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[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="18" id="2808407"]From the last thing I remember reading.. buying the game before v1.1 was released, qualifies for the 2nd free expansion. I could be mistaken or it could have changed so please don't make a purchase decision based on that. I'd like to get a clarification on this as I frequently spread the Elemental word. I often bring up the 2 free expansions as illustration of Stardocks commitment to its users. Would b

[quote who="dadoo2" reply="63" id="2808181"]*snip*[/quote] I was not saying that it has not become easier to write programs, just that such improvements have not kept pace with the complexity of applications*. * Only the ones that are 'cutting edge'. When comparing now and then for programs of equal complexity, it is easier to create it now thatn it was then.

[quote who="Ozzy38" reply="2" id="2808210"] I'm assuming I'd have to put in an internal drive. Without killing it. So are external drives a bad thing? Would data transfer matter considering games generally only use the CDs/DVDs for installing? I thought blu-ray players didn't play DVDs. Blu-ray's a pointless fad anyway, I tells ya. [/quote] It would not matter much for games that only check to see if you have the disc. If you go for an external, if your

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="2" id="2808059"]Sometimes it does some kind of special damage, it occasionally hits one of my summoned guys and does like 40 points of damage & seems to inflect some kind of spell. Of course there is no description of this in the manual, so I have no idea what it is actually or what the chance is of it doing its special damage, it seems to have a small percentage chance, like critical hit, of happening. I typically make them a priority target for my archers.<br

It explors the map around a random city.

We would have plenty of monsters and things to do without breaking the game balance if they would just give us monster lairs.

[quote who="kenata" reply="92" id="2807800"]Then I need only build improvements in such a way as to make the 1 city at the mouth block for the defense of all the other cities..[/quote] This brings up the interesting point that enemies can go through your cities without fighting the garrison, at least they could in 1.07, I have not heard anything about this having changed.

[quote who="DocTerryC" reply="4" id="2807788"]I just saw the game today in a store, and it looked interesting. I enjoy RPG and Strategy--the Spellforce franchise was magic! But, before emptying $50 out of my wallet I decided to check the reviewers. To summarize they say: Good game. Released before it was ready. Lacks polish. Lacks continuity and storyline, and is VERY buggy. But--they all liked it! So, I suspect that the reviews

[quote who="Gazz_" reply="90" id="2807781"]Would a higher spell damage (through INT) not automatically achieve that result without introducing an entirely new system? [/quote] In AoW, the damage does not scale and is fine. The problem comes when a unit has its resistance bumped up to where it is virtually cannot be hit with magic. And why have resistance? Because it is easier to balance magic against weapons when there is a resistance stat. It can be done without resistance, but

Just add a stat that allows units to take avoid taking damage from spells, and have INT make the spell caster better able to overcome this resistance.

[quote who="James009D" reply="60" id="2807699"] I think this is a huge part of the 'problem', we've also got more hardware and software that can conflict then before. However, technology, 'best practices', and knowledge have also progressed at, I assume, a reasonable pace to counter all that. [/quote] Not really. There are some things that make it easier, but some times they have pit falls that can make it easier than ever to have a problem and not notice (e.g. garbage colle

[quote who="James009D" reply="8" id="2807703"]Good topic! I was actually JUST wondering about this myself. My question is how do you implement a SSD for things other then the OS: gaming, for example. If I want to play something like Elemental or Sim City or Civilization 5 on a SSD because of it's super fast load speed how do I do that? Does it work? And is it worth it? Also, what SSD would someone recommend for that? [/quote] You will want to look at the random access speed, as t

Last I heard it was 10,000 writes minimum per sector. 1 Sector = 4 KB of disc space. They typically balance it out so that each sector gets the same amount of wear.

[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="43" id="2807436"] Sadly the GOLDEN AGE is gone forever because of greedy publishers and developers alike. Their philosophy: Put out CRAP OUT OF THE BOX the LEMMINGS will buy it. [/quote] To say all developers care only about money would be incorrect. Just yesterday I check the requiments to work as a programmer at one company (to get a few for what companies want for when I get out of college), and one of the requirements was to be passionate

[quote who="Vladesch" reply="42" id="2807397"] I havnt done any programming with it, but I thought that was directx was for. I have to wonder, is the problem with directx or the games code? [/quote] That is what DirectX is for, but how well it works is questionable. DirectX gives a single interface for accessing the graphics driver. The driver takes care of how to use the hardware. The fact that you theoretically should not have to care does not matter is somethin

[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="37" id="2807207"]actually with regards to the greek phalanx, it was well armoured for its time but it had limited offensive strength because they held the spears overhand above the shoulder which does not lend itself well to producing a lot of armour piercing power, so when the heavier armours started to show up, the phalanx got out-teched. I don't know my history well enough to go into more detail than that but iron > bronze so that was that. (

[quote who="Grove12345" reply="35" id="2807179"]EWOM was one of the last hopes of seeing a small time developer make a unique game for PCs in this era.... but failed...kind of. [/quote] There are others that try to make innovative games, it is just most people never hear of them as they are not mainstream. EWOM may have been the last by a company large enough that many gamers have heard of them, but certainly not the last small developer that will try.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="38" id="2806622"]Only this game will make me happy.[/quote] No, only Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (once it is released) shall be able to do that.

[quote who="Phylast57" reply="25" id="2806577"] Yup, no prob. Thanks. I did that and the Dragon says he's gonna join me but hasn't after 2 turns. Does he take awhile or did I miss a step? [/quote] The quest has issues that some times prevent the dragon from appearing. If you do not get it, then you are not going to.

[quote who="Supergulo" reply="19" id="2807115"]1) Multiple worlds, I know that they said that it would not occur, but please! We want to invade other alien worlds (Also, to be able to make map that, for example, connect on the sides (Ringworld!))[/quote] Or the ability to add elemental planes to explore. Regarding the round world effect, in Age of Wonders the UPatch team has created an invisible teleporter to achieve this effect.

From advice I have read of threads like this one elsewhere, it would seem that if you do not what to build your own then the next best option (in terms of what you get for your money) is to go with a brand of intermediate size (not one of the really big ones like Dell and HP, but not obscure either). My personal preference is Micro Express, but I have only looked at their laptops (and the cheapest gaming setup for those last time I looked was above the price you list).

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="33" id="2806968"]Sure, if some games actually used that amount of RAM. I haven't played one yet that does. Can you name two? All I see is games never go above 2gb, and almost all games never go above 1gb. Edit: I'm not trying to sound obstructionist. It may well be that 64-bit will save PC gaming. But a developer can't just say "when everyone has it, it will be awesome". If there is no support for it, why get it in the first place? [/quote]

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="1" id="2807043"]Horses for courses really; C++ can be nice and fast, however it requires some indepth knowledge of memory management for complex projects. C# handles a lot of that stuff for you, however you need to manage your content around the Garbage Collector. Take a look at some of Microsoft's Visual Studio stuff; it's entirely free, and you own everything you make with it. [/quote] He said Visual C++, which has the option to

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="82" id="2806519"]I think an absolute must for 1.1 is space unicorns.[/quote] Why? To give the pink space ponies an enemy? Miniature giant space hamsters would be better.

[quote who="Polistes" reply="12" id="2806945"]I think there should be a global limit of goodies lets pretend that 100 goodies is the max limit globally. Well once that 100 is reached no more goodie huts spawn until the ones that are already present get removed, so lets say four factions each remove 10 huts. There for those 40 would respawn over time brings the number back to 100. We could also have a limit to prevent goodie hut numbers from going to low. so for example there can be no more th