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Reply to Dawn of War (The first lot) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DorianGrayEternal" reply="1" id="2498692"]Tell them to return it and get DoW2. [/quote] Yes, that's a gracious response to a gift... I like DOW a lot. I only play SP, which isn't a great way to find out how balanced the factions are. But I've had the best luck with the space/chaos marines (they are similar, not identical), and the worst luck with the imperial guard. I've only really experimented with the five from the original/winter assault packa

Reply to If I flame you, do I become you? in Business Stardock Forums

All I know is that I'm much, much, smarter than you.

Reply to Sins Guide? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

This would be useful. But it might be better to wait for Diplomacy, since many things are likely to change on release.

Reply to Elemental: Revisiting the Great Cities of (my) RPG Gaming in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I agree that TES III:Morrowind has amazingly good cities. Vivec was incredible. The major cities in WoW are well done visually, especially Ironforge. They needed houses though. Those will be tough acts to follow within the context of a TBS, I think. One key in Elemental for me will be having big cities be much, much bigger than small cities - as opposed to just bigger numbers on the screen. No TBS I've played has ever really captured the difference very we

Reply to to the idiots at sins and impulse.. update the damn mods board!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

You must be a hoot at parties.

Reply to 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

This should be "opt-in" not "opt-out". Also let the user specify interests. I wouldn't bother with IconPackager if you paid ME the purchase price, but I am interested in knowing when games are on sale.

Reply to Help! Computer gang up on me in all vs all in Strategy Sins Forums

Do their missions, as much as possible. Unless you are good enough to win playing 1-v-9, you can't ignore the diplomacy aspect of the game (even if you aren't playing the diplomacy beta).

Reply to Digital Distribution market share in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I like Impulse, but let's be honest: This is like arguing about which of the Baha Men's songs was the second-biggest hit after "Who Let the Dogs Out".

Reply to Top 25 Games of the Decade [Results are In!] in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I know Age of Empires was released well before 2000. Age of Empires II was released on Sept. 30, 1999. Age of Empires III would be eligible...oh, right. Also, I nominate Progress Quest. That's an awesome game.

Reply to Top 25 Games of the Decade [Results are In!] in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Rise of Nations. Supreme Commander.

Reply to Nostalgic Gaming Memories in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Original SimCity.

Reply to [DEVS READ]The AI and siege frigates - messed up and irritating beyond belief in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Cykur" reply="53" id="2451008"]I think a good question would be, "Would you defend all your frontline worlds if you knew the AI wasn't going to have raiding Siege?" It is kind of funny how some complaints are because Siege cripples the AI, while other comlaints are what a pain it is to run around trying to defend your planets from all the siege frigs! While siege is easy to counter, four or five of them can level a non-upgraded world pretty fast

Reply to User unfriendly - The greatest accomplishments in destroying fun in otherwise decent products in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

No game is perfect, but stuff like what the op mentioned is so easy to avoid...it's like the devs give no thought to what the user experience will be like.

Reply to noob question in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

That chart was just what I was looking for. Thanks.

noob question in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

People on the forums talk about ships being "anti-light" or "anti-medium". The manual tells you which ships have which armor types and weapon types (auto-cannons, laser pulse, etc) , but where are do you find out which ships are anti-whatever? I can't find this anywhere in the game. Thanks.

Reply to Give some units dual purposes in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Yeah, maybe you could have the same bonus not stack at all - either a city has a "love charm" bonus or it doesn't. One can only do so much "loving", after all. Or you could just have it stack up to X times, or diminishing returns. Obviously it would have to be carefully balanced - but every aspect of a game needs careful balance if you want it to stay interesting and replayable for any period of time. That's no reason not to implement things. Even if it got cut

Reply to Give some units dual purposes in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'm not sure what you mean by bean counting. I think the cost/benefit analysis would be no different than that concerning which buildings to build. And I had meant more having them be less effective militarily instead of having higher maintenance costs. But it would be fine if this was just for heroes. In too many games your heroes can't do anything but fight.

Give some units dual purposes in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I think it would make the game interesting if you could have military units that also had economic or magical benefits for the city they were stationed in, and have a tradeoff between economic benefits and military benefits. For example: In the "accessory" slot you could give a unit any one of the following: Ring of Might = +Attack Ring of Valor = +HP Banner of the Sovereign = bonus prestige for any city the unit ends its turn in Amulet of Power =

[CRASH] Random CTD in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

debug.err: http://pastebin.com/m684415c9 Have fun!

Reply to The Jews Are Celebrating in Misc Stardock Forums

Apparently rejecting the divinity of Jesus is the path to happiness. Who knew?

Reply to Similiar Games Coexisting in Everything Else Stardock Forums

You also see this a ton with MMORPGs. I don't get it either.

Reply to August 21 Survey in War of Magic Stardock Forums

It is weird how often trailers are almost totally unrelated to the game. It must work though...

Reply to August 21 Survey in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Taken. Good survey. But health care reform? Could be troll-bait.

Reply to Of possible interest in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I thought it was interesting. There was a lot more truth to it than I thought there would be. Although, if I understand, the only people who ever saw that policy were the car dealers, so IMHO Beck was being a little dishonest when he warned people not to go to cars.gov. But somebody in the gov. really screwed up that anybody ever saw, much less agreed to, that joke of a "privacy policy". Threads like this, to me, demonstrate one disturbing truth: An alarmingly high p

Reply to Software Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

As a number of comments after the article pointed out, why give the game to early adopters for $25 when they are perfectly willing to pay $50, and you can always lower the price later? I think Valve did it right - both with the original pricing, and the aggressive sales. SD should sell Demigod for $10 some weekend, maybe coinciding with the release of additional content.