[quote who="KickACrip" reply="285" id="2616728"]I guess I really just don't understand the "we don't like it because we want choices - I just don't want it installed on my computer," position. It seems so...trivial. [/quote]You are entitled to your opinion, and I respect it. Those who don't want steam are likewise entitled to that same consideration. That you don't understand their opinion is irrelevant. :)
Started new game, founded city, played 7 turns, saved, used main menu (didn't exit game) to start new game, hit "next" to choose Sov, faction, opponents, etc., hit "play" then saw 'creating game world' then CTD. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/Elemental0_32-2010-05-10T18-26-19-850.zip <a title="
[quote who="Guest83" reply="278" id="2616460"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 277Apparently steam will need to be running in the background, even when offline for an offline single-player game. That's how Steam works since it first started in 2003. What's the news?[/quote]Oh geez, lessee now... Could it be that to play -- not validate an install but merely play -- a single-player offline game we're now expected to blithely accept the requirement of running unnecessary third-part
Apparently steam will need to be running in the background, even when offline for an offline single-player game. 2K Elizabeth: "As for Steam, yes, it will be running, because it works with the game. I am confident that Steam will not slow down your game (even in late game periods.) We're building Civ with Steam - and we don't want the game to slow down at any point, period." <a title="http://forums.civfanatics.com/s
[quote who="KickACrip" reply="246" id="2615810"]People might be interested in reading Elizabeth's (from 2k games) comments regarding Steam (in a post complied by AVS, post number 278). [/quote]Here's another reply from Elizabeth (who's just doing her job -- a very tough one these days): http://forums.civfan
@ KickACrip It's nice that you like steam, and I respect your right to want it and have it. It would also be nice for 2k to respect the right of people like myself who don't want steam. All we're asking for is a choice, so you can get what you want, and we don't have to get what we don't want. Why
@ZehDon First, thanks for the comprehensive, polite, and well-thought-out reply [e digicons]:beer:[/e] Second... [quote who="ZehDon" reply="242" id="2615749"] ...Piracy is the all-purpose excuse of this generation's businesses. Game didn't sell enough? Pirates. Multiplayer severs messed up? Pirates did it. Game shipping with restrictive DRM? Response to pirates. Nine sequels to a single game? The effects of Pira
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="69" id="2615756"]I didn't "twist" anything.[/quote]You did, and still are. [quote]In post #14 (which is the post you pointed at) ALL I did was liken the ACT of using DRM to the ACT of locking up one's shit. Period.[/quote]What you did is make a bad analogy in hopes of supporting your argument. I corrected your analogy, showing it really contradicts your argument. [quote]In subsequent posts the analogy was morphed.[/quote]I didn't rep
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="67" id="2615741"] Is something being lost in translation here?[/quote]No. You started the houselock/drm analogy, but made the analogy unrepresentative of the real drm situation, instead twisting it to try to make it fit your argument. I corrected your analogy, showing that not only doesn't it support your argument but instead supports the opposite, and you replied with an untrue claim ("...I was pointing out to psychoak I wasn't making a direct com
[quote who="arstal" reply="240" id="2615715"]I'm ok with authentication for online MP. You obviously have to be online for online MP after all.[/quote]I understand the DRM problem, and agree that something needs to be done -- a craftsperson must be adequately compensated for their work. That doesn't mean I won't point out problems with some aspects of DRM implementation :) In your example, what if the authentication servers are down? How about someday in the
I just noticed the update too. Can't find any mention of it here (I'm guessing they're too busy working -- on Mother's Day sunday night no less -- to post about it yet).
What's a reasonable standard for 'stable enough', from a single players perspective? (serious question). I just made it to turn 501 with no reloading/restarting before a game-ending problem (froze up) -- is that 'good enough'? Or is 1000 turns? Or...? Once that's determined, what % of the testers should meet that standard?
