Boogeytroll

Boogeytroll

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Reply to GalCiv III visuals in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Funny thing, some years ago I didn't really care that much about graphics in a game as long as concept was good and the UI was efficient. Now that I'm older (a little too old) and have less wish to play (too little time) games, I have started to care more about graphics. UI is still my pet complaint on everything, but I do tend to skip games with average looking graphics and clumsy looking UI's. With some exceptions. In the end I don't really care if a game costs 10, 20 or 50

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Reply to Get a sneak peak at our upcoming Windows 8 product, Launch8 in Press Releases (WC) Stardock Forums

To be honest, it's hard to see a real benefit for this app. If you fancy an "old style" row of small icons and you for some weird reason need to have ton of tiles, you could just make your tiles 1x1 and need to scroll would go away. It's not like all the apps are or need to be at the start screen. More interesting app would be a hack, that would stuck-pin a tile group to the left of the screen when scrolling right. That way you would still get the benefit and looks of the tile

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Reply to The tangled web of Master of Magic in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="3382777"] I wonder what people would think of a Stardock developed Star Control game.[/quote] I would think: It was silly to buy the rights, if you didn't.

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Reply to Climate modeling continues to fail in Politics Elemental Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="11" id="3374164"] Quoting Boogeytroll, reply 9what is true is that Greenland will soon be worthy it's name: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html. Doubtful. As the temperatures have not gone over freezing. And unless you know of a way for 10th century vikings to farm permafrost, then Greenland got its name legitimately and was warmer during the MWP. [/quote] According to

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Reply to Climate modeling continues to fail in Politics LittleTinyFrogs Forums

http://ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/vuositilastot The data is in Finnish and from Finland. From this data it's obvious that there is at least local (country level) warming trend in Finland. Extreme weather is also more common now days than it was in my childhood, as a personal observation. It is often predicted that melting ice caps counter the global warming effect. That might or might not be true; what is true is that

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Reply to Dear Devs a word on automatic roads in LH Support Elemental Forums

Semi-automatic road building with some user control: 1) When a city or an outpost can connect to the road network it creates an alert - First road has to be built from the capital 2) Select the alert, press "connect to road network", and click a spot on existing road network where to connect. - You may connect only to closest road plus a few squares (should give some options) - Route from spot to spot will be plotted by algorithm - It cannot connect via hos

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Reply to What is the best turn-based strategy game you've ever played? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Sword of Aragorn. It had it's flaws. Plenty of them. But there hasn't been anything even close to it on the market before or after. Or if there has been I havent even noticed them because all the flaws the design itself has.. :). I absolutely loved it and I guess it was the reason I decided code 'my first game'.

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Reply to Legendary Heroes - Monday news in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I am not saying this is the case. It isn't, I guess or think. But out of curiosity.. if you weren't the best man for the job, Brad.. would your employees tell you? Could they, really? In all earnest? I'm asking for real interest reflecting from my own position at my work life. I do think you are kind of a hero of the industry, not trolling here..

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Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3327435"] Again, not true. They are "entitled" to get exactly what they paid for, not what they think they paid for. [/quote] In most European countries this is not true. People are "entitled" to get what was reasonable to expect to get according to the product type, packaging and advertising related to the product. If the product is something different you are eligible for a refund upon return of the purchase. This applys also to games

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Reply to UI Suggestions in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The current UI is quite an annoying mess at times. If there are development resources left for the game I'd allocate first priority to fixing the UI. I know, I know, everyone at the forums thinks it's balance or fixing gameplay paths or such thats most needed.. but no. It's just the power gamers that want that, the casual gamer needs first a good UI before they even can know of the game under it is any good. Good starting post overall. Especially for the emp

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Reply to Lumia 920–Best Smartphone I Have Owned in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Google is indeed ending support for ActiveSync, which causes some issues with Google's mail service (Push, Calendar). Fortunately with Nokia phones you can use syndicated email retrieval and then it won't effect you, or be even smarter and start using a better service for email than "The Ever Reading Eye"-Google.

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Reply to Unable to update and Fallen Enchantress not in list anymore in Stardock Central Support Stardock Forums

Thanks Kryo. I have to say.. it makes me wonder if "do not send new messages or you reset in the queue" is a correct approach from Stardocks part. It's now over 3 weeks since I reported my login problem and I'm tempted to start thinking that Stardock support is non-existant. Resetting me in the queue if I provide further information or ask if the support ticket is even up makes me wait 'an another' month - a time in which even more patient customer feels, that I should

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Reply to Unable to update and Fallen Enchantress not in list anymore in Stardock Central Support Stardock Forums

I have the same. But I have another problem as well. I can't login to download.stardock.com because it only accepts a valid email as a login, and my login isn't an email address. How's that possible, I dunno. I've been waiting a couple weeks (and some, I guess) for help from Stardock support, but I guess I'll have to keep waiting and not patch. Who needs patches after all..

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Reply to Is it a Bug where you can only build Piers/Logging Camps if the town starts by them? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

What it is is silly. I understand all the reasoning for avoiding manual placement, lack of AI's ability to use the benefits of manual placement, half-assed strategic decision of building on this plot or the next.. .. but in the end, all of that is just silly and takes away from the game. Cities are supposed to grow, having growth needs to be rewarding and having that reward come from a goal you can visually see gives immersion. Ability to build a pier after reaching

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Reply to FE Release this fall? Discussion in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Like a lot of people said here - fun factor is a major problem. Most of us who find ourselfs forcing us to play are real, true old school veterans of the 4X and RPG-genres. And there just is something, something that the game is lacking or has wrong. From my point of view the bugs aren't a big problem. It's a beta and I can live with bugs. Sure, it might crash or behave weirdly, but I kind of trust Stardock to get these fixed over time. Starting position problem

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Reply to Settlement Types Complaint in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="12" id="3229852"]Easy. I picture most of my sovereigns as Lawful Evil tyrants who will sacrifice their own mother to efficiency.[/quote] That was so awesome reply I can't stop smiling..

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Reply to [.952][Suggestion] Can we get a scroll bar on the left section? in FE Beta Elemental Forums

"Minimal UI" on the left bar is IMO quite bad anyways. The green borders help, but really.. it doesn't need to be that mininal. The city & army names could be shown (at least give an option), it should never go under the info/build element as it does now, when there's something to scroll down should be more obvious.. etc.

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Reply to Trained units are useless in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Here's a weird solution-alternative to this problem: Heroes (and sov) gain XP to the amount of XP trained units in the battle gained together. Thus the bigger the army hero/sov commands, the more xp he gains. Fighting solo or only with other heroes would give no XP at all, but might still give you a victory. For every friendly unit died in the battle there's less XP to gain so you have more incentive to keep the trained ones alive. And start the game with one trained u

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