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Reply to video of the capital ship unlock in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for that. I'll pass on the video, I'll force the guy to play it instead. I mean he loves Civ except he'd rather it was set in space... He's never heard of Gal Civ. I've beaten him, and stardock has another (unwilling) customer having his arm twisted at the moment. I know he'll be won over very easily after about 30 seconds of game play =) Cheers <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl00__LinkUser" class="hand" title="Click user na

video of the capital ship unlock in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Having a convo with a friend and was horrified to discover he's never played Gal Civ 1 or 2. I was making a reference to when you unlock capital ships and the video that plays - the comment is something like "warfare will never be the same". I've had a poke around on youtube but couldn't find the video. No one happens to know if there is a video for it do they anywhere online? If so I'd really appreciate if you could link it for me. I'm still struggling with th

Reply to MSNBC Report on Demigod and Piracy in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

EQ and WoW are server games... They can mod the files if I give them permission. You can check what they send you before playing. If you're talking citrix then that's comething different.

Reply to A Too-Simple RTS Design in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

In essence no, you've pretty much got the genre down. Turtling is just putting resources in to defensive structures. ie walls, webifiers, arrow shooting towers, guass platforms and so on. Depending on the style of game, defense structures can be cheaper and more powerful than troops. The idea being they are more static, and can't help assault. Other games treat them very differently. One thing I'd focus a little more on is resources, it isn't just to li

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Yeah that was why they went down - they were pretty blatant about the piracy side of things. It was the "intent". A bit like saying you didn't rob the bank when you held the door open for the robbers, showed them where the vault was, and helped them carry the money out, then advised them how to best invest it. They didn't actually make much money off it - they had ads, so the people advertising on it in theory are the ones who made money. Will they be prosecuted?&nbs

browser games in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Just spent an evening messing round over on www.kongregate.com Its a load of browser games that amused me. I usually end up when searching for elemental ending up on http://www.novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/ a flash tower game which I'm very very addicted to. No good at - but utterly addicted =P Any one know any thing about writting these sort of games?

Reply to Coolest Armadas in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Agree with JuleTron, I think the bird of prey is great. Kinda a fan of some of the B5 ships - human and Narn. Thing is the human one is that style we've seen in a few formats in different places. My favourite ship graphic ever is from a game is the Stiletto from Nexus the Jupiter Incident. The starting s

Reply to Day of Darkness II in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah no offense to Lost - but I wouldn't class that as traditional Sci-Fi. I'd call Sci-Fi Star Wars/Star Trek/B5 etc. Even things like star gate, I'd say are on the edge. Unless there's a starship, I get really wobbly over calling it Science fiction. I'm a big fan of William Gibson, and eve more so of of Richard Morgan and his Takeshi Korvacs character, but I wouldn't really class them as Sci-Fi as there ain't enough spaceships. Yeah I know that doesn't make sen

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

/facepalm So why we getting this if it isn't market fores? Umm it is. I've built networks for ISP's and carriers, and they way the offer home user service is by using contended bandwitdh. It's generally 20 to 1. So an ISP sells a home user a contended service, at T1 speeds, they're selling that T1 to 20 people. So what does that mean for you as a gamer? You contending with little Johny downloading every bit of internet pr0n 24/7 via bittorrent dow

Reply to EVE Online Question in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Big fleets it matters as Vic pointed out - a fleet commander needs some standardisation to help reduce his work load. When you're commanding it's a little more than picking primary and secondary targets. Personally I get bored in those situations - the FC is playing an rts and I'm a peon waiting for orders. Small fleets utterly different. 10 guys/gals or less hunting fleet I think is the most fun you can have legally without a member of the opposite gender

Reply to Why the future looks bright for PC gaming in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I always thought PC gaming was slated as dying because of sales on PC compared to console. One theory is that us ebil PC gamers are just illegally copying every other game we play. Hence the money made is 10X higher on a console, but something like twice as many people play it on the PC compared to a console. I know that's the line they trot out with every fps that's released on both. I have to say every example I've seen quoted was an utterly appauling ports from

Reply to a PC fantasy game with a cracking story? recommendations? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Marlowe Lawbringer" reply="13" id="2125707"]BTW, the OP noted that he is tired of travel times from MMOs. As a veteran of a dozen or so MMOs, starting with original EQ ten(!) years ago, I'm wondering which MMOs he's played. [/quote] EQ old skool, AO - rk2?, Eve-online, EQ2 - US, WoW - EU, WAR - US. MMOG's I can deal with travel time. I know people generally quote pre-planes EQ as the long travel times, but I actually thought Eve pre-warp to 0 was the

Reply to Greatest Finds in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Have kinda mixed feelings over AvP2, had gotten a little into the modding side of NOLF, and it was the same engine, so I brought it purely because of that, rather than the fact I like the AvP thang. (which I do enjoy) It introduced a few more mod'able body parts. What killed it for me was smartguns in online play. They had a built in autoaim, you know, what other fps consider a hack. The bit I loved though was single player campaign, such atmosphere. Just

