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Reply to When/How did you learn of Elemental. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I too first heard about it on the GalCiv2 forums. I've been panting with anticipation ever since!

Reply to Elemental: The MUST HAVE 2010 TBS requirements in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="42" id="2510478"] quoting post 32 player multiplayer. This is a big one and will take a lot of work but it we are requiring that the game handle up to 32 players playing together. To make this work, it also means that games need to be automatically saved (to our servers regardless of whether it’s on a custom modded server or ours) so that stopping and starting games later is easy. So I guess this answers my question

Reply to If they brought Joss Whedon's Firefly back and started making new episodes, would you watch? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I would watch new episodes of Firely in a heartbeat, but sadly it's not going to happen. *sigh*

Reply to Who wants to play against and/or with Frogboy and Carrie Elf in 32 player multiplayer! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Play against the developers? Are you nuts??! They'll wipe the floor with me! Not that I don't mind losing, but a match against any of the Stardockians would be so completely lop-sided (in their favor) that I'd be too embarrassed to ever show my face here again. I shall not do that to myself! [e digicons]8C[/e] [e digicons]:P[/e]

Reply to Matrix Games to publish Distant Worlds in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Wow. First Armada 2526 (which I enjoyed) came out late last year, and now this! I love all these 4x games coming out in such close succession. [e digicons]B)[/e] [quote who="GJDriessen" reply="1" id="2505755"]Any details on the release date or the possibility of a demo?[/quote] No mention of a specific release date yet, but the word is that they're "close". Knowing how Matrix usually does things, I'd hazard a guess that th

Reply to Your most anticipated PC games of 2010? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Ah, no; I was not aware of that, as a matter of fact. I knew there was a closed beta, of course -- indeed, it feels like I've been constantly bombarded with contests in which you can win a beta key -- but I didn't know there was going to be an open beta as well. Thanks for the info, Nesrie ; much appreciated! Now I just have to decide whether or not to upgrade my video card now, or if I still want to wait.... <

Reply to Your most anticipated PC games of 2010? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="38" id="2499787"] Not to split hairs, but "this thread", sir, is about, "*YOUR* most *ANTICIPATED* games of 2010" So if you are expressing your opinion that my expressed opinion that HW3 is MY most ANTICIPATED game of 2010 is irrellevant, then you, sir, are irrelevant to your own conversation. And since HW3 is MY most ANTICIPATED game of 2010, I presume there to be no need to provide jack shit because "unless/until" is here due to th

Reply to Elemental in PC Gamer’s Top 10 of 2010! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Excellent! Glad to see the folks at PC Gamer are looking forward to Elemental as much as the rest of us. [e digicons]B)[/e] [quote who="Nesrie" reply="12" id="2500209"]not that many aside from two MMOS that are sure to disappoint.[/quote] I take it you're looking forward to -- yet simultaneously dreading -- Star Trek Online then? (If so, join the club....)

Reply to Your most anticipated PC games of 2010? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="32" id="2498463"]Distant Worlds seems promising. I plan to follow it. Any news on when it is expected to be released?[/quote] Only that it should be released towards the end of 2010, and even that's not been officially confirmed. At the moment, both Code Force and Matrix Games are being very tight-lipped about the game (including the release date); again, there's supposed to a lot more info made available to the public at the end of the month here.

Reply to Your most anticipated PC games of 2010? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="30" id="2498267"]Homeworld 3[/quote] The thread is about games anticipated to come out in 2010, not games that won't be released til I'm at least in my mid-thirties....

Reply to Your most anticipated PC games of 2010? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="26" id="2497286"] Is there any TW game that was any good in terms of AI etc.?[/quote] Both Shogun and Medieval actually have very decent combat AI, and the campaign/strategic AI in Shogun isn't bad either. Not great, but not horrible. The campaign AI in Medieval is mediocre, although still probably better than in either Rome or Medieval 2. The AI in Empire is downright schizophrenic, on both the tactical & strategic le

Reply to Your most anticipated PC games of 2010? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Note : There are numerous games released in the last year or two that I'm interested in getting -- I continue to eye Sins of a Solar Empire , for instance -- but I have not included them on this list. I've also excluded any upcoming games if I'm not sure they're coming out this year. Must-have games : Elemental: War of Magic D

Reply to What games did you play over the holidays? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Armada 2526

Reply to Something in the Water? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Well it certainly looks pretty enough. Only time will tell if there's anything more to the game than visuals, plus it looks like more of a standard RTS than a true empire-builder, but it could still be fun if done right. Keep your fingers crossed, I guess....

