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[quote who="TCores" reply="7" id="2605967"] I'm not sure what you're getting at here, except for asking for a "build your own enemies" tool, which is sort of reasonable, but to achieve the best results, custom factions will always require hard work in the form of original modeling and scripting. [/quote] Actually I'm not even asking for a build your own enemies tool, you can already do that. When it asks you to "add a faction" and you add your own faction you can add in

[quote who="TCores" reply="7" id="2605967"] 1. I don't want to spend a long time "making" my enemies when I first start the game. I'd rather just hit play and be in the game after a cursory build-my-own-sov. Obviously there is a need for default races you can just click and drop. 2. In your post, you say that every game will be the same if there are default factions. Later, you say that in GalCiv, the factions you created, the Borg and the Wraiths, some

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="3" id="2605941"] Please.....just think. #@§% you too. [/quote] Jeez dude, that was a little uncalled for :P That's not how I meant "Please.....just think."...at all. I just meant people should take some time to see the big picture instead of thinking because there will be customization there Won't Be deep standard Factions. The standard factions will be deep enough to drowned a elephant. Hell there's alr

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="1" id="2605912"]Isn't people complaining that they want Static first and dynamic in expansion packs (modders better because they are free)? Also, if you create the race... aren't you knowing how it's going to behave? (I gave it Terran Diplomacy AI mixed with some Dregin war attitude...) [/quote] Gal Civ 2 had a different style of story and gameplay then Elemental. Even in Gal Civ 2 though, some races that hated each other Always hated eac

I really think there's a Big Aspect of this the Player Base hasn't thought of. First though, a quote from Frogboy... [quote who="Frogboy" reply="44" id="2605567"] Quoting Raven X, reply 17 Hmm, should have seen where this post would head when you made it, Frogboy. You scared everyone. Now they think if you add more Race Customization all the storyline and everything you have NOW is just going to disappear.. I'm seeing that a

Hmm, should have seen where this post would head when you made it, Frogboy. You scared everyone. Now they think if you add more Race Customization all the storyline and everything you have NOW is just going to disappear.. :P

Here's the thing. After a couple of games of GalCiv 2, I ended up making all my own enemies to fight as I could make them more challenging and fun to fight then the standard opponents. Not to mention what I modded in. Using the games "Custom Ship Creator" though I was able to recreate the ships of all my favorite Sci-Fi races to fight against. I fought against the Borg, the Klingons, the Empire from Star Wars, the Asgard and Wraith from Stargate, and a few others. I had way more fun doing thi

[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="16" id="2604694"] You misread that. The current model would change all your cities to your faction, and the new model would create mixed populations. [/quote] I'm pretty sure he ment take over a city and it's population stays what it is. Now considering you made your native population at your starting city, you now have a city of a different race to use and make units from, but they aren't mixed. I'd almost garantee that's the way he ment

I Very Much like the idea of making our own Races. I love it in fact. This part though bugs me... [quote quoting="post"] So even if you made a race of those Avatar blue guys, when you capture a city from Pariden, the city would remain populated by Men. You would then be able to created a mixed army where they all have their strengths and weaknesses and visually look different. So you could create a true “Last Alliance”. [/quote] The way you de

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="101" id="2604343"]I think there is real value to having the terrain (swamp, deserts, etc.) affect production based on a player's race. [/quote] Agreed. It's called Variety.

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="36" id="2604327"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 32 x64 XP? You must be masochistic. Some minor tweaking and the XP64Bit system runs all my games(old and new) without any problems. I'm not the standard gamer... I build computers from parts for fun and get paid for solving complex software and hardware issues for several huge blue_chip companies. The 64Bit Operating Systems i

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="189" id="2604315"][quote who="taltamir" reply="187" id="2604074"] This isnt' to say disc versions don't have a disadvantages since they certainly do.[/quote] Indeed they do. Like getting old and not working on specific hardware. Just last night I felt like playing UFO: Extraterrestrials. It has a 16 Bit Installer and won't install on Win 7. I had to install the game onto my wife's system (which is one of my systems really) and then transfer the files th

