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Reply to Any thoughts on the Antec Skeleton? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Silveus" reply="11" id="2048153"]My freind had a computer that was missing its side. He kept it on a table so that atleast it wasn't on the floor, but things still make there way inside, in this case it was a spider. so the little spider gets inside and his cat, who loves to eat spiders, pounced into this computer. even after he extracted the dead cat the computer still wouldn't run.[/quote] Dead cat? How'd the computer kill the cat? Or did you mean the spider?

Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote] ...snip.... D2D and gamersgate are cross compatible with their games and any expanion packs. If not they tell you so and if a patch is up and comming for it. So is Impusle and gamersgate, for the most part. Born of blood from impulse will not let murder of crows be installed on it[/quote] This is totally not really "on topic", but have you tried modifying modifying the registry so that Impulse ends up putting Born of Blood in its own directory (instead of on to

Reply to Intuitive UI controls in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ynglaur" reply="5" id="2057999"]I think one of the keys to good UI design is not having minimal (or "just enough") information on the screen/in a window, but having all relevant information for a given process/workflow. Thus, the "town" viewer should have everything needed for managing a town at your fingertips. The "army" viewer should have everything for armies. GalCiv2's GUI is very good, but I think it fell down here in some areas. To manage a plan

Reply to Uncertain Spell Research in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I like the idea of research effort (for spells/tech/whatever) being somewhat uncertain, especially as the amount of user made content grows and you might not even know what all of the potential spells are/do, but I'm wary of it as well. I think my concern would be that you might get shafted with no way to recover (through no fault of your own), which could be especially annoying late game. What about an adjustment of the idea - you're researching "the next spell tier" i

Reply to Elemental: EARLY test of the engine in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jonny5446" reply="5" id="2051331"]Ooooooow nice Looks very different to the other screenshot where the town/city looked like one big castle; diversity is good [/quote] I don't think it's diversity; it's probably the "zoom out/zoom in" detail changes. When you're out on the cloth map, it's just a castle showing the location (and maybe relative size). Then you zoom in and see that :) And I'm with everyone else - no need for "early" disclaimers, I really like that ar

Reply to [Bug] Beta 2D - Extreme Lag Camera/Combat in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

Just to chip in, I have not (yet anyway) run into this problem: WinXP SP3 Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3Ghz 9600 GT 512MB 2GB RAM All the settings set to High, 4x AA and NVidia drivers 181.22. In fact, I was surprised while playing last night that I had no gfx lag at all with what seemed to be a ridiculous number of units on screen. There seemed to be way more units on screen than in previous games, but I missed a lot of the Beta 2C

Reply to Any thoughts on the Antec Skeleton? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Oh I dunno about the fan; it's very large so it's probably running at a pretty low (and quiet) RPM. The rest I'm with you on :)

Reply to Any thoughts on the Antec Skeleton? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

My personal thoughts are that it's more show piece than anything else. I don't think it offers anything that any decent case couldn't offer in terms of function, and it's more open to accidental damage of components and you can't put anything on top of it. In any case, I don't have anything against it, I just don't see it taking over from more practical designs. [Edit] Plus, have you seen the price? It's priced for high-end features, but it's definitely not a high-end case (be

Reply to The Fallen in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The render definitely brings warcraft 3 very strongly to my mind, but I think it's because of the red roof and the white bone/tusk/whatever. Actually, I think if the corners were blunted and not bone-colored and maybe the roof a maroon or something (still red-ish, but not so close to the red from warcraft 3) then I wouldn't feel "warcraft 3 orc" so strongly. As Aesir Rising said, the quality looks great. Maybe if we had the Men aesthetics to compare it against side-by-side we'

Reply to Edge Online Takes a Look at Demigod in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2039421"] Galactic Civilizations and Sins Of A Solar Empire are really deep, strategic games, but they don’t quite have the graphical pizzazz. So it was a logical extension to keep the tactics but add a triple-A quality. That's actually a bit insulting. I know he didn't mean to be, but still.[/quote] GalCiv I can understand wrt graphical pizzazz, but Sins? Sins is a rather pretty game. Maybe I just like space :)

Reply to Primitive alphas and betas in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Zaisha" reply="10" id="2036953"]Sounds like a good idea to me. Get the game system working first, then add the bells and whistles. Sign me up! Heck, I'd still be playing Master of Magic if I was computer savvy enough to get it running on XP. Also, the Warlords series ROCKS! (especially Warlords 3, not so crazy about 4)[/quote] DosBOX is your friend :) I didn't have any problem firing it up in DosBOX when last I tried (couple of months ago), but then I got mildly

Reply to RPG games in the works? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

GHenrikG - thanks for mentioning Drakensang, totally going to be checking that out when it releases. I had never heard of it but it definitely sounds like it could be a very good game.

