EvilMaxWar

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="10" id="3463037"] Open your eyes Max, EVERY single race in galciv is humanoid and is based off one of the creatures I listed. Drengin are evil apes, torians are fish people. Its a fact. [/quote] You forget the Yor. They are machine people. Also, this discussion is very weird as you constantly mix Sci-fi culture with what you speculate could truly exist in our universe. There is plenty of sci-fi with non humanoid sentient aliens

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="6" id="3462977"] What is narrow minded is to base races off the ones of earth. Making octopus people, fish people, ape people, lizard people, blue people, snake people, or bird people is narrow minded. [/quote] Says the guy who thinks all advanced sentient aliens must be humanoid.

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="53" id="3462740"] Quoting EvilMaxWar, reply 52 Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 51 Just bit the bullet and got the endless legends game. It rocks. It does. I am not yet sold to the '' Planed'' Pseudo tactical combats though. Will have to see how they refine the system but right now I find it frustrating and silly. They say on the forum they plan to put an option to give orders every turn in

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="51" id="3462705"] Just bit the bullet and got the endless legends game. It rocks. [/quote] It does. I am not yet sold to the '' Planed'' Pseudo tactical combats though. Will have to see how they refine the system but right now I find it frustrating and silly. They say on the forum they plan to put an option to give orders every turn instead of every other turn. That would help to some extend, but I think in the ab

Short answer, yes. For long answer Look at the founder`s vault documents.

Ive been playing the game for a good part of the evening. Very impressed. For what they claim to be an Alpha it seems extremely polished already. No crashing, all the features -at least in appearance- are in and functional, plays very smooth, AI is active. These guys over at Amplitude got them some skill at making games. Seems like this will also be better then Endless space by a wide margin. There are some rather minor things that annoy me, like the

[quote quoting="post"] Thank you very much Stardock for abandoning what used to be a great alternative to steam.... [/quote] I used to be pro Impulse in the hayday, bacl when it was StarDock central. Was really sad when they sold it. But in retrospect I think that was a good move. Everyone was moving on to Steam anyway.

[quote who="Cykur" reply="4" id="3462383"] Quoting Alstein, reply 3 Amazing how much Gamestop paid for it, and how little they actually did with it. As soon as Gamestop got Impulse, they started to use Steam keys for some titles. Someone probably thought that was a great idea on paper -- take a cut of the profit and pass the responsibility to Steam, but it was idiotic. Why use Gamestop if we have to deal

[quote who="Heart Shaped Man" reply="8" id="3462382"] "This just sounds like a campaign" you say. Not really. I don't want something scripted, I want something generated on-the-fly for ME to have fun. Kind of a rogue-like 4X game. How about that?[/quote] I like the comparison with the Rogue-Like. Making something such as this work would be an interesting spin-off of the 4X Genre. Wonder how hard it would be to make it work, a 4x is fun

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="1" id="3462372"] Seems Gamestop is dying Read this week that PC gaming overtook consolegaming (in the Nordic lands atleast) but much of that is DOTA 2 and League of Legends together with Hearthstone. I wonder how long retailgaming will survive. When will the Big Crisis come?[/quote] They barely even sell PC games nowadays in the retail stores here, it is only console stuff.

[quote who="FrogBoy" reply="3" id="3462301"] You can’t make a Civilization style 4X game and have powerful magic at the same time. If the object of the game is to conquer another empire, then you have to deal with balance and magic eliminates that balance.[/quote] Multiplayer. Balancing asymmetrical gameplay is extremely hard, but can be done. Best example I can give is Starcraft. Part of what makes this game a masterpiece is how well the 3 races are balanced despit

[quote who="Luciela" reply="43" id="3461996"] I ultimately stopped playing ES due to the bland, unlively feeling I got from the game (although the game was very polished and the UI was good). I also didn't like the endless unit spam that was surrounding ES.[/quote] I feel exactly the same about ES. Perfectly summarized. The game is quite solid in it`s own right. But it didn't have teh magic for me. Also, kind if lacking in the Strategic

This thread just keeps getting resurrected :p

[quote who="Shottymonster" reply="2" id="3461914"] Quoting EvilMaxWar, reply 1 I have many issues with this forum engine, I really don't like it much. But I have no problem reading white on black though, try zooming in maybe? ( CTRL+ mouse wheel ) Haha thanks for the tip but that's not the issue, it's the contrast. I feel like I'm on mushrooms or something trying to read this [/quote] I grew up using a DOS computer, that m

This thread just contracted an acute case of DARCATITIS.

I have many issues with this forum engine, I really don't like it much. But I have no problem reading white on black though, try zooming in maybe? ( CTRL+ mouse wheel )

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="3461301"] Your wish is my command. [/quote]

Im running 1920x 1200 and the large UI option results in verious UI elements kind of overlapping. It is not really usable. I wish it was though as I feel the regular UI could be slightly fatter even at my resolution.

[quote who="ForgeBear" reply="12" id="3461407"] cant argue about microswitches electronics was one of my worst subjects in college. I have not had a chance to pick up any rubbing alcohol and theres no screws in my particular mouse, so unfortunately i cant take it apart to see whats going on in there. On a side note I found if i press the middle mouse button/wheel at a slight angle from the left it responds. also thanks for the tu

[quote who="kryo" reply="10" id="3461347"] Quoting EvilMaxWar, reply 8Most of the times dirty contacts are the problem. Alcohol works fine on things with exposed contacts... microswitches don't normally have exposed contacts, so even if that is the cause, dumping it on top isn't liable to do much. My experience has generally been that button failure is due to plastic part wear, or the solder joints cracking. YMMV.[/quote] Your typical microswitches are n

[quote who="kryo" reply="7" id="3461076"] Quoting EvilMaxWar, reply 3You can try unplugging the mouse, pourring rubbing alcohol over the wheel so it seeps in the cracks then mash the button with your fingers. With some luck that might clean it. Given that the button for the wheel is generally to the side (so drenching the wheel wouldn't hit it anyway), and the switch is more likely worn and broken than dirty, I'd save the alcohol and just buy a new one. The actu

But hey seriously there are the podcasts every week and next alpha patch announced for "soon" , So It's not so bad is it? :p

[quote who="XWerewolfX" reply="46" id="3461059"] I disagree Firefly. I like random placement...[/quote] I like it too. If I find the game too easy I just put the difficulty higher.

There is something DARCASTIC going on here.