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Reply to Stardock’s Response to PC Gamer UK and RPS in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] It is, with some irony, our commitment to no DRM on our DVD release that ultimately caused the rough pre-release experience of Elemental. Several retailers broke the street date and we felt we needed to release our gold version to our customers[/quote] You decided that incomplete and buggy code was good enough, and used it to make an incomplete and buggy master. This incomplete and buggy master was used to create a bunch of incomplete and buggy copies that

Reply to Brad's Impulse Launch Review in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

"Users can associate various programs with their account. Right now, the only commercial programs that you can associate with your account are Stardock ones and programs you bought from Impulse." That's the biggest gripe I have right now -- the fact that you actually have to manually register programs that you purchased from within Impulse. If the store was really a part of a digital platform and not just a website displayed via the .Net browser component, all purchases would be a

Reply to Multiplayer? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Unfortunately, The Political Machine v1.1 wasn't ready by the Impulse launch so we had to hide the "Games" button from the community area for multiplayer match making. As soon as it's ready, the button will come back and players will be able to find games either there or within The Political Machine itself. Other games that will be using it include Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations II v2.0 , and Demigod. -- Frogboy[/quote] From <a href='https://forums.galciv2

Reply to ToA: Spin Control Center in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

"5 times mightier" is equivalent to "six (6) times as powerful". The "twice as strong" statement does seem a bit off though. x500% would be amazing. 1->5, 2->20,...,100->50000, etc.

Reply to battle suggestion in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'm sure the fact that ship speeds are measured in pc/wk (parsecs/week) doesn't count as "backing canon". So, let's assume much smaller distances and much slower speeds. I'll do an example using 15,000 km between ships (less than 5% of the distance of the Earth to Luna) and 340 m/s relative speed between them (Mach 1 at sea level - less than 5% of the speed of the Space Shuttle Endeavor). Light takes 50 ms to travel that distance. So, you're aiming at a 50 ms old image and it takes an a

Reply to Manual or Tech tree? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Galactopedia is the best resource currently available for viewing tech trees outside of the game.

Reply to battle suggestion in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Covert: in open space each square represents up to a parsec, or 3.26 light YEARS. Light is very fast, but space is very big.

Reply to Dread Lord Dominion Scenario type? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

From the scenario file: [quote]As leader of the humans, you must build a coalition against the evil Dread Lords before they consume the galaxy. No one is allied at the start start, but everyone is at war with the Dread Lords. You can work together or die alone.[/quote] Since DA, selecting a scenario with a title that differs from its filename has brought up a blank description. However, if you click the details button and select the scenario's filename from that window's drop d

Reply to Auto Design Cheating? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The "85 of 67" is an issue of the ship designer making ships as if you had max miniaturization.[/quote] Nope. With max miniaturization, the ship designer gave me a 387/300 huge hull design. The actual issue is that the designer doesn't take into account the growth of parts in relation to hull size. You can verify that by looking at the supposed sizes of the parts the computer places. On the ship design, each Doom Ray was listed as size 10 (its base size), whereas the size of a Do

Reply to Tech-trading extreme colonization.. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Playing as Korath, I couldn't even get the AI to buy a package with both Toxic Atmosphere techs after gifting them toxic planets. I'd think that a race with 1 non-toxic planet and a dozen toxic planets would be a little more excited about raising their production capabilities from 0% to 100% on the vast majority of their planets. Aquatic is sellable because of the 2% courage boost, which should probably be added to the other extreme colonization techs as well.