EmersonPF

EmersonPF

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Reply to How long is the campaign? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Personally, with a game like this, I'd rather have a short campaign that gets you into the tools, gameplay, story, and so on without artificially drawing out the experience. Heroes is a campaign-driven game, because the AI is usually terrible unless it's scripted, and it's not really nearly as fun as a one-map sandbox as it is in a series of "levels." Even so, HOMM5 suffered from having maps that were clearly just filler, some of which were extremely long, arduous, and boring.

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Reply to Couple of small post-release suggestions. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

On the first idea, you can already set the game to always play on the cloth map. If you go to graphics, there's a "cloth map zoom level" (or something like that) slider, which, IIRC at 100 means that you never switch over to the 3D engine.

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Reply to [Suggestion] Beta 2A - City Detail Screen (Show what Buildings are already there) in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Especially when you capture an enemy city, being able to pull up a quick buildings list would be fantastic. I understand the value of keeping things visual, and it is true that you can get a quick sense of what is in the city already, but a quick tab or screen that lets you know the exact materials, food, metals, etc production and population growth would be great.

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Reply to [0.803] [Suggestion] Don't allow teleporting of items in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Yeah, I don't mind being able to transport items. It feels unrealistic, granted, but it saves you from the silly micromanagement of sending your extra merchants or whatever gallivanting across the map just to get bracers from your eastern border to your western one. This has always been a pain in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, as LintMan points out. Maybe there's a middle ground? After researching caravans, for example, maybe you can then send items across the

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Reply to Performance in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Obviously this is something that'll be worked on as the game moves forward, but I want to chime in, too and say that the beta is quite sluggish on my laptop. On the cloth map my FPS is fine, but zoomed in it drops to the 10-15 range, which is surprisingly slow given that I'm running it with about as low graphics as I can. I don't have the most powerful graphics card in the world (what with this being a laptop and all), but it runs, for example, Dragon Age Origins without that kind

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Reply to What is a Normal Operating temp of GPU? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

@RedneckDude That is helpful to have around, since GPU temp and CPU temp aren't exactly independent, especially in laptops. Really, a GPU that runs hot isn't much of a problem unless it's also causing your CPU to run hot. Speedfan tracks both, and it's definitely worth it to keep your eyes on both.

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Reply to What is a Normal Operating temp of GPU? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Yeah, it really depends on your box and the GPU. Some cards these days are fine even up to 100+ degrees C. Frankly, you're not going to break your GPU before you need a new computer unless you have a faulty card to begin with, or if you don't have a fan at all.

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Reply to Vanilla Sins currently USD 3.99 for digital download! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I picked it up for $4. I'm really not an RTS fan, generally speaking, because I don't care to be tested on how fast I can click things and how well I have memorized standard opening gambits. I'd rather have a chance to think and plan. Anyway, I've just begun to play around with Sins and I'm hoping it is less RTS-y and more TBS-y, but we'll see. So far I'm finding getting started a bit challenging because there's so much information and I don't yet know what is import

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Reply to iPad definitely a threat to Windows in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

This quiet voice in the corner of the room is of the humble opinion that, moving forward, Apple's big competition is not Microsoft or Google, but Canonical. Apple works because it's a hardware company, and it doesn't actually compete with Microsoft as directly as people think. Sure, they want more market share vs. PCs, but they still run Microsoft software - Office, for example - on their computers. On the other hand, Microsoft is a software company that simply sells their s

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Reply to Sword of the Stars - I am a bit lost in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I just started playing SotS, as well, and I've learned early that keeping your savings balance above 1,000,000 is vital. My first game ended in disaster due to morale problems, and I couldn't figure out for the life of me what was wrong, since morale isn't covered in the Tutorial or the accompanying videos. That 1,000,000 savings gives a +1 per turn morale bonus to all your civilian populations, and 5,000,000 gives a +2. Absolutely essential, and the most-important-least-obv

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