MonkeyMaciek

Reply to Most serious design issues in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

This is an excellent post. I very much hope stardock take this seriously. It's obvious (and not just from here) that serious strategy game players are expert tacticians, who understand and exploit the probability distributions underlying the systems they're interacting with. For a game to satisfy them it needs to be both complex and interesting, but also well balanced and impossible to dominate with a two dimensional strategy. I've been eagerly anticipating this game and but h

Reply to It is time to talk about QUESTS! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Carrying out a task for a reward is nice, but what really makes quests (or any strategic decision) interesting is scarce resources and decisions that involve trade-offs. Rather than a player seeing a quests pop up and thinking: "Oh good, I can get some extra troops/money/status/resource X/etc, I just need to click on the right spots on the screen an extra thirty times", setting up quests as strategic dilemma gets users thinking: "Oh god, the

Reply to A farewell to arms in Demigod Demigod Forums

Thanks for all the replies and warm sentiments. Hopefuly I'll see you guys again if I find myself missing Demigod, or in the forum of the next interesting strategy game that comes along. Wallstop: yeah, I remember that game, it was fun :-) Good luck finding other chatty sorts. Psuedomellon: I wonder if Stardock could be pursuaded to add voice-chat support to Demigod, maybe making it contingent on players having a fast enough connection? Can you recommend a decent strateg

A farewell to arms in Demigod Demigod Forums

Hi, I'm a scientist in my late 20s, I don't usually play computer games but I used to love them as a kid. Recently a friend introduced me to Demigod and I found the strategy options so absorbing that I bought it and have been playing it for a few months (85 games, my overlay tells me). I'm just about to put the game away again but with the 2,408 minutes of play time I've invested online with you guys, it feels a little like I'm leaving a community, so I wanted to introduce myself and

Reply to If you don’t have Ready to Play, sign up in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

ditto here - don't see it anywhere

Reply to Invalid Gamestate out of control now in Demigod Stardock Forums

I've been getting a tremendous amount of these errors over the last week too. I agree that the times when they occur (just when it's obvious one team has lost) make it really, really easy to believe someone is causing them deliberately to avoid having their loss recorded. It's really frustrating and a huge turn-off from playing the game. Please Stardock, get on it!