[quote]So...?Current prices are 1.50 Euro per litre. About time you caught up.[/quote] You guys have public transportation alternatives that are actually worth something. Most places in the US it's functionally impossible to live and work without a car. If gas cost $15/gallon it'd cost me $20-$30 to go to work every day.
[quote]Heheh Bill Clinton's running for emperor on Drengia. He must've escaped from one of the slave pits.[/quote] I guess for once he [i]actually[/i] feels their pain. :D
[quote]Personally my first act after buying a new PC (back in the days before I just started building my own) was to wipe the preinstalled software off the hard drive. This looks like it would be further incentive to do so.Really Vinraith? [/quote] Absolutely. Even back when I still bought things from the, Dell was in the habit of cramming a bunch of useless Dell branded crap into the operating system. Since I usually run a dual Windows/Linux boot anyway I can't recall ever h
Personally my first act after buying a new PC (back in the days before I just started building my own) was to wipe the preinstalled software off the hard drive. This looks like it would be further incentive to do so.
They're both set in space, and involve planets and ships. Other than that, there's not a lot that they have in common. Why not try downloading and playing the demo, then you can see for yourself?
Glad things are going well. Is the intention to release a Political Machine beta, or are you guys just going straight to release? Any idea of the dates involved?
You can't play Twilight without Dark Avatar. Twilight adds a lot more than story (I've never played any of the campaigns, and honestly couldn't care less about them). The improvements to sandbox mode are so massive and extensive that Twilight is basically a sequel, I think you'd probably enjoy it and the expansion bundle would consequently be very much worth your while.
Coming from Dread Lords, Twilight of the Arnor is basically a sequel to Gal Civ 2. Don't let Sins color your view of Stardock products, Stardock only published that one (it was developed by Ironclad).
I sincerely pity anyone that plays an Elder Scrolls game on a console. They're fantastic games, but they're fantastic because their modability saves them. Neither Morrowind nor Oblivion is all that great in its vanilla form, but with community-made mods they're among the best RPG's ever made.
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If a game's copy protection has the effect of making my ownership temporary, ie limited installs/activations and the like, then it is effectively a rental, not a purchase. In that case, I will pay exactly what I would pay to rent a game, and nothing more.
It's less disagreeable in this form. Limited authentications means I won't pay more than bargin bin prices for the titles in question, but I wouldn't have bought them at all before.
[quote]only be one more patch.[/quote] :D You're new to Stardock products, aren't you? There'll be quite a bit more than one patch.
[quote]The cons, however, do speak of a problem that a growing number of people seem worried about: multiplayer![/quote] Twilight is the kind of game you get when development resources are not diverted to multiplayer so that the minority can be appeased at the expense of the majority. You can have the most full featured TBS with the best AI I've ever seen that's SP only, or you can have something with fewer features and less depth that's got multiplayer. The choice is easy from where I
Nice to see TA getting the love it deserves, here's hoping many more such reviews are in its future. It certainly deserves them! :)
Trying to write up politically neutral (or at least neutral enough) issue descriptions must be a rather frustrating exercise.
Put one more vote in the "return the MCC to its intended function" column. The 100% econ bonus never made any sense, always represented a significan disbalance between alignments, and anyway I've always wanted to be able to build a mind control center that actually [i]controlled minds[/i].
Looks fantastic, thanks for the update. Keep us in the loop on the Political Machine, there's a lot of promise there. :)
Oh look, they don't want my money. Bummer for them. Both of those games were interesting, now I'll buy neither of them. They can blame the lack of sales on "piracy" like they always do.
It should have stopped about 10 years ago, but I see no sign that Fox is going to abandon its cash cow until it stops giving milk.
I don't know about the specific bonuses, but I definitely like the underlying idea.
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Gas Powered Games is developing Demigod, not-MoM is being developed by Stardock.
I've seen 3 and 4. I've never seen 2, but I really, really want to. :D
[quote]$10 to ship a single game..... If they made a box up... why didn't they just spend that money to ship them to the stores instead of having their customers endure the extra cost?Honest Question,Chr*s[/quote] The problem isn't shipping to stores, the problem is paying for shelf space. They apparently tried to strike a reasonable deal with Gamestop/EBgames and were turned down.
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Just capped these from my install. Asteroid in TA: [img]http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2049/capture02052008161128wr1.jpg[/img] Asteroid in DA: [img]http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6540/capture02052008161300iw0.jpg[/img] And of course there were no asteroids in DL. Hope that's somewhat helpful for comparison.
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