I totally agree with mocking Black-Knight for his tenacious ranting. I also agree that cheap teleports can cheapen the game and AI failure to use teleports can be disappointing. Going for something more like MoM Air Walk seems like a good compromise for the earlier phases of a game. But I'd still like to see true mega-range, mass teleports as a late-game option, one that the AIs will use if they can.
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="8" id="2974762"]... I agree, it was so general and unnecessary.[/quote] Yes, but my bitching about it isn't really necessary either... [e classic]:-|[/e] Especially when there are important things to worry about like getting some dental care for skinny blokes who stand in intersections.
It's probably too late for your immediate complaint, but Impulse does support archiving older versions of a game. The option is under Impulse Settings/Archive & Install. I haven't used it in a long while, but it used to work and if you give FE a try with that enabled, you should be able to stick with a version you like if that game also goes through the drastic changes that WoM has. You just have to re-install from your archive when you get an update that rubs you th
[quote who="impinc" reply="7" id="2974639"]I think it's because of the way WoM handles the units. ... [/quote] As another non-coder, I tend to think like WhiteElk--the 3D adds no visual fun for me and just 'smells like' a big resource drain. Is it that most of the workload for the 3D aspects is on our vid cards, so even if the game had been built 2D, we'd still have the 32-bit OS limits holding back map size and total number of units? <p
Still reads like fluff to me. Why bother with vague generalities like that? It doesn't say a thing to those of us who were around before the first WoM betas, nor does it seem to offer anything that might get the interest of someone who just now heard of Elemental. I'm not afraid of the sausage factory, but I'm not at all interested in what sausage factory reviewers might think. Basically, I'd rather not see Derek wasting time with 'media' if we're not going
[quote who="seanw3" reply="13" id="2971680"]... MoM fans generally don't understand this concept (or so it seems after reading these forums for 2 years).[/quote] Maybe you weren't reading carefully enough. The devs are MoM fans. Originally, Stardock wanted to buy the rights to make MoM2. Atari suits demanded too much control of some part(s) of the proto-project (marketing?). Stardock decided to change gears and make their own game, with 'spirit
[quote who="tanafres" reply="5" id="2971377"]Nope. They tried to buy the rights from Atari, but it fell through because of onerous conditions imposed by Atari (who is doing exactly squat-all with the franchise).[/quote] "Atari" really doesn't exist any more, except as the product of a chain of buyouts by corporate twits who view gamers as a sort of semi-sentient cattle who need to be milked for every possible drop of discretionary spending.
[quote who="Emperor_Nero" reply="33" id="2971296"]I didn't care about a box, I just wanted a jewel case and a disc. Like the 10 dollar games at walmart, but it doesn't even have to have a paper slip. I can download a pdf manual.[/quote] As long as GameStop keeps supporting it, Impulse is supposedly able to download and archive a game to removable media so you can do the heavy download at a friend's, a net cafe, or something like that, and only use your
Stardock tried to do a deal to let them make an official MoM2, but the corp twits that own the brand insisted on too much control over the project. As far as studying MoM, that was always going on and apparently has gained emphasis for the FE project. Check Derek's recent dev journal on FE magic . He links to a draft PDF with a significantly stronger collection of spells than WoM has, along with spells that can only be gained vi
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="17" id="2970024"]... And manuals for Stardock games are unnecessary since the games mechanics change quite radically.[/quote] Unnecessary? How about "a lost cause" instead. But no, that's wrong--if they ever do finally start valuing documentation, there's no reason at all that the constant-updates process couldn't include updates to a PDF manual, or better yet a constantly-updated PDF supplement to a print manual that actu
[quote who="Rath3130" reply="88" id="2967624"]... As our technology increases, we'll be able to reduce the damage and repair some that has already been done to the planet, that is a given. ...[/quote] It's just such unprovable beliefs that are a big part of how we've gotten to this biome-wrecking level of industrialisation and world overpopulation. Technology is not a kind deity or benevolent aliens with vastly superior powers, nor is it a force of natu
[quote who="Tim4fun" reply="3" id="2967150"]... I LOVE the idea that you can continue to grow and get more and more magic "books" or levels. ... [/quote] MoM provided that through spell research, with learning vs. mana-banking being one of the primary strategic decisions. There's no reason that a MoM-like spell system need have fewer spells or a lack of growth. And making spell books a setup choice and very rare game reward has great
I hope I'm accurately reading between the lines with this change and seeing Netflix back off a bit from their streaming-is-it attitude. Even though they've apparently slowed disc acquisitions, the streaming library is still vastly smaller than the disc library and I can't see how it will ever catch up when it comes to 'niche' things like foreign films. When you have a decent display system, discs also provide solidly better quality than streaming does even on very
