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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="169" id="2863942"]Poor Toby is always "others".[/quote] Well to be honest, I don't know who he is really. My first Stardock game was GalCiv II Ultimate Edition. I really haven't been around that long. However, judging by the positive reaction by people around here, he's another positive hire (or re-hire) by Stardock. Congrats Toby and I look forward to you and "others" contributing to making Elemental great as well. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="167" id="2863905"] Personally, I like the Seattle Seahawks. Nice to see them sneak into the playoffs with the worst record in league history for a division winner. The Seattle Seahawks, ladies and gentlemen!! For the record, Thormodr said it first. Before their big win. Go Seattle![/quote] Indeed. One of the biggest upsets in NFL playoff history and I believe the only time a team with a los

I find the best way to level up my characters is to research "Summon Familiar" ASAP. Then I can send my sovereign, Janusk and any other heroes out and beat up weaker monsters using the Familiar as fodder. I research heal and arcane blast or some other damaging spell after that. That helps get my characters to a decent level quickly.

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="53" id="2863689"]Way back when... I tried to follow the official 2k forums for Civ news. But the experience was so unpleasent and fruitless that I've never thought of the 2k forums as anything more than a kindergarden when even CFC compares as collegiate. Then, prior to Civ5's release, 2k lizzy comes on CFC and says "yeah dudes, we are gamers just like you. We're all one, and I'ma gonna give you all the latest scoop cuz we're hoomies li

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="124" id="2863323"] Quoting PaxTerminus, reply 117Everybody makes bad professional decisions from time to time. Some - like the banking industry with those mortgage-backed securities - make disasterous decisions that destroy lifes of millions... Most of us don't do anything important enough for the world to know things we did wrong. That does not mean somebody is a bad professional. They made a bad judgement call, or had a boss that made a b

Nice article. Makes me excited about the future of Elemental. [e digicons]^_^[/e] I'll definitely be buying a copy for my brother and one or two friends in the future.

[quote who="nrich61" reply="69" id="2863180"]i still crash as much in 1.11 as 1.1 , its hacking me off -.-[/quote] That sucks. [e digicons]:'([/e] Luckily for me, the game is much more stable. It still needs work in that area though...

That was an enjoyable read. Very well done. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e]

[quote who="cfnz" reply="46" id="2863005"]What's with the character assassination? Was someone mean to you on the internet?[/quote] Dale has been a dick to me on many occasions on the internet. That in itself is not a big deal and frankly I don't care how he treats me. I do see him insulting everyone under the sun however. He has repeatedly trashed Brad, Stardock and Elemental. He has trashed Kael, Rhye, Sullla and other people I quite respect. After

[quote who="InternetNerd" reply="43" id="2862961"]Gyrate & Thormodr: Wow, quite the bi-polar there you've found. [/quote] Could be. I've got 2 cousins that are bi-polar. It's pretty rough...

[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="104" id="2862967"] Quoting Domicron, reply 102 Quoting Lord Xia, reply 101Not worth trying to teach you idiots the difference between subjective and objective, or opinions and facts. Have your little hate party and have fun. So by your thought process, the initial release of Elemental was also fine and anyone who claimed otherwise (including the CEO of stardock) must be some kind of moron? I appreciate the fact that you've go

Good stuff! An Elemental AAR. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Encore! Encore!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/search.php?searchid=1499690 Here are Dale's posts on Civ Fanatics. Anyone can feel free to wade through them if they like. He's rather passive/aggressive. Some days he's quite civil and other days he's downright nasty. He is obviously angling for a job with Firaxis. I guess he figures by trashing other people it wil

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="93" id="2862762"] Quoting Domicron, reply 88Civ5 is a poorly designed game. End of story. There's no argument to be had. Hopefully Shafer learned something from the experience. He's a young guy and I'm hoping he did and attributing his silence here to an NDA he probably had to sign on his way out of Firaxis. anyways peace out stardock I'll be on my merry way GOOD LUCK JONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="43" id="2862735"]Yea, I don't think there is much disagreement (or any for that matter) on where our developer resources should be going. If you ask an AI guy what they think needs the most work they're going to say AI. If you has a UI guy what they think needs the most work, they'll say UI. I think people are going to be surprised at how radically the expansion is going to change the game. [/quote] That sou

