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Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The topic of discussion is DRM and piracy. We are however discussing a perfectly legitimate article. Bringing down the hammer at this point would only break the anvil.

Reply to I know it's been argued before... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I was actually talking about the initial install, even if you back up a game it still requires the Impulse software to break open the archive. And patches are another issue, I can't imagine why you would pass up on one unless it was bugged.

Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

A group called FreeAllegiance is still alive and kicking however. I had a look but the game is a bit too detailed for me to get into.

Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Correction, if they make crap games and don't fix them. I have enough faith in both companies that they would never put out something that is beyond hope.

Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Complaining that Steam is bloated is like complaining that your locked house door is bloated because you have to put the key in the lock every single time. You could leave the door unlocked or remove it entirely, but why would you? You house would become cold and raccoons would come in and steal your cake! The man down the street with his fancy smancy keycard lock also has to swipe the key in every time to unlock his door, but he probably wouldn't refer to the experience as bloat. Its

Reply to I know it's been argued before... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Impulse does require you to run it at least once, which is effectively the same thing. And Steam is NOT a resource hog unless your computer is a dinosaur and or has cancer. I could say the same thing for Impulse if you turn quick-launch on.

Reply to 'Megamagic' for Multiplayer: Channeler's Death Curse in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Nothing wrong with this as a concept. You are basically turning youself into a trap for revenge purposes. This is magic power that you store in yourself and so can't use for anything else so you would have to give it a lot of thought beforehand.

Reply to Seperate mount attacks in combat in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="11" id="1973165"]There is no 'obvious how much is too much,' except for individual players. IMO, devs and critics are better off if we all focus on an assumption that underlying complexity is good but that how and when players must directly engage with that complexity is a matter of taste.[/quote] Of course. But before we ask for anything we have to be sure of what we want. Its pretty obvious that pidgeon doesn't like the idea, which is good. If he doesn

Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

If Valve and or Stardock ever does go out of business I'm sure they would make the effort to remove the copy protection and not leave the legitimate gamers hanging. Its likely that piracy would still be an issue if the properties are bought by another company however. I really don't get what people mean when they say that steam slows down thier computer. It uses 1% of my ram and none of my cpu power unless I ask it to do something. People complaining probably have older computers or j

Reply to Any comments on Space Rnagers 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

One question, I know the game can't run at 1600X1200 but can it run in a window? The native res of my moniter is 1600x1200 and if programs deviate from that then 9 times out of 10 they look like crap. [e digicons]>_>[/e] Edit: Make that two questions. Since the game was translated from its original Russian, how good is the dialog? Some games can get pretty horrific, Witcher for example before the update.

Reply to I have an interesting idea for a game... in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

You could try roguelikes. ToME allows you to play as a vampire in the Tolkien setting. Its rather hard however, the game is very realistic within its limits.

Reply to What do we talk about the most in Elemental Ideas? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Is the word cloud for the forums as a whole? Oddly enough Channeler seems to be the least mentioned worde I have come across. At least in the ideas forum.

Reply to Stardock what in the heck is this? What happend to your Bill of Rights? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Please stop perpetuating the blind hysteria. The Securom in Sacred 2 does not use a rootkit. Unlike say, Daemon Tools. So you won't purchase Sacred 2 from Impulse because Stardock informed you up front about the DRM? Perfectly fair. But given that you now will never purchase the game from anywhere else, how is Stardock at fault here? Stardock can not force other companies to follow the bill of rights, they can only lead by example.

Reply to HELP: good MMORPG in Everything Else Elemental Forums

WoW is like delicious fruit. It matures, then grows, then it ripens, then it rots . The first time you bite into a rotten apple will be the last time you bite into a rotten apple. But you will probably never bite into a ripe apple either.

Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Good article. The only real argument that pirates can come up with is that piracy is fun and free. That doesn't stop it from being a crime. And what they all seem to forget is that the less they support the game developers, the less games we will have to play in the end. I have high hopes for Impulse as a competitor to Steam but I do recognize that Steam is a viable model as well. Steam is a phone home internet activation system, but it bundles that with convenience. Sure it requires

Reply to Seperate mount attacks in combat in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Supply trains are important because it means that most armies would be linked to the empire that sent them. This would prevent an army from simply running to the center of your empire and attacking an inner city. If they make a hole in your defenses you can simply close the hole and the invading army will eventually starve if nothing else. If I was making a system like that I woundn't anything to do with wagon units with Starcraft level micromanagement. But something akin to the control point

Reply to Early Beta Preference in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The point of a beta is to let monkeys loose upon its workings so that they break it. Then the angry monkeys yell at the developers about how things are broken and they get fixed. The end result is hopefully a good game. Also bananas. [e digicons];P[/e]

Reply to Seperate mount attacks in combat in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Yeah well, I'm not done argueing with myself yet. [e digicons]*_*[/e] Having a supply train might be a pain for you but it could also be a pain for your enemy if you decide to raid his. The problem is doing it in a way that is realistic enough to be interesting but simple or automated enough to be fun. As far as mounts go I think we missed the obvious answer. Make mounts more like cars. Anyone can ride a car, but if you don't know what you are doing then you can't start it, c

Reply to I know it's been argued before... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="3" id="1971688"]Impulse doesn't require an internet connection in order to play your games. You can even download the game through impulse, then uninstall impulse and still play the game. You just need impulse for the updates and multiplayer.[/quote] Yeah there you go, updates. I like sins but get entrenchment I have to have Impulse, there is no alternative. I still don't mind though. I figure I will get Valve games over

Reply to Seperate mount attacks in combat in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="4" id="1970782"]First, I hope there is no "supply train." Unless the game can handle it well automatically, that's an aspect of war that I would never want to have to manage in a game.[/quote] But then would you be okay with managing "upkeep"? Because upkeep is exactly the same thing. My point was, if you want to replace dead members of a unit they have to come from somewhere. In games like MoM new members of the unit effectively appear out of thin air

Reply to I know it's been argued before... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Occams razor, why not use both? Impulse for Stardock games and Steam for Valve games. I don't really have a preference because I think both companies are awesome. When it boils down to it both programs are really the same thing. They are DRM that requires connection to the internet to update and play. What balances this out is that same internet connection is also used to download the entire game onto our computers, and we can do this whenever and wherever we want. The only re

Reply to Early Beta Preference in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Since negative karma isn't allowed here, a karma score is just an indication that people think you have "done good". This can be something as simple as making them laugh. If Stardock is serious about any sort of "screening" then actual post content will probably count for more. Don't worry about qualifying for anything, just contributing another unique mind to the conversation by getting involved improves the community as a whole.

Reply to Death Magic in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="7" id="1970930"]You always use 100% of your brain. If you would only use 90% you would have 10% dead tissue in your head.[/quote] Eh, semantics. When I walk around my house I turn off lights as I go so that the only lit room is the one I stand in. Our brains work much the same way. -- Giant growth spells are a pet peeve of mine come to think of it. Increasing the size of objects simply does not work unless you also increase density. If yo

Reply to City styles in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Sort of. Just because a city becomes "undead" does not mean that the inhabitants will start building graveyards instead of houses. It really depends on what you mean by "necropolis". Is it just a dead city with no one around to maintain it or a city full of corpses and or zombies?

Reply to Conquest Public Beta has started! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

That power armour is almost a direct balance between Starcraft Marine armour and 40k Space Marine armour.