Ikarius_rb

I've actually been playing computer games going all the way back to the original Zork- so I'm no rank newbie. I'll figure this game out, but I'm wasting time figuring out things which should be obvious. The last game I played which had such a steep learning curve... was MoO3. I stuck with that one, and eventually grew to love it, but it took a ton of work to get there, and I recall how horribly that bombed on sales. I don't want Stardock suffering the same fate.

I'm not writing about this because I cannot figure stuff out- I'm providing feedback because I know there are other people out there who either cannot or won't be interested enough to expend the effort to figure things out, and I want to see this game be as successful as it possibly can. I eventually figured most of the things out, but I'm looking at a number of things with horror thinking "What would a reviewer write about this? What would someone who bought thi

Take off your fanboi glasses. I'm not talking about gameplay features. I'm asking for BASIC INFORMATION which is required to know what the hell is going on, which isn't provided. And your point about selling to a "wide audience" is bollocks, as 90% of the "wider audience" is going to be lost, peeved, and likely to put the game away and not come back when it doesn't tell them what's going on.

The UI really could use a lot of polish- it's exceedingly unforgiving, and the manual is pretty bad at showing startup. I also found what appeared to be a bug. I jumped into a campaign, and here's a few of the first things I ran into. 1. Got control of my units, went to go found a city. Looked up the hotkey for founding a city in the manual, used hotkey repeatedly in several locations, nothing happened. No city was founded, no message was

Check to be sure there's enough space on your laptop's hard drive? Just a thought....

So, it's been a while since I futzed around in the beta- I preordered, so I have had beta access, but I logged into impulse today, and tried to update elemental, and it claimed my registration was invalid. I don't see any other support options for elemental, so I'm posting. I double checked the emails I have with my serial #, and attempted re-registering, but it claimed the serial # was not active. So, how should I contact support so I can provide my email ad

Okay, long time lurker, not quite first time commentator. One thing that's a huge design point is the interactions between resources, production, and traits. In most 4x games, traits impact the ease of access to a particular resource- and resources might be population growth, gold, research, mana, food, etc. In elemental, the devs are talking about having a lot of different types of resources. I don't think I'm terribly keen on that, and I'd like to explain why.<

Frogboy- I'm not saying that GOO isn't a big improvement over other recent forms of DRM. It absolutely is. The one thing which gives me pause is that servers that need to be running in order to re-install the game. If stardock were to go under, be acquired, or something of that nature, the servers could be shut down, and I could end up loosing access to the products I paid for. I'm not saying you intend for this, or even haven't pla

[quote who="takashi_k" reply="6" id="2115149"] Seriously. I am so. Frickin. Tired. Of you damn anti-DRM whiners. You want the company to provide everything for you, for free, without having to do any work at all, and you completely flip out when that doesn't happen. You're narcissistic zealots. [/quote] Thanks, Mr DRM-apologist. Let me tell you... there was a time when I could buy a game, install it from the