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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="63" id="3447465"] Judging by the state of their recent releases I'd say that's exactly the thing they don't do. [/quote] Having a fat wallet and using it correctly aren't the same thing. :) Besides, in the case of Simcity specifically, the problem was bad design choices early on. They wanted to do a simulation model that required massive computing resources, then decided to make it work on single processor 32 bit systems. Then

Reply to The revenge of the Terrans, starring D.L. Bradley in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

The Krogan thing wasn't some random alien bacteria though, the Genophage was a biological weapon .

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="60" id="3447352"] Estimate for more, aim for less.[/quote] Sure, if you're EA and have a very fat wallet to work with. Most of the game development studios on the planet are on razor thin budgets. Estimating for more and aiming for less means estimating for more money than they have. They are literally one poor selling game from shutting down. All the time. In an industry where the buyers are quick to move on to new things (and there'

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No worries. :)

Reply to Purchase with Bitcoin? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tergon" reply="13" id="3447339"] Honestly, we have fully functional credit card system backed by organizations who have proven they can keep it working. Why the hell we would wish to switch into system which is not widespread and offers no benefit over the existing one?[/quote] Credit card processing & transaction fees suck. That's an area Bitcoin does a lot better, because it was designed to be split into small amounts more easily. Really, most of th

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="134" id="3447279"] Quoting WIllythemailboy, reply 133That's not an absolute statement by any means. If you'd prefer an alternate wording, try "The most common reason for piracy is that people are cheapskates." Have you ever seen one of those commercials that say "The number one cause of death for women is heart disease"? They're not saying heart disease is the *only* cause, they're saying it's the most prevalent cause.<

Reply to The revenge of the Terrans, starring D.L. Bradley in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="11" id="3447182"] Ive never been big on playing campaigns in games like galciv simply because I really like custom games and would typically go straight to them. I did play the original DL campaing but that was ages ago but then I never bothered to play the expension campaings, despite playing ToA for years lol. Reading this makes me want to go back and play all the GalCiv campaings back to back. Really looking forwa

Reply to The revenge of the Terrans, starring D.L. Bradley in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="jim_viebke" reply="17" id="3447232"] Quoting xbogey, reply 12I think I remember reading that there would be two human factions? Perhaps the other faction is comprised of the unfortunate souls not on Earth? Reduced 92%Original 619 x 332[/quote] IIRC there is a second Terran fleet led by Jenna Casey. Could be them.

Reply to Please don't streamline "dumb down" this game. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="55" id="3447169"] How come their desire to remake something is somehow related to games being expensive? I think it's somehow related with planning. Since I work in consturction industry, this behavior of gamedev is not quite understandable. I understand programming isn't solid as concrete, but maybe you shouldn't create something you can't maintain, at least if there is a chance you won't have money to finish it? As much as I like Shadow

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Interesting. I wonder what will happen when Bradley here meets up with other Terrans. How is he going to act towards them if they try to rein him in?

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="11" id="3447098"] Why you need older computer for D3? [/quote] Because there was two of us. The older computer was the second one. [quote]I guess most of us already have 2 PCs, or at least one PC and one laptop, so it's better than nothing. [/quote] That's a decreasing truth, as the PC is being supplanted at a fast rate by tablets. The number of multi PC homes is going down, along with the sales volume in the PC market.

Reply to Is it OK to let's play and live stream the alpha? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="53" id="3447103"] So you think "shovelware" or "premature release" shouldn't be organized into group, informing other gamers of potentially broken software or "not so trustworthy developers/publishers"? Some teams should spend more time on polishing their software, not on witchhunt for angry gamers. [/quote] No, they shouldn't. Those aren't useful groupings, because they're too subjective. One person's premature release is another

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="51" id="3447015"] Hmm, Star Citizen raised how much, 34? Daniel Vavra and his game (Kingdom come or what's the name?). Besides, wasn't it Brad who told Ironclad made SoaSE for 750K? My point is that if you need too much money, in comparison with your competitors, then, probably, your team is too big and/or inefficient, or you live in the area with high burn rate. Compare Witchers budgets with, I don't know, their "western competitors&#

