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[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="8" id="1930909"]Sorry if my post sounded negative by the way. [/quote]And I'm sorry if mine gave the impression that I thought that.

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[quote who="ozo" reply="3" id="1929298"]Besides subs tend to stay close to surface. Correct me if i'm wrong. [/quote]When fighting, yes; otherwise, they might go relatively deep but are still close in absolute terms. [quote who="Tamren" reply="5" id="1930189"]Indeed. I once had to explain to someone why thier space combat system didn't work. The gist of it was that combat takes place at a maximum range of one light-second. (300000km ish). It takes 1 second for light to travel bet

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[quote who="xthetenth" reply="22" id="1930675"]And finally, where do the live scorpions fit in? [/quote]The rectum.

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[quote who="PuterDudeJim" reply="22" id="1930092"] Why would the anti christ need an election? Wouldn't he just cast some more magic and *poof*? According to the scriptures, he will be a well liked , elected official.[/quote]Well, they do say he will be well-liked and that the people will follow him blah blah blah, but it doesn't say he will be elected. And before that, the scriptures say there will be a nine-headed monster, and we don't seem to have too many of those yet. E

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[quote who="Heavenfall" comment="4"]You didn't mention DOTA once. The CEO even stuttered when he was explaining how resources and such work, because he never mentioned (or didn't want to) that units spawn automatically.[/quote]I think the way he explained resources was better: just saying "you get units for free" would still leave anyone who doesn't already know the game wondering how you get the upper hand. This way people know that advantages are gained by capturing territory rather th

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[quote quoting="article"]One thing I should mention about the tactical battles that isn't clear in the screenshots is that they're continuous turns. They're not like HOMM. The player tells where they want their units and uses the space bar to pause the action to give new directions. That way, we can get much more interesting battles.[/quote]I'm confused about this. Does that mean your units move as you give orders rather than at the end of your turn, or is it basically like the Total Wars exc

Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Wanderer17" reply="9" id="1923048"]Again I like to point out that nuke spam would kill the fighter pilots well before they can get even close. [/quote]Actually, nukes would be more effective against bigger ships (assuming you could get a hit, which is highly unlikely in either case). This is because explosions don't propogate very well in space, so even if fighters were flying as close as could reasonably be safe at combat speeds they would not be affected if a nuke hit the n

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[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="20" id="1926159"]Anyone know how to make windows not put everything on C, or is that not changeable? [/quote]Don't go with the default. Whenever you install a game or save a file, it asks you where you want to put it. Simply change where it is going to save the file.

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[quote who="Bodyless" reply="22" id="1927336"]Someone needs to learn something about ecology here. Or maybe you just look at a map and search for forests... [/quote]This is true, but that someone is not psychoak. Research a metaphor before extending it. [quote who="psychoak" reply="21" id="1925841"]The only real difference between the candy maker and the game producer is that the candy maker hasn't got a shot in hell of trying that argument on you. Niether can prove that pe

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[quote who="Azaana" reply="7" id="1922298"]ok you have a great game for $30 no one can dissagre with that. [/quote]I most certainly can disagree with this. I had to pay 45 bucks. [quote who="Coelocanth" reply="5" id="1922233"]It's nothing to do with fanboyism. The OP stated right in his first post that he thought the game was great. Again, how does that suddenly change when Stardock decides to add content in an expansion? If he'd originally said the game was unfinished

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[quote who="Roxlimn" reply="24" id="1921012"]Regont: Correct. Doctors are paid more because people want to pay more for their services. However, by the same token, pirates exist because people want to pay them enough to compensate them for their risks and services. [/quote]Except that most pirates aren't paid. [quote who="psychoak" reply="19" id="1920909"]You're utterly hopeless, or you took debate class, one or the other. Probably both. It's te

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Do you people read before posting? The guy doesn't have a problem with money. His problem is this.[quote quoting="post"]It appears this game was released unfinished and, thus now, the company is releasing the finishing components. [/quote]He obviously can't react this way every time a game gets an expansion, or he would never play any good games. Therefore, the most reasonable interpretation of this is that he considers a campaign and decent diplomacy system to be basic components

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="17" id="1920780"]You accept that people pirate before buying. I assume you also accept that most people who pirate would never buy the game to start with correct?[/quote]Yes on both counts. For the first point, I've said twice now (three counting this) that I'm debating the morality of those who pirate games to get a game rather than find out if a game is worth getting. For the second, a shoplifter has no intention of paying for a game either, so t

