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Reply to A Question about Map Size in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It's over 5 times the area of a Civ 4 map! I don't know how much bigger you were thinking, but it's 35840 tiles. Just to put it into more perspective...Even if half the map is water, half of the land is mountains, and there's 32 factions, that still leaves enough land for each faction to have control of 280 tiles. So if each city takes an average of 10 tiles then that's 28 cities per faction even with only a quater of the map colonizable. To me, it seems rediculously large already.

Reply to modding on a weaker system in Sins Modding Sins Forums

grunt answered a couple a questions, I'll pick up the rest. Some mods do require better specs then Sins itself, but these req's probably won't be posted because testing wasn't done to determine their minimum specs(they're mods after all). These are moslty mods that increase the graphics of the game and I can only think of 'Bailknight's Graphics Mod' but the graphics improvements from that mod are used a few others as well. You'll still be able to play the mod, but things will just slo

Reply to How to Handle Micromanagement in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Even 'fun' micromanagment get's boring when you're doing it for 50 cities, units, resources, ect. There simply isn't a way to remove micomanagment from a game when you enable players to have large empires with complex choices. And I'm actually, well, not a fan, but enjoy the complexity more then I dislike the extra monotonous clicking. I actually think Stardock is going in the right direction by limiting KD expansion rather then trying to dumb down the complexity(even though I was dis

Reply to ship supply in Sins Modding Sins Forums

An easier way is to change the gameplay.constant file in the gameinfo folder of your sins directory(you can edit it with wordpad). Look for the lines with fleetsupplydata in it and change one of them to say 10, and you'll have 10x the fleet supply then in a normal game.

Reply to I find this kinda funny. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

My Sega Genesis will work to this day as long as it doesn't get nudged.

Reply to Sovereign not a game unit in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="14" id="2387223"] Quoting Wintersong, reply 13 Yes, people will cheat load, but my point was that if you make cheat loading too powerful in favor of the player, you are severely encumbering the AI who is unable to cheat load. Let me illustrate. If you throw the sovereign at every potential battle that you might remotely win and load your game if you lose (or keep reloading every time until yo

Reply to I LOVE Incredibuild in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I guess this won't work at Stardock anymore.

Reply to [SUGGESTION] Make the ocean blue in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="25" id="2382961"]The crux of the issue is that the cloth map is solely for displaying the necessary info. If you start throwing too many colors into the mix you mar this intention. For example, when I see blue, I can quickly determine following... - If it's a blue icon, then it's somethign that belongs to a certain race - If it's a blue line, it's a river - If it's a faded patch of blue, then I know it's arctic land<br

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

No you dont have to buy the game back, but if someone buys that used game they won't be able to update it without also purchasing a new serial number from Stardock because of the way they distribute patches through Impulse.

Reply to Help with a VERY annoying problem in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="19" id="2379987"]Naah...Now password protect your computer, and avoid him logging on at all.[/quote] What?! PW protect his comp and move on? That sir(or ma'am) is no way to respond to a prank. Vengance must be taken, revenge had, and victory relsihed.

Reply to [SUGGESTION] Improve map movement in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

While I dont have the beta yet(I've been very busy since it came out and cant give myself an excuse to be lazy) I have to say I would prefer non-instant movement. It annoys the crap outta me when I accident right click the wrong spot and have to turn the unit around the next turn.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Sacrifice of Angels 2 Entrenchment in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Alpha_Sniper" reply="1202" id="2374887"] Quoting Alpha_Sniper, reply 1050I cant find the entity.manifest to replace it with the patch updates. Im qouting myself for emphasis, I still cant find it, so I still can't play the patch [/quote] You shouldn't have to do anything with the manifest.entity file. Just put the SoA2 mod folder in your entrement 1.03 mods folder and you should be able to select it from the mods menu in game.

