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Reply to How to remove the virus? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Have you tried downloading and running any antivirus software? Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware would be my recommendation.

Reply to Mac Trojan getting worse, should this be cause for celebration? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="VistArtXPosed" reply="11" id="2942444"]It took them long enough. This gives reason for Mac users to install an AntiVirus & Internet Security Suites just like the rest of us (same goes for you Linux users). In the information age, nobody is immune to malware/ID Theft. Now it's only a matter of time until hackers deviate their efforts away from Windows (somewhat) and move onto Android, iOS, and possibly even Linux.[/quote] The trouble wit

Reply to Windows 8 MS Preview - How Will WB Work on This? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I hope they do not get rid of the taskbar and start menu as they are great.

Reply to What's a reliable firewall? (free and not-so-free) in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

The free ZoneAlarm firwall works nicely for me along side MSE for an anti-virus (Windows Firewall turned off) and I also periodically scan with Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware. If that does not work for you this might help find more info: [link removed as it's pointlessly out of date - Admin]

Reply to Population as a resource evolves in v1.3 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2941386"]An interesting idea. Unfortunately, probably beyond the scope of what I can do in v1.3.[/quote] How about capping the max number of workers a city can use at the max population it can house? Would that be doable?

Reply to Use Tiles for a Minimal Desktop Setup in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

http://www.mediafire.com/?90car2vv9j22d4d An example of what I meant by a menu can be seen in the upper right. It is label Launch and has button that generates a drop down. As to the command prompt, when it is maximized and running (being filled with text) and you minimize and restore it the console moves up the screen.

Reply to Use Tiles for a Minimal Desktop Setup in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="karmat" reply="10" id="2941579"]It's better than the start menu because with Tiles you only have the apps/folders/files that you want. With the Start Menu you have to go through everything in All Programs. With Tiles, each tile (page) can be organized how you want it. And you can always put it on autohide for a minimal look.[/quote] Just create a menu on the taskbar and place shortcuts to apps you commonly use in that. (Or use the quick launch menu in versions&nbs

Reply to Devs: can you update us on DLL plans & modding support in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="23" id="2937310"]Takes advantage of the latest hardware. Maybe, no idea.[/quote] The latest hardware would mean 64-bit and DirectX 11, so no. I would say it does not meet the requirement of multi-player as you are not allowed to play the game you purchased in multi-player (as seen by its lack of tactical combat).

Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Anyone noticed that Impulse has started selling games that require Steam? In particular: http://www.impulsedriven.com/magicka And it says: IMPORTANT NOTICE: This game requires a 3rd party client to download, install and play. If Steam is required to download, install, and play why bother with Impulse?

Reply to Ingame profile must be my Impulse profile too? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Why is this the case? I want to have a different gaming "ID" as I play. Why can't we create different IDs like other games? Would be awful if, say, EA decided that all Battlefield gamers had to use only one ID name. [/quote] Because they use the same database to tracking profiles (or at least they do for now).

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="darkehound" reply="45" id="2931783"]Yes that trait was removed several patches ago. Why? And with this patch the last ruler with it had it removed. Is that clear now? Can any of you apologists give me any reason why? Just to make a broken game even more painful? Why is it that this game is so painfully bad? Right now on this PC i have Medieval 2, Civ 4---yes fall from heaven, Galciv 2, Civ 5, Sins and WOW loaded. All of these are Hugely replayable and just outright fun.

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="39" id="2931732"]I don't disagree.[/quote] I was reiterating for the developers' benefit.

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="darkehound" reply="41" id="2931761"]undocumented change...Removed organized trait so now you move more slowly around the boring world.....why did i bother to download the patch?[/quote] That was remove long ago.

