@Volt: IIRC, even if you can do arbitrary sized adders, those are only primitive recursive functions , so still not Turing complete. And adders are not enough to even cover all primitive recursive functions. For example, can you write a chain of entities that computes "proper subtraction", i.e., a ∸ b defined as "If a ≥ b then a-b else 0"? For instance, in the system selected, subtract the (total) numbe
Myself not being a huge youtube fan, I've just discovered (5 months later or so) that TotalBiscuit did a piece on OpenRA ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-VwE1byrY ). For those [like me] that didn't know about it, OpenRA is a Red Alert, Dune 2000 etc. re-engine effort that looks ok in that video. Video in which TotalBiscuit can't help but share his thoughts on the [d]evolution of genre in general, of course.
And for anyone thinking that paid early access is some kind of mana for the consumer (as opposed to being mana for the developer, which it is), please listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGbbIB5eaM (you don't have to watch the video part because it is de minimis relative to the audio-conveyed info).
And come think on the topic of this thread, what Sins:R could have benefited from (but two years ago) is a review like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_QK-lcW8a8
[quote who="davidabc66" reply="26" id="3476697"] Quoting RespawnedTitanL10, reply 24This 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
LoL posted a nice video recently ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiSNHAJHu-c ) on the importance they place on the connection between gameplay and the visuals associated with that, as well as general accessibility concerns. I can [alas] use Sins as a textbook example of how to do most of that poorly: hard-to-see weapons fire effects, especially on the TEC side weapons with long [burst] timers
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="77" id="3476691"] So precisely nothing at all like this Quoting RespawnedTitanL10, reply 74This 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.[/quote] Do you want me to apologize or something like that? It's not like they make t
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="75" id="3476677"] Neither Planetary Annihilation nor DoW2:Retribution gave you any boosts in multiplayer if you paid more. What are you talking about? PS. I picked up Planetary Annihilation for $30 in march this year. [/quote] DoW2:R offered hefty bonuses in single-player for the [too numerous!] preorder editions and/or day1 DLC[s] wargear; in case you have troubling remembering <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.
As [quote who="furyofthestars" reply="307" id="3476647"] Respawned, I think you guys might be talking about different timings in the game. I believe Sareth is more concerned about mid-late game, whereas you're covering early game.[/quote] Paraphrasing what a famous economist said (about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management ): to be right in the long run, you must first 
[quote]given his numerous threats in which he said he would personally kill several players.[/quote] Someone should point him to http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/19561/article/league-of-legends-player-who-made-terrorist-threats-facing-10-years-in-prison/ (and <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2014-02-13/news/justin-carter-facebook
I think I'm the only person on this forum to have played vs. himself full-length matches (thus ensuring near equal skill level, almost by definition, on both sides) and I can tell you that the Vasari will not get to have " 5+ overseers" in any game with 3-jumps (o less) between them and the enemy. As the game is "balanced" in 1.82, the Vasari extractors and labs will die before then even without movable SBs on the TEC/Advent side. There are presently some annoying bugs in the dev exe
[quote who="XWerewolfX" reply="65" id="3476624"] DOTA2 and all those MOBA's are crap and exactly what is wrong with mainstream gaming nowadays. [/quote] I guess you missed how much of Sins' MP resembles Dota [2]: 5v5s the common form of play... check! Hero (capital ship) abilities can leveled four times and they have an ultimate one too (levelable 3 times in Dota 2, but only twice in Sins:R)... check! "Captain's Mode" (in Dota) is the PUG practiced on ICO.
Strange that you don't include Dota 2 in that round up. It dwarves everything else, IIRC.
After looking at the financials of PA, I see why frogboy sounds envious of them. [e digicons];)[/e] Not only have they gathered twice the necessary Kickstarter funds (over $2M pledged, target sum was $0.9M), but also managed to sell alpha/beta access at $90/$200 a pop thereafter (even to those who took part in the Kickstarter phase), something that would make envious even AAA title makers, no doubt. The user reactions have been a little more than just skeptical on the latt
I'm not sure I really want to suggest this as a user, but Planetary Annihilation (which frogboy is well aware of) not only has gathered twice the necessary Kickstarter funds (over $2M pledged, target sum was $0.9M), but also managed to sell alpha/beta access at nearly $200 a pop thereafter (to those who "missed" the Kickstarter phase), something that would make envious even AAA title makers, no doubt. The user reactions have been a little skeptical on the latter:
I realize this mod was proposed in 2012, but with the nerfs that the Vasari got along the way, if you want to have a semblance of balance with this mod in 1.82, you need a few extra things: Vasari repair plat doing 25-35/s (possibly with a research tier) not 15/s. Vasari skirmisher (LF) costing 6 supply at the most, although something like 5.5 would be more adequate, so buffing it by some 10% in dmg & hull at 6 supply is okay too Assailant costing 5 supp
It turns out Steam lists all localized versions of the game. They only list English and Japanese, so there are apparently no other localization/regionalization versions of Sins:R.
With 40$ (assuming US ones) you could have bought almost four licenses at the last Steam sale. (It was thirty-something euros for me for a 4-pack.) Alas getting friends to play Sin:R is more of a challenge than buying/gifting them licenses because of the MP bugs, but alas not the one you mentioned... If you didn't buy Sins Rebellion from Steam, GameStop, GamersGate, The Humble Store, or the devs directly, it's almost certainly a pirated version. (I assume you
[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="18" id="3476271"] The game's ICO activity can be reinvigorated by STEAM sales. So it's hard to say where the game will be in six months. What would happen if it sold on STEAM for $5 at some point? As the game gets older its price will decrease, allowing for even lower sale prices that could pack the server full of players. [/quote] Alas without some improvements in server capacity and client code robustness,
[quote who="Stilat" reply="2" id="3475914"] With each passing day I am more and more convinced that Respawntitan is another Seleuceia Hydra head...[/quote] Why? Has Sel posted any similar content?
Check your galaxy file in a text editor. You might have some random (planet) ring in there, which will generate a bunch of planets. If you can't figure out yourself what's wrong with it even that way, post the galaxy code on pastebin and someone will probably take look.
I've updated the OP with inline images and corrected an [obvious] error in the rule of thumb for non-zero repair.
[quote who="satoru1" reply="463" id="3475072"]Even 'minor' patches to games like Skyrim are in the several hundred MB using SteamPipe. [/quote] That's more a case of poor use of technology rather than any inherent limitation of on-line distribution. Stuff like rsync ( http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/ ) [binary diffing and patching] has been around for decades now. RTPatch ® on Windows also
Post-dismissal [gaming] press coverage http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/06/25/after-defeat-in-u-s-rebellion-still-doesn-t-want-developers-to-use-its-name-in-titles.aspx . This is a bit more like what I would have liked to read rather than the wish-wash from gamestop.
I'm really glad it turned out this way. It would have been totally daft if a single common word trademarked as part of a company name somehow became off limits for anyone else in the [same] industry. Image if "Command and Conquer" (I don't know if that's trademarked, but it could well be) resulted in both "command" and "conquer" being off limits for anyone else titling a game, etc. I'm saddened that you guys [probably] had to pay the Biglaw firm mentioned for this common sense
