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You want the enemy to defend many places. Then you can choose where to fight. His forces will be weak there. The problem with that is the same effect applies to you.

Buttons - the 10 hour games are the best ones, actually.

Are there any active groups out there which set games up? I hate playing online as I always feel like an extra wheel against the "pros" During the beta, online was really fun. I have a lot of memories from that. But once the game went golden I never played a game of it - just feels too competitive, no one wants to have fun. So - are there any social groups out there who put games together, every week or so? I'd love t

^Excluding the recently released ingame pictures and storylines of course.

Nividea has a plugin for photoshop which allows you to open/save dds. Because Gimp is opensource (at least I believe so) finding a plugin which does the same should not be hard.

I've had horrible, horrible customer support with them. Their DRM has crippled 1 disk drive and forced me to do a restore on my computer. Their games are a pain to fully remove. The last game I bought was Battlefield 2142 - which I couldn't even play, as the patch caused my computer to crash when loading the map. I couldn't return it either, as the cd-key was registered onto my account. Upon contacting their online support about the map crashing, I

Research choices - you can only choose X number of reserches in a new tree. This may increase speed, defense, attack, or unlock new ships.

It's kind of annoying, to be honest.

It's kind of annoying, to be honest.

Tatertot - While they are bringing back heroes, it is a custom-map only option. Melee games won't have them. The thing I'm looking forward to is the Scum Editor - however don't expect to have tons of new freedoms compared to wc3 World Editor. For starters, it's going to have a lot of options disabled until the expansion.

Surprised no one has redubbed them.

...Which is why it's still played and quite fun.

I still say the first post resembles a porn site from the 90s.

Pretty damn massive. Wonder if it'll ever be possible to visit places that far.. I would be very surprised if no other inteligent life exists.

The guys deserved it - They acted incredibly cocky during the entire trail. I used to pirate quite a lot - than I got a job. Now I only pirate to check an artist out, or if a game does not have a good demo. There are a lot of quality music sites now, that let you listen to artists which is a great preview tool. These services are constantly getting better. Sadly, there's still a blank area in previewing music for indie artists, excludin

[quote who="BedOverPictures" reply="19" id="2141310"]DRM implemented through an obfuscator is still DRM; Impulse is much more sinister; Stardock owns and operates the datacenters, and openly admits to logging IPs and associating everything they can with it, mining data for gawd knows who, and no one polices the bytecode. You can't deliver the content fast enough to make JIT worth anyone's while, it's just a scheme to obfuscate code and go further towards establishing software as a totally unt

Nah, ironclad doesn't milk every once of money the games have = ) And besides, they're actually willing to take chances. Blizzard makes quality games, but they don't really take many chances.

Stars could be just massive empty areas of water. And the planet could easily have massive oceans - it doesn't have to be realistic. Explosions would consist mostly of a giant shockwave, but little fire. EDIT: Holy fuck this is ancient. Been searching?

The problem with regular users, is they don't like making the hard balance desisions that ironclad has to make.

We'll offer 3 combs she's thrown away, 1 water bottle (with salivia from backwash), and an assortment of her childhood underwear. Seriously though, very nice. Can't imagine having multiple screens..too much info already on one! (Than again, I do use reference pictures a lot, and tab through many note pads)

The foundation of the AI is much like older rts ai, with some slight improvements - it has a fairly strict build que and small selection of strategies. It seems to have no long-term strategy, with the longest by placing their army on planets attached a lot. Patches will improve it somewhat, but it won't be improved drasticly.

2077 is a reference to Fallout, he was kidding.

You're fault for getting it. It's only worth the cost if you really need it. But yes, vista probably sold enough to make up the production cost and than some - since windows 7 is largely based off vista, it should be a bit cheaper. Besides, our economy isn't doing too well, edging near 'suicical' if you want everyone to upgrade again and costing them several hundred $$

I've always enjoyed making ai - even if it's only using wc3. Thinking of ways the AI can prioritize and create strategies to achieve the priorities interests me. But I wouldn't be surprised if it thinks in short term goals. If you carefully plan yourself out, the AI holds little surprises past a turn. It doesn't consider what will happen if it loses the war (ships guarding planets), among others. But I couldn't even begin to grasp how complex and wide-ranging the AI for galciv must be.

You must remember that every single entity stores a large amount of data. Not only that, but the end-game records simularrly take up a lot of ram. Every ship has a way of identifying it, every ship has it's location on the map. Every ship has it's orders, every ship has it's current speed, movement, ect. Every ship has a lot of data it must keep in ram where it can be called up. Ram isn't only used for video and sounds. And 10gigs o