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Get a job, kid

Draginol — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:06:55 AM -0500

Here’s a growing problem: College graduates who have never had a job of any kind.

I get a lot of these resumes on my desk now. 4-5 years in college, living at home, never worked. No mall job. No McDonalds. No summer landscaping. Nothing.

I used to not pay that close attention to that but I do now. I have to because kids who have never had a job have no idea what’s expected at a job. Basic things like getting up every day and being at work at a consistent time. 5 days a week.

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Unit costs and balance

Pbhead — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:04:17 AM -0500

I find it really intresting that no one really talks about the costs of the individual units.

Like. how cheap the tec support ships are in metal and crystal compared to the other races.

or how the destra is 20 crystal and 25 credits more expensive than a kodiak.

or how the defence vessel is 5 crystal and 15 credits cheaper than a flack frig.

usually, its, this ability is overpowered, or, this ability needs help. or phase missles. we do a lot of talking about phase...

Not a Chance!

RadialFX — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:48:17 PM -0500

I just got an email that my Object Desktop subscription had expired. When I check my Stardock Store Account it shows my renewal for another year, expiring 12/27/2012. What's going on? Is this just transitional stuff to the new Stardock Central or a REAL error! There's not a chance that I would let my OD subscription OR my WinCustomize subscription expire! I'd pay to have BOTH of those before I'd pay my taxes!! LMAO Anyone got any clues?

RAD

Last person to post wins, unless they are a moderator or admin.

numerarius5988am — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:40:15 PM -0500

Basically, this game is played so that the last person who post wins. What do they win? The ThreadKiller's Achievement; The honor of being the last person to post by virtue of the content of their post. However, moderators, admins, and anyone else who has the ability to lock the thread are disqualified from winning the ThreadKiller's Achievement, if they win by locking. If the thread is won by method of locking, the "winner" gains the Achievement Of Reprehensible Epic Lameness.

What's next?

Derek Paxton — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:37:31 PM -0500

First off, thanks to everyone who has played the beta and provided feedback. You are probably wondering what we are going to do next.

From a high level there are several types of gamers, different experience levels, different amounts of hours that they will spend with FE. Someone playing their first game will appreciate and need different things than someone playing their 10th. We need to appeal to both groups. Because of that we will spend resources improvin...

A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

UBoB — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:27:17 PM -0500

I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."

.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.

Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire.

Neilo — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:18:27 PM -0500

Hi all and welcome to the Tyranny of Evil. The Tyranny of Evil is a dedicated Metaverse empire that has risen to prominence in just 1 year. 2nd place on the AltMeta and a soon to be 3rd place in the MV is no small feat from an empire with ~39 active players.Dedicated to the pursuit of evil, we encourage all players, new or veterans, to join us in our quest to be the strongest, most active and long lived...

Conquest of Elysium 3

SnuffSoul — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:16:07 PM -0500

I know there's some Dominions 3 fans here, so I figured I'd let everyone know that Illwinter has started taking pre-orders for Conquest of Elysium 3.

Buy it at: http://www.desura.com/games/conquest-of-elysium-3

Learn about it at: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=47712

It's a good time for us fantasy TBS fans.

AppleMacSoft Graphic Converter for Mac

DisoKda — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:03:28 PM -0500

Recently, I use this software AppleMacSoft Graphic Converter for Mac can be easily converter in batch mode, you can convert or resize to provide all the source images of choice in a batch, so just a few mouse clicks. This intuitive interface, requires no special knowledge to operate.

You're Banned!: The Forum Game

GeneralEtrius — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:57:02 AM -0500

Okay, here's what you do for this game: You have to "ban" the person who posted above you for an outrageous, silly, or funny reason. Got it?

[0.77] Movement oddity - armies leave road to go around caravan

Publius of NV — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:54:55 AM -0500

When a full army (one with the maximum number of units in it) tries to pass through a caravan on a road, the army will leave the road and go around the caravan, losing one or more movement points in the process. It's as if FE checks to see if the caravan can be combined with the army and decides not, when it should be letting the army stack and pass through. Armies with open slots don't have this problem.

[0.77] Can only build one theatre?

Publius of NV — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:52:01 AM -0500

Once I start building a theatre in one town, I don't see it appear on the build list in any other town. The Hiergamenon doesn't say that you're limited to a single theatre, is this working as intended?