Well, the Dragonlance Mod will have a super enemy that will be unstoppable if left unchecked. Takhisis and the Dragon Armies. The Ancient/Ultimate Powers that can stop them will be the Dragon Orbs and the Dragonlances. It would be cool if vanilla Elemental had some kind of Ultra Rare quest event that could be a super/evil/world ender type of thing. Elemental will already have Ultra Rare quests that can give a good event (Frogboy's Diamond Golem Rare Quest that might happen every 200 g

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="2" id="2603139"] Yep..even tho I didn't bought Spore, but if this will be possible, I will buy it. Cloverfield type monster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-TP4IovB3Y Some demon type creature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv6c7FVpr0A [/quote] You actually don't need to buy Spore to get the Creature Creator (and NO I don't mean Pirate it). They gave out the Creature Creator for free a good while before the game came out. It

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="22" id="2603124"] Maybe I will buy Win7 sometime, but it's kinda pointless if my tweaked Vista works like a charm. [/quote] This is true. I wouldn't spend the money if I didn't need to. Between XP and the changes made to Vista and then Win 7 there's a lot of differences. Aside from some improvements there really isn't all that much change between Vista and Win 7. If that version of Vista works good for you then I'd use it until I had no choice

Ok, I did my Order Upgrade tonight. I saw something odd though. When I logged in to make the upgrade it added the original game to my cart as well. I went back and checked my previous orders and I was indeed already billed for the original game so I removed it from the shopping cart and only bought the upgrade. When I go back and look at my purchase history now it shows my purchase of the game last year and my purchase of the upgrade tonight. So I did the right thing by taking the gam

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[quote who="Magicke" reply="15" id="2602565"] Well Raven X, you are one of the posters here I trust for a review of hardware/software(we all have some differences). [/quote] I appreciate the vote of confidence, my friend. Even my reviews are tainted though some times. A professional reviewer needs to keep his or her personal feelings out of a review if they are to be a impartial judge of what they're reviewing. I often can't or won't do that and my reviews show fo

[quote who="Magicke" reply="7" id="2601655"]ty BoogieBac, think I'll be using WinXP for a while still. Think there are still quite a few of us [/quote] Up until I got Win 7 I was FIRMLY planted in the Win XP court. I hated Vista like it was the plague and avoided it as such. Win 7 is amazing in comparison though. It did take me a little while to get used to the slightly newer configuration and they tended to hide a lot of the useful things but mainly that was so peop

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="20" id="2602219"]Well, I just replaced the fan, and I've already got the both heat gels it uses (The Arctic Silver and the silicon base) so I may just try it myself again with a little more self confidence. Thanks again for the advice. -Twilight Storm [/quote] Have you ever pulled out a processor chip before? If not, be extrememly careful. If you bend even one pin when putting it back in you can fry the chip if not the whol

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="18" id="2602145"]Thanks, Raven. I've tried taking it apart once(I do know what NOT to do basically) but I stopped when I started having trouble getting the back casing to cooperate. I think i inadvertently did something to the mouse too, because now the left click side will only click if i press down on the far right, where it used to work all the way across. May have to fiddle with it till I get it open to fix that. Though if $5

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="8" id="2601432"] Roll initiative... [/quote] That is one Awesome baby shirt. I showed it to my wife wanting her to see the shirt...and then I got bombarded with the standard "When are we gonna start on the kids?" questions.....damnit.... [quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="13" id="2601885"]On that note, anyone know a cheap way to get a laptop cleaned? (By cheap, i mean anyone know a way to get a laptop cleaned?) [/quote]

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="6" id="2601407"] A PC can be replaced. A terminated human life not. [/quote] Bah... kids are like Dorito's. Crunch all you want, we'll make more.. :P lol j/k

[quote who="Jafo" reply="1" id="2601262"] What's the Moral of today's story boys and girls? Don't smoke around your computer...and look into using 'tissue paper' as a 'real' filter in your inlet fans. [/quote] Actually, I ordered a couple Dirtbagz tonight as well. These little inventions can save us smokers a Ton of money. I suggest anyone who smokes around their PC to invest in these. Dirtbagz I'm not going