Incest is too useful. If you arrange a marriage between two people in your dynasty, the female is duplicated. Kids can ally themselves with defeated powers. Capitar may have destroyed Tarth, but that doesn't stop my grandchildren from deciding that Irane's the cooler grandparent.
[quote who="Vandenburg" comment="22"]I find it more curious that the Yor seem to have been meat once, before they became their glorious metallity. [/quote]It could just be the robots were named after the Yoren, or were developed by Yoren's successors, or any number of other things. Apache wasn't always a helicopter, but our helicopters were never Indians. Professional writers are good. Should add a lot of depth to the world and make the quests interesting, a feature many que
[quote quoting="article"]The Dread Lords would bide their time and rise again once sentient beings began to take shape and would scatter across the universe. That tale, however, is told elsewhere.[/quote]Does this mean we'll be fighting Dread Lords in this game too, and they're obscenely powerful? Aren't they worried about being typecast?
I think you've misunderstood. You don't have to "purchase a license" for Impulse. It uses the same account that you used to post in these forums, so you already have the license. All you have to do is download it and log in. No extra payment is needed. It's no different from Valve only letting people download Portal off of Steam.
"Living every day as if it was your last" is an oversimplification of the attitude in question. A more accurate description would be "Remember that you could die on any given day, so don't screw today up. However, odds are you won't die any time soon, so don't screw tomorrow up either." The basic idea is not to hold grudges, take as much joy from each day as you can without destroying any hope you have of taking joy from remaining thousands of days you probably have left, don't bother yo
[quote who="Martimus" reply="8" id="1978603"]This is pretty much how GC2 works, so I would expect Elemental to work the same way. It would be nice to be able to upgrade a unit without it stripping everything and starting over again though. (like replacing just the sword, or just the armor; which should be easier since you can't mount a sword anywhere like you can mount a part anywhere in GC2.) [/quote]Not quite the same, though. In GCII you still had to go through and manuall
[quote quoting="article"]In Elemental, what we're doing is actually giving each item its own heft with its own physics. The trick is to find a way to do this that still lets it run on lower end hardware so it has to be done smartly. At the same time, you want the guy with that new Core i7 with the latest nVidia or ATI card to look at it and go DAMN that's cool.[/quote]For the lower-end hardware, you could use the physics engine to make preset animations when a unit is created. It wouldn
[quote quoting="post"]And the AI work won't just be in how they play the game but how they behave -- in the lobby and elsewhere with the goal to make them feel like real people (except not jerks). [/quote]That's a dead giveaway right there. Someone should make an AI that speaks in binary.
I second Ragnar's proposal. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted units that were still being trained to be usable for defense. [quote who="psychoak" reply="17" id="1944128"]For armor in the historical sense, gold would indeed make horrible armor. However, there is a possible use. High density like lead, shares the efficiency in blocking harmful radiation. Anti-magic armor perhaps? [/quote]I like the way you think. However, I can't see it as being ver
g00berhead: aside from the idea of gold armor (gold is quite possibly one of the worst metals for armor that isn't mercury) and making production of knights historically accurate (it would be way too convoluted, the production time you're talking about would probably make knights obsolete by the time you finished training them, and there aren't going to be any knights in the game anyway unless you name a cavalry unit "Knight", so historically accurate training wouldn't mak
[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="18" id="1939519"]Also, three wizards? Gandalf, Saruman... and who? Galadriel doesn't count, she's a ring bearer (seperate thing), as well as being an elf (which Wizard's weren't -- they weren't human, elves, or dwarves, they were something else sent specifically to help deal with Sauron). [/quote]Sauron.
[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="11" id="1938897"]What is the reason Stardock wants to limit this fantasy game to almost only humans? [/quote]This isn't as bad or illogical as you think. Apparently there aren't going to be any generic magical things (no elves or orcs). All magical creatures are apparently powerful. To avoid players just making hordes of undead mages mounted on adamantium-armored dragons, the good stuff is harder to find. Think of it this way: we live in a technol
[quote who="psychoak" reply="11" id="1938357"]If, instead of boycotting which will already harm EA equally, I pirate, I have changed nothing of the effects to EA. Your irrelevant question is now answered, yes? [/quote]Fair enough. [quote who="psychoak" reply="11" id="1938357"]My question was if it would be WRONG or justice. As you passed on answering, mine follows. My property is no longer sacred to them, so theirs is no longer sacred to me. Justice.
