www.factorio.com - there's a demo with enough in it to show you what the game is about. Slick little alpha game that's kind of a mix of gathering, building, sim, strategy, rts. It's damn solid for an early release. They're going for steam greenlight and it's not a widely known title, but it's a crazy fun and different game. You basically build a factory...which sounds...simp
This is an old thread and I was hoping to find a fix...dread lord event just crashed my game and if memory serves, it always has for ages now. Not the end of the world since I have autosave set to every turn for crash recovery purposes, but it does mean this event can never happen.
- less cheesy industry/sci model (never liked how you could shift them and/or just build all factories and use them for research with no real penalty). I think the system itself is pretty slick but it could use some improvements to make industry and sci a little less interchangeable. - I've made this comment forever and it applies to other stardock games. Make the ESC key work correctly! ESC should close the most recently opened window and if NO wi
Start Drive looks ok but it also looks real time, which blows since turn based is more enjoyable. It also appears to be steam only and I'm really, really sick of that crap. I've fallen out of love with steam and just won't buy games if they're steam only. Screw valve - who have evolved into a company that exists to suck money out of both developers and gamers.
[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="12" id="3289385"] GC3 is a dream never to be realized It makes me crai :'c[/quote] I hope you're mistaken. I find FE to not be very compelling, fun, whatever and I'm not sure why they keep pushing on it so hard. GC2 is one of the best space 4X. I wish they'd stick with what they do well and do a GC3 instead of more F
I love Civ V. I think it's the best of the series.
SOLVED...I think. I was reading around and found this thread: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7hardware/thread/075a8659-7b3d-4a38-b08d-8451184cf2cb One reply in there said to set the connected device to be a different mouse with the same button config - and now I can scroll in GalCiv2. I haven't tried enough of my other apps to see if
Switched from using windows 7 default mouse driver to the latest intellimouse 64 bit driver and no change. I can wheel zoom the minimap only - can't wheel zoom main game window or research screen. Really sucks. Two MS drivers on an MS mouse and an MS OS. Seriously doubting it's the mouse or driver. I play a lot of games and use a lot of software and have yet to see the mousewheel fail on anything else. :/ Kinda odd that the wheel works for min
It's an MS mouse with driver installed - works fine in every other game (fairly standard wireless mouse with one functoinal thumb button). Works fine in GC2 except on main window (ie, zoom works on mini map and on tech screen). I tend to zoom in/out a lot for overview vs local view - so used to that. Keys will work but are so much more clunky vs mouse wheel. :( I'll dink with the control panel for it or something. Thanks for the response.
Have a similar issue with TA, Win7 64. I can mouse wheel zoom minimap just fine but the main game window won't zoom at all. Pretty much makes the game unplayable for me.
Every single time I get the dread lords event (Twilight) the game crashes. Debug Message: Eval Debug Message: Dark Yor (19): Researching: Laser II Debug Message: Destroying ship Constructor 2013. Orbiting: 0 Debug Message: Destroying ship Constructor 2039. Orbiting: 0 Debug Message: StarbaseDetailsWnd: Cannot find OBJID Starbase_Details_Disband_Button Debug Message: Error. String Not Found. Table: StarbaseDeta
I don't mind, and would actually prefer, a one-time online validation rather than media-oriented DRM. There can't be that many people with PCs capable of playing today's game that lack internet. But having to connect regularly for a SP game is just idiotic.
Maybe steam has changed, I haven't run a game tied to it for some time, but in the past the only way you could fire up a steam game, or a Valve game, was for steam to be running, and to me, that simply is not acceptable. I'm all for digital/online distribution until it gets to be intrusive or "controlling." I also happen to pay for my software, and I understand that companies want to protect their intellectual property, but I get tired of getting treated like a criminal when I
WoW is the best, by such a wide margin that it's ridiculous. If you don't like WoW, maybe the genre isn't for you. Maybe you just didn't try it long enough. To really get a feel for any MMORPG, you need to play for about a month solid, getting a few characters developed enough to get a solid feel for the gameplay. MMORPGs are simply too complex compared to other games and require a experimentation to truly be able to speak about
This is a bummer. SDC always worked great for my simple needs (updating software I'd PURCHASED). There is nothing Impulse offers beyond that that I want or need, and in fact, it looks like bloatware and glitzware that I really dislike. I really don't like being forced to use software I don't want or need, like Impulse, just to update ONE game I already own. I'm sure I'll eventually have to bite bullet and install Impulse to get Elemental some day (could b
1. Playing a game like Civ or Galciv without all expansions is like playing a partially finished game. I can't believe people do it. 2. I wish this was available via SDC, where I got this (and other games) in the first place. I have zero desire to install impulse and it's annoying to be forced to do it to update software I've purchased. I guess this will finally force me to install it.
Q1 2010 release...is forever away.
It's hard to take game site reviews very seriously anymore (well, for a few years, really). Half the time you go to the site and the entire site is wrapped up in as an advertisement for one of the latest ultra hyped games (and that they've been "previewing" and hyping for months) which just so happens to have a glowing review. Game sites have become little more than extended advertising for *some* games (the ultra hyped, big budget, payers for big advertising campaigns mostly).</p
You hardly need tons of speed to win at GC2. I've played the arceans a few times and enjoyed it - the first strike ability is nice. I play without tech trading on because I think it's silly to be able to easily trade for tech to overcome the "racial handicaps" created by the racial tech trees. (But I digress, and that's just me - tech trading is cheesy in other ways too, IMO) I take creative (almost always since it's a powerful 1 pt) and research their +spe
Asheron's Call 2 MOO3 Take your pick.
"Is colonization another expansion pack or just a bundle?" It's called Civ IV: Colonization (which is an odd name) but it's a completely seperate game (do not have to own any of Civ IV to install/play). It happens to have expansion-like pricing at around $30 (likely due to using the Civ IV engine). It's a remake of a classic. It's somewhat similar to Civ but very different at the same time. There's a lot of info about it at
I've been in lots of arguments over piracy online, and at work. I'm a programmer and it's extra sad when people I work with think it's OK to pirate and have collections of pirated games and videos. We make our living off of creating software and they think it's ok to steal it. Does. Not. Compute. The justifications people give for doing the small time piracy (torrent kinds of stuff, not mass producing for profit) are usually pretty ridiculous and just boi
On medium or large maps you could easily stagnate if you don't initiate some action and just chug along researching/building up/turtling. If you've defended yourself (kept military power up) you could easily be avoiding wars. In some matches you might get mega events that shake things up but it dosn't always happen or you don't the devastaging events. So - this means you're empire is stable and it's time to work on winning. Gear up for war, start pushing influence
Is edit broken? Anyways - I'm especially happy to see a "no tech brokering option". TA AI does very well with tech trading entirely off but it'll be nice to have a middle ground.
Nice tip of the iceberg with just the new setup options. Looking forward to seeing how espionage is tweaked and whatever other goodies are planned.
