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Reply to Gamestop buys Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="35" id="2915604"]I won't place my credit card, or my products in the hands of an entity so untrustworthy.[/quote] Then archive your games and an install of pre-Gamestop Impulse to a disc, and do not have the internet running while installing. Then you can continue to use your games without dealing with GameStop. If your are worried about credit card numbers, they disapear from the servers 24 hours after the payment goes through.

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="8" id="2915560"]Neil, I'm translating into Hebrew which is Right to left reading and writing. Which do you need translated? In Hebrew, the "Left" hand word (closest to left margain) becomes the Right hand one.... Does Hebrew Windows read R to L or L to R? [/quote] It likely is direction agnostic. The R to L and L to R thing is generally handled by the Text Drawing API and the data is the same either way.

Reply to Gamestop buys Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2915538"]This is definitely very very good news for PC gamers. I don't know what some folks are thinking but I can't think of a piece of better news for PC gamers than for the world's largest gaming retailer to heavily invest in digitally distributing PC games worldwide. [/quote] Depends on the company in question. (though I guess your PR minder would have to kill you if you said it was a bad thing)

Reply to Gamestop buys Impulse in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="23" id="2915550"]From what they've said in the past, I suspect that licensing their desktop tools to OEMs is the real core revenue stream. Impulse was a profit maker, but if you can get a substantial cash payout and focus the business on its core things, that can turn out well. Fundamentally Impulse isn't core to what Stardock does.[/quote] However in teh 2010 Consumer Report it stated Impulse made more money that their other business interests.

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[quote quoting="post"]Is this true?[/quote] http://forums.impulsedriven.com/407118 http://forums.impulsedriven.com/407119

Reply to I do not understand in War of Magic Stardock Forums

About the only way to prevent there from being an optimal tech path (or at least one that is so good it does not really make sense to do otherwise) is to randomize the tech tree like in Sword of the Stars. It can be mitigated by making the punishment for deviating less (meaning do not cause the cost of researching to be based on the number of techs aquired).

Reply to Elemental just isn't a fun game in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="DariasDruss" reply="20" id="2915034"]Glad to hear it isn't just me who has been very disappointed and very bored of eWom. Lots of potential just no vision. I hope FE will be what eWom was hoped to be.[/quote] In some ways it will, in others it will not. Some of the ideas that were not impemented in WoM will be removed/reduced in scope (specifically the empire building).

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[quote who="Cruxador" reply="18" id="2915011"]I don't see any distinction between those things.[/quote] There would be if the orginal was good and the expansion added/removed/changed stuff people liked, but currently there is not enough to like to really care. At least Age of Wonders II had a decent campaign going for it when Shadow Magic came out...

Reply to GDC 11: First Steps Interview Video in Elemental News Stardock Forums

[quote who="Pantasd" reply="4" id="2914777"]Quoting Vandenburg, reply 2Edit: After watching the video: Don't heard anything about housing. on some other post Derek mention it[/quote] It was the first post at: http://forums.impulsedriven.com/406999

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

The discussion about whether GalCiv II or Distant Worlds is best will be meaningless once Sword of the Stars II comes out in September. Though I think SotS is the best right now as it has the Morrigi.

Reply to Sometimes, I just can’t understand MS. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="36" id="2914292"]This is true. However, eventually MS will quit fixing bugs, which is a death knell to any program these days. Still, many people live with buggy software, so that is not "forcing' them. It is just a VERY strong suggestion. [/quote] However they have continued to provide updates for a very long time in the past. They were still supporting IE6 when IE8 was out. Unless software has a subscription fee, it

Reply to Sometimes, I just can’t understand MS. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="32" id="2914181"]Which brings me to the next question: The ethics of what they're doing/not doing. No argument that XP belongs to MS and in all truth is theirs to support or not, but I do feel it's unethical to force XP users to go and buy something else if only because their money helped position MS to conduct the R&D to come up with Vista and 7.[/quote] They are only 'forced' to do so only if they want IE9. IE8 will likely be supported

Reply to Sometimes, I just can’t understand MS. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Maybe they did not feel like making it worse than it is in order to accomodate an OS they want to die?

