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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

I fall into category 3. Competition = good, monopoly = bad (for the people buying that is). I don't mind Steam, I have all the half-life games, audiosurf, and left 4 dead on it, as well as some other cheap pick-ups, and it running in the background doesn't affect me much, and I've known how to set it to offline mode since I started using it (when all I had at my house was dial-up). Also, I'm not that big of a Civ fan, I got Civ 4 complete on Impulse and played it a bit, but

Reply to The Lord of the Rings The Rise of Mordor [Mod] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="22" id="2367933"] Doriath is already on the list Right now I'm leaning towards having Doriath being playable. If I remember correctly, they did send out an army once. I might be remembering this wrong (so tell me if I am) but I'm pretty sure they sent out a force to help the Noldor in their "final" assualt on Morgorth. When they all amassed their forces for a massive assualt on Morgorth, and even Gondolin sent out an army to help. But again, I might be remem

Reply to Elemental: Max number of players = infinite in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="SavageBananaMan34" reply="12" id="2367545"]Morslok, you'd probably have to split up your empire right before you win in order for that to work. [/quote] I was thinking more something like in Sins after you win you get a prompt with an option to keep playing even though all the enemies are defeated. Then you could make new factions from your cities and keep the game going even though you already won. That way you could keep playing the same game for as long as yo

Reply to Elemental: Max number of players = infinite in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

So does this mean we could, theoretically, keep playing after we've won the game, make new factions, and basically just keep the same game going for infinity?

Reply to The Lord of the Rings The Rise of Mordor [Mod] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Good points, like the Ent/Huorn faction idea, not sure how playable it would be though (maybe another candidate for NPC). All I'm saying is that if an army showed up uninvited or unannounced on my border, no matter whose it was, I would certainly think twice about helping them. Perhaps it could be a diplomacy option, you can request aid from Lothlorien when near their borders, rather than just having it given to you. BTW the dwarves were just an example, I could as easily

Reply to The Lord of the Rings The Rise of Mordor [Mod] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Good digging, sir! I would agree that the best 3rd age elvish faction to be playable would probably be the Mirkwood elves. Doriath as a non playable faction is definitely also a good idea. Passive bonuses to good factions when they go near NPC faction of Lothlorien also sounds intriguing, though I'm not sure how well that actually fits, since Lothlorien was pretty insular toward the end of the 3rd age, and I'm not so sure they would like it all that much if say the dwarven

Reply to The Lord of the Rings The Rise of Mordor [Mod] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="13" id="2366974"] Until we actually see the magic system in Elemental, how it will work in the mod remains up in the air. Right now, I'm thinking there will be magic, but it will be very limited, ie Sauron's black clouds, etc. Perhaps characters more known for thair magic (Gandalf) will be wandering heros that can be recruited to help out, but again, who knows? My current plan is to start with the 3rd Age races and slowly add on more as

Reply to The Lord of the Rings The Rise of Mordor [Mod] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="10" id="2366841"] Well, not explicitly stated in LoTR but Lothlorien was attacked three times during the last battles of the War of the Ring. They were all driven back by the elves and by Galadriel's and her ring's power - Lothlorien could only be overcome if Sauron himself had come. Once Sauron fell, Celeborn led his armies and captured Dol Guldur, and then Galadriel leveled it to the ground. I don't remember if Rivendell had any more of a mil

Reply to The Lord of the Rings The Rise of Mordor [Mod] in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Okay, let me see here... If you're going straight up 3rd age, or making it 3rd age centric, I would have to agree with Torment, magic is a scarce commodity in that time period. Magic is far more commonplace in earlier ages, but mostly because of the elves who brought their knowledge with them from Valinor and taught by the Valar, or the less savoury characters who learned the arcane arts from Morgoth. That's not to say there isn't any, Gandalf and the other wizards broug

Reply to Elemental and Middle-Earth in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Just remember that your channeler has the equivalent power of a Valar (translates literally to Power or Powerful), which are the "Gods" of Middle Earth. So, even if you're playing as orcs from the 3rd age and your channeler is Sauron (which would be interesting to have a channeler who doesn't move around (stuck at Barad Dur) and whose spells are more powerful the closer they are cast to Mordor) you are still only role-playing one of the Maiar, who basically are just servants to the Vala

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Not to nitpick, B in "kB/sec" and "mB/sec" should be lower case since these are bit measurements, not bytes. So the 300 Kbps would translate to 37 KBps and the 24(!) Mbps would translate to 3 MBps.

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2125033"] My personal preference is to have it based on speed. You want a 1MB connection, it's $X. You want 5MB? It's $4X, 10MB? and so on.[/quote] This would also be my preference, I would gladly step down to a 3mbps connection as long as the latency doesn't change (meaning as long as I could still play games with minimal lag).