I hate passwords

Draginol — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:48:12 AM -0500

I have so many passwords.

And sites keep making the requirements more and more complex. Mixed case, numbers, etc.

I already use LastPass and such but still, I wish we could get to a point where there was some better way to verify identification.

[Bug / Typo / Suggestion] Mantle of Fire

Manii Names — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:34:28 AM -0500

Mantle of Fire claims to do 4 dmg to anyone who attacks the enchanted hero. In reality it seems to be doing 2 dmg.

Suggestion #1: Make Mantle do 3 damage +1 per fire shard. Three points is hardly enough to justify casting it IMO, given the cost is 25/+1, but if it ramped up (slowly) with additional fire shards it might be more useful.

Suggestion #2: If #1 above is rejected, correct the spell description so that it accurately reflects what it really does.

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forum 'ban game' two

danielost — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:34:11 AM -0500

since the other thread is breaking a lot time to start a new thread to keep going.

i will start by banning everyone who bans here lol

Sins stopped launching on Steam

Doctor_Jackstraw — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:33:21 AM -0500

I bought Sins: Trinity on Steam yesterday and it was working fine for a few hours, I was able to play it no problem. Then when I quit the game, a message appeared saying "Saved Minidump" in a temp directory in C:\USers, and it said Sins of a Solar Empire had stopped working. Now any time I try and launch the game, I get a black screen, but if I try and exit it, I get the same minidump message, and the error that Sins has stopped working. I've tried deleting and re-installing already but that...

People will hit me, but.....

Jafo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:29:05 AM -0500

What ya listenin' to at the moment?

Me?...a great bit of serious guitar work called 'Yo Momma', from Frank Zappa [Sheik Yerbootie]....my kinda music, and something even Hendrix would have been proud of....

This is for you Max - Nooooooo

OMG_Jongalt26 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 8:25:48 AM -0500

Removing / Disabling Text For Icons ...?

lizz1 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 7:54:35 AM -0500

Hi gang ...

I was a little surprised that this wasn't a feature / option thats included in the program.

Was hoping to find how to disable / remove the text under the icons. Im thinking the only way might be to edit something somewhere, but i dont know what it would be or how to go about it.

would i have to implement the approach these guys suggested here ...

• http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/remove-shortcut-text-from-new-shortcuts-in-...

[bug]: when autoplay, my caster casts spells he doesnt know...

Barrynor — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 7:51:10 AM -0500

I pressed autoplay during a tactical because I was going to mop em up anyway, and my caster managed to cast Pandemonium... which he does not have, being an Earth-only caster.

Oddness.

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[Typo / Bug] Tactician II

Manii Names — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 7:36:32 AM -0500

The text for Tactician II is identical to Tactician I, they both say they only grant +1 to army initiative. If you choose Tac II then it replaces Tac I in your traits listing, so I think the text on Tac II should be amended to state 'This unit's army gets a cumulative +2 initiative' or some such. Functionally the trait works fine, if you examine the initiative of an army member it lists +2 in bonuses.

Also the icon for Tac II appears to be the icon for Tac III, but a s...

An idea to challenge the save/reload itch

Ruidin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 7:32:25 AM -0500

An indy rpg called Frayed Knights had a great system of rewarding players who did not abuse save / reload by having a meter which gradually filled up the longer you played without reloading the game. Like a mana bar, portions of that could be spent on buffs which improved your characters abilities for a time, or healed them up etc. This encouraged people to take on difficult challenges without that save/reload crutch which pretty much every rpg'er / strategy gamer over-relies on.

A way f...

Titans

LupusVir — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 9:49:28 PM -0500

Please post whatever you want Titans to be able to do, as well as other Titan ideas and/or topics.

A pat on the back

mfrast — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 9:32:01 PM -0500

Cant remember what GalCiv version I started with, but I bought this one on release expecting the best. Dont need to rehash that one now.

Im impressed on how far you folks have gone to make this playable and enjoyable.

And now its free, because I forget what else I would have bought with my money at the time.

Anyway, Im impressed and looking forward to the finished product even if its never perfect. Nothing is!

One side note (I dont read the forums all that much) is; ...