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Reply to Pick 2: Polish, low price, sophisticated gameplay in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

The next logical step is that Steam produces games (developed by developer studios they hire) and then offer those games to play exclusively (for no additional cost) when you subscribe to them. So for a fee of, say, 10 bucks per month, you could play anything you want (that they'd offer) - but only in that month, of course. It's what Ubisoft (with Uplay) could do as well, it's what Microsoft could do, but I guess it's not what Stardock could do. It's something that is alreedy done by Fa

Reply to Pick 2: Polish, low price, sophisticated gameplay in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Subscription is a logical development. Although, not to a single game, but to a service like Steam. MOO CTS - is really anyone surprised about that game's comparatively low sales? Didn't they completely miss the point, what MOO and MOO2 have been all about? I have no problem discussing that in detail, but at this point I'm inclined to just say that MOO CTS is a game that nobody really needs, because it doesn't deliver "the goods". I mean, this hasn't been the first 4x space game, and

Reply to Pick 2: Polish, low price, sophisticated gameplay in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

The original article also lists (Oliver's) reasons WHY the games are unpolished, and GAME DESIGN is the biggest isue, with actually 4 separate "problems", starting with games being too blown up for no good reason other than "why not?"

Reply to Pick 2: Polish, low price, sophisticated gameplay in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

It's been ported for iPad in 2012.

Reply to Pick 2: Polish, low price, sophisticated gameplay in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Yep. I mean, if you look at Spaceward Ho!, there are only 2 resources, Metal and Money. You need Metal to build ships, and the Total Metal in the Universe is limited (if a planet is empty of it - that's it, except when there is a battle at a planet, then part of the metal of the destroyed ships falls down and can be mined again (mining is one thing you need money for). Money on the other hand, is EARNED by population and SPENT on a) Research (all 6 research fields are for ships ONLY a

Reply to Pick 2: Polish, low price, sophisticated gameplay in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I agree with the gist of Oliver's article, and I think, frogboy, if you as a game designer think that 1) Polish; 2) low price and 3) Sophisticated gameplay were the 3 "components", then, with all due respect, I think that is somewhat beside the main points. To illustrate my point - and catering to the fact that Oliver is speaking a lot about 4X SPACE games (since there have been so many in the last 5 years) - I point to an old game by New World Computing called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.o

Are there ways to increase mana regeneration? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Mana regeneration seems to be my main problem with the game at this point. You can actually do a lot in the game with Magic - as it should be -, but amount of Mana all in all and mana regeneration seems to be insufficient to really use strategic spells to good and continous use. Teleporting around in your empire is fine, but once mana is expended, the specific hero is out of magicc for some turns. With the manual being not very helpful - is there a way to regenerate more mana? Ho

Reply to Elemental: Launch-Week Status Report in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I agree with Mistwraithe. Especially Mana Regaining should be linked with a basic skill, maybe (Int + Ess)/20 or something. Or it might depend on the number of shards you control. Or a combination of some things, there could even be buildings supporting that. In any event, having effectively ONE point of Mana per turn isn't exactly doing the name of the game justice - after all it's called War of Magic .

Reply to Where is the real manual? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I have to agree with OP - the manual sucks. Going to options and enable tooltips helps a lot, but still I'd prefer a bit more solid facts about what all those fancy hero statistics do, how units heal, if you can heal them faster than the 1HP/day rate and... and... and. What about a list of terrain costs - and why is a diagonal move as cheap as a horizontal or vertical one?