I'm all for economic supply chains... those are my favourite types of games. Phooey to those who think that makes things tedious. Refining systems can be made wonderfully complex and fun. There'd need to be a much better trade system in place, though, to make this useful.
[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="12" id="2803719"]pardon my ignorance, but when you say open up the source code, do you mean open up the very heart of the engine and make every thing public at some point in time? [/quote] They won't need to open up the engine source code, just the gameplay source, the same way Civ 4 did. You can change everything except the graphics engine.
[quote who="DKL" reply="39" id="2803683"]I dont understand this whole 'Civ revolutions' stuff people throwing at them. 'Simplified'? When did you play Civ I/II/III last time? Launch any of them and count mechanics and their depth one by one, then compare to Civ 5. Each feels more polished and deep than it was in previous series (omitting 4, because I didn't play it), and only thing lacking in Civ5 is government type, which is replaced by superior social policies system.[/quote] If you
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2803449"] In the longer run, we hope to support both Python and C++ based modding to allow for substantially different games.[/quote] W00t! Those are the mods I want to see. Not too excited about content mods and those that merely fiddle with existing mechanics.
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="59" id="2802244"]I don't know what exactly Kael has done for the Fall From Heaven mods so I don't feel much excitement. But if he truly that great designer that you people seem to believe, then great! We really need one![/quote] Considering the number of people on the Civfanatics forum that have decided to buy Elemental on the news that Kael has joined the team, I think the confidence is pretty unanimous :)
[quote who="Thormodr" reply="40" id="2801968"] Indeed. Say, are you the same Falconne as the one on Civ Fanatics that shares my immense dislike of ciV? People are sure happy for Kael over there anyway. I hope Kael can make Elemental into a game comparable to FFH2. [/quote] Yes. Someone on the SD forums grabbed my preferred username before I got here. If I ever find them, there will be words.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="25" id="2801808"]There's no crusade, I'm only expressing my opinion and not trying to convince anyone. The facts speak for themselves, there is no disservice in the truth. Last I saw the list on the forum's site, there were 13 "credits" for artwork/music, 3 or 4 of which were labeled as having been used with permission, and at least one of the ones that were not used with permission requested that the artist be contacted to work out licensing if anyone wishe
Called it. Yeah, I called it. On September 24th in the "Kael and Fall from Heaven" thread. Doh, I guess this means no FFH3 for Civ 5 then :)
[quote who="Kalin" reply="394" id="2793784"]That's just how you feel about it, and while that's a perfectly acceptable view on the topic, and perhaps even be one of the vast majority, that doesn't mean that the view of someone, who can't get the game to work at all due to steam and votes 1 because of it, is wrong and shouldn't be counted. The problem I have with review and metacritic scores is that it depends on averages. And while an average of a bigger group ten
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="392" id="2793693"]As long as the only way to download and run the game is via Steam, I don't have any problems at all with those people. That way, Steam is practically irremovable part of experience, it can't be escaped. If I had a movie on DVD, with long unskippable advertisments at the beginning, cheap ugly box etc, and there are no alternative sellers, it still decreases my enjoyment. Maybe it's not their fault and they had no choice (suspiciously common excuse),
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="390" id="2793656"] Quoting falconne2, reply 389 As I said before, it's the same as voting down a book by a politician, not based on its content, but because you don't like the party he's in. That is an ad hominem; guilt by association. No, not the same. I don't have to know the author is a politician to read the book. But if I buy a game that uses Steam, I have to use Steam. As long as it requires Steam to function, the point can't be ignored.<b
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="388" id="2793633"] This, folks, is called poisoning the well. A preemptive ad hominem (personal attack) against people who have valid points and complaints.[/quote] No, it's not. I'm disputing the behaviour, the reasoning behind it, not attacking the individuals themselves. This is exactly what an ad hominem is not . It's not ad hominem by abuse, tu quoque, circumstantial, or association. It probably has some fancy Latin term, but it'
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="386" id="2793604"] For some companies, delivery is an issue, a very big issue. Gogamer used to take around 22 days to get some of the shipments to people. People posted about it in the reviews, and guess what, gogamer doesn't use the same shipper anymore. Spore received thousands of 1 star posts about the online activation system and install limits, guess what, EA doesn't really use that system anymore. They are relevant even if this information is not relevant
