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Forums a bit ricketty tonight. Unleash the frogs of war on the gremlins.

EDIT: Was posting a technical gripe about this not working anymore but think I have figured it out.

I am a bit curious if the name was inspired by Manos: The Hands of Fate , an "f-movie" (not even in B-movie territory) lampooned on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, notorious for being so terrible that at least one member of the cast committed suicide? Or sheer coincidence?

From PC Gamer article at http://www.pcgamer.com/electronic-arts-closes-simcity-studio-maxis-emeryville/ - Electronic Arts has closed down SimCity studio Maxis Emeryville. The news was revealed on Twitter by SimCity lead gameplay scripter and designer Guillaume Pierre, and confirmed in a statement by EA. "Well it was a fun 12 years, but it's time to turn off

Guns don't deserve rights, and certainly this experiment that more guns in the hands of less responsible people has been a disastrous failure. I'm tired of being shot at because I'm not heterosexual .... granted its only happened once thus far, but once was too many times ... I have also had a lot of friends and family friends who had some close call "whoopses," including a classmate in high school playing with his older brother's gun and accidentally shot his friend in

I received the following error message trying to give karma on a post through forums.galciv3.com: The page at forums.galciv3.com says: An error occurred: The server method 'GiveKarma' failed. 0

I've had several DX crashes, but this was my first end-of-turn hang. I was not alt+tabbing out at the time, but I did have a screen recorder running (which is how I have it recorded on video).

Hate to make a hard task even harder, but remember if you manage to hax the .exe to enable LoS in tactical battles ... the AI isn't set up to be able to deal with tactical battle LoS it in their own offense or defense, and it would also need to be worked into Auto-Resolve battles.

Its happened irregularly with me, but most frequently on Tamed beasts, especially spiders (Black Widows and Rock Spiders).

I find anti-semitic remarks offensive, which includes hostile "I'm gonna be an ass because I hate you for your beliefs" remarks which I've seen several of in this thread and I'm not a Semite -- in fact, I'm an atheist. However, I do find a demand or insistence that a game meant for everyone should censor itself to fit the tolerances of one group. If pork offends you to the point you cannot even fictionally portray your avatar consuming it, then the answer is simp

Outposts don't become cities, I can snake buildings to connect to an outpost, but it won't let me snake beyond that -- the city won't allow me to attach buildings to an outpost even if I've snaked my city to get the outpost to get encompassed by my city.

Stardock is pretty good at monitoring the forums and acknowledging a bug report. Several of the bugs I've reported have already been described as being fixed in the upcoming patch, in fact.

I haven't had too much trouble, lately ... one AI will declare war on me, I'll generally wipe the floor with them, I'll be close to finishing them off when their buddies will declare war on me. The first AI, by that time, has generally lost a city or two or more to me and is willing to pay me to stop warring them, which frees me to do the same to the second. The frustrating part is, in my current game, this has been persisting for a long time, and while I am whittlin

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="10" id="3266139"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 1The monsters, during the beta, were considered "too tame" so we turned them up. In v1.01, we're doing more work so that their behavior is much better controlled by the difficulty levels. Well in our defense "God Wolves" are a very recent addition. In particular the Howl ability of Great wovles is rediculous, especially if you tame them... [/quote] The bonus they c

I don't know what you can control with the map editor, but one 'goodie' you can get from loot is a collar, which gives you a one-off 'Tame' spell essentially. Resoln, I think, can actually train spiders out of their cities ... I've never played them, but in my current game (which I've been capturing to video and uploading to Youtube here -> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?l

Monsters are actually much tougher than in WoM. Early level champions, even in a large group, have no real hope against slags, dragons, dark wizards, earth elementals or other very difficult foes. Some animals you can Tame, though, have unique capabilities and can work well as tanks. Trust me, the first time you meet an Umberdroth (very fast, powerful beast) or Harridan (essentially a massive and high-level spider), you'll really really wish you had the capacity to tam

[quote quoting="post"] After receiving Brad's gift of FE (elemental Customer) i tried playing my first game yesterday. I got stuck at character creation when i realized my knowledge of WOM may not be so useful here?? Can anyone give me any useful advice on character and kingdom creation? What perks are good, what weaknesses are 'gimmies' etc etc? Also i was a big fan of making my own maps

I think someone would have to dig into the .EXE. I've only seen a few games, like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Star Trek: Armada II where sufficiently hard-core programmers dig in that deeply to mod a game.

DLC? I've never known Stardock to do DLC.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLucltIH-umI-_3RGG4RJHWG5eUjzmRu34 Parts 7 and 8 are being re-encoded ... 7 is actually done, just gotta upload it. If you don't want to wait, though, the craptacular-quality versions of 7 and 8 are in my 'Scraps' playlist.

[quote who="Lysam" reply="7" id="3266170"]Thanks guys, question regarding your points rvgr. 2. So can magic win the game without having melee units? I haven't really tried this path, I have just used my mage characters to supplement my melee characters. [/quote] If you choose "Beastlord" as the profession for your sovereign, you have a special spell -- 'Tame' -- that you can use to create an army out of beasts instead of having to rely on

What I'd really like to see is parallel constructions. When we are talking about ruling planets with billions of population, collectively a whole planet can only build one thing at a time. A few months prior to WoM launch, I seem to recall Brad mentioning he was pondering making a small patch for GC2 ... but that kinda vanished I guess due to Brad having to rip his frog-hair out and fix WoM. It would be nice if GC2 gets some attention, but I doubt its going to get any

Oh. I don't recall the Beta full versions being listed as 'Upgrade' ... guess that's why I was confused. Might be less confusing if you called it 'Valued Customer Credit' or something, as I doubt I would be alone in being confused in the ambiguity with the word 'upgrade' in the digital distribution business.

Wow! $4.99!? If you've been living under a rock and never tried Sins of a Solar Empire ... this costs a penny less than Subway's five dollar footlongs, and trust me, Sins + Entrenchment + Diplomacy is a lot longer than a foot. :P Everything except the newest iteration (Rebellion).

I keep checking the Stardock store site to see if the 1.01 patch of Fallen Enchantress shows up sneakily before getting announced it is released, but thus far nada ... I have been a bit thrown off, however, by the listing for Fallen Enchantress as an available download, as it is listed as "Elemental - Fallen Enchantress Upgrade (Digital)" though a mouseover on the 'Download' button reveals it is the 3.48 GB 1.00.0 full