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Reply to Chamber of Businees endorsement, Where? in Political Machine Stardock Forums

It's on the lower right. Upper left is some kind of church (can't remember the name).

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II concept thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you put planets directly on the map and not only the stars, will they stay at the same place or rotate around their stars? (if the star is é square diameter, the planet has exactly 12 squares to move around the star...)

Reply to The Operatives Kit for the Political Machine in The Political Machine 2004 JoeUser Forums

Quote: > There are essentially two types of issues in the game: Personal traits and Political issues. In our editor, we use an underscore (_) to denote a personal issue. So is _ a personal issue or a political trait? I think there's a typo somewhere...

Reply to Request for Totalgaming to add Doom 3!!! (Yeah Right) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'd rather have just about anything else anyway.

Reply to PM2004 - Rocking at CompUSA in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

That's why I bought a high end (at the time) laptop with a 32M video card . My previous one had 2 or 4M and it could take hours to move in a game with barely renderable graphics.

Reply to PM2004 - Rocking at CompUSA in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

When you say: >>Or more typically some laptop with a ridiculously low end video card. It's like hey, go get an ATI card or Geforce. $40 to $90 and you'll be able to keep your computer current for another few years. Would you elaborate and explain me how even $100 can get me a new video card on a laptop where the thing is actually welded on the motherboard? (That being said, my own computer is a laptop with an ATI card and the game runs fine.)<b

Reply to The struggle of 3D engine development in Game Developers Stardock Forums

A reason why I like 2D... I still can't use galciv map editor with the latest directX. Is my driver too old? Maybe, but there's none better I can find. I've got a laptop, and can't change the graphics card (though NVidia has proposals that'd make it possible if accepted by the industry, namely by ATI...). I don't think you can mod in 3D as well as you can in 2D because it takes more time to work a 3D model than to draw a sketch. You may not have to

Reply to Show us your exit polls! in Political Machine Stardock Forums

I tend to win electoral college quite easily and almost always lose the popular vote by a lot. I once managed to win clearly with less money and less policital capital than the opponent (doing speeches to raise the issues that would harm him)...

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics JoeUser Forums

Please note that there is also natural gas and plants (biomass). Burning wood releases in the air CO2 that the plants pumped from the air, so if you plant trees you get a net effect of 0. Burning wood for energy is not realistic, but production of energy out of biomass is something that hasn't been researched a lot. There could be some hope in funding such research more. Since you metnionned France, France produces most of its electricity through n

Reply to Expansion Suggestions in Political Machine Stardock Forums

I'll comment a bit on some suggestions: (a strategy game should be played over days ideally, not hours) I'd rather keep it this way, play in hours, not days. About the VP: VP's definitely should be able to do something. They currently increase awareness a little bit and cost money/stamina to move... A consultant is way better. Debates could be a good thing.

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I have always wanted a negative spell like Change Terrain to make opponent's terrain worse.[/quote] In addition to call of the void, there is the raise volcano spell and the one which transforms the whole world into a nest of volcanoes (except your country). So there already are spells that destroy opponent terrain.

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Great news, Frogboy. Just don't mess with the spells ;)

Reply to MOM 2: How would you improve combat? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Having a game that runs fast with better ai. About settlers: I think I could kill someone who would make MoM2 without settlers. The villages that try to grow into a city and sometimes fail (it'll teach you for playing dark elves) were great. I'd rather keep the 9 units limit. Make sure the ai gets out of its walls when attacked by ranged units. Increase the power of shields against regular missiles. I agree with the proposal of various ranges for different weapons (less for sli

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Myrror and Arcanus beware here we come again... (where did I put my hammerhands lately?)

Reply to Stardock Central Games Description in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Thanks for the reactivity. I didn't check the web for a week and when I come back you did that. Thanks a lot.

Reply to Why Master of Magic is Cool. Might want to get a drink and cancel any appointments. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Dominions 2 is very very good but it's very different from MoM in the sense you don't build up an empire. In fact, by the end of the game, the world is usually depopulated (particularly if Ermor is around).

Reply to Can't find Disciples II Manual in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

And does anyone think it would be worth translating the (unreadable) pdf manual into a html or even plain txt file? Or know how to do it? (I still have to find out how to exit the game without killing it forcefully from the outside...)

Reply to AI updates itself? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The metaverse was used to retrieve data so the coders would update the ai accordingly. Neural nets for a game like galciv would be very hard to train. Backgammon has almost no rule in comparison, and there are very little choices to be made every turn.

Reply to IF they were going to do a MOM update, should the races be balanced or no? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The point is different races required different strategies. Gnolls were good for initial conquest, and then you could use summoning spells for instance or heroes to mop up the map. Slingers tend to require some enchantments to boost them a bit (make them invisible for example). Paladins need flying, etc. Did you manage to do something interesting with orcs and beastmen? I like beastmen but their units are mostly crap until you get magicians and minotairs (at least for myrran units).

Reply to Can't find Disciples II Manual in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I can't get the tutorials to work either.

Reply to Stardock Central Games Description in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Sys requirements weren't what I thought of, but indeed that's interesting. However, you can never know if a game will run on your particular graphics card until you try, so I don't really trust system reqs. I have lower than required working, and better than required not working; thus I don't trust these figures too much. I'd like to see these pieces of info: Single/Multiplayer availability, persistent online world (read MMORPG), metaverse scro

Reply to IF they were going to do a MOM update, should the races be balanced or no? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Make all races attractive if not balanced. Gnolls weren't very attractive for lack of interesting units in the late game. Wolf riders are fun to start with, but lack power long term. In comparison, slingers become stronger as you can field more of them and as you learn enchantments to make them even tougher. Beastmen would really require some beefing up. Manticores were crap, centaurs were crap, minotaurs weren't up to par with paladins or hammerhands. In MP there is one thing which could pr

Stardock Central Games Description in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I launched Stardock Central and was happy to see many new games available for download. My problem is it's very hard to see which game is what. I have to click the game name, wait a bit, read the information text, and hope I find a good description here. But the description is far from enough for me. (I can download and try, but I'd rather not since it can be very long.) For instance the Disciples I

Reply to Drengin.net is about to die. Long live Drengin.net! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I posted over there (http://totalgaming.stardock.com/forums.asp?MID=5&AID=21863) but there doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic over there (and the text display of that forum is ugly). I'm very glad that new games are available. I've already been spending a week and a half playing another nice fantasy TBS game, and now I'm downloading disciples II... Won't be doing much escpet playing these days... but it would really be cool if Stardock Central showed what kind of game each game is (read the

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Poor Brax. Such a nice dwarf. (sob)