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Reply to Everything is unclickable when popups appear in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

There's a reason for both of those problems. The first, with the timeout window. Just because someone has started to timeout doesn't mean they've dropped. Even somebody with a perfectly good connection could find themselves timing out from time to time. In order to confirm that someone's actually dropped from the game, without a) accidently dropping anybody from the game and b ) affecting gameplay for the person who is timing out, the game needs to stop for a reasonabl

Reply to Massive crits? in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

[quote who="ganKing" reply="8" id="2201744"]Nah it wasn't you. But the fact that you could be losing that badly in both towers and kills and come back to kill everyone reflects badly on the game's balance. [/quote] Just as a side note, I disagree with this sentiment. I think it reflects WELL on the game's balance that you can't chalk a win up to kills/towers/cit upgrades. It's a more complex game than just being able to win with some formulaic way to win.

Reply to Kittens playing DG? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Xinoxlx" reply="23" id="2201528"] A cat gets a treat for being cute, a dog gets a treat for doing a trick. One requires effot, who's the stupid one now?[/quote] Uh.... The one that doesn't just get treats given to them for being the obvious superior beings? I'm not advocating for cats, but hedgehogs use their powers of mental dominion to force their human slaves into submission, so they can dedicate their incredible mental energies elsewhere, while the dogs need

Reply to Downloaded Version in Demigod Demigod Forums

As a quick warning though, some international players have had some problems with connectivity with people in other countries, but not a lot. It's getting better, and they're developing proxy servers to help with the problem further, but I hope to see you in-game!

Reply to Demigod: Clan Wars concepts in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Jaradakar" reply="8" id="2199628"] Clans are nice and all, but really the lack of being able to form a premade team should come first. I'm less interested in joining a guild/clan soical group. [/quote] The two aren't necessarily exclusive, just so you know. There's been talk about making premade teams, and being able to bring them into battle. Just because they might end up being called "clans," doesn't mean it's no

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Gorgeras" reply="8" id="2199581"]I've not really read much, but apart from the 'middle-ground' nonsense I'm just going to assume that everyone is entirely in agreement with me. I'm awesome.[/quote] This is what I've been trying to say the whole time. Seriously though, I think forums can be fine if those of us who post regularly take control of it and stay civil. Moderators exist, and as long as they get rid of people who have nothing to say and just try to ma

Reply to Kicking in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Ha! I didn't even realize that. Well no wonder those two are so high on the ladder, they always play together. What a coincidence. Just one more reason to disregard the ladder. More seriously though, the kicking is annoying. It should be put on a timer, and if you can't connect wiithin a reasonable amount of time (at the moment, that's like... a minute or two), you can choose to kick them.

Reply to The Skills and Tools for map making in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

This was mentioned in another thread, I can't quite remember where, but if you'd notice, maps aren't the tile-based system you see in games like Warcraft 3, etc. They're each custom designed and rendered, and not as modular as they are in those games, so that's where that stands. That being said, a lot of the code in the actual game is pretty open-source. If you know much about programming, and were so inclined, you could pretty easily go in and fiddle with the code, which

Reply to Demigod: Saturday’s status in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Hey Frogboy, a logistical question. I see a LOT of people posting bug reports here on this forum, and it's kind of a lot to digest. Would you prefer that people post on current/new threads, and forward you (being the Stardock/GPG team) over to the thread where there's already discussion about it? I know this probably won't happen, but a question that I figured warrented asking.

Reply to How was AI created so terribly? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Proximity: I don't know LUA at all, and it's finals week, so I don't have the time to look atm, but do the computer agents have local state? I know a lot of the time, AI doesn't need to remember things, especially if it only needs to analyze what's currently happening. If there's no local state, it would be extra hard to track enemy DPS, whether they've used interrupts, and even the location of the towers, depending on what sensors have been built in (if it can only see what

Reply to Demigod: Saturday’s status in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="MABManZ" reply="15" id="2198224"] And why not? Pause the game, re-sync, and get on with it. This is a terrible response. What is the purpose of the error if it offers no solution? You might as well get a message that says "game cannot continue", because it's impossible to continue playing anyway.[/quote] The problem is that there is no clear "expected" way to handle this. The reason it desyncs is because one game client thinks one thing happened,

Reply to Ingame impulse suggestions in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

