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Reply to Continuous turn based battles? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Well I am not sure how Space Rangers type turns could work in MP. In Civ IV, sometimes your turns really feel instant because everyone is going quick and there is not much of a wait time between when you end your turn and when everyone else does. Other times though, when someone is at War for example and the other human players are not at war, the one person's turn will take a very long time. I don't know how you could avoid that for battles in Elemental, not sure you necessarily have

Reply to Continuous turn based battles? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="ChongLi" reply="16" id="2361782"]"Continuous turn-based" is an oxymoron. The definition of turn-based is that each entity or player may act only when it is his turn, all others must wait. If multiple players can act simultaneously in real-time, it is not turn-based. [/quote] 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 don't think t

Reply to Dealing with people in multiplayer in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="7" id="2361957"]Beside what attitude players have toward MP, I would really appreciate it if you could filter based on which language a particular player knows (and how well). I haven't played a lot of MP with strangers, but I remember some bad experience due to total lack of communication where the other players just don't know any English (or just knows it really poorly). Creating a formal system to deal with different language players is of particular

Reply to Dealing with people in multiplayer in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thrawn2787" reply="4" id="2361549"]For me it's more the high pitched squeaky voices that get to me. I really could care less if I play with little kids so long as they don't use voice chat... or grief [/quote] Haha. I hadn't thought of that. I guess I haven't used voicechat with anyone I didn't know so I'll have to take your word on that.

Reply to Dealing with people in multiplayer in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I find a lot of people annoying regardless of their age. In fact, waltz on over to some place like Dungeon and Dragons online and you've got a bunch of middle aged know it alls who think anyone who disagrees with them is 13... not quite. Still I know what you are saying. Fortunately, i have a small group I play with frequently but if I ever encounter a game I like and they don't, I usually just pass it up rather than try and play with strangers who play the game all day long for

Reply to Continuous turn based battles? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Not the same kind of game but Space Rangers 2 was turn based but ran in a way that made it feel more like like real time.

Reply to Nintendo Offers Wii Internet Channel For Free in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="Gargabee" reply="1" id="2360262"]Well it's about time. [/quote] Past time, now if they would only upgrade the Flash Player so we can stream from sites like hulu.

Reply to SD plans for MP (europeans take note) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="63" id="2361276"] Testing a feature like this live on something like Demigod or Sins is beyond stupid. [/quote] Elemental shouldn't be a petri dish for RTS features. This sort of thing would be useless for a 4x turn based game and if they want to test it, test it on a game in beta that would actually use it.

Reply to SD plans for MP (europeans take note) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="61" id="2360847"] Okay, if we can host our own games and set our own bandwidth rules, thats not so bad. [/quote] It's completely unnecessary for a game like Elemental. It's a turn based game. Turn based games are the only games I've played frequently where someone can loose their connection and return to the game without so much as a beat missed and no one was the wiser except your turn was a little long. It sounds to me like St

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

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Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="greeze" reply="56" id="2361130"]Yes, I can get Fences and Impulse, or I can walk away. We agree. I'm choosing the latter, and you're choosing the former. However, before I walk away, I'm doing Stardock the courtesy of telling them why I'm walking away. It's possible that I'm the only person walking away over this. The impact to Stardock's business may very well be negligible. It may be nothing compared to the number of sales they make through Im

Reply to [ATTN.: Stardock] Majesty 2 (new...) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

So Strategy Informer put up a preview of the game recently. http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/majesty2thefantasykingdomsim/preview.html which inclued: Majesty 2 also comes equipped with a fully integrated multiplayer system. Players will play in death match-style scenarios and pit their kingdoms against each other. Monsters