Tried to see how far I could get without reloading/exiting Elemental. Made it to turn 501 before freezing up when choosing the Villa tech. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/debug4.err No crash report zip file <a title="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/DxDiag_32Bit_Updated.txt" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/DxDiag_32Bit_Updated.txt" targe
I can confirm this. It holds for Champions with 0 health regen, and with >0 too.
Hero-led neutral factions (now Improved! with their own cities!!) is a nice feature. An option for their allegiance(s) to Sovs would be also -- it would reward/punish diplomacy/charisma/etc.
@ Naithin You raise some good points. Possible answers: 1- If the someone stops playing while the game continued, they 'quit'. 2- If they play to the game's successful end, they 'completed'. 3- If they play to a game's unsuccessful end, they 'persisted'. 4- If the game isn't yet over and they are still playing they '[I dunno what term to use -- 'still in progress'?] 2 and 3 could be combined, and 4 ignored, for simplicity's sake.
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="63" id="2615472"] @ Nick-Danger, [quote who="Nick-Danger"] Your analogy is flawed. A proper analogy is that you buy a house with cash, owning it outright. The house comes with doors/windows that automatically are locked, and each time you wish to enter you have to call the realtor to be allowed in. If the realtor isn't available (sleeping, etc.) you can't enter the house you own and paid for. Further, those who
[quote who="TCores" reply="55" id="2615441"] Studies show pirates are otherwise big purchasers (music especially, I think games too). What studies? [/quote]Here's a recent one that I give some credence to: <a title="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-27679-Vancouver-Video-Game-Industry-Examiner~y2010m5d5-Pirates-are-the-video-game-industrys-largest-customers" href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-27679-Vancouver-Video-Game-Industry-Examiner~y2010m5d5-Pirates-are-the-vide
[quote who="bonscott" reply="191" id="2614581"] I have no problem with needing Steam to get patches for a game. Same as Impulse. I have no problem with needing Steam to play multiplayer. Same as Impulse.[/quote]I guess I'm old-fashioned -- I have a problem with needing to use any 'third party' to play a game I paid for, with my friends who also bought the game. I want the old days where I'd start up a game, consult with my friends (voice program, IM,
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="14" id="2613867"] You lock your car, house etc. don't you? Why? Because apparently it is human nature to THIEVE what one can. So a smart person/entity does what it can to protect their shit. Is your alarm monitored 24/7? OMG bad thing.....better cancel my alarm monitoring......and my anti-theft GPS tracker in my car. Sigh......sometimes I think the idiots are inheriting the earth[/quote]Your analogy is fla
[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="20" id="2615324"] I remember when all games had to be run in MS-DOS. Jazz the Jackrabbit FTW. Monkey Island and Leisure Suit Larry on floppies. My first comp was also a 386x, with a state of the art 2x CD-ROM drive. I don't think it was until Windows 95 that most games migrated towards the OS proper.[/quote]My first computer was a C64 when it first came out. Didn't have a game for it, so had to program a bouncing ball (a la 'pong') on it th
[quote who="Sareln" reply="3" id="2614912"]Since I, personally, like to finish my games, seeing how often a person plays a game to completion would be important to me.[/quote]This would be a very useful metric for MP, to know if a potential opponent can be relied upon to not quit a MP game.
I CTD'd from hitting SPACEBAR to end turn, but wasn't 'spamming' it. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/Elemental0_32-2010-05-08T19-34-57-799.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/de
I've seen this happen a few times. This time there was an enemy peasant (you can see that unit's card in the pic) that I tracked through the woods. I couldn't see the unit as it moved thru the woods, but could follow its movement by holding the cursor over its location the cursor, getting the 'crossed sword' cursor. In the pic below the 'invisible' enemy peasant is on the farm tile (where the movement 'X' is -- the cursor didn't show in the printscreen). You can see the enem
Regarding passing items to chars in different tiles -- distance isn't accounted for. I can pass items from across the game world, just need to zoom out enough so that both donor/donee are on the same screen. Items do pass, and equipping passed item changes the donee's stats (defense in this case, as I passed the armor) so the exchange is real.