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[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="37" id="2712024"]Amazing detail on that one John_Hughes! Stupid Question. The part that's outside of the white tiles in the pic. The rail with stones around it. When you place that tile on a map does that part show up or is it cut off? It shows. You can put stuff outside the tile if you like. The only problem I see with this is that it might collide with another item, say a bunch of trees or a city hex, and then look a bit

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="16" id="2711983"] Thank you, everyone, thank you! ...And I could never have done it if Raven X hadn't arranged for all my rivals to get killed! [/quote] LoL sssshhhh

[quote who="Othello" reply="6" id="2705656"]I tried to keep this one simple, and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. I went for something I had personal experience of, a farm/barn. Although I've never had an personal experience of a jousting arena I thought I'd wing it, it's on the right. No dragon sculls, no ghostly fogs, a plain old barn I might pass going down IL Route 72. [/quote] Stupid Question. The part that's outside of the white tiles in the pic. The rail with stones arou

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="2711843"]Hopefully beta testers noticed the pretty significant UI changes. [/quote] Indeed. Big changes going on down in the lower right hand corner especially with the "Hitpoints" and "Mana" counters. That army in formation looks awesome too :) . Man....come on 24th!!! It can't get here fast enough!!! :) You guys are busting your asses doing the polish and last minute details and it Really Shows. Keep up the great work Frogboy and Team!!!

[quote who="Civfreak" reply="49" id="2711898"]Anyways, what do you think about the wings Raven? Should they be longer? Wider? You mentioned someplace they used them to glide instead of flying so I'm not sure how big they should be Also idk what to do about the eyes, in Elemental they animate the eyes with still pictures I think. In the unit folders there are still pics called "X_Blink" or something, which is basically 3 separate pics of an eye blinking. I have no idea how to apply that to a m

[quote who="Civfreak" reply="44" id="2711654"]Don't use this since I used an old save to mess around with UV mapping without affecting the latest version. Couple more days and I should have it nailed down though, so hooray! [/quote] LoL I was about to copy it and use that to start from lol. Good thing I finished reading before I got all jumpy. Way to go man, great job indeed!! :) [quote who="Admiral100" reply="45" id="2711664"] Sure thing. That actually is an E

[quote who="Thizzbaby" reply="51" id="2711730"]So to clarify 0day patch is not an emergency patch to fix a broken or incomplete game. (Unless we hear otherwise) [/quote] Yeap, I said more or less the same thing in my post, though it was as a note at the bottom. Frogboy said months ago the 0-day patch for Elemental is just polish. There's no reason not to believe him. As I said in the other post I don't think it's a bad thing in this case and we all know Stardock doesn't pra

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="8" id="2711602"]I didn't read the articles, does it say or explain how the Trojan is infecting peoples computers, is it through emails? [/quote] The first article said through emails, websites, and downloads. It wasn't specific on the "through downloads" part though. [quote who="Annatar11" reply="13" id="2711628"] Stop reading titles and start reading text The second article does nothing other than link to the first, which says British.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="16" id="2711668"] Borderlands is more like Diablo with guns then it is a normal shooter. There's a lot of things it doesn't do that standard shooters are expected to do, but the fun in it is getting new powers and zilions of guns. [/quote] I did enjoy those aspects, it's true, but not nearly as much as I would have if it would of had a deformable environment. I'm not saying it's a bad game, just not as fun as it could have been.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="4" id="2711594"]Seems to be confined to Europe, since the article says all the customers were from one specific bank. [/quote] Only the first article says that. The second article says it's happening "world wide". When I first heard about it on the radio last night while I was picking my wife up from work it was on a local Orlando station. According to them it's starting to pop up here in the US as well. The first article does only talk abo

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="99" id="2711577"] There was a beta 5. It just wasn't public (for, I think, obvious reasons but clearly not obvious to some). [/quote] I think "not obvious to Most" would be a better wording there, chief. I think a lot of us expected access to that stage of the beta when we pre-ordered. I know I did. A lot of us buying into the beta had expectations of having just as much input into balancing and tweaking as we've had with the rest of the game and

[quote quoting="post"]An interesting article on IGN claims that, apparently, Duke Nukem Forever may not be canceled after-all, and has been handed to Gearbox - the creators of Borderlands - to complete. After hearing of the demise of the-now-comical Duke Nukem Forever, I have to admit I was a little sad that I'd never get my hands on what has become the longest serving tradition in gaming history - waiting for the Duke. Some 14 years after development began, ar

