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Reply to Display Bug in Offworld Support Offworld Forums

I think this is related to the perk that grants mines to count as minimum of 'low'. This functions even when the resource isn't present - which may or may not be intended? But the GUI clearly fails to handle it.

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Daily Challenge in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I managed today's daily challenge by Sol 10, feeling pretty proud of myself. The top score is Sol 2. The strategy from the replay was this: Found last. Take some random tiles on the other side of the map. Buy the computer stock. Win on Sol 2, HQ level 1. This seems a bit degenerate? Can the AI be tweaked to avoid this sort of thing?

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Reply to A Very Important Version in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

When I mouseover an Offworld Market building, the tooltip says "Launch your electronics to Earth and the asteroid belt...". Should it say something other than electronics, since you can ship a variety of things?

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Reply to A Very Important Version in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

More feedback: The loading screens contain a lot of cool text, details on the map, etc. I think these are great, pretty, and good for new players to read. My computer loads the map faster than I can read this screen! Can you add a 'tap space bar to continue' here? Or at least add this as an option? Otherwise these screens are rather jarring, containing lots of information I have no way of accessing.

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Reply to A Very Important Version in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Hi Soren, There's an option when setting up a campaign that says something like 'Sim non-AI Missions', or perhaps the tooltip does. Shouldn't that be AI-only missions? (As I assume that it means it's simulating in greater detail the missions I'm not involved with while I'm playing my map.) If it doesn't mean that, you probably need a better tooltip, as the option is a giant mystery to me.

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Scavenger Tutorial Bugged in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

Hi, I noticed there is a bug in the Scavenger Tutorial (Make It Work). If you build your colony on the location next to the Silicon, you don't get the opportunity to upgrade to HQ level 4, and so you're stuck. I tried it by founding next to the crater with two carbon tiles, and it worked there. I did not try the third location.

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City Specialisation - immersion in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I like that cities can specialise on level up. Good move! Two problems: a ) I can't tell which city I'm looking at, as the dialogue box covers the city! b ) Why is it so descriptively bland? Instead of 'Gold/research/spell production +20%' it should be 'Paridar becomes a city of... 1) Commerce (+20% gold production...) 2 ) Magic (+20% etc.) 3 ) Study You could add this t

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

In 1841, Babington Macaulay MP gave a speech to the house of commons. It was about extending the length of time a publisher could hold a monopoly on his books. One of my favourite quotes is the following exert: "Sir, that I may with safety take it for granted that the effect of monopoly generally is to make articles scarce, to make them dear, and to make them bad." I'm rather pleased to hear Stardock take this stance.

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

So here's something important: name things! The names of mountains, forests etc on the map is great. Why not do the same for cities? If you have an order of paladins in the city, they need a randomly generated name (Order of the [Pious Sounding Object e.g. Sacred Heart, Divine Rose, etc.]). If you build an inn, it needs a unique name. Yes, for every inn! Name roads. Name blacksmiths? Name districts? There is a lot of

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Reply to On attack/defence Probability distributions in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The currently proposed attack/defense certainly seems quite clunky. When things make huge jumps for a single stat point, you start playing a game of maths with your battles (i.e. tuning everything around these important discontinunities in the statistics) than just playing the game. At this point I'd be inclined to survey how other games do it (AoW, Civ, HoMM, etc.) and borrow or modify the mechanics to taste.

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Reply to Little PC game gems in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="49" id="2429637"] Quoting -RAISTLIN-, reply 48good to know! but can projectiles hit units you werent aiming for? i thought SotS was a turn-based game? SotS is kinda like the Total War series: turn-based strategy with real-time battles. I don't know whether they could hit other stuff though, I suppose the game allows for it but given how slow most ships are I'd say its unlikely.[/quote] You have never experinced such sadnes

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Reply to Little PC game gems in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="46" id="2429519"] TA and supcom are one of the only games ever made (with cossacks i think) that simulate projectiles. TA was its very own beast and not a copy of anything. supcom was a sprititual successor to TA, not a ripoff of MAX which was a turn-based game ffs. [/quote] Sword of the Stars simulates projectiles. There's no roll-to-hit or anything; stuff is fired at the target with scatter determined by the weapon accuracy and

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Reply to I"m not the only one who thinks the tech screen sucks right? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

One of the things I like about Sword of the Stars is the tech tree (not the display they use, but the concepts). They have a lot of 'core' techs, that everyone gets. but a lot of random techs that each race may, or may not, get. For instance the Hivers have good chance at heavy armour, but are highly unlikely to get high tech beams. Humans are more likely to get the best dumbfire torpedo techs but average in most other places. Anyway, food for thought. It makes for some

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Reply to So much to do for next week in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="63" id="2397173"]I think being able to have a "trickle" of every nessessary resourse is a must. Learm from Civ4's mistakes: I've played Civ4 for years, and I can't tell you how really bad it is for gameplay to not have oil, or horses, or iron, and you absoulutely can NOT make a unit if you don't have the resourse. On the other hand, if you get more than one resourse of each type, it's near useless, which gives no incentive to aquire and

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Reply to So much to do for next week in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I don't have much to add to the discussion, other than to say resources should be important . Flat, small percentage modifiers, like Gal Civ II, is terribly dull. The resources in your realm should be an important feature in all aspects of that realm - its warfare, its culture, its trading, its research. What I'm trying to get at it that I'd like to see kingdoms naturally play to their strengths, and their strengths being those resources. A land of plains with w

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