Reply to Sword of the Stars in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Awwwww, that's unfortunate ... guess I'll have to pick up AMoC and sort out the install. dreamer of pictures - Yeah, I noticed that when I was reinstalling through Impulse after a fresh OS install. Pre-Impulse they installed to two separate locations with their own disk paths, registry etc, but then post-Impulse it overwrote vanilla SotS. I asked about it, thinking it a bug, but it's apparently intetionally installed that way. Not a gigantic deal, unless you wanted to play van

Reply to Sword of the Stars in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

A Murder of Crows adds another new race and a bunch of other new stuff, too. Sadly, Stardock doesn't have AMoC available via Impulse (SotS and SotS:BoB both are). I really wish they did, because I'd like to pick up A Murder of Crows but am not sure how the expansion would interact with the games installed via Impulse.

Reply to Sword of the Stars in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

There's no auto-upgrade, if you get new weapons you need to design a new ship. You can, for a fee, upgrade existing ships I believe. I don't think I ever have, just using them for cannon fodder if they've become too outdated (or scrapping them to recover some of the material). There are a few upgrades that apply without rebuilds/redesigns, missile improvements and accuracy for mass drivers I think, but they are rare.

Reply to Population control in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

It still isn't a hard cap though, since it's a dynamic balance between how fast people are born and how fast people are dying. Changing healthcare, for instance, would mean a rebalance or you could end up growing (positive healthcare change) or shrinking (negative healthcare change). That's all I'm after, I haven't advocated no population management mechanisms, just not a flat "limit to x". I'd like options, letting them starve, providing monetary incentives (either to have kids or to

Reply to Sword of the Stars in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="6" id="2027061"]That doesn't account for how many missiles there are. There were points where I tried sending in ships armed with nothing but point defence. All of the platforms targetted one ship and it was quickly destroyed. There were so many missiles flying in that they got through because the point defence was busy recharging. I got bored of it pretty quickly though so I never took the time to integrate any advanced tactics.[/quote] Maybe it'

Reply to Population control in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="14" id="2027658"] Issuing an order or legistlate the number of children allowed per household isn't entirely uncommon, and very feasible. Getting them to breed on command, though, is another issue entirely (but even that can quite easily be regulated by managing the amount of child support, if any). Overall, stopping people from breeding isn't very hard. Just fine them into kingdom come if they get more than 1-2 child per pairing. Edit: And I'

Reply to Population control in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

My personal preference is for no direct "No more than X people" type of controls. People don't generally breed or not on demand and what you as a ruler do about that is an important aspect of 4X games. Do you let them die? Do you work to support them? Do you take advantage of them as cannon fodder, forced labor, something else? Now, I would not be opposed to being able to stratify society by mandate e.g. "Your family gets these lands" or whatever, which is effectively a way to distrib

Reply to Sword of the Stars in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="2" id="2025661"]Sword of the Stars can get extremely boring at times. Late in the game every single enemy planet will have a full complement of defensive platforms. Meaning that your fleet will just get HAMMERED by wave after wave of super long range undodgeable missiles. Your fleet will always start far away from the planet and the only ships that can survive the barrage are point defence ships and shield ships, both of which sacrifice so much offensive

Reply to Sword of the Stars in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I personally like both GalCiv2 and Sword of the Stars. They play very, very differently though. If you would like to control (or at least choose to control) your fleets in combat, Sword of the Stars is it. It's entirely possible to win a battle through better tactical control even with fewer or less technologically advanced ships, which i find a compelling reason to play. GalCiv2 has a much more rewarding diplomacy model, and more options than "kill everything to win." It's possible t

Reply to Download link in navigation bar is wrong in Demigod Site Issues Demigod Forums

Just noticed that while this is fixed from the "Home" page, when you're in the forum the link is still wrong.

Reply to help cant get onto ironclad online in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Have you tried contacting [email protected]? I ask only because if there are network problems or problems with your key/account/etc. they would be the most likely to be able to help. Do you have any firewall software running? While the regular Windows Firewall doesn't block connections from your computer, other software (like ZoneAlarm and probably software from Norton or others) can. In that case it could block your connection. Just some thoughts, it's been so long since I

Reply to Elemental Inspirations II in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Solam" reply="11" id="2008617"]The fact that there might be a link between both games makes it more and more incredible. Anybody ever heard of game or rather a story that would span 2 game titles like this in two different genre? Way cool if you ask me.[/quote] Actually yes, all of Bungie's stuff has links to each other (Marathon series, Myth series, Halo series). They aren't direct jump offs like Elemental seems to be, but they def

Reply to Any of you guys play Dwarf Fortress? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="9" id="2004880"]I would reccomend learning without a sprite based tileset. As I once explained it ASCII is great a condensing information. If you see a red smily face, you will eventually just *know* that it represents a dwarf mechanic. With sprites, every time you try to identify a mechanic among many dwarves you end up squinting around trying to find the one with the red coat. As mentioned above sprites and tilesets tend to run into strange problems. This is due t