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Reply to Elemental: Tactical battles in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Leadership = biggest issue is that why put points in it? I'm rather have a pimped death dealing spell, and poke my forces generally in the right direction than leave it up to the AI, however good it is. When the AI is walk into walls stupid I'm gonna do it. If my gameplay 'generalism' of playing equates to 2 points out of a max of 5 leadership, I'm wasting 2 points to make my in game general as good as me. Thinking of the limited tree

Reply to Elemental: Tactical battles in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"] There will be quite a bit of skill involved in managing the battle in terms of where you place your forces and how you handle your hero. However, the AI (which I’ll be writing) will be designed to wage war as effectively as possible. [/quote] Happy with the requiring skill thing, but "placement" is this setting up every indiviual soldier? Or is this a little like Disciples 2 where you have "tanks" on the front l

Reply to Impluse - 'verifying download' and nothing else while patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

touché Annatar, was a homebrew thing I have running on my system that stops the execution of scripts and a few other hribbly things that could happen like registry changes. Gal Civ 1 and II updates weren't bothered by it thou. /shrug Thanks for your help/

Reply to Impluse - 'verifying download' and nothing else while patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Not the firewall. Windows one is disabled, other one I just opened up completely. I'm sitting there with wireshark and no packets are being transmitted. Do I need to kick it to make it do sommat again?

Impluse - 'verifying download' and nothing else while patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Getting bored of this - 3rd attempt to patch from 1.05 to current. 1.05 patch was manually downloaded and installed from here. Impulse is sitting there verify download and doing nothing else. Any top tips outside of uninstalling impulse and throwing my Sins disk out of the window? I'm XP patched current, all drivers up to date.

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Fair point, to be honest. It's the garbage you have to put up with to get somewhere that's frustrating. I brought several games 2001ish, and my CD drive was a cheap one the DRM on the disk meant I couldn't play them. Was about 3 games out of 20 I brought that year. One was fixed with a patch from the website, but the other two... Well after buying them over a counter I then downloaded those games 'illegally' even though I'd actually le