OT: Stardocks Fantasy TBS

[NTJedi]

Okay some bad news guys... any multiplayer gamers which have been interested in Elemental:WoM may want to voice their opinion to Stardock regarding a sudden change.

http://forums.elementalgame.com/352655

Here is the statement from the above link of Elemental journals which has struck fear in hearts of ALL multiplayer gamers of the Elemental community:

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BRAD:

That said, here are a few things that multiplayer in Elemental will have:

1. Multiplayer games will be hosted by us. Period. No peer to peer. Not even hosted on the user’s box. Our servers. No ports, no proxies, nothing. We’re hosting it.

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Basically it means all Elemental:WoM multiplayer gamers MUST rely on the stability of each players ISP involved and the stability of the servers at Stardock for playing multiplayer games. I'm shocked such a sudden harsh decision was made from a company of developers who reportedly love playing Civilization_IV together... a game which clearly offers many multiplayer options and it's sad Elemental won't receive the same love.

[Zeldor]

And try to put user mods on official servers...

[sector24]

That is disappointing. Both the multiplayer options, the bot thing, and the delay. I always thought that they should take the data from online games to write a genetic algorithm bot that learns based on the behavior of successful humans. Gal Civ's Metaverse was the perfect vehicle for that. But it looks like they're not going to go down that route this time either.

[thejeff]

The bot thing seemed like a silly idea to me. AIs that join your MP games without telling you they're AI? Why?

[Baalz]

I think this is in reaction to the network issues they've been having with the game they just released, Demigod. I've got a 50% off coupon for that BTW, which I think brings it down to $20 if anybody is interested. Expires today.

I'm headed out for the night, here's the coupon code in case anybody wants it:
DG-MDRC-NSHL-KOAH

[Foodstamp]

Once I found out that it was going to be the spiritual successor of Master of Magic that is nothing like Master of Magic, I kinda lost interest. I will still pick the game up because it will be a fantasy TBS but with each new announcement I am a little more disappointed. As far as modding goes, I doubt most of the modding community are going to be expert 3D modelers . So we are going to have Mundania TBS, good humans vs bad humans RAWR RAWR RAWR.

[Zeldor]

I'm rather afraid it will be boring game with modding abilites far from our expectations. Well, I will wait some time before making my decision.

[llamabeast]

Brad Wardell frustrates me. He is awesome in many ways, but his games just somehow lack a bit of soul.

[Arcturas]

Llamabeast: SO TRUE! That is exactly what I think about nearly all the Stardock games I've played. Gal Civ was a great game, and actually lots of fun, but I just ran out of steam on it, where I'm still playing Civ 4. Gal Civ just...had too little character. Sins was even worse. I suppose it's an excellent multiplayer game, but singleplayer it had no life. Cool and all, but I just couldn't play it for long. No soul is perhaps the best way I've heard to describe it.

Is demigod worth it, Baalz? I'd like to give it a try but haven't heard a lot about it.

[DonCorazon]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

his games just somehow lack a bit of soul.

Exactly!