If I may put in my 2¢ ... I modestly say that because I enjoy playing the game to relax from very intellectual university stuff. I consequently don't have the time & energy to analyze DG data like you experts do (no sarcasm intended). My very subjective impression is that the Vampire Lord, if competently played, is very deadly against some enemy DGs. Is he OP ? I don't have the analytical expertise to answer that. In MP custom games, I always play the icy TB, an
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[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="12" id="2165404"] Any games you've played from last Friday until a couple of days ago were lost due to a bug. I apologize for that. Since a few days ago though, your games should have been saved. Is that not the case? Have you played any games recently that have not been saved? Try a couple today, if possible. [/quote] REPORT : 1. None ot the games I have played since "a few days
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="6" id="2164885"] Soon enough the ranks will be a good representation of a player's a skill. Actually, I think showing the "Experience" number would be far more helpful. Seeing someone with 400 experience versus someone with 1200 experience should tell you right away how good that player is. [/quote] I agree. You can be a good player, but get stuck with too many losses because your randomly-selected t
Yesss ... Thanxxx a lot ! I was tired of being branded with my dad's nick (which was the previous Impulse Account name).
Yessss ... Thanxxx ! I had been whining & bitching about that since mid-March (beta). At last, I have my very own game name, and I'm not stuck with my 58-year-old dad's lame nick. ("CyberMage" : he read too many William Gibson novels!)
I can now report that it has been FIXED (at least for me). Since today (24 April), I am correctly identified by my Impulse Account nick : Sorceresss. The old nick, which was my dad's, has totally disappeared : from the lobby, from MP games, and from the rankings. Thanxxx a lot. It was an obsession of mine to have that corrected, as I have posted about it on a few threads, for the past 4 weeks -- to the annoyance, I am certain, of <stro
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="6" id="2164885"] Sorceress, the stats are inaccurate for the moment, but we are trying to fix that. Soon enough the ranks will be a good representation of a player's a skill. Actually, I think showing the "Experience" number would be far more helpful. Seeing someone with 400 experience versus someone with 1200 experience should tell you right away how good that player is. Bara[/quote] OK, then : thanxxx. <
[quote quoting="post"] 4) Need some kind of display of player rank in custom game [...] in order that we can find matches against players of similar skill. [/quote] I agree with your principle (2nd half of the quote). At the moment, I win too easily against newbies, and I get "gang-raped" by teams of quasi-pro guys who know each other and coordinate efficiently against teams of average players (who do not know each other). I don't mind losing and learning (and I never quit), but
Being a dumb-blonde, French Literature student, there's some technical stuff in his OP that I do not seem to understand. After having read other posts on SimSpeed, there are 2 basic things I remember from other forum users : 1. Any SS number above 0 is fine ; 2. When you're in a MP game, the game will run at the pace of the computer with the lowest SS number. If statement 2 is correct, I then do not understand what the OP is implying. For
Same as Reply #4. I changed our family's Impulse Account Name in mid-March (beta) from my dad's nick to my own. Since then, I log in as Sorceresss (that part works) ... but then, the game programme stubbornly tells me that I logged in as CyberMage (which is FALSE), and identifies me during a MP game as CyberMage. There's an obvious paradox between having successfully logged in as S and then being told that you've logged in as CM. That I could live with. My
Dear kryo, This issue still has not been resolved. (I'm still identified by the old Impulse Account nick of 5 weeks ago, even though I log-in with the more recent nick. I successfully log-in as Sorceresss ... and then the game states that I am logged-in as CyberMage!)
[quote who="Wagnard" reply="25" id="2117714"] its not that broken . the word I used is a bit strong here but its the only english word thats came to my french head [/quote] I'm French Canadian ... and the only english word that comes in my francophone head also starts with a B ... boring ...
