[quote]Are there post-purchase checks? Will Stardock disable keys sold to those outside North America?[/quote] That's a really good question! You've got me worried now...I hope I'm not going to lose access to all my games when I move from the US in a couple of years!
It's not entirely obvious how to get this with tokens (or I'm just being dumb, equally possible!) For anyone, having trouble, you need to go here: http://totalgaming.stardock.com/store/newreleases.aspx This will let you buy with tokens. To download, though, you'll need to download Impulse since it doesn't seem to show up in Stardock Central.
I'm sure Stardock would happily sell it to you if they could. If it's been withheld, then logically another publisher must be about to release it in your region (incidentally, it's time these regional publishing models were rethought IMO). 1C did state on their forums that they'd be making it available through their website this month. It's not entirely reasonable to think buying the original from them should guarantee you can also get the expansion, but I do agree it would have been
How does a company have any right to dictate how many of your computers (or equivalently, for how many major upgrades, with "major" arbitrarily decided) you are allowed to use the product you paid for? Is that even legal?
Which way is the MCC being fixed? So it works as originally intended (culture flipping) or just so the (over?)powerful 100% econ bonus works again?
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[quote]It's been just over five weeks (I don't know where the seven weeks mentioned by one came from) since TA launched, and Brad said *at that time* that we wouldn't be able to get a patch out until now. So it's hard to see how some people can take such grave offense at something which was already planned and announced some time ago. We've been nothing but open about exactly what's going on.[/quote] That's all well and good, but it's not unreasonable to expect such a patch wouldn't eve
I rarely read EULAs because they are absurdly long. Not only that, but you can't really expect the average person to be able to fully grasp the implications of the legalese they contain without professional advice. Out of curiosity, if you were being sued for violating an EULA, could you use the excessive complexity and length as a defence?
[quote]Good to see there are some level-headed responses as well as the rants.[/quote] Stardock has (rightly) received huge praise for their past efforts, why should they be immune from criticism? Releasing with this bug is the equivalent of a faux-pas. (Appearing to be) Doing nothing about it for all this time is unacceptable.
[quote]Filling this planet with just research would cause several problems for you. First, you have to PAY for all of that research you'll be doing, as well as the maintenance, and it will cost you a LOT. Second, the planet will be forever stuck on social focus in order to build the endless numbers of tech buildings. As a result, you wouldn't be benefiting from the research as much as you would like.[/quote] Very good points. I was showing my extreme bias for big maps with lot
[quote]I am thinking, should I just fill this entire planet up with research?[/quote] Yes. Assuming you can afford to run all those labs. It's highly possible you won't need a single lab on any other planet (depends on map settings though). Focus all your other worlds on either production or economy. When/if you want *more* research, just build economic starbases around your mega research planet. But guard it *very* well if you do this, since you totally can't affor
[quote]Excuse me, but some freeware games are made by people who are professionals in the field.[/quote] Yes, my bad, By "made by hobbyists" I really meant "made as a hobby". I wasn't trying to imply anything about the skills of the makers of the games. [quote]No, many people who are true hardcore gamers enjoy freeware or open source games. I know several people who I've handed shareware trials or freeware/open source games to enjoy them to the point where they play them almos
[quote]On whose list?[/quote] Almost everybody's. And frankly, I suspect the only reason there are such games on *anybody's* list is because they're biased (most gamers are not...they do not care about the game's roots) [quote]Do you even know about Indie and Open Source games? Rogue was a small project, it has its own genre.[/quote] A genre almost nobody plays, and most people would hate (I'm *not* one of them) Incidentally, whilst I like the roguelike concept in th
[quote]Hey, you're forgetting, I'm more open-source/indie than commercial. Quite frankly, the profit devotion puts me off too. Quality suffers too much.[/quote] Oh really? Why are there virtually no indie and no open source games that rank anywhere near the best of all time, then?
Oh well, so much for that theory!
[quote]People who played the beta and are not seeing this sudden tech cost increase, did you do a full uninstall before installing the release version? Also, if lacking a clean install after running beta versions is the problem, is the saved game useless or can you pick up where you left off and see tech costs behave "normally?"[/quote] I've been wondering that myself. Not saying people didn't follow the instructions, but maybe there's a problem with the uninstall process?<br/
I used to have to use Red Hat at work. Programs regularly crashed and I was even forced to manually reset the computer fairly frequently. No doubt this was because I didn't know much about how to use it properly, but then I don't know much about how to use Windows either, yet I find it *much* more stable.
[quote]By the way -I played another game without incident. I even put Neutrality Learning Centers and a tech capital on Mars and STILL MANAGED to get #1 in the game - much to the chagrin of some of the Charlatans on this thread who obliged themselves to go ahead and speak out and critique every step of my game that was apparantly bugged from the update.[/quote] Enough with all of the crying and hurt feelings already. Everyone is over it and has moved on. Stop being a drama queen. ;)<br/
Out of curiosity, disneydestroyer, did you preorder and play the beta? Or wait for the official release before buying?
[quote]You are a moron. While pontificating about how I don't understand the concepts, you made yourself look like a complete idiot.[/quote] Hmmm. And how do you think this thread makes *you* look?
My apologies. Tech inflation is in there by design, but not to that extent.
Frogboy mentioned this on another thread. The inflation is by design - researching a tech adds a little to the cost of all other techs. Possibly it's just more visible now because we can see the cost of each tech before researching it. Also, the AI has always dramatically slowed or stopped researching when involved in wars or building up its military.
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[quote]Without a logistical value, by merely tacking the starbase onto the fleet a situation could arise that a starbase is unassailable due to the power of the fleet + starbase. In this case the logistics system is incredibly unfair for the attacker. Games would bog down and be drawn out.[/quote] I'm not sure it would actually be that much of a problem. First, in order to have a hope of getting a base that strong you'll have to invest several thousand BC in constructors and up
[quote]But how does all that affect the bottomline amount of research and production?[/quote] It means you can afford it without having to tech whore. [quote]I've tried to bump the overall morale to 95+% in the mid- to late-game. The amount of money you dump between 95 and 96% is HUGE -- and between 96 and 97% is even much more than that. And between 97 and 98% even more.[/quote] You don't *need* high morale at that point of the game! You only need it at the start (un
I dunno, if you don't like mega events, switch them off. If you only despise *some* of them, just save regularly and reload if you get one you don't like. That'll work, won't it?