StarBane

StarBane

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Looks complex enough but the textures are pretty flat - hopefully they'll tweak all that for final release. Other than that, it's about time we get a new 4x fantasy-themed game and from Stardock, to boot! That's a slam-dunk as far as I'm concerned. Can't wait to purchase and play this cool-looking game!! GO STARDOCK, GO!!

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It's great if a majority of players are getting fast speeds. I just feel bad for the poor shmucks who aren't. Hopefully that's a very tiny number of people suffering with poor d/l speeds. I may get great d/l speeds but not everyone can and I can commiserate with those guys.

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I probably won't get my review copy anytime soon so I'm stuck waiting, you guys are lucky! :( That being said, this list by Frogboy (aka BW) reminds me of a similar thread he posted not long after GalCiv 2 shipped, where he listed an experience he had, via email tech support, with a customer who simply refused to upgrade his drivers, regardless of the fact that it was the specific solution to his problem AND regardless of the fact that this clueless gamer hadn't updated his (graphic) d

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It's cool how much friendlier the grognards are on the Stardock forums than with a new game like Savage 2, just to throw out an example. Die-hard fans of that series are just downright lame, comparatively, in how they treat new players or new fans to the series - as opposed to Stardock supporters, who will fall over themselves to help someone out. It's darned refreshing, I'll tell you that much! Now move in close - time for a group hug!!! :CONGRAT:

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I'm a huge fan of Stardock both as a dev and publisher, and in general, I love the concept of digital distribution. That being said, I still don't feel that anyone has really nailed the absolutely MOST important part of digital distribution and that is download speeds - plain and simple. They need to be fast REGARDLESS of heavy use or not. If they're not fast for everyone and at the time people want to use the service the most, i.e. with a new game release like this, then they have no advanta

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I also have Civilization 4. Aflonse is right that its game mechanics are much tighter No offense but I believe =Aflonse was using Civ 1 and 2 for reference material, not Civ 4. I thought Aflonse's post was well written, not trollish at all. You may not appreciate his opinion but I don't think it's fair to hint that he was trolling o

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I could care less about the price of any potential expansion because that all comes down to priorities really. If you want an expansion badly enough you'll save up the money, it's only $20 measly bucks after all! I think it's lame that people aren't voting for Multiplayer. All it can do is make the game even more challenging and fun. I think that the majority of people voting no probably fall into one of two or three categories: 1. Thos

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Andrew, I will get this info to you either later tonight or sometime tomorrow (sorry for the delay but I'll be on the road for a day and not near an internet connection in that period). Thank you for your response. StarDock is fast as heck at responding to these things, it's amazing. Love the game btw!

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I've never really understood how reviewers can give one game a review like "This is a decent game all around, and worth the time to play: 3/5" and then turn around and say "We weren't all that happy with this, there were a lot of problems. Rent it if you like this kind of crap, but don't buy it. 3/5" You see it on G4 a

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Hey Stardock, Any word on when your mod area, the "Library", will be working again (to accept mods uploaded)? When I try to upload my small ship design, using either IE or Firefox, it kicks back out some string handler exception error message. What's the word, SD? Would love to be able to upload my ship design to your Library. Thank you in advance for you help with this matter... PS. Just to head off a wave

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Stardock also hosts a file repository called the Library, you can find it in the Metaverse. Lots of downloads there. Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't work. I just tried a couple of different times to upload my new Firefly-class Starship design to it and no matter if I use IE or Firefox it gives me a

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Thanks for the discussion guys...keep it coming, let's hope that Stardock are reading this... I'd prefer not to have to use a mod to make the kind of ships that I'd like to...(though thanks to Kryo for making such a cool mod!). Half the fun for me is knowing that I can use it in a normal game and that other people can make a ship too just like I did.

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Hail Mighty Stardock employees and my fellow Galactic Citizens. I hope I don't step on any toes here but I'd like to make some suggestions for the ship designer portion of the game (which is awesome already but I'd like to see a few things added or tweaked) and just wanted to suggest them to the devs: 1. I'd like the ability to move the hardpoints on the hull and pieces if possible (if there's a way to do this and I'm stupi

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Hitodama, I really, REALLY enjoyed your ship designs, just to let you know! Your work is in my top 10 favorite original designs. Keep 'em coming. What was your inspiration for making these? Thank you for the kind words about my Firefly. Making the back end was really tough and I'm still not entirely pleased with it. Though I was able to implement some really specific and accurate pieces on the ship. The two red lights on antennae on

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Norin, I've submitted a thread showcasing this ship. Also, in the next 2 weeks, look for Alliance ships (Dortmunder) and several Reaver ships. I'm very careful to specifically follow my reference photos for each of these ships, down to tiny details, where possible. I could go so far as to use a paint program to tweak colors and such but I prefer to only show you what you can make using the ship designer otherwise it'd be misleading. Thanks for the feedback, I'm glowing from the pr

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Crap, that's right...the new patch will let me affix logos to the ships? (Did not know this...doh!) I'll have an Alliance Cruiser (probably the Dortmunder since it's cool -looking) up within a week, maybe sooner. Thank you very much for your kind words, it was actually really challenging, especially the back of the ship. I'm still not entirely pleased with it but it's as close as I think I can get for now. The Dortmunder will

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