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Reply to Elemental – coding coding coding in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="31" id="2624957"] why do you have a cat in a box as an avatar? [/quote] Cougar crossing ?? :)

Reply to Explaining what Elemental is to people in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="zigzag" reply="30" id="2624907"]Let me preface this by stating that I love Stardock and I'm committed to buying Elemental. I don't think it's fair to say that Elemental is the evolution of strategy games. I think it's one direction in which strategy games could go, but I don't think it's the one that they should. I've always favored strategy games with relatively few rules (i.e. games that are relatively predictable) and relatively few roleplaying elements. I

Reply to Elemental – coding coding coding in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="TarponCrest" reply="12" id="2623471"]Good stuff! I am starting to think that there is a surprise in the works over the way the tactical battles will be handled for it is being kept out for now (Surprise us "Frogboy" with some new awesomeness like you did with the spell editor). Off topic of sorts but... I been wanting to pre order but noticed the warning that I will not be charged until I actually get the game. I can be like an absentminded professor and well I ra

Reply to Wii On-line for the First Time, got some Old School back! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote]If you don't mind my asking, why don't you like to have your consoles online? I can understand with the 360, you are pretty much forced to buy a $100 wireless adaptor, but the Wii's is built in. I've had mine connected since the beginning, although I admit I don't go online very often.[/quote] Only if you want wireless connection. My 360 has been plugged in via CAT5 from the beginning.

Reply to Wii On-line for the First Time, got some Old School back! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

From what I recall Xbox360 has a ton of old games also, think I bought Joust, Contra, Frogger, Galaga, and some others.

Reply to File Transer Help in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I know when I tried this method, it didn't work for Dragon Age origins when the two machines didn't have the same operating system. I'm not sure if that will be the case here, but keep it in mind if something goes wrong.

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="252" id="2616130"]That 2K response just as easily applies to any number of options. If game updating and mod handling was their primary concern, there were plenty of other options that wouldn't have required bundling a third party store with the game.[/quote] Agreed, if it just bundled Steamworks, which in turn didn't require an install of Steam, I doubt many of us would have a problem. It is most definitely the tying together of Steamworks a

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="TCores" reply="237" id="2615624"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 232 I want the old days where I'd start up a game, consult with my friends (voice program, IM, forum, etc.), one hosts and the others connect, and voila! -- we're playing. No third party. And updating being as simple as clicking on 'update' when firing up the game and it checks automatically, or perhaps I visit the game's site or similar repository and DL the patch and apply it myself. <b

Reply to Elemental: Destiny’s Embers in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="33" id="2554776"] Quoting travitar, reply 22Brad, Any chance you could get Random House to publish a Kindle version of this book as well? Thanks again for everything, Travitar You beat me to it. Would love for this to be a Kindle book.[/quote] Well, Kindle edition is up for pre-order!

Reply to Elemental: Destiny’s Embers Preview in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Well, well, well... good news, clicked on the link, and there is now a link to a Kindle edition!! Thanks, Pre-ordered!! Pretty sure I talked about this in the much older thread about this book, gonna go and update that thread also if I can find it.

Reply to Translating lessons from Alpha Centauri into Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What was the one about... what goes up, better darn well stay up! nevermind... google is my friend: Applied Gravitonics: "What goes up . . . better doggone well stay up!" -- Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan

Reply to I don’t like monopolies, especially ourselves in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="50" id="2604228"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 49 This might have been true in the beginning, but after they got their foot in the door they pretty much beat down any competition to a bloody pulp anytime anyone even attempted to compete with them. They've had enough legal issues that say exactly that, with enough blood on their hands not to be able tojust claim they deliver what consumers want. They're right up there with Intel in shady business practices. I am

[CRASH][.302] While moving sovereign in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Crash to desktop while moving sovereign. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5804849/debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5804849/DxDiag.txt Most recent zip file in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic was not from today, but from 2 weeks ago, not sure why that didn't generate.

Reply to Pre-order now, beta key sent when available? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Naithin" reply="2" id="2602106"]Good to know, Thanks very much for the answer TCores. I'm hoping that now is a good time with Beta 1 seeming to be wrapping up shortly, that perhaps Beta 2 will accept a few more people into the mix. [/quote] It won't be just a few more, EVERYONE who has pre-ordered automatically gets into the beta as soon as Stardock opens it again, which shouldn't be that far away. What ordering now will get you

Reply to Are you crashing like crazy still? Let's compare hardware. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]- 3DNow...is that an intergrated video card that is being ignored in favor of the ATI card?[/quote] Thought 3DNow was a set of AMD chip instructions... similar to MMX, from quite a long time ago.

Reply to Great game intros of all time in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

You guys are in the wrong galaxy.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWYi8xuX9M Just the music at the beginning had you in the right mode to play this, one of the best PC games of all time.

Reply to Elemental: Why it’s important to get it right in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Keep up the great work Frogboy! Beta defintely getting better, but a good decision to delay.

Reply to Internet on an airplane in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="SirBedwyr" reply="11" id="2564492"] tetleyteacomment 8We can have wireless, but we can't have cell phones. Go figure that one out. My best understanding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft#USA_Channel_reuse The EMF issue is a touchy one. Self-righteous tech users sputter angrily and reference Mythbusters and the like. While they're right that most of the stuff on a modern jet is shie

Reply to Impulse games and 64bits in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="12" id="2581690"] Quoting Hawawaa, reply 3Yep new comp in Feb so Ill get a V64B. If its better than Windows Me ill bear the pain. Don't get Vista, get Win 7. If you're getting a new system it should come with Win 7 anyway. Trust me, it's a HUGE improvement over Vista. Win 7 has all the good aspects of Vista minus all the shit that makes Vista suck balls.[/quote] Think you are about to give yourself a big Homer DOH! You did rea

Reply to What Are Your Current Impressions of Windows 7? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="33" id="2581125"] I admit though that I still don't like how in both Vista and 7 that Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't just immediately open the Task Manager. Ctrl+Shift+Esc[/quote] Or right click the taskbar and "Start Task Manager" if mouse is already in hand.'' And to throw my 0.02 on the topic; best Windows version by far!

Reply to Havok engine demonstration - GDC 2010 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Now this is great news. I think some good Karma kicked in for you Frogboy (and second hand to all of us!)

Reply to SP, MP, LAN Level of importance to you in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Most likely will never even fire up a single game of multiplayer.

Reply to Road Building…Your thoughts? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Aroddo: Is that 2nd one the "death road" in South America?

Reply to Elemental: Destiny’s Embers in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="travitar" reply="22" id="2554444"]Brad, Any chance you could get Random House to publish a Kindle version of this book as well? Thanks again for everything, Travitar[/quote] You beat me to it. Would love for this to be a Kindle book.

Reply to The true face of DRM in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="81" id="2552845"]https://forums.stardock.com/373887/page/4 32 player multiplayer. This is a big one and will take a lot of work but it we are requiring that the game handle up to 32 players playing together. To make this work, it also means that games need to be automatically saved (to our servers regardless of whether it’s on a custom modded server or ours) so that stopping and starting games later is easy.[/quote] Is it poss