Quellist

[Quote] I disagree because I don't want the current situation of (fantasy) tbs limit the potential of Elemental. If I want a fantasy Civ IV, I have a famous mod out there. I feel the need to be offered something that try to push the limits and increase our possibilities in the game (no, don't use the argument of "fun", "balanced" and such because they are already implicit). Maybe I'm just spoiled by Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor. [/Quote] When has

This is something that should be abstracted if it's put in at all. A single manpower stat and if it gets low/over drawn you get the negative effects. Loss of productivity (ie pulling men out of mines and into the army) and after that loss of population growth (ie drafting women). Really they should just concentreate on the core concepts, few enough good turn based strategy games out there right now, no need to add lots of exotic concepts that add few, if any, benefits. And yea

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="182" id="2402737"]It's not unluck when your Sovereign dies, you have just taken too huge a risk..... Can't understand those complaining, the powerful Sovereign must be balanced out in some way. Using the Sovereign in 50/50 odds battles in the early game to get early advantages should potentially cost you the whole game. [/quote] I see it before me, 8 players in a multiplayer game and by turn 15 there are 3 players left and the game tu

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="192" id="2403574"] So what? This means that the Sovereign itself must be resistant to the various fear based spells for example? Isn't this against the core concept somewhat? If an ordinary soldier can kill the Sovereign [theoretically], how come that he has no morale at all? [/quote] Yes, and lets add a non-zero probability that the sovereign dies of some random event, like real bad food poisoning, getting run over by a cart or maybe j

[quote who="USSENTERNCC1701E" reply="3" id="1955097"] ... jackass[/quote] Why? I don't like the current state of affairs and an impact on sales is the only thing that has a chance to change it towards the way I hope it will work. [quote who="jdaniels123" reply="4" id="1955226"] My SosSE got corrupted somehow and had to re-install. Now for some people downloading V1.11 again at 264 MB is no problem but I'm sorry I don't have that privilige of unlimited bandwidth.<

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="22" id="1954120"] It isn't DRM in the common, rather than literal, sense of the word. [/quote] Ahh, well, I don't agree. Just because the two worst is catching most of the FLAK and Impulse isn't large enough to influence the common definition, that doesn't improve on what Impulse is. Maybe we need better descriptions to quantify what level of DRM a protection is, but until then... Oh well, I doubt that stardock is going to change t

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="18" id="1954000"] [/quote] Fair enough. And I agree that if the alternative is SF or SecR it's better. What I don't agree with is that it's a good thing nor that it "isn't DRM". True, copy protection don't stop pirates and Impulse wont stop anyone who really wants to distribute the patches either, but yeah, for the casual pirate it becomes more of a hassle, if they feel that they need the patches that is.

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="16" id="1953813"] Hell, it clears it from even being bad! [/quote] You have done a security analysis of the Impulse sourcecode have you? Or maybe just some old fashioned reverse engineering? You can guarantee that it is secure, please do tell how. They can't get it to work with AV/firewalls, but you better believe it is rock solid when it comes to all the rest, the stuff that is important and hard to verify. It is a potential security hazard that

[quote who="twentyoneiwin" reply="14" id="1953459"]Im sorry but this whole topic screams of the warz kiddies crying because they can't play online with their hacked copy. Impulse is not DRM you want to see what real DRM is go check out any EA game thats been realeased in the last year or so. Impulse is a downloader you boot it up to get your patch and then its done. You can install your game over and over again as much as you want without fear of being locked out of your game. Unlike wh

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="1948531"] Asking users to type in some data to identify who they are is no different than requiring user to type in your user ID and password before posting on this forum. [/quote] Well said, the police keeping surveilance of public places to keep order is no different than they tapping your phone and watching you in your own home.

