[quote who="Insanetitan" reply="15" id="2129229"] Hmm, my only worry with the impulse builder is that I'll have to sift through 500 pounds of crap to find one ounce of gold.[/quote] I've they have user ratings and reviews/comments, it should be more or less easy to filter good and bad things. Without those things I agree it could be a mess.
Impressive :) Although the most interesting thing for me was the Impulse Builder thing in the last part, I'm really waiting to see how that works in the future.
[quote who="RandomRetard" reply="24" id="2128740"] A good FC will find a use for a T1 fitted ship in his or her fleet. Any FC that tells you otherwise is a) rubbish b ) unimaginative. And note: I'm sick of the "BS and BC's shouldn't be flown until you can fully T2 it" meta gaming rubbish people keep spouting, my T1 fitted drake can shrug off 99% of level 3's, The 1% it can't do without hitting max regen it still completes. Why am I sick of this m
[quote quoting="post"] The way we explain Elemental to some people is to ask if they’ve ever played Dungeons and Dragons. If they say yes, then we tell them that Elemental is the world you played D&D in except instead of being a party of adventures, you’re the sovereign of the kingdom that those adventurers were playing in – but the world is still just as rich and interesting as it was before. And to convey that, we have to let players get in close to see and care
[quote who="toadsarestupid" reply="9" id="2126314"]He** no!! impulse requires the buyer to have microsoft no protection internet explorer to work. Which means if microsoft were to ever be outdone by mac stuff stardock will go down the drain with them.[/quote] Yeah, much better go with Mac "we don't care about fixing vulnerabilities because our market share is so small". [quote who="toadsarestupid" reply="9" id="2126314"] Stardock is pratically married to microsoft
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="25" id="2125722"] Here's a thread "Save/load mania", concerning the free TBS Wesnoth. It supports my argument that adding save/load option has many downsides. Last time I played an early version of Wesnoth, I think it didn't have an option to save mid-game and I had to finish scenarios in one go. http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6321&st=0&sk=t&sd=a People talk about reloading whenever a veteran unit dies
[quote who="getter77" reply="21" id="2124751"] Minor point: Fire Emblem is very much a save/load game...otherwise the glorious art of RNG burning for some enemy actions and level up stat point distros would not exist. [/quote] A small number of players from the whole FE user base decide to do that. It only shows that a maximizer will try his best to maximize his options no matter the restrictions the game tries to impose on him. [quote who="getter77" reply="
Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures. I spent days and weeks with one friend sit on a 386 trying to design our own crazy adventures. That game and itslevel editor were simply amazing :)
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="19" id="2124065"] About imposing - this is perfectly fine. Some Dominions (1,2,3) newbies complain about being unable to save the game, but vast majority get over it and learn to appreciate it. Yes, sometimes you actually need to impose some rules in order for a game to be played differently. There's more to game design than meets the eye, it's not 100% technical stuff. Example: In Quake 2 multiplayer, there are weapons like shotgun, blaster, machinegun, hyperb
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="16" id="2122833"] This is red herring. Yes, technically it can provide the same functionality. That's not the point. Game design is not 100% technical affair, you have use some psychology too. Choice of save/load or save/continue has further impact on the way the game is designed. I already mentioned that features like resurrecting a party member or various forms of scouting are very rarely used in games which allow player to load the game. [/quote]<
I agree also that Save/Continue doesn't really add anything to the game. If you don't want to be saving/loading to avoid bad things, don't do it, end of the story :) And yes, I have played Save/Continue games (FE, AW,...).
