Nick-Danger

[quote quoting="post"] Suggestions and ideas on how you would like magical spells that stay in effect (do you want to require a mana cost or just have it be free? I’d rather see it be free otherwise players will have to run around dispelling things and that’s just tedious)[/quote]Regarding tediousness here I think that depends on how you do it. For example, if you want to dispel unit buffs and have to search out each unit to do so, that's tedious-by-bad-design. Yo

[quote who="Sanati" reply="25" id="2662300"]Drakes: "one species of Drakes prefer forests." Should be "prefers,"...[/quote]My english skills have always sucked, so please to explain my error here -- I see this question as 'who is doing the preferring' -- drakes ('drakes prefer'), or species ('species prefers')? As I see it it's drakes doing the preferring isn't it then 'drakes prefer' and not 'drakes prefers'? What am I missing?

[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="9" id="2662368"]... fivetuple post or whatever. this is getting ridiculous.[/quote]I had a 3-fer the other day, but your 5-fer... That'll be hard to beat. On topic, along with a monster threat, how's about some wandering unaligned champions occasionally deciding to raid&loot,or even take over, a town?

[quote who="sydneysiders" reply="175" id="2658130"] How could they know just what this booming means The end of our posts, the end of all our dreams How could they know the joy there had been Behind the words before booms reigned supreme[/quote]There once was a server from Stardock Whose performance caused many to mock "Boom goes the forum" "It has no decorum" Others just say "What the fock?"

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="13" id="2661856"]This was my take on something Frogboy said in the past. Think of Prestige as the "Standard of Living Index" 0-1 = Poor L0 Usually only exists in Hamlets that are just underway. 2-5 = Not bad. L1-L2 Enough Food and Housing. Perhaps some Pubs and Educational Institutes may be in place. 5-10 = Now were talking! L3-L4 Street parties, coin abounds, with places to spend it. Huge Festivities on honored days and Mansio

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="582" id="2661836"]Nothing like reporting and then throwing in ""I think some of his decisions make the game worse for me." without saying anything more specific. "Essentially uncommented upon." Hah. I've asked you 3 times to actually clarify which of those decisions make the game worse for you, and you've avoided doing so all three times. This journalism defense is a new one. Why are you so afraid of stating your opinions? They can't be tha

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="4" id="2661602"]What??? Now I ragequit!!!...[/quote]Wintersong I think you just added unhappiness back into Elemental ;)

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="10" id="2661819"]EDIT: On topic, I agree, my suggestion would be to make the UI like the old on in those screens.[/quote]I like that old UI. Well, the part where it lists the number of champions could be dropped and maybe a few other items, but generally it's pretty nice. Many games end up with customizable UI that are pretty darn fancy/nice. I expect the same of Elemental once you folks put your minds to it.

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="574" id="2661570"]...ROFLCOPTERTEABAG11!!!111ELVEN IMA BUY CoD51 DAY ONE BITCHNOOBS!" sums up the majority of Activision Blizzard repeat customers. Educating these people is the only way to put a top to the industry wide shift towards Activision Blizzard's business practices, and if we were actually capable of educating those morons we could solve around 95% of the worlds problems overnight.[/quote]Dad used to say "the less you expect of others the happier you

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="577" id="2661790"]Indeed, I actually expect content in posts.[/quote]I'm old enough to remember journalists -- newspeople who reported news. Back then opinions were the province of the editorial page. News was 'just the facts', essentially uncommented upon, for the viewer to draw their own conclusions from. Today it's different. Journalists have been replaced by pundits and stenographers, and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting som

[quote who="Tridus" reply="576" id="2661651"]The main sentiment from this page I agree with is that we need Reactor to be released and do well, to keep Valve honest. Steamworks as it is right now is pretty good for game developers. Steam as a monopoly doesn't have the same incentive to offer Steamworks for free anymore. Competition is good.[/quote]Agreed. I hadn't considered steam and all this before the civ5-steam-only-and-required news. It's interesting, from an intellectual p

Interesting. I hit "quote" for Aractain's post (reply #575) and it lists this:[quote who="Tridus" reply="575" id="2661618"][/quote]Forums borked again? Anyway, on to the reply to Aractain... [quote]Seriously... To me, you sounded like you were saying X. I posted that.[/quote]I accept that you believe that. Whether you accept you're wrong... believe what you wish.

