[quote who="Jafo" reply="2" id="1908381"]hours are shite and pay is non-existent.... [/quote][quote who="Zubaz" reply="3" id="1908534"]I heard teh boss is an ass too. [/quote]Et tu, Stardock?
[quote who="Wargazmo" reply="2" id="1908451"]Even if you programmed the AI to take advantage of tech rate shifts, the player is still the one calling the shots and can choose to up the tech rate when it's an inconvenient time for the AI, like in the middle of a huge war. I personally think this setting would be a huge unfair advantage to the player.[/quote]If the AI cares if it's being screwed, then Stardock has invented a sentient computer and probably has more important things to
[quote who="Frogboy" comment="7"]For example, if EA were to put Spore on Impulse and they insisted on using their own copy protection scheme, we have to abide by that whether we agree with their position or not.[/quote]As long as the unlimited downloads is non-negotiable, EA wouldn't be able to implement their copy protection on Impulse anyway. It's not negotiable, right?
It seems that Stardock doesn't like releasing games with a normal campaign. Though Pantheon does, admittedly, sound a lot cooler than a conventional campaign. [e digicons]O:)[/e]
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[quote who="GCFL" reply="25" id="1907542"] 1) Keep your staff happy 2) If your keep your staff happy, your customers will be happy In my experience 1 and 2 are reversed but I digress. [/quote]It can go either way, but it's harder too make your customers happy if you start with unhappy employees.
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[quote who="Doofusman" reply="21" id="1907414"]I HOPE all of you actually read the whole piece and not that chopped up snippet of what she wrote. She is very much for the GBR. The article itself is about 5 paragraphs long and only one of those, consisting of 4 sentences, calls out these ambiguties. It's not completely off base either. What makes a meaningful update? Poll the intrawebs and I'm sure you'll come across MANY different answers on what and update shoul
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[quote who="PeskyFly" reply="12" id="1906977"]In that case, the aformentioned "Capital Ship" in my previous post can be restructured as "Cruiser" while the term "Capital Ship" is used to denote manned capital flagships. The drones would have to have some semi-stupid AI that keeps them fighting even if their command link breaks, that allows them to navigate to home port from wherever they are in the system, and they must be programmed to never attack their faction's capital ships or stations n
I can play as the ROOK!? I just had a gamergasm.
[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="19" id="1905996"] GCIII would be an Animal? [/quote]But of course. As it is we are quickly approaching the physical limits of silicon. Gaming squids are the way of the future! [quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="20" id="1906000"] Gee, i sure want me some of that red_eyed_glowing_nozy_squirrel fully drawn up at 256x256 png to use as a new gameplay default! [/quote]Seconded.
Good articles. I already own Company of Heroes, but you almost make me want to buy it again. [quote who="hiddenranbir" comment="1"]GalCiv2 would have helped with space terrain to provide natural chokes and points of interest.[/quote]Umm....no. Choke points may work in land battles, but in space there is no such thing as a choke point (not the way GalCiv does it, anyway; you'd need something like Sins). There isn't anything in space large enough to have that kind of influence.
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[quote who="Bobucles" reply="4" id="1906092"] 2a ) Established industry. Anything we have on Earth, we produced ourselves. Like it or not, it took humanity hundreds, if not thousands of years to establish its level of industry. You start in space, and you're starting from scratch. A colonist only has what he brought with him. 2b ) Established science and engineering. We've got a solid foundation of several thousand years developing our sciences. Just look at our own computer i
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[quote who="UEF Soldier" reply="17" id="1903659"] I agree with your points, but I'd just like to say............. Death star. [/quote]No sane starbase designer would put a thermal exhaust port leading directly to the power generator. Firstly, the utility of a thermal exhaust port in space would be very limited: space doesn't have much to conduct heat with. Any exhaust port would need to be venting the station's atmosphere in order to do much anyway, which would cause plenty of prob
[quote who="S_Holmes" reply="16" id="1903390"]It's a sad day when your grovelling before the Torians... [/quote]What are you talking about? I've played plenty of games where they were the biggest threat! (Then again, I had wiped out the Drengin, the Yor, the Drax, the Terrans, the Iconans and the Altairians...Hmm...)
You think I jest? I tell you, no! This is a serious matter, and I shall not have my opinions mocked! (I'm fine with suffering horribly. The joke was worth it.)
I stand firmly opposed to the Civilian Ship Safety Act. It undermines the foundation of everything we, as gamers, stand for: the ability to indiscriminately slaughter civilians with military-grade weapons with little or no difficulty. It must be repealed immediately. If we hope to survive as a nation, our civilian ships must be no safer than a vacuum-sealed cardboard box.
Vasari, because I hate humans. However, the mobile starbases in Entrenchment might change my mind about the TEC.
[quote who="innociv" reply="18" id="1904243"] Like I preordered HGL which got me into the beta. It was awful. Undescribably awful. I canceled the preorder. [/quote] [quote who="Torgamous" reply="16" id="1903894"] And stop comparing this to HGL. This is Stardock. Their entire fanbase is centered around good customer relations. They know this, they use this, they promote this. If they pulled somthing like that, they'd be out of b
[quote who="innociv" reply="13" id="1903853"] You're paying full price for a game you know nothing about (how can you know about a game that won't exist for many months? beta != the game) and you can't cancle it if it turns out bad like HGL. [/quote]You're paying 25% of full price if you get a refund. That's $11.25 for a game you know little (not nothing, you knew the basic idea) about. If you don't get a refund, then you'll be getting the finished game the next time you use Im
[quote who="zolop" reply="10" id="1903732"] Is this not true. If it is why did the original author make this thread? [/quote] Have you considered that the OP might not have known?
[quote who="innociv" reply="9" id="1902886"] Apparently the 75% refund is for with-in 90days of the billing date, so kryo has said. Now the thing is, the game isn't going to be out within 90days of when they charged my credit card. [/quote]I don't follow. If you want a refund now, why does it matter if the same deal applies in February? Besides, you get the full game the day it comes out (or afterwards depending on when you decide to
[quote who="MysticRhythms" reply="25" id="1898988"]I hear GCII has a single player campaign, but I didn't see that in the Demo. [/quote]This is Sins we're talking about here. GCII most certainly does have a campaign; Stardock just left it out of the demo.
While I agree with you and what you did there, ParaTed and Charles do have a point. She could easily view what you did there as "shooting her down." Whether or not you think you did has no effect on what she thinks you did.
Considering that, aside from three games and some expansions, Stardock is built pretty much entirely around skinning, it is odd that they don't allow players to make their own player icons.
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[quote who="robomancer"]Also, even if there were a 1 in 50 million chance of destroying the world, on average that's only 120 people who die per Large Hadron Collider. A small price to pay for the advancement of science. [/quote]For that quote, you win the Internet for a day.