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Reply to Critical Game State in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Poul" reply="14" id="2328807"]Just make new desync variable, set it as default to 0 and when someone desync (all others receive bad packets from him) increase it by 1. When it reaches 10, that person will be kicked and replaced by AI, so all others can finish the game, result will save, person who was causing desync will be outside the game and all will be happy (well... maybe except kicked person) [/quote] Could work I guess, I imagine a single person who i

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

Oh, only since about... August 4, 2009 21:56:44 Before that it was pretty much dead and buried. Yay for revival?.. Nah

Reply to Sticking With Stardock in Demigod Demigod Forums

I really wasn't saying don't complain, I would never endorse trying to silence any complaints, but there's a way to complain without being rude. If they're going to do something asking calmly and clearly will get the job done. If they're not going to do something berating and accusing them won't certainly won't change their minds and will usually just put people off hearing you out instead. I'd imagine no developer would just leave bugs in out of

Reply to Sticking With Stardock in Demigod Demigod Forums

You're setting the tone on the douchey side of demanding si1foo. Essentially saying "your job's easy, stop being bad at it!" whilst completely misunderstanding what their job entails is usually a bad sign. Then following up by telling them you won't be playing their game any more if they don't meet your vaguely defined demands to do better is always a bad sign. That you got so many patient replies rather than a flat out warning seems like an exceptional kindness to me.<

Reply to Proof that Demigod can become what we expect in Demigod Demigod Forums

Technically most kings started as princes, just saying. :P As long as people remember "can" doesn't mean "has to" or "will". Also, SC just had a shedload of balance changes and battle.net improvements, there was relatively little changes to the underlying gameplay.

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Xan" reply="12" id="2319442"] You totally don't get it. GPG doesn't have to do shit. At least Demigod is getting updates but they don't have to do jack if they don't want. People like you with your sense of entitlement are what poison communites.[/quote] That's where you said it. I know you were in beta, I posted enough and only when I had something constructive to say or an idea to put forward. The

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Xan" reply="22" id="2320630"]And how was Demigod unfinished? It had connection problems due to problems with server scaling that were fixed fairly quickly. The rest is your subjective opinion. If you have a problem with that, wait till the demo to buy your games but don't sit back and act like you're entitled to huge sweeping changes to a game months or years after release. It's a fucking video game, not a limo service.[/quote] We

Reply to Forced Lag in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Spooky" reply="21" id="2317954"]No, if a player who was acting as a proxy leaves, all the players who were proxied through him would also be disconnected from the game.[/quote] Really, it doesn't even try and conscript someone else in on the fly? I can understand it frequently going wrong and chain dropping people who were proxied, but not even trying to maintain conectivity? I don't have any knowledge to the contrary of what you say b

Reply to Forced Lag in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Schobbo" reply="13" id="2317489"]There was no progress in that game, after about 5minutes one of them left, after that he started lagging.[/quote] The game started lagging immediately after someone left? If whoever left was acting as semi proxy between some other players it's quite feasable that Pradedushka ended up picking up that duty afterwards which doesn't always go smoothly, either his connection or router can't handle the extra traffic or something el

Reply to Is A Constructive IRC Dev Chat Feasible? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Alright, yeah I saw the sticky last month about unleashing the ban hammer, I just figured if you folks might have been holding back a little if you're still not happy with the results. I've seen much stricter rules than have been laid out here still that didn't stifle discussion too much. I doubt that a stricter atmosphere would have no drawbacks at all, but it might still be an improvement and, with luck, after an initial purge a rule change often enforces itself. I ge

Reply to The Stardock/Gaspowered Games love thread. in Demigod Demigod Forums

Kind quiet in this thread. [e digicons]X|[/e] I'd express my love here but a man named scathis broke my heart and I can never love again. [/emo] Heh just kidding, anyway I'm pretty sure Unclean beast left GPG with Scathis, he and a few ex-GPGers now have their own up-and-coming development studio, Uber Entertainment . Worth keeping an eye on, Scathis was awesome at the start of demigod de

Reply to Is A Constructive IRC Dev Chat Feasible? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="8" id="2316619"]My comment about the potential productivity of a live chat is basically the same thing Brad has said re community toxicity. Things seem a bit friendlier now with the latest 1.2 journal, but how long the more vocal types will remain happy, who knows. No intent to disparage to those who have contributed constructively, but the loudest voices set the tone. [/quote] I know it isn't SD's style to get involved in heavily moderating but

Reply to Selling the game in Demigod Demigod Forums

I remember vaguely that way back in time Brad said they were working on an official way to sell on your games through impulse. Said they might not make any money through re-sales but more people would be willing to try out a game in the first place if they can make some money back by selling it on if they don't like it. None of that is implemented yet as far as I know, don't even know if they still about it think that way .