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Currently I have Time Warner cable internet and am paying around $35 a month for (optimally) 8mpbs connection though it rarely goes over around 7mbps. I don't really know how much bandwidth I use but if I had to guess I would say it's well over a hundred gigs per month. I have 3 computers (2 of them power users) and 1 Xbox 360 streaming hd tv shows from netflix fairly regularly in my house, so we burn through bandwidth quite fast. Also, Annatar11 is correct, in my area this

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Solam" reply="17" id="2124420"]I pay 30$ a month for 20 gig. I can get unlimited but it's like 60$ a month. [/quote] That's way better than Time Warner customers get, the 40 gig per month deal is close to $60 and there is no uncapped option. So you've still got it better than Time Warner customers. By the way, if those values are Canadian dollars that means you get an even BETTER deal.

Reply to Demigod: Top 10 Beta Testers On-Line in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Xlyger74" reply="2" id="2124363"]Grats on top 10, But all i'm sayin is my friends and I are gonna roll you guys when the real version comes out and we cut away from DOTA.[/quote] Sounds like a turf war brewing.

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="arstal" reply="14" id="2124236"] they're losing my business. [/quote] That's the best way to get rid of this, vote with your wallet. If they do this in my area I'll go back to dial up if I have to (though that will suck big time). Edit: About their initial experiment with this, those stats probably aren't representative of actual usage, those people were probably told what was happening and curbed their downloading so as to avoid the charges.&

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Figures, I just switched over to Time Warner a month ago. And I don't have any other options in my area (aside from satelite, and I'd rather not have to resort to that, it's my understanding that satelite sucks for gaming.) So I guess they have an iron grip on me. Hope this falls through before they implement it in my area (if they ARE going to implement it in my area, it's kind of rural, so hopefully they'll overlook me until last and by then maybe we'll have other options)

Reply to Open / Demo or something? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="clownkill" reply="4" id="2122367"] Well I preordered where is my beta. I now feel that I got robed as I have paid for something that I don't know if i still want it any more. Very dissapointed that i didn't get into the beta. THQ would never of treated its customers this bad.[/quote] You didn't get robbed, you don't get anything early if you preorder anywhere else (Gamestop for instance). Buyer's remorse. I don't know from how THQ treats people, but you aren't

Reply to If You Could Only Play 3 Games This Year in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

I assume you mean FROM this year, in that case... 1.) Starcraft 2 (I hope it's this year.) 2.) Demigod 3.) Not sure, I have heard some good things about Dragon Age: Origins, but if it's published by EA then I'm not going to buy it (unless they use something more sensible like GOO for their DRM). Maybe I'll go with CoD:MW2.

Reply to Just interested in oppinions.... in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="ZerofaithX263" reply="9" id="2122281"]I'm guessing I can't start dling the beta until after I get charged?[/quote] Unfortunately the Beta is over now, so you can't play until release which is 2 weeks from now. They apply pre-orders in waves, for beta1, beta2, and so on. There are no more waves before launch now, so you won't get charged until April 14th, and you also won't get to play until then. Sorry.

Reply to Impulse DRM in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="pyalot" reply="18" id="2121027"] There aren't that many DRM vendors around, I think it's important that this is discussed, that users see that their favorite Game/Company falls into the DRM encumbered corner and that these vendors see that their behavior is controversial at best.[/quote] Firstly, I would like to thank you for answering my question somewhat satisfactorily, though I would've liked the broader view, where you would take this after you managed to dissuade

Reply to Impulse DRM in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="pyalot" reply="16" id="2121000"] You think the law will in time be changed automagically if you just call me a shithead long enough [FAIL] [/quote] I would like you to see my last post and answer the question I put to you please. Thanks.

Reply to Watch Out for the Conficker Worm, or Maybe Not in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

[quote who="Hack78" reply="3" id="2120952"] As for the launching of nuclear missiles etc... Don't they require a security turn key to enable the launch circuits? I wasn't aware a virus could do that....[/quote] If that isn't some Hollywood fabrication then no, a virus couldn't do that. Due to this topic, I have decided to boot into Fedora 10 and not use Windows for a few days, just incase the worm gets more infections after it is activated. Also I have filled my bat

Reply to Watch Out for the Conficker Worm, or Maybe Not in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

[quote who="Emperor_Seth" reply="22" id="2120788"] If it comes from Eastern Europe than that means the people responsible for Conficker are possibly Neo-Soviet Terrorist. So if Conficker C will make infected computers under the control of the people controlling it, than that means that if Conficker infects out missle launch control systems the people controlling it will have control of out Nuclear Weapons. Just saying this is how serious this is.[/quote] I seriously doubt that ou

Reply to Charged for preorder already. in Demigod Demigod Forums

Same thing happened to me when I pre-ordered Sins, except my bank went ahead and held TWICE what Stardock was charging. Don't know why, but they said it was standard procedure. They didn't charge twice when the transaction went through, but they held twice, as collateral or something I think. I went without my Wendy's cheeseburger that day.