Cram wrote on Sep 22, 2017, 22:05:
Sadly, despite their betas and stress tests, the server crashes have destroyed this launch. This is awful (not the content, the servers).

MisterBenn wrote on Sep 13, 2017, 00:10:
And now the bad: to me this game has one of the weakest combat systems in a space 4x I've played. They've tried to do an abridged system like in Endless Space 1 but it's worse here. There's a weird system of lanes, engagement distances and combat orders that doesn't really let you control things the way you want. After you pick orders you watch the combat and it's really hard to actually tell what's happening. The cinematic looks great but tends to focus on one ship at a time so you get no situational awareness. From the design screen it's clear that long/medium/short range engagement matters, but I can't tell in combat what range the ships are. The arcs of movement are predetermined and tend to be gentle arcs that start at a distance, then you and the enemy fly close and parallel for a while. No specific way to tell the distance in real terms from what I can see. There is a plan view but that replaces the ship graphics with a collection of numberless, languageless symbols that are so abstract and esoteric that a team of cryptologists couldn't hope to understand them. I find myself just wanting a decent overhead view with health bars and a more achievable way of creating simple tactics around ranges and weapon types like in all of these games. Oh, and there's a command point system that makes your starmada engage in groups of say 6 ships at a time, which I hate because it's so gamey and arbitrary. These rules apply whether you watch the combat or not so you don't have the option of just simulating combat and just playing the game as an empire builder.

Sacrifex wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 15:48:
Odd - I own Shadow Warrior (2013), but, it does not come up as an eligible title. It did find a few others, so I'm guessing it's just buggy.

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Aug 15, 2016, 11:04:
So I never watched Firefly but everyone talks about how its probably one of the best sci-fi shows ever but was cancelled after 1 season?

SO whats the story behind this? another "Star Trek (1967)"? Not that popular at showing but gained popularity and cult following after cancellation?

runnerct32 wrote on Aug 15, 2016, 10:22:
I tried to watch Firefly and i could not take it and stopped at episode 3. I thought it was very bad.

MacLeod wrote on Jul 22, 2016, 11:42:
Can someone actually explain the Titan to me? I don't get it.

According to videocardbenchmark, the TitanX has a lower G3D Mark score than the 980ti, but is over 3x the cost.

jdreyer wrote on Jun 21, 2016, 13:54:
Clash of Clans Dev Acquired by League of Legends Owner for $8.6 Billion…

Jesus H. Christ on a stick. I don't know which one is more mindboggling: that Clash of Clans is worth 8 billion, or that LoL just happened to have $8B laying around. And I thought the Minecraft deal was ridiculous...

Sempai wrote on May 10, 2016, 06:12:
How come you haven't been able to do heists? I'm out of the loop.

loomy wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:27:
card game with a yearly subscription if you want to compete

Nate wrote on Feb 26, 2016, 23:07:
The early access version is quite polished. I've played 200+ turns so far. Reminds me of MoO2 but with much better graphics.

Kosh401 wrote on Feb 10, 2016, 17:21:
How much more variety are you looking for though?? There's more variety in Skylines than the old Sim Cities, and you can specialize in things like Oil, Ores, Tourism etc., just like you can with that last Sim City. Even more so I would say, given the much larger city sizes in Skylines (which can also be even bigger with mods). You can also create smaller towns with their own local work force in Skylines with highways and mass transport connecting them (I always have poorly educated farming or mining towns on the map along with my main big metro city).

I mean for a $30 city builder I think it's excellent. Especially with all the mods available in the workshop.. lots of functionality mods (road protractors, better traffic AI, etc) but also RCI buildings. Love having Tim Hortons and other Canadian retailers all over my cities.

Anyway just wanted to defend a bit because this small dev team team has made a really outstanding $30 city builder. To each their own though

Quboid wrote on Feb 10, 2016, 14:52:
I felt that all my cities in SimCity 2013 were the same, mostly thanks to that stupid counter-productive city specialisation system which made you put some sort of mine in the prime building area on every map, with little more than a few cosmetic differences between each mine and therefore city.

Cities Skylines suffers from this but in my opinion not to anything like the same extent. I've put hundreds of hours into it and I'm not done yet. This is thanks to mods, having more building assets and different themes for districts helps a lot.

It helps that the cities' maps are 25 times the area, so one natural resource isn't going to fill half the flat land available.

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 10, 2016, 13:01:
After a mere 66 hours I have to admit find this game incredibly shallow and boring ;/ Every city is the same, has the same problems and the same solutions to those problems. Not to mention that I think their expansions just flat out do not add anything of worth to the actual core gameplay loop.

And yea.. death to Chirpy!