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You can already do this. There should be a "sort by time" option or something on the save screen. I use it.
Offline mode is pretty sketchy for some users. Like for me
It works, but only if I've remembered to put it in offline mode before moving away from the connection. Otherwise it won't let me start steam at all. Apparently other folks have no trouble starting steam in offline mode on a computer that's lost its connection, even if it was running in online mode last time. But not me
And iirc there's some kind of expiration on the saved credentials, like 30 days, but I could be misremembering.
I disappear for the weekend, and I come back to this.
Damn you people and making a 5 page long thread on a topic I'm interested in, but don't have the time or patience to read it all!
I have been toying with the idea for spec forces to have special forces posts and spec forces sub-commander posts. In this system, spec forces posts do not provide AIP on death, but sub-commander posts do. For reference, there would be about the same number of spec posts in the galaxy(could someone provide numbers for this?), but there would be a set of sub-commander posts seeded additionally, where they cannot be seeded next to each other and prefer Core worlds.
Both Sub-commander posts and Spec force posts would spawn units when their system was triggered.
Units spawned as spec forces would rally to the nearest sub-commander post.
When an "important" world is under attack, the forces at the sub-commander post would trigger an alert for the human players and send all rallied forces to the world with a spawned guardian to "lead" the attack (also to keep the strike grouped and from stringing into the system).
Sub-commander would 'protect' systems only within a couple(2-3 jumps) of their location, but Always their AI Homeworld.
This would give the game a feeling of fighting the AI Overlords as well as their Lieutenants which could have a cool feel.
I would be happy to flesh this idea out with whoever, i think it could be a cool minor faction or some such. If you have any ideas or criticism, they would be greatly appreciated.
The more I've played recently, the more I've realized that even though each scenario and situation can differ wildly, they must all be handled in a similar way. The ships you unlock, the technology you choose, the tactics that you use - I've realized that in every game, these stay almost exactly the same with little variation.
Where before there was strategy and critical thinking before each battle, it has now devolved into an extremely repetitious process of taking every planet in the exact same way, with little resistance, and little chance of failure.
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This is a strategy game isn't it? When did it stop becoming a strategy game? At what point did mindlessly moving all of your units into a vastly superior enemy army become a "good idea"? It should not be. That is not good design, and the game suffers for it.
The entire idea of the game is to out-think and outplay your vastly superior AI opponent is it not? If you could win purely by blunt force and direct combat, then the humans never would have lost the war to begin with. So why does the game reward you for brute forcing your opponent then? I can't think of a good answer to this question.
Im pretty sure thats what he does - He takes a game. He plays it. Then he makes fun of it in a cartoon.
If he actually enjoyed the game, its usually pretty evident..
So, if I played the original Bioshock for its multiplayer (because my philosophy is that any good game has great multiplayer) and I say its a steaming pile of doo, then its ok solely based on its multiplayer?
I'm asking this honestly. Even the reviewer in question had the decency to review a primarily a single player game for its primary mode. I'm taking the opposite approach. If I take a primarily single player game for its limited multiplayer approach, and base my review soley on what I feel my philospophy is, does that make me entertaining? Or does that just make me biased and I have to dress my opinion with animation?
Try to listen to the game reviewer without animation sometime. He's nothing but an asshat.
It's Hearteater vs Draco18s, on pay-per-view! (oh, wait, the forums are free, hmm).
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Oh, I dunno about supposed to but it (and all the baby AIP increasers next to it) definitely Should be plasma-BS immune.So did you remove Home Command Stations immunity to Plasmasiege Starships splash damage or is it bugging?I did not intentionally change its status re:plasma-siege since some time before 6.0. I don't recall if it's supposed to be immune or not.
I never could get into a game reviewer that reviews games that put 80% of their time into multiplayer then not bother even trying the multiplayer.
It would like reviewing LoL or DotA2 with bots only.
Does XCOM have 80% of its time devoted to multiplayer?
Haha!
Erm... Um... yeah. Look, a kitten with string!
bombers in mono waves aren't that dangerous."Come back, you fools! Dogs aren't dangerous! Come back and fight!"-Woundwort, Watership Down, Last Words
I'm sure the AI wouldn't do that badly, I need to write a priority-queue, and I'm pretty darn sure at least something along those lines is used in this game.
Must. Resist. Urge. Homework first. Do you think my professor would mind if I just used the STL library for this?.. I'd get back to something enjoyable so much sooner. The superfortress is tempting - I just built one in my latest FS game.
I feel the need to be unpopular.
Keith, give us a while to use and abuse the nerf/boost results before offering up the next set. Personal opinion is that things have started riding the edge of difference, and we haven't had enough games per person ( at least 5 a piece, by preference) to really understand whatall the recent changes have... well.. changed.
*waves hands in the air in surrender* WAIT! I didn't say the choices were bad. I'm just sayin there hasn't been enough end to end play yet with everything twisted different (besides Beta play) to make sure we don't end up with a misjudgement of the end-to-end results. Reality tends to be a horrible intrusion on intention and theory.
