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[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="12" id="3630574"] The Devs have said before they cannot do this because some PCs do not handle the LAA flag well. Putting LAA on would be highly frustrating to those users. Most mod players are quite aware of it now though, so I don't think its much trouble to make it a requirement for your mod Tobi. [/quote] But, doesn't Steam provide options on what runs? It wouldn't be a matter of replacing the .exe, just adding anoth

[quote who="RespawnedTitanL10" reply="24" id="3476607"]This is basically like some rich guy paying more to enter a chess tournament and the organizers letting him move his queen like a knight too. You be the judge whether the level of monetary contribution should change the rules of a MP game. I know it's commonly done with SP these days; the uber-powered startup weapons that DoW2:Retribution came with for the pay-more-upfront editions were already a MOBAization of SP. [/quote]

As someone who has always enjoyed Sins either single player or in a local (LAN) multiplayer environment, I do not care. That said, people have been mentioning how small Sins multiplayer community was for as long it's been out, doesn't sound like a new development.

[quote who="XATHOS" reply="2" id="3467437"] Giving us more customized control over the AI via gameplay.constants file is far better vs. doing blanket changes that spoil the game for veteran users.[/quote] Quite right, and that point would totally be applicable here if in fact the game had been spoiled (Spoiler: it hasn't been)

[quote who="GeomanNL"] Then comes along Regular Expressions - and your portions are mixed into spaghetti again. Of course I like spaghetti, but I don't like Regular Expressions. E-mail validation made... easy? \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}\b I think it's spaghetti. [/quote] Yes they're messy, but really, what can you expect when trying to match patterns of text? Anything more readable would likely be r

[quote who="Space Voyager" reply="82" id="3430331"] This guy is incredible. I still doubt he'll be able to finish the game as he envisioned it on his own, which is also why I haven't backed his project. I don't have enough money to just throw it around sadly, though this guy seems awesome enough to support his talent even if the game is never finished.[/quote] You also haven't backed his project because you can't back his project :P No funding options at this

[quote who="Jafo" reply="2" id="3427928"] It's not all that silly to have the smallest 'limit' on them that is practical for you...[/quote] It kind of is, actually. Found that out the hard way last year. I intentionally had a secondary credit card with a relatively low limit for use with institutions I was less trusting of, under the assumption that the card could not be used beyond that limit. That assumption proved false, the card remain

Enjoying it so far. Definitely liking the 'disturbing factor' of the transformation process. In vanilla EU, the game repeatedly spouts its nonsense dialog about corruption and whatnot, whining about the 'dark paths' our studies into alien tech may take us down. By and large, this was baseless nonsense and annoyed me. We were gaining tech, big deal. Now though, there's a practical example for that dialog. First, we have

[quote who="Turchany" reply="3" id="3417962"] Quoting agaricus5, reply 2It causes 50 damage once every 7s (7.14d/s) How do you know this? I guess from the files but it would be better to see this number in the game instead of that 50.. It is clear that it's not 50 dps, but I could not even guess how much damage is dealt.. I only saw the shields of my seekers going down slowly.[/quote] I'm not home at the moment to check,

Not sure about the other sources, but this doesn't actually seem to be available on Steam yet.

[quote who="kona0197" reply="2" id="3410161"] Why not use a SSD? No moving parts to worry about.[/quote] Last I looked a TB SSD is a bit on the expensive side... Also not really relevant to his question, which is regarding the consequences of leaving a HD unpowered rather than concern over it wearing down after extensive usage. Anyways, I wouldn't worry about it. Can't say I've ever left a drive idle for 5 years, but I&#3

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="65" id="3402130"] what is so special about it?I've read something, but I can't quite understand.[/quote] Nothing, yet. What could be special is dependent on how well the final product lives up to the developers ambitions, and while it's looking good it's still too early to really determine if that will happen. So, the basics. It's a space sim. Not much to explain there, think Freelancer (loo

