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Reply to Costs of doing business that are still surprising in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Morridinn" reply="37" id="2372494"] Heaven forbid people should be able to make babies or live with illnesses AND try to get good jobs. Whiny ass politicians... [/quote] For a company running safely in the black it's usually not a problem. For a company running in the red it's usually a problem especially a small company. If the small company goes out of business it doesn't help the new mom(now unemployed) or any other employees

Very old screenshot of Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Here's a very old pic of Elemental... based on recent screenshots it's evolved quite nicely. Ancient eye candy for the Elemental community. :)

Reply to Elemental: Evolution of the game’s graphics already in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]The game’s graphics engine (i.e. the MAIN graphics) won’t go into beta until January 2010. But to give you an idea of how far things have gone already let’s take a look: [/quote] You left out one of the screenshots... what about this one: https://www.stardock.com/stardock/elemental.jp

Reply to A good High Memory MB in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

From my experience the Gigabyte boards have cheap CPU mounts. My first Gigabyte board almost broke its CPU mount because instead of three teeth on each side for connecting the CPU fan there was only one. One of my systems is using a Gigabyte board now, but if you're not using the stock CPU fan then you may want to replace the CPU mount.

Reply to Elemental Art Assets for public use in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Awesome Stuff !

Reply to A suggestion re: buddies, searching and lists in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

[quote who="Zargon0225" reply="3" id="2372363"]Moods! Interesting. So instead of Profiles we have moods? I would like to hear others chime in on the idea. [/quote] I like the suggestion of having moods... and ideally providing a default mood setting the player has configured when logging into RtP.

Reply to looting corpses. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Denryu" reply="6" id="2371974"]Just like to say I am not polobo and polobo is not me. [/quote] What if someone has cloned you using your DNA while you've been sleeping? It's still not you, but genetically very close. [e classic]:surprised:[/e]

Reply to Allow Attachments for the Forums in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="10" id="2371363"]This is something we have discussed back and forth for a while. I'm not sure what the status is, but let me see if I can find out anything. [/quote] Awesome... as long as Stardock has some longterm action plan for providing the best gaming forums I know it will benefit Stardock as well as the gaming community. [e digicons]|-)[/e]

Reply to Allow Attachments for the Forums in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="CarGuy1" reply="7" id="2371317"]Upload them to Rapidshare, add a link to your post. That's easy enough. [/quote] Here's the problem with using other locations: 1) These free download locations all have different expirations such as rapidshare has a 90day time limit for unaccessed files thus maps, mods, and utilities will gradually be lost with time. 2) If one of these other 3rd party download locations goes out of business

Reply to Allow Attachments for the Forums in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="4" id="2371283"]Those other sites also use prepackaged third-party forum software. In addition to everything else, we'd have to write a whole new system in from scratch since we use our own system. [/quote] Would it not be in Stardocks best interest to provide the best forums possible to encourage activity amongst the forum community? While I'm sure there's some pains involved with providing better forums this should be a constant longterm goal.&nbs

Reply to Menus/dropdown showing up behind the main interface in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

[quote who="Zargon0225" reply="9" id="2371206"]Hosting the files becomes a liability issue so we would have to moderate the attached files. The liability due to a virus distributed compared to an image someone finds offensive is quite vast. Zargon [/quote] I've created a topic in the Forum Issues section which addresses liability concerns, basically it comes down to researching HOW the other gaming forums are doing it successfully: <a href="https://

Reply to Allow Attachments for the Forums in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="1" id="2371239"]You can add links and pictures. Looking for something else? [/quote] Yes as mentioned in the original post, when someone creates a game map, game utility, game mod, etc., etc., it's beneficial for the community to have a single trusted location for downloading these files.

Reply to Menus/dropdown showing up behind the main interface in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

I'm no longer experiencing the issue, I'm guessing one of the updates for Ready to Play resolved the issue for me.

