Jalida

Jalida

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2931447"]I think you guys who play the betas have gotten a pretty good idea on the fundamental change in how our betas are done. Look how long was sat with v1.19 (over 2 months) before it finally was "good enough". Our games are going to slowly move more and more to the "Google" beta model where it's going to sit in beta for quite awhile, often with it seeming like it's "final" but it'll still be beta. <br

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[quote who="Ineffigy" reply="1" id="2758233"]Elemental is a bit different than most games that get released. I think Brad has this organic idea about the game where what was released is more like a starting platform that is intended to grow over the next year into an epic release. Other game companies can't do this due to the game being their primary income stream. In Stardock's case, they get their revenue from other areas and it funds the development of this game. <

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Having the tooltips be static all the time in the lower right corner of my screen is not the best place for them, for example when putting my mouse over the icons in the empire tree panel, first I have to look at the icons to see that I'm mousing over what I want more info about, then look bottom right, then look top left again to mouse over another one, look bottom right again for info. On and on we go. Is there some way to mod the location of the tooltip, or pre

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TLDR; Look for the red text below This is a common thing it appears in the game/software development world. I personally know of many games where the developers moved on to new projects while leaving glaring bugs in their previous products. Now, while I realize their business is really not so different than many others, in that they've constantly got to move forward, or get new projects so that they can eat and pay th

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Hello, I spent the better part of about 6 to 8 hours watching some "let's play" videos on Gal Civ II Dreadlords to try to get an idea for how certain things function in the game. One of my questions however is money. Am I correct that money for my empire only comes through: 1. Taxing my population 2. Trade between myself and the AI 3. Someplace else that I can't remember. For some reason I thought it came from

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Hi, Is there someplace central where people share their ship designs? I make good looking ships but non functional since I've never really gotten into the game but would like to start doing so soon, so I thought if there is someplace where people share their ships I could study the design of them to see how to make a functional ship out of my asthetically pleasing ships. Thanks,

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When I ran into this issue with dreamscene and multipla video adapters (I have Nvidia 275 GTX as my primary and a Nvidia 8800 to use for my PhysX) I simply switched over to running VLC Media Player, now I can run seperate videos in full screen on each of my 3 monitors, granted it may not be as elegant as other ways, but I really enjoy having 3 different videos playing across my monitors and with VLC the videos stay full screen even when I drag other windows on top of them so sort of making it

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Not. I don't much care for games that only have one strategy to get the highest win. I really just didn't enjoy this title very much at all and I love war gaming, fantasy war gaming, strategy games in general. I remember Panzer Generals only vaguely, but what I do remember of it was a positive overtone, I can't say as much when I remember Elven Legacy. Because of the way it's structured, I'd likely have positive overtones of it if I had bought it on one of the week

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Hello, I'm not ready for multiplayer yet, and quite honestly I doubt I ever will be as I'm very slow and take a long time to think about my actions before doing them (is why I like games that I can pause to think as long as I like in singleplayer). Anyway, is there a way to watch multiplayer games as a guest? I mean so that I can watch other people that are currently playing a multiplayer game or only I can join as a combatant and compete against like normal play? <

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Similar story: I bought a racing game from Impulse because they listed the release date as like Sep, 24, 2009 so not being one up on racing games I figured sure, why not, I like racing games and the only way to buy a multiplayer racing game is to get in on the ground floor before the community drys up and blows away. I loaded up the game, and went into multiplayer to find a deafening silence and absence of any other players. I went researching on the net to find out that the gam

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[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="23" id="2315980"]you don't want 7.5. It's a free trial. You want the 6.01 Mod Too. It's free. Go through the tutorials for the Mod Tool, that will kick-start you in XSI. [/quote] Really? I went to autodesk and it says this: Autodesk® Softimage® Mod Tool software (formerly XSI Mod Tool) is a free * 3D modeling and animation package for cr

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Hello, I'm wondering just how extensive the GUI can be modded in Sins? For example can on screen objects (such as the empire display - that block that shows your planets and ships) be moved? How about the information panel that pops up when I mouse over objects in the lower right corner, can I somehow mod that to move it somewhere else on the screen where it would be more comfortable for my viewing? If this kind of stuff can be modded, perhaps someone can poke my

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Here's something really basic. First My background: I used to create models in 3DSmax as well as Gmax for older games like Simcity 4 etc. So I can build some pretty basic models in both of those programs. I've not been building models in several years however. Question: Is there a super duper basic modeling guide for Sins? Something perhaps that just starts the user off slow to create a basic object for the game? I've learned over the years th

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Hello, I've collected my old objectdesktop files from the stardock server but can't find the stardock central program to download anymore. When I go to the page that is listed in the email for downloading stardock central, it tells me the page Im looking for doesn't exist, when I try other methods to find it, all I get is a page telling me about Impulse. I know about impulse but need stardock central to reinstall my old aps that are backup files from stardock central, do I

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Thanks I saw that. I guess I was misreading and seeing objectbar and thinking objectdock. I've got an expired ultimate license that I was thinkign about renewing but of allthe time that I've owned it, I've really only found window blnds to be interesting and what I use the most, the rest has gone to waste on me, when I saw objectbar I was thinking objectdock and thinking it would be worthwhile to renew to get a newer verison of windowblinds and get objectdock included with it.&nbs

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Thanks Wizard1956 the stacks docklet does exactly what I was after. Cavan1, there is no option for Add > New custom flyout menu in my objectdock. But it's all good, the stacks docket works close enough to how I want it to that it's manageable now. Yeah when I had a current subscription to object destop or whatever it is called, I use to check out the gallery, I could rarely find icons that were for specific games and or applicaitons that I run, and had to choose nes t

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I was quite suprised to add the start menu dock and then be told that it doesn't support my 64 bit vista. I really thought that Stardock was on top of the modern world. I'm not going to hod my breath waiting on them to make it work nor do the work around, nor will they get my $19.99 for Objectdock plus or a renewal fee for the other programs I own until they start supporting 64bit operating systems properly. No, it's not a threat, it's simply my purchasing decissions.

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Hello, Is it possible either in the free version or the plus version that I can drag a folder from my desktop to object dock and when I mose over it, the contents of that folder would show all the files as their own representive icon? Basically what the weather dock does now with the way it shows each of the days. I guess you could call it nested menus in a sence. What Im trying to accomplish is simply that I keep folders on my desktop like "games" or "web design"

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Hello, When I install Object Dock on my windows vista 64 bit home premium (sp1) computer it crashes as soon as I try to load it up with the following informaiton: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: ObjectDock.exe Application Version: 1.9.0.536 Application Timestamp: 46367f34 Fault Module Name: &nb

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Hi, thanks for the response, here is a copy of the debug.err file: Debug Message: Version 1.50 last updated on: Wed Sep 10 09:05:01 2008 Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 9/16/2008, 03:49:55 DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Machine Name: AMD Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930) Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)<br

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