EkimDeLhi wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 22:13:
And the fact that they could try to turn off cheetah speed to resolve the connection issues makes me wonder how much of the calculations are being done on the servers. If it's the case that the game actually does a lot of that on the EA server farm it's no wonder it crashed their shit. Also, if that's the case, it feels like some smoke and mirrors. So like, if everyone in the Sim City "world" starts cheetah (refuse to capitalize) mode'ing, that could just crash the entire game for everybody? At any time?

Panickd wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 22:05:
Why does a SimCity game need leaderboards in the first damn place?

Sho wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 11:54:
What's the EA fuckup got to do with Torment?

InBlack wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:35:
When is Project Eternity due? In fact, has any Kickstarted game been released yet? When is the first one set for release? Does anyone know?

nin wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:39:

despite having never touched the original game.

I never did, either.

No, but I went with the all digital $125 on this one to make up for it.

What happens if you don’t raise enough money?

We feel confident that, with your help, we will reach our goals! In the unfortunate case that we don’t raise the money via Kickstarter, we would likely have to go from “indie” development to working with a major publisher, who would probably not be as open to what I, Lord British, and YOU, our fans have envisioned for the game.

nin wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 11:37:
Did I mention I'm seriously pumped about the Shadowrun alpha footage?

What we saw was that players were having such a good time they didn't want to leave the game,

Saboth wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:54:
Ah well, the EA fanbois can have a blast checking every 5 minutes to see if they are allowed to play the game they just plunked down $50 for.

ASeven wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:31:

InBlack wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:29:
I wonder what the game is really like though, even those glowing 9.5 reviews are very suspect. My bet is that even if the game was performing 100% as advertised it would still be a buggy mess, with artificial limits on size and terrible AI....

Eurogamer Sweden gave it a 100%, a perfect score, calling it the best game ever made. And people still wonder why nobody thinks gaming journalism is honest anymore.

eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:09:
hehe They can always fix that later..

Longswd wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:16:

Creston wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 17:42:
And then there's the brilliant firetrucks. 3 houses are on fire on the same road. 3 fire trucks are dispatched. The first firetruck stops at the first house on fire. Firetrucks 2 and 3 are now stuck behind firetruck 1 and can't get to houses 2 and 3, which burn down.

That's pretty damn funny. Such an easy fix too, first truck out heads to the farthest fire, 2nd truck to the next furthest etc..

Optional Nickname! wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:26:
One possible action is to negotiate with Hasbro,

another is to use Planescape without Hasbro.

There are other alternatives which I'm sure you can intuit easily.

nin wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:28:
I see creston posting over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dev wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 18:11:
Update #3 is up
Adds new stretch goals, and adds additional details and items to previously achieved stretch goals, such as the new game area "Ruins of Ossiphagan"

Last, but most certainly not least: Upon reaching $2.5m, we will send out a special video from Colin. Those of you familiar with Colin’s very early work may recall that he wrote the Complete Book of Elves for 2nd Edition AD&D. You AD&D players may remember how dreadful this work was, making elves so incredibly powerful and unbalanced that all of our AD&D games were henceforth ruined until 3rd Edition D&D came to save us. (This is a slight overstatement. We could just pretend the book never existed, after all. That’s what I did…) Fortunately, Colin wrote that over 20 years ago and he’s learned much since then. =) Plus he’s the creative guy on Torment and Adam and I aren’t going to let him get too close to the gameplay systems. Just kidding. (Mostly. )

But we’ve always felt that he owes us for polluting our campaigns with his bizarre passion for elves. Thankfully, Colin seems to have gotten through his elf-fetish years. But his penance isn’t yet complete. He has apologized before, but somehow I find it lacking. I don't know about you, but I want to see him say it. So as part of our update celebrating this Stretch Goal, Colin will apologize publicly for this sin of his youth through a special video.

Ghola wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 16:44:
I have yet to get past the no servers available screen which is right after I connect to a server. With D3, I was able to play some of the time within the first week. At this rate, I will be lucky to play SimCity before the EA turns the servers off and the game goes dark.