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GW Swicord is a flatlander XD man, I'd guess any movement in the 3rd dimension would be difficult for feet native to only 2 dimensions. (it was funnier in my head. and probebly only if you've seen/read flatland) Yes, I agree, going down an almost verticle slope is harder than climping it. In such cases you have to do the same as climbing down a cliff, go backwards. (you don't risk falling on your face and you place your center of gravity so it helps

Most games you can't build heroes. They wouldn't be special if you could pump them out like you could any other trooper. You'd have to do something special. I think recruiting them is better than channeling essence into a regular guy personally. The old system works and has plenty of room for change without actually changing the main idea. (if not broke, don't fix)

Not all do. What windows are you using? for example, on Vista, almost nobody is the administrator (since you have to go out of your way to become the administrator). If you had to be admin to install a game on vista, nobody would. There might also a setting in windows too, what access non-admins get. It could be that is just turned up too high.

It happens. I'd rather have a disclaimer then they constantly be blocking everything. Like, I don't want to go to dangerous sites on google, but other related fields I feel that way about. The thing I feel like google F***ed on is the fact that apparently youtube is region locked now? It makes me so angry I want to fly to their headquarters driven by pure rage and punch somebody (I'm not usually violent). I LOVE google, they stood

Well, I have to say in Gal Civ 2, the United Nations (I forget what they were called) was actually pretty fun. Where you could vote for different rulings, generally they were pretty interesting but weren't really broken. In Civ 4... it was pretty boring, it was like "disable nukes" then after that the most it would accomplish is the sometimes the world would become friendlier if the most powerful nation was able to get enough support to pass a global civic law. (then

They stated that they will have a filtering system similar to what their other programs (like windows blinds) carry, so it should be available pretty much immidiatly, but it won't be on the "list-o-3rdparty-content-worth-having" list right away most likely. That question about 3rd party sites sa' good 'un. If I made some really good models for the game I'd want to host them on my main website as part of my portfolio.

Wait a minute! [quote]all these buildings are totally customizeable by players. Think GalCiv II ships .[/quote] The ships had parts that had direct changes of final result. For example: you could put a laser cannon on the back and now the ship's fire/power was increased. You could place an armor plate on its wings and now it was able to stand more in combat. Are you saying that the buildings are going to be like THAT?&n

[quote]On a general note though I can't imagine a situation where having more spells in the game would ever decrease the amount of fun I was going to have playing it, so the more the merrier I say[/quote] Oh it can happen for sure. Its at the point where you have so many spells that they are up to your ankles, and you have to wade through them to find which ones are useful. At this point the learning curve is extended by them, because new play

sorry, I meant non-optional quests. We know there is single player campaign, and I guess it wouldn't be in a very straight-forward level system (I get that strong impression) so I want to know about the quests that are not part of that 500. (I should have called them 'main-story quests' or something along those lines)

Mine include loosing weight too, though my numbers are a bit bigger. I'd say my main resolution is find a job. Followed by do more for the community.

This is getting uncomfortably low on the forum. I hope that means you are cooking something up. Remember, something as simple as a screenshot of you telling others about elemental on a different place on the web will do. Right now, 1st post is 1st place. (also, we need people for it to be a compitition) this is kinda like a once a week bump. I hope that offends nobody (and by that I don't mean the guy who stabs cyclops i

Right, I'm not one to intimidate using their dead remains. Though my fellow trolls suggest it of me. They say it better sends the message. Now, I might remind I'm a forum troll. We hide in forums, not under bridges. Its like how a cave troll lives in a cave and a river troll lives in a river (that is the kind you find under bridges). So they are hidden in the forum somewhere. (I think I left one somewhere around a he

[quote]all these buildings are totally customizeable by players.[/quote]

I constantly go back and look at Master of Magic spells. I look back at my manual, and just about every time I'm like "Jeez, they created so much stuff for this game! What was the development of this like?" If you're trying to meet the 210 spells, that sounds like a pretty fair goal. *provided they are all or mostly useful (In AoW I found that many of the spells I didn't really use ever) What about number of quests?

[quote]Hopefully the beta testers with 64-bit OS systems will be testing the very very large worlds to squash any heavy memory usage bugs and large map world bugs.[/quote] I know I plan to. Got me my Win 7 + 8GB o RAM to do it.

[quote]The game should handle windowed mode gracefully, and should alt-tab out and back in without undue side effects.[/quote] This I think is becoming better by nature the further away from the DOS-based windows of the past. If only you could control the operating system so it didn't start trying to fire up other services when you came back to explorer (part of what causes the slow-down I believe)

Yeah, I'm with Ron on this one. Riddles 'sound' good. but are they really? I mean this game isn't about puzzles (its about building armies and casting magic), so you're going to get 1 of 2 outcomes. A: the riddles are really easy and/or stupid making it pretty much just a waste of time or B: the riddles are difficult making people have to reference some sort of strategy guild or something if they don't want to risk loosing. Giving people a reaso

[quote]I think there is a general lack of sophisticated and noble evil/dark/bad races in games. I tend to play good/light sides, but I also tend to jump at the (very rare) chance to play the bad guys if they're not wart-faced, snot-nosed, sniveling snide snakes living in decrepit hovels.[/quote] I don't know about that. I would have to argue. In fact, I had an argument with somebody else a while ago about how the evil guys were always cooler than the good guys

Yay, super model cavalry Avatar Lols! New avatar for who wants it ^_^ Somebody has to make it once we get our custom unit creator.

Jonny, that is a very good point. Super Models are not very quick, strong, or anything. So Rottic probebly wouldn't even really be that interested in riding one (unlike me. Its a sacrifice I'd be willing to make provided I got to pick the super model) Rottic is very simple minded.

Huh, I had imagined thim in a very different way. This makes me very excitied. That building looks quite primitive, are all of them like that? or is that specific to a particular empire

[quote who="Martimus" reply="5" id="2040439"] I would rather ride a super model [/quote] Amen But a guy that has the special ability "smells bad" enough that the ENTIRE ARMY suffers moral because of it, then I'd say the gorilla or bear is the best he's going to get.

did... did denryu just make a shot at my fire slug?

This looks funny, but I don't understand what is happening

I'll speak for spartan: No, that pic is not real. Look at it for a few and you'll see why. Its physically wrong on a few levels. Mostly likely a work from photoshop. did I mention the shadows? Mounted moniters are certainly posible, my school actually does that. It doesn't cost as much as you think (well, the cost of several flatscreen plasma screens. I guess that is a bit. I've seen mounted LCD screens that don't