[quote who="Spartan" reply="12" id="1935990"] Quoting Vandenburg, reply 10 So yeah, whom else can you trust in the games industry? Paradox Interactive. It has at least from what I have seen and experienced always stepped up like SD and treated gamers right. It is very similar to SD in my opinion, which is why I have suggested several times that they should consider a merger. [/quote]Huh... I seem to remember hearing a lot of good stuff
[quote who="psychoak" reply="24" id="1933077"]If I boycott a company for writing clauses into their games that give them a legel right to steal from me, would returning the favor be wrong or justice? Do explain how pirating instead of just boycotting harms them. Yet another victimless act, the flaw in the piracy argument. [/quote]Do explain how "returning the favor" can be "justice" if it doesn't affect them.
Will we be able to upgrade preexisting units if the materials are available? For example, if I have a city garrisoned by broze-wearing pikemen and it receives a shipment of iron armor for some reason, can I give the pikemen the armor to save on training time?
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[quote who="Mazuo" reply="10" id="1935199"]Almost never. You're asking for a quick death if you're a submarine near the surface. A sub's saving grace is stealth and that's only accomplished by running quiet and running deep. The only time a sub should be at the surface while in transit is for however long it takes to suck more air and then it's time to submerge again. [/quote]"Near" is a relative term; relative to the depth of the ocean, a couple hundred feet is fa
[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="3" id="1935700"]For instance you have 4 heroes, then you earn 4 times as much xp than a sovereign with only one heroe (and even if your sovereign is weaker) [/quote]Not really; you earn a fraction of the hero's xp. The main advantage of heros is that they can be in different places, while your sovereign can only participate in one battle.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="1" id="1927825"]That last sentence of yours is just perfect. Think about it a while, you should be able to figure it out. [/quote]I did when I typed it. The first thing that should be noted is the "If" at the beginning of the sentence. The second is how it applies to the quoted text: If the text I quoted wasn't a justification for piracy, then it didn't really address the stuff you quoted before it. If it was a justification for piracy,
All right, this thread is getting entirely too civil. I'm putting a stop to this apology nonsense.
[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="15" id="1932487"]In medieval times, it was very common that knights were aristocrats training for war most of their time, while commoners were raised and given sticks, spears and sickles to go fight with their lieges. Such a militia would have to be disbanded fast otherwise noone would be able to tend the crops. Do you think of any way to represent something like that or do you go the classical 4X way of doing a professional, standing, army? [/quote]The game
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[quote who="Lord Tareq" reply="18" id="1932599"] On the subject of space fighters, I think it’s fair to say that we can kill anything within a few light-seconds with a laser. Clearly you’re not going to be doing fly-bys. What, precise, is a space fighter supposed to do? If lasers are indeed that deadly hypothetically speaking against space fighters, first priority for the space fighters would probably be to use reflective
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[quote who="JuleTron" reply="25" id="1927873"]If an army of space battleships were to fire at an enemy position, how would they know whether they won? if they sent in the battleships closer to capture the territory, then the enemy might have had a super-self-defense system and survived the attack. your unprepared space battleships would be dead. An intelligent commander would send in a small expendable ship to scout enemy positions. With just battleships how could you gather intell
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="8" id="1931472"]How would a story in a sandbox mode even work. You have a randomly generated map, and though you could create a randomly generated story, sounds like a lot of work that would lead to some pretty meaningless, probably even weird, stories. [/quote]Mad Libs meets MoM. Actally, that would be kind-of fun to play if it was done ridiculously enough. Would make for a great mod.
Damn you, Stardock! How am I supposed to enjoy Empire: Total War now?