[quote who="Pale Onyx" reply="1" id="1948612"] Quellist, you missed his entire point. He was not saying that Piracy is not a crime, he just was saying that the moral implications of piracy are milder than those of stealing.[/quote] Go to page 3 in this thread, search for the word "crime", do not collect 200$. [quote who="Muhku" reply="2" id="1948615"] Quellist, If you're a fan of reading and economics, why don't you read Against Intellectual Monopoly by David

[quote who="Muhku" reply="23" id="1948550"]psychoak, I wouldn't feel being treated like a criminal, since I don't think piracy is even a crime. [/quote] Yeah, and serial killers don't think murder is a crime, you being an idiot don't change the facts. [quote] Piracy. Is. Not. Stealing. It is copying. It is a "crime" because the current copyright law [/quote] Yes, that is the basic definition of a crime, the breaking of current law. [q

Reinstalling windows? Because Impulse doesn't work in the environment its targeting? How about they fix it so that it works with antivirus, software based firewalls and the usual range of random quailty routers? That is the least one could expect from something thats mandatory to use.

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="4" id="1947496"] ...of course when one of us chooses to blow off a little steam in a post here and there it's seen as unreasonable by those who only visit the forums to complain or in many cases demand help. [/quote] So you being a fanboy means I should accept you "blowing of steam" without reacting to it? You jumped into a discussion that didn't concern you and without adding anything of value to the discussion, how is that reasonable?</p

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="25" id="1947141"] boom......headshot! [/quote] Now I feel bad, these forums are only meant for internal admiration and here I come and complain. [e digicons]8C[/e] I hope I didn't scar you for life Monk, more than your lobotomy already did that is...

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="24" id="1947137"] Ahhh! The everyone else is doing it and it's good enough reasoning. [/quote] Yeah, thats the point, it IS good enough. And Impulse isn't dominating that strategy in every way, far from it. And if you need it clarified, I'm not saying don't do Impulse, just do stand alone patches AND whatever else you want. At the very least until impulse is "perfect".

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="7" id="1947086"] Yeah, if Stardock goes BK and EA buys the IP, good luck seeing that patch then...I don't know what BK means (not a finance guy) [/quote] Changed that to bankrupt. [quote] but Brad has repeatedly mentioned... well, I've seen him mention... that he won't be selling SD, period. If I recall correctly, he hasn't even put stock on the market -- so they can't try a 'hostile takeover' by simply buying up all the stock

Yeah, if Stardock goes bankrupt and EA buys the IP, good luck seeing that patch then... Or in a couple of years, you might have lots and lots of games to unprotect, who is going to spend all that time removing those checks and recompiling whole games? Not to mention getting several gigabytes of stand alone patches out there. edit: Exhanged BK for bankrupt.

Obviously your users on their own would chose to have the patch delivered by carrier pigeon, one bit at the time, if they were left to their own devices. If I can't get the standalone patch from server one, I can try server two. If I can't get it from Impulse via the superfast local server, I'm SOL. Yes, you update a lot, for those that want to live on the beta-edge that probably is great. Me, I make do with the major updates when it comes to Sins. And it's not like this is

Thrawn2787: Why shouldn't I blame impulse? It is impulse that doesn't work and a program that I as a customer doesn't want. I'm not saying the environment that impulse has to work in isn't complex and that there are several factors that can impact it, but then why force it on your customers? And yes, its new, another reason NOT to FORCE it on your customers. Frogboy: Yeah, I'm sure you have solved _some_ problems. Many seem to still have problems though. In my case for example. Re

Frogboy, maybe you need to check over at https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/forum/457 Plenty of ""Impulse don't work" threads" over there. Forcing something like impulse on your customers you better be sure that it works well, impulse doesn't. The name of the product is ironic, because it feels like you did it on an "impulse". I have no interest of alfa/beta testing your content distribution system and I don't want a major hassle every time I want to update one of your

I just want to add my vote to "it should be over"-option. In multiplayer it will probably prevent a lot of tedious mop up. And imo really hard choices are good for the depth of a TBS.

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="17" id="1944019"] Well, if you're paid $300k, you're not really much of a slave. That's called work, and I hear some people do it all the time. [/quote] Work you can quit and so on, you still have choices. And you have a life outside of work. Or the other way around, slaves are usually given food and housing, so maybe slavery is just work were you don't get paid more than that? Thus no morality issue?

I think the questions are poorly phrased. Could I kill someone in the mentioned circumstances? Yes, I think I could. Would I do it? No, I would not. You can rephrase the basic question in infinite ways. For example, do you think it is ok to do lethal experiments on homeless people if it might lead to a cure for cancer? <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl11__LinkUser" class="hand" title="Click user name to view more options." onclick="Sd.Menus.showMenu('userMenu11