Neitherman

Losing the game instantly when your sovereign dies would NOT be a problem if the AI were REALLY good, but its not, it leaves him wide open ALL the time.

If your AI actually evaluates its resources and compares them to a pre planned timescale, its not hard to make the AI expand at a specific pace. The problem is that then you wind up with a very predictable AI, it always plays the exact same way under the same circumstances. Also if your AI doesnt just cheat like crazy, it simply wont be capable of the sort of map swallowing expansion you often see in 4x AI's. it will get the second town out fast, and then it will be stuck for a

I think Founding new citys should be cheap initially and become ridiculously expensive as you build more of them. AND that the tile limit should be something that starts at a fixed value but can be increased by the construction of specific stuctures(actually you could just tie it into prestige we already have structures that can increase prestige and they are appropriatley limited) and by research. Example: 1st city=FREE 2nd city=50 gildar (early game this is a

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2722500"]It randomly generates map, but the continents land masses use seeds. And if you want true fractal randomness, you can delete the seeds but all balance goes out the door.[/quote] AHH, I see that makes sense from a programmatic stand point.

wth? Can we get some more confirmation on this?

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="7" id="2722022"] Quoting MxM111, reply 4 quoting post I like the way they do business and I like them as a company, since Galciv 2 I just bought the game as soon as I heard about it and figured I'd like it. I haven't found one I didn't enjoy yet, flaws or not. Well, that's not surprising, considering the fact that the first game since GalCiv 2 that stardock has developed was... Elemental.Even discounting expansion packs, ther

Great news and all , very glad to hear the wheel has begun to slowly turn, but wow... no love for the preorder customers yet? Not even a MENTION ?

In retrospect it propably would have been wiser if frogboy had said that the game will be released EARLY, and not given a date/time. Because now they have missed three vague-psuedo-deadlines the beta people getting it early, the preorder people getting it early, and a little over three hours ago frogboy said it would be a couple more. Don't get me wrong I'm as calm as ever, just sitting around sipping my $5 cup of coffee and watching the forums burn with the strength of a

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="18" id="2721317"] Quoting solidsmooky, reply 17Which ever one has the largest breasts. This is how I pick for all of my games.Breast size isn't related to any non-aesthetic aspects of the character. You can think of stuff beyond that to plan for.[/quote] He could plan for other things, but I have to hand it to him this a very rapid/simple selection mechanic.

[quote who="tid242" reply="4" id="2720225"]Well, it's the same way in GalCiv2 whereby the pre-made races included bonuses would entail more points than are available if one were to build them as 'custom' races. I suspect that a part of this is that with the pre-made races (in GC2) or sovereigns (Ele) is that they include things that you wouldn't otherwise spend points on. Such as receiving all 4 elemental spellbooks + life, or 15 points for a spear, et

Anyone else planning on naming the sovereign Jesus? And then designing his outfit/appearance to match? Flavor text: Nothing can stand before the might of the lord! Start renaming everything to match that context. So many funny jokes that could come up in that kind of campaign.... I think its only MILDLY sacrilegious. Barring that my First sovereign will be sir moron of Whoopass. But thats because I know that my first

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="70" id="2720727"]if you pre ordered from stardock you need to email [email protected] and deal directly with a sales support staff to figure out whats wrong..[/quote]twohawks are you saying that as of this time if our card hasnt been charged we should contact sales? Just trying to figure out your context and clarify it before their sales staff gets spammed hard. I did receive an email receipt for my order but I havent received any news emails or a

Give it some time, He never gave a specific hour. I was kind of guessing noonish

[quote who="kryo" reply="51" id="2720129"] How long ago do we have to have pre-ordered to get the early download? Before we start charging them tomorrow, for the midday window.[/quote] ::GLEE::

How long ago do we have to have pre-ordered to get the early download? I ask because I preordered on thursday or friday, but if the game comes out tomorrow afternoon that would be PERFECT for me since this a three day weekend for me.

Pretty much exactly what the title says. Would love to play the beta. Will eventually buy the game. Not intrested in preordering with no real benefit though. So do I get access to the beta if I preorder now?