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Galaxy Forge Spawn Probability in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'm working on creating a Map using Galaxy Forge and I was wondering is there a way to quickly set a bunch of phase lanes to the same Spawn Probability. I want the map layout to be somewhat random so I'm going to set a bunch of the lanes to only spawn some of the times. But doing it for a large map is very time consuming because of all the phase lanes. The other issue is I found some planets get really bad luck and end up with no phase lanes to them. Just curious but is there

Guide to Tech Trees? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Is there any guides that explain the differences in the various racial tech trees? I've found graphs of them online but if you don't know the techs that doesn't help much and it doesn't really explain the differences. I've read some forum entries and it sounds like curtain trees cost more for some items as well as are missing techs so those trees can't get as many bonuses in some reason. So I was wondering if there was a break down of the various trees giving b

Reply to Replacing the Tech Trade mechanic in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I thought the point of tech trading was to help out those Civs that were not as advanced get more tech. In most 4x games I like to go heavy econ and science which often results in me having more tech then the AI. In those that allow tech trading I often sell off my techs for whatever I might need or want at the time. However in harder games when I can't keep my science up as much I often find that trading for techs is only way to keep up. People talk about Civ5 not allowing tech t

Reply to Lessons from Elemental in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I agree with the don't release the game too early point however I never felt that Elemental suffered from an early release. The game felt like it had a distinct lack of direction. You can release a game really early in it's development, and there have been several that do it well, but the game needs a really strong sense of direction based on the developer's vision. Features and mechanics can be tweaked or dropped along the way to make the game better but adding new featur

Reply to Limiting Colony Spam? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="20" id="3405886"] Quoting Magnumaniac, reply 19(I seem to recall spending 4+ hours on some turns) hahahaha 4+ hours sounds like an understatement!!! [/quote] Wow 4+ hours? What kind of settings were you playing on? It's been a while since I played GC2 but even on the larger map I can easily say I never had turns that took that long. A hour may have been my longest turn and even that is probably stretching it. I just can't think of wha

Reply to Improved UP laws, voting and actions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I agree that the UP style mechanic needs an update. I absolutely hate how UP/UN/etc mechanics are done in the vast majority of games. They are completely unrealistic and I feel detract from the feel of running an empire when some 3rd party can just dictate how you run your empire with no recourse. If someone makes a demand through normal diplomatic channels you can just ignore them with possibility of war to put them in their place. I mean look at the real world, just because

Reply to Please Create a Living and Breathing Galaxy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I am all for adding more more depth to the game. However when it comes to games like Distant Worlds I felt like it was completely overboard on the micromanagement to the point that you had to setup so much "automated" stuff it felt like the game was playing it self. So if you liked sitting back and watching a galaxy sim then it could be fun. I however prefer a strategy game, like chess, where I am in control of the pieces and not hoping they choose to do what is best for your empire.

Reply to [0.95] Micromanagement & Outposts in FE Beta Elemental Forums

The Outpost idea seems to clearly be a copy of their Mechanic from GalCiv2. Even Frogboy did a supposed slip reference as a joke in the original post about the outpost upgrade system. I say if you are going to take an idea that worked previously then take the whole idea not just part of it. That being said I don't think there is anything wrong with it but I think they should actually fully copy it's mechanics. Use Pioneers to upgrade the outpost and resources in

Reply to Sins of a Dark Age - Will it succeed? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The major difference is Cave Dog didn't give a sequel to the game like everyone wanted. Where as Ironclad is giving us a sequel and it's only months away from release. SoSE: Rebellion IS SoSE2. Not everything has to follow the Game, Game 2, Game 3, and etc naming convention. They can work on both at the same time and it's not like they have abandon support for it the way Cavedog did with TA. Also I don't see how this thread can be useful in any sense. I just re

Civ5 Release day crash troubles in War of Magic Elemental Forums

So it seems our friendly Stardock is not the only one who has release day crash issues. There are a lot of people in the various Civ5 forums reporting their games crash after only 10-20 mins. I know Elemental has had some crash and out of memory issues but those tend to happen after hours of play not minutes. Stardock is a smaller developer so we tend to over look those kind of things more but it's just sad when a big studio devoted to a major franchise does it, especially when you consider m

Reply to CNN Piece on Video Game Piracy in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="16" id="2780009"] > And your comparison to physcial objects that can't be simply copied isn't really a valid comparison. Car can be copied; plan of house, too.. same for clock, parfum, drugs, alcohol, mobile phone, etc ... Custom catch a huge amount of these copy each year... this is piracy too... in some case, it can be very dangerous to use pirated/copied product... phone battery who explode, drugs who don't heal you but have toxic product in

Reply to CNN Piece on Video Game Piracy in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

More fun reading from http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100517/1609539448.shtml Swedish Police Say Anti-Piracy Law Has Harmed Ability To Catch Criminals from the consequences dept We've pointed out many times in the past the "unintended" consequences of certain activities, and it looks like the entertainment industry's worldwide effort to push for more and more industr

Reply to CNN Piece on Video Game Piracy in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="12" id="2777076"] I think that you forget a other group, people like me... who have several other reasons to use pirated software... Let take a example that i have already post on these forum... when "sins of solar empire" was released, i have first download a pirated version... Why ? Because the game was not planned to be in the European store before a few month... Am i ashamed ? Certainly not... when it was released in my country, i have buy

