[quote who="Tiberonmagnus" reply="4" id="2718139"]I pre-ordered (download + box) but I haven't seen any options to download the game yet when I logged into Impulse, not even for an update. Perhaps it's just for beta people?[/quote] Exactly the same story for me, except I am only digital download. But been here since beta 1, uninstalled beta 4 as recommended, and no update.
[quote who="Icepick" reply="8" id="2717985"]And it's not even the 1.01, it is the 1.00 gold version thats up on Impulse...I got soooo excited when Impulse told me there was an update available. Evil, evil Stardock. To mess with people like that. [/quote] The "evil" part is that when I was trying to run Beta 4 to continue my game, It said something along the lines "New update is available, it is HIGHLY recommendable to install it" and ... well, no Beta 4, no v.1.0 game :(
I have 1.85GB update available (v.1.0). Remembering about "clean install" recommendation, I have uninstalled beta 4, but no I can not install the v1.0 game because of the same problem - key is wrong. So, now I am without beta 4 and can not install new update :(
I suspect that shards are expected to be very rare in any world, usually one or at most two shards per shard type IN THE WHOLE GAME WORLD. So I do not think it is a problem. It may be though problematic for the modes which rely on large number of shards. In this case I would put numerical value if number of shards is greater than 5, or use larger shard to signify each 5 shards.
[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="1" id="2717407"]Spartan by Slitherine allowed for ai script writing also. I remember a ravinhood101 ai from Kohan II that was awesome to play against. One of the best written ai's in the game. If it found you early you were dead usually. It came at you in hordes.[/quote] Yeah, Ravinhood was one of the best AI that rushed very well. The other one was storm...something. Those were good days...
[quote who="Tonto_Stormboy" reply="2" id="2717432"] One of the things that is missing in most of the strategy games and missing in ALL RTS games that I am aware off is the ability to set up matches of AI vs. AI. Age of Empires 2, IMHO one of the greatest RTS games ever, had exactly such a feature! In its heyday there were lots of AI tournaments, many of them organised by fan sites like the HeavenGames forums. The games were usually recorded with AoE2's in-game recording m
I do not see this on Amazon site. May be it was in error.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="4" id="2717390"] Quoting Lord Grotius, reply 3Thanks, guys. I was kidding about that magnet thing btw, don't do that. (just making sure)[/quote] What do you mean you were kidding? And why my computer can not start anymore?
One of the things that is missing in most of the strategy games and missing in ALL RTS TBS games that I am aware off is the ability to set up matches of AI vs. AI. For whatever reason I enjoy doing it. Moreover I hope that we will be able to produce custom AI and include into game. We can even have a competition who writes the best AI. Something like that was done in Kohan (RTS). I still remember those superiour AIs wrote by community
Is there any sense for us to continue to find and report beta 4 bugs and crashes?
I can confirm, that later in the game I was able to build the air shrine outside the blue line, and still can not build farm.
Had another similar freeze, but this time just moving units around, trying to understand how to group/ungroup them. Again, I played long time before this happen.
I have minimized the game and put computer to slip. Then woke it up and maximized the game and exit from the game. The game crashed. Actually the sound stopped working as well even after crash - need to restart computer. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5009476/Crash3/Elemental0_98-2010-08-17T23-59-33-862.zip
I do not know if this is bug or what, but it is VERY confusing for me. I do not know what fields can be worked by the city. This is VERY important when you make a new city, one HAS to understand what is reachable by it and what is not. In the example below, I would think that I should not be able to access the air shard - it is outside of the sphere of influence, yet, the build interface shows that I CAN build it (if I had money that is, it is gray because I do not have 100g). At the sa
The game has frozen and did not create any error file when I pressed the end of turn button while my units were still moving (did not finish their turn).
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5009476/Crash2/Elemental0_98-2010-08-16T23-43-40-227.zip I just clicked on one of the units to attack it, and it crashed. I did play about 1 hour before that without any problems. Edit: Sorry initially it was wrong file attached.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="13" id="2715154"] Those of us who have been here for over a year (like me) or even those that have been here for the last few months can tell you that the Beta testers have had a Significant Impact on the game and it's Mechanics.[/quote] I have got different impression and I had beta from beta 1. It was always "oh, Stardock internal build is several iterations ahead of what you have, so do not judge the game, just check for the bugs" - kind of thing.
[quote who="Folcik009" reply="9" id="2714756"]Seriously guys, this is a beta. I know you probably don't want to hear it but we are beta testers and our goal was intended to find bugs and errors so Stardock can correct them. This is NOT a demo and it's not for our pleasure.[/quote] It is just I hoped that we would be able to help them with gameplay, not only with straight forward bugs and crushes. But the way beta was run, it is not the case. I am glad that we were able to help with bu
[quote who="niteshade6" reply="5" id="2715014"] What was GalCiv 1 like when it was first released? I liked that game a lot, but I didn't pick it up until after it had been out for a bit.[/quote] While it was definitely playable, for me it was not very enjoyable because lots of help messages were missing, and some mechanics was not clear. I do remember significant patches later on.
[quote who="niteshade6" reply="2" id="2714992"] Well there's a reason to test a more finished product beyond just as an advertising stunt, and that's so you actually test things like balance, AI, gameplay, whether certain things feel like a chore, etc. This is generally considered to be vitally important in a strategy game where tragic flaws are not always readily visible to a small handfull of internal testers.[/quote] With release date set on Aug 24, there is no way they w
You know, I think, penlin would be a good game designer :)
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="32" id="2679705"]If you're not a Game Designer then how do you know one month is not enough? I'm not trying to insult you here, it's just that these kinds of "I don't make games, and I don't know how to make games, and I don't know how to make this game better, but this Game isn't good enough." posts are pointless.[/quote] I am not a game designer, but I am a game player, including many betas, including Stardock betas. (It is like litirature criti
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="29" id="2679373"]I guess I don't quite understand why one would make a "I'm afraid the game won't be ready in " thread instead of "The game is lacking in currently, here's a few things you can do to make it better: ....". If you're worried about the game lacking something, wouldn't it be better to post ideas and suggestions that would make the game more complete in that regard? It's okay so say you're concerned, but with
[quote who="tesb" reply="26" id="2679178"] that is what i meant by shallow, i do not mean bugs, missing features, lack polish but a general feeling that comes after playing a few games: been there, done that, next.][/quote] This is exactly what I mean as well. We are not testing much of gameplay! It is quite possible that they have the gameplay testing for already half a year, something that we do not see, but somehow I doubt this. In all good betas, that become good game
[quote who="Dreaderr" reply="2" id="2678291"]...but I disagree with your point that it is only now that the game is starting to shape into a beta.Honestly the word beta has been warped in the industry to indicate not a testing phase, but a preview to the game, where 'beta testers' dont really test anything, they just play the game. Stardock clearly still holds to the true belief that a beta is precisely a testing phase, where players are meant to encounter bugs, graphical glitches, and crashe