[quote who="CmdoColin" reply="21" id="2121341"]Sh0dan as I said earlier - ships and set up in eve is PvP, but hell I'm always game Thing is tank in a proper fleet battle means jack. You get called primary and 200 battleships lock on, I don't care what tank you got. If you can't warp, your in a pod. In small fleet skirmishes, you dps ship is going to have a "spotter" it can warp in on. If you aren't using short range high dps weapons and your sniping, I'd argue
[quote who="SH0DAN" reply="14" id="2117624"]I hate EFT warrioring but here goes. You're absolutely right, that setup doesn't fit, it should have 7 guns instead of 8. However, the setup razor uses has 3x trimarks on it, giving it 153k EHP vs 130k for the Rokh with extender rigs. Also the rokh would now have a sig radius the size of a small moon making it easier to hit. Also messing with DPS graphs in EFT, I found that the apoc has significantly better tracking, making its effective
[quote who="icen9ne" reply="10" id="2116631"]My friend has been playing EvE and concluded: -you waste your time pointing lasers at rocks. -there is very little action. -the graphics are meh. -there is no sense of a "world." So, why do YOU play it and why should I play it? [/quote] For 1 and 2: Eve is a really HARD game at the start (see this post, 1 image is much better than 1000 words: http://www.zenofdesign.com/
[quote who="SH0DAN" reply="9" id="2116611"]Instead of arguing with you I'll just show you a 0.0 alliance's killboard. RAZOR, not the largest, but its up there in terms of power. http://www.eve-razor.com/killboard/?a=home See how many Rokhs you can find in the killmails (both kills and losses) compared to how many Apocalypses and Megathrons. (Megathrons were the standard before the Apoc's latest buff). Any serious alliance's killboards will tell you exact
[quote who="SH0DAN" reply="7" id="2115157"] 3 heatsinks is the upper limit of effectiveness for how many damage mods you stack. After those the Rokh needs fitting mods to fit the rest of its tank etc. Amarr battleships can also fit 3 heatsinks...while having 4 or 5 lowslots to fill with tank. Meanwhile the rokh needs midslots for tank, while the amarr ships can fit tracking computers there. Given actual fleet fittings Amarr tend to have good range, far better damage, and bette
[quote who="SH0DAN" reply="2" id="2114095"]Vicente: lasers get a built in damage bonus compared to other turrets with comparable range. Especially tachyons, which are the only "oversized" turret in the game. So in a sense, the cap use bonus is actually a damage bonus for all amarr ships.[/quote] Well, the low mods you will need to use to compensate the armor resists can be used for damage mods in the Rokh, so I keep failing to see why it's "far supperior" (except in very laggy situati
Riddles are a pain if the game is translated to other languages, it's really hard to translate them in a way that make sense (and if they aren't translated then they are a bigger pain for non-fluent english speakers).
[quote who="SH0DAN" reply="20" id="2113131"] Quoting Vicente, reply 19 Rokhs are far more better fleet snippers than Abaddons. An Abaddon has a hard time to reach 200km and be DD tanked while a Rokh can handle both things pretty easily. if getting to 200km with DD tank is the issue then the apoc is far better than the rokh. Also 200km isn't the "must have" range for fleet sniping anymore as it was when every ship could hit 250km with skills and rigs. Nowadays 1
[quote who="SH0DAN" reply="18" id="2113098"] wrong. currently the best race for PVP is Amarr. Caldari for support (ECM, Falcon, overpowered) The Tempest is a pile of crap compared to the Armageddon (best bang for the buck ship in the game) or Abaddon (best fleet ship in the game, period), the Apocalypse is also overpowered if sniping is your thing. Amarr also have a solid selection of ships (except cruisers). I think gallente are second place, the mega is still a so
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="12" id="2104749"] What race would you recommend for someone that eventually want to pilot larger ships and possibly get into larger fleet pvp? Gallente or Minmatar, mainly. Minmatar ships are very fast and agile which is great for their frigates and interceptors, and they have one of the best fleet ships (Tempest). Gallente have another really good fleet ship in the Megathron, and are very versatile with Drones as well. Really though, you ca
[quote who="RoyalRook" reply="21" id="2100907"] I sorry, but I just can't forgive someone who mess up an online puzzle game, because it's really not that hard to make a puzzle game these days, I am sorry, but there is no excuse. [/quote] You seem pretty angry that the game doesn't have online mode, but there are other people (like me) who couldn't care less about that. What I don't have any clue is if their fan base demands multiplayer or not in general...
There are some wargames (like De Bellis Multitudinis or the d20 rules Cry Havoc) where there's something (let's call it "leadership") that affects how many units you can command effectively. It would mean for example that each turn you can only make X units active (move and attack) so if you have a very bad leader with a 10 units, maybe each turn you can only move 2 units while a good leader can move the 10 of them. Or you can give penalties to the unit attributes if you have too many units i
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="13" id="2086892"] I hope that is a good. Are you suggesting you have played non-land based strategy games that feel like it? or that it is totally unique Yeah, it's good The system is scalable, not just graphicially, with the speed and size of objects, but in how the game 'feels'. Lets say you're sending your main hero out into the wilderness...you zoom in and behind that unit to get a traditional 'RPG' feel (think FF7 or 8
I'm going to break a lance in favor of the II guys and Steven Fawkner. Warlords is one of the games I have enjoyed the most in the past (specially Warlords 1 and 3) so even if they screwed with Galactrix I hope they'll keep doing good games in the future (to be honest after Warlords Battlecry 3 and Warlords 4 I thought they would die but hey, they were able to surprise me with PQ).