Martimus

Reply to Elemental: Text Assets in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Wow. You have really seemed to address all of the issues that I thought this game might have. I like this more and more each time I read your journals. Keep up the good work! I like the idea of quests that you are updating as you release new versions. That is a pretty cool reason to come back and play the game after you update the game again. It might make it fresh again if you have taken quite a bit of time off, and you have had a

Reply to Create-A-Hero in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="2" id="2040265"]Name: Rottic Advance class-up > exotic rider (rides a gorilla) > mount master (rides a bear)[/quote] I would rather ride a super model ;)

Reply to All the little things that make a game good, but often forgotten in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Having an easy to use and intuitive UI is probably the most important "small thing" that makes a game better. Another thing is to have an opening tutorial that not only teaches you the basics of how to play the game, but is intriguing enough to play through it and have fun while doing it. The second point goes on to the third, which is to have the campaign slowly introduce you to all elements of the game, allowing you to learn how to play th

Reply to Elemental Artwork styles in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

That looks bad-ass! I am beginning to like this game more and more each time I read one of your journals.

Reply to Integrated physics in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rhishisikk" reply="23" id="1975205"]pigeonpigeon: Okay, so how about this: we keep a set of templates. For example, I have both a holy paladin and a knight template. I want my paladins to keep their holy sword instead of getting the new flaming swords, but I want my knights to make use of the new technology. I select UPGRADE on the knight template, move in the flaming sword, and save the template. New knights will be built with flaming swords.&n

Reply to GameSpy – 2008 PC Game of the Year Awards! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I have to say that I really was impressed with Twilight. The first expansion was ok, but Twilight of the Arnor really made each faction different in a good way. I can only hope that GC3 follows in its footprints.

Reply to XNA Game Dev: Asteroid Rage! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

BoogieBac, since we are on the topic of game development; what is the ETA for a playable level of the Christmas Game? I thought the last few playable parts were pretty cool, and it looked like you had most of it all set up. Kryo, your asteroid game looks pretty cool. I can't try it out due to the limitations of using XNA game studio, but I can say it is better than the best space game that I wrote when I was a kid. (The best one was called 2012, where you were a figh

Reply to How do you run the game in Windowed Mode from Impulse? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Cool. Where is it in the options? I thought I remembered seeing it there, but when I looked through them I couldn't find anything.

How do you run the game in Windowed Mode from Impulse? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Like the title says, how do I run Gal Civ 2 in windowed mode from Impulse? The game crashes whenver I alt-tab, and I would like to run it in windowed mode to help this. It would be a nice addition to Impulse if you could run it that way by right clicking on the icon and clicking "run in windowed mode".

Reply to Christmas Game Dev. Journal - Week 9 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="10" id="1936380"]lol God bless you, Martimus You've brought a smile to my face on a day that was going horribly. No, I didn't finish...last stumbling block was learning TorqueX to make a version that worked on the XBox and PC. Someday my CHristmas Opus will be released, but for now we'll have to settle for those playable flash bits.[/quote] I am glad to have brought a smile to your face. Now that you have

Reply to Christmas Game Dev. Journal - Week 9 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Did you ever finish the game? It was definitely interesting reading through your development.

Reply to Of Water and Morale in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="lwarmonger" reply="22" id="1933696"]If I recall, in EU: Rome (and I think EU3: In Nomine as well) they added rules to prevent the common problem of a continually running stack. If an army twice its size routed it in less than five days (and armies can't retreat voluntarily for the first five days) then the smaller army would be destroyed. That was to prevent having to detach a large army to continiously chase down those annoying 1-2K armies that just refused to die.<br

Reply to Design elements of Elemental discussed in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Are you going to hire some good writers for the main story. The GalCiv2 story had a good basis, but it ended up being pretty poorly written in practice. I think you should get some professional writers to help spruce things up, so they are a little more 'readable', and flow better with the actual gameplay this time around. Just my two-cents. I don't mean to be insulting at all, I just don't think that story writing is your strongsuit.

Reply to Gamespot Interview with Brad on Elemental! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'll have to check the trailer when I get home.

Reply to Suggestion: More options for colony building without increasing clutter in Colonies Stardock Forums

I still think this is a good idea, and I am surprised that something like it wasn't included in the V2.0 update.

Reply to espionage bug in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Thanks.

espionage bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

On the last mission for Dark Avatar, I noticed that as soon as I came accross more than 4 other civilizations, I could no longer remove spies from the espionage tab. You can add them, but when you click on remove it just moves you to the next page. Once I destroyed one of the factions, I could then begin to remove spies again (probably since there are only enough factions to fill a single page.)

Reply to Planets and ships begin to rotate very fast, and game crashes when full battles take place in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Do I need the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer Version 1.1.4 , or AMD CPUInfo Version 2.2.0 (The file at the bottom of the page)? I guess I can d/l them both, and try both.

Reply to Re-thinking 4X economics in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="McCracken76" reply="7" id="1933581"] Quoting Asharak, reply 2 I'm unclear if this is already your intent but I'd like to petition that you don't "hide" those extra factors too deeply. If the main city screen says "9 turns" to build a unit, a tooltip or other second-level screen should make the various components of that time visible so that I can consider taking any action to improve the situation (e.g., changing a caravan route or researching a t

Reply to Planets and ships begin to rotate very fast, and game crashes when full battles take place in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="1933258"]Planets and ships spinning out of control and screen scrolling issues are most generally due to the use of an Athlon 64 x2 CPU without updated CPU drivers. If this the case with your machine, download and install the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (x86 and x64 exe) file found at the bottom of this page. [/quote] That is probably it. Thanks for the respo

Reply to Of Water and Morale in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Europa Universalis was a game where Morale was huge for your armies. You could outnumber the enemy 2 to 1, and still get routed, because they would break up and 2/3 of your troops would run away when they were attacked. It also made it difficult to completely destroy an enemy, because they would continuously retreat whenever they were losing the battle.

Planets and ships begin to rotate very fast, and game crashes when full battles take place in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

After a long vacation, I have reinstalled GC2, and I have an issue with the game crashing. After some unknown amount of time (15-20 minutes maybe) the game will go into strange mode. All of the planets will start rotating insanely fast on the plaet screen, and all the ships will do the same in the shipbuilder mode. If you go into a full battle, then all the ships in the battle will bind together at the center and rotate together causing the game to lock up. The map wil

Reply to Activation Errors while installing expansions on Impulse in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks, I may do that. How would I know about the updates?

Activation Errors while installing expansions on Impulse in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I just purchased the expansions on Impulse, and downloaded them, but I recieved activation errors in the form of a text document each time I did so. I am able to play the game, but does this mean that I will not be able to update the games? I did buy the games under a seperate e-mail address than my username is linked to (Which has caused problems with me before, but I did it again because I was in a hurry and forgot.)

Reply to How do you register TotalGaming.net tokens? in TG.Net Help Stardock Forums

Ok, I got it fixed with Support. I just had to reinstall Stardock Central.