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="mrbats" reply="36" id="2931722"]I found that my game crashing on launch issue was being caused by graphics tray tools. Once I closed out Catalyst (ATI Radeon's standard set of tray tools), the game launched fine, and I saw no graphical menu errors. So, Radeon users note: Graphical snaffus may be caused by conflicts with the game engine and Catalyst. Try closing Catalyst. -mra[/quote] Or maybe it is a setting in Catalyst... I know of at least one g

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="towarf" reply="32" id="2931703"]For the love of god, let this game die. You guys are great, you make some of the best games I have ever played. I cant tell you how much I would love to see more sins, demigod, galciv or your next genius creation. I bought elemental, it was a huge dissappointment but I feel like i never stop paying for it because i know its eating time that could be used to develop the next fun thing. Elemental will simply never be fun.

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="33" id="2931712"]Overall there are far far far too many turns needed to get anything accomplished.[/quote] And that is why sovreigns need to be ready for serious adventuring from turn one on, and we need monster lairs.

Reply to War of Magic 1.2 Changelog in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="asadex" reply="27" id="2931653"]Nice Job!? Please Fanboys, plase stay home this game is a crap i'm so sorry but there is nothing to do[/quote] Having something to do is slated for the next patch. When you will have fun has yet to be determined.

Reply to Update To Sony’s Playstation Network and Qriocity Penetrated and Personal Data Stolen in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It appears the free credit card protection will be handled through the three credit bureaus for people inside the US. They have been informed who was affected and you only need to contact them (you do not give info to Sony). This is for those interested in how it will be done, as people that were affected are being informed by email.

Reply to Technology in Fallen Enchantress in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="133" id="2931544"]You seem to be talking about some kind of SotS style random tree, which is not what we're getting. We're getting a fixed tech tree with some random stuff tossed in, and since the tree can auto-connect things as added making a "no random" option is actually really easy. Either use a fixed seed so you get the same "random" tree every time (which winds up being not random by definition) or in the not-random version just enable everything.<br /

Reply to Gamestop, Impulse and Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

It appears games no longer get bumped up in the list when updated. Not a fan of this as that feature gave extra exposure for the games of developers/publishers that bothered to update, and anything that encourages updates is good for consumers.

Reply to Technology in Fallen Enchantress in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ryilan" reply="131" id="2931529"]Can we PLEASE get an option to turn random techs off so their ALWAYS there, I hate this in Sword of the Stars and I really don't want to see it without the OPTION to turn it off.[/quote] If they put in the time to do random techs right (as in, it is actually worth mentioning that there are random techs), then it should not be possible to turn it off (in the unmodded game). If they can be turned off in vanilla, then it was not worth spen

Reply to Update To Sony’s Playstation Network and Qriocity Penetrated and Personal Data Stolen in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="27" id="2931344"]Turns out the credit card info was "Crypto Hashed" in other words, unreadable w/o a key, but how secure is that?[/quote] Very, as long as it is not feasible to build a database of hash values to look up the original value (called a rainbow table)*. Not at all if such a database can be built and searched in a reasonable amount of time. This because hash functions are created to only be done in one direction, and finding th

Reply to v1.2 has gone gold in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="19" id="2931444"]Good question. I know that the folks at impulse have to load/stage updates (eg if I'm a developer and create a patch, that patch just doesn't automatically become available. Someone has to load it on the impulse side). So, it makes sense that they might have less control over how quickly an update rolls out... but that said, as all of the folks from impulse are moving over to work on impulse under the gamestop umbrella -

Reply to Help with Impluse in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="7" id="2931253"]I think I figured out what happened. Gamestop took over Impulse today- but they're only handling the gaming side. The non-gaming stuff has disappeared from Impulse. Looking up Stardock Corporation nothing was there. This problem should solve itself soon, but I'd email support to see if they know anything. I'm pretty sure that's the cause though. [/quote

Reply to Technology in Fallen Enchantress in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="124" id="2930863"]WOM already has some built in equalizers, they just were not implemented very well. The Dynasty system combined with the surrender mechanic (if you get very lucky) can make a small nation into a significantly larger one overnight. Also the experience based system for sovereigns, heroes and common soldiers provides reward for better micro by making them stronger quality to defeat superior quantity.[/quote] The surrender mac