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[quote who="Myles" reply="44" id="2598615"] And yet I doubt you ever stole,committed other crimes to obtain your fix, or went through physical withdrawals after a day or two of not playing . [/quote] And you'd be incorrect.

[quote who="Myles" reply="40" id="2598490"] That's not addiction, that's lack of self-control. Addiction is when actual physical changes in your head make it so not even friends or relatives could drag you away. Things like game addiction and sex addiction are bullshit. People just don't want to take responsibility for the fact they made bad decisions that they very much had control of. [/quote] I don't really buy that. I went through a similar thing as <a id="ctl00__C

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="32" id="2598314"] You made a blanket statement saying that, and I quote, "an item costs a million can the 'free' players still have fun? Do they still have options to buy things which are actually within their budget? If so whats the problem?". I don't see you saying anything about charging for cosmetic items is okay but not items that have an actual effect. How about them having fun until some PvP combat shows up and the one with the fattest wal

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="6" id="2597703"]It may be time to take a step back and re-evaluate your priorities in life when spending $25 on a virtual pony seems like a good use of money to you. Coming soon to WoW: $25 for a Celestial Stable for your $25 mount. ...and you know people would buy it.[/quote] What, because people spending $90 to attend a baseball game where the beer costs $9 is a good use of money? Strictly speaking, all mon

I'm having this bizzare case of deja-vu...

The numbers need a lot of tweaking right now, 10 man armies aren't the goal. :)

[quote who="PyroMancer2k" reply="71" id="2595667"] I think the problem in part is people hear of historic warfare and how one army had to take some fort, or pass, or such before they could continue on to another city or such. So they want to create that element in the TBS games with their forts hold the front line. The problem is the reasoning behind why that historical battle took place isn't present in the game. Armies had to take forts along their route through enemy territory because

If you pre-ordered last week you should have gotten an email with your registration info. In that case the game should be in Impulse, as long as you click the blue button and set it to show pre-release versions :). If you didn't get the email and don't see it in Impulse, DoomBringer90 speaks truth. [email protected] can sort it out.

[quote who="Supreme Shogun" reply="4" id="2595582"]Would be nice. For the love of they're past due with sequels to more than one title. I would add in Diablo and Starcraft. They don't get points for finally working on them now. They're late! I don't want to hear WOW excuses either. Bah! They were and are still raking in money, so there's no reason sequels to their titles couldn't have been

This is the right call, save games need to be solid before moving on.

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="58" id="2594857"] Quoted for Truth. Something I"d hoped for all along was a robust trade system for the game and a AI good at using it. But I guess in the new vision that isn't "fun" in a game, though I'm not sure anymore what is "fun" in the game because fun isn't simulating (Sorry Civ franchise, historical simulation I guess isn't fun anymore in a 4X game) and tactical choices aren't fun in a game. [/quote] You're going to cite Civ? Really?

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="66" id="2594523"]No what he refers to is defensive units cannot attack at a distance or even harass invaders.[/quote] ^ This, exactly. Defensive units are bad not because they're actually "bad units", but because defending anything that isn't a city in your standard TBS is useless. You can't stop me from simply going around your defensive units. In order to stop me, you have to attack, at which point *I* am the defender and I get the defensive bonuse

[quote who="PyroMancer2k" reply="62" id="2593898"]I don't really like the idea of "zones of control" because it basically makes areas impassible for no reason other then the enemy has a unit parked there. The only way past is to attack that unit which doesn't make sense cause it's like if the enemy has a fort on the mountain next to a valley why do I have to scale the mountain and attack fort in order to go through the valley? It gives to much power to defending units as they get a

It's pretty obvious that population loss due to negative food isn't implemented yet. As to the other point... yeah, it would make more sense if food worked on population instead of housing instead, but at the end of the day the results are similar. If you can build houses, your population will grow. The feedback is just faster this way. If you tie it to people instead of houses, you'll build houses, and the food level won't change until those houses fill with people (which takes some

[quote who="cephalo" reply="2" id="2593271"]I've been trying to finish a game, but I haven't been that lucky. I always see something I want to click on and crash the game. I also can't remember to save my game ever. [/quote] Autosave is working now, turn it on in the options. :)

[quote who="WaywardG" reply="30" id="2592836"]I think 'vaporware' is just fun to say/type. Seems to me a lot of people like to use it without really thinking about what it means. Elemental already has far too much substance to be considered vapor, in my opinion.[/quote] Yeah, they're calling it vaporware without any idea of what the word really means. We've already seen more of Elemental then anybody saw during the entire DNF development process. Nobody outside 3d Realms ever knew if

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="19" id="2592966"]Sounds to me that people DO want a tutorial. If that is the case, we'll need to revisit that.[/quote] If you look over the general forum there's a couple of "new tester, what do I do?" threads. For anybody who has already played a similar TBS game, it's fairly obvious how most of the controls work and what you're supposed to be doing (except for how to send units together as a group, THAT part of the UI needs work). But for a player

[quote quoting="post"] I’m not a huge fan of the current housing / food model. I don’t mind food being a global resources but it feels unnatural for a garden or farm to essentially provide a one time increase in food. I’m also rather disappointed that defense is a catch all for armor and evasion. The diplomacy was also pretty bare bones although I suspect this will be corrected in the days to come. Have y

To move, just click on a character and right click on where you want to go. You can "claim land" by building a settlement, which your sovereign can do. As it grows, it's borders will expand. Try to build your first city near some kind of food resource (fertile land, wheat, etc). You'll need food to expand your city and build housing.

Most reviewers started out as gamers, and they're still fanboys for some franchises, or some types of games over others. Combine that with the corruption in the review industry and you get a system that works really poorly. Final Fantasy 13 is a great example, a lot of reviewers simply overlooked all the problems (including an incredibly terrible 360 port) and gave it high scores because it's a Final Fantasy game and has pretty cutscenes on the PS3. In a lot of ways, th

Multiplayer save: yes PBE: Last I saw was "maybe", and that was a long time ago. Will probably have an answer by the end of beta 2.

Nice. :) You should put it on the wiki.

I tried it, but the beta bug report forum drowns out everything else because it's so high volume. Had to turn it off.

Yeah, seconded. I'd love to be able to just make a character look nice and play with the stats seperately.

[quote who="Daelyn75" reply="4" id="2589652"]Quoting Myles, reply 1People are represented individually. The one person who starts in your town is really 1 person. The 5 person squad is called an 'army' by the game because it's the only title it can give when multiple units are put together. Turn length and such isn't concrete yet. They're focusing on making gameplay work well without worrying about 'realistic' timing and such and then they'll making the timing work.<br /