Here's hoping that the lack of dev sharing doesn't mean the same lack of dev time that magic received in WoM. And yes, the orange smilies all look like they've been on some sort of excessive self-medication regime. I pay click overhead for the classics. [e classic];P[/e]
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="21" id="2965421"]... Any way, besides getting the DVDs, to view them.. and see which ones I like? [/quote] Netflix has a modest range of titles on their streaming service. I found several shows I like, such as Defying Gravity, just poking around their disc library. I don't really do broadcast any more and also count on friends who still watch to tell me about shows like Sanctuary, which I think I might end up liking. <
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="94" id="2965588"]Why do you care about a broken feature?[/quote] It's not a broken feature, it's an incomplete feature that is being cut because finishing it takes too much work at the moment. Probably most of us who are unhappy about this decision have "visions" along the lines of the early and pre-beta talk from the devs--a way to link a special class of champion units to the diplomacy system and to influence how new
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="13" id="2965141"]Can you both shut up about your stupid race crap and enjoy a good tv-show thread? ...[/quote] I'd be happy to drop the subject, but I must note that I don't think it's stupid to call out crap like "when the Jew controls." Falling Skies lost me immediately because it just seemed like more of the same effects-heavy invasion/apocalypse stuff. The series Invasion was yet another one-season wonder that I
[quote who="AdolfBinStalin" reply="10" id="2965109"]Firstly, I am no racist, besides I think the word you're looking for is "antisemite". Secondly, I am simply stating a fact to which the Jews have already admitted to (see above video)...[/quote] Beg pardon, I consider anti-Semites to be a subset of racists. Also, I don't care for videos as sources, I prefer text. Most importantly, you listed a bunch of executives but you noted nothing about ownership stake
Farscape and Firefly are also both available on Netflix, DVD and streaming. I've watched all of SG-1, but never loved it; SGU is my favorite work from Brad Wright. Seeing Browder and Black show up at the end was weird, but better for me than Anderson, whom I've always found to be irritating in general and a radically poor substitute for Kurt Russel. Michael Shanks is no James Spader, but at least he isn't as disdainful of his own work as Anderson appears to be.
[quote who="AdolfBinStalin" reply="5" id="2965047"]I really enjoyed "Space Above and Beyond". Only lasted 24 episodes (originally planned for 5 seasons). The show had a good atmosphere, great story, and lots of potential. When the Jew controls the American film business the quality doesn't really matter, what matters is the quantity of coin coming in. *sigh*[/quote] Wow, a thoughtful response promptly ruined by re-tread racist raving. Do some reading--t
Fox is responsible for several of the show murders that vex you. Kryo typed somewhere around here that they kill shows very dead, as in refusing to let them move to another network where new financing might keep things going. I hate them particularly for killing Dollhouse and The Sara Connor Chronicles. Both made it into second seasons, but neither had a chance to fulfill their real potential. Dollhouse is another Joss Whedon show, and to me SCC is the best thing yet to come from the
[quote who="lecajef" reply="37" id="2962048"]Sethai, a little of humility in front of the existence would get(fit) better to you! As well as in the others..[/quote] lecajef, I can't speak for Sethai, but as far as my reading and participation in this thread goes, there is more than one way to look at humility in the face of this very, very serious problem. I have loved ones who have experienced miscarriages and abortions and I appreciate the fact that e
[quote who="Sethai" reply="30" id="2961898"]... Personally i think the arguments of how are more interesting than the if. For example, how does a sterilization policy avoid the risks of gender imbalance?[/quote] How would a sterilization policy affect gender imbalance in the first place? The only problem I know of there is sex-biased selective abortions, which apparently have already changed some populations in India and China. If you're ta
[quote who="Jafo" reply="28" id="2961682"]You twits are missing the point.... It's not they, them, the poor...the 'one african'... It's YOU. Armchair sociologists...."let's discuss how THEY can change to make OUR world better." No, darlings....it's how YOU can change to make THEIR world better. Charity isn't the only thing that starts at home.[/quote] That's a large part of what
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="24" id="2961639"]... It's an option because it's "doable". Pay every person what he/she thinks sterilization is worth and you couldn't count the costs. Pay only the poor and you can.[/quote] Your use of shudder quotes is telling. None of these scenarios are even moderately plausible in the short term because every major culture in the world is saturated with norms that promote population growth. As far