Reply to Elemental: Christmas time Status Report in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="13" id="2482381"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 12 will the AI continue to be "smartened" after the official release of the game? Heh. Any GalCiv II players want to answer this for Scoutdog? Sure, like every single update. Go see the changelogs for all the Galciv updates[/quote] Indeed. Brad is well-known -- if not downright famous -- among GalCiv2 players for improving the AI in every patch/update

Reply to Top 25 Games of the Decade [Results are In!] in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

How on earth did Heroes of Might & Magic IV get on that list?? By almost all accounts, it's a piece of crap, and the worst installment in the entire HOMM series.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations story so far and the fate of the Yor in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Fascinating, Brad. You make me more curious that ever as to where the story is going to go.... [e digicons]:)[/e] [quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="14" id="2480405"]*IF* you get to make GalCiv III? most depressing comment in the whole post. [/quote] Well there is the time factor to consider. Given all the games Stardock is working on and/or has planned, Brad will probably be well into his 40's before he even thi

Strategic & tactical AI "talking" to each other? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'm not sure if this belongs more here or in the general Elemental forums... One of the things I've long wanted to see in grand strategy games -- those that have playable battles, anyway -- is for an empire's campaign-level (or "strategic") AI be able to communicate with/to the combat ("tactical") AI the importance of a particular battle. In other words, you'd expect an empire to fight that much harder to protect its capital (or other major city) th

Reply to Oh wah, quit bitching about the pirates in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] I’m going to write more on this later when I’m not so annoyed but I’m REALLY getting tired hearing from game developers who blame piracy for their game’s poor sales. If you make a game for the console demographic, don’t expect to make huge PC sales, okay? Oh, and if you make your game require hardware that only a couple million users have, guess what? You’re not going to sell a lot of units. More later.

Reply to Top 25 Games of the Decade [Results are In!] in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="102" id="2467356"]perhaps you should specify Medieval: Total War as Medieval 2: Total War, as the first one came out in the 90s.[/quote] Actually, I was the one who originally nominated MTW -- and I was specifically referring to the original, not Medieval 2. (See my original post here .) Also, as I stated in that post, Medieval Total War was released in 2002, not the "90's". &n

Reply to Color IQ Test in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Ow. I can't do more than one row at a time without my eyes wanting to bleed....

Reply to Armada 2526: New 4X space strategy game in November 2009. in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Bearing in mind that I've only been able to play Armada 2526 rather sporadically the last few days since I got it, I'm already comfortable giving at least a tentative recommendation for it. Further playing til dawn playtesting will tell, but thus far I'm honestly quite pleased with my experience. The game is fairly easy to learn (thanks in no small part

Reply to Top 25 Games of the Decade [Results are In!] in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'll second both Shogun Total War and Galactic Civilizations 2 (plus expansions). In addition, Medieval Total War (the real first one, not the "sequel") should be a nominee as well. After all, at the time of its

Reply to Best Grand Strategy for average player in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Baron Zinq , If you're looking at getting a new space strategy title, you could do a lot worse than to pick up Armada 2526 . I've only been playing it a few days so far, but I'm already really enjoying it. The battles are a bit weak IMO, but the excellent AI and diplomacy works really well and more than makes up for it. Also, you can have some truly massive maps for epic games if that's

Reply to PRESENTING... YOUR FAVOURITE STARSHIP! in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="GeneralVeers" reply="187" id="2457916"]Orodum yes that is the Executor. However the one from Episode IV was the Devastator but the Executor was not the lead ship, just the first.[/quote] Well there was no Executor -class Super Star Destroyer in Episode IV: A New Hope . However, in both Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi , the SSD in question was in f