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Reply to Demigod beta 2 after the break and beyond in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote] That is basically the same thing, but this is more gimmicky actually as this makes less customizability to the player not to mention the items designed to be for certain Demigods will ultimately judge their balance paths and effectiveness.[/quote] No, that'll actually increase customizability - if there's more than one option and they're mutually exclusive (as they should be - a demigod with 2 arms should not be able to wear 4 sets of gloves at the

Reply to Tabula Rasa - Should SD consider taking it over? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote] Constant interaction? Err, thats your measure of quality? Id rather have better game design where I need to think wether thats useing tactics, or aiming, or teamwork you know. The lack of any simulation on the weapons put me off the game personaly, that and I don't like hotbar skills with guns. But thats just me, clearly im not the only one.[/quote] Quality doesn't even factor into it. You claimed TB was "just like WoW but with guns" - that is factually not the case.

Reply to Tabula Rasa - Should SD consider taking it over? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote] Also TB wasn't very 'unqiue', bad sci-fi plot combined with a basic rip off of WoW with most of the meele quest rewards replaced with more rifles? Ha. [/quote] That pretty much shows that you never even played TB. It was one of the MMO's as far away from WoW as you can get. Along with DDO, it was one of the rare MMORPGs that required constant player input for combat, instead of the standard Everquest/WoW autoattack with occasional one-click skill triggering

Reply to Tabula Rasa - Should SD consider taking it over? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="8" id="1950086"]TR was one of the few mmos i actually enjoyed playing for some time. But at some time it didnt offer any variety anymore because there too few skills. The lack of support did the rest.[/quote] Lack of support? What the hell are you on about? It was getting free content updates in the vein of DDO and LotRO right up to now. If anything it's one of the best supported MMOs, along with CoX, DDO and LotRO.

Reply to Beta 1c Performance Increase in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

In-game Performance has increased to what seems like beyond Beta 1 levels - however, the Demigod selection screen pre-game seems to have performance issues. What's that about?

Reply to [BUGS] Multiple bugs (contains screenshots) in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

Also note that your #2 shows off another huge issue - Catapultasaurii happily run right into tower range before firing. Great siege weapon when it can't outrange the things it's supposed to be countering.

Reply to Beta 1-A First Impressions in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

It also seems that the demigod's autoattack has been severely crippled (especially for close combat demigods) which makes the loss of the attack-move hotkey all the more frustrating. Playing the unclean beast is an exercise is needless clicking.

Reply to [BUG] Fire Aura Skill Affects Self in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

Not when it's worded the way it currently is. Tooltips should NEVER rely on something as subjective as "common sense". They need to be simple and most importantly precise. If they leave room to manouver as to what they mean (or worse - are blatantly incorrect) then they are in need of repair.

Reply to Towers in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"]- Range too low - Tower range needs to be upped a touch. As Regulus you can sit out of range and snipe them to your heart's content. Increasing range would mean that firstly, it is no longer possible to simply pick them off from afar, and secondly that you will need to wait for creep waves to begin attacking before beginning yourself. In DotA, the tower range is implemented in a way that means you cannot sit out of range and take them down with your auto-attack

Reply to Multiple CPU cores in the future? in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

It's entirely possible that the old SupCom optimization tools will work for Demigod to speed it up tremendously with minimal adjustments.

Reply to Regulus' standard mines useless in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

You can stack the mines to quickly do enough damage to a demigod to force a retreat (although Regulus could be improved by removing or reducing the mine placement cooldown to make it energy dependant instead of cooldown) Also keep in mind that you can't equate mines with splash damage items 1:1. Splash damage items cause friendly fire. A splash-Regulus will wipe out the enemy minotaurs and your own minotaurs as well - and you aren't exactly helping your rook when shooti

Reply to [?] Killing Blow in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

Getting extra for last hitting is horrible because it makes your own minions and fellow heroes an enemy.

