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[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="61" id="3096680"]I agree entirely with this. Playing strategy games is about making choices and there are no choices involved in having nothing to build (or at least nothing which it makes sense to build) in any of your settlements most of the time early-mid game.[/quote] I think the choice comes in what to research first. Do I research more civic techs so my cities are more powerful and can produce more research, gildar, units, etc.? Do I focus in warf

I think everyone would agree that 8 is progress in many ways. Microsoft is constantly adding features and refining things that make Windows more useful, like Storage Spaces. That's a neat idea, although I'm still not sure why you wouldn't simply RAID instead. What I'm concerned about is that it has two UI's on it and you have to switch all the time. For example, user settings are split between classic Control Panel and Metro PC Settings: some are in one spot and so

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="255" id="3096782"]Well, what is worth more to you now, your moral values or your business at-any-cost max-em-dollars?[/quote] I'm not sure using Steam constitutes a business-at-any-cost max-em-dollars strategy. Steam rules right now, both in potential audience and tools offered to developers. Not using it doesn't make any sense. So why should the company follow the apparently strongly held convictions of a vocal minority instead of common business

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="77" id="3096849"]It's pre-mature to call it a failure when it hasn't even been released yet. There's lot of time to make changes and address some issues people bring up. Remember Vista, the failure? http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2012/03/in-the-valley-anything-less-than-92-share-makes-you-irrelevant/ [/quote] You raise a good point. I imagine most of the forumites here are relatively sophistic

In the description of the School improvement it says it should give trained units +1 intelligence but it does not.

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="14" id="3094651"]I imagine that the apps I run will run as windows on the desktop. I don't get the attachment most people have to the start menu and panel. Most of the apps I use auto-start on boot. Then, when I need something, I tap the Windows key and start typing the name of the app I want to start (usually it's notepadd++ or a mapped drive through explorer). If I want to uninstall, I type [winkey] "uninst" [pick from the

I never tried multiplayer in either. I was perfectly happy to bash about the AI on the middle difficulty levels. I think I'm already close to having played IV and V equally and I haven't even played V for the past 2 months or so.

This has been my worry since I tried the developer preview. There trying to shoehorn in two totally different UI paradigms and then tell the user to constantly switch between them, even to use the start menu. It's impossible to live just in the traditional desktop; you have to indulge in its split personality.

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="11" id="3094608"]The Metro UI is not what I'm looking forward to. The performance improvements, on the other hand, do make me a little excited. That, and the new Task Manager. And the new copy file dialogs. And the storage pools.[/quote] All that sounds great. Normally I'm all for the newest thing out there. But the whole split-personality thing is scaring me.

I'm downloading it now but I'm not even cautiously optimistic. It seems to me that the union between the traditional Windows UI and Metro will make for a inconsistent experience. I think many of things that are viewed positively when done on a tablet hurt the usefulness of a desktop UI. Having the start menu replaced by a full-screen Metro launcher does not strike me as a good compromise, for example. I wasn't convinced when I tried the Developer preview that this was a blessed jo

[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="14" id="3094292"]I've always loved Civ V! Launch was kinda rocky but its gotten so much better patch after patch and now its playing great. Its a different beast from Civ IV which I still think I like a bit better, but with everything that's coming in the expansion they're just getting started. People forget that Civ IV vanilla is puppy love compared to BTS.[/quote] You're right: it really was after the expansions that IV really took of

I like Civ V. I don't play it much now because of FE and CK2 but I logged a lot of hours in it. I thought the pacing was fine; it's much faster than previous games. I don't think this is good or bad, just different. The whole Civ franchise is my list of favorite games.

[quote who="wbino" reply="154" id="3089480"]And for those paranoid with what Steam is watching....I would be a lot more leary of your cell phone.....[/quote] Seriously. And let's not forget your email provider, your search engine, or you ISP.

I'm agreeing with you. You have every right to not only refrain from buying games for any reason you choose but to attempt to convince others to refrain. Steamworks doesn't bother me nearly enough to outweigh the pleasure I get from buying games that incorporate it. I believe many people agree with me. We're not enablers; we're making a rational decision based on values that differ from yours.

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="52" id="3087092"]Problem with that sean.. is that Stardock and/or Ironclad knew there was going to be some people who wouldn't purchase it in response. They didn't care about those people.. yet you expect those people to toss out their Principles for a group that has pretty much stated.. we don't need you.. to hades with your principles. As far as I'm concerned any dev or publisher that requires steamworks.. can fail and I hope they do.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="6" id="3087081"]Unfortunately I too cannot tell is FE is going to be well received by the masses of new players. I have been too close to the game. But I can tell you that I like it. [/quote] Good point. Not only have I followed it very closely, I've discovered my taste in videogames do not necessarily reflect the population.

I just read an article at arstechnica.com: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/should-games-offer-more-help-when-we-get-stuck.ars I disagreed with the author. I feel similar to Draginol in that I like challenges. In my opinion, great games make you think, strategize, and make decisions that you can't easily unmake. That's one reason I like TBS games so muc

Steam doesn't bother me. The client is easy to use, doesn't have a huge impact on system resources, and I like all the features it adds. If it's collecting data about me, it can join the club with Google, EZpass, Verizon, the government, etc. It's a fact in today's world; information is valuable and information about you is being collected, sold, analyzed, and used. Most of the time all it's used for is to try and sell me stuff.

Of course, the one they actually played is the one that matters. Go Giants!

[quote who="Neilo" reply="22" id="3074613"] He did get dropped more than the norm against the ravens didn't he. But then again the Ravens Defense is a cut above the giants... There's some hate for the Pats huh? That's one crucial part of the game i don't get to experience, fan reactions. Kinda hard to get into discussions about a game played 10, 000 miles away and with folks who don't understand it... Thank frak for forums..[/quote] <p

I'm hoping Brady is sacked so many times he starts crying. Go Giants!

I have had this happen too. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58121063/%5B0.77%5D%20BUG%20Creatures%20spawned%20in%20the%20ocean/FallenEnchantress0_77-2012-01-30T16-06-

It could fit within the lore. There are some survivors of the war; a few blacksmiths are left and a couple builders and some horse breeders. A population requirement could even model this; only once your city is sufficiently large will the odds of having a blacksmith, builder, etc, be in your favor. Instead of having some scholar mysteriously researching how to forge a sword you just need a blacksmith who knows how. Building a forge for him and having a large enough city will "attract" one to

Won battle against monsters. One champion died in the fight, the other gained a level. I chose the trait for the leveled up champion, then the dialogue box for the dead champion's injury came up. After pressing ok the game crashed. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58121063/%5BCRASH%5D%5B0.77%5D%20After%20Battle%20Crash/FallenEnchantress0_77-2012-01-28T

End of the quest required a battle against bandits. Won the battle, leveled up two of champions, got the completed quest message; as soon as I clicked to close that the game crashed. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58121063/%5BCRASH%5D%5B0.77%5D%20After%20Completing%20Escort%20Noblewoman%20Quest/FallenEnchantress0_77-2012-01-28T0