Reply to Vote Demigod Best Strategy Game at X-Play in Demigod Demigod Forums

Look, it's already nominated in the strategy section, so you don't have debate whether it's enough of an RTS now. You just need to judge whether it's better than the other nominees. Which in my case I'm afraid it's not, I prefer DoW2 to Demigod. Poor balance (Which 1.4 mixes up at least, even if it doesn't really fix) with interesting mechanics and fun gameplay appeals to me more than OK balance with shallow mechanics, clunky controls and stripped down basic RTS gamepla

Reply to Demigod: end of July status report in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"] We would begin including mods submitted in updated builds. If a player does not have a mod, then it’s not used. [/quote] Please give thought to some official method of mod distribution, an option to download in-game would be awesome but at the very least being able to link there from a game would be handy. With an official method you can easily track the popular mods for inclusion in future builds

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="8" id="2313428"]A slight correction: Stardock did not fund Demgiod, Gas Powered Games basically self funded Demigod.[/quote] Technically they did fund part of it, part way through GPG decided they didn't-want-to/couldn't fund it all the way and got together with SD. That interview almost makes it sound like only a tiny fraction, but that may just be careful wording. By earlier stuff and how early

Reply to A Formal Apology to Frogboy in Demigod Demigod Forums

It's always left me a little bemused that Stardock continue to be the target of all the non-connectivity complaints with Demigod, whilst GPG have kept their heads down and silently avoided most of the flak. It's usually the Publisher who sits quiet and unnoticed and the developer that gets it in the neck. I remember when Bioware hosted the Neverwinter Nights 2 forums for Obsidian and then got named in the vast majority of the moans with titles "Bioware fix my NWN2 now!"

Reply to Can people use cheats and hacks in demigod online? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="DeadMG" reply="6" id="2304753"]That's not a hole at all. You've legitimately sent commands, and had their results processed. There's no glitch in that. It would also totally destroy the connection of the other players. This guy must be using an exploit in-game to generate the gold, because there's no way to insert code into the games of others.[/quote] You've never needed to alter other people's game files to cheat in anything, or the host's in a

Reply to Can people use cheats and hacks in demigod online? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Spooky" reply="2" id="2304327"]Alright, but I just wanted to emphasize, that you can't simply "hack in" stuff like getting an item out of thin air, when the data is checked between clients. i.e. you can't "hack" synchronized data.[/quote] The premise of most security flaws isn't just forcing what you want in, it's fooling whatever system it is to accept it as correct. P2P does make that harder, not only do they have to accept it as legitimate data but they a

Reply to September 2009: End of an era, and what we can do to prevent it in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="HunteR_" reply="4" id="2273233"]It's not a standard RTS game, nor is it a standard RPG title, nor is it a standard MMORPG which it so has since all summoners/players gain levels through playing. It has it's own sublass of genre, MOBA.[/quote] Including both multiplayer and online seems pretty redundant to me (MMORPG was the world's worst genre name, it's so bad people hardly even use the full acronym anymore, there's no need to take cues from them) and battl

Reply to September 2009: End of an era, and what we can do to prevent it in Demigod Demigod Forums

Eh, I agree GPG need to talk to the comunity more about what they're doing. Right now we have no details about what they're planning and can't give even the slightest feedback, if we wait untill after 1.1 to finally give some input it's far too late to make any kind of significant changes. They did the same thing in the beta, every update was full of suprises that they kept as a little club secrets untill the last minute for craps and giggles. Including the generals; no

Reply to Stardock/GPG please don't listen to the noobs and make this game easy mode! in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="bman654" reply="11" id="2254600"] It displays the healthbars on some sort of log scale. So that the demigod may still have 50% health like 2k hitpoints but the little healthbar will show as empty making you think you can kill them with just one more swing.[/quote] It's alot simpler than log scales (which wouldn't make sense in any UI dev's mind surely?), the UI just doesn't scale well when you zoom in and out. If you're zoomed right in it seems to be a

Reply to Should citidel upgrade costs scale with game size? in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

Connection problems are handled by a completely different team than gameplay, no reason you can't look at both. I'm just saying that in smaller matches the the cost of citidel upgrades can take a large proportion of your income whilst in big matches the cost for the same benifit is much more trivial if everyone takes their turn. I wanted to know if people had thought about it and liked the differing dynamics with different game sizes or if they'd

Reply to Oak shield + Orb in Demigod Demigod Forums

Penitence is an interupt, just saying. [Edit] Ninja'd, as always

Reply to Talent calculator? demigoddb.com is gone in Demigod Demigod Forums

Ah, I getcha', I didn't think they might have just left it going on the old server too. [e digicons]^_^'[/e]