[quote who="Orodum" reply="17" id="2378986"] 4) there is a higher rating than M, at least in the US. it's Ao. now, judging by the comments earlier, Australia doesn't use this. but it is also a death sentence for a game. [/quote] Maybe I am uncharacteristically optimistic on this one but I think with the rising acceptance of digital distri
I enjoyed Tropico 2 and Tropico 3 demo except... why bother having female avatars if there is not even a half-ass attempt to change the he's to she's. I mean how fking hard is it to use either gender neutral terms or change he to she's. Certainly not hard enough to justify not doing it.
Well like I told my sister, who picked up her copy of it today at a local gamestop. There is something messed up about people being able to go get it on a whim and those who pre-ordered online for digi copies not getting it till a couple of days after. I don't do pre-orders myself, but seems wrong. Besides that, the employee at Gamestop tried to convince her not to buy it. Said it was a rehash of the first one... which I think it is. I wish they had done a lot more with the sequel than update
[quote who="Trigeminal" reply="55" id="2373880"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 54 Looks like Gamestop broke another release date, Majesty 2 forums has reports of the game being purchased from there already. Wow, that company blantantly flaunts its disregard for street release dates. I too know several people who have bought it from them already. [/quote] Wal-mart has it too. So it looks like maybe the only compani
Looks like Gamestop broke another release date, Majesty 2 forums has reports of the game being purchased from there already.
[quote who="Zoomba" reply="2" id="2368399"]For clarification... Impulse provides account-level protection by restricting access to the download & updates to users who have a valid registration on their account. GOO provides activation protection on the game executable. This is the same activation system used by all of Stardock's titles. This is an extra bit of protection to ensure that the copy installed and run is valid too. If you get the ga
I'll admit. I am a little confused about this GOO thing now that some of the games say their copy protection is Impulse Goo. So if I order Majesty 2 from Impulse, for example, I would have the copy protection of Impulse plus the added DRM of GOO on top of what Impulse does already? If I ordered Majesty 2 retail, the copy protection is Goo but not linked to Impulse? I mean Impulse and GOO are not one in the same right? If I order it from Steam, it looks the only DRM for Steam i
[quote who="igoraki" reply="9" id="2365470"]Some oldies from me Genghis Khan The player must arrange marriages, father children, appoint family members to governmental positions, and fight in order to conquer the lands. Armies must be drafted and soldiers must be trained. Sound familiar,right [/quote] I just have to say I loved Genghis Khan although I think I actually played Ghengis Khan II on SNES. The marri
[quote who="kryo" reply="6" id="2366303"]It's almost funny how Microsoft's own browser can't handle the garbage HTML that Word creates (other browsers properly ignore it). I've fixed the thread. [/quote] Yeah I was warned in my former CS class to never, ever use Word to make a webpage. I wasn't even a major in CS but they pretty much made me swear never to do it.
Yeah I just saw that, he was replying to me.
[quote who="Philly0381" reply="3" id="2365905"]Looks like the thread is broke, usually happens when someone types a text in word and copies and pastes it into a forum reply. It will take a moderator to fix it. I get nothing after reply #19. [/quote] Well it's good to know it's not just me. I've had this happen too me infrequently but not rarely. It's not a compatilbility issue but thank you for the suggestion. I've used that before.
I am not sure what the issue is when this happens. This page loads but not completely. There's no error message or anything. The bottom portition just doesn't appear. IE8, happening on the desktop and laptop.