Allow Attachments for the Forums in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

I searched the current list of forum issues and haven't found this topic, I appologize if the topic has already been discussed. Currently there's no method for adding attachments in the forums. I've been on other game forums where attachments are allowed and believe this feature would be appreciated by the community as well. It's very useful having a single trusted location where gamers can provide not only a topic describing their game map,

Reply to Will the Beta be fun... Yes and No or yeahno if you want... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think the beta will be fun because of the bugs. The company where I'm currently employed will have bi-yearly software bug hunts for their business server software and I actually enjoy finding bugs.... especially major bugs you believe nobody else has found!! I've participated in these bug hunts even when my current pay level means I'm doing it for free, but I've always won a money prize. Perhaps I'm just twisted.&nb

Reply to Menus/dropdown showing up behind the main interface in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

[quote who="Zoomba" reply="7" id="2371141"] Quoting NTJedi, reply 5 Any reason why we can't attach files on these forums?? For screenshots illustrating bugs, I'd suggest using one of the many free image hosting services available and linking the image in a comment/post. You can also embed images in a post that are hosted elsewhere. [/quote] Thanks, I saw the image option yet was wonderi

Reply to "Your gaming Profile" lacks values choices in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

[quote]Would you say in game you are: Quiet and Silent Talkative What kind of teammates do you like: Quiet and Silent Talkative Do you like to: Taunt/Trash Talk Help others Do you like teammates who: Taunt/Trash Talk Help others[/quote] I would agree these 4 are important.

Reply to NPC 'PC's: game play effects (PC in 'the order of the stick' - hero party) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] In most 4E fantacy games when you higher a hero, that hero's yours, to do with as you see fit forever. I propose instead that Elemental NPC 'PC's' 'remember' their goals, and remain with you only so far as it is mutually benificial. [/quote] Some heroes could be designed to follow this method, but it shouldn't be for all heroes. If I spend time raising a hero several levels, equipping him with items, raising his attributes with

Reply to Menus/dropdown showing up behind the main interface in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

I'm able to select games from the list, however it does appear behind the main interface. I also have the same issue with the main menu button found on the top right. My system is WinXP-64Bit with Internet Explorer 7. Any reason why we can't attach files on these forums??

Reply to Error message upon closing in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

This happened once, but I also received an error message upon closing: System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '#rtp_cc_2399246' Key being added: '#rtp_cc_2399246' at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add) at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value) &nb

Reply to Anyone else think its a mistake to let the game end when your wizard dies? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="216" id="2367141"] You just argued against yourself [/quote] Actually the original discussion was regarding whether a channeller should be allowed to respawn after dying which leaned towards the discussion of channellers being a supercombatant as not a viable strategy. My posts have referenced dominions which shows it does work and my last statement merely says it will need beta testing.

Reply to Important Elemental MP tidbit from PAX - Hosting own servers in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="8" id="2365425"] I don't expect it'll be a major factor in Elemental, but nonetheless when underspec users harm the experience for others, it's as often as not the game's maker that gets blamed, not those users. [/quote] Would it be possible for Stardock to provide a utility which tests the system specifications and networking performance? Such a utility could perform the same tasks as the game to verify if a system passes fo

Reply to Save game option for multiplayer games in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="astrath" reply="10" id="2366393"]While there can be 32 players max in a game, it would be suicidal IMO to have 32 people playing a multiplayer game. A bit of maths - even if all battles are auto resolved, it will take say an average of 5 minutes per turn later in the game x 32 means you would be waiting over 2 and a half hours between turns. And the game will last hundreds of turns. [/quote] As mentioned by <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl1

Reply to Three most important games to remember in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]For developing Elemental as far as possible: Sword of Aragon, Dominions, and MoM (Obviously). A well done mesh of these three would be so supremely classic...gah. [/quote] I completely agree [quote]It's just not old enough to have everything done, especially as new PC power will possibly give rise to new possibilites. [/quote] I agree, as PC power constantly increases as the same with developer sof

Reply to Anyone else think its a mistake to let the game end when your wizard dies? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="210" id="2362534"] But you're making assumptions about how quickly an essence-hoarding channeler will gain power. For all we know, a channeler who spends his essence immediately might be nearly the equal of the channeler who hoards it at the beginning of the game; maybe it'll take time for the advantages and disadvantages of hoarding vs. spending essence to really manifest in significant ways. And presumably the defender will have some sort of advantage,