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Reply to RTSguru Chats with Stardock’s Derek Paxton about Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes in Elemental News JoeUser Forums

Me thinks the successes of X-COM mayth opened the eyes of Stardock! At least a tiny bit, this is not a combat simulator. [quote who="willie sanderson" reply="1" id="3320487"]And so the DUMBING down of the game begins.[/quote] Damage categories math is an archaic relic of PnP days because player options are a bit limited. Look, what is more fun? Do you like having the choice of getting that 100% aim bonus for your sniper rifle at

Reply to How Liberals Think in Democrat JoeUser Forums

[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="2" id="3320211"]No, true liberals seek out causality and correct it with little regard to "traditional" outlooks. Neo-cons have a perverted outlook that is, in effect, a terrible form of what communism leads to. *corporate welfare and economic cronyism, rigid authoritarianism, leadership Darwinism* True conservatives just have outmoded outlooks that do not jive with scientific progress. eg: Once baby boomers are gone, social progress can co

How Liberals Think in Democrat JoeUser Forums

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXgGS50AVY[/video] If you've ever wanted to really know, he does a good job explaining it. Btw, I showed this to a friend who is a self described nihilist. He explained that this specific progressive view is for the most part the philosophy of Nihilism and the average left doesn't even know it.

Reply to Let's talk about crafting... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Just unite the two smiting tech trees (iron & crystal) to create superior items, weapons, armor etc.

Reply to Internet Hate in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Anyone else finding these arguments hypocritical? A quick Google will reveal J. Wilson leveraged his celebrity status to shat all over his predecessor's career with hate. When considering how small that fresh indie game company is, bad press can be devastating. Ironically this was right after the victim's interview where the analysis of Diablo 3 was mostly neutral and respectfully professional. Granted it wasn't exactly positive either but it definitely was

Reply to RTS’s aren’t dying. They’re waiting in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Completely agree sir. Anyone remember that 4th dimensional time traveling RTS game Achron ? It failed for many reasons but the big one was hardware limitations. Outdated engine, windows x32 system memory limit, no multicore, etc. The funny thing was despite Achron's severe shortcomings in game design or lackluster visuals, going back to the old school 2nd dimension RTS just didn't feel right. It's wei

Reply to RTS is a dying market... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

This article was timed to the Starcraft2: Heart of the Swarm expansion release. If RTS is dying then we will see it in Blizzard sales. The expensive production values they have pumped is just ridiculous.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes FAQ in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Wow I come back from Hiatus and FE has the new expansion announced, exciting timing. Will the emails for beta be out March 5th then? It's disappointing to hear that Steam will be a requirement. Sadly not everyone can run Steam in offline mode, that includes myself.

Reply to The Past, Present and Future of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Whatever decision Stardock makes please do it really well. Meaning if you go tactical combat then go all out this time.

Reply to Research is boring in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Maybe what's needed is a tech race? Civ4 doled out special rewards to factions for being the first to get a specific technology, like founding a new religion for example. The effect seems somewhat subtle at first but it is fun. Of course Civ4's relatively wide branching tech tree forced a little more decision making over FE.

Reply to Discussions on Starting Location Characteristics and City Booster Spells, ie. Making the Start Less Rigid. =) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="25" id="3190463"]Actually, the intended design is that expansion is always better. The limitation is your ability to clear an area of hostiles in order to expand. That limit is severely lacking to be sure. I am not sure if this is even the intended design or just the most recent stated design. Right now the early game offers few monster related limitations to expansion. Prestige offers some limitation, but only in as much as you need to level your Sov to fuel growth

Reply to Discussions on Starting Location Characteristics and City Booster Spells, ie. Making the Start Less Rigid. =) in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Fast expand or immediate build up? Oh wait, since all starting locations are the same, plus Derek said more is better and build queues can be moved around at the player's discretion, then that means I can follow a near no brainer opening strategy every time. No thanks OP, I think Kongdej is right on the mark here. Let's all hope beta 4 doesn't turn into an early city spam rush. When it come