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="15" id="1920662"]The factual accuracy of this is irrefutable, the vast majority of them either result in a sale themselves, [/quote]I have already said I have nothing against those that use pirated games as a kind of unofficial demo. [quote who="psychoak" reply="15" id="1920662"]or would never have been one to start with because the downloaders either don't have the money to start with or don't care enough to spend it.[/quote]Because the shoplifter ca

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[quote who="Annatar11" reply="10" id="1920637"]You realize that there are many games made without campaigns? [/quote]All by design. [quote who="Annatar11" reply="10" id="1920637"]And you realize that many Sins players don't even want one? [/quote]And many do. Regardless, causality dictates that the reaction to the lack of campaign can't be the cause for the lack of campaign. [quote who="Annatar11" reply="10" id="1920637"]The OP shoots himself in the foot. If he

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[quote who="Annatar11" reply="5" id="1920603"]It's not a legitimate point because that logic can easily be extended to any and every expansion that has ever been released. [/quote]That wouldn't be the same logic, however. Most expansions are more along the lines of adding neat new things that the designers hadn't thought of or weren't able to implement the first time around, usually new units, new maps and a second campaign building on the original. His point about these expansions in pa

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="2" id="1920579"]Out of curiosity, is your game in a bin because you object to expansions in general, or do you just object to having the typical expansion broken up into three parts and sold for the same amount of money in total? [/quote]Reading his post, it appears that his complaint is that the content of the expansions is the kind of thing that should have been included in the original product, such as a campaign and a diplomacy system that doesn't su

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="9" id="1919753"]I'm just going to ignore the rest of it since you obviously lack reading comprehension and have no idea what I said as your arguments are entirely irrelevant. [/quote]Enlighten me then, as we obviously don't think in anything approaching a similar fasion. What, exactly, are you saying lends value to the item? Reading your last post, the impression I get is that you think that the box is the most important part. Is this a reasonable assumption?

Reply to Wouldnt smaller craft such as starfighters be useless in space combat? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="5" id="1919633"]So its more likely that the ships are designed to fullfill its function while being as big as necessary but as small as possible. [/quote]Unless it turns out that bigger warships are better; then you'd have people building ships as small as necessary but as big as possible. It all depends on the nature of the technologies present at the time. I personally think that's a more likely scenario, but as you said, we won't know until we ge

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Neat concept, but unfortunately what you end up with is the worst of two worlds. You have people complaining about digital distribution based on the fear that the company server might one day go down, and you have people complaining about CD's because they quickly become useless if you aren't careful. Your plan would probably get both sides upset while still doing nothing about piracy. Games aren't pirated by someone stealing a disk during shipping. They're pirated by people purchasing a

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="5" id="1918912"]You assume I have a problem with people being reimbursed for their work simply because I don't buy the idiocy that copyright infringment is theft, and consider arguing it as such to be a sign of mental defect. The idiot above calls it theft, equates downloading a torrent with stealing a boxed set of DVD's out of Walmart. They are physically unrelated to each other, conceptually unrelated to each other, and legally unrelated to each othe

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[quote who="Roxlimn" reply="25" id="1918397"]Yes. Because more people will need to have their toilets unclogged than to have their hearts replaced. [/quote]No, they don't. There is no one on the planet who needs their toilet unclogged, and those that do for some reason have some life-threatening condition treatment of which requires an unclogged toilet can get a plunger. Lots of people would like their toilet unclogged at the next convenient time. On the other hand, plenty

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True. Hell's a much hotter destination. *Rimshot*

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[quote who="Roxlimn" reply="21" id="1917187"]I disagree, and I'm a doctor. The effort that I put in and the effort a dedicated plumber puts in are exactly the same. It's not his fault that he doesn't have my natural focus or my educational opportunities. It's NOT FAIR. If we're going to talk about ethics and what's fair, what's fair is that everyone gets the same return for the same efforts. That's fair. [/quote]Fine, plumber's effort = doctor's effort

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="1" id="1917597"]You also can't just sell your physical copy either, the license is tied into your account, your buyer either has to go to other sources to get updates, or is stuck playing the out of the box version. [/quote]1) The out-of-the-box version is well worth it if abstaining from updates saves you enough. 2) This isn't a Stardock game he's talking about; it's Company of Heroes. A retail edition of that updates itself before aski