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="51" id="3447025"] Thanks for enlightening. Guess I either played it after they've fixed it, or haven't played too much.[/quote] Maybe. I don't know if they ever fixed it, because the release version was so much worse than vanilla Endless Space that I never really went back. [quote]As for metacritic, I think I'm quite reluctant towards them, because in many cases I don't exactly understand how and why they "appra

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="9" id="3447034"] Found anything beside HoMM3?[/quote] Actually we got an older computer working and just wound up playing Diablo 3. With the new patch it's a much more fun game than it used to be. [quote]Spawn copy a-la Diablo 1?[/quote] Spawn copies aren't the same thing because they still require two computers, but that would be nice.

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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="129" id="3447061"] And no, I don't think people will take it for free when they can. If you like the project, you'll probably support it, just because you want more like it. [/quote] Except for all the people that do exactly that. The #1 reason for piracy is that people are cheapskates, and there isn't much you can do about that.

Reply to $10 Founder's Discount on Galactic Civilizations III expires soon in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="27" id="3446917"] Interesting. When I read that I thought the Founders offer would remain without the $10 discount. After all, that is the context within which it was stated (as in the title line for the thread). And, in a way, it makes no sense to NOT continue to offer the Beta only, but at the $49.99 price.[/quote] That's how I read it initially too, but the founders edition itself is gone. Elite remains. Maybe that was the more popular

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="25" id="3446890"] Tridus, are you misinterpreting or confusing something you read somewhere? I have yet to see anything that could explain the disappearance of the basic Founders offer (the $49.99 version) other than someone goofed. If you have a link to something said by a legitimate StarDock representative, please post a link.[/quote] The first post in this thread? ;)

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[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="7" id="3446537"] Hate it. That would really slow down the game pace. And all it represents is the funding for the government facility or whatever you want imagine. If there was a lab that has 100 worker to run the facility. And you increase funding. All it does is raise the efficiency. [/quote] I don't know about where you work, but where I work most of the tasks are specialized. The systems, jobs, management structure, and even which offic

Reply to $10 Founder's Discount on Galactic Civilizations III expires soon in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Jharii" reply="23" id="3446577"] Well, it expired and there is no $49.99 version. Just Founder's Elite at $99. Quoting Tridus, reply 3 It's a discount, and the discounted version is going away. After that it'll be $10 more. So the terminology is accurate.[/quote] Thats the only current version since it gives alpha access. When the game is near release, a normal version will appear.

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="29" id="3446562"] Quoting Werewindlefr, reply 28The battleships, battlecruisers and cruiser class ships are almost extinct nowadays (only Russia has battlecruisers), while planes are pretty much the keystone of combat. In other words, it essentially depend on a lot of factors... Really? In today's world there are many ways to sink a carrier, or a carrier fleet. While air superiority is a must, anyone that ignores other threats is not c

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That's pretty clever. I like it. :)

Reply to GalCiv III is in for some though competition in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="52" id="3444577"] I think most will prefer the revise due conomics which are derived from population. Factories and research centers magnify production but they don't generate it unto themselves anymore. Hence in such a system approval as a population control becomes really problematic IMO. i think if approval returns it'll be to add a new dynamic (for instance, to expand on the political element of game play where trying to undermine

Reply to Future of 4X games? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="20" id="3446301"] Comparing AIs for chess and Billard to 4X AIs make no sense, they are too fundamentally different.[/quote] It makes perfect sense, if you realize that I'm only talking about them from a perspective of what happens when you actually make a perfect AI (which happened in those two cases), and how the market actually doesn't like it a whole lot. A game where the AI is the best player on the board, all the time, would not do ve

Reply to Playing the prototype in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="59" id="3446238"] One to to emphasize about the ALPHA (versus a BETA) is that the alpha is when you want to try things out that might not make it. In the previous GalCiv games, our alphas has some pretty major changes that ultimately removed or heavily changed by the time the beta rolled around. The technology tree system of GalCiv II was radically different in its alpha for instance. This is the first time we've brought player