Reply to FE beta 3 - what's missing? Stuff for the sequel in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] 6) Lots of new tactical stuff. I know this is vague, but look at Might and Magic Heroes 6, it is pure candy in tactical battles. The basic unit for the Haven faction has a trait which makes the unit redirect 50% of all damage suffered by adjacent friendlies to itself. That trait alone is better (more interesting) than 90% of the traits in FE. That's just an example, but to me, the organic way forward for making units while keeping them designable is mutually ex

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Beta 4 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Building fort/military cities could become a bit odd under this new system. On one hand you desire a maxxed out fort city for the best troops but every legion you create becomes a source of food consumption and an advancement detractor. So the best strategy is to let the military cities sit there and vegetate until level 5. It wasn't such a problem before because you could access almost any improvement short of a few specials awarded on level up. Looki

Reply to Civ 5 Gods and Kings expansion in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Tom tends to focus very heavily on gameplay mechanics and their effects when writing up his reviews, even more so with expansions. It's what separates him from the rest of the mass out there IMO. Not so much into the details except for filler but entire systems getting into the nuts and bolts of what worked, what didn't, and why or why not with the occasional suggestion offered from time to time. Due to all the genres like FPS, such reviews on a game

Reply to Civ 5 Gods and Kings expansion in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Check out Tom Chick's entertaining review at Quartertothree.com . Can anyone here dispute those reasons?

Reply to Civ 5 Gods and Kings expansion in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="14" id="3178028"] Quoting enoeraew37, reply 122) I order from Getgamesgo.com for $22. We are basically paying for 2 features that should have shipped with the game to begin with..but I'll give it a shot for 20 bucks. Civ V completely redid many game mechanics that had been core to Civ II, III, and IV...trying to incorporate religion and espionage (which are not essential) would have only complicated attempts to balance completely new and unvet

Reply to Stock Ticker: Why EA's Market Valuation Has Crashed in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Don't laugh. This malaise affects the whole gaming industry, not just EA. Maybe in the long run it's a good thing "creative destruction" and all that but it is a symptom of deeper underlining problems. Notice in the article of how Activision-Blizzard is starting to show weakness. This is after Diablo 3 and right before the HOTS expansion for Starcraft2.

Reply to [eMOD] Stormworld 1.5x for FE 1.32 in FE Modding Elemental Forums

You really outdid yourself this time Heavenfall.

[BUG .915] Binding Summons not gaining levels from Summoner trait in FE Support Elemental Forums

Is this a bug or is it intentional? The text is a bit vague.

Reply to Essence in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

Everyone has been complaining about settler/outpost spam so essence is the answer?

Reply to For Greater GLory in Politics Elemental Forums

A movie's worth is sometimes bet said in the faces of its audience and I've never seen so many teary eyes come out of a theater before.

Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I too have experienced the same problems with Steam's offline mode and have been forced to use alternate DD vendors. So what can a man do? The answer is only buy multiplayer games from Steam. My only major fear at this point are the many horror stories I've read about and there certainly are a lot of them out there.

Reply to SETI’s in money trouble and may shut down in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Corporations, the great saviors of humanity. *booming music* Ah yes, Batman, Iron Man, Green Arrow and every other comic book ultra super rich archetype. That's why they're comics, so comical. [quote who="Jafo" reply="55" id="3168014"]What's this 'big scheme'.....the fears and hopes of the God-wallopers that Man is his ultimate creation?...[/quote] I think you've seen the movie Contact one too many times there Jafo. Starting

Reply to For Greater GLory in Politics Elemental Forums

Google is your friend. At least that's what Google keeps telling us. http://www.catholic.com/documents/just-war-doctrine The riddle was solved with Just War theory doctrine. Remember to keep in mind it has been revisited since the Catechism.