[quote who="Savyg" reply="1" id="2711569"]I might just not until I see what is actually affected...for all I can tell from those articles it could be the usual 'people using XP who don't even know enough to keep their OS up to date' crap [/quote] True. Those articles aren't all that "technical". They do a decent job of warning people what the Trojan does though which was my main goal in linking them. I know it would suck ass to log into my bank account and not see any money there

[quote who="Savyg" reply="11" id="2711565"] Dude! You don't have to tell them you're kidding, they know. [/quote] eh, you can never be too careful man. Some people flip out over stupid shit and don't realize when someone's joking.

[quote who="Admiral100" reply="42" id="2711550"]Hey, thanks for the kind words Civ and Raven. Civ, you mentioned the two words I hate most... "wings" and "thumbs". They are a pain in the buttocks, and buttocks are hard too. Here is a dragon I did... the wings on that son of a bitch took FOREVER! The only problem I had with doing them is that you have to have some thickness to them. At least that is the problem I had. Make that thicknes

I heard on the news on the radio last night there's a new variant of the "Zeus" Trojan that's sweeping the Internet and draining its victim's bank accounts online. If you do any Online Banking like I do you might want to start thinking about upgrading your Virus Protection and maybe taking further precautions into account. Here are some articles on it that make for pretty good reading: Thousands of online banking customers have accounts emptied by 'most dangerous tr

[quote who="WilliamStanley" reply="71" id="2711494"]One thing I have always thought was needed is a simple progress bar. I do not care if loading/world building takes a while BUT it there is no feedback you start wondering if the game has simply hung. So loading screen should have some visible method of showing me that its doing something. Then if it takes a minute at least I do not start to think something has gone wrong. [/quote] This is what's needed

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="44" id="2711524"] That's why I really don't like services like Impulse. They give developers an excuse to put out a "unfinished product" because they can just patch it up any time they want. That's also why I get a twinge every time Frogboy says "It will never be Finished". Or, you know, it allows the developers to skirt around all the manufacturing/shipping delays that forces them to have your definition of a "finished" game several w

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="116" id="2711477"]Raven- Peak oil? In 30 years? That's a very unsubstantiated opinion. [/quote] Ok, after doing a little more research, I can say you're right in my guess at 30 years is a little too soon. Still, oil IS a finite resource. As we use it we diminish our reserves. We can only pump so much out of the ground before there simply isn't any more there to pump up. Eventually we WILL run out. Most scientists are of the o

[quote who="Civfreak" reply="40" id="2711497"]As for the wings I'm not exactly sure how to do them either, should I do them with a thickness or just a thin layer for the skins/textures? The base of the wings look like french fries to me too so i gotta fix that lol. [/quote] I'd say do them in thin layers, like a skin membrane on a bat. They could even be paper thin. They don't need to be thick. In fact making them too thick might make the wings look funny. If

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="14" id="2711492"] Don't believe 'em Goa! We're actually all dead! What a twist! [/quote] Introducing America's new favorite author, M. Night. MagicWillshyamalan!!! :P

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="39" id="2711466"]I would not expect an early day0 version. It's quite likely that they'll want to take all the time they have until release to get a good update out, so I'd be surprised if there was a "final day0" release version ready to go next week [/quote] I'd be happy just having access to the Gold "Ship to Manufacturer" version and then waiting till release day for the 0-day patch. Honestly though, Stardock is the ONLY exception in my eyes of

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="79" id="2711445"]This one is better. [/quote] lol Nice. Awesome pic there, Annatar :)

[quote who="blix2006" reply="35" id="2711444"]i sifted through this thread hoping to see the answer to the question about getting the game early...frogboy said they will be doing the day0 build...does that mean we will be getting that this week or no? [/quote] Probably not. It would be cool if we did though!!! Something tells me how-ever that we'll all have to wait for the 24th to get our hands on the 0-day release version.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="34" id="2711434"] Will it build boats and come after me or will it raise the land back up and make a land-bridge? Neither, it will use the flood spell to sink your lands into the sea! Anybody without a breathe water potion is going to have a really bad day That would be really Awesome!!! But the question remains: WILL THERE BE HOT MERMAIDS? [/quote] Hey, you're not allowed to read my posts :P I do h