astrath

astrath

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Reply to Cloth map? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Since it is playable on merely the cloth map, there's no need to put out the (unfinished) main graphics engine for what will be a basic playability alpha/beta.

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Reply to £11.99 and I'm still not willing to buy it in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

hang on, have you ever even used impulse??? Your argument is utterly ridiculous when you look at it. I mean, would you only buy things like clothes from your favourite shop and never buy anything from anywhere else? You are not going to find anyone who agrees with you over why you are not buying the game. Read this if you still think you have a point.

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Reply to Elemental: Internal debates made external in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Comparing camps 3 and 4, I prefer 3 because: Having Empire wide distribution without roads seems a little silly The warehouse idea has been used in many previous games and my experience with it is of it feeling a liittle tacky. It might encourage ICS (sorry, infinite city sprawl, an old Civ tactic) if you got a basic rate at all cities, and it sounds like the amount of resources produced would increase with more cities, rega

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Reply to Empire Total War: Buy or Pass? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Everyone will tell you a different thing. I think one of the problems with ETW is its sheer magnitude. Its such a big game that it has quite a few flaws. If you can see past the slightly dodgy (at times) AI and occasional annoying bugs its a great game. They are doing plenty of patches for it so hopefully soon it will be a lot better.

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Reply to Naval Forces? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I reckon that naval stuff will be auto-resolved anyway. Naval stuff requires a different engine to work and ETW, while being by far the best, still isn't as fun or easy to manage as land battles.

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Reply to Looking for information on Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The game is single-player focussed, just as Civ 4 is. There will be a multiplayer but its not the main focus, just as with Civ 4. So stop ranting about the multiplayer given what this game is about. Elemental is not Demigod!

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Reply to Civ 4: Colonization in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Colonization was priced as an expansion (although it is standalone). I found it 'quite' addictive and fun but not 'that' addictive and fun. Its a perfectly reasonable remake of a classic strategy game IMO. Not a patch on real Civ 4 and GalCiv though.

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Reply to Status of Beta in June? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

"I can say that Beta 0 is not going to happen in June now. We might be able to do an Alpha then but that will only go out to a very tiny number of people (maybe 100 tops). I’m reserving 10 places and the rest will come from the pre-order pool as a lottery with points given to those who have GalCiv II + Sins + Demigod. Beta 0 would likely be July at this point but I’ll know more at the end of the week." Frogboy in one of the recent

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Reply to retail expansions? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

My solution originally (for GC expansions and Sins) was "Dad, can you please pay for something using your credit card and I pay you back?" Now I have a credit card of my own [e digicons]:)[/e]

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Reply to Full disclosure on SOASE DRM? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="soase1" reply="4" id="2225284"] I went to my local Gamestop[/quote] Don't mention them [e digicons]:no:[/e] GS are not popular on Stardock forums currently after the Demigod launch fiasco (basically what happened was that Gamestop screwed up and released the game early before the Easter weekend break. Stardock hadn't bothered to put the new servers up - why would they, the game wasn't released until Tuesday - and the floo

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Reply to The Golden Ratio and 42 in Everything Else Elemental Forums

You can prove anything mystical with numbers really: I can use e, pi and the square root of -1 to get an integer answer (-1) If you take any number, raise it to the power of a prime (provided your original number isn't a multiple of that prime) and divide by the prime, the remainder will be your original number ie (a^p)/p has remainder a.

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Pre-ordering question in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm intending to pre-order Elemental, but I have some important questions: I have a download limit imposed on me most of the time, so what sort of size would the downloads be? I could pre-order the box as well, but since I'm non-US it comes with sizeable p+p, so download would be preferable. If I pre-order the download only and find that I can't cope with the download, can I change my order to include the box as well (with an extra p+p payme

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Reply to Elemental: Internal debates made external in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

For 1 to be effective, a good governer system is imperative. Perhaps the best idea would be for everything to start automatically, with the option of changing it. For example: You build a zzz mine at xxx The resource is automatically assigned to a nearby town/city, with preference given to larger and more developed towns (or ones with better industries). A message comes up on the screen - yyy is now receiving zzz

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