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Reply to WMD stockpiles in Iraq were never the core issue in Politics JoeUser Forums

WoW, i usually dont bud in because i know its pointless to argue with Brad & Co but i must say this really takes the cake, first they complain that: " You should show a little respect on the blogs you respond to. Every blog is moderated by the author of that blog. I don't have to put up with personal abuse from you. I can delete your comments." and "That's so incredibly patronizing. And foolish too. If I were as infantile as he apparently thinks I am then that would make him a

Reply to 1.04.60 Update! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A tousand thanks for listening to the forum and getting out a new version so quickly Frogboy & Company!!! /Falafel

Reply to Trade Goods - what happened!?!?!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I think some of you have no idea how much you suck the fun out of doing these updates.You know, we did a helluva lot of other thigns to improve the game in 1.04 and you guys fixate because you can't trade tradegoods easily. A few polite posts explaining your position would have done plenty of good in us modifying it. But instead, it seems like abuse gets heaped onto us.[/quote] I am truly sorry to hear this, believe me. But IMHO this is not only caused by the commun

Reply to Gal Civ Sales. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

English is my second language, especially when i dont take the time to proof read my message before pressing submit :p

Reply to Gal Civ Sales. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

For the developer, direct download seems to be much prefered option. Look at the numbers, Gal Civs budget : 600k $ 10000 downloads a 40 $ : 400k $ Now compare that with the 5 - 10 $ they get from every retail sale. And as Code Monkey said, if we help the small guys so that they actually can get develop their product we'll have a much more diverse and original games out on the market. I just hope that they will go for the, games as applications model and c

Gal Civ Sales. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Congratulations Brad & Company. I'm a bit disappointed that the direct sales has not been bigger for you guys though. Guess the online sale revolution is just not upon us yet. Thank you for the great support you guys have been giving us. I also have friends that have bought the game after playing the pirated version for a while. The upgrades were just to good ;). PS: There has been a bit less posts from devs on the forums of late, I hope this will change again ( E3 something to do with

Reply to Question to the developers in regards to future development. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you read some of brads articles on avault and elsewere, he states somewhere that his vision is that games become more of less the way applications are on the internet. Small updates from time to time and then a little bigger one and you got yourself a new version ( which is then shippoed to retail ) i was wondering if he's doing that with this game ( and hoping ). /falafel

Reply to Question to the developers in regards to future development. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Bumpy ?

Question to the developers in regards to future development. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hi, I just finished the great piece brad wrote on gamasutra ( have read through everything on avoult twice :) ). What cought my eye was that "GC2 would be developed if economically viable". From what i had read earlier i had gotten the picture that the idea of subscription was that when the year was up most people would renew it since they were continue to get added functions to their favorite game. Thus Stardock would get the money to develop GC further in advance from it's users. And

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Travis i think you took me comments personally, that was not my intension, it was to get my point across. No offence intented.

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"nice debate btw" Sure is danny :). "Like I said, I was in a rush to get to work and didn't have time to emphasize my point enough obviously. The cold war was going on at the time, and the 2 superpowers had enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 10 times over. We supported south vietnam while russia suppoted the north. We supported Iraq," I have posted above what i think of viewing these actions in "context". "and I believe most of those weapons were dest

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hi sixtoes, wow, thats quite a massive post, and you just know that im not going to leave it alone dont you ;). "The thing to remember here is that journalists aren't there to express their opinions - that's what commentators are for... and newspaper editorials." So i guess in a talkshow where you bring up controversial subjects, then it's ok to say your piece, right ? As in, say , politically incorrect ?( incredible how much i know of americal internal politics isn't ). Lets f

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The problems is Trevis, that i think your so cought in the mindset that nobody should get a free ride on your back that you cant see the obvious benefits of a different kind of society. Yes you do have some freeloaders, but instead of due to these few persons destroy the entire social net that is at the end constructed you protect YOU, you can easily remove the freeloaders buy requiring some sort of service for the payments. Then you have guarantied that nobody sleeps on the street if

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I to like to have a nice debate as long as its civilized :). "No, there's a difference between what Peter Arnett did and what the opposing viewpoit does. Arnett basically went up to Saddam and congratulated him, syaing we failed in our objective. That is treason IMO." I have seen this interview and he does no such thing, what he did was pointing out something that was obvious to all parties involved at the time. But let us not get stuck at a single person, how about the latest

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

And into the debacle i go ;p. "There is a difference between propaganda and a free press. Hitler and saddam had one news source, and that source was only there to provide what the government said." Yes there is a difference, however, i wouldn't call it free press when people expressing views that are at odds with the main opinion gets fired when doing so or their privilages of visiting the pressroom gets withdrawn making their jobs impossible. One might even argue that this kin

Reply to A non-accusatory subject heading in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I would also like to add my voice to this. Mr. Bradwell, please know that your presence here is extremely appriciated. It chances the entire feel of this forums and community to one of closeness and appriciation between us the users and you the developers. Please take into considiration when coming here that for each single rude person there are 20 people here who are loving your participation and consider it a great privilag.

Reply to Simple one line responce to help developers know. Where did you hear about GaCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

MOO3 Forums.

Reply to Do you wish to help the developers ? Buy the game DIRECTLY! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was under the impression that the actual CD sending was optional ( I for one do not wish to pay the extra cost of the shipment ). I might also be mistaken. /Falaffel

Do you wish to help the developers ? Buy the game DIRECTLY! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

While the game will cost a little more to buy here there will be a huge difference in the amount that goes directly to the developers. Judging from Brad Wardell ( frogboy ) articles, the difference might be as high as about 30$ for each sold game. Now what Brad is trying to do has to my knowledge never been done before. Trying to create and update a game similar to a utility software by continuing the development after it goes gold. The end result, if successful, would mean guarantied

Reply to Why does buying direct always cost MORE? :( in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

That sounds like a very good reason, thanks Nidaros. /Falaffel

Reply to Why does buying direct always cost MORE? :( in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree completely, I want to support this developer and i'll be buying it online without regards to the price difference but it would be very intresting to get on official explanation to why it will cost more. Frogboy ?!? / Falaffel