Reply to Greatest Finds in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Dargoon999" reply="4" id="2084702"]For me, it was No One Lives Forever & Hitman: Codename 47. I bought the 2 games on the same day (I was feeling gamy that day). My first thought was that No One Lives Forever was gonna be just another FPS, and Hitman: Codename 47 was gonna be awesome. Let me tell you, was I wrong or what, No One Lives Forever turned out to be THE BEST FPS EVER and Hitman was one of the worst game I have ever played! After a few months, I got ri

Reply to Day of Darkness II in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Eve always has generated absolutely awesome community videos. I sometimes suspect that it's due to the fact that it has no real quests as it is a sandbox game. It was Leaf... err sommat of NSN when they were part of PA in '04 was pulling out the most incredible videos, each one took the boundries of production to a whole new level. It was Bob/evolution, although heavy in propaganda, also moved the boundries on for user generated videos in MMOG's. I've played other MMOG

Reply to Bringing some life back to the classics in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I know GalCiv's history... but can some whisper a space 4x game that is kinda spelt the same way a cow makes noise... Number 1 please! I've never got my sticky mitts on the first. I got to play it once but want more! Most gamers would be fine with the old classics coming out again. Issue, is the emulator to play them. Sure I'm fine (an I guess most of you are) about firing up an emulator and running those games. Some (SMAC) I can run in a combatabilty mode.&nbs

Reply to a PC fantasy game with a cracking story? recommendations? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Cheers for the replies guys. Finally got through reading a lot of reviews, and definately given me some idea's. I've never really got on with the Elder Scrolls - I'm too much of an MMOG player - I keep wanting to put up a looking for group tag. Sure they're great but that scope makes me want to play them with friends. Gothic kinda looks the same - please correct me if I'm wrong. Haven't played any of the fallout series (I hang my head in shame) I'll definatel

Reply to EVE Online Question in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Sh0dan as I said earlier - ships and set up in eve is PvP, but hell I'm always game =) Caldari and Ammar ships are the perfect tankers in their field. ie shield/amour. When you compare like for like, they'll out tank the Minmatar/Galnete ships. They're also designed around missiles/rails and lasers. Pulse are the short range ones, but you can't compare those to auto's/blasters. Slot wise, if you start adding ew on either you loose tank. eg shield hardener

a PC fantasy game with a cracking story? recommendations? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Been poking around at the elemental forums and reading some of the stuff there and it's kinda made me want to play a fantasy game. Looking for recommendations. I mainly play MMOG's and RTSs alongside 4x games. But love a good RPG when I can get my hands on them. Thing is I become rapidly bored with travel times and 1001 subquests. I play MMOG's - I wanna break from that =P. Couldn't even deal with running round a city in KotOR last time I fired it up.

Reply to EVE Online Question in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'm an old skool eve player from way way back in the day. The orginal Curse Alliance from when MoO was in it... Pre-castor (patch) Caldari blackbirds were king, then it was Minmatar rifters post castor. Last time I got sucked in - Nov 2008, it appeared to be Ammar Zealots - the HAC with pulse and scortch that were the PvP tool of choice alongside Minmatar recon's and heavy interdictors. PvE it's still the Caldari Raven and the newcommer in my mind - the Drake. You can argu

Reply to EA seems to be finally learning from its DRM mistakes! in Everything Else Elemental Forums

To be honest its probably more that the Sims series is considered a demographic that don't use pirated software. I doubt you'd see EA doing this for other titles irrespective of what happens with Sims 3. They'll see it as chalk and cheese with other titles.

Reply to 2 routers on one modem? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Modems of all kinds loose sync and it does degrade the service - that's why you should reboot them every so often. dsl is just a lot of modems at different frequencies, so I believe it also happens here. As for 2 devices, you're better doing what Sole Soul suggested and using QoS.

Reply to Curious about GalCiv history... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There's some stuff on the Apolyton site: http://galciv2.net/4/166/293 But I'd recommend http://tgnforums.stardock.com/?aid=88762 As for Colonial Conquest, never played it, google it, and could only see Colonial Conquest 1 which was '85. So maybe it did factor into the design process of the OS/2 version of Gal Civ?

Reply to Where has the value add gone? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Is it more that consumers don't want it? I'd rather shove my cd's on a shelf where they all fit rather than an old banana box with cloth maps, minis and asorted stuffs hanging out the top.

Reply to Do graphics matter that much? in Gaming Stardock Forums

I'm going to be awkward... I usually am... I think solid/good graphics is massively important. Talking of MMOG's - EQ1 smacked UO into the ground on sales. Why? For years people said it was the player killing in UO, yet now PvP is THE thing in MMOG's. I think it's actually graphics that was the deciding factor. Okay views were different, and a variety of other things. Mechanics wise and game play I think UO had the edge on EQ. But because of the fir