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How much will E:M be selling for? Does anybody know, at this point?

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="18" id="3306802"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 11For FE, I like a lot of these ideas. In the upcoming expansion, the "Faction prestige" thing is going away. Instead, city growth will depend entirely on available food and unrest. The more cities you have, the more unrest you get. Excellent.[/quote] Agreed. This is the way to go. Forcing players to make serious strategic choices between

Most Wildlands do clear. The Darkling City seems...intermittent. I've gotten it to clear once, but not a second time. Maybe they liked what I wearing, or something.

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="14" id="3303996"]Update no 5 is up: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/522716131/legends-of-dawn/posts/380351 It talks more in detail about crafting. And next week we can expect more gameplay videos and lower stretch goals. Also, the got 80% of what they asked for and 15 days more are left [/quote] I'm glad they're taking that on, but it's going to be damned hard to balance properly as we all

Sometimes I win because I've found better items, gotten better champions, found better city spots, more quickly. Sometimes the AI does. Personally, I like it that way, and I don't want to see things nuked out of interest in balancing the game into one even, grey plain.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="207" id="3305341"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 205complaining off and on about that for the last year. Thzat'll be because it's on and off working...as it's refixed...and refixed... [e digicons];P[/e] [/quote] This leads me ask: what's the fixed version supposed to be like? Because all I seem to get is the funny, everything running together, hard to distinguish between posters unfixed version. [e digicon

[quote who="coyote303" reply="5" id="3305292"] #4 Give names of factions not just icons. Is there a simple way to find the faction name from an icon on a city? If you hover the cursor over the icon, it will give you the name of the faction.[/quote] Still, instant faction availability beats out having to hover the mouse over each city you view.

I personally like Heavenfall's suggestion. Spamming cities isn't an issue, by the speed through which this happens is in my opinion out of all proportion. Of course, giving the AI more rules to understand when it's a good time to do pioneers, given a pop drain--that's going to be tough on you. But it does add a neat strategic dynamic to things, I think.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="205" id="3305308"]Looks like the site's quoting is a bit screwed ... ;) [/quote] I've been complaining off and on about that for the last year. [e digicons]:-"[/e] Search is kind of a mess, too.

WoM was released in August: not much competition at that time of year. The Oct/Nov/Dec timeframe is the best time of year for game sales, but also provides the greatest number of releases to reviewers, as Heavenfall mentioned Frogboy pointing out. Lots of games fall by the wayside, especially long, involved turn-based strategy titles that require a lot of work to dig sufficiently into. Much easier to review the latest action title, or arcade, or FPS. &

[quote quoting="post"] #3 Show owner of territories at the borders. The AI knows them, why can't I? #4 Give names of factions not just icons. Is there a simple way to find the faction name from an icon on a city? [/quote] Good, common sense points.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="188" id="3304567"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 185 Quoting Solam, reply 185 bosses should be able to do what they want with their business. It's up to the consumer to buy or to boycott that company. Does that mean that if your boss wants to put you in an unsafe environment with locked emergency doors, the only recourse should be consumers voting by walking to another company? <

[quote who="taltamir" reply="199" id="3305151"] [quote]Nor does the intent imply (as anyone with a brain can realize)...[/quote] That's it, guy. I'll discuss almost anything calmly with anybody, in the hopes of learning something that adds to what I know or contradicts what I believed erroneously, but as soon as you start resorting to verbal abuse, you can listen alone to the sound of your own voice. And I don't care if there are people who

[quote who="taltamir" reply="187" id="3304566"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 186Quoting Solam, reply 185bosses should be able to do what they want with their business. It's up to the consumer to buy or to boycott that company. Does that mean that if your boss wants to put you in an unsafe environment with locked emergency doors, the only recourse should be consumers voting by walking to another company? You are making strawman. An employee's body is n

[quote who="Solam" reply="185" id="3300127"]bosses should be able to do what they want with their business. It's up to the consumer to buy or to boycott that company.[/quote] Does that mean that if your boss wants to put you in an unsafe environment with locked emergency doors, the only recourse should be consumers voting by walking to another company? Because this has happened, repeatedly. Just curious about your take on this.

[quote who="cardinaldirection" reply="2" id="3250374"]As a religious person I'm offended by the original show: it degrades the whole purpose and spirit of all religions. The honest and humorous commentary contained much more truth.[/quote] This. Being religious has nothing to do with being a foolish, blinkered, culturally tone-deaf bigot. I'm religious--admittedly Pagan, but I have Christian friends who find this sort of thing

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="3" id="3302389"].... it's whatever you want it to be. see firefox going chrome style version number inflation[/quote] And that's a perfect example. Firefox was issuing incremental updates as "7.XY," until it became apparent that Chrome appeared to be making more progress by giving each new incremental update a new major release number. Soon thereafter, Firefox followed suit. I'l

You'll find that this has been an issue for some time. And just as above, some people agree with you, while others don't. Myself, I'd like to see more variables in players' hands to control the quality of starting sites, or at least a checkbox or two for a more rigidly defined starting site, and one that's open to greater variance. But this hasn't happened, and isn't likely to.

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="47" id="3302490"] Microsoft has nothing to do with MoM. I believe you are confusing them with Microprose. [/quote] Of course, but that's kind of obvious, isn't it?

Lots of cliches, little evidence (to me) of any real deep play or understanding that went into the review. That's irrespective of his views on the game per se.

[quote who="Sammual" reply="40" id="3280450"] Today MoM is good. In it's day it was Great.[/quote] I think that's pretty fair on a features comparison. But when it also comes to a matter of integration, interface, and gameplay balance for me, then MoM remains very competitive. It just plays extremely well, giving that feeling of JOMT (just one more turn). Disclaimer: I'm referring to the version that has one of the player-produce

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="1009" id="3301854"] Good balance amongst the factions, the AI even attacked me that game, and the factions have a great 'feel'/consistency/logic to them.[/quote] I second this. The factions are well thought out. They provide a mix of benefits and drawbacks that work to their advantage (or otherwise) in different games, meaning you can't count on one being significantly better than the others. The lore is

[quote who="bonscott" reply="12" id="3301408"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 11 Yes, I understood that part. What I don't understand was how this pushes back the timeline to release. Because if you have more bills, it makes sense to release in time to take advantage of the best season for games. Getting out a game as swiftly as possible to pay things off is a pretty good idea, all other matters being equal. Because, if they actually release th

[quote who="Mmrnmhrm" reply="19" id="3301302"]Can someone name a land based game similar to this that has a better AI? I'd really like to hear it.[/quote] AI is a pretty generic term for various rules sets. Let's consider one: how the AI deals diplomatically with the human and other AIs. I think it's fair to state that GC2 and Civ IV do a much better job of it. There are certainly more options in the former, all of which are well integrated

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="10" id="3301131"]When you use 3rd party software in developing your game you are not legally allowed to sell the game without paying people for using their software. That is what I meant. [/quote] Yes, I understood that part. :) What I don't understand was how this pushes back the timeline to release. Because if you have more bills, it makes sense to release in time to take advantage of the best season for games. Getting o