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[quote who="TCores" reply="12" id="2609284"] I'm not sure we are on the same page here. I'm talking about having the AI know when to Retreat from a tactical battle, and I've written equivalent AI before in different games to that. Strategy games with "autoresolve" actually greately improve the accuracy of the AI, because the AI could be given access to a virtual "auto-resolve" to see how badly it might lose. Determining a "threshold" value is an arbitrary task, but the programmer can mak

[quote quoting="post"] My top three are: "Don't lose the fleet." - if you're going to lose control of a point, retreat your defenders when it becomes obvious you're going to lose, and won't be able to inflict decent loses on the enemy. The only thing worse than losing a city is losing a city and losing your army. "Don't overextend or overstay" - if you're on a roll, know when to stop. Just because you can take the next city doesn't mean you should, especially if you

Since you are so informed about cars and their market, you probably know that nearly ALL car companies have MASSIVE recalls every month. Saying that big recalls should make the news is really believing most of the crap that has been said about this subject: recalls and defects have been used to generate worries and trying to sink the sales of a brand (this happens in cars, banks, and so on). For example: Toyota recalled 600k vehicles in April. In March GM recalled 1.3m, Honda 410k, Ni

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="64" id="2606739"] Who said anything about recalls. If I recall, your complaint is how the media and public in the USA is treating Toyota. Ford and Firestone were dragged through the coals for the incident. It is NO different. And wtf, old times 10 years ago. What are you 12?[/quote] And why is the media talking about Toyota? Why they are not talking about other car companies in the same terms NOW?

You are talking about and incident from 10 years ago. And I'm talking about an incident that happened more or less in the same timeframe of the Toyota recalls, which seems a better comparison, instead of talking about the "old times". Feel free to compare recent recalls and how they were managed and decide yourself if it was right or not. You seem to believe they were handled the same way for everyone, I do not.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="59" id="2606222"] Then maybe you were too young to watch the exact same thing happen to Firestone and Ford, or the Pinto incident, or the other dozens of exampls. This is not new. Toyota is hot a whipping boy that the rest of the world needs to feel sorry for. This is part of being in the US market. They are welcome to leave it. No one forces them here.[/quote] Ford has had a 14m vehicles recall between 2008 and 2009, I'm old enough ;) Compared to the 4

I've lived in the USA, in fact, I was living there when all the Toyota thing exploded :) The way things around Toyota recalls were handled and advertised was a joke given how other brands have had far bigger and important problems in recent times.

The biggest car recalls in recent history are mostly from american companies (Ford and GM), but they haven't received such a mediatic gangbang in the USA as Toyota recently has (and their recalls were for far more important problems). Outside USA, Toyota is a brand with a pretty good name in general (that's one of the reasons they are the number 1 manufacturer in the world and why they were able to overcome GM faster than anyone expected).

In the business of computer science, I would say it's old, but of course they continue paying for it (and they will continue for a lot of years surely). About Toyota, I suppose your perception of them depends on the country you live: in most of the world they have a pretty good brand, but in the USA they have been attacked lately just to save the sales of their own car manufacturers...

I don't think so, their latest change to the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK License is a clear move to try to establish a monopoly on the mobile phone market. Right now the iPhone is the platform that moves more money with apps, if they cut out middleware that allows multiplatform apps, developers are forced to: - Develop only for the iPhone (the more profitable market). - Develop for the rest of the platforms (less profitable). - Make every app 2 times (one for the iPhone and anot

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="49" id="2603879"] This might have been true in the beginning, but after they got their foot in the door they pretty much beat down any competition to a bloody pulp anytime anyone even attempted to compete with them. They've had enough legal issues that say exactly that, with enough blood on their hands not to be able tojust claim they deliver what consumers want. They're right up there with Intel in shady business practices. I am not exactly anti-Microsoft and

Has anyone in the team tried using IronPython for a test mod to see if it works?

Not only that, but developer tools are like a million times better on Windows than on Mac (nothing comes close to Visual Studio...).

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="2" id="2565880"] Quoting Aractain, reply 1Indeeds. Question 1) How in the 9 hells are they going to do that? Question 2) See quesiton 1. Same engine, plus some improvements over existing system. More or less like Mass Effect 2? Like next year's Mass Effect 3?[/quote] Mass Effect 1 was released the 20th November 2007, Mass Effect 2 was released the 26th January 2010. Without any type of expansion between (except 2 DLC

Very nice news :)

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="104" id="2549297"]Never said they won't sell, but the conpetitive edge for consoles has traditionally been low hardware price. The 8-bit and 16-bit consoles hovered around ~$150 or so, while a PC good enough to run decent games during those times easily pushed $1500. Now that gap has lowered to the point where you can get a good PC for the same cost; maybe even less if you're really willing to dig for sales. I have nothing against consoles and st

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="64" id="2548102"] There will be a few of us there, but I won't be attending. Jon[/quote] Nice, I have just seen there will be a tech talk about the Civ V engine, interesting :)

It's going to take a long time to get the feeling of this beta, there are pleny of new things :)

[quote who="IgorM" reply="59" id="2547368"] No, it is not, tha main part of both games that gains traction among game buyers is the combat part, and that is based on the same principles, and outside of that is the RPG gameplay structure that makes those principles work even better. [/quote] I wonder if you are the same person or it's just that King's Bounty brainwash players that plays it... In King's Bounty you can only have 1 hero, while here you will be commanding several

[quote who="IgorM" reply="57" id="2547310"] It's not bad timing. Elemental should just be more like King's Bounty as possible, with extensive spell system, elaborate spell effects, units that level up, outstanding animations and gear for the main character.[/quote] You really remember me to some person ¬¬ But please, no King's Bounty, that's a pretty different type of game, if you want that ask Nival or Ubi for HoMM 6.

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="92" id="2547147"]Consoles may ironically doom themselves as their hardware becomes more and more advanced. Take the PS3 at launch; $600. Then you need a second controller, a memory card, and some games if you want it to actually do anything beyond play movies.[/quote] I don't know in your country, but PS2 costed that when it came out in mine, and it sold like pancakes...

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="53" id="2547062"] Quoting VicenteC, reply 50You mean you haven't already bought it??? Sadly, no. I've been a bit busy lately. Jon[/quote] Mmm, well better have you concentrated on Civ V :) Btw, is the Civ team going to be in GDC?

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="45" id="2545676"]I know I'll be buying Elemental on day 1, for what that's worth. Jon[/quote] You mean you haven't already bought it??? :p

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="6" id="2545405"] My Thinkpad X40 (5 year old laptop) will be a test box. Is it DirectX 9.0c compatible or just DirectX 9.0b compatible?[/quote] I just hope is 9.0c. 9.0b is taking too far the "works in an old computer"...

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="25" id="2545968"]I'd pretty completely agree with this, except that the worst city-spam binge I've had so far didn't take essence for the most part, it happened via luck finding good open land and luck in what ended up covered by progressive renewal from my original sites.[/quote] Well, it's a random map generator, it always exists the posibility of those things happening (or getting the horrible map where everything is a wasteland...). It should be easi