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Valve takes the same cut of a steam sale if you use steam works or not. In that sense, it is free. Its te not free in the sense that it ties the game to steam. Considering steams position in the market, that is a very easily swallowed cost for many developers. It's not time and it's not money, and those are the two things in short supply.

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="28" id="3437212"] Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 27 I wish I knew who that was. Horatio is race from Endless Space, you should know them already. Adam Jensen is protagonist from Deus Ex: Human Revolution, one of the best games of that year for me, and one of the best games of last few years. I don't throw titles of "OMG, GOTY, 11/10!", so, decide for yourself. [/quote] Seconded. Top notch game, and you can get

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[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="31" id="3437030"] Can my phone do that for the laptop? and here's a fun fact. I confirmed my tethering speed was 15kbps! And some dish nation employees told me there internet sucks and should get Comcast.[/quote] It depends on the phone, and I'm told in the US it may also depend on your plan (here in Canada it's always enabled if your phone supports it). On my iPhone, I can tell it to create a wifi hotspot, and then I can connect

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[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="28" id="3436865"] If I have to "pay though the nose" for Comcast then I will, but I have a laptop could I get let say 50MBps though the air instead of landline cable? Is that possible? I have never had a landline connection but could that work for a laptop and still be able to move it? sorry if I sound dumb but I am hearing alot of voices trying to help which I appreciate.[/quote] It's possible, but it's not very likely. You could

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[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="9" id="3436992"]But seriously, I wish Stardock was a little less vague in answering questions, the alpha tests are only a few weeks away![/quote] A bunch of stuff won't be in the alpha, and other stuff is probably subject to change. Game development is funny that way, they likely don't know for sure a lot of the answers yet and don't want to give "whats likely" answers because if they do and it changes people come back with "you said X!"

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[quote who="AngelicHunter" reply="35" id="3437010"] I think constructors should be very very very expensive to build and should take a quite some time to build as well as they will play a huge role in defending and attacking certain spots on the map.[/quote] That'll probably be the case if your "constructor" is actually 15 constructors in one, now that you can have multiple construction modules on a ship. Course, it'll also make it way less annoying since it's 15 con

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[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="29" id="3436984"] I just want late-game starbases to be able to repel larger attacks on them on their own. Honestly, every other change is peripheral to me.[/quote] How big? A Starbase should be able to defend itself effectively, but if I bring my two strongest fleets at it and it still wins, how are the things ever going to be defeated?

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[quote who="AngelicHunter" reply="28" id="3436976"] I also have a question for you guys. Why does it say I'm offline even when I'm logged in and I have confirmed my account and everything? I'm confused. I was able to change my Avatar and I'm able to post yet I'm always offline?[/quote] Since it's doing the same thing to me, I'd imagine that's a bug of some kind.

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If a friend has it, get their copy from the stream folder and do a verify. That will take far less time on a slow connection.

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4G is a term for a type of wireless networking, not a speed. 4G can mean a lot of different speeds, depending on what you get. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G if your signal is strong it's reasonably fast, so that's fine. Data limits might be an issue depending on how big your cap is.

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[quote who="jim_viebke" reply="4" id="3436769"] "Simultaneous planning and sequential execution" Does this mean my bro and I will each need a copy to play together? (with Sins we just do offline-mode LAN)[/quote] Yes. It's too bad, the play with a friend on LAN thing Sins did was a great way to introduce the game to people.

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I got GalCiv 2 on sale after playing Sins for a while, and got hooked. I was never super good at it, but the ship designer and empire building kept me coming back. Eagerly awaiting more of that! Also excited for MP, since Im always looking for good coop games to play with my best friend. He lived in the US so we don't see each other that often in person, but we do a lot of gaming.

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Is that a zoo on the influence one? No wonder it's influential!

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It's the future (the present actually) because on my 80Mbps connection I can download a gsme faster than I can drive to the store to buy it. They always have it in stock. Stardock makes vastly more per copy sold than at retail. Sales are common. Entire genres of indie games wouldn't exist right now if not for digital distribution. Retail only works for very big releases.

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Alpha is tentatively due in March, there will be a flood of information (and videos most likely) once we get our hands on that!

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Stardock said this, today : [quote]Ray: We have a new combat system that we are planning for after the alpha. But we don’t want to mislead people – Galactic Civilizations isn’t about fighting long tactical battles. You are controlling a civilization that spans the galaxy and your focus is on producing and placing your fleets, not in giving every order in a battle

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[quote who="JoeSmiker" reply="63" id="3436456"] well gaunathor I've read all of this and all the links and at first ship role seems like nothing. But as the demanding voice that is tactical combat grew there comments shifted with what they said they were developing. Look at the DATES they change with time and stop bringing up that interview it doesn't help you they conflict in statements made. your dead wrong and DARCA1213 is right on everything. Fleet roles and those"ship-stats

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[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="12" id="3436314"] Quoting Tridus, reply 10 That's at the strategy layer, it has no bearing on combat at all. It's in reply 7. Actually you will be able to give your ship types fighting style when you make them probably in the ship yard. I hope they will give me a way to change this for individual ships. The Ai will build the player designs. The actual combat will be automated. We know this will be none thing lik

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="13" id="3436247"] Oregon, heading out to a concert (the classical orchestra kind).[/quote] nice, have fun!

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Here's some more on that, including stuff happening in 8.1 update 1 . They're clearly not abandoning the desktop mode, given the effort going into making Metro suck less while on the desktop.

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huh, go figure.

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They already brought back the button in 8.1, along with boot to desktop. It's just that the 8.1 button brings up the metro start screen instead of the start menu. That is the part likely changing back, along with metro apps being able to coexist in desktop mode (without needing Modernmix from Stsrdock). There is also a goal to unify Windows into fewer versions, though I'm not sure when that will actually happen. Mobile is key to Microsofts strategy as they need to grow t

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="8" id="3435961"] Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 7 Actually they recently announced they were working on it since 2011. Is that GC3 itself? When did they start work on the engine?[/quote] Elemental. This engine is a modified version of the one made for that.

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="100" id="3435919"] Do either of you have pointers to credible disclosures of your statements? I really do hate rumors and "the rumor mill". Tridus, while the statements you used to support your counter-argument do sound rational, I can't help but notice they look like nothing more than rationalizations to support it. This is why I am asking for credible links.[/quote] Depends how you define credible at this point. It's too e

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[quote who="AngelicHunter" reply="19" id="3435905"] What about Alpha? Any predicted start date for Alpha?[/quote] Late February, if everything goes according to plan. Since that never happens in real life, I'd bet March sometime. :)