Ynglaur

Ynglaur

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Reply to Being crushed by my own kind in Blogging Stardock Forums

No worries Brad. I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and Stardock, precisely because you're willing to publicly say "we messed up, and we're going to make it right." Companies that do that...generally do just that, and end up doing well in the long run. Companies that don't eventually lose the public trust. Some industries can get away with this (e.g. health insurance, arguably telco), but software and consumer goods industries really can't. Just my 2

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Reply to Getting back into skinning in OS Customization Stardock Forums

XP still represents a huge portion of the market share, so I would continue supporting it. It's never going to generate long term growth, but can be a nice cash cow in the interim.

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Reply to Next Laptop in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Check out Sager laptops (the ODM is Clevo). While their known for their ultra-high-end machines, they also have some nice, smaller mid-range machines, some of which are starting to have USB 3.0. The build quality is also excellent.

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Reply to Drama Cleansing Thread in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I actually disagree with trying to get a subsequent version re-reviewed. There have been a number of games through the years that were terrible at release, but were far more stable and enjoyable a few patches in (Heroes of Might and Magic: Dark Avatar, anyone?). As a consumer, it would be a real service if some of the review sites posted a "six months later" review of some games. For some, it would mean things like "while there used to be 100,000 players online at a time, no

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Reply to Stardock’s Response to PC Gamer UK and RPS in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

+1 for honesty in business. I don't buy Stardock products because they're perfect; I buy them because they're supported by people who care. A little emotional attachment to one's product isn't a bad thing. FWIW, if Stardock had created Spore I would probably have gotten it. DRM and inflexible pricing have left me out, though. Instead I've spent my pennies on Impulse Weekend Deals, and pre-ordering Elemental.

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Getting Epic... in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I think Elemental is a great game, but side with those who wish the battles had more units--and units with more troops--than the small, skirmish-style that the tactical game became. I understand the reasons behind it, but my play style just prefers larger battles. So rather than sit around griping about a publisher kind enough to offer a no-questions-asked refund, I'd be interested in putting together a modding guide on how to make the game "bigger" without breaking any of the f

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Changing default locations for skins, docks, icons, et. al in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I have a smallish SSD drive, and two large media drives. The SSD drive contains most of my applications, including WindowBlinds, ObjectDock 2, IconPackager, etc. I'd like to change the default directories they use to store files. Does anyone know how to do this? Alternately, would it be simpler to use symbolic links between the real directory and the "media" directory? Running Win7 64-bit; thanks in advance for any help.

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Reply to You! Justify your existence! in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Any chance of leaving cached, pre-parsed XML attached to save games? That would speed up their loading, at least. Alternately, begin caching map data while the user is still fiddling around creating the scenario, etc.

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Reply to Game Mechanics: The Ultimate Balancing Act in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

I think it would be nice to have the final results of all trees available even if their victory conditions are disabled (possible exception: Conquest). I remember MOO3 had a set of technologies that, if Tech Victory was on would let you win the game once you had all of them, but which individually gave huge bonuses to certain parts of gameplay. Something similar would be nice. So, creating--or finding--a Forge of the Overlord doesn't make you automatically win, but might mak

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Reply to Brad’s Beta 3-B Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I really like this new economic system as outlined. Cities serve an essential purpose, but city-spamming isn't necessarily the best way to get lots of resources. We can now easily have large, inefficient kingdoms, or small, efficient ones. I like how Influence now has a larger, more direct effect as well. Seriously, some modder should remake GalCiv2 on this engine. All of the art assets are there...(and not saying GalCiv2 wasn't great; it's one

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Reply to FIIIINNNALLLLY! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="74" id="2682362"] In movies, historically, the buildings get burned Cities were rarely obliterated and the fields salted. In movies, villains would often dart through city streets lighting up buildings before they even bothered grabbing any goodies, but this is straight up Hollywood. And what's more, people don't wait around to be slaughtered and enslaved. The City of Rome was sacked, even razed, many times and that certain

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Reply to Zooming: Better or Worse? in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

I prefer for the units to stay the same size relative to their surroundings. I guess I'm okay with a little bit of wiggle for purposes of viewability--such as pewter statues being larger than their surroundings--but it should be subtle.

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Reply to Elemental Beta 3 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

I like this new magic system a lot . However, is it possible to leave the option, at least for modders, of making certain spells cost Essence? I like the idea of certain spells requiring commitment, rather than mere involvement.

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