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[quote who="Demiurge4" reply="13" id="2365557"]Those games also functioned very differently, Civ4, Colonization etc operate in very simple terms. You have a flat world with each square pre-defined as grass/hill/water/etc and the only updates needed between clients is basic information about unit types, square improvements and the like. SMAC is a bit more advanced in that regard what with there not being hill squares but instead the landscape being completely mallable with terraforming and the
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[quote who="Demiurge4" reply="10" id="2365450"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 9 I've played a lot of games actually, including that one, and Civ II, Age of Wonders, Everquest, HHOM3, several of the Settlers series all on a modem. I played Age of Empires II on the a modem too. Please don't address me as if I do not understand that data is being exchanged in turn-based enviroments or as if if I am unfamiliar with how modem play worked or even the basics playing games o
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[quote who="Demiurge4" reply="2" id="2365334"]Nesrie: Have you ever played Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri? The amount of information to exchange is atrocious, terraforming data such as terrain levels, the effect the new hill has on rainfall, unit movements, combat resolutions, forest/fungus spread etc etc etc. This all has to be calculated on the host and then transmitted out and back to make sure everyone is synchronized properly. Turns take AGES when just one person is slow. Elemental is going
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[quote quoting="post"]This hasn't been mentioned anywhere yet that I've seen, and it wasn't part of the official presentation. However, there was a bit of a ruckus on the forums recently after Brad mentioned that they might filter out people with very low upload bandwidth on the Stardock servers. At PAX, a question was asked if people would be able to host their own servers and the answer was: YES. Stardock will provide their own servers where they will be able to guaran
[quote who="gaussflayer" reply="3" id="2364037"]The whole internet browser is fundamentally slow anyway, not the browser (opera is it?) at fault but the platform they've had to build it on, apparently the network controllers are terrible so all internet stuff is slower than it should be. [/quote] It's slow and it doesn't fit my screen just right so I am scrolling from side to side. I didn't buy the wii to do anything but play Wii games so I am not going to complain too much, but
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="34" id="2362527"] EU3 has been around for a good awhile. Has a fine community. I don't know if you seek out asses or they find you, but if you have a problem with a player, don't play with them. Stardock can't spend all it's time trying to hand hold players from accidently encountering someone who wants to ruin a game. There isnt' a game out there that is so handicapped and restricted that some dick can't come in and ruin it. Multiplayer is indeed a different
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="32" id="2362503"] What happens when you are not playing with friends and someone keeps pausing and unpausing the game every 30 seconds (because they are mad, immature or whatever)? What if the game has progressed to a point where there is simply too much to do and 30 seconds is not enough time to do it? Multiplayer is a totally different breed of game, one where you cannot assume that all players will cooperate and refrain from exploiting the rules.
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="29" id="2362485"] Pausing doesn't really work very well in multiplayer games. It introduces deadlocks, permission issues and an overall disruption of game flow. There's a very good reason why most Neverwinter Nights multiplayer games disable the pausing feature. [/quote] EU3 has a pausing system where only the first person can unpause for the first 30 seconds, I think, and then after that anyone can. It keeps a game from deadlocking, and if
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="27" id="2362449"] Wel if you have never played multiplayer, I am not certain why you would try to comment on it. In multiplayer, the AI typically goes first, it reacts first. So if you have a player unit and an AI unit adjacent to one another during a period of war, that AI player is going to react before you even get a chance to click the unit. Same with religion, if a player researches a religion in the same turn the AI researches it, the AI will get the rel
[quote who="ChongLi" reply="25" id="2362441"] Well Civ IV is clearly simultaneously turn-based. Yes, you are all acting at the same time, but there is a turn and you have to wait until everyone is done for the next turn. I've never played Civ IV multiplayer, so that may be different. Civ IV single player is strictly turn-based, with each player having the exclusive right to move during his turn. This opens the door to abuse of the system, by using tricks such a
[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="23" id="2362210"]I don't think EA's puttin' out new stuff. Personally, I will still buy from them, but very little will I buy. [/quote] I still buy from EA too, as they have some series I enjoy a lot. I certainly don't pre-order from them, and the first thing I ask at release is what the DRM is like, aka, how did EA managed to fkup another release this time. Impulse is a good product, and the activation limit seems to be less about activation limit
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[quote who="JDPower" reply="60" id="2362149"] I know I'll probably get flamed for saying that but in the same way that nesrie tried to point out its a good thing for users to post here about their reasons for leaving rather than bad mouth elsewhere round the net, thought I'd post the above as an explanation as to why (despite my original intentions) I'll not be participating in this forum outside of this thread. [/quote] Let them flam
Yeah I like the explanation too. I think for multiplayer thought it would have to have a set speed for any combat involving human players... and I am wondering if this is going to be just a 1 vs 1 type battle setup or something like Age of Wonders. I think the Age of Wonders series actually allowed your allies to join the battle, sometimes even after the start of it... if memory serves me right. Anyway, i guess that's a different topic all together.