Chibiabos

Reply to Stardock’s crazy Winter 2015 in Stardockians Sins Forums

Hrmm ... I used to love the idea of the GDC, E3 and other interactive entertainment expos/showcases, but increasingly they feel like they're elitist, less for everyday people who love to play games to get our minds off our doldrums from our stupid jobs that fund our gaming habits, and more for the glitzy glamour snob types. It'd be nice if we could at least get some HD footage out of them that is a direct screen capture instead of a digital video camera recording a bigscreen pla

Reply to Games with story similar to Homeworld? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Dunno if this is considered threadjacking, but ... Homeworld Remastered finally has a set release date: FEBRUARY 25. Less than three weeks away from the time of this post! And its available on Steam for $29.74 with a 15% pre-order discount. Dunno how much closer you could get to Homeworld in story, though, than, well, Homeworld. :P

Reply to “Do as I say, not as I do.” in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

You probably don't need an app for that, nor the NSA. Sony was already caught engineering a rootkit virus that would stealthily auto-install anytime you played an audio CD or DVD from Sony on a PC, and there was the pre-release Xbox One from Microsoft. Chances are slim that Apple and other device managers don't spy on you themselves. You plunk money down for closed-source, proprietary hardware or software, you may well have paid a corporation to spy on you. I c

Reply to Beast master cool down? in LH Support Elemental Forums

10 turns doesn't alter how overpowered it is, just makes it an annoying grind.

Reply to Trying to understand projects in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="2" id="3488360"] Well, the problem I have is that I am not getting equivalent amounts of output when I use research or economic projects. I'm better off changing my spending rates than using those projects. [/quote] And again, the problem with that is it will impact production on all of your colonies which is not always an appropriate cost when you may have only a few of your colonies that have nothing to build, but others that have a queu

Reply to Trying to understand projects in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

With research, if you set your econ to 100% research, none of your planets will ever build anything. The idea your planets that are completely developed can instead devote their production to research, while your developing planets can instead devote their production to chewing through their production queues ... setting your slider to 100% research means nothing in your build queues (or ship production queues) would ever be built.

Reply to [BUG] (Beta .40) Shipyard in enemy area of influence builds each unit in one turn. in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Raynman" reply="2" id="3487653"] https://forums.galciv3.com/452855/page/1/ [/quote] For some reason, the actual URL behind the anchor text for that link you posted is ' https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://forums.galciv3.com/452855/page/1/' which typically generates a 'You are leaving steam' error. Not sure if that's

Reply to Endgame Predictability (Or: The "Mop-Up" Phase): How To Avoid? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Honestly, AIs uniting against you because you are too powerful just becomes annoying grind, unless they actually unite and become one civ as would happen in Master of Orion II if you went against the AI winning a Galactic Council vote. Weak AIs that have fallen behind simply flinging themselves at you just because you're winning does not make a game more enjoyable for me.

Reply to Stardock can you please address this... in LH Support Elemental Forums

wish I could figure out a way to get around Ophidian immunity to spells to +Tame them ...

[1.7] [Bug] Enemy units can appear in blocked/illegal tiles and be untargettable by certain spells/skills in LH Support Elemental Forums

Notice the Brood Hunter at the top of the image with the mouseover from attempting to cast 'Web' from my Black Widow. The tile is 'blocked' (cannot be moved into) but the Brood Hunter appeared in it, and cannot be targetted by Web (the cursor is unfortunately invisible in the screenshot,

Reply to Guardians of the Galaxy in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

I really enjoyed Guardians. Anyone else confess to Rocket being their favorite character in the film? XD

Reply to Corel PaintShop Pro X6 Ultimate for $29.99 Today in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Yes, 7 seemed to be the last good version of it. :/

Reply to Dynamic Systems in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Seilore" reply="3" id="3483306"] Show me a 3D game that is easy to point and click anywhere with in the map, without typing in coordinates... [/quote] Homeworld and Sword of the Stars, for two.

Reply to Privacy of the Cloud? If you do unto others, they might just do unto you. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I'm a bit baffled that anyone thinks data stored on a cloud is private, given a number of companies including Microsoft and Google are widely believed to datamine user files for their own market control purposes. MS has certainly not been a strong advocate for security, private property nor data privacy when it comes to how it regards its customers and its increasingly incomprehensible EULAs. They no longer sell 'software' but 'licenses' which is a legal dodge

[1.7] [Bug] Sunder tooltip in tactical combat has woefully incorrect damage estimate in LH Support Elemental Forums

Tooltip estimated damage for casting Sunder on an elemental was 5. Spell tooltip (mousing over the spell from the list of spells) estimated 90, and indeed 90 damage was actually done. It seems the mousover tooltips are generally not updating nor calculating correctly between spell cooldown timers and certain spells (though most seem to generate accurate estimates).

Reply to Legendary Heroes 1.7 Now Available - Patch Notes Inside in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Anyone else notice rivers no longer end movement? Or was that purposefully changed in an earlier patch?

Reply to Games with story similar to Homeworld? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

On the slim chances some Homeworld fans read this thread but haven't heard the news, Gearbox Software bought up the franchise and is working to update the engine, graphics and audio (on Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2) to work with modern OSes, and greatly enhanced graphical and audio fidelity. They are really putting a strong foot forward on this, and are not merely upscaling the graphics nor audio using some cheap, lame filtering, but actually going back to the sou

Reply to [1.7] Spiders still webbing twice in LH Support Elemental Forums

It is a bug, as they aren't supposed to be able to re-target the same unit with the same spell when the effect of the spell are still in effect. It was considered a bug when this was done by ... Wilding Shaman, I think, re-casting Shrink multiple times on the same unit (in that case the effect stacked, at least visually, making even large units very tiny).

Reply to Not acceptable and not much you can do about it. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="3482438"] Quoting Jafo, reply 14 Even singling out 'radical islamists' is about as narrow-sighted/myopic and discriminatory as one can get. ALL 'radical' factions/entities are dangerous, from animal rights activists to white supremacists. Cleverly the same Cons

Reply to Not acceptable and not much you can do about it. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Most traffic fatalities are the result of criminally negligent driving, and I find any ready dismissal of deaths due to negligence or margininalizing them as less than deaths from a single act to be patently absurd. And I would find it laughable, if it were not so tragic, that so many forget that the founding fathers were the 'extremists' of their day, lighting an armed and bloody rebellion. Deaths from traffic and lack of universal access to health care greatly outnumbe

Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="141" id="3482323"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 140 If you believe "Godwin's Law" in any way asserts the one to draw the analogy automatically loses or that the law dictates the thread must then be closed, you have adopted a twisted re-interpretation analogous to Charles Darwin's Theor

Reply to Three interesting things about Windows 9 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="10" id="3481265"] Looks like another O/S that needs some skinning to make it palatable. [/quote] Stardock should thank Microsoft for contorting their OS UI into something so unpalatable that it creates a market for Stardock to exploit with a fix. :)

Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="139" id="3482321"] Yep, that's a Godwin. THREAD CLOSED! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [/quote] Only for those whom redefine "Godwin's Law" to be something other than the 1990 USENET newsgroup post made by Mike Godwin, after whom the 'law' was named, in which he simply observed that, essentially, the longer an Internet discussion progresses, the more likely an analogy to Hitler or the Nazis w

Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="134" id="3482304"] As I said before, art is not the place to debate or inject ideology. People that can't differentiate between art in print or screen, IMO, have more than a few screws loose. If we wanted to go that route, and say people will learn to act out what is in film or novels, our jails would be filled with people that got a gory revenge on their perpetrators.