astrath

astrath

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Reply to Fences: A clean desktop for the cluttered user in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="5" id="2049252"] Csn you make it compatible with RightClick? At the moment if I enable RC I lose the frames options, and I can't find a way of adding them to the RC menuWhat do you mean by "frame options"?[/quote] Sorry I meant fence options - rename fence, customize fence etc on the menu when you right-click on a fence or the desktop. If you enable RC they disappear from the menu (even when the cursor is over a fence)

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Reply to What is your biggest hope/biggest fear regarding EWOM? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I remember an interview with one of the cast of Lord of the Rings where he said "our biggest fear was that sometimes depite all the right ingredients being there, a film just doesn't quite click. But when we first saw what Peter had emerged from the cutting room with, we knew it had" If this was being completely internally developed, I might have had that very fear. But given the massive betaing EWOM is going to have, I simply can't see that happening.

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Reply to Fences: A clean desktop for the cluttered user in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Already got it and its a really useful program. Two gripes though: Impulse is demanding a registration in order to download an update. Since it was free, I don't have one to give it Csn you make it compatible with RightClick? At the moment if I enable RC I lose the frames options, and I can't find a way of adding them to the RC menu Otherwise, [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

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Reply to GC vs SE in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They both won Strategy game of the year awards... With GC2, I would strongly recommend getting the Ulitmate edition bundle (with both expansion packs) and then updating (free but needing the expansions) to version 2.0. Both expansions won IGNs expansion of the year award (DA beating Civ 4 Beyond the Sword, TA beating Warcraft Lich King) As for SoaSE, Entrenchment is currently in beta, so you can discount those bug reports. The vanilla

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Reply to United Nations? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I wouldn't mind a council of sorts, maybe a council of men and a council of the fallen. Perhaps the best way to implement it would be after each eampire is developed to a certain extent and everyone is aware of each other - maybe a race could develop the ablilty to summon a council, where you choose whether to attend or not. The main thing that annoyed me a bit with the UP in GC2 was the fact that it only included races you'd run into, which seemed a bit wierd.</p

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Reply to I will never play again! in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I have to say, the 'no you b*****d!' quality in GalCiv has to be one of the main factors of why its such a good game. I leave mega events on always. In the end, most games are always winnable once you find a particular strategy and you can keep on winning time after time. In the end, I like strategy games to require exactly that - strategy! And the best strategy is the one that can be altered if the circumstances change. I can name several games I just stopped pl

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Reply to New harddrive. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I was just over at the Empire TW forums reading a thread discussing how bad the game is going to be over a month before the game is released. Maybe I should just stay here [e digicons]:)[/e]

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Reply to Impulse Lincense in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="3" id="2035509"] Pfft! Zubaz isn't official, I know he stole that logo.[/quote] And I know where Annatar stole all his karma from [e digicons]:P[/e]

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Reply to How to stop the "steamroller effect" in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

If SD can pull off this sort of thing then it would be quite an achievement, because there is a very fine balance between a) giving smaller empires a chance, b) not doing this in such a way as to make it pointless to attack so nobody does anything the whole game and c) not making it too much a game of luck, which can be spectacularly frustrating.

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Reply to Long running imbalnaces. in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

One reason football is the most popular game in the world is that regardless of ability, smaller teams always have a chance against bigger ones. The element of chance and luck makes it all the more exciting (if you catch my drift)

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Reply to What game should Stardock make next? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There's no need for a foray into RPGs from a company thats rapidly become the best in the world at TBS. DethAdder, Elemental will have a 64-bit edition as welll as a 32-bit version. Those early screenshots were just to give an idea of the style. Seeing as the first beta isn't for months and the game isn't out for over a year i think we can safely assume they will be light-years better by then. Give them a chance to make the game first before complainin

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Reply to Independent Kingdoms? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="14" id="2007660"]Despite my dislike of LOTR [/quote] [e digicons]:thumbsdown:[/e] Lol everyone is entitled to an opinion

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Reply to Why Impulse sucks -- Impulse vs Steam in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Why Impulse is better than Steam: They don't charge 1$ : 1£ which is possibly the biggest ripoff in gaming history Automatic updates for all games You can redownload games as many times as you like once they are registered Its Stardock, and we all love Stardock here [e digicons]:inlove:[/e] This thread could be quite a useful debate if a) it was in the right forum and b ) i

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