MichaelCook

Reply to FREE Pirate bay in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I think Pirate Bay should be shut down. If not for the mega $ corporations then for the little people that lose out where they shouldn't. I remember watching a talk show here in Aus called Insight where they had a local band trying to make a living from their music in the audience with people who were their fans but didn't actually buy their cd, preferring to get it from pbay. What can you say when the creator of something you respect is looking you in the eye and sayin

Reply to UFOs: What do YOU Believe? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

SBS here in Aus did a good doco about the whole "convince me there are aliens" thing. See: My mum talks to aliens for the doco and SBS for its homepage &

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

For anyone interested I'm doing a basic AAR of the Dom 3 game Mauxe and I are playing here .

Reply to What game am I thinking of? **updated with a new challenge!!** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Alright I'll give ya all a go... Played this on the Amiga 500, role playing game, the world is viewed as if in a 3d maze and combat freezes the world and you fight in a turn based method. Any ideas?

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I do that in SP games and start not really caring about my turns, its better to play slower than faster.

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The link I gave on the previous page is for a dedicated server, we log in and give our orders, when all players (in this case Mauxe and myself) have submitted their orders the server processes the turn. When we next log in we download the results of the last turn. So its a turn-based game but not "you go then I go". We have played I think 6 turns. If you look at them map on my post above Mauxe has his base castle in the patch of forest to the south of me.

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Ok the game has begun. I want to test that I can link to pics on the web so here is my starting location Mauxe:

Reply to Shacknews Interview with Jon Shafer in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="9" id="2862158"]whens stardock going to stop its expansion in its quest for empire and glory?[/quote] When the job is done.

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

PM'ed to ya Mauxe [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Elemental: War of Magic v1.11 out in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

1.9Gb download after verification... Not the end of the world but can we have this fixed please? If you want us to provide some sort of debug log to help fix this tell us how we can help [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

CBM does decrease micro in that they remove the gem generating magic items, Fever Fetishes being the important one for micro-management. Overall the CBM mod makes the game better, it increases the amount of viable strategies in multiplayer, but the latest release (1.7) is stirring up some discussion.

Reply to Brad, They say you Like "A Song of Ice and Fire" in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

The new Wheel of Time books are good but not the same. Yes R.Jordan let the middle books of the series develop "a new character is introduced on every second page" syndrome, but there was something to the rambling that was nice. With the latest book its like the new author of the series (because R.Jordan passed away) is drinking too much coffee in comparison. Nothing against the new authors style, its just for the Wheel of Time I like the rambling style. I can see that

Reply to Elemental and Civ 5 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Do you still get one free expansion if you buy now or has that expired? Elemental has development support (hiring Kael and others strongly suggests commitment) and the development is quite open to the purchaser (via these forums). I own both games (got into the Elemental beta and purchased Civ V almost on day 1) and I know which of the two I will be playing in time to come. Having two free expansions for Elemental helps [e digicons]k1[/e]

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Ok I have joined with game on port 6609 (era 2 game vsAI_grimly on port 6609 with easy AIs Machaka, Marignon, Atlantis). Read the How to Join a Game page, create a pretender (remember to make a password and have all mods turned off, its vanilla only) and away we go! Note that it will be us two vs the three AI's but they are easy AI's so we shall kic

Reply to ATTN: Brad and Jon in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Broheimicus, you seem to need some fresh air, a change of pace..... Maybe you should... Take this opportunity to... Run to the hills..

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="gmot" reply="144" id="2861356"]Not sure why any of this is our business anyways. Stardock is a private business and they can make their own HR decisions without us randomly speculating. [/quote] Stardock invites us into their home and occasionally chat with us. Its kinda like a soap opera but less cheesy, or sometimes more cheesy. Thus we feel we have a right to do as we do. Some people muse and share ideas, other use the forums as their toilet and deposit t

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="203" id="2861355"]It's a wonder they can get anything good from these boards huh?[/quote] Sift enough sand and you'll find a speck of gold :)

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

If you want Mauxe I'd join you in an "us vs the AI" game: http://game.dom3minions.com/bin/vsAI_chk.cgi

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Hanokh1967" reply="135" id="2861199"]How can something be one of his favorite things to do, if he has never done it before? How would he even know if likes to do it or not?[/quote] The new Zen Koan, I like it. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="117" id="2861053"] Just so you know, his name is Jon, not John. [/quote] I paid for the game so I'll call him whatever I like! *joke* :lol: Go Jon!

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I asked John to get an avatar and he did . I did not ask John for the life-vest, he did that himself. John responds to the masses. Vote 1 John for President. No actually demote Brad to postcard reader and make John the CEO of Stardock

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Personally I think John will take the game in a direction that will make Elemental... Immortal!

Reply to What game am I thinking of? **updated with a new challenge!!** in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

This is on the Playstation? I have no idea about this one.

Reply to Dominions 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

What game you getting into? Post a link to the game :)

Reply to What happened to the big Announcement? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm really Michael Cook :)