[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="50" id="2793559"] True, some players probably do cheat. I have my own personal "game-code-of-chivalry," so to speak. I never cheat (restart & save), I never use hacks or cheat codes. If I were to ever cheat, I wouldn't want to continue playing because if I won, I'd know it was only because I cheated. Cheating pretty much sucks the fun out of a game in a similar way that un-challenging AIs do. ... but that's just me.[/quote] Yes
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="384" id="2793578"] I never said I agreed with the 1 star rating with Civ V because of Steam, only that it is valid to some people. That fact that it is not valid to you, or this other guy who abuses the word troll, or even to me, does not change that.[/quote] Well if you say so. But it's not a case of whether its valid to me or not, but a question of what's appropriate where. I don't see the reason in people cluttering customer reviews with their p
[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="47" id="2793543"] It's not possible to create a good AI without buffing except in some rare examples like chess. I don't see "buffing" the AI to create a challenging & enjoyable game as "cheating" on the AI's part any more than human' player "cheats" by using "intuition," "foresight," "planning," and "strategizing" which a computer AI certainly cannot do.[/quote] Yeah it's not possible to create a "good" AI for complex games, unl
Can't we just agree that disliking Steam is ok but disliking a game because of Steam is silly? I think it's fair to say that someone who buys a game on Steam should review the game; it's ok to take away one star if they hate Steam and say so. But if they're not going to buy it because of Steam, they shouldn't post a review at all, because other customers are looking for reviews of the game, not Steam; they already know it's on Steam and they want to know if the game is worth it. They
[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="32" id="2793062"] That's definitely cool stuff but what happens if modders create new game features? Obviously the AI has to be updated to use their new mechanics but I don't think every modder automatically has the skills to work with a multi-threaded AI without crashing the game. As it happens, that includes me. =P I have written quite a few realtime scripts that work asynchronously but that's not quite the same as using multip
[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="57" id="2793036"] Having one unit beamed up by Scotty would be already annoying enough, but having a WHOLE ARMY teleported, is something never seen in fantasy and a total game breaker. In Start Trek and Star Wars and all that, they have Hyperspace: THAT is the equivalent of teleporting an army. I can never accept hyperspace as a strategic device but even more serious than that IT SPOILS THE GAME. (Besides in AOW it takes a while to raze a
[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="8" id="2792340"] Magic is NOT teleporting - Teleporting is a SCI-FI device not a fantasy one![/quote] AoW:SM has gates and teleports. Why do you keep insisting teleport is a sci-fi thing? Because it's used in Star Trek? It's the least scientific thing about that show... it may as well be magic. Proper science fiction - I mean Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Dick, Robinson, etc as opposed to pop sci fi like Star Trek, don't use themes like teleport becau
[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="365" id="2792229"] Quoting falconne2, reply 364So says the guy claiming the only reason Civ V has a 91% metacritic score is because it has Sid Meier on the box. No, I never said that. I said that Elemental would have gotten a better reception from critics if it was called "Sid Meier's Elemental: War of Magic". It's a subtle but important distinction. [/quote] It's the same as saying Sid Meier's name on a box gives a game an
[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="363" id="2792010"] "Denial" isn't just a river in Egypt, you know. [/quote] So says the guy claiming the only reason Civ V has a 91% metacritic score is because it has Sid Meier on the box. Presumably the players are afraid of him too, since the metacritic user score is 81%. Civilization V has plenty of issues. But real issues aren't getting discussed here; it just descends into a flame war. A few specific ind
Very poor. It's quite passive and doesn't prepare for war at all. With all the AIs on at ridiculous, the only limit to how fast you can steamroll them is the map size, since you have to walk. It will take you around 200 turns to finish any game if you play well, 300 if you play casually. Brad's promised AI improvements for 1.1 so we'll see then.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="111" id="2790703"] The mongols had pretty good bows though on horseback but were lightly armored.[/quote] The Mongols had composite bows and stirrups which are essential for effective horse archers, so it's a technology thing. You could have really high end warfare techs that make mounted archers more effective. I think archers really need a skill stat though, that controls their chance to hit. The reason archers are so powerful now is that the
[quote who="Kalin" reply="89" id="2790060"]The whole point is to put a negative so you have to decide when to use it and when not to. Otherwise there's just no reason to ever not use it. Everyone will be on mounts whenever they can. There's really no decision in unit design if everything is just a big bonus.[/quote] Yeah but you can't just add arbitrary negatives or you lose believability. It needs to make sense... the negative side of mounted units should be increased time and cost t