Reply to The Stardock RPG in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="CharlesBallard" reply="29" id="2912877"] I have to admit, I'm not too big on traditional fantasy games right now. Let's face it, that's 99% of all the games ever released. Right now I favor post-apocalypse games, and I'd REALLY like to see a decent Wild West RPG.[/quote] How about a post-apocalyptic fantasy game? Because that is what Elemental is (it just does not come though very well in E:WoM).

Reply to Brad, I have a Game Idea for Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="19" id="2913162"]I'm well aware of Sword of the Stars. I currently have it and all the expansions installed. I cannot say the same for GalCivII Ultimate.[/quote] I was pretty sure you did have SotS, the point was that GalCiv is meant to be something else entirely.

Reply to Brad, I have a Game Idea for Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="17" id="2912881"]I personally would like this thing called combat to be added to GalCiv2.[/quote] Only if it is added to Civilizations, after all it is meant to be Civilizations in space. Till then there is Sword of the Stars.

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

In regard to SotS, I would say the reason it is hard to get use to the map is because it is different from mosst other games rather than being baddly done (though it could use some work, and it sounds like they will be ironing out the last quirks for the second game). Now that I have wrapped my mind around it I would say it is better for a game like SotS that the systems used by other games.

Reply to Brad, I have a Game Idea for Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The key to a great builder game is to have good ways for the player to measure how well they are doing. The three that best apply are: - Profit Margine (duh) - Competetors - Chance of Failer (either bankrupcy or your side looses the war and the victors are not pleased with you) A better idea than *just* a ship builder would be a corprate sim game is space (with military gear manufacturing being one of the main ones), where building ships

Reply to Brad, I have a Game Idea for Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="adamsolo" reply="12" id="2912566"]Game Idea for Brad (Stardock): How about Master of Orion IV in a couple of years. I think this is a complete no-brainer. Huge fan base, huge crave, no marketing need. I eard some time ago that Stardock acquired the Master of Orion rights from Atari, is that right?[/quote] I think that was Star Control, and they did not get it (or maybe they tried for both that and MoO?). Really I think mentioning old classics for c

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="EmersonPF" reply="26" id="2912450"]As someone who very much enjoys Distant Worlds, I have to say a big fat no to 3D. Why? Because it would ruin the game utterly. Sure, the battles don't look great in 2D, and the ships are all sprite-based, but the graphics are functional and the atmosphere is good. I never, ever feel like the graphics in DW hold me back. If, however, the game were 3D - especially in the Sword of the Starsy motion sickness bag

Reply to Brad, I have a Game Idea for Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="freelancer94" reply="7" id="2912331"]Lord Xia that job is already filled, it's called the U.S. Congress [/quote] Congress requires you to be a charismatic wind bag with people backing you with deep pockets.

Reply to The Stardock RPG in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="16" id="2912082"]I wonder if I'm the only one but I don't care one bit about their RPG. It's irrelevant to me. Besides, the RPG market have heavy competition. One reason Brad made War of Magic was that TBS games like Master of Magic and Age of Wonders are an abandoned genre. He made the beta (alpha if you ask me) so open since he didn't fear any competition. But considering his talk about

Reply to The Stardock RPG in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="14" id="2911960"]Yeah, I think it is cool how there are "living items" in King's Bounty that get lower or higher morale based on certain factors (different for each artifact). It was really cool and I think, a quite innovative idea. Best regards, Steven.[/quote] I may need to see about getting that game then. ---- Anything that makes the player more attached to the game world is a good thing in a story based game

Reply to The Stardock RPG in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

They really should avoid comparing it to any game that currently exists, and just stick to saying what it is like. And it needs magic equipment that also acts as NPCs, and lots of ponies.

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

If you dislike spreadsheet games, try Sword of the Stars. And be sure to visit the forum, the writer has given out tons of extra background answering questions from fans.