Impulse isn't Steam, for the record. Just to point out, Steam came out in 2003, and didn't come out with the "Steam Community" until 2007. That means no steam friends list, no ingame browser, no outside friends list you can use as an IM program, etc. Impulse isn't even a year old. Some of these features are being worked on in Demigod, like the ability to PM other players, join their games, create clans, etc., but you can't expect a brand-new content delivery system to

Reply to [Suggestion] Random Demigod in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

[quote who="Soccer194" reply="13" id="2077507"]/signed, just putting this out their. In a game i played if u picked random u started with 1.5 more starting supplies and had a 10% chance of getting and extrat 100 health. Starting health 300. starting supplies 40 would than 60. it wasn't that much in either parts but it was interesting.[/quote] Yeah, but in other nameless games, there are some balance issues, and people tend to favor certain characters way more than others. So to

Reply to Why people get leavers in games... in Demigod Demigod Forums

In the end, it's a game. If you're not the type that's gonna have fun losing, feel free to quit. I don't like it, and think its more fun when my teamates stick it out to the end. Case and point, on dominate the other day, I thought we were done. The enemy had catapaults and giants for a good 4 or 5 waves when we got giants, they had nearly all the flags, were grabbing the portal flags, when my teamate (who had stuck it through) and I broke through and took the majori

Reply to Why Can't I Find My Friend's Game? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

No problem. [quote who="Natrix2992" reply="4" id="2197913"]By the way people need to update their games! There are more people playing older versions than the newest. So those of us who are playing the newer only have a few hosts going.[/quote] I agree, but some of the problem is that some people are playing the beta release of the game, while others are content with what's been "officially" released. Hopefully, Stardock will release this latest patch to the public on Mo

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Sorceresss" reply="3" id="2197937"] OK ... fine ... He could start by curbing the nasty enthusiasm of some of his fanatical worshippers, who pounce on almost any critical post against DG with sarcastic derision, and who sometimes act like self-appointed, pa-trolling bouncers.[/quote] WHAT DID YOU SAY???? I'LL COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND... (just kidding) It's true, some of the supporters of the game act like any dissent will end their worlds, but ther

Reply to Why Can't I Find My Friend's Game? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

^ Ditto. You probably have different versions of the game. Take a look here for how to check/update: http://forums.demigodthegame.com/351267

Reply to Kittens playing DG? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="The_Witchdocta" reply="22" id="2197842"]You're an idiot[/quote] Constructive. An idiot... like kittens and foxes! Bam! Al

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Heh heh, oh interwebs. You people are so silly. I love the three pages of polite discourse on why the internet can never contain polite discourse. In this thread, pretty much all who have contributed have contributed constructively. Even those that expressed opposing opinions did it calmly, albiet with some name-calling. Sure, evil roams the internet, and we'll never get rid of it, but the kind of example that those of us that frequent the forums can set can go a

Reply to Kittens playing DG? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Scary... and adorable. Fear the power of the hedgehog!

Reply to Kittens playing DG? in Demigod Demigod Forums

That's it... We didn't want to show you this, but the hedgehogs have stood idly by while you two races are on the edge of a war. We have decided it is time to exert our dominance over both sides, and force you to bow before our adorable throne. Hedgehog brothers, unite under our banner!

Reply to Can't find multiplayer game in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

No problem, glad to hear that I'm not going crazy.

Reply to Can't find multiplayer game in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Might not be, the way to check for sure would be to make sure your version numbers are the same, they display in the lower-right corner of the main screen in Demigod.

Reply to I think your ladder is broken in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Well then maybe everyone dropped into their own games and only one of them counted. But I can almost guarantee that the game that counted was one that was played to its conclusion and recorded. It's kind of a tough problem to deal with, since you can't just count all of the games, and you can't just not count the games, because then people could drop to avoid getting a losing record. You're right, it's a problem that should be looked at, but it's just how the game works at t

Bug report: Improper shutdown in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Demigod isn't shutting down properly on my machine. When I exit Demigod any time after playing a game, the process stays in the background, eating up a good 500 MB of memory, and I can't end the process manually through the task manager. It also keeps me from re-running Demigod, since the process is there, Demigod thinks its already running. I AM running Windows 7 beta (build 7068), so it might be a windows issue, and it's no huge problem, but I figured you should know.