[quote who="DeeRock66" reply="3" id="2661342"]hey man, i'm in the same boat but i'm in the military...[/quote]You say you're on a boat but your image is Air Force -- hey, you must be on a carrier! ;) Stay safe and thanks for your Service. Salute!

The idea of 'morale' for cities is interesting. Losing battles as you say or say, or being sieged or the like should have an effect on your population's morale. It seems to be inline with the idea of meaningful consequences. We might have morale in tactical battles so it may not be that much of a stretch to add it to cities. Like LintMan, the idea of happy-buildings/resources doesn't interest me but if city morale is done in ways organic to the other parts of the game

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="570" id="2661339"]An entire post and you have yet to say which of his decisions make the game worse for you.[/quote]And how is that necessary in order to prove Aractain's assertions regarding my opinions are false? Answer -- it isn't. [quote]How can anyone argue against you when all you state are vague things like "I think some of his decisions make the game worse for me."[/quote]Aractain put false words into my mouth. Correcting that didn'

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[quote who="Aractain" reply="568" id="2661276"]I don't see how what I said isn't true.[/quote]I'll try again using your statement "...[1]If you don't like his business decisions you either think [2] they are not going to make enough money or [3] you have some kind of 'ethical' objection." Regarding [1] ("...If you don't like his business decisions...") -- some I like (the 75% off one for example), some I don't have an opinion on, some I dislike. Let's just focus on those I d

[quote who="Aractain" reply="566" id="2661254"]...If you don't like his business decisions you either think they are not going to make enough money or you have some kind of 'ethical' objection.[/quote]This is the fallacious False Choice -- if I don't like his business decisions then X (not making enough money) or Y (moral objection). Here's what you're ignoring: Newell has his priorities -- maximize his profits, etc. I have my priorities -- good games ('good' being defin

[quote who="Aractain" reply="564" id="2661239"]You sound as if you think any business man like Gabe should be working for the betterment of mankind rather than their shareholders, the companys bottom line or thier own pocket.[/quote]This is the fallacious argument Hyperbole. How does my pointing out Newell's philosophy -- some of which I don't care for, some I do, and some I have no feelings on either way -- suggest to you that I think "..any business man like Gabe should be working f

A while ago there was a thread linking to an article that detailed Kotick's philosophy in regards to activision-blizzard and games. I ran across some reports from DICE1009 where Newell gave the keynote address which gives some idea of what his philosophy is. Sources are Geek.com , <a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/02/18/dice-2009

[quote who="Andorfiend" reply="393" id="2661128"]You [SirPleb] just don't want it to go further than that into an X-com style where you have to worry about the individual loadout/morale/fatigue of every man in the army. If that's the case then given that some of the beta testers were talking about battles with hundreds or thousands of troops then I heartily agree with you. [/quote]My understanding is we'll be dealing with units, not individuals, so while we may have 100k troops there will onl

[quote who="daf1" reply="10" id="2660976"]Oh pioneers can harvest? I dident know that x)[/quote]The resource has to be in a certain radius from a city for the pioneer to be able to make use of it. I haven't quite figured out how far (inside your cultural boundaries at the least I think but could be wrong, I need to test that). Move the pioneer to the resource and see if the 'settle' option is highlighted. If not, wait around until it is (assuming it eventually does become hi

[quote who="Tridus" reply="560" id="2660802"]...how is it apples & oranges?[/quote]You're comparing steam DD (apples) with brick&mortar boxes (oranges), instead of steam DD (apples) with Firaxis DD (apples). As that was the comparison my point is predicated upon, it's the salient one. Picking your apples&oranges instead of an apples&apples is the fallacious Argument By Selective Reading -- cherry picking the worst case example to make your chosen point, ign

[quote]Tridus said: [quote]Nick-Danger said: The salient comparison from my line of questioning is how much Firaxis would make if they offered a DD civ5 themselves -- that's the apples-to-apples comparison.[/quote] Your actual question was if they'd make more money by doing all the stuff Steamworks gives them for themselves.[/quote] My line of questioning is how it'd be if Firaxis went it alone, which includes DD sales themselves (that's part of how the net is changing

As a holder of several advanced degrees from the School of Hard Knocks, the more I learn about steam the more it resembles an old man driving a windowless van, offering free candy.... errrrr.... free steamworks to every kid he sees -- and we're the kids he's targeting. Right now we're in the free candy phase. How that changes once he gets enough of us into his van and he closes the doors, we'll have to wait to see. Nothing in life is free. No deal is too good to be