Lord Reliant

Lord Reliant

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Reply to [Solved] Supreme Commander sound / audio problem in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

From my understanding, a CRC check can be caused by anti-virus software or a hard drive problem. I know there have been issues in the past with people downloading Supreme Commander because of how massive it is. You might try right-clicking on the program and choosing the Verify Installation option and see if that helps. Also, try updating your sound card drivers and running a Windows Update.

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Reply to More discussion of Factions and Races (long) in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Thanks for the updated explanation. So, to boil it all down- should Stardock spend time/resources on developing races as an option, only focus on factions, or some moderated combo? Looking at this from a reviewer's perspective, if you only provide two different races to choose from, you'll likely get docked points for lack of variety. I'd be in favor of either no race selection and really interesting/deep factions (does race really matter other than bonuses and appearance?

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Reply to Rethinking factions… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

One other idea I'll throw out: How many of you remember Age of Mythology? It introduced the concept of leveling up your empire and making a choice between one of two Gods (depending on your race). Could Elemental have something like this? I'm not sure if it would be based on time, production, research, etc. or maybe even vary from race to race. But the value in this is that you aren't locked into one specific strategy for the game (unlike its predecessor Age of

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Reply to Rethinking factions… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think by the end of GalCiv 2 (ToA) that the individual races finally had enough character with their own tech trees that they started to show their personality. Before then, though, it was selecting a race for the bonuses or customizing your own that was the real driving factor. I'd love to see some very deep history surrounding the different races/factions that would make me really want to play as them vs. just using their pre-made abilities. Here are some ideas that mi

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Reply to Elemental: Advisors in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

While we're on the advice front, I felt like Galactic Civilizations 2 did a decent job of doing analysis (you're the 3rd most powerful military in the galaxy), but what it didn't do was anything beyond that. What do I need to do to achive first place? Build more units? Build stronger units? Research some newer technology? The same can be said of economics, research, etc. While you could argue this would be like taking away the challenge of the game, this is

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Reply to Elemental: Advisors in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I'd be interested in knowing more on what an optional event tree would look like in-game. I'm having a hard time understanding what this means other than pop-up notifications. One other idea I'll throw out- the "advisors" wouldn't have to be people. It can just be a section of the UI or text-based. There's no need to having to create animated representations for the military advisor, economics advisor, magic, etc. It might help, but not needed. Another id

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Reply to Elemental: Advisors in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

This may not apply exactly, but one of the features Worldwide Soccer Manager (aka Football Manager) implemented in the past few years was bolstering the advice of the assistant coaches. The game had so many options and strategies that having AI help you make choices made the game so much more playable and informative. Now, not all of the advice was good or accurate (it was your job as the manager to determine this), but the advice made the game so much more enjoyable. Advi

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Reply to Elemental: Coding Reports in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Isn't it great when bugs can turn into features? Things are progressing nicely. It's great to see updates, although I really wish you'd allow BoogieBac to be released from his coding prision. He needs to get out in the daylight at least every few months and post something about Elemental!

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Reply to Elemental team all twittered out in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Even something as simple as "looking at code x", "fixing the UI", "home sick", or "asking Brad for a raise" would be nice. It doesn't have to be anything too big or earth shattering, but it's nice to know you're alive, Scott! :)

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Reply to Suggestion related to BETA version numbers in War of Magic Elemental Forums

This would be a great way to track regressions or bugs that still exist. If this was done, it'd be really nice if the general Beta forum could house ALL posts, but if you posted in a specific sub-forum you'd only see posts for that forum.

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Reply to Pre-order charge failed in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Dehh" reply="8" id="2375178"]Same here. Odd thing is that i know the CC i preordered with back then is still good. Now, since i want to participate in Phase 1, i just tried to reorder, which failed too. It didn't even let me place the order at all. Emailed sales@stardock and hope this gets resolved quickly, but the autoreply implies no Beta for me this week [/quote] Oooh. Maybe my credit card wasn't wrong, then. That's no good if you couldn't even pre-order nor

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Reply to IRC? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I tried using the built-in IRC client in Impulse, but whenever I typed something, it was always trying to interpret it as a command. So, I installed Pidgin instead. Was I just doing something wrong?

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