Tridus

UTC -3, only for a couple of hours around 9-11pm, on nights when I'm not already occupied by Age of Wonders 3 or Reaper of Souls. That's life with a baby for ya.

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="14" id="3450930"] Well if we are ranting I hope that they will fix the idealogies where there is not one that is overpowering, and lets not forget about mines.[/quote] How can they "fix ideologies" when they're not even out yet? How do you know they're broken? And yes, lets completely and totally forget about mines.

[quote who="satoru1" reply="118" id="3450921"]The game is going to take a while to install anyway. Plus you can watch the forums as all the 'minute 0' people run into a zillion problems and figure out what hardware doesn't work, what crashes, etc. Especially for an alpha, where there is a semi high probability the game may not even work on your system, don't skip work.[/quote] So much this. The alpha is not going anywhere, and it's not even supposed to be all that

Yep, exactly. Valve wants more people using their store, and they accomplish that by having more games there. They get more games there by making it really easy for developers to work with them.

We're going to be submitting them in some way, it wouldn't be hard to look for ones that are already there.

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="20" id="3450644"] Quoting Tonath, reply 19 I do think all strategy games need a way to make the AI turn into a big threat once you start to gain too much of a lead, they should put aside their rivalries and start to ally or even unite completely to counter you like in EUIV coalitions forming when you become too aggressive. Wow. I do agree that this looks like a way to spice up the end game, but this does look like a formula guarantee

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="20" id="3450468"] Quoting Tridus, reply 16Yep, it's this. Steam takes a cut of the price. For what they provide it's a pretty good deal, but for a pre-sale on the elite edition, it's an even better deal to sell directly (and keep that cut) and give out Steam keys. You'll be able to buy directly from Steam in the future, if you prefer to do that. But buying from Steam or Stardock will get you a Steam version of the game.<br

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="93" id="3450374"] five or ten minutes. It said it might take one business day. But I did hear that the badge was instant. I even logged out. I think I'll wait a hour or so. DARCA[/quote] Did you use this account to do the purchase? If so, it'll show up at some point. :)

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="86" id="3450353"] In addition, Steam will let you play your copy of the game on only one PC at a time, at least if you are playing in single player mode (I have no experience with how they handle multiplayer).[/quote] It's the same, your account can only be playing one game (in one location) at a time.

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="91" id="3450204"] 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] Me too, after an update broke stuff that was working fine.

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="75" id="3450112"] You mean games you purchased on one system, you got again on another for free. And I can do that for this game to. If that is the case I will sign up today.[/quote] The game belongs to you, not to your computer. You can play it on any computer if you log in to Steam (or have already done so once and can go into offline mode). That's kind of the beauty of Steam. I go somewhere, and my entire game library goes with me. I

[quote who="ForesterSOF" reply="15" id="3450066"] Quoting kyrah, reply 13 Why i can´t buy it on steam? It is cheaper for Stardock if you get it at their store and just do add new game with the serial number. Along with that it is not out yet.[/quote] Yep, it's this. Steam takes a cut of the price. For what they provide it's a pretty good deal, but for a pre-sale on the elite edition, it's an even better deal to sell directly (a

[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] In no way is setting one thing that controls them all at once "more complex" than a collection o

I'm somewhat concerned that billions of people isn't a sufficiently finite unit to use as the base input for all production. Just how populated can planets get now?

[quote who="satoru1" reply="31" id="3449660"] There are definitely some 'configurations' that are only possible in 3D. For example modelling a dense 'core' galaxy, with the outer parts ofthe galaxy being less dense. The main issues are that as humans we are actually pretty bad at visualizing in 3D. We don't even like verticality, which is why the upper shelf in retail is called a 'retail death sentence'. Or why popular toys and candy is always lower,

There's genres where there is a benefit. This isn't really one of them. A 3d map with unrestricted movement is going to have absolutely gigantic amounts of empty space. If you solve that problem by putting in restricted movement (aka: phase lanes, jump gates), then you haven't really accomplished anything except being able to tick a box saying you have a 3d map. You could flatten that into a 2d map and the gameplay would be identical.

There was simply no reason to pick good events, ever. Unless you wanted to make your life more difficult by being "good", which didn't really do anything anyway because you could just use Xeno Ethics to make yourself that way. Roleplaying is not an excuse here. If there is three options, and only one of them ever makes sense from a gameplay perspective, the system is flawed. Putting fluff on it doesn't change that. I mean, if you really want to deliberately make the game harde

[quote who="Woolfsmck" reply="29" id="3449400"] Tech skill. Say the crew didn't know how to use walkie talkies. They needed better experience in combat to use them...[/quote] You know what the absolute worst time possible is to try and learn how to use your radio? While you're being shot at. In any kind of even remotely realistic environment, you're trained on your tools before you go into combat. The entire point of that training is

Haven't they already said that this is all changed in 3?

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="23" id="3449035"] Lol. I love old people my dad is "old" I just don't like when people willing give up living and become complacent with being "old" when there is life to live, people to help, and things to do. from what little i know of Tridus he doesn't seem "old" like he said. Instead he's...ageing there's a difference . (my dad has been in one big childhood my hole life. )[/quote] Well, "old" can mean a few things. In response to

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="19" id="3448983"] You're being far too reasonable and intelligent about this! What kind of fan are you?![/quote] The old kind. :)

[quote who="trineroks" reply="15" id="3448964"] So, expect to hear something new about it, when you hear something about it. Also, whatever they came up with might change during the alpha (or even the beta), so I wouldn't base the purchase on it.I do realize that anything in the Alpha stage is subject to change, but the fact that they're developing a new planetary invasion interests me. Of course I shouldn't base my purchase on a game that's still in the

[quote who="BritishBlue" reply="10" id="3448910"] Do founders automatically get the full game upon release? The description doesn't say.[/quote] Yep. You're buying the game and getting early access along with it. Elite Founders also get expansions & DLC.

Oh, absolutely. :) And while we're on the subject, espionage missions should put you into a first person stealth mission like Thief. Given enough time, we'll have one game to rule them all.

[quote who="dlapine1" reply="91" id="3448880"] Hmmm, What about adding the option for a population module to the list of starbase modules? Not sure what the benefits would be, but it was definitely a trope in recent SciFi that your remote outpost could support families, if you wanted to do so. If nothing else, add population to a starbase would increase the influence it has slightly. Would definitely make protecting those bases more important. I know, it'