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[quote who="NTJedi" reply="7" id="2101782"] The Overseer(DM/GM) has never been boring for any of the games I've played where this position was available. [/quote] Well, that kinda goes without saying. I imagine that role is often the 1st thing to be cut from almost any project in which it MIGHT be playable since it takes so much time to properly create. Its hard to give bad published examples, but I've had enough rapid game prototyping to tell you wh

Comming dangerously close to exparation. Remember you can post in other forums (basically extending this reminder) as an entry. You don't have to do anything fantastic (though its encouraged)

I like the brain storming. I don't have a whole lot to add really except cut down on the direct spell-like effects. I'm an extremely conservitive player, which means if something that is finite (as I understand essense to be) can be expelled to create 1 time effects (like half the above effects) then I would never use those abilities. Thats all fine and dandy, not everybody should want to use everything, but the type of people that would use them are the super-elitest pla

well, I mean are you really saying you'd want things to be placed on the map in real time? L4D has versus, but its hardly giving the player control of the master AI, in fact, quite the opposite, its giving the master AI more control of the player (forcing them to change characters and respawn as tank and so on) I'm not saying its a bad idea, I'm just saying it doesn't really sound like... this game. I mean, if something is going to be added to the map, I wa

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="23" id="2099336"] Well I did not add Housing, Barracks, Mine, Mine Training, Training Halls and Mana Generator since I don't have any creative ideas for improving them at the moment. The list I created provides new ideas or suggestions for improving existing buildings which provides the greatest benefit for our beloved Stardock developers. .... I did not add Mages Guild, Monasteries or Churches since these

I'm actually against this. AT least for the normal game (maybe for a mod or something thats fine, in fact it could be pretty cool). I mean, I'm all about the RPG elements, but if it gets to the point where there should be an overseer/GM player, then its gone too far. When I sit down to my strategy game, thats what I want. A bit of RPG 'topping' adds flavor, but if I wanted to play neverwinter nights, I would... About the closest I'd be willing to go is just to

OH, he's right. You need our training halls and war cottages

that seems good, but it looks like they city structure is going to be different from the picture above. Like it sounds to have an entirely different scale, to the point a building shouldn't take up more than 1 block at all. In such case, shapes wouldn't matter I like the idea, and it makes me want to go play 'Startopia' but I'm nure sure if it would or could be used here.

my only problem is they had it laying out and about. I mean I guess with SSD drives it doesn't much matter (you could just shove them all in there and they'd work just fine) but I personally wouldn't have the desk space for that. Admittingly, it shows just how much of a difference having that many drives raided together can do (though I'm sure the 2 processors helped)

well, I'm sure they're going to cover all of it by release, since this part may not be that apparent in early betas the way things like trade, magic, or combat will. Then again, "customizing your wizard' as seen in Master of Magic apparently counts as RPG elements in most people's book, so *shrug* The loot system eh? I kinda expect that to be something heavily tweaked based on user feedback. I'm sticking to the magic post that I 'signed' a while back that I

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="19" id="2095655"] I think your switch of preposition might be the operative variable here. Boogie said "on dungeons,".[/quote] oh darn, your right. I got too excited and didn't examine the vowel on that preposition. That would kinda suck, monster spawn from dungeon ON your city. I'd want the game to interpret it as being created by the city so the monster was loyal to me now :P

I'm still confused if its before or after Gal Civ. If its before, there should be other non-humans about (since humans were the "youngest race" in the Gal Civ stories) if its after (i.e. the technology of altaria was wiped out by the cataclysm, which is how I read the story) then well, its post-destruction altaria.

