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It also depends on how easy it is to integrate the scripting runtime into the game, and how easy it is to secure (ie: disabling it's ability to make system calls, because you really don't want a mod able to read the entire hard drive and send the results to the FBI!). I think LUA is actually better for this type of thing then Python is, but Python is pretty good for it too.

[quote who="AXidenTAL" reply="3" id="2590221"]Am I meant to do that through add registrations? Because everytime I do that it says it failed to connect to the server... [/quote] Has the order been processed yet? You get more then one email. One when the oder is made, and another when it's processed and you get beta access. Not sure if the second one is going on at the moment or not. Best bet is to contact sales, they can sort this out.

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="30" id="2589984"]You can queue up construction for every occupied tile as soon as you place the initial city building. Yes you have to wait for the buildings to construct but the process is far far quicker than with the initial city. And the starting city isn't 40 tiles. It is something like 10. [/quote] It's also not a "city", it's an outpost. It's certainly not massive, it's tiny. So when you said "you can instantly build a mas

If you want to change the email address that it's registered to, you'll have to have your stepdad contact [email protected] .

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="26" id="2589884"]it allows the player to instantly create massive cities within one turn (provided enough resources are available). [/quote] Really? Did I somehow miss the part where build times are completely eliminated and you can throw up 40 tiles worth of city and population in one turn?

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="21" id="2589842"]The overwelming majority of posts was for local and people overall. If you took polls and could show me numbers to prove your statement it would have been alright they did that for sins of a solar empire but did you no? Then don't say the community agreed if theres still controversy. You could have handled it democratically.[/quote] The majority of posts *HERE* was for local. Trouble is, this forum isn't the enti

[quote who="TCores" reply="11" id="2589457"]...why is it some posts don't show up for me until an hour or so later? [/quote] It appears that the forum is using caching to speed up display of posts. That's a good idea. But it seems that in some cases the cache doesn't get cleared when someone posts, so you won't see the post until the next time it checks. I'd guess its a bug.

it is too early to start planning, because we have no idea what the systems will actually look like by beta 5. :P

[quote who="RikazeMA" reply="12" id="2589123"]Edit: Read further, you tricked me. It wasn't made by Blizzard, it was made by a different company that later became Blizzard. Silicon & Synapse is very obviously not Blizzard. There's no telling if it was even all the same people that made Warcraft: OVH. Good one. [/quote] Same core people, the company was renamed when they started doing PC games.

[quote who="SuperTimo" reply="14" id="2588723"]Hello, a new beta tester and pre-orderer here! First of all I have to say that the game seems very promising indeed! But the longest I've so far played without crashing has been 15 minutes in this beta released now So definitely a lot of work to be done before moving on. Hopefully I can help! [/quote] Head over to the beta forum and submit those crash logs!

[quote who="aurore" reply="8" id="2587207"]Let me see, am I a 45 year old male, which then makes my post totally pointless and me a liar, or am I perhaps the partner of one who happens to use the same copy of impulse as him because we have 1 pc and dont see the point of logging in and out of impulse every time we want to play a game? [/quote] Brilliant. [e digicons]k1[/e]

That's better for some things then others. Modders who are tinerking with things like economics and advanced unit stuff really do need an indepth understanding of just what is going on. Now, a full blown quest list with all the outcomes and rewards? That I agree is better off not written.

[quote who="Bekkolina" reply="94" id="2580272"]Who cares about changing a character's hair style and looks, what I would REALLY like to see is an option to specify whether a dynasty marries off the daughters, or the sons, or a mix. Also, the ability of creating female units. I think that it would enhance the game because we could create custom races of amazons if we wanted, and so on.[/quote] I do. :) So does my wife. For a lot of people, being able to customize the characters

[quote who="slacktivist" reply="92" id="2587321"]Personally I see caravans as a horrendous bit of micromanagement - if I'm a king while would I be dealing with horse and carts - that's what peasants and underlings are for. [/quote] Caravans are automated right now, and presumably in 1Z as well. There is no micro with them at all, but they provide an actual thing on the map to attack to disrupt trade rather then just standing on a road.

