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[quote quoting="post"] I found this is more than cheat and more then bug, and hope very much this will be changed in the future patches. Ai hire heroes absolutely for free even if he have not adventurer specialization. In my game Kraxis just hired hero, who demand 510 dinaries from me... Kraxis has not money at all, what was checked in dialog with him turn earlier[/quote] If you are playing a game that includes more than just Kraxis and you, he could have demanded

[quote who="Myles" reply="37" id="3328319"]Bitching and moaning does absolutely nothing. [/quote] I believe it's called discussion: eliciting facts and examining conditions that result from an act, considering possible motivations, and potential fallout. If that includes gloating, hey, bonus.

[quote who="Vamphaery" reply="32" id="3328221"] So far at least, the industry at large is being honest and calling them out. This marks a change. Perhaps they've finally gone too far? They're not getting the same free pass that Diablo III largely did. Sites are going so far as to encourage people not to buy the game, and Amazon has stopped selling the digital download.[/quote] Not to argue, but I'm curious whom you define as the industry. When I checke

You have a point. From that perspective, his/her comments sound deliberately trollish, designed to provoke, rather than just plain stupid. Either way, the person's not going to be here for long.

[quote who="WaitingOnTheGame" reply="18" id="3328090"] Frogboy. you yourself have designed a good game before with Gal Civ 2, though tbh you did dud it up to the max with the original Elemental. As someone who was once a successful and competent game designer you should recognize brilliance when you see it and hand Soren the keys to the company.[/quote] Now, I consider myself a pretty laidback guy, but that's just plain disgusting. Were you raised by wolv

[quote who="Jafo" reply="67" id="3328084"] Quoting psychoak, reply 65Even better, some schmuck gets paid way more than he should to drive a yatch around and take care of it instead of having a real job. What's a 'yatch'? ....[/quote] I think it's a primitive boat used by people living in hatched thuts.

[quote who="joasoze" reply="25" id="3327940"] Lets take a great single player classic, shrink it, make it multiplayer and always online. That is certainly a great idea.... I wish I could have been at that meeting. 1. There is no SimCity. Its SimSmallTown. I dont care about simulating every citizen. This is not the sims. I want a city that chockes on its own size and make me rethink. I want a city that is very difficult to construct due to money problem

[quote who="flagyl" reply="23" id="3327922"] I have a question for those who play games that are dependent on a company's servers (I don't play multiplayer games and I have actively refused to give EA and Activision any of my money for about the past nine months because of their incessant focus on the multiplayer aspect of games while neglecting the single player aspect-No Mass Effect 3 for me). If the company has turned off the servers, have they provided a way for the player t

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/03/simcity-5s-multiplayer-blues/4860/ A big vanilla-flavored scoop of excerpt: "On December 14, seven Maxis developers hosted an "Ask me anything" thread on Reddit. For public figures from President Obama on down, the AMA is a surefire publicity generator. But it can backfire, too. Th

Haven't bought it for precisely the reason discussed in this thread. If the DRM issues are worked out, in another 6 months to a year I will check out the price, and almost certainly buy it. But in the meantime I can use my money more wisely, and not cast it as a vote for such shoddy tactics.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="14" id="3327298"] Didn't Brian Reynold's just leave Zynga too? He ain't got shit to do, he probably needs a job, get him working on Alpha Centauri 2 and then just change the name so nobody get's sued.[/quote] Heh. Great game; I'd love that. "Beta Centauri, a game by Reynold Brians." I'd snap it up in a second. Still have the original (and its expansion) on my main computer.

[quote quoting="post"]Our government has actually set in policies that hasten this trend. Minimum wage laws, while well intended, result in these business owners eliminating positions and making cutting edge automation more attractive. Getting rid of minimum wage laws wouldn’t eliminate this trend, it would merely slow it down.[/quote] Before the advent of minimum wage, however, the disparity between great wealth and poverty was even greater than it is today

[quote quoting="post"] Greetings! Memory is remembered Last week we discussed that we really wanted Legendary Heroes to support 32-bit for the new "Huge" size maps but the current FE/LH builds couldn't do it. So I agreed to spend the weekend going through the code to see what I could optimize. [/quote] Excellent news. My wife and I hope to purchase a 64-bit Win7 loaded desktop later this year, but finances are tight at the moment. S

Eador: Genesis is great fun, and Eador: Masters of the Broken World is going into second phase beta in a day or so. Essentially the same game, a few tweaks, but some excellent changes to the graphics, including moving to 3D. You can find videos of both on Youtube.

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="12" id="3326563"] "Liz hurley" spell cast? Is that a cast spell or a hurl spell? (for enchanting spears?) @ ed, all in fun, we all need a little silly-ness from time to time. If you search long enough (please don't) you'll find I've made a few typos of my own. One was quite entertaining.[/quote] Glad to see you're taking it in the right way. There's not a person here who&#3

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="3" id="3326375"] Tuidjy's posts are a bit outdated at this point. The AI and some game mechanics have changed significantly since he posted those guides. Not to take anything away from Tuidjy's work...[/quote] I suspect we'll some new ones after LH appears.

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="6" id="3326435"] I didn't know Stardock spent time supporting MODS? When did they start doing that?[/quote] What gives you the impression they have?

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="5" id="3326445"] I definitely think a "cast cat" spell should be added. Just imagine facing an opponent, and throwing multiple cats at it. Its 'raining cats and dogs'might be a higher level of the spell. JK[/quote] I agree. I think better mages should have the choice of coloration, such as tabby, or tortoise shell. And really high mages should be able to select alternate cat forms, such as sabertooth tigers,

Tuidjy did a great job on his content: well-written, thoughtful, and tightly organized. It's very outline-linear, though, and this makes it feel abstract to some people. If you're among these, you might try going to Youtube, and looking under "Fallen Enchantress" and "gameplay." There are several available, and the more concrete, hands-on experience could b

[quote who="n0fo" reply="28" id="3325999"] lol they are already pretty prominent. Finding a 32 bit machine locally would take some serious effort.[/quote] There have been some surveys done by marketing firms working for computer publications. This past year, at least, the Windows OS was still pretty evenly split between Win7 and WinXP, the edge going to Win7. Vista was completely out of the picture. Nobody has surveyed on how WinXP users split between 32-bit ad 64

[quote who="Alstein" reply="15" id="3325903"] I vote no on letting 32-bitters play on huge map size, if I get a vote. It's time to wean folks off of 32-bit.[/quote] You are, of course, ready to defend against the 32-bit ninja squad, I suppose. I just don't think Stardock is. Granted, there's good reason for suggesting people upgrade to a 64-bit OS, but the company that makes FE has to take into account just how much of its customer bas

[quote who="ulysses_31" reply="2" id="3323328"]On higher levels the AI hardly ever gets attacked by monsters, and that's a fine cheat.[/quote] It's not a cheat. It's a different set of rules, and follows on the point you made: [i]on higher levels[/i]. You want to take on a greater challenge, you're handicapped. You want to take on less challenge, you handicap your opponent. Different levels of difficulty: different challenges. What I think we need to see

[quote who="Jythier" reply="76" id="3322749"]Grabbed a couple expansions. Now I can be Orthodox or Muslim. Yay! Of course, I'm only into 1120 or so in my first game. I've gotten to my third character now. I have access to retinues now but I don't have enough retinue points. Those seem very powerful, considering they're bigger than any levy I can produce.[/quote] They also are very expensive. When you tak

I like the sound of diplomatic recalculations, as described. Seems like a good first step to help remedy a strong game's worst feature.

Modding aside, I think the expansion plans include making larger maps available. Whether those will be random or not, I don't know.