tylertoo

tylertoo

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Reply to A question, a suggestion and a typo in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Wow, thanks for the quick fix on the unpause speed! [quote who="DeftMunky" reply="3" id="3525442"] The "an" problems are a problem with our text parsing system. We dynamically create those strings so that modders (and we) can change the name of the building without creating a whole new tooltip. It'll be a while, but we'll get a system together that should address the "a" and "an" correctly.[/quote] Cool, thanks for the explanation. Sorry to be so anal; its t

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A question, a suggestion and a typo in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Question: Do replays currently work? I see the option on the main menu, but can't figure out how to record or access them. Suggestion : When a player unpauses, can the game start up again at the last-used speed... so if you are on slow and pause, it'll go back to slow when you re-start? Currently unpause always goes back to normal speed. Typo : When you've built an Engineering Lab, and you mouse over of th

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Reply to Is it easy to play? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote]I (and a few friends) found the tutorial kind of off putting, as it didn't really demonstrate the game's full capability (i know tutorials in general arn't supposed to but the Sins one just seemed to drain my enthusiasm to learn the game itself). Mate tried my version on the tutorial and it didn't grasp him at all. He watched me play a normal game and pretty much bought a copy within the hour![/quote] I'm in the same place your friend was. I guess I need to watch a norm

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Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire... in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Will this be available for pre-ordering, or at least ordering, with tokens at totalgaming.net? I still can't figure out how to use tokens to pre-order the GalCiv II expansion. Maybe I'm missing something at that site. I recall that GalCiv2 was the first game published by Stardock itself. If so, does that make SoaSE the first Stardock-published game done by outside devs? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Reply to The Two Page Spreads are coming.. in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I thinks the 2-page is fine, tho a bit text heavy. Maybe it will seem less so in a mag. Formatting it like the game's UI is clever. I, for one, do not skip past 2-page ads in gaming mags if the genre is one that interests me. Its ironic, though, that you've written in the past about how GalCiv should not be compared to MoO series, yet one quote you've chosen for the ad does exactly that.

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Reply to New Reviews, last week of March in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry, I created a seperate thread on this elsewhere before seeing your item on new reviews. But I just received the new (May) Computer Games Mag with its GalCi2 review. "King of the Cosmos" is the title. 4.5 stars out of 5, and an Editor's Choice designation. Congrats, Brad and Stardock One quote: "Galactic Civilizations II is like

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Computer Games Mag Review is out... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

"King of the Cosmos" is the title. 4.5 stars out of 5, and an Editor's Choice designation. Congrats, Brad and Stardock One quote: "Galactic Civilizations II is like a skilled karaoke singer. The tune is not original, but Stardock has a way of making it its own." The review takes up two full pages of the mag -- one page of (so-so) screens, and a full page review.<br/

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Reply to Save Heroes of Might & Magic AGAIN! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

HOMM5 was the only other game I planned on buying this year. I will not buy it SOLELY because it uses Starforce. It is not worth it to put my computer at risk just to play a game. This is precisely what I was about to write. I have Civ IV, GalCiv II and I planned on adding HoMM to my gaming diet. N

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Reply to Retail Availability: UPDATE! in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

Brad -- I'm not sure I understand this. Many of us pre-ordered through EBgames or other e-tailers weeks or months ago. Those pre-February pre-orders should indicate a certain level of demand, lower than the February level, but a level of demand nonetheless. So why is it that Take 2 was unable to deliver to EB enough by Feb. 21 to at least satisfy the pre-February pre-orders? The EBgames.com customer rep I spoke to said they have not received a single copy! The 'surprised

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Reply to EB Games Backorder? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

who knows if there feeding you a line or not? I agree, they could be feeding a line... that's why my earlier post said: If true (and I stress IF) this can't make Stardock look good to a major on-line retailer.<

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Reply to EB Games Backorder? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I too just cancelled my EBGames.com order. I did so after speaking to a live human-type person there about what the heck is going on. He said EB had not yet received a single copy of the game from the publisher!! Hence, nothing pre-ordered has shipped... and they placed the item on backorder until they start seeing the product. Has anyone reading these forums gotten word from EB

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Pre-ordering: what's best for Brad? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have listened to Brad/Frogboy's interviews on Apolyton.net. If you haven't, you should, they're pretty interesting. In one he talks at length about how Strategy First stiffed him for royalties for GalCiv I, something I know many of you are already aware of. I feel guilty, having bought that one retail. If only I'd known.... Now I am ready to pre-order GalCiv II: >>All users who pre-order it will get extra content: Additional ship components, the Galactic Civilizations Desktop and mor

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