MichaelCook

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I found this awesome Dominions 3 After Action Report. Its good reading and the author assumes little knowledge of the game so describes some of the mechanics. It shows some of the cool fantasy strategy of Dominions 3 and should serve to whet the appetite of anyone interested in Elemental. http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/User:Matryx/Guides/Dominions_3_Newbie_Game Enjoy as the underwater kingdom of mind enslaving fish looking t

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="47" id="2546508"] I'd rather they stop working on Civ5 (for now) and do a SMAC2, that is a franchise long LONG overdue for some new blood![/quote] Civ 4 Colonization. They will use the Civ 5 engine to release a sequel to SMAC. Its already planned, along with the features missing in the Civ 5 release that will be in the Civ 5 expansion packs.....

All your base are belong to us.....

This is good. I'd like to expand on it too. Given the link up the game will have with the Stardock servers (to up and download mods, patches ect) I think it would be very easy to set up a "Game of the Month" like on the civfanatics forum. Give the pure single player a way to compare vs others. Games could either be from the start of a game or part way through, where Stardock has set up a tricky situation to manage. Eventually GotM's could be with quality mods. Allow users to

A view on the US healthcare system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7oMNu6P4Vc Administration costs are a bit high in the US, 20 cents of every dollar.

Makes me wonder more about the tactical combat. Even 250 vs 1000 is tough let alone 4 vs 1000. And compared with the old MoM "1 unit per square" have we got rid of squares? Back on topic... The system sounds very organic. Very Sword of Aragon but with construction times. Interesting [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

[quote who="Omnax1" reply="39" id="2545006"]Civilization 5 will be definitely nice game. I do not expect it to be revolutionary game at all. Just polished version of civ 4 with new engine and good modding possibilites.[/quote] The new combat will be change the game heaps. Civ has never had tactical combat, now it will and it there won't be any "going to the mini-map" stuff, it will all occur on the main game map. What I'm interested in is if th

I have just learned to play the board game Agricola. It is a game of strategy and what you describe above sums up the difference between the "basic" game (family version?) and the "advanced" game. Sword of the Stars tackled the problem by having a tech tree that changed each game, I think Elemental is doing something similar.

[quote who="Cerevox" reply="14" id="2544705"]1 unit per tile? thats gonna fail hard. How do we put multiple units on a city? can we mass large numbers of forces anywhere without taking 10 turns to get them all across a border? 1 unit per tile in a civ game would be a disaster.[/quote] Unless the definintion of a city is more than one tile. Then you are allowed to have Stalingrad type experiences.

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="37" id="2543380"]Looks cool on the screenshot, although I would also prefer a Alpha Centauri 2. Perhaps they can do both?[/quote] Civ 4 Colonization.....

I'm looking at it now, I can only view the opening 9 videos, when I scroll left or right the other vids don't light up and are not clickable. Have vids not been made for them yet?

psychoak, your so negative your positivly positive in your outlook. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] "A cancer epidemiologist would probably explain the data this way: In the U.S., we conduct far more tests, which turn up many more cancers. That in turn leads to higher survival rates because we wind up treating some cancers at an earlier stage. It probably even saves some lives that otherwise would have been lost to the disease. But there's a downside to all those te

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2542230"]w00t! Civilization is only competition for Elemental if someone would buy one instead of the other. [/quote] Exactly my thoughts. Its funny how I'm a paying customer, yet I also want to see Elemental do really well. Kinda like Elemental is my sporting team :) Yes, w00t indeed! Except my laptop most likely won't run it, I doubt they will integrate Stardocks ideology of making games

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="200" id="2542132"] Michael, did you notice that while the NCPA is "a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization," it is most definitely an ideologically motivated think tank? They are staunch defenders of classical liberalism, the intellecutal underpinnings of many modern conservative thinkers. They've got some credentials for rigorous research, but it is research driven by an ideological agenda. (Not a bad thing in my book, except when peop

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="8" id="2541771"]This will be the most easily circumvented DRM in recent years. Their validation servers will be DDoSed, causing the company to release the failsafe they've already made to allow the game to play without an internet connection.[/quote] :) So simple yet effective. After buying the game and not being able to have it authenticate in a reliable way, I return it to the store with a storm cloud over my head. The other thing is wha

[quote who="psychoak" reply="188" id="2541415"] Delivered. As this nonsense hits the news every time the subject comes up, I don't know how you've failed to hear this from someone else. I have revised my assumption that you were ill informed. I now assume you live in a box under a bridge somewhere and stole a computer to post here. [/quote] God put me here just to give you some satisfaction, here and now. :) I don't be

Mike Moore definately puts a certain light on his subject, but to be fair he always seeks to hear the opinion of both sides of the story. And more often than not he receives no reply from "the bad guys", because they know he has them stuffed. I must admit, I don't know much about US public health care. I'm sure the staff are professional and like healthcare workers everywhere work hard for the health of their patients. I was particularily cranky reading that "90% vs 70%

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="178" id="2540807"]Funny, but your dates do not match - nor do your percentages. Or have they changed that much between 2000 and 2002-2005? Or, are they weighted in some other way?[/quote] Yeah, I wouldn't publish the conclusions from the data, but the stats are interesting and certainly worth a look. Most money, lower ranking. Few years difference. Were any huge, radical changes to USA healthcare policy made in those years? <

[quote who="psychoak" reply="176" id="2540716"] It's the last pathetic excuse the architects of your system make when the numbers come out. That it's not immediately refuted and beat into the ground is something you can blame the media for. [/quote] WTF?! Nobody told me this, I deduced this is what occurs. So if I am wrong, and I have yet to see the figures (I'll be eating humble pie if these figures appear [e digicons]-_-[/e] ), then I still have no id

[quote who="kenwin" reply="174" id="2536355"]In Canada or the U. K. (one of the two) the suvival rate from prostate cnacer is about 70% while in the U. S. it's 90%. Just 1 of several hundred reasons.[/quote] I don't understand your arguement. So in a country like Australia, anyone who gets prostate cancer can be treated, in the US if you don't have insurance or money you don't. So even with the % of people who get prostate cancer and can't afford treatment (and so

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="5" id="2539999"]God, I hope so. I really want to make magical barding for all of my elephant cavalry. And bear cavalry. And elephant-bear cavalry.[/quote] I think that would be part of the "unit equipment" editor, as opposed to a hero item forge. I'm a picky bugger :) [quote who="tenchifew" reply="2" id="2539860"] Carcator is casting his spells independently from the hero in battle as death 4 or 5 caster if i r

[quote who="tenchifew" reply="8" id="2539881"]I would like the cloth map... well... to feel more magical. For example if i want to name something a feather should appear and write on the map. I want here there be dragons pictures on the not revealed regions. I want small 2D animations of forests, water and shards, i want to see clouds, i want to feel i am looking at an enchanted map of a powerful magician and not a map drawn with a pencil. A really outstanding work with

I'm not sure I have seen much on this facet of gameplay. I was reading about Dominions 3 here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3241694&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=3 Check out the post by Lonjon near the end of the page. Expecting small armies of super-tough heros he describes a strategy to combat them by forging specific items and using specific spells to produce mages with crossbows capable of causing blind