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="61" id="3401954"] but, for example, no custom models![/quote] But, an infinite number of procedurally generated ships generated by algorithms which can be customized ;) But a fair point if you wanted your Star Wars or whatever mods converting the game into something else, however I would not rule out those options either at this point, perhaps we'll yet see an option to pull ships from external models if desired. <p

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="59" id="3401897"] no modding support: no support.[/quote] Not looking like that will be the case. Current talk on the LT forums from the dev seems to be regarding moving all/most relevant game data variables to externally accessible and editable text files, including things like game config settings, research trees, and possibly even the values used by the procedural generation algorithms responsible for creating everything. So, not looking

[quote who="Roloccolor" reply="23" id="3396031"] I hope and cross my fingers that breaking bad will not end like LOST (i felt cheated and tricked after watching it to the end, i better invested that time into something productive) [/quote] I can see that.. The Ending, LOST edition: Walt is dead, has been dead for a long time. He never went into remission, never even considered cooking meth. He was diagnosed with cancer, lived for a few more months

[quote who="smeagolheart" reply="20" id="3395887"] You guys hear about the "Better Call Saul" spinoff in the works? http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/breaking-bad-saul-goodman-spinoff-amc-series/ Sooo I guess Saul survives..[/quote] Or, it's a prequel.

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="9" id="3389243"] Well, I am one for thinking that it's not going to happen, for reasons I won't explain here, not because they are not valid, but because a lot of people wouldn't believe the efficacy in them. Remember, what you focus on is what you tend to get, so focus on love and acceptance and not fear. Note it is a Fact that you make your own luck by focusing on positive stuff, look what Brad has achieved over the last 20 ye

I wasn't arguing the appeal of the genre, no objections there. The type of game is great and developing such a product certainly appeals to me. My point was merely directed towards questioning the actual value/need of slapping the 'Star Control' label on the game instead of Stardock simply making a game in the same vein under a new title. It certainly doesn't hurt, and will appease those looking for a Star Control reboot. Having the name is good, and what brand

While I look forward to the game, I mostly hope that you guys got a good deal. I have my doubts as to whether the IP still carries enough brand recognition value to be worthwhile as opposed to what a new IP from Stardock in the style would merit anyways. Still, always nice to have someone keeping a beloved brand from dying off.

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="2" id="3388984"] I know my parents have enough food to feed 30 people 1 year in their house. Thus, themselves for roughly 2 years.[/quote] How does '30 people for 1 year'convert to 'roughly 2 years' for themselves? Making the rough assumption that you have 2 parents, What lasts 30 people 1 year should last 2 people what, 15 years? Either way, on that note, holy crap! How many cans is that? Are you sure about th

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrFoesWWT30&hd=1[/video] Guess I'll cover the update this month ;) Another month, another video update on Limit Theory. For anyone seriously interested in following the game, I would definitely suggest checking out the forums, there's nice daily dev logs posted to keep an eye on how things are going.

Making a game of that particular type myself, might check it out in a bit, always good to get inspired by what others have done well and avoid what they have not.

[quote who="Illauna" reply="5" id="3372374"] I can understand making a few modifications but these booths were to promote the XBOX itself. They were not the developers promoting their games. For the developers it is understandable for them to have the a stable system. Microsoft however is trying to pass off a PC as the new XBOX one with nothing in this setup remotely close to whats in an XBOX. At least Sony put up their dev kits. Hey they crashed sometimes but I can forg

I was under the impression this was a common practice, I recall reading more or less the same thing during a past E3. Also seems like a bit of a logic fallacy to act like it`s a bad thing. The only thing that demonstrations using a Windows machine implies is that a high end computer is better than a $500 console. What a surprise. What this does not imply is that the consoles are not up to the task of playing the games. When you`re dealing with non-p

[quote who="Draco-nyan" reply="9" id="3249171"]Why do you think it is dying? Is it only because of the poor balancing?[/quote] Let's be realistic here, Rebellion is a nice update to a great game, but balanced or not, we're talking about a game that is still largely the same game that people have been playing for years, and a few new units and techs aren't going to hold the same sort of fresh appeal as a new game. Combine that with the fact that the game was