Aractain

Reply to Road Building…Your thoughts? in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

Wow this is clearly the MOST important issue in the game. Personally I like the mixed idea best. Its annoying to have to build roads from city to city which is a nessesary part of the game. But I still want to give road benifits to other places. I dont like workers, unless they are automated but manually assigning tens or hundreds of units indavidual orders is annoying. Having the game automate the obvious connections like between citys or

Reply to SupCom 2 Demo out now! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

From other's impressions Im getting a little scared.

Reply to How to make sure instant resolve doesn’t make us sad in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="48" id="2547839"]For a summary that's not bad minus the fact you spelled "Brutally" wrong 3 times in a row.[/quote] :( Woe is me!

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Im not a big compeative player (read: not at all), Im co-op focused (2 of us). Thus GalCiv2 was not what I 'wanted' but I really loved it. If you are a speed player most AIs in most games will not be good enough for you. I make an effort not to do the 'best' thing but what I find 'fun' which usually meansindirectly increaseing the difficulty of the game by actually playing it! If GalvCiv3 can deliver multiplayer (coop like Civ4) and real time tactical battles (like Nexus or combat par

Reply to How to make sure instant resolve doesn’t make us sad in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

"Your feirce Amazon Warriors got stuck on a rock formation." "Oh no! An enemy has attacked your Amazon Warriors burtally!" "Oh no! An enemy has attacked your Amazon Warriors burtally!" "Oh no! An enemy has attacked your Amazon Warriors burtally!" ... "Your Amazon Warriors, alas, have died in a storm of glory but managed to kill [0] enemy forces!" :P

Reply to Question about the content of the cancelled micro-expansion. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

... I think im scarred for life.

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

They arealdy do way more than play games. And sony and MS are clearly trying to diversify into whatever they can that dosn't compete with the games market.

Reply to Changing Shield Textures in Sins Modding Sins Forums

It uses a 3d noise map to determin the xy coordinates and over time it shifts the texture by going through the values for each vert. It looks like it uses the enviroment map (skybox cube) to texture it. I don't know that much about these shaders or how much you can do in them but there dosn't seem to be an obvious way to do what you want with a texture. I certianly don't know of a algorithm that will produce a hex grid. Technically it should be possible since yo

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="52" id="2545029"]It was just... messy.[/quote] Sounds fun! [quote who="Nesrie" reply="52" id="2545029"]The Civ series certainly has not be perfect, and I agree with the others, Civ V has to offer a lot more than hexagons to get me to switch.[/quote] This is already on my preorder list. Even if it isn't quite as good as Civ4 it will probably still be fun, especially the way I play it. I would probably buy Civ4 with better graphics and hexagon

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="86" id="2545168"] Quoting -RAISTLIN-, reply 83 Quoting kyogre12, reply 69 Who will win, console player vs. PC player, doesn't matter. For one thing, you're never going to run into that scenario. Who cares if a mouse+keyboard is more "precise." You should do what gives you the most fun. There is no "definitive" control method, because it doesn't matter. if you dont understand the nature of the conversation i s

Reply to How to make sure instant resolve doesn’t make us sad in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

Would be nice if we could try have good units preserved in an auto resolve. So many times in Total War im fighting with a full stack vs a 3 unit malitia stack and ALL of my units take damage. ALL of them. Including the important cannons which are harder to replace. Why are my support units loosing men in that battle? (I know why its because it just does a % based loss for the whole stack pretty much). If it dosn't do that - thats a massive step forward.

Reply to Elemental: Modding in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="22" id="2545167"] Quoting Aractain, reply 20 I still don't see whats wrong with that.... Nothing really, I would just prefer half-naked sexy human barbarian women to half-naked night elves.[/quote] Diablo III

Reply to Elemental: Modding in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="18" id="2544960"]Looks like its from ME2 and his/her Shepard is equipped with the targeting visor that grants additional headshot damage.[/quote] It looks more like a crappy fallout3 mod from the low quality graphics lol (Its clearly not in case you didn't get it. None of the fallout 3 faces look anything like that from the side - unless its one I havn't tried....)

Reply to Elemental: Modding in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="14" id="2544876"]Rule 34 of the Internet. If it exists, there is porn of it. Once it's possible to mod Elemental, I have a feeling it will be a very short while before half-naked night elves show up. Or half-naked anything else that's female for that matter.[/quote] I still don't see whats wrong with that....

Reply to How to make sure instant resolve doesn’t make us sad in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

I approve of this. Now then, the loot tab... Is there any purples?

Reply to Elemental: Modding in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

Maybe Python will be the next language I learn... Are there any limitations that you planned ahead of time that you can't/wont support?

Reply to Question about the content of the cancelled micro-expansion. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Sins of a Solar City. An sci-fi RPG set in an Advent city where the character helps to uncover a human conspiracy to enslave the sub-race through diplomacy. On the way many interesting characters and places are talked to and visted including Commander Adammaie the local Advent millitary command who will join your team and is a romance option (which will be lesbian only since your advent and males are worthless). Gameplay will involve moving around the super fast tram network to old an

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Yeah PCs do FPS and third person action better than consoles. Sorry. Want to know what consoles do better than PCs on default controls? Driving games. You have analoge control sticks for it on the base controller, PCs simply don't have anything compareable without getting something custom, like the same controller you have on the console... ups lol Its better after that though. :P Obviously one thing PCs don't want to do very well is social

Reply to Star Trek Online in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I raided in EQ2 which was kinda fun but it got very boring very fast when your not at the top be you still have to repeat 5 boring runs every week. Not to mention surrounded by some idiots. Instead I got into playing duo. Its a nice challange and way more fun. We duo the solo content (usually by pulling as many mobs as possible and AOE em down) the group quests and most of the normal difficulty dungeons. We found that in some places you simple REQUIRE 3 players. Without the basic arch

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="55" id="2544109"]I think the console vs PC wars are just a stupid. I've been hearing the same argument for decades now. It never changes. There's plenty of room for them all. Lately it's some console fans wanting the death of PC gaming. I can't even imagine why someone would want the death of a competitor. I think the consoles offer something different that is appealing anyway even if there are multiplatform titles.[/quote] Im a very PC only p

Reply to Ubisoft is dropping PC DRM but.... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

They will say that because no pirates can hack thier game anymore the sales have gone down because the pirates arn't buying it anymore. We will all go "HUH?!?" at their backwards logic.

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="ZippyIp" reply="52" id="2544011"]Elemental is the only PC title on the entire list that isn't another sequel. I intend to buy Elemental on that quality alone!!!![/quote] Damn your right, ouch. I knew there was a lot of sequels but the number this year is a little over the top when you think about it. The activision effect. Now that I think about it, other than Ella, I can't think of a major game Im looking forward too that isn't a follow on

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="bluebogle" reply="45" id="2543774"]Hey, if there's anything PCs excel at... [/quote] Its downloading porn.

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

6 (kinda) Stratergy games on that list... lol.

Reply to Star Trek Online in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Humm sounds as if they leaned too heavily on the idea of short attention span fools who made barrens chat famous... Oh wait, thats the mass market. Damn.