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Instead of complaining, why not help? Since it is still in Beta, you can help them a lot by posting in the LH support forum. Things to post might be something like. I've attached a dropbox save from a game, if you try trading (or whatever you mean by diplomancy) then in this situation it makes a very poor decision (y). (If you want, you can add suggestions about thing the AI might consider that make this a bad decision by by AI.) or I've found that on t

It's probably a 'Feature' but the fact that when dialog boxes pop up they don't pause the main screen means that they sometimes pop up in a strange order making it harder to determine what they apply to. I know why it's happening, and may not be easily fixable, but it can be very annoying at times. For instance, if I loot a treasure on the last move of a unit, the screen will advance to the next champion THEN pop up a dialog box asking me if I want to equip the ite

Page 47 of the online manual, Dodge effects the CHANCE, not Change.

No, Evil would be teaching the AI this exploit [e digicons]O:)[/e]

I think there are some other screens in the Diplomacy area that don't close either.

Blame Apple [e digicons]>:([/e] . It happened when the window lost focus and the update box for a new version of iTunes came up. ATI Mobility 4650. i7 processor dmp file from the Steam local files. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21403221/-2013-03-22T17-48-26_755.zip

Albert Einstein. I'd really like to understand that theory of his. ;)

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="7" id="3330997"] When did a "librarian" get this kind of power? [/quote] This is why they're legislative branch instead of executive branch. Wikipedia:The Library's primary mission is researching inquiries made by members of Congress through the Congressional Research Service

[quote who="Ashbery76" reply="78" id="3330797"] We need to learn to be not upset by peoples random comments.If people get upset about being called names on twitter or facebook then cancel your account or grow some stones. [/quote] I wasn't going to get into this, but the above comment really irks me. It sure sound like 'Let's blame the victim for being too sensitive.' I have the right to able to call women and people of other races by the na

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="53" id="3330422"] One only. MoM, then? I couldn't really make a poll out of this, not with the sheer number of choices available. But it's interesting how many are choosing MoM or Alpha Centauri.[/quote] Only one, would probably have to be SMAC. It had a better AI than MOM, at least, that's what I remember.

MOM - Master of Magic - It's the rose colored glasses, I expect. SMAC - Alpha Centauri - I love the idea of a having a story in my Civ game, I don't know why nobody else has pulled it off, I'm hoping FH will. SP - Steel Panthers - Tactical tank battles, what's not to like, I think they peaked at II though. ;) FF - Freedom Force - Superheros, what's not to like? It's aged pretty well. TOAW Operational Art of War - Enough pieces that it do

What? There's a Holographic iWatch? When ARE you going to support it? http://technorati.com/technology/article/concept-video-could-this-be-a/ Seriously, the dynamics are a lot different between a small team and a large team, I've seen the organization I'm in grow from an IT staff of 6 to one of about 80 now I think, and I've seen the growing pains that aren't obvious

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="2758933"] Over the coming weeks and months we'll do a lot of hard looking to see how the rough start happened. Maybe I create an environment where people are afraid to tell me the "hard truths". Maybe our QA setup just isn't broad enough. Maybe we had just gotten too close to the project and didn't see things. I don't know. In time, we'll find out. [/quote] As a small games developer, I'll bet on being too close. Your internal QA and

This was an issue with the upgrade for me. The crash occured when upgrading from 1Z to Beta 2. I deleted the game, deleted the Documents\My Games\Elemental folder, re-installed and it works now.

I've got the same issue. New game fills the bar 99% then freezes. Options does an immediate close. Windows 7 64 Bit, i7 processor. 8 Gig memory. I'm going to try reinstalling from scratch instead of over 1z.

[quote who="Shadowdragoon" reply="59" id="2472341"]To much simplicity removes the fun. There should be risks whit specialising, if I choose a full fire spec, I should get trouble whit one who have water spec and counter aginst fire, and a advandage aginst the one whit earth, ofcourse, thats the fun about elemental magic, and well, if you want to not suffer from elemental disadvantages, just dont specialice or just lightly specialice. [/quote] If I remember MOM (it's be

[quote who="Sammual" reply="6" id="2378487"]This one is driving me nuts. Sammual [/quote] Me too (except that it's a short walk)[e digicons]8C[/e]

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="8" id="2383394"]I'm kinda surprised there isn't more software designed to compile on a second machine. [/quote] The Symantec C++ compiler did that 10+ years ago, GNU does it, only MS has issues with it. Heck, you need a special option for Visual Studio to even make it use multiple cores!!! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385193.aspx Ralph </p

> choose between "challenging AI" and "flavor/RPG AI" I LOVE this idea, I generally don't play Civ 4 at the highest levels, just so that I can have fun instead of micromanaging the best strategy in order to beat the AI at the highest levels. Some games (especially MMOs) do send data back to the home base for them to help balance the game better. For a game like this, it would be non-trivial. Are they planning a 'leader board' like I believe they had with GalCiv? If they are

Put the decision off. Thow a slider and a checkbox on the configuration screen and instrument collecting what configuraiton the beta testers play with. Ralph

[quote who="ckessel" reply="67" id="2357619"] Perfect, because maximum appeal is what we're going for...in most things art there is seldom a 'right' answer There may be a distinction between what looks good and what's most playable over the long term. I'm trying to think of a good example. Maybe calligraphy fonts work as an example. They look very cool and are nice for flavor, but I wouldn't want to read an entire book in that kind of font. No HDR

I want to see crease lines on the cloth map, darn it. I've seen only one I can remember without them. Lighting is important there too!

[quote who="Ynglaur" reply="97" id="2342617"]Cari-Elf: just curious: given the choice, why would someone want to develop in ANSI-only if they have the option t use Unicode? [/quote] You're confusing 8/16/32 bits and unicode support. They're totally separate topics. You can support Unicode with either 8/16 or 32 bit wide characters. What are the benefits of 16 bit characters? Not a whole lot unless you're doing a lot of string operations. Just because Stardock is using 8-b

[quote who="Vicente" reply="71" id="2328314"] Quoting SoulSpirit2, reply 70 16) Use this-> when calling member functions. You can't directly call non-member functions in Java, so it's not a problem I don't think that's the spirit of that rule. You can't call non-member functions direcly in C# either and that rule is enforced in StyleCop (SA1101 "Prefix Local Calls With This", under Readibility->Member Access). You can read about wh

I've found hungarian notation to be nice 15 years ago, but with modern environments (I use VS 2008 and DevExpress's CodeRush) hungarian is redundant. Wikipedia has an excellent article on the subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation I'm surprised that I didn't see Knuth's 'Art of computer science' volumes there. There are three finalized volumes and some 'fasciles' out there for volume 4. If you want to unde