to say "yes" to the question and get both. :) So

At the moment we just don't know much about most of the factions. Too much stuff is missing from the game to really get to know any factions that well. So the poll numbers can be kind of misleading that way. We certainly need factions to play against. While I might like to create my own, I also like to play as some of the built in ones and really don't want to have to create ones to play against. Letting people create their own races is cool, though.

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="45" id="2604636"] The Win 7 64Bit version was not around when I was building my home system and the Vista_64Bit version not only has problems with some of the older games, but would have taken more time tweaking thus I selected to install the XP64Bit version. While the XP64Bit version was never intended for gaming it works perfectly for all my RTS, TBS and RPG games. The 'extremely limited release' must be a city retailers reference because it's qui

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="38" id="2604306"]Quoting Tridus, reply 28 XP 64 is an unsupported OS, for both Elemental and Impulse. Last message I saw from Stardock was an active plan for providing a 64Bit version of Elemental. There was a financial cost from Intel which generated a strong belief no 64Bit version would be made available, yet last I saw Stardock found a method around the extreme financial barrier.[/quote] <span style="text-decoration: underlin

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="23" id="2603888"]I'm glad to hear a Windows_XP system is being used for testing at Stardock. The current build seems to crash often for my Windows_XP_64Bit system. I noticed beta testing is 32Bit... when will the 64Bit beta testing begin?[/quote] XP 64 is an unsupported OS, for both Elemental and Impulse. I really can't figure out why people run that on a gaming machine, it was only intended for use by driver developers a

What does "(+4 additional game tiles)" mean?

[quote who="strager" reply="51" id="2598757"]If Blizzard had said from the getgo "We may decide to start charging for individual items" I could possibly agree with some of these arguments. However, people have spent countless hours in the game leveling up characters, and while the game is very basic (all classes available to both sides of the race war, and only 2 sides in said war) and lacking any kind of diversity, at least until now offered the same chances for everyone assuming they purcha

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="48" id="2598714"] Boy there is always one of you out there that think that WoW is so unique and the first at everything that other people who have been paying MMORPGs for years have no clue. I've been playing MMORPG's since before WoW was ever in development. I know the P2P games are. I know what mounts are. I know what microtrans are, and I assure you have more than enough information here to make a judgment on Blizzard's choice. What I am not is a WoW fanbois