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[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="106" id="3432624"] Well about tech specialization I think this should be only one path. Maybe this could be balanced by bringing slightly down all the other paths. Maybe the specialized path should be twice as big. There would be techs you would have that you wouldn't have unless you specialized. Maybe you could have specialized units or bonuses on these techs you wouldn't have otherwise. [/quote] If it is specia

[quote who="wbino49" reply="18" id="3432733"] Does it come packaged with Episode 3? [/quote] That would turn them into best-seller and Microsoft will, probably, close itself.

[quote who="Fate" reply="64" id="3432648"]Thanks for the feedback Admiral, my reasoning for tying the governors to the capitals was two fold. Firstly was to reduce the learning curve as I said, but what I neglected to mention was that it would be nice to add more or a role to the capitals (if they even exist in GC3) rather then just a single planet boost as capitals usually imply governance.[/quote] Sorry, Master Chief Petty Officer, I'm afraid I'm not Admiral,

Well, that does look like next-gen.

Steambox is Valve's solution to bring more SteamOs into our houses, through those who want PC that is more powerful than consoles, but less troublesome than PC, especially in terms of DYI.

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="8" id="3432579"] What do you think we will be doing tomorrow. [/quote] Judging by humanity history I say we'll be blowing some stuff, killing other people because they have something we want/don't have something we like in the name of something... [quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="8" id="3432579"]I think the specifics on planet building should be looked up to make this as realistic as poss

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="61" id="3432546"]I would like to point out besides spviet union it has happened to us. This is what I remember learning about the spots when I learned history. Originally New england was our industrial spot. Then it was around Great lakes. Then it was the Gulf of mexico. Our manufacturing has changed locations. Moving our technological capital was closer to a debate I had at Itt tech when Clinton decided not to close Davis monthan, but decided to close t

Starbase is the closest thing we can get, especially if we remember SoaSE variant (government housing). So I don't mind if we will be able to build something similar to Torus from X-series. No need to tell me how it all ended.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="102" id="3432502"] Yes, that type of thing works too. The catch is that doing it has to be so expensive in terms of research that I can't go "well I took all the farming tech, now I can catch up on ship tech because I can research 3 of them a turn due to how old they are" type of thing. Most tech trees in games are designed to keep the tech flowing, and thus it's hard for the tech tree to really specialize you.[/quote] In most ga

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="11" id="3432555"] How do you sell steam cards? Do you need a paypal account, or do you just get credit at steam? I have like 50 cards, really don't car about them... (oh a few are cute...) and i could use some cash....(or steamy credit)[/quote] Go to inventory, pick a card you want to sell. Remember name. Go to market (Community tab), enter your card's name in search field. look for specific prices, set by differe

[quote who="Tridus" reply="58" id="3432486"] Relocating Silicon Valley isn't something you can really do, there are so many people and so much infrastructure to move that it's just not feasible.[/quote] Soviet Union evacuated a lot of everything: people, cattle, vehicles, crops, industry, different resources in 1941 with technologies and infrastructure of that time. Don't make me angry on our descendands who couldn't do something similar with their

Antagonistic branches? "We need ships, so you'll be eating iron and coal, not wheat and barley". :D I even know one person who could say that. What I had in mind (mostly as blurry outline), is that specializing in one branch (not necessarily mutually exclusive with another) could give you advantage. For example, you went expansively, developing farming, that would give you population growth, so your people could build a lot of older, weaker ships, but in huge numbers. While your o

I purchased games on disks, but all ended up with me buying them from GoG. :) Yes, I know the pain - several disk copies, and then digital... If memory serves, most basic issues with functionality could be solved with choosing compatibility with earlier Windows version. Also IWD (of that I'm sure) required playing with settings, turning some effects off (something transparency related, if I'm not mistaken, otherwise some spell effect will cause enormous lag, slideshow, natural

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="54" id="3432451"] I think I am going to have to disagree with any idea that has capitals changing location based on any parameter that involves anything except choice by the governing body. Capitals are government seats for governing bodies, which may or may not be economic or production centers. The only reason for a capital to change location is that the governing body decides to do so. [/quote] Those aren't "global government seat" kind of c

[quote who="Tridus" reply="98" id="3432461"]Complexity for the sake of complexity is not a bonus if it breaks something.[/quote] But oversimplification for sake of... you know, :) isn't optimal too. I mean, I'd prefer different tech branches giving us different paths to follow, and thus, play differently, other than present us with false choice options, when our opinion doesn't matter (say you'll need to develop most branches anyway to succeed), or, even

Not to worry, Tridus! Being a real fan means being there with object of your adoration regardless of that object well-being - be that rain or sunshine. Knowing numbers is just being statistic. Or geek. That's not derogatory.

I'm aware of that, that's why I named them that way. Formally Space Rangers HD is the same game as old Space rangers, but there is some new content added (and I dislike it to great extent, besides I can't turn it off), so I can't name that game to be an "exact remake". Call it a matter of taste. :)

IMHO switching to new mouse is a bit easier than switching to new keyboard. Reminds me of funny case at work, when we had a massive replacement of all old keyboards with newer ones. Newer were kinda cute, less noisy, more comfortable to type, but they were smaller, so we had massive misprint issues. And we work with precise values - construction industry, after all. At the middle of first day with new keyboards we looked like "grumpy cats eating a lemon" parade.

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="109" id="3432264"] I call dibs on 'Paragon'! [/quote] Is Cerberus busy?

I could be wrong, but brief look over Steambox idea reminds me of "consoles extended" - they have broader specs options than consoles, so they are more flexible. Yet because they have (apparently) only selected array of hardware components, it could make software optimization for that specific hardware easier. So it could be natural middle ground - we have fixed consoles hardware with best optimization possible, free PC market with worts optimization possible, and something inbetween - steamb

Yeah, but those aren't exactly originals.

I think those "capitals" should be "tranferable", and designation should be automatic - planet that surpasses other planets' capacity in certain area should hold title of "capital" automatically. Certain tuning should be implemented, of course - if you build manufacturing improvements on several planets, title could (but shouldn't) jump from one to another as buildinds are constructed. This would reduce micro, and make nation less susceptible to losses of planets and/or actions affect

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="10" id="3432339"] Waiting for a friendly drone to deliver Balder's Gate 1,2,(4 cd set) and Icewind Dale (3 cd set) - and researching how to sat them up to play.[/quote] Easiest way is go to GoG and buy them there. Running old disks (bought originally upon release, some bought later due wear&tear/damages), could require certain shaman rituals, and games still could have problems in performance, or very working status. If you have AM

Well, at least in those screenshots game start to resemble massive, somewhat chaotic "battlefield", not just TES-style "giant" armies of five men. We already have Wargame, now we need Warspace... Sorry, played Game Dev Tycoon. :D

[quote who="Starbound_Dust" reply="158" id="3432313"] Not true. Water has a pale blue colour all of it's own.[/quote] Lucky you, one I've seen recently was more of brown hue.