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Reply to XP gain - the gross exploit in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="kenata" reply="22" id="2927928"]In general, an IEB system can add interesting decisions to combat, but typically give a huge advantage to direct damage units over supporting units or indirect damage units. Looking at AoW, the IEB experience system featured in that title was the weakest form of IEB system. Not only did the game give an incredible advantage to direct damage units, but as higher tier units became more frequent participants in combat, leveling lower tier or support un

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

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="368" id="2926819"]Lets hope GFWL die soon.[/quote] I thought it already died and was raised up as the undead.

Reply to XP gain - the gross exploit in War of Magic Stardock Forums

What the best system is depends on the game. Age of Wonders had a combat system that made arranging who gets a kill interesting; E:WoM not so much. It also depends on what type of game you want. Splitting exp evenly is better for games geared towards large numbers of units/parties while basing it one who makes the kill is better for games that focus on having elite troops. Having the exp gain be based only on the value of slain enemies and having the events in battle and the s

Reply to Come on, lets here some new Elemental News! WoM 1.2 and 1.3 info and/or Fallen Enchantress stuff. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="137" id="2926115"]Taarth = What are these guys? Gladiators? Brigands? Warriors? Barbarians? Some combo? [/quote] Rebels.

Reply to Does graphic card matter? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="1" id="2925674"]It probably won't help you with things like *snip* higher resolution textures, higher poly count meshes etc. because the sticking point with these is RAM, not your graphics card.[/quote] Depends; video cards (at least good ones) have their own RAM. Therefore if the card has more built-in RAM than the current one & the game actually uses it then it would help with these. Especially if it is faster memory (which the GTX 460

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="51" id="2925649"]Gwenio1, so the basic 'unit' of territory in Star rulers is a 'solar system?' Its an intriguing concept....[/quote] No, it just lets you give special commands that cut down on the micro management. It also has things like highly customizable unit AI (when designing the ships). Basically it is the opposite approach to the problem from how Distant Worlds does it: DW determines what it thinks should be do

Reply to Elemental: April FAQ in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Personal airborne transport has been in the works since before air planes were invented. Specifically some guy in France thought everyone should have a personal zephylin type thing.

Reply to A speech to encourage those that have lost hope in War of Magic. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="48" id="2925465"]As someone who gritted his teeth through one game of LOM: Ouch!![/quote] Specifically the Special Edition (there was a patch for that which I never got though). It was better on older versions of Windows, when the bugs mostly just caused wierdness that could be removed by saving and reloading rather than crashing out right.

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[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="48" id="2925458"]Admiral Rom, I'm happy you found you like DW. Its my fav space game right now.. but mainly because of the extensive use of AI coupled with the ability to 'mod' the experience by deciding how much to give to the AI to run, and how much I want to run.... [/quote] Personally I prefer the approach Star Ruler takes (at least to how Distant Worlds does it before the expansion). It lets you give general comman

Reply to A speech to encourage those that have lost hope in War of Magic. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Admiral Rom" reply="45" id="2925425"]I think the main problem with Elemental War of Magic was that even forgetting all the bugs and stability issues, the fundamental game design felt broken and not fun.[/quote] Very true, Lords of Magic was buggier (for me) than Elemental was when I first played it, but Lords of Magic was far more fun.

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[quote who="Admiral Rom" reply="46" id="2925416"]I heard about SOTS 2 which looks pretty good from the previews, so I got the original and the expansion packs to see what they were like. I really enjoyed the game and thought it had some interesting takes on some design decisions. One of the things I dont like about it however is the random tech trees, and unfortunately they seem to be coming back in the sequel.[/quote] It is back, but it will have some changes to it so that rather tha

Reply to AV Comparatives Results- Best and Less AV’s in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="13" id="2925264"]Well technically Windows itself calls home so it could be classified as Spyware. (LOL)[/quote] The question is not if a program calls home, but that kind of information about you does it send? As a note of interest there are a suprising number of smart phone apps that listen to you through the built-in microphone. and send info about what they hear to a central database.

Reply to Best Tycoon-esq Games in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Check https://forums.stardock.com/405498 , as some tycoon-ish games came up while discussing city builders.

Reply to Moving Diplomacy (and everything I bought from Stardock) to another computer... in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Sounds to me like it got registered under another email. It is possible to make games registed to another account availible on one machine by adding the serial and the email to its registrations. However this only applies to that machine, and has to be redone for each machine you want to install on.

Reply to Whats your favorite music track from EWOM? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="IBNobody" reply="8" id="2924976"]No melody.[/quote] Or just not catchy like the music in say, Lords of Magic*, been years since I played and the music still sometimes pops into my head. * Or Pharoah, or Heroes of Migh and Magi 3, or a number of other games.

Reply to time for the vasari enemy to show itself. in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="CaptainSvensgaard" reply="37" id="2924973"]Quoting Annatar11, reply 25Guys, guys. The stuff chasing the Vasari are obviously Reapers. More like Shivans! Reapers don't have anything on the Shivans, they were the original "OH SH**" badass invading alien race. Reapers have some damn big shoes to fill if they ever want to scare me the way the Shivans did. [/quote] Suul'ka.

Reply to simple easy image cropping tool in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="8" id="2924899"]Is there a link Gweenio1? Perhaps Elana would like to check it out.[/quote] http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tabletpc/experiencepack/overview.mspx PS: It was the first result in a Google seach for "site:microsoft.com XP snipping tool".

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[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="6" id="2924877"]Uvah, I'm a dinosauress... still on XP, but thanks[/quote] Actually there was a version of that tool for XP (which was better than the Vista version), but it took some searching to find on Microsoft's site (this was back before Vista). I only found it because my Latin teach showed the class it and how to get it. I have the snipping tool and use MS Paint for cropping/resizing. (as a note, I think pratic

Reply to star ruler on sale this weekend in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="15" id="2924858"]Looks like they've made a LOT of improvements since I looked at it months ago.[/quote] It gets patched frequently. Version 1.0.7.0: April 5th Version 1.0.7.2: April 12th Version 1.0.7.4: April 15th Live change log for version 1.0.7.6 at: http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?topic=3360.0

Reply to simple easy image cropping tool in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Using the explicit crop command is problematic in my experience. When you select an area and it is not what you want then you have to deselect and try again (trying to resize resized the selected portion, and dragging it moves the select part of the image). Hence my suggestion, it is easier to get it right with less work.

Reply to simple easy image cropping tool in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

For MS Paint, you press Ctrl + A, and then click drag the image to remove the excess on the top and left sides of the image. Then click outside to be able to resize the canvas by dragging the small black square in the bottom right.

Reply to Whats your favorite music track from EWOM? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="5" id="2924817"]Elemental has music? [/quote] My thoughs when I see threads like this. Its music has no real staying power.

Reply to Identity Companies? Spare Me the False Security in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DaveRI" reply="7" id="2924500"]I find it difficult to believe too that the government or any private company would accumulate all that info and not mine it for their own purposes. Even if they think a certain way today, there's always tomorrow.[/quote] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Enemy_(TV_series

Reply to star ruler on sale this weekend in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="13" id="2924636"]Isn't this the kind of game that has been on permanent sale? Ie early alpha/beta paid release?[/quote] It is a full release version, though work is still being done on it. As I recall, there have been times it was not on sale.

Reply to Still waiting in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

If you got a confimation email, then it should be availble through Impulse. If it shows up under the "My Games" tab, select it and right click. Choose "View Registration" from the drop down menu. In my exprience, if the serial was not need to activate (e.g. Impulse activates it for you upon installation) then it is not included in the email.