melkathi

It is a very short game made longer by motivating the players to replay it several times with different combinations of characters and two endings for each character. But half the experience will always be exactly the same, with unskippable monologues. While the cave's narration may be charming or witty the first time round, after you have heard it a couple of times it gets annoying really fast. Not that there is all that much story when it comes down to it. Add to that that the platformer gameplay is rather bad. Enough people enjoy it and it got a lot of praise from the reviewers. But especially comparing it to previous work, I found it very disappointing. It looks very pretty though.

Besides, what rules? They are more like guidelines

Really annoyed. The friend-referal thing is bugged. So people using my recruitment link didn't count for rewards. I have to get customer support to manually hook friends up to my account. As if I was going to badger everyone now...

You didn't miss out on anything

Check my post above and try the free trial first. Why spend money when you can test for free Apparently its still on sale on Steam for 22 horus.

Gfted1, shooting down the odd scout ship is not considered a hostile act as such, if I remember correctly. Or at least it is not open warfare. The game differentiates between war and cold war. As long as skirmishes happen outside either species' area of influence, while not nice, they do not count as proper acts of aggression. I sometimes shoot down scoutships, just to make a point ("past this warplane is my area - keep out"). You could probably even try to take over newly founded colonies without declaring open war. What it does mean though is that your relationship wont improve. Then again, close proximity will have those deteriorating anyway unless you are actively working on improving them. But Automatons are one of the nicer neighbours for the early game. Carvers or one of the two imperial human factions or even Hissho would be a very different story. Not sure what the Automatons are hiding to mind you scoutship though.

Yup. Voted for Portal 2 just because while I am not interested, I am interested even less in the other two.

Defiance discussion here should find some info there. You can use my friend referal link to make an Arkhunter account and play the 72 hour free trial to make up your own mind. Though the low price will be gone by then most likely :/

It did that for me. Then it decided that my credit card had declined payment. I got worried at that point and called my bank. They say everything is fine and no attempt at billing the card had been made. Left it for an hour and tried again, then Steam let the purchase go through.

They stated that every time a badge is crafted, a number of booster packs drop, randomly distributed around the other players eligible for a booster pack drop. I'd really like to know how they calculate how many. Yeah. I think they are being deliberately vague as they will be adjusting he number based on how many cards are out there.

They stated that every time a badge is crafted, a number of booster packs drop, randomly distributed around the other players eligible for a booster pack drop.

They got forced server segregation anyway. So not all of us could play together even if everyone did get the game

I don't look at it as an MMO really, more on the borderlands line. The multiplayer part is very casual. But yeah, not every game is for every person. At the current price you can pretty painlessly try it out BUT: they also have a FREE TRIAL going at the moment, so ... But if you don't want to touch online games period, then that is understandable and a good reason to rule this out from the start.

After 2 hours of trying to purchase scribblenaughts and the endless space expansion I now understand what you meant with "finally got through" I am melkathi on steam as well by the way

Check my random ramblings about card sales here So far I sold 9 cards and bought 11 for my collections, never using any cash other than what I got from my card sales. I started the trading card thing with 0 in my steam wallet; now I still have 96cents left over.

You may of course end up like some of us: trying to remember why exactly it is 7AM. What it is you have been doing all these past few hours. But realising that whatever it was, it must have been captivating because you did say at 2AM that you'd play one more turn Or at least that's what happened on my Automaton playthrough. I was just going to wrap up this war my alliance with the Amoeba had gotten me into.

You may want to also have a look at this thread

I play regulary on the EU server. We have no group as I am teh only one who has so far outed himself I made a long post a while back with my impressions. Trying to dig that up. And I posted my referal link in the Steam thread *hinthint* edit: found my old post: here Of course some things have been added since then. Currently the Voulge are making their first appearance in the Bay Area, adding some nasty encounters once past Mt. Tam. And it's rewind month, adding most of the story content that had ran for limited time during the last few months.

It's worth the full price without a discount in my opinion. The major patch was just out a couple of days ago as well, so most little annoyances people had before, you should not encounter. Great game. One of the better recent 4X (or is it 4E? ) games. It is very user friendly, with tooltips for everything. Diplomacy kinda seems to work (which is sadly not a given in games). the visuals are beautifull. You have a lot of research options. It does a lot of things well. Combat was something people did not enjoy originally, but apparently the Disharmony expansion takes care of that. I haven't tried the expansion yet. The problem may mostly be that by doing everything quite unobtrusivly well, people easily overlook that it is a very well made game. In other games you can say gameplay sucks but the story is awesome. Or graphics are crap but the gameplay is the best ever. In Endless Space you don't really get that kind of high and low: it is a very well crafted game which had a possibly disappointing rock/paper/scissor combat. And that leaves people remembering the one thing they disliked and forget that they have nothing to say about the rest because everything else worked unobtrusively in the background, letting players enjoy the game.

Hmm and the badge is just there to promote Trading Cards. Eh, Defiance is cheap. So if anyone buys that, remember to use http://www.defiance.com/en/welcome-to-defiance/?rc=LWNM39THED7R6G9FKWEF that link to count as a referal from me

The estate didn't make buckloads of money out of that deal. What they did get though was the ability to have full control over everything; and through that ensure that not even a bit of money could be made. Iron Crown Enterprices had trouble meeting deadlines and bringing out any product as they went through such a long and ardeous control process by the estate. Even with the "Kuduk Lore" convention that ensured that anything not directly quoted out of the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings would be clearly labeled as such for the fans. The estate didn't care. They were not about money - they were there to safeguard a legacy. And if that meant throttling enthusiastic people and a good product, unfortunate but necessary to preserve the integrity of J.R.R's vision. But when Hollywood came aknocking, and the trickle of money they had been nonchalantly waving away, promised to turn into a flood, then all of a sudden Tolkien Jr. changed his spiel to say that fans should accept a more liberal adaptation. There is a word that described a person like that: whore. Or politician. Ok, two words. And I'll stop before I turn this into the spanish inquisition. edit: and it doesn't help that I had the wierd luck to actually, completly randomly and unexpectedly end up playing the CCG with someone who worked for ICE

I don't think I'd trust a gamer with a bucket of paint. Probably would end up with borderlands vault symbols, mass effect N7 markings and stuff like that covering the town.

MERP was great. Pitty that Christopher Tolkien and that bunch pretty much forced ICE to close shop. Not a good thing for pen&paper RPGs or fans of middle earth that a bunch of talented, enthusiastic fans were forced out to make room for the merchandising lot. Basically the reason I just couldn't get excited about any of the recent movies.

Hmm got Space Rangers 2 installed at the moment. I just suck at the game. And it needs a certain level of commitment