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Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="268" id="2715084"] Quoting StormbringerGT, reply 266 You vote with your wallet or so I'm told. Are you buying this game? If so, regardless of what 50 people post here the thousands who buy the game will out voice you. I bought it before beta 1, back when MP was going to have custom servers, modding, and various play modes. Thousands of people who want a SP only game are going to be happy I'm sure. I'm not one of them, and at the moment I care

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="263" id="2715076"] Quoting kryo, reply 255 The main thing is really from a support/quality of service point of view. If it's client-server, then 1) you don't have to worry about people opening ports (as most people find that sort of thing confusing and cumbersome at best), and 2) you don't have to worry about Jimbob User trying to host a game on his 486 with 56k dialup and making a horrible game for everyone else. It just provides a much more un

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

To be honest and fair I want the Single Player game. So I suppose I am "one" of the people who this game is geared towards. If they toss in other multiplayer goodies, sweet. If not this game is worth the $50 to me for the Single Player experience. Its not whats right or wrong, its my opinion towards me and the product. Whatever camp you are in a lot of people are pretending their opinion is the right opinion and other peoples are wrong. I'm not going to

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Wow! Ultimately it seems a couple people won't be buying or playing this game. Sucks to be them. I will. Hell I bought 2 copies just to show my support and that I'm cool with this system. And to counter set all those people who will use negative word of mouth I'll use positive. Already started. Mind you I'm not going to start shoving it down peoples throat at work. (even though Gamestop bitches if I don't get enough pre-orders) Still if the right customer comes through the doo

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="136" id="2714441"] Quoting killer105, reply 125 Actually it is mod communities that keep games alive longterm. Galactic Civlizations_2 had modding the same as many other games.[/quote] I fail to see why board activity equals sales for a games. Just because the boards are dead for Galactic Civ 2 doesn't mean no one is playing it. I've noticed that even if a game sells like 500,00

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

@ Jalicos While I have friends who come over to play console games and PC games there are differences. You example is slightly skewed. Street figher or even rockband as an example. One TV, one Console, one game, four controllers, four people can play sure.. Not all games allow you to do that. A lot of games and newer ones too do not allow for split screen or single console play; I have a second 360 and a lot of double games just for that reason. Whe

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="107" id="2714339"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 48 The only downsides are for those users who expect to have 1 license serve all their friends or LANs that have no Internet access at all. Not reasonable for a middle or lower class family where the father has 5 sons and/or daughters above 8 years old... $300.oo just so the family can play the game together... PLUS multiply the cost if they wish to play any expansions released.&nb

Reply to Play by e-mail? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Sadly I have always had bad experiences with play by email with Civilization being some of the worst. I guess it tends to be the people I play with and the person who organizes it. :(

Reply to Pre-Order Options? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="14" id="2713348"]You only have to run Impulse for the initial install and for any updates. After that, you can uninstall it straight from your computer if you'd like (and never update again, of course ) [/quote] You can always give Impulse a Try I have both Impulse and Steam and Impulse is a way "lighter" launch pad. No evasive software or anything like that. Mind you if you start to download 3rd pary games through Imp

Reply to Big Fat Pictures and Day 0 reporting in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Stardock always seems to be full of good stuff!

Reply to Elemental: Destiny's Embers in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Bad ass! I love when games ship with more lore and history. Bioware does a great job with the codex in Dragon Age. Good to see we will get a physical copy here! Good luck with your book! I hope to see the series continued! If you ever want to do a signing let me know we are only a little over a state away! ;)

Elemental: Destiny's Embers in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I can't wait for this book. My girlfriend works at a bookstore, which means I should be getting it soon. However I've read that the Collectors Edition also comes with a book of sorts? Is this the same novel or different? The book also comes with a campaign based. Does this take place before or after the campaign that ships with the game? 10 more days or so to wait! :D

Reply to A few scenes from the campaign in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Wow good stuff! Can't wait for the campaign!

Reply to ELEMENTAL HAS GONE GOLD! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Thanks for the insight on the process! Very interesting! Good luck with gold, I got a Collectors edition and a digital edition so I can't wait!

Reply to Why is Elemental on Steam? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] I thought Stardock and Valve (or at least Impulse and Steam) were competitors. But earlier today I found Elemental on Steam for 10% off. Reduced 55%Original 1024 x 737 [/quote]' Wot a lil wanka!

Reply to Ships? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="_Scooter_" reply="3" id="2704120"]Because pathing alone can't do it. On land, you can trace pathfinding between any two points. You can't do that if you have to load the units onto a transport, calculate a path for the transport, and then unload at the other end. Loading/unloading creates a much more complex problem. It looks like Civ5, which has a big development budget, has to some extent given up on the problem by having land units be able to a

Reply to Will there be more techs in the tech tree in final release? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="9" id="2703796"] I don't chime in here often but thats one of the most retarded things I've read in a while, KillzEmAllGod. All Betas are "quit horrid". Thats the point. You are playing an unfinished version of the game and testing different functions out. The whole point is almost to see what doesn't work. starcraft 2 had a beta to test game play, elemental's was for almost for everything and i was it is quit horrid with all the c

Reply to Anyone really care about achievements? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="14" id="2703412"]I don't mind "kill a billion enemies" achievement ... but yea "die 150 times by cliff diving" is retarded. At least, its retarded if its something people GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to do, instead of some inside joke about a level's difficulty.[/quote] Yeah I like to be rewarded for my achievements not punished. I hate jumping online in a game to see someone whos obviously trying to get ah achievement as he runs around only using

Reply to Anyone really care about achievements? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You know whats awesome about achievements. Thats exactly what they are. If you don't like them, you don't have to do them and the game still plays the same for you. That being said I enjoy them to a limited extent. I walk away from playing a game with a little more than just a save file and hours of my life gone. I really hate those hard or retarded achievements. Kill 10000000000 enemies. Or die 150 times by walking off an edge.

Reply to Will there be more techs in the tech tree in final release? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I don't chime in here often but thats one of the most retarded things I've read in a while, KillzEmAllGod. All Betas are "quit horrid". Thats the point. You are playing an unfinished version of the game and testing different functions out. The whole point is almost to see what doesn't work. I'm sorry if you thought you were downloading a Demo of a finished product, but I'm pretty sure every time you clicked on something regarding Elemental it made sure you knew

[BETA4] Out of Memory; No Boats or Harbors in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Game Froze. Music still played, could move mouse. No clicking able or zooming. Alt Tab revealed "Out of Memory" System Specs Windows 7 64bit Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz 8GB Ram 8800 GTX 768mb x2 in SLI http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9648511/Elemental0_98-2010-08-01T12-57-50-552.zip  http://dl.dropbo

Reply to Mods you would like to play.. in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="Titanx3" reply="83" id="2688592"] Quoting StormbringerGT, reply 82 I would love to play the next Fall From Heaven mod on Elemental. It makes perfect sense! FFH was created as a throwback to Master of Magic. If you haven't tried Fall From Heaven 2 for Civ IV you probably should! Anyway thats would I like to play! Fall from Heaven is being turned into a actual game.[/quote] <

Reply to Mods you would like to play.. in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

I would love to play the next Fall From Heaven mod on Elemental. It makes perfect sense! FFH was created as a throwback to Master of Magic. If you haven't tried Fall From Heaven 2 for Civ IV you probably should! Anyway thats would I like to play!