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2116645"] This may come as a shock to you but 99.9% of games are released without having a public beta. [/quote] you're such a generous ... Mast'ah ... I'm soooo grateful to having had the privilege of participating in your public beta ... (There's a top-secret gamma going on ... and only those of you who are FOF [Friends of Frogboy] may participate ... It's « off the record, on the QT, very hush-hush »). <span st
3½ days later, with the topic falling down in the list : no official reply ! I wonder why nobody from Stardock cares to reply : seems to me it is a legitimate complaint. Why can I log-in with the new Impulse Account's Name ... and then the lobby and the game tell me that I'm logged-in with an old Impulse nick ?! Can't the Stardock server stop contradicting itself ? As I have explained above, the issue (= BUG</stron
[quote who="Micah71381" reply="8" id="2102792"] I'm well versed in AI programming and how common it is to use cheating on the part of the AI instead of programming a better AI (more cost effective). [/quote] As a student in French Literature, I'm a total n00bette in what concerns A.I. programming. My opinions, here, are consequently only worth 2 cents. 1. Micah , it appears to me, points in the right direction : COST. It's much cheaper & faster, in ter
[quote who="Star8urst" reply="7" id="2109252"] This has been bugged for a while [/quote] Thanks ... for confirming the obvious : it is a [BUG] . But anyway, I wonder where the game programme still retrieves my dad's nick, when the Impulse account and my log-in name are now under my nick. If the programme is stuck on the old nick, it must pick it up somewhere, in some file : it does not conjure it up from thin air. I'll t
I created a new in-game profile before logging ... and I still got mis-identified with my dad's nickname. I could delete my dad's profile ... but then, I would have to pay rent at another place. [e digicons]^_^[/e] But the technical point is simple : I log-in as "Sorceresss", and that works fine ... but then, I am told, in the lobby, that my log-in name is something else (my dad's Impulse nick before I changed it) ! The DG programme is thus in self-co
[DG log-on-name bug ?] I live with my dad. I don't want to use his Impulse Account nickname to log-on to DG when I want to play. So, I changed the Impulse nick (in the Community section of Impulse) to mine : Sorceresss. When I log-on to DG/Internet, "Sorceresss" is now accepted as the log-on nick to enter the lobby (which is OK, since it's the new Impulse nick associated to the Account's e-mail address) ... but it is then my dad's nick that appears :
[quote who="Luckmann" reply="10" id="1956791"]Oh please, in Israel, officials rape women and get away with it .[/quote] I'm surprised that StarDock & Ironclad do not employ watchful moderators who will filter such filth. I'm a French-Canadian, and I find this whole thread childish -- in the pedophobic sense of the word.
Well ... I've taken a break from SINS for the past 4½ months, but I will get back into it when Entrenchment is released. I'm a very defensive player : I really need all those new defenses. You'll never see me on ICO : I'm too scared of you pros.
[quote who="CobraA1" reply="22" id="1946755"] Vista is the future, and Windows 7 will be an upgraded version of Vista. The biggest problems are 99.9% solved, despite the insistence of whiners to keep whining. It's pointless to get a new computer with XP. [/quote] I hope you're right. If W7 was an almost completely new OS, it would bring in its own legion of bugs and compatibility problems. If W7 is "an upgraded version of Vista [...where] problems are 99.9% solved", I'll wait for it t
What an odd over-reaction ! I do not promote only 4 "races" : Men, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs. If they project to have TWELVE "factions", so what if 2 of them are the classical Elves & Dwarves ?! I would compromise at having one of the 6 "Fallen" factions presented as bloodthirsty Dark Elves.
EDIT > What a waste of server hard-disk space ! This thread is being ignored. Enjoy your SecuRom rookit DRM. I won't purchase any game, on Impulse, that is protected by SecuRom.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="1" id="1937070"]in some ways Master of Magic far surpasses it. The game was an attempt, but really missed the boat on a few things.[/quote] That's your (very vague) personal opinion. I totally disagree with it -- an also very vague statement. "Miss the boat on a few things" : you can say that of any game ! I've recently reinstalled Shadow Magic , with patch 1.4 : no way I'm going back to an old, ugly DOS
I've played Disciples 1 & 2. I shall of course buy D3 ... but my abolute, top interest is the Elemental beta. I've restarted to play at Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic , which might somewhat come closer to Elemental than HM&M 5.