I said possible, not probable, though is has become a somewhat common practice from other developers. Also, budget limits are hit, sometimes devs really want to make something special and need extra money to accomplish it. What I proposed would make a lot of sense in that situation.
I think it's possible they were never planning for an August release. Throwing that date out there as well as implementing the Army system most likely got many people to preorder over the past week or so, and once beta 2 starts all of those people will be charged and gain access. This could be a huge burst of funding allowing the devs to continue working on the game until February without budget issues. I don't mean to say they were trying to trick us or anything negative, as we will
Ya, not looking like I'll be playing it this morning. I leave in 3 hours though and will be gone 10, so hopefully it will be up when I get home. I'll still keep checking until I leave though. [e digicons]8|[/e] At the very least it would be nice to download it while I was away, so would be cool if they put it up around 7 EST. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="138" id="2647518"]Also, making cells continue to be able to split would probably just lead to uncontrolled events and quite possibly death. There's a reason why not all cells are stem cells. As G3mpi3 mentioned, you only have to look at cancer to find the reason out.[/quote] My understanding of it is that aging is the result of our cells no longer being able to split and thus slowly dying off throughout the body. When a cell splits, a little piece of the
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="26" id="2647398"]It's just a new skin over an old game.[/quote] Speaking of skins, it's actually funny because for a while in beta STO used the same exact UI as Champions. There were even UI elements and buttons you could click on that did nothing because they were for CO features, they didn't fix it until a few days before the game went live. Even at release a lot of the game options didn't work because they were for things not even in the game, and functio
I was actually hoping PE would fail because I was really looking forward to Gods and Heroes (I'm glad somebody revived it), and when they canned that to focus on STO I was very upset. At the time I thought it was good news Cryptic picked it up from them, but ya... I've not played JG but I've been following JGE for what seems like forever. EVE is more a MMOSim, I wouldn't really call it an RPG, where JGE sounds like it's going to be much closer to normal MMORPGs. I dunno
To those still confused by the stack comment, think of it like Age of Wonders instead of Civilization/FFH. I imagine the tactical battles will be very similar to the ones in the AoW games. So imagine that sort of battle going on behind the scenes when you clash with another army.
[quote who="thetraviler" reply="18" id="2646434"]Do you think there is any chance of them reworking it, or possibly seeing it off for another company to rework? Or do you think its just dead?[/quote] I missed this. STO already went through 2 other dev studios IIRC. I know one of them (I think the second one) was Perpetual Entertainment who got pretty far along in development before they were shut down. Cryptic then bought the rights for the game and essentially scrapped everythi
[quote who="PoPsuX" reply="37" id="2647171"] You should get an iPod and follow Stardock on twitter.. That way you wouldn't have to get out of bed to check for updates. You can just take a quick peek on your tweeter on the iPod and they would probably post it for sure that the beta is out Just my suggestion [/quote] I believe every modern phone has access to twitter, I know my chocolate touch does, but I despise the modern "social networking" sites and would never use them. [e d
[quote who="alway" reply="51" id="2646868"]Ah, I was talking about this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warwick#Project_Cyborg Although I guess it was in his arm, rather than his brain.[/quote] That's who I was talking about as well. The first chip was in his arm, but then he had neural interface built and implanted in his brain I believe that allowed him to control the arm over the internet among other things. I wasn't aware of the next step involving his wife, tha
[quote who="G3mpi3" reply="129" id="2647146"]Stopping aging would be the worst mistake humans could make........unless we leave this planet. We are already overpopulated, stopping aging or allowing endless life would be torture for anyone who lives on this crowded, barren, stressed out planet.[/quote] It's going to happen anyway. It's probably one of the easier things we could do with our DNA too. It's just a matter of adding extra material to our DNA so it can continue to split
Is it safe to assume that if it's not up in the next 4-5 hours then it's not going to be up until tomorrow morning at the earliest? Just wondering if a 3am EST release is even possible. [e digicons]8|[/e] I'll be up all night anyway, I have work early in the morning, just wondering if I should continue checking my email and the website every few minutes all night long. [e digicons]:-"[/e]
I'd guess saying "within 24 hours" means they aren't sure if they will get it up tonight or tomorrow morning.
