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Reply to [RELEASE - BETA] Dynamic Battle System (compatible with the 1.041 Entrenchment) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Stant123" reply="414" id="2982344"]Jesus Hootie Christ... Read the very first line of the text you quoted...[/quote] Whoosh?

Reply to [RELEASE - BETA] Dynamic Battle System (compatible with the 1.041 Entrenchment) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="409" id="2981746"]rhino, it is NOT possible to put a dynamic movement mod in vanilla sins as the vanilla sins game DOES NOT SUPPORT dynamic/fighter type movement for any other units other than strikecraft. DO NOT ASK ABOUT THIS AGAIN. if you ask again you will be demoted back to buck private!!! harpo[/quote] Yes, but is it possible to make a dynamic movement mod for the vanilla game? [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Reply to RTSguru’s List of Best Space-Based 4X Strategy Games in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]What game does not require you to scroll (circular vs. flat? who really cares?) to navigate the tech tree? Or worse, jump between tabs to see the different areas (more clicky, still have to scroll probably).[/quote] There's nothing wrong with scrolling or tabs. Or at worst, they're necessary evils because of the need to represent a large amount of information on a small screen. Circular scrolling gives me headaches...

Reply to Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows Part 2 in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

I think people really underrate Rowling. She's an incredibly observant writer with an excellent sense of pacing (at least in the earlier books in the series).

Reply to RTSguru’s List of Best Space-Based 4X Strategy Games in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I think all the talk about specifics is missing the point. The problem with the tech tree isn't that it's unplayable, it's that it's less playable than its alternatives - namely, the two-dimensional representation used by nearly every other game on the market. Sure, the problems may not be so bad or maybe they can be ameliorated. But I shouldn't have to settle for not-so-bad or have to do something to ameliorate a problem which need not exist in the first place. (e

Reply to RTSguru’s List of Best Space-Based 4X Strategy Games in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I realize it's zoomable, but then you have to deal with painfully small icons and poor anti-aliasing. The tree wouldn't have either of these problems if it were represented using projected textures, rather than models. I have no problems with the tech tree itself, just how it's represented in the interface. Personally, I like static tech trees more than randomized ones, but different strokes for different folks and all that. On another note, I just watc

Reply to RTSguru’s List of Best Space-Based 4X Strategy Games in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I played the SotS demo the other day, and it's a lot more fun than I remembered. I don't like the pace or scale of the game, but I understand why others like it. The UI isn't bad apart from the research tree, which gives me headaches. (I had to down an ibuprofin at one point.) At the very worst, it's as bad as that of any other space-based 4X TBS. Fleet management is actually handled quite well.

Reply to For gamers fed up with paying for DLC in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote] It depends on what DLC you're talking about. I haven't looked at Starcraft II for that reason (and the fact that it doesn't seem to offer much over the first).[/quote] ? Starcraft 2 doesn't have DLC.

Reply to My Most Wanted PC Games for 2011 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

In no particular order: Torchlight 2, Might and Magic: Heroes 6, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (won't be released until 2012), Diablo 3 (won't be released until 2012), Mass Effect 3 (won't be released until 2012).

Reply to The movie 'Black Swan' in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

That a French ballerina got their first? :(

Reply to Is your job THIS bad? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote]I disagree. I think Marley said it best: "A hungry man is an angry man... a hungry mob is an angry mob." Leaving aside all of the evolutionary psych behind this, I know that when I'm f'ing hungry, I'm f'ing angry.[/quote] [quote]OK... as long as you have to work 20 hrs. for 1/2 a sandwich. Really... how heartless. I wonder what you would do under those conditions? Extend the logic: "Starving to death should make you an Einstein."[/quote] Of co

Reply to Is your job THIS bad? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote]"hungry people have especially clear minds"[/quote] That's brilliant. I'm putting that up in the kitchen at work.

Reply to Just bought StarCraft 2.... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]What is the concept of game seconds, though? Why does there need to be a difference...[/quote] The game speed affects the rate at which the game updates. It's so the game can be played at different actual speeds without affecting the underlying implementation of the game.

Reply to This one’s for Jafo and I.D.: IP Bill Introduced in Senate in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="69" id="2937866"]Can be read the opposite... hard to know how they saw it then, although there are those who read it to mean actually kill the lawyers. I don't think that's a correct interpretation of how Shakespeare meant it, either. More likely a condemnation of poor laws and corrupt lawyers. But, there's room for the three lines of thought.[/quote] Sure, there are plausible and implausible interpretations, but there are also i

Reply to This one’s for Jafo and I.D.: IP Bill Introduced in Senate in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote]"The first thing we do," said the potter in Shakespeare's Henry VI, is "kill all the lawyers." Contrary to popular belief, the proposal was not designed to restore sanity to commercial life. Rather, it was intended to eliminate those who might stand in the way of a contemplated revolution -- thus underscoring the important role that lawyers can play in society.[/quote] Butcher, not potter. And that's a terrible reading of that passage. :-p

Reply to Star wars vs star trek in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="249" id="2937380"]Actually, I do indeed don't like everything being canon when it comes to Star Wars, because Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon, the post-New Jedi Order era, and Legacy comics, are all terrible, terrible, damage to the Star Wars name.[/quote] It's strange. I used to have no trouble ignoring all of the terrible spinoffs, but the past three years have been really bleak. (And I don't mind Legacy. For me, it's about as offensive

Reply to Just bought StarCraft 2.... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="67" id="2937281"]Then, there is the loss of the Dark Archon when the Protoss are in such a dire situation, which I simply don't understand; when they had a golden opportunity to make the Protoss even more defined as two factions working in concert.[/quote] They were moved for non-lore reasons. Dark Archons were only really used in PvZ - and only for maelstrom, effectively moved to the Infestor, and feedback, moved to the High Templar.

Reply to What is with $60 PC Games these days? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Blizzard has always priced their games highly. Starcraft wasn't that much cheaper than Starcraft 2.

Reply to Darkspore ! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Is it worth the $50? Or should I wait 'til it drops into the $20 range.

Reply to Art in the world of the Fallen Enchantress in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The UI looks much improved. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Just bought StarCraft 2.... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

For sure. I meant that the 'strategy' of Starcraft is not primarily in how you maneuver your army during any particular battle, but how you arrived at that battle in the first place.

Reply to Just bought StarCraft 2.... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Starcraft isn't primarily about unit control. Unit control can win or lose you the game, but it's not the most important aspect. If you don't like that, then you won't like the game.

Reply to OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!! in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="19" id="2931153"]Not that I'm trying to defend the crowds or anything but I think this editorial is reading a bit too much into it. Honestly I think the recent USA demonstrations are closer to their counterparts after the moon landings than anything else. People are just happy that their country has finally completed a goal which it had set for itself a decade ago, that the goal happened to be the death of a man instead of a scientific endeavor is just a sig

Reply to DHS Warnings Through Twitter and Facebook?! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I hope not. It's bad enough listening to "The current National Threat Level is..." whenever I happen to be at the airport. I can't imagine they'll choose a more meaningful replacement.

Reply to What games are you waiting for a sale to buy? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Mass Effect 2 on sale. I wonder if the marketing people at Impulse read these threads. I remember Mass Effect 1 went on sale after a thread was started about it.