[quote who="RexDaddy" reply="38" id="2862659"]Every move that takes the game closer to the original MoM seems to make it better imho. I have to say that one of the most interesting tactical AND strategic portions of the original game was control of the Mana sources. You had to clear off whatever beasty that was inhabiting the mana source and THEN you had to use a spirit or a ghost to actually link the mana to your global mana pool. An opposing wizard could send a countl

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="80" id="2862318"]And again all of your reply is opinion You have no idea how much it cost, or how many sales worldwide there have been. You don't know whether they have alienated a significant amount of core fans (especially in relation to how many new fans they got). In fact surely by appealling to the casual gamer they have in fact opened up their market? You don't know that many others won't buy the DLC, you only know that you won't and

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="30" id="2862457"]Ah shucks... I'm going to have to say something just to get it off my chest. EWoM is not a 7 nor will it be an 8 when 1.2 comes out. Gal Civ 2 in it's final state is an 8 out of 10 and you're saying that EWoM 1.2 is going to be as good as Gal Civ 2? No freakin way! As a point of reference, I'm suggesting Gal Civ 2 is an 8 based on games like Diablo 2, Civ IV, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, and others being better than Gal C

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="78" id="2862311"]I never said i agreed with them, I am just saying that those are the facts. Therefore you cannot argue that CIV5 was and still is a commercial success. Just because some people don't like the game doesn't stop this from being true. And as for 'big game reviews', don't you find it strange that people only like reviews when they agree with them? Wouldn't it also be easy to argue that people are far more likely to submit a review themselves when t

[quote who="Kravick3" reply="34" id="2862288"]For me its a toss up between Fallout 3 fanboys and Civ 5 fanboys. But the Civ 5 fanboys actually made me not want to buy the game period, so I have to give the award to them. I stopped by the 2k forums a few months back asking how the game compared to Galactic Civilizations 2 since I had never played any game in the Civilization series. I ended up getting flamed by a bunch of people for daring to compare a

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="74" id="2862300"] Quoting mriguy, reply 73 Which game was that? One of (if not) the best selling games on the PC of 2010? The same game that received 90% plus on the over-whelming majority of reviews from the critics. The same game that is still riding high in the charts on Steam and still one of the top played games on Steam. As I have said use facts, not opinions.[/quote] If you trust those big game reviewers then I have a bridge

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="71" id="2862283"]I am beginning to feel that hiring Jon was a bad thing. Not because of CIV 5 (I actually quite enjoyed it, and will go back to enjoying it when i have the time). But because it seems that the forums of Elemental are now full of the sort of people that the 2k forums were full of. Maybe one day we'll all understand the opinion is not fact, no matter how strong that opinion is. 'Jon Shafer was in charge of a team that made ba

[quote who="InternetNerd" reply="29" id="2862253"] Quoting gyrate, reply 22 Quoting Thormodr, reply 13Dale is absolutely brutal. I cannot fathom how he can moderate or help run the We play civ forums the way he carries on on the Civ fanatics forums and the 2K Forums. He certainly has a hate on for Stardock and loves taking jabs at Brad, Kael, Sullla and other extremely talented people. He also says ciV is basically bug free and calls people that have problems w

[quote who="gyrate" reply="22" id="2862149"] Quoting Thormodr, reply 13Dale is absolutely brutal. I cannot fathom how he can moderate or help run the We play civ forums the way he carries on on the Civ fanatics forums and the 2K Forums. He certainly has a hate on for Stardock and loves taking jabs at Brad, Kael, Sullla and other extremely talented people. He also says ciV is basically bug free and calls people that have problems with bugs "liars" or worse. Personall

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="161" id="2862048"] Marketing Buzz is a factor. Yeah. It's actually a negative factor, as far as I'm concerned. Let me explain where I'm at: I happen to be a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan right now. Why? Because they fired the big-name coach in mid-season, who couldn't win anything. Their big-name quarterback who dated two big-name singers got knocked out, and then even their second-string quarterback got injur