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

I figured this thread was a great place to post this give it's title. So the my friend who lives in Missouri calls me up today to tell me the store near by broke street date on Civ 5. But because it requires a steam activation he still can't play it. He's sitting there stuck with a copy of a game he's already paid for that he can't play because of some stupid DRM. Now I know some of you may argue that he shouldn't even technically have a copy of the game yet bec

Reply to CNN Piece on Video Game Piracy in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="10" id="2769839"] Quoting lbgsloan, reply 2 -Allows them to take away game access whenever they feel like it (Steam can already do this). And how exactly are publishers involved in this process, if we're talking about steam? what benefit do they get? [/quote] For one it allows them to maintain a bit of control over what users saying about their games or the company in the forums. I know EA changed this policy/terms of use a whi

Reply to Reconceiving Charisma as a Global Skill in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Actually this sounds like like Fame in MoM. Capturing cities and such earned you fame while lossing them lost you fame. The more fame you had the more people would approach you to sell you items, heroes looking for work, and so on. The Heroes you had didn't really contribute their stats to your fame score but it was still a global stat that would effect how popular you were.

[Suggestion] Drop the Auto Design Units in favor of Premade in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

It's getting very annoying that about every other military tech I research the game says a "New Unit is Available". Not to mention it's terrible at naming the unit. It's quite annoying when I got 5 unit designs and 3 are named Duke but all 5 of them have the SAME STATS. The AI tries to design a new unit everytime you get a few new military techs but it simply designs the SAME unit that you had before since no new equipment was researched. Not to mention it would be nice to have some consisten

Reply to CNN Piece on Video Game Piracy in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Eisenhund" reply="6" id="2768054"] I wish we had more data. Generally all we see are the doom and gloom, "Lost 10 Megabucks from pirates. Ninjas retaliate." I'd like to see how much money it takes to place in DRM while just using a more free-flow form like SD. What is the cost increase versus sales versus sales lost.[/quote] Well the problem is the hype mongers basically do this simple formula to come up with how much a company "lost" due to pirates

Reply to Why MoM? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

There is so much in MoM it's gonna be hard to cover it all but I'll try to be brief as well as descriptive so you know what I'm referring to. Leader Customization This is one of the places MoM really shined because based on what you picked would determine a lot of how you played the game. You could choose between 5 Schools of magic Nature, Chaos, Life, Death, and Sorcery. Unlike Elemental you could take up to 11 Books in each area and the number

Reply to Why MoM? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="23" id="2757953"]The dungeons and questing for example, along with the focus on NPC's, is heavily reminiscent of Sierra's Lords of Magic. [/quote] Wrong! Most Fantasy Strategy games these days can trace their roots back to MoM. For example MoM was the first to have "hero" units in a game. Something that LoM, AW, Heroes of M&M, and so on have copied. Though many of them expand on curtain aspect of MoM while dropping others, such as city managem

Reply to CNN Piece on Video Game Piracy in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I thought the whole article was kinda blah. I mean they basically were saying the more companies should got the small game up front with lots of DLC route. Which personally I hate. When I play a game I like to play all the way through it. Not play part of it then wait 2-3 months to play another part then so on. I know games like Dragon Age and such made a bit of money off their DLC but personal I never got any of it cause by the time it came out I had already beaten the game and didn't feel l

Reply to [Gameplay] I'm not liking the global resources. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="44" id="2767480"] Quoting Brainsucker, reply 40Well, I, myself prefer global resource for 'Elemental', as adding a lot of buildings to one city will surely cost more memory to the PC. What Elemental needs now is not that additional memory cost buildings, but more about balancing issue, new strategy approach, and to reduce the City SPAM on the world map I really don't see how the economy being local/trade based or global impacts the d

Reply to [Suggestion] More City Leveling Up Options in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="tjashen" reply="11" id="2766062"] I suppose I could name my cities 'gold town' 'arcane town' etc, but that kinda spoils the flavor of the game...[/quote] Yea I know what you mean. I use to try and do that but even on small maps you get some many cities the names start to overlap. So I've just been trying out adding G/T/A in front of the name depending on which Level Up I plan to choose since in most cases it's obvious from the start. Minus the few times a good resourc

Reply to [Tip] Keeping Heroes alive in Auto-Resolve in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="seung-kyu" reply="1" id="2766050"]"Hero tends to only die if you get unlucky and the enemy is not wiped out in the first round" Wait, if its auto resolve, why would rounds come in to play I'm confused.[/quote] Ever look at the combat log? First all your guys get to attack then the enemy gets to attack. Distance and all other factors are pretty much ignored in auto-resolve. The only thing that matters is if you make a melee attack the enemy gets a counter attack if it survi

Reply to [Gameplay] I'm not liking the global resources. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nack210" reply="30" id="2765844"]True. After all, multi-purpose units that rape everything in their way SHOULD be hard to get. Making you get the buildings for each of the special weapons is a nice way of making them more rare. Like I said before, people are, for some reason, thinking that strategy game mechanics we've seen tons of times over the years are now "too complicated". They are not.[/quote] I blame it on the move to push gaming into the "casual" market. It seems