Reply to [MOD WIP] Sacrifice of Angels 2 Entrenchment in Sins Modding Sins Forums

G-ADM_Prawn - Are you adding the file names to the manifest.entity file?

Reply to Elemental: BETA OBJECTIVES AND SCHEDULE in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Thrawn2787" reply="23" id="2373903"]One thing concerns me Beta 1C: Initial AI system Implemented So what about the betas before that? No AI? What? Just a little confused here Other than that, I can't wait for beta 1 so I can complain about it not working ( I think that in beta 1A and 1B you will simply pla

Reply to Snake with a 'foot/hand/claw' Evolution in progress? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="SyDaemon" reply="19" id="2372885"] As others have said, it's a mutation and not evolution. It simply proves gene theory; that all life based on the same building blocks which are passed down from generation to generation. How those genes got there/started reproducing is debatable depending on your views, but it's quite clear that either God created everything using DNA, and in snakes included a supressed gene for legs, or that evolution is true and that at some point long ago

Reply to Will the Beta be fun... Yes and No or yeahno if you want... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="28" id="2372730"]The beta will NOT be fun. Not beta 1 anyway. We have literally stripped out all kinds of things from what was at PAX to ensure it's not fun. Seriously.[/quote] The sad part is we know you're that evil.

Reply to Snake with a 'foot/hand/claw' Evolution in progress? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html Interesting. A snake that has a 'foot' (or hand or claw, depending how you might classify such things) growing out of its side. Does this confirm, or deny, the theory of evolution? On one hand it confirms it, since we can see a change in a life form from one generation to the next. (whether it can be passed on to another generation will probably h

Reply to My System Board Recomendations in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Wall of Text; Did Not Read. Try adding some line breaks.

Reply to Creating new Research subjects? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Relik - Before Wednesday the only modding I had ever done was adjusting values to damage or hit points. Wednesday afternoon I decided I didnt like one of the tech trees in the Sacrafice of Angels 2 mod. With no prior expierience or anything, I moved the entire tech tree around, added a ton of pre-reqs, and completely removed one tech, spending about 4 hours in the process. Just open the game research entity files after you convert them into text and the insides are self-explanatory. C

Reply to [MOD WIP] Sacrifice of Angels 2 Entrenchment in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Great mod guys! I've been following the mod for a while now and this is even better then I thought it would be. Only one minidump after 12+ hours of play. One thing I noticed though was that the Fed's tech tree was quite conjested and really, well, messy. So this afternoon and into the night I redesigned the tech tree just for the hell of it. Almost everything is the same as far as tier level goes, I think only one or two techs changed. I did remove one level of pusle cannon upgrades.

Reply to Demigod Cheats :-" ;) in Demigod Demigod Forums

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Reply to Elemental: PAX Preview Part 2 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Burress" reply="34" id="2365430"] Quoting Ron Lugge, reply 29 Sounds pretty bare bones. What exactly will we be testing for in betas 1a and 1b? Engine. Does it crash? Does it run well? Can it survive alt-tabbing? Etc etc. I hope not. I was under the impression we will be primarily testing gameplay features. I haven't read about them wanting people for the purpose you stated, though I am sure t

Reply to Back on track! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Graphics only equal gameplay up to a point. Yes you need some kind of graphical interface to play games, but once a certain level is reached, improved graphics are simply added eye candy which doesn't improve how battle are fought, cities are improved, or units move around. The best graphics in the world don't make the gameplay any better or worse then what the game is at its core mechanics. It makes it nicer to look at the first couple times, but after that if the underlying mechanics aren't

Reply to SD plans for MP (europeans take note) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

CariElf didn't tell them to leave; it was the point that if they stay they can help change the game by voicing thier concerns, by leaving they change nothing.

Reply to minimum requirments in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Sins requirments are far from a hard limit. I was able to play it on a stock Sony VAIO bought in 2004 with an intergrated graphics card and 512mb ram. It ran fine until 300+ ships jumped into a well to duke it out.