[quote who="Annatar11" reply="29" id="2510908"]Of course it's not as fun when the node crashes. Dominion made it worse. 49- crashed on Saturday night and Sunday night with ~1100 people in system. Meh. [/quote] Yeah, we have had some crashes too in the North defending against TriZoo, Atlas and the russians... It's a pitty, big battles worked much better pre-dominion, I hope they fix all the lag issues soon.
Very nice read Frogboy, really looking forward to seing how things advance during the beta :)
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="27" id="2510399"] I've been involved in big (30+ ships) fleet battles, and it's amazing fun. I've been in 1000-1200 man fleet battles [/quote] Same here :p 30 ships is just a random skirmish :p
[quote quoting="post"] I think I am all demigod out and looking for something else. Could you kind souls hint Frogboy tell me more about this game. I have mostly played Age of empires series and supreme commander. Is this something similar that I would enjoy. [/quote] One thing to take into account is that the three games you said are RTS and Elemental is a TBS. Just in case.
If you want to learn about game programming and development, www.gamedev.net is a great place to start.
The Sharkoon X-Tatic 5.1 is a great headset: http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/archive/x-tatic5.1/index_en.html Although it's not cheap, but it's really amazing.
There are good corps for newbies like "Eve University". Also, if you want to learn about PvP, you can try to join "Red" or "Blue" corporations or take a PvP class from "Agony Unleashed" (I think it was them, not sure). If you want to be a pirate you can join many of the pirate corps out there (like "Privateers").
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="13" id="2504795"] Ratting in Delve. The number may be a bit lower, I tried to average in salvage sales. The Bloods drop tons of cap consoles which I can quickly ferry back to Empire and sell for a lot of money. I use an Ishtar with a rack of T2 Ogres that chew through Blood BS like it's tissue paper. It works out great since I don't actually waste any time salvaging as I can do it while the drones/guns are chewing through the next BS. Selling the salvage at
[quote who="Anomander" reply="15" id="2504741"]There are so many possible AD&D spin offs with this game... Im looking forward to a AD&D Birthright spin off.[/quote] That would be really sweet.
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="12" id="2503958"] That's exactly what I'm looking for. OneNote is an excellent piece of software.[/quote] Then you will be happy, it works like a charm and even if my writting s*cks, OneNote transforms it to text pretty well when it has to.
[quote who="SivCorp" reply="14" id="2504546"]I could see it being viable in the graphics world. If it has a touch sensative screen that would be on par with a standard tablet, it could work. I love me my pen tool! However, it will need to have the power to run the graphical apps, and I dont see that happening on this scale for another 5 years. Maybe if it can wirelessly interface with your work, home, entertainment computers...[/quote] The HP tx2500z scr
[quote who="Jalicos" reply="8" id="2504520"]How much playtime is "modest"? Going by your numbers, it should take you about 6 hours to earn a month of playtime, which isn't that bad. How long did it take you to get to that point, though? I certainly wasn't making anywhere near that the last time I played. (mining omber and occasionally ratting/missions in empire space)[/quote] You won't do that number mining (not even in 0.0) or ratting (unless you have a lot of luck with spawns in 0.0
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="57" id="2503280"]I give you: the Tower of Echelion, otherwise known as the White Tower of Minas Tirith! Like I said, it was very hard to find good reference pictures, so I used a lot of "artistic license" [/quote] You can try to search for screenshots or even the demo released by the Minas Tirith Project, they did a lot of concept, renders,... (a pitty the project died).
[quote who="Hortz" reply="28" id="2504041"]I'm not worried about graphics card, nor should you. I now have RADEON HD5770,GDDR5 1GB, I think most people will have far above min.sys.req. by the time the game will be ready for release, so you should spend less time making it available for a very marginal percentage of the market, and focus more on various visual effects and animations in the combat portion of the game so it would be more appealing for a larger percentage of the market.[/quo
It's worth, but always expect the worst to happen to you and you'll be safer: you'll be scammed, camped, cheated, backstabbed,... Unless you do it first :p
I have a convertible tablet (the HP tx2500z), and it's not only the tablet features, but the software you can use with it, in my case, OneNote. I wanted to get rid of paper and have a central place where I could have all my meetings notes, brainstorming,... and the combination of Tablet + OneNote has been a total success so far.
[quote]I just don't get it. I've never read a post from the developers explainingwhy not...is there a good reason?[/quote] It's very expensive. It's also harder to code in some parts (the unit designer). [quote]For those of us who have dreamed about a truly worthy spiritual successor of MoM, we won't get it commercially the way this is going.[/quote] Probably you will never get it because everyone has a different idea of what's a "worthy spiritual successor" of M
[quote who="JuleTron" reply="12" id="2499060"]No, I was saying that it does pull it off, so you disagree with me. Whatever floats your boat.[/quote] You said that you knew no one that has played it that said it doesn't pull it off ;) [quote who="JuleTron" reply="12" id="2499060"]I find it very odd that you claim that it is a TW clone when it has text-based quests, morality and RPG elements that are nothing like TW campaigns. KA is very similiar, but saying its a clone is an ex
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="6" id="2497221"]So I want Heroes and Units to be actually quite the same (if I were using D&D 3.0 or 3.5, I'd be using NPC classes from the Dungeon's Master Guide for units though, like warriors, adepts...). The difference is that Heroes should have more skills available for more customization at level up. And I'm not considering a system that allows to promote a normal unit into hero but if I were to do it, sharing classes would make it easier, I believe.[/
[quote who="JuleTron" reply="9" id="2498280"] I know people who have played it and King Arthur does pull it off. I have never heard anyone who has played it claim otherwise. Rather then reading reviews that can be unreliable, I find that it is much better to read the opinions of customers on official forums. The King Arthur forum is full of praise for King Arthur. In fact, some people complain that King Arthur's reputation is not as high as it should be.[/quote] I have
No Company of Heroes? :S
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="15" id="2490663"]Not for me in the betas so far; it all depends on whether that tile I'm interested in is on a 2, 4, 6, 8 path or a 1, 3, 7, 9 path, and that seems sufficiently randomized so far.[/quote] It doesn't matter that the direction the object you are interested is on 2, 4, 6 or 8 path at all. For example, to go to something in the 8 path it is "more efficient" to make a diagonal towards 7 or 9 till the middle point and then go towards 8: that wa
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="13" id="2490468"] I vaguely remember the old hex vs square tactical map talk, but I don't see why getting more accessible tiles with a diagonal is a problem for city building; the size of the keep is a fundamental limit on town size, so having no diagonals just seems like an unnatural limitation, especially given that idea that Elemental population centers should be more 'organic' than TBS cities have been so far.[/quote] Diagonal building makes bui
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2489584"] That sounds like I have some non-coder's delusion of what "adjacent" means. On my NUM pad, 1, 3, 7, and 9 are all plain-language adjacent to 5, just at different angles than 2, 4, 6, and 8. Is that maybe about how 3D art will work? I can't think of a 'logical' reason to exclude the diagonals.[/quote] It's very typical that diagonals aren't adjacent to a given position in a squared based grid as they are artificially "better" than ho
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="24" id="2489452"]That sounds encouraging in plain English. Can you float ribbons and dock them on the sides and bottom of windows in 2010.[/quote] You can't right now (and I personally doubt it will be added). [quote who="GW Swicord" reply="24" id="2489452"]Edit: After a much-needed-scrap-of-a-day being able to bill for time spend in Word, I might have learned how to decently describe the heart of my frustration over the radical ribbon revolution