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Actually I'm not sure now. I played a game today, and the effects were disappearing again So I guess maybe it's not the particle count. It's really annoying... The ships sit there and damage each other with no bullets or beams or anything flying around.[/quote] It looks like a particle counter leak. Some structure/ship/entity emits particles that are considered visible by the game at all times, which, after a certain time/number of entities results in the perma-lock of "too many

Reply to Is the third dimension anything more than cosmetic? in Strategy Sins Forums

Simple Answer: No. Sins is Star Trek Armada in that respect, and has failed in emulating the genius of Homeworld.

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Off-topic. And if you're going to claim that, you're going to have to come up with numbers to prove it with the Sins engine...something you're not going to be able to do.The fact that the majority of ships were designed with turrets obviously designed to rotate (biggest example being the Garda flak frigate), but that the Devs did not implement it, speaks volumes as to how wrong you probably are.[/quote] It only speaks volumes on how out of touch with reality the devs are. Or how

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Sin's was made to not have turret animations. It cuts down in system power used, that way more people can run the game on lower end computers.[/quote] That is not the case. Turret animations have negligible hardware drain even with thousands of ships.

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

If you manage to make the Vasari weapons look good, especially the abysmal Wave Cannon effects, you win an internet.

Reply to Better Bombardment in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Vasari use Beams, which is wierd since Advent are obviously the Beam Weaponry Masters. It looks like they ran out of time to think of a 3rd variant of bombardement.

Reply to Z-Axis in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yet it's utterly useless because the Z-Axis doesn't expand far enough to allow meaningful maneuvers. It's identical to the Star Trek Armada implementation - a gimmick to make formations and building placement "look cooler".

Reply to Should ships just stand completely still in battle? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]So, in the end, are we going to be arguing in terms of the game or in terms of realism?[/quote] In game terms, shots could be dodged if ships moved and shots were actually calculated instead of automatic hits. In real terms, the combination of extreme range and inability to determine actual enemy location (thus working with probability wave targeting) also allows dodging unguided shots even with very survivable G forces (5-7 + crash couches and pressure suits).

Reply to This game takes too long? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote]lol @ the fanboy hostility.No bashing from me, in fact, I have no problem with ppl that have 6 hours to play video games...just find it hard to believe there are many ppl that can, except perhaps the very old, young kids, people without jobs/families, nerds without any form of real life social life, that sort of thing. What's odd, however, is the anger/rage like seen in the post above this one. Games needn't take hours to be strategically deep and just because a game is enjoyed by the mai

Reply to Why no model animation? Is it a planned feature? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]It is the case when the devs deliberately wanted to create a game featuring thousands of ships in real time that would run on four- or five-year-old hardware.Sins could no doubt have been made much more visually appealing, but that limits the audience significantly, especially given that many strategy game fans aren't quite as obsessed with cutting-edge ninja PCs as, say, FPS players.[/quote] "Sins of a Solar Empire is powered by the Iron Engine - a brand new, advanced graphics e

Reply to Should ships just stand completely still in battle? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]And you sir, have a pretty big assumption in your argument as well. Having not played the game, I can't answer this, but I doubt that any ship can shoot the distance from the moon to Earth (please correct me if I'm wrong), which is about one second. So assume FTL detection and instant implementation of avoidance procedures - you have 1 second to move the entire ship out of the way. I don't know about you, but I don't very much like soupy crewmembers. I like it when they're nice and fi

Reply to Should ships just stand completely still in battle? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]You can not dodge a laser because you can only detect something being shot at you at the speed of light.. So you can SEE that a canon fires before the shell hits, but "seeing" the laser fire occurs at the same time it hits, since it is focused light. You can however theoretically dodge RANDOMLY causing the lasers to miss... If only you could accelerate at over a million G. (G = acceleration of gravity of earth). I have included the math in an earlier post... A tiny frigate could dodge

Reply to Why no model animation? Is it a planned feature? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Well if some one flys into your gravwell with 200 frigates with moving turrets its going to be a resource drain on any system i think thats why they left them out[/quote] That is not the case. HW2 had animated turrets, as well as more intensive projectile calculations - and handled hundreds of turrets just fine. In fact, even HW[U]1[/U] handled hundreds of turrets just fine. The CPU issue is quite simply wrong.