Cauldyth

Cauldyth

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Reply to Big announcement coming Monday in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, there's a rumour floating around that Amazon is about to introduce a digital download service for PC games. Now [B]that[/B] would qualify as changing the PC game industry. Brad was in the NW this past week on business, and Amazon is based there... perhaps Stardock is somehow involved in it?

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Reply to Big announcement coming Monday in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, while I'd like to think it's an official announcement of the fantasy game, "The PC game industry is about to change..." seems to imply it'll be something else. Maybe the new digital distribution system (Impulse is it?). Hmm, a tool for buying things called Impulse. You guys are mean! :D

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Reply to NotMoM2: story layer and multi-player "vs." Metaverse in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the clarification. I was worried that linking it to GalCiv2 backstory would tie your hands in what you could include, but it sounds like that won't be an issue. See, if you guys would just release some official info for the game, we'd all stop sitting around dreaming up ways you guys may be screwing it up! ;)

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Reply to Oh my god, patch 1.03 is officially horrible in Sins of a Solar Empire in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]When all major gaming clans agree that the patch is a very bad idea and screws up game balance then it is quite safe to assume that they are right. After all, those people play the game the most and usually know what they are talking about. Their voice should be heard when making game balance changes.[/quote] They're also a tiny, insignificant fraction of the total number of people who buy and play the game. Just because they're prolific forum posters, it doesn't mean they shoul

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Reply to Twilight: Altaria Resists in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]This time period is still known as the cataclysm in which the surface of Altaria was decimated and over time, the world was recolonized bit by bit.[/quote] Hmm, so civilization was devastated, and all that was left were a few isolated pockets that then had to recolonize the planet. So a bunch of isolated cities that each had to grow... found new cities... redevelop the land from scratch. Gee, that would provide a good setup for a TBS game... maybe even a fantasy TBS game...<br

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Reply to I have a challenge for stardock in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Stay tuned.[/quote] Damn you! :) This hybrid of a strategy game and an RPG was what made MoM so unique. It actually managed to capture the feeling of not only national power, as with all strategy games, but also [I]personal[/I] power. The successes and failures of your armies on the battlefield could directly affect your personal power, if they captured or lost mana nodes. Similarly, your personal power could directly affect the battlefield and the world. Ma

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Reply to The perils of multiplayer in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

No, I think everyone in this thread has been limiting their complaints to the _hardcore_ multiplayer people. Those are the people who play really competitively, always worrying about ladder rankings, scores, etc., so they get their panties in a bunch if they feel choosing one race over the other gives someone an unfair advantage. I'm a fan of multiplayer myself, and I'm glad that the fantasy game will have it. As someone else pointed out earlier, imbalanced races provide a nice way of

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A very early question about fantasy game's requirements in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

While I'm not expecting any info about the game itself yet, I'd like to ask a question in the hopes someone at Stardock could provide the answer (assuming they even know the answer yet). Will the fantasy 4X game run (acceptably) on a newer integrated Intel graphics chipset like the X3100? I'm trying to settle on a new laptop in the coming days. I know these chipsets really suck, but I don't intend to do a whole lot of gaming on it. I'd just like to have GalCiv2 and the

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Reply to The perils of multiplayer in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I fully expect you to ignore the tantrums of the hardcore multiplayer crowd when it comes to your fantasy game. I want cool features and cool things to do, multiplayer balance be damned! ;)

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Reply to The perils of multiplayer in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, this is one reason multiplayer leaves me uneasy. I actually _want_ multiplayer in these games, and I'm (cautiously) glad that the fantasy 4X game will have it. I like to play co-op with friends, because it's fun to band together and help each other out. Civ4 is, by all accounts, a good game and an excellent multiplayer game. Unfortunately, whenever I play it, I get this overwhelming feeling that they've left a lot of really cool stuff out that they could've done, because they fo

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Reply to Piracy & PC Gaming in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Re: Brad's original post Amusingly, a group of friends were having a discussion about this very topic today, and we were pretty much saying exactly the same thing - albeit far less eloquently, and without the authority of actually being game developers ourselves to back it up. I wish every game developer out there would read what you wrote, and take it to heart. But they won't. They're just in the business to be rockstars, not because they have any sort of business acume

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Reply to Lost Empire: Immortals - A warning in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I really find it a bad thing that the developper left their buying customers of L.E. behind to go remake the same game, but better, and without the flaws.[/quote] On the forums they've said they are considering ways to allow owners of the original game to get the new one for cheap.

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