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Whoa! Stardock's art direction is in real renaissance. Nice.

[quote]2. Empire building. This is a really good discussion because really, that is the crux of the argument for the game: Is the game about your EMPIRE or about the Party of heroes you're putting together? I.e. where should the focus be. [/quote] I'd like it to be closer to this little-but-very-clever "There is only Power" game, so make it party-focused, please. You could always make some kind of empire-focused expansion set later.

I'd hate to be this buy, but...

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="3521372"]Nope, while there are new people on GalCiv III, other than Cari (who's on maternity leave) the GalCiv II team is on GalCiv III.[/quote] I see, thanks.

[quote][A] From the team that worked on Age of Empires I/II/III and Age of Mythology [/quote] Nitrous engine -powered? Please be! [e digicons]B)[/e] [quote]What: Galactic Civilizations III: You are the leader of an interstellar civilization that must expand into the galaxy. Who: Er, the team who made Galactic Civilizations II. [/quote] Is it really the same team? I thought you are the only person that worked

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="3521349"] Seriously, you guys are going to love beta 5. So much stuff just missed beta 4. Tons of new art assets and useful UI improvements and spells. [/quote] When? Also: when the game will be released? [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Just look at the screenshots guys: it looks very similar to GalCiv 3. Good inspiration imo. So it's your turn Stardock! Go and make realistic 4X turn-based strategy game that covers all human history and looks Civ V pale in comparison. HA! I'm serious: only Stardock could make a game that could be a direct competition with Firaxis' Civ games. And I don't really think they are capable of making anything really innovat

"The next game from the mind of veteran Civilization designer Sid Meier has been revealed. 2K and Firaxis Games have announced Sid Meier's Starships, an interstellar strategy game. Scheduled to arrive in early 2015, the turn-based game is coming to PC, Mac, and iPad. Pricing was not announced, nor were any details about a possible Android version. <a class="fluid-height hoverZoomLink" href="http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1179/11799911/2784

[quote who="hedetet" reply="19" id="3516435"]Wait a minute. Is this " talented young developer " actually an AI?? [/quote] Yes. Brad calls him J.A.R.V.I.S.

I like new art direction. WOM was ugly, FE/LH was way better, but I still didn't like it's graphics. SK looks sweet. Maybe a little too cartoony, but I really don't mind it.

[kill me...]

[quote]15 year MS veteran, here. The problems here are mostly structural, in the sense that the problems come from the structure of teams, rather than the quality of individual people. Most of the developers at MS are actually quite good; many are top-notch. So why is so much of the product shit? It's because the goals are not set by the engineers. The final decisions are not made by engineers.[/quote] The rest is <a href="https://np.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2re2

Thanks Gilmoy!

Did you resolve two-units-in-one-square issue (the one caused by concurrency or something)?

The game have just been updated: http://willswannack.com/?p=217

[quote who="Phoenix0224" reply="46" id="3514520"] This is a great bit to read, and I'm glad to see acknowledgement of how bad the mid 2000's were for this company. Sadly, for me, and likely others like me, the reputation is so badly scarred by paying into demigod and elemental and getting half-assed projects in return, that I cannot see myself purchasing another product from Stardock ever again. Trust is an important part of business, and Stardock did it's damnedest to

[quote who="starkers" reply="47" id="3514425"] Frankly, there have been too few intelligent posts in this thread to justify its continuance. It began badly, has persisted in going that way, and will end badly. [/quote] So let's end it with something great. How about with quote from one of the most influential European philosophers: [quote who="Immanuel Kant"] Space is not something objective and real, nor a substance, nor an accident, nor

Oh, I'm sorry, I should have suppressed my trollish jokes. Not being English native speaker does not help here. But you didn't consider this possibility, did you? Instead you assumed that I can't read (edit: which is true to some degree, as we both can see).

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="16" id="3514204"] The site is in English, and, the last time I checked there were only 26 letters in the alphabet [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] An alphabet, not "the" alphabet. There are dozens of them you know [e digicons];P[/e]

"Algorythm" is algorithm in Welsh. G0z3R, you obviously don't know Welsh, you ignorant [put your nationality here]. [e digicons]>:([/e] I take it back. Google translate eluded me. I still think you are ඉතා ලස්සන කෙනෙක්.

You can include all "foreign" characters and alphabets fairly easy these days, at least what I heard. Key word here is, as far as I know, Unicode .

Mass Effect Trilogy on Origin for a couple of bucks. I'll finally play it.

SK is the first Elemental game that looks aesthetically nice (in fact it looks very nice). Is it possible to make LH at least a little bit like it? I know that backporting graphics is impossible (I'd be awesome though), but some graphical update would be really appreciated.

Long live free software! [e digicons]:P[/e] [quote]If Mozilla makes it that I cannot change or choose the search engine I want to use in Firefox, then it will be a complete bye-bye to Mozilla. [/quote] It's absolutely impossible. You will be able to change search engine.

[quote who="killswitch469" reply="106" id="3507306"] Disney has done a great job with the Marvel movies in my opinion, but I think the new Star Trek movies are horrible Star Trek movies, and only decent action movies. So I'm kinda expecting the worst. [/quote] JJ knows what he's doing. Besides, new Star Trek movies are more like Star Wars movies than original Star Trek movies/series.