Yay! I guess I'll probably be pulling an all nighter.
What time would they normally release a beta or news of it not coming? It's already getting late in the day EST.
[quote who="caross73" reply="44" id="2646711"]Natural gas is a byproduct of oil drilling, and also limited.[/quote] It is, but most of the natural gas from oil wells is burned off at the site since they aren't interested in moving it to where it needs to be sold. We get natural gas from natural gas wells, it's a different resource and while limited we still have a lot left. It's also mostly just methane, and there are extremely vast frozen methane deposits all over th
[quote who="Tridus" reply="17" id="2646272"]But Cryptic isn't exactly a top tier MMO developer. They churn out games quickly, milk it for a while, then move on.[/quote] Only the new Cryptic. CoH is actually a great game and Cryptic supported it for a long time and sunk a lot of resources into making it better in every way. When they sold the game to NCsoft most of the people with any sort of skill or moral standards stayed behind and formed Paragon Studios. This new Cry
[quote who="joasoze" reply="6" id="2646209"]I have heard bad things about this game on the forum of Kings Bounty. Still I would say that this reviewer is rather strange. He doesent like that the battles are similar to Kings Bounty and he loves the Disicples II battles. I have played both and he must be overwhelmed by nostalgia. The battles of Disicples II are very old fashioned and simple and if used in a game today would be scorned in my opinion. Kings Bounty has the best turn based battles
[quote who="skyzyk" reply="119" id="2646511"]I think it is wrong to clone people. They also have the genome for Adolf Hitler, where do we draw the line? [/quote] I just want to point out (again I believe) that a clone of a person is not going to be the same individual. It's going to be like an identical twin born much later. Have you ever met identical twins? They very often behave completely differently from one another. There's much more to human behavior and individuality than simp
[quote who="caross73" reply="40" id="2646439"]You know how fertilizer is made. Look up the Haber-Bosch process. Most of the calories consumed by humans today, everything in excess of what was produced before the so-called green revolution in agriculture, come directly from oil drilling or coal mining, only a fraction come from the sun.[/quote] Um, first, the Haber process usually uses natural gas, not oil, but coal can also be used, and what they are actually using thos
Like silly wars and saving fail companies. [e digicons]^_^[/e] Did you know there's a guy with a microchip in his head that allows him to control a robotic hand with his mind? Or that we have a method of sustained flight based on ionizing the air around a craft to create lift with no moving parts? How about a laser mounted to a plane that can blast apart a cruise missile in flight? None of that is fiction or theory, but real workable technology. But ya, our money is ti
It's been out in English for quite some time, or I think the RUS version came with English on it and you only needed a fan patch to switch languages. I've only heard terrible, terrible things about the game, otherwise I would have tried it months ago. I loved Disciples II very much, but the third game does away with a lot of what I loved. I'm not talking races, but core mechanics like not having persistent heroes (outside the campaign) and units.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="25" id="2646038"]Even on a moon of Jupiter, without some kind of advanced shielding we'd still fry like eggs. The only things keeping us safe right now is the "Perfect" distance that we are from the sun, plus our Atmosphere. Without BOTH of those working in conjunction we wouldn't exist. This is why Scientists are looking for worlds in other solar systems that have water and are a certain distance from their own sun. They can do this with radio telescopes by detect
[quote who="Raven X" reply="20" id="2645941"]I would like to think that too, but.... Even if we manage to get off the Earth, if we don't leave our Solar System before the Sun either goes "Super-Nova" or becomes a "Dwarf", we're all still screwed.[/quote] That will easily happen. Our sun isn't going to become a red giant and consume the Earth for another 5 billion years. We already have a general idea on how to create a wormhole to allow faster than light travel, we simply don't have t
[quote who="Finneglot" reply="99" id="2645883"]Why do you think life is a gift? And a gift by whom? Please, to all those pandering the word 'life' left and right, define it clearly. You can't have an argument if people keep talking in different languages.[/quote] A gift from your parents, or whoever put your cells together in a petri dish. Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist, I meant nothing religious in my post. Why do I think it's a gift? Are you serious? You would rather
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