Maybe it should just be a case where when you enter a ZoC, the defenders in control of it get a free round of combat against the invaders. A small garrison in that case would be able to seriously affect a single unit wandering around, but nine guys in the fort aren't a threat to an army. If it wanted to, the army could take the hits and keep going. In that case, a garrison of 5000 is a force to be reckoned with and can't be ignored. The advantage to a system like that is that

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="21" id="2587068"] Put that together with some UI that makes it look pretty in-game, and I'm sold. Maybe even enough to get off my lazy but and contribute...[/quote] Cool. :)

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="75" id="2587028"]I hope we can at least get a compromise because if the Dev's ignore side b entirely it will simply cause alot of infighting possibly canceled preorders etc. and none of this really works well for us as we all want to play the game and we all want to enjoy it.[/quote] Not taking your suggestion != ignored. On almost every subject that is of interest to the community, there are conflicting opinions. Nobody is being ignored, but not eve

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="67" id="2586615"] You say that 1Z can do everything, but no it can't. It can't model caravans being taken and goods being stolen straight off the trade route, bc caravans act as % increases now and don't actually carry real resources. a "siege" is going to play out the exact same way as attacking a planet in Galciv worked. you post ships/ troops around the planet/ city, getting rid of the garrison and when a trade ship/ caravan comes by you destroy i

The last thing I heard on this was that they'd decided to change the system based on feedback so that daughters won't be married off. Not sure if it's changed in the current release or not, but it's going to be fixed. :) I agree with you totally, though I'm a male. It's somewhat more realistic the way they originally had it, but the "fun" factor isn't really there if you want a badass heroine leading your army and not just to be diplomacy bait.

Well, I agree about Diablo 2. But Diablo 2 was made by Blizzard North, and it was the single buggiest thing Blizzard has ever put out at release. Many of those guys left for companies like Flagship and Cryptic, and we can see how well that has worked out. But beyond that... Starcraft turned out really well, Warcraft 3 had a great mapmapking community (didn't care for the base game myself but the custom maps like DotA and Tower Defense were awesome), and while WoW isn't everyones cup o

Not trying to be rude, but I'll probably succeed at it anyway. TBH, this reads like something straight off the WoW forums. After every change, Blizzard is "not listening", "breaking balance", "ruining the game", and so on. Been hearing that for five years... and before that for several more years with Starcraft. Somehow Blizzard's games always manage to survive the horrible things Blizzard is accused of doing to them, which really tells me that it's not so bad after all

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="14" id="2586848"]Zone of control should take into account the size of the defending unit. A company of 10 men can't "control" a tile and the surrounding tiles. A company of 10 000 men can. Even more if they have some scouts in the army. In elven legacy some units can ignore zone of controls, and that's a good thing. It opens a lot of possibilities.[/quote] At the same time, a ZoC doesn't have to mean "nobody can enter thees tiles". It just mean

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="2" id="2586852"] You can always contact [email protected] if you have any question regarding sales orders[/quote] This. Sales will be able to sort it out for you.

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="63" id="2586443"] As for everything else you've not convinced me that the new system of global resources is any way better than the old system. We had caravans supplying bonus food before that were "seigable". The argument that really needs to be made is why Global resources are more fun than local resources. I've played with the old system and liked it, and I've played with global resources and liked it in the context of TBS games but hated it in context of

If there's a real concern about that, a format like a wiki could be used only where edits have to be approved before going up. It doesn't seem to be a major problem with games, though. WoWWiki is among the best resources on the net for straightforward WoW information, and the GC2 wiki was where I learned how a lot of things work that just weren't covered elsewhere. It's especially useful for something like a modding community, because even if Stardock puts out good initial doc