VicenteCartas

VicenteCartas

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Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

W7 launch was so good because Vista did all the dirty work for it. Vista was a pretty good SO, but it had to break lots of things for the future of Windows.

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Reply to Taking Tactical Battles back to square one in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I would get rid completely of combat speed. Just do something simpler like DnD or Fire Emblem: units can move and make an action (attack, cast, use item,...), and that's it. Some units may "multi-attack" with one attack action (like dragons, high level fighters,...). Slow weapons are two handed, do more damage, can't carry shields. Fast weapons are one-handed, can be double wielded or wielded with shield.

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Reply to A Question on the old "Continuous Turn" system. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The code is for sure alive. They are using for sure a source control system and those things keep all the code that existed in the project. It may not be alive now, but it's as easy as to go to the revision when it was alive and get it. But enabling it, I see it hard, the whole combat was reworked to be played in turns, I doubt the old code will even compile...

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Reply to Are phones and pads the beginning of the end? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

They can't win in every market :p They continue owning the PC market with Windows, the productivity apps with Office, they are doing great with all their server offering (Windows Server, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Biztalk, Exchange, ISA, and the other million things they have here), .NET is going strong, Xbox360 is a good contender in the console market,... Seriously, MS makes a lot of money from companies, and companies aren't going to start running on iPads any time soon :p In

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Reply to Elemental seems to be getting very little attention in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="99" id="2711577"] There was a beta 5. It just wasn't public (for, I think, obvious reasons but clearly not obvious to some). This is such dejavu. Anyone here remember the Sins of a Solar Empire beta? Same conversations.[/quote] Well, I don't know if it was obvious (it isn't for me), but I don't remember that fact said clearly when it was announced that pre-orders would be able to beta test the game. Nor looking at the early dev journal

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Reply to Elemental seems to be getting very little attention in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="72" id="2711123"]Most beta's don't have you beta test the "final" version...[/quote] Well, I don't agree with that. My current computer has run W7 Beta, Office 2010 Beta, and VS 2010 Beta, and it has now XNA 4.0 Beta on it. I run CTPs and betas of Microsoft constantly and they are things that work. You can have a technical feedback about performance, crashes,... with a more finished product that allows you go get feedback on many other things. A

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Reply to In-Depth Magic in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Duel: The Mage Wars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_and_Mayhem ) was a fun game that was totally about magic :) Lots of different strategies depending on how you used your spell components.

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Reply to Time to start thinking about Mac and Linux in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Moving to Mac and Linux is something that would cost Stardock a lot of extra money and effort: training people, setting three environments to test for their releases, using a worse tool-chain,... Unless it's crystal clear that they will earn more money, it's hard to make the commitment to that.

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Reply to Strategy on Nintendo DS in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Age of Empires for DS is not very good, you have to scroll and doing mistakes while moving is pretty common, very frustrating. Fire Emblem DS is very bad :( But the GBA versions are pretty good, I would try to get those if you can. About Advanced Wars, I like more Advanced Wars: Dual Strike than Days of Ruin. FFT:A2 is nice too.

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Reply to S-Expressions vs. XML in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="tejondour" reply="4" id="2665492"]Point 1: pretty trivial compared to the rest of the engine, especially since most of the existing code can be adapted. Point 2: many editors support Lisp. Even if they don't, the only critical function is parenthesis matching. Point 3: S-expression validation pretty much IS parenthesis matching. Yes, it would take a little more work... a little more time spent building your own tools. But that seems to be par for

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Reply to S-Expressions vs. XML in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I think the problem is more how they decided to represent things in XML rather than XML itself (like you said, not using attributes for example). Either way, I think you are missing three points: I suppose most modern languages come with XML parsers and not with S-expression parsers I suppose there are more XML editors out in the world than S-expression editors, something that also eases the pain of using it. Last, you can validate XML with XSD very

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Reply to Performance in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="5" id="2656908"] Quoting VicenteC, reply 1This is a beta, code is probably running in debug mode, lots of unnecessary things around,... Performance will improve. If performance worsened between beta 2 and beta 2a, that is definitely worth bringing up.[/quote] I don't really think so, I would not expect performance to be very good until much closer to release... As they enable things, like the full graphics, they will be able to get more reports and

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