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But I like green!
I really don't expect to be ground combat to be that indepth in the base game. There's just too many more important things to build (including the more important fleet combat). What I would like to see is something like this: Any fleet that achieves orbital superiority can blockade a planet. The planet will contribute nothing to the empire in terms of science, credits, production, or resources. It's cut off. Maybe with enough time you should be able to force a
With the use of 64 bit, they can have a lot more stuff to work with. I'd hope that the "immense" size is a lot bigger as a result.
Expanding galaxies seems like it'd be kind of weird to code, since you have to figure out how to seed the new galaxies such that the races in them start off both with similar tech level (fairly striaghtforward), and also a similar level of development & planetary ownership, while not just mirroring the existing conditions. Seems like it's better to just use a really big galaxy. You're not going to know what's going on in most of it until later anyway, but it lets t
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[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="7" id="3414800"] Quoting Tridus, reply 5 So if the Terrans are hidden behind a forcefield on Earth, where did that Terran fleet come from in the trailer? From the pocket universe, where the Dread Lords were trapped in. Didn't you play the DL campaign (or at least read the story part of the datalinks)?[/quote] Yes, but it was many, many years ago on the campaign.
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So if the Terrans are hidden behind a forcefield on Earth, where did that Terran fleet come from in the trailer? :o
[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="2" id="3414371"] Thanks! I guess I'll just have to go to Win 7 after all. Do you happen to know the easiest way to get that? [/quote] If you're not already on it, make sure you actually have 64 bit and DX10 capable hardware. If you don't, the upgrade won't help you as the game still won't work.
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[quote who="Kobrano" reply="86" id="3414248"] You really can't carry on a conversation without labeling, or calling people names, can you? [/quote] A few posts up you're calling people idiots, and now you're complaining about name calling? Man, this just keeps getting more and more hilarious. [quote]My advice to kids like you is simple, don't worry about what other folks do, Ok?[/quote] There you go with the assumptions again, but
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[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="87" id="3414269"] I prefer it if you stopped talking. I'm in the DRM free boat, and I think you are making the boat sink.[/quote] Yeah, he's kind of the Reductio ad absurdum version of a Steam opponent. The comedic part is that he doesn't seem to realize it.
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[quote who="Kobrano" reply="79" id="3414136"] Interesting assumption, but totally incorrect[/quote] After you last post, I hope the irony of you whining about assumptions isn't lost on you. [quote]I've been involved in the software/game development/marketing business since 1989, including as a former business development manager at Stardock. So please don't make assumptions without all of the facts in your hands, Ok?[/quote] You claim to be in softwar
[quote who="satoru1" reply="78" id="3414029"] @Frogboy some people are a tad concerned about the online requirement mostly because FE:LH requires steam to run. In that, if Steam is not running, and you launch the exe directly, it launches Steam as an online authentication. i think that may cause people to feel that the game has an "online requirement".[/quote] That's Steamworks loading. Steam has to be running for Steamworks to work. But if you're alre
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[quote who="Kobrano" reply="70" id="3413784"] Don't be an idiot. I've probably spent more on software over the years then you make at your job.[/quote] Classy. When you have to resort to trolling this pathetic, you've already lost. And hey, if you actually make that much money you can afford to follow the license terms and buy multiple copies. Course you already said you don't do that, so you know. [quote]All I am saying is, start to factor fam
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It would be cool. I'd imagine ots also harder to build. Hopefully they don't do what Spore did and spend the entire budget on the editor, leaving only a shallow game surrounding it.
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[quote who="Rovert10" reply="61" id="3413552"] What in the fucking world are you talking about? He has given no indication of if he's pirating the game or not. Where in the hell does it say OH INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY? You sound like a fanboy in a rage that he hates one aspect of Steam. Do you know how he lives? All I see is that he wants sharing with his family and friends like a physical copy. Your assumption making isn't going to get you far regardless of which side
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="69" id="3413435"] We like Starbases. We don't like constructor spam, however.[/quote] [e digicons]:beer:[/e] Next round is on me. That's great news!
[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="209" id="3413493"] I keep getting the feeling that if I want an alternative to Steam, that I'm going to have to program that alternative myself. That frightens me. I'm probably not the best person to do such a thing. I'm too easily distracted and the like. Plus, I'm only one person. This is one of the reasons why I try to learn about Steam. I don't think it will die because a few or many people keep bitching about how they d
[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="29" id="3413288"] But like in real life, resource depletion could play a major role in driving conflict, especially mid-late game where players grow "complacent" with their position. In a way, this could serve as a pseudo-replacement for the Jagged Knife in that it forces the player, regardless of their level of preparation, to either compromise or fight with alien races to keep its standard of living. The critical difference is that you could see this
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[quote who="TanC" reply="51" id="3413250"] Quoting Lavo_2, reply 50 In addition, if Steam is in offline mode and you're connected to the internet (something I do on my netbook), it still manages to update the client itself itself from time to time, even if it does not touch my games. Something I find intriguing. I can verify that. It just happened to me today. Steam calling home, interesting.[/quote] Not really, Steam's updater is a system service
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[quote who="arunodayt" reply="52" id="3413308"] 1. Lazy developers - are 10GB patches ever justified if there is no new content? This has become a problem for some of my friends who are unable to buy some Steamworks games, even on DVD, because they will end up paying as much as the game itself in bandwidth costs. Not everyone has cheap bandwidth. I hope Stardock won't go down this path. Keep patch sizes reasonable.[/quote] That was caused by an older patching mechanism that
[quote who="TanC" reply="196" id="3413300"] I'm not sure that you got my point. 3000% sales is one thing, but if the game is priced at $0.50 per unit instead of let's say $15 the profit for companies may be less than what the company needs to survive. Thus the dilution of value of games. Also, games on Steam had better keep on selling else there's no real use for the infrastructure anymore. By that time you should hope that someone remembers to create a non-Steam patch
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="197" id="3413312"] I always found funny how digital distribution is so great to save costs and yet prices are the same because apparently, those huge savings are not s big (so Steam slashes as much as a regular retailer and you only save on coasters.. er.. disks?)... or some are too eager to eat big pie pieces.[/quote] You notice how a lot of genres that had been stagnating suddenly flourished when digital distribution really took off? Ther
[quote who="TanC" reply="194" id="3413249"] Quoting Voqar, reply 42 All of the arguments against Steam are completely silly compared to all the positives of the platform for both developers and gamers. Some may say that Steam hurts the bottom line...regular discounts dilute the actual value of games nowadays and Steam sales are the primary reason for this.[/quote] All those sales have done is massively boost sales. To the order of 3000% for some companies. What a