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="9" id="2095148"]Building each world will take a bit of time, even once optimizations are enabled and the code is fully tweaked. We'll be making heavy use of quote (or 'Excerpts', as they're called in code) throughout the game to drive the narrative.[/quote] Each world? Just, how many worlds are there? can I interpret this as confirmation that there is more than one? (I'm glad to see the quote thing is already

saying that it would win right now doesn't say much since there is only 1 entry and 5 winning spots. While I don't expect everybody to make a trailer or something outlandish like that, I was kinda hoping that somebody would create something that took about as much time. I mean, honestly this took 1 hour of shooting and maybe an hour of editing, at most, and only that much because I'm not really a video editor, I just have the software because I like re-encoding videos.</p

I'm really curious to see exactly how this movie plays out. I mean, I think its much more intense than I originally suspected it was to be. Its kinda hard to imagine that after STARTING with such rough times, kirk could ever be the least bit intimidated by anything later. Also, does anybody know if this is going to have 1st generation klingons or klingons as seen in every star trek series afterwords? (except deep space 9 that actually had both when they travel through ti

[quote who="Tamren" reply="20" id="2094127"]Kind of like rapiers no one can agree what a pike is.[/quote] I don't think thats true. In my fencing classes we had the different fencing weapons defined and rapier was in fact defined and presented. They are somewhere between the saber and the epee, in that they have a thick blade (similar to the epee) but also have a edge down the front and about a 4th of the back (like a sabre ). They were very early weapons so their

good collection of sound effects. Its funny how unlike the real thing some of the sound when you think about it though. Its like the 'sword drawing' noise that you never hear when you're actually trying to draw a sword (unless you've rocks in the scabbard )

So, when I browse youtube for trailers I constantly bump into fan made trailers for unreleased movies and games. They vary in quality from some as awesome as the thundercats trailer (photoshoped frame by frame) to some not so good (see the laundry list of kingdom hearts 3 trailers). So I decided I wanted in on this fun, and so I grabbed some guys and film a trailer, now its an Elemental: War of Magic trailer. <param name="movie" value

Man, Boogiebac's update here has me very excited. Dungeons must be freakishly huge if you can fit starting settlements in them. are you supposed to be able to create settlements in them at all? I hope the cloth map Icons are more complex than planets with more inner rings (Gal Civ 2) I would want something more complex like a monochromatic rendition of cities similar to those in Master of magic (the idea that they are getting more complex as the city expands, rathe

I think you need to learn to spell 'wrong' (not rong) no, I jest uh... from the 0 troubleshooting I've seen here I'd say loose connection somewhere. (I have not blamed the computer or anything electrical mind you)

[quote who="Gnats3" reply="6" id="2093446"] Maybe the devs could even let community members suggest quotes to be added to the final game [/quote] Totally, I would love if we got to do that. n fact its now on my to-do-list to create a thread of compiled ideas for quotes. Not right now though, right now I just have a text file of good quotes (which has only 2 quotes right now), which I will be adding to as time goes on. Then once we've seen the g

I expect that there will be a beta or alpha build before the one given to the public, I mean there pretty much has to be. So whatever build comes right before the 1st release would be what I expect is in question. I'd expect that to be a few weeks before the June release, so like May? If there is going to be more than one private beta, then maybe as early as April, right after Demigod's release and Frogboy and company are not pushing to make Dem

eh, I'm nervous about blizzard, because I feel that "Big Money" has been causing them to loose a bit, but then again they haven't released anything other than WoW in 6 years, so maybe they recognise it too and will correct me. Stardock is about to expand to another team, and RPGs to boot (something I wasn't expecting actually, based on a comment I got from Frogboy once, maybe he doesn't include narritive design as the same as a 'game designer' )

For some reason I always associate pikes with phalanxses, to the point that if I see a phalanx with a long spear weapon, I default to them being pikes reguardless of what they actually are. The only difference I was ever told is that pikes are never intended to be thrown (where some long spears are) and often have more ax-like or reverse sythe like heads on the end to give a wider slashing area against charges, as well as adding a chopping motion to use against riders that have someho

Alturnitively, because these are pretty easy to access (they are right here on the site) if there is another place you'd trust to sign in (such as work or school) that doesn't have flash 10, you can do it there. For a while, my internet explorer didn't have flash 10, while my Firefox did. So you could just try using a different browser.