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="LegacyCWAL" reply="528" id="2360257"]*EU3 sounds like it wouldn't be any fun to play online with all the unbalanced crap you mention. Personally, I prefer to have fun when playing online, not to get stomped by some broken combo as I'm being told, "omg j00 is teh suxzorz n00b!!!!111" [/quote] Way to talk about a game you know nothing about. Well that pretty much sums up the rest of your post too. Nothing left to read here. moving on.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="LegacyCWAL" reply="526" id="2360219"]Diplomacy victory wouldn't be possible due to it being so abusable. Get a bunch of guys together, everybody allies, and everybody has a win on their record! Yay! Differing tech trees and super abilities would be out due to obvious, major balance issues. Customizable races would be the same, but to a lesser degree. They'd have to be neutered so thoroughly that they might as well not be in at all. For

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="48" id="2360118"] I'm certainly not telling you not to put forth your opinions about the choices we make as a company. What Lantec was saying (I believe) is that saying Impulse is forced on you is, at the least, inaccurate. The closest example of a piece of software being forced on someone that I can come up with would be something like WinAntivirusPro2009. It installs itself without your permission, and cannot be removed through

Reply to SD plans for MP (europeans take note) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Istari" reply="56" id="2360134"]Basically, Stardock's position is that on the games we host there will be users whose Internet connections fall below a certain threshold of quality. Rather than letting those users, as has happened in Demigod, wreck the experience for all players, they won't be able to play on our servers. The threshold will be determined by the beta testers and Stardock during the beta. However, when users choose to host games themselves, the

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

Lantec's argument is ridiculous. When was the last time any of us was "forced" to buy or use anything? I mean really, most of us have a choice in our clothing, our furniture, our stores, our games, our OS, our everything. Does this mean that no one should criticize anything since we always have a choice to get something else? That's nonsene. There are a lot, a lot of people who can't stand IE in any version. To these people IE7 is not an upgrade as they are not even using it.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="LegacyCWAL" reply="524" id="2359992"]The ship designer Customizable races Good AI Diplomacy victory Super abilities Differing tech trees None of these would be possible in multiplayer. Do you honestly believe that Stardock should budget a huge amount of money in order to remove what made the game great in the first place? You wouldn't be playing GalCiv 2 with your friends, you'd be playing a hollow shell

Reply to Damn Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I am sure eventually companies and consumers will look back on this regional locking and region code and other such nosense and just shake their head. Until then, it seems like there another company should emerge to push the issue. I am amazed at the price difference across the sea especially when you can get similar things for a lot less in place like China and Russia where combating piracy with low prices is an approach.

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="28" id="2359440"] It's a preference people have a right to choose.And we choose to use a system that we believe makes software management easier, better (for both Stardock and the user). It *IS* all about choice. [/quote] Actually i referring to his word choice of paranioa, not whether or not Stardock has the right to make those decisions. It also doesn't change the fact that Stardock has been repeatedly criticized

Reply to Aveyond in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

AVG has done this a few times on me. In fact, not sure I have had a anti-virus program yet that didnt' freak out for all the wrong reasons.

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="24" id="2359392"]If you don't like the software distribution platform for Fences then please feel free to obtain an alternative to Fences elsewhere. Personally I couldn't manage without Impulse. It has my serial no's, backups as well as providing software updates. The paranoia regarding IE7 doesn't even warrant a response. [/quote] A lot of people don't like it. There has been a lot of legit crticism for forcing th

Reply to Damn Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

At the risk of sounding like a twitter idiot, which I assure you I am not, on Twitter Stardock said it was the Weekend Sale stardock Impulse Weekend Deals are up! Big Memorial Day edition! ht

Reply to Damn Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="7" id="2359112"]Dawn of Discovery and World of Goo are both half off. SoaSE+Entrench is almost half off. [/quote] DRM on sale is still DRM. Now Goo, hmmm

Reply to Help Stardock on succession of vassal children (poll inside) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Spartan" reply="46" id="2358679"]For me the absolute best system SD could come up with would be one based on the Crusader Kings system developed by Paradox. It was pretty much a heraldry simulation with a strategy game built on top. It is one of my most cherished gaming experiences. I only wish PI would have invested more into it and fix some of its short comings. I also hope a CKII is in the works for the future. I highly recommend for any posting to this thread to get