Hanrow

Reply to Rage Quits and v1.1 of Demigod talk in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Skullonius" reply="25" id="2242218"] All I want is the option to know what kind of player I am gaming with before I commit 30mins+ of my time not to mention the 5-10+minutes of lobby time. If its not important to you then ignore it and play with other high percentage people who wont care about you being in their lobby. I dont see the problem. [/quote] Unfortunately, another three pages of discussion indicates that even if you don't see a problem, othe

Reply to Rage Quits and v1.1 of Demigod talk in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

You know, I think this discussion highlights the primary issue with the online community in general. There are two camps - people who play to have fun, and people who play to prove they're better than other people. You're only going to make one camp happy, really. The problem from the business stand point is that the people who play to prove they're better than other people will tend to spend more money, but they're more fickle and want things exactly their way -- and wi

Reply to Some kudos to Gas Powered Games in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Baphonaut" reply="12" id="2230534"] Just a quick invite to those people posting about "only playing single player". Why? [/quote] I play single player, because I don't want to deal with other people. *shrug* Playing against the AI, I can get an experience that I can define myself in terms of difficulty (some days, I want a challenge, some days, I just want to kill everything in site like some outraged, vengeful... Demigod :) ), I never have to worry a

Reply to Demigod: Understanding RTS multiplayer and why it sucks in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote]Did Company of Heroes had such severe mp problems? Or Dawn of War 2?[/quote] No, but, on the other hand, if you tried playing CoH without re-configuring your router and firewalls first, it didn't work. (Don't know about DoW2, never picked that one up.) Which is what Stardock and GPG were trying to get around - make it 'console simple.' The problem here is that Stardock tried to push the envelope by trying something new, and ran into that old adage that "When

Reply to Devs we need beta feed back in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

It's Christmas. I doubt we're going to hear anything from anybody until next Monday, if not the New Year. The Devs deserve time off with their families too, ya know. :) JGH

Reply to Suggestion for mitigating mine spam in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

How about just abandon the idea of mines entirely? JGH

Three Bugs in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Played as TEC, 2v2, 4 player scenario, 3 AIs, two Hard, one Easy. Machine Spec: GTX 260, 4GB Mem, XP SP3, E8600, Nvidia 180.84 drivers First off, a graphical glitch: There should be 112 ships of mine (this was a min

Beta Report - Personal Viewpoint in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

For what it's worth, this is my first impressions with Sins, using the Beta pre Hotfix, played two games with TEC against 'normal' opponents. I consider myself a 'casual' gamer -- I don't play multiplayer, only against the AI, and I tend defense first i.e. I like expanding till I get to a chokepoint, and then fortify that chokepoint to free up time and space to race up the tech tree. I'd be killed in multiplayer with that strategy, but that's okay, since I don't play multiplayer.&

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] Hanrow I totally agree with Nephilim and here's why: (quoting myself from a another similar thread)[/quote] See, I don't. It's because that, given how bloody complicated these damned setups are these days, I've run into cases where everything looks alright, and everything checks out as alright -- but things still don't work. I, personally, never had a problem until I ran into "Mass Effect" -- and, all of a sudden, I was on the

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote] 99% of peeps who know how to keep their Win instalation clean and tight wont have any problem with Impulse... [/quote] You know, that's what everybody told me when I was trying to get Mass Effect to run. "Oh, since everybody else isn't having problems, you must be an idiot." It's a great way to make friends, you know. JGH

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You know, when Stardock provides me a guarantee that I can patch this game even if Stardock disappears, then I'll agree that complaining that you need to be registered and use the appropriate download manager has no merit except in very specific cases. Until then though, regardless of whether you want to dismiss people as 'cranky' or not... I still think there's a legitimate concern here, even if the language used to express it might be a tad confrontational. *shrug*

Reply to OT: Dixie Chicks Situation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Vernmeister2u, "Am I not allowed to NOT support something I don't believe in, while still recognizing the power and importance of the Bill of Rights? " Of course. :) But, here's the analogous question, at what point am I expressing my opinion on something, and at what point am I tramping on somebody else's rights? If a million people decide not to buy something, that's democracy at work. If those million people decide to burn things and make threats, I think there'

Reply to 1.03A.057 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Kudos to Frogboy and gang for getting these updates out quick. Man, you're going to spoil us, customer support wise. :)

Reply to OT: Dixie Chicks Situation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

RE: vernmeister2u Howdy, 1) Have I actually tried to suppress your right to speak by attacking this board or you personally? If all opinions are allowed, I'm also allowed the opinion that everybody involved in this argument, pro and con, including myself :) should get back to playing Galciv. :) (My comments weren't meant only for the opponents, it was meant for everybody, though, your comment about the DC's themselves bring the subject back up are well taken.) 2)

Reply to OT: Dixie Chicks Situation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

*sigh* Well, if you opened the can of worms, I might as well get my two cents in. Quite frankly, I think the whole situation has been blown way out of proportion. Nobody's banned BNL, or Bruce Springsteen, or Martin Sheen, or a whole bunch of other people who have spoken out against the war in Iraq. For some reason, the public in favour of the war and the powers that be have picked the Dixie Chicks as a lightning rod for their opinions. *shrug* If you don't like what th

Reply to Tech Victory Poll in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Many time reader, first time poster. :) I tend to favour the modification that in order to go for a Tech Victory, you need to research the tech, then build the tech device that completes the transcendence. An analogous example was the old game Master of Magic -- where you not only had to reasearch the 'Master of Magic' spell (or whatever it's called, it's been many years :) ), then you had to cast the damn thing, and while you were casting it, everybody was out to get you. It seemed