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[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="1" id="3450309"] This is hardly something new or revolutionary ... VR headsets have been forecast as the next big thing for a couple of /decades/ now, as has 3D, but the fad comes and goes. I don't see any particular reason why it might /really/ take off this time compared with all the previous fizzle-outs. I definitely wouldn't throw out your PC-with-a-monitor game development studios just yet (and I certainly hope you don't), but I

Also, you can copy your entire steam library to a new computer with say, an external hard drive, and steam will just use the data and you wont need to redownload the games. Unlike *cough* GOOGLEDRIVE

MOBAs brings the worst out of gamers. But still, the Dota 2 numbers are quite... impressive. What else is impressive is that Banished, that little city building game made by a single dude is in the Steam top 25 :D

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="122" id="3450214"] But hand painted portraits. Couldn't do that for WOM/LH/FE obviously because players designed their own units.[/quote] Haha, very true. Somehow that had not crossed my mind. Thanks for the slightly revealing Screenshot :) That's a lot of beach btw.

While I am excited about Elemental( 2015? ) and the prospect of finally having a worthy spiritual sequel to MoM, I can`t help but notice from the last screenshot that it seems to have the same 'Cardboardish' art style as previous elemental games. Not a big fan of that. This is admitedly subjective and is not what will make or break the game but just saying. One exemple of something I like is good quality hand painted portraits for units and heroes ins

Didnt know that! That is actually Quite interesting. I was surprised that Civ V has higher traffic than Skyrim! That should tell a little something to those who think 4X are a dying genre. I wish GalCiv II had higher numbers but hey its a pretty old game and many of its hardcore fans are not counted as they probably don't have it on steam. I bought it retail in 2006 and then bought the expensions on StarDock Central, hehe. Thanks for sharing that. <

I typically don't update my drivers unless I run into a problem, I still update them every now and then of course but I am not OCD about having the very last version at all time. My current GPU drivers are less than 2 months old.

[quote who="sulley1" reply="77" id="3450165"] Quoting Yaskoydray, reply 65 Would it be possible to build a good box with about $500? I noticed OS (Win 7 Pro) and a decent LED monitor would together add another $400-600. I have friend who is a GalCiv freak and he is in the same boat: needs a new system -- he saw online Alienware units from $799 to $2499. Catchy brand theme, but I'm not sure about them; I prefer to build mine and help my friend with his to

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="50" id="3450147"] I'm sorry but when the meaning of the word litirally has 2 meanings that directly contradict each other it causes me to lose faith in the dictionarys authority.[/quote] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zkwmE4J.png[/IMG]

[quote who="joeball123" reply="47" id="3450118"] Quoting joeball123, reply 47I have yet to read something I like more than simply production wheel Maybe that wheel does not turn but neither does a cheeze wheel. Well, a cheese wheel could turn, if you wanted it to.[/quote] Don't be silly. You know what I mean. Here, from the dictionary: [quote] : something that is round like a wheel or that turns like a wheel[/quote] So basically anything tha

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="2" id="3450101"] One problem; there are stars shining through Arcea and the moon. Otherwise great job[/quote] Just pretend those are not stars but dust specs in the camera lense. This particular camera is an ancient precursor device found in a space anomaly so its in need of a little clean up.

[quote who="Aygis" reply="44" id="3450001"] Nice Idee, but... please, please redesign this globe - the colours hurt my eyes. It is a big psychodelic dot that does not fit-in... an overdone eye-catcher. (No designer here, so sorry for clumsy description)[/quote] I do not find it too bad here on my monitor but I agree that colors could be made a bit darker, less flashy, and it probably would be for the better. [quote who="MichalRhys" reply="45" id="3450082"]<br

32 gb ram? Holy crap that was the size of my hard drive 12 years ago.

I used to hate Steam with a passion. But more recently I made peace with it and came to like it. Steam and valve changed and evolved over the years, in a good way I would say.

[quote who="Sognar" reply="43" id="3450010"] While i Really liked the SotS 3D maps and found that orientating in them was pretty easy i have to Agree with Gaunathor that the "Go everywhere you like" is too huge a hurdle both in Control asspects as in Visualitation asspects to make it work on Current Controll and Display Techniques. You would need a proper "3D"-Mouse of a kind and a real 3D Vision to make it even remotely feasable in my opinion. And 3D Vision has to go beyon

IIRC the game will be available from steam and you would get a steam key no matter what even if you buy it directly from stardock. But to answer your question, I think StarDock want a more select crowd yo buy the Alpha. Put it on steam and you will have retards buying it there and then writting bashing reviews for the game based on the Alpha.

Well, agreed that ram price is not very expensive nowadays, but you don`t really need more than 8 gb right now, 16 is not really necessary for most stuff, including all games I know. So that can easily cut 60-70$ or more off the bill. I just noticed you are a fellow canadian! Tomorrow I will check out a bit for you and see what I could recommend for 400-600$ that is available in Canada. Maybe if you want to reveal your city I could check more specifically. One quick advic

[quote who="Yaskoydray" reply="62" id="3449973"] Yaaay I guess I win the award for most dated machine! Compared to what I've seen on this thread, mine's a fossil P4 CPU 2.03 GHz, 1 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS, Win XP SP3. CIV4/Colonization and GalCiv2 run very well. In truth, while my desktop system has given me 7+ years of great service, I am long, long, long over due for a new one, and I am in fact currently prowling the market for somethi

The only advantage I can give to the sliders in galciv 2 is that they made comparing the relative importance of each very obvious. It`s kind of like looking at 3 glasses with different quantity of liquid in them. Its pretty instinctive to know which one was the fullest, emptiest, or when they were equal. The production wheel is more abstract, but I think it will allow for much more efficient control once you get used to it, which should not really be a problem, its hardly very complic

[quote who="FrostyThundertrod" reply="35" id="3449944"] Well it is still three sliders, now you just have three sliders in three different directions. BC slider goes Down to UP Research slider Goes from left to Right Production slider goes from Right to left. Just a more complex way to do the same thing.[/quote] Arguably yes, but in actual practice I think the production wheel might be a faster and mo

Har har har Also, It would be nice if you could survey your empire and check your planets and queues and everything while you are not playing your turn. Keeps you busy planning while waiting and allow you to be more ready when its your turn to play. Just having a blank screen saying ''Pls wait while other players do their moves'' would be Meeehhhhh

E-cum-men? More on topic. I hope there will be possibility of time limit per turns.

A lot of the hi-cheese strategies seem to involve diplomacy, this is why I wanted to play a game isolationist style as the Yor and see if I can win without those. Some other tricks I have found usefull. -You are better off building low tech buildings on all tiles than Hi tech buildings on half the tiles. -Aim to have your production slider at 100% at all time. -Having ships almost fully built but then put at the end of queue can be a way to have military

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="50" id="3449861"] Quoting DARCA1213, reply 46 I sent a message to Kryo about the RAM. And I'll look for a computer with a about a 3GHz processor. I don't know anything about graphics cards or what to expect. If there isn't any set requirements for this yet it would still be nice to have a suggestion to what to, or not to have. DARCA Try and get an NVIDIA card in the "GTX 700" line. The 760, 770,