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I've never heard that Civ5 was "too complex" as a complaint....
[quote who="Dumhed" reply="115" id="3431681"] I'm an old-school gamer. But I'm glad that I can buy games digitally. The only thing I miss are the "extras" like cloth maps and the awesome trinkets that only losers (like me) wore like an ankh that from one of the Ultima games that I put on string and wore around my neck. [/quote] Ultima Ascention may not have been great but that Ankh pendant was awesome sauce incarnate. Hell I still wear the thing on occ
[quote who="Tharios" reply="103" id="3430802"] Love the digital media all you want. It's gonna get wiped out...20 years, tops.[/quote] http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/04/source/ Physical Media has larger problems than you imagine
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="8" id="3431057"] What is a steam card.[/quote] Basically the developer makes a series of 'cards' aka artwork pieces. Once the # of cards is determined, as you play the game you will get a random card every hour or so of game time. The game 'drops' only half the # of total cards (and duplicates count as a 'drop'). The rest if you really want them you can trade or purchase on the Steam Market. If you get all the cards,
[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="6" id="3430995"] It looks like your $15 is really $20,000. And how can we be sure a phishing ID thief can't mimic this????[/quote] Steam will attempt to collect your information when you hit 200 transactions. It only reports those moneys to the IRS if you hit $20k
Mines in space would be as effective as mines on a future earth where soldiers all have jet-packs and tanks all hover and we have teleporters.
[quote who="Cyong_" reply="3" id="3430738"] A friend of mine actually got contacted by Valve directly because they needed tax information because he sold so many of them (I think it was like over 15$ total.) That said, I just turn around and sell mine.[/quote] Steam collects your information once you hit over 200 transactions in a CALENDAR year. If you do yuou have to: 1) Provide your SSN for POTENTIAL IRS reporting purposes via a 3rd party website. You're not report
Well it's all part of Steamworks. FE has cards so tehre's no reason why tehy wouldn't make them for GalCiv3. Though who knows what other things Steam might have out by the time the game is released.
[quote who="Stringer2" reply="88" id="3430711"] When I buy a PC, the first thing I do is uninstall all Norton programs and other shit the mfg decided to put in.[/quote] I just eliminate the middle man and format the damn thing. Not like I need the 'recovery' partition to I can get MORE junk installed if the computer dies. Besides I'm usually installing it on a computer I built anyway, or I ordered for the inlaws/parents.
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[quote who="parrottmath" reply="30" id="3430458"] admiralWillyWilber Looks like you are not clean of stuff... as the text you quoted is not part of what is written above. by Plus-HD-1.3" ... Good luck in your cleaning process, as you are not completely clean yet. You may have to take some drastic measures to remove these things it appears.[/quote] I agree it appears a BHO is also installed, and god knows what else that likely attempted to i
[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="5" id="3429413"] I am bothered by the idea that seems to be building here that there won't be separate colony queues for building improvements and ship construction. IIRC, didn't GC1 (or was it GC1 for OS2) introduce this as a basic tenant? It is one of the things I really liked about the entire GC string of games.[/quote] http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/11/Main_Map.jpg </
Note that 'performance' in a game like GalCiv3 is a very very different metric to measure than in something like BF4. You'd likely need to be looking at several factors 1) 64-bit. As noted in the Oxide talks, strategic games actually are much more memory intensive than most 'brown/grey knee high concrete wall and dust simulator shooters'. Especially given the # of objects that need to be kept track of and that many such objects/terrain/etc are generally procedurall
Hotseat is honestly a feature of a bygone era. Resources are a zero sum game. "More" is not necessarily "Better". I'd rather those resources be spent in other areas like a multiplayer pit-boss server that's a bit more light weight than Civ5's pitboss 'server'. Or any number of other more practical mutliplayer features.
fire station?
Well in the spirit of screwing up Christmas I'm debating whether to name my star Krampus!
To me mines are as in "Star Trek" parlance "thinking in 2 dimensions". In space a 'mine field' makes little sense. Simply from an entirely spatial concept the odds of you hitting any kind of actual mine would be close to zero. Even a turret system you could jsut 'avoid' by doing literally anything, going above below, etc. Now what would make more sense would be if a turret or mine field were associated more directly with specific resources/planets/starbases/etc
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="31" id="3429059"] This is my first Alpha to I think I know what to exqect.[/quote] Well it's an alpha so just be mindful that bugs will be plentiful, the game may be incredibly unoptimized, features will likely not exist, the game may crash, the game may not even run on specific hardware platforms, etc. It is the proverbial "seeing how the sausage is made" and its generally pretty ugly process.
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Merry Christmas as well Definitely looking forward to the Alpha/Beta (once I scrape up enough dough :P) Whilst our pitchforks and propane fueled torches may indicate we are a rabid mob out for blood, I do believe that the community as a whole wants the same thing as yourself, the best game evah!. Sometimes designers and the community may not see eye to eye on how that should happen, but I think in the end we all have similar goals. It's definitely hard to know what feedbac
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[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="9" id="3427309"] Oh, that reminds me of the old "CPU not supported" in the original Alpha Centauri. And do we care that the CPU is not supported??? NO!!!!!!!!!!!! I always wondered what dummass moron programmed that one in, and what they were thinking, given the fast evolution of computer technology going on all around them? Besides, what is the worst thing that can happen, the computer crashes? Oh dear, cannot risk that possibility, lets
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[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="17" id="3428370"] I must have the adblocker off how do I turn it on.[/quote] Blocking the ads isnt the solution The solution is WHY are they there. You should at the bare minimum run a Spybot S&D and a full and deep virus scan. I suspect the level of infection cause the CDC to quarantine everythign within 50 miles. If you still can't find something, then the virus is DEEP in your system. You ill have to save
For #1 Using My Documents for all USER files is now STANDARD. Your save games and user files belong in My Documents. This is especially important sine all WIndows migration tools EXPECT user files to be in My Documents only. Your saves and config files need to be there. Microsoft has created My Games whichi s a standard sub-folder for game makers to put game type files in. Note this is aa VAST improvement over trying to figure out how each game may or may not be storing save g
[quote who="Wetballs" reply="65" id="3426528"] Thanks for the explanation! I'll bet most people wait for the sales though, so I wonder how much money companies actually make selling games at full price throughout the year.[/quote] This depends but pre-order bonuses are ways to entice customers to pre-order. These are important on the retail space because most of your sales happen only within the first 1-2 months. So pre-orders are critical. [quote] If I see a ga
[quote who="Tridus" reply="62" id="3426337"] FTL isn't a Steamworks game, it's just using Steam for distribution.[/quote] Indeed. If you purchase the game from their website, or the Humble Store, you get a DRM free version, in addition to a Steam Key. Which is why it's always good to check if the Humble Store.
ITs 'technically' possible to have a game 1) use steamworks 2) be able to be run without steam running The only game taht has currenlty done this is Larian Software's Dragon Commander. If steam is running you get all the steamworks stuff like matchmakking achievements,etc. if its nto you get a more basic multiplayer thing no achievements. Note though that FE:LH is 'supposed' to not run without steam but it dose require it. SO it'
[quote who="Wetballs" reply="52" id="3426001"] This is true. Before bowing to Steam, I went out of my way to find physical copies of both Endless Space and Sleeping Dogs. Ordered them from Amazon and then waited for a month while they shipped from overseas. When I finally got them and slugged the disks into the drive, the first thing they both did was install steam! That's when I gave up resistance. Now I check Steam every night for sales.[/q