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Reply to Post release Lan question in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I don't guarantee this will work but you could try this: 1) Install Elemental on one of your computers. 2) In the Impulse games list, right click Elemental and select Archive Application. This will create a backup of that game. 3) Over LAN or via external drive, put this backup on the other computers. 4) Unpack the backup. In the past this would have worked fine. Whether or not it will with Elemental is an unknown at the moment. I suppose once its relea

Reply to Suggestions in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm in agreement for the idea of a 'skippable' deployment phase. For small armies that you don't mind sacrificing the hassle of full deployment seems redundant but for a large force sent against an enemy city led by your sovereign, strategic deployment could be the difference between winning and losing. Of course, if this was implemented, it would raise the question of who deploys first? Does the attacker retain his advantage by deploying second, thus respondi

[0.805][BUG CRASH]CTD after moving sovereign in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

After moving my sovereign, the game crashed to the desktop. Debug .zip file is linked below. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8736957/Elemental0_805-2010-07-04T12-10-49-884.zip

Reply to Warhammer 40,000 TT Sim in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Sadly GW are very, very protective of their IP's and tend to sling C&D orders on a lot of fan based work (there have been several fan-made 40K movies that will never see the light of day!). Any TT simulators will be firmly in their sights as they would be in direct competition to the actual TT games themselves (and would thus lose GW money). To make matters worse, the prices for their products are extraordinarily high these days, making it difficult for those ppl

Reply to ATI or Nvida in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

At the moment, I think ATI have the upper hand in terms of cards. There latest range (HD5xxx) is DX11, as you pointed out, and generally speaking the drivers tend to be OK as long as you are just using a single card setup (at least in my experience). Having said that, the number of games on the market that make use of DX11 at the moment is quite limited at the moment and while Eyefinity is a nice feature, multiple monitors will be expensive and there are a few other snags with getting it work

Reply to Red Faction: Guerrilla in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'll answer point 2 first. You can't play the role of the EDF during the single player campaign. For the campaign you take the role of Alex Mercer, an individual who recently moved to Mars whose brother was then killed by the EDF. Unsurprisingly he then joins the Red Faction. During multiplayer, however, you can choose to play as an EDF character, although this is a purely cosmetic difference. The multiplayer experience isn't changed by the skin you choose to play wit

Reply to Winning Conditions and Risk in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'd also suggest you have a read of this interview with Brad. He details some interesting ideas concerning family ties within the game. http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1201

Reply to A new fantasy or sci-fi book. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Looking at your reading list, multi-book series seem to something your into. I'd suggest looking for The Saga of Seven Suns series by Kevin J Anderson here . While not sci-fi and certainly not fitting into the high fantasy that you said you've read, I can also recommend the The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Look <a title="http://

Reply to Catalyst 9.3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I just hope that this is more stable with X-Fire than the previous Catalyst attempts. One has not been amused with them [e digicons]#:([/e]

Reply to A Monday at Stardock in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

You should all see my workplace for monitors. Just from over from where I'm sitting is a desk that has 13 monitors on it, and another one with 15! I only get one [e digicons]:'([/e] It is a woping 30" Apple Cinema HD Display though [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Elemental: scale of power in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

As long as I can have a dragon snack on my opponents army then all is well [e digicons]:P[/e]

Reply to The OverSeer (DM_Player) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Hmmmmm..... interesting concept. I'm not sure how well this would fit into Elemental though. You would essentially be having to trust some individual to be impartial in all things. What would there be in place to stop the overseer/DM/GM from favoring a given player in multiplayer, or from just setting out to screw over all player? I also don't think it would fit well due to the length of time that some of these Elemetal games. I've not seen any mention yet of how long a game could las

Reply to Stereoscopic (3D) glasses and Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The thought of having proper 3D in games is always going to be a big attraction as its the next major step in making games more immersive. However, I don't see Stardock doing anything to optimise this feature in game as it would be a waste of their time, mainly due to the lack of users out there. I can't there are many people who want to/already have spent a large chunck of cash on upgrading to a 120Hz monitor plus paying out for the glasses and possibly the graphics card is they currently us

Reply to Pre-Ordered and in it for the Long Haul: Sound Off in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm in! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Really looking forward to sinking my teeth into the beta, cos I missed the GalCiv ones! Good luck Brad and co!

Reply to (Resolved - Thanks SD!) Fix the forum Stardock! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm the same. Opened up an image that I wanted to use as my icon in Gimp, resized it to 50x50 and it wouldn't upload so then resized it to 49x49 to be on the safe side and still wouldn't upload. Worked OK for the profile pic though, just not the icon. I've tried this through both this forum and the Galciv2 forum and neither works for me. Browser is Firefox

Reply to Ten New Years Resolutions for the Game Industry in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

1. [I]Stop with the obnoxious DRM[/I]. I'll hold my hand up and admit that the first time I played GalCiv2 it was a pirated version. However, seeing the quality of the game and the level of support offered by Stardock, I happily purchased a legal copy. I've also gone on to buy the full release of Object Desktop, places a preorder for SoaSE, and when I get home from work in a week, will buy Dark Avatar. Keep up the good work Stardock! 2. [I]Don't release games until they're finishe

Reply to How copy protection creates pirates in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

MOIISKA Frogboy, you point is moot. You do have copy protection. I have a legit copy of both games, but since my PC will never be connected to the net, I am unable to update my game with the newest patch. Looks like copy protection to me. When you dictate to me how I should use my hardware, you aren't any better than they are. MOISSKA, if I'm following your logic, your claiming that your lack of internet connection is a form of cop