Aractain

Aractain

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Reply to Elemental: Day 0 Preview in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Developers... handing out patches... that's no basis for a system of government. It does me good to see that your meger forces protecting the tactical battles were easily defeated by logic and Truth. It is said in the scrolls of yore; "Tactical battles shall commeth, and when they commeth there wi

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Reply to Shared Co-op Multiplayer in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

Anno 1440 venice had the shared faction thing aswell, was interesting but mutliplayer was a sandbox there and didn't last long. I find it much more fun with seperate empires but with preset alliances that share vision, wars - just not resources. Civ4 is a great example of how to do it well. Total War is an example of how to do co-op terribadly.

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Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Dont worry if Steam is destroyed tomorrow by nukes, your new chinese overlords will provide you viss mana game! China vill be vary gonous! Da China Gomant shall tweat amacans vary gaad!

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Reply to Elemental & Multiplayer - an essay in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

Latest MMO developer: We have awesome new game! Player: Where is the 5 mans? Devs: Errr.. well.. They didn't ork very well so we took them out. Player: But 5 mans are awesome... Why did you take them out? Devs: We tried to make them work but ultimately we found that if the healer of the group wasn't very good, well, then the group would wipe and that wasn't fun. Player: ..... So you removed them? Devs: Yes. Player: Because a player might

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Reply to Elemental: Game Play Example – Part 5 in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="Storm" reply="4" id="2719763"]Pretty bloody exciting! This in itself is an argument for MP Tactical Battles! [/quote] Exactly what I was thinking as I read through it. This is exactly why I love total war, it gives your grand stratergy a intimate context and that context will be gone in Elemental multiplayer. Civ 5 will have to do I guess. Anyway, back to your non whiney posts.

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Reply to Elemental & Multiplayer - an essay in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

Thats what I don't get. His reason was "people will flame" but with an option they could not flame because there would be no tactical battles if switched off (or they have no one that wants to play the same way as them - can't flame Stardock for that can you?). With an option the coopers and communitys wont flame either. Maybe they would flame that they arn't good enough or whatever but thats not the point, why would anyone flame about a feature that you can turn completly OFF or have

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Reply to Elemental & Multiplayer - an essay in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

That was not an insult - you talk, rightly, about how Brad dosn't really do TBS multiplayer and how hes probably not the best guy to decide how to make one. However there are more people than just Frogboy, there are other people working on Elemental. Perhaps some of those actually LIKE multiplayer who would be guiding this more? What is there input into this? If TBs are the same as single player they should be as fun as single player, the only thing mentioned about them was that they

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Reply to Elemental & Multiplayer - an essay in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

He said "I don't find Elemental's multiplayer in 1.0 to be fun in general." I don't see him mention tactical battles as the cause, just a cause for whiners, lol. Other than special items and the like the TBs would be the same as SP no? Maybe someone else on their team gudied the multiplayer process more than Brad since he dosn't really like multiplayer in this kind of game anyway?

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Reply to Elemental & Multiplayer - an essay in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

I think a game like this without tactical battles is not really a full game, its like playing X-Com without the tactical battles. Its like reading a book or watching a film and skipping all the action scenes. It removes a significant context from the game. If multiplayer isn't fun WITH tactical battles, I don't see how removing them makes it MORE fun. When its an 'hosting' option I don't see the problem. Yeah for random people but I always thought the biggest multiplayer audiance (as

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Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

Actualy WoW has a trial which is fully useable for 10 days (recruit a friend) and THEN they have to pay. (And you get a super awesome mount if they do pay). Getting large amounts of people to play in LAN or even over internet is hard. They need demos and if its about the multiplayer they need a multiplayer demo. Its not a big issue for me because I have no friends. :( It seems like it will be a moot point anyway since it sounds like the multiplayer is not going to have lots of

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Reply to Limited edition unboxing in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="47" id="2717046"] Quoting TENGILL, reply 29On a side note, dragon looks cool but i thougt it would be bigger. Quoting KillzEmAllGod, reply 37thought the dragon would have been bigger Size doesn't matter? And btw, the dragon is real. Once you get your LE, you will be able to touch/lick/eat/swallow it, ergo real. [/quote] I didn't know you felt that way about large lizards...

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Reply to The Sims Medieval in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="42" id="2716098"] Quoting Aractain, reply 40(If I play this game does this in some way reduce my manliness or e-peen rating?) If it does I'm already a girl. Cool.[/quote] Well... If you are now a girl, you must have been something else before? So ... you have fun with your new found self. Nothing wrong with transgenders. Lots of people into that. My comment on the other hand was about how Sims

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Reply to The Sims Medieval in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Interesting... Yes the storyline being the same would be annoying. The amount of clothes avalible sounded pretty low however, I mean have you seen TERA? But it does sound fun. (If I play this game does this in some way reduce my manliness or e-peen rating?)

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Reply to [MOD] The Sins Optimization Project version 1.0 (updated 1/25/15) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="603" id="2715514"] Not to mention there is no 'trailing zeros' in the files that can have binary versions. Sure they do. I just did the strike craft reduction and even if there is no decimal value they have six zeros. [/quote] Thats the text version, in the binary version there is just a umm *checks his .mesh parsing code* 4 btye code per float. Specifically their code (whatever it is they didn't re

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