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John Charity Spring posted:The staff list had a very obvious find-and-replace done on it, so we end up with things like this:  Just so this can't be edited away later.
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John Charity Spring posted:The staff list had a very obvious find-and-replace done on it, so we end up with things like this: quote:My first grand-strategy game was Supremer Ruler 2020, but then I found Europa Universalis III and World Stage Platinum with it. I really loved the mod and when Carlos announced he wass looking for crew members, I sent in my application, and I was one of the three lucky members, so here am I!
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Apr 4, 2013 22:32
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Best thing is that most of the Devs now connected with 'World Stage' quit Mugna Mundi; I guess they only quit in disgust because they knew a much better game was in the works. A totally different game based on a totally different mod.
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Apr 4, 2013 22:34
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In case anyone was disbelieving the connection.quote:Domain: WORLD-STAGE.NET
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Apr 4, 2013 22:40
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I know the OP is out of date, but I at least had time to add the latest upcoming game.
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Apr 4, 2013 22:47
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Downloading this demo, will report back in 3 hours when it finishes downloading at 50 kb/s. Guess this game is really popular and their servers are getting swamped.
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Apr 4, 2013 22:51
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There's probably 30 people downloading, tops.
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Apr 4, 2013 22:52
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Frionnel posted:There's probably 30 people downloading, tops. This is a game that is going to revolutionize the way we play video games. Remember, Ubik said that Paradox cancelled Magna Mundi because they were afraid. 
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Apr 4, 2013 22:58
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This is so exciting! There's no way this won't end in something marvelous and entertaining. I'm sorry I ever doubted your insanity, ubik. 
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Apr 4, 2013 22:58
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Fintilgin posted:This is so exciting! There's no way this won't end in something marvelous and entertaining. I'm sorry I ever doubted your insanity, ubik. I'm hoping for an Ubik kickstarter with a massive amount of ranting and paranoia.
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Apr 4, 2013 23:03
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Lord Tywin posted:I'm hoping for an Ubik kickstarter with a massive amount of ranting and paranoia. Holy crap. Someone please tell him to do this on twitter or whatever, because I want to see it happen.
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Apr 4, 2013 23:13
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Did anyone save the original fear post? I've looked and I can't find it.
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Apr 4, 2013 23:25
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So uhh.... the "world stage" demo has 4 playable countries Venice, Bremen, Morroco and Scotland. Any ideas how long the demo lasts?
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Apr 5, 2013 00:17
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James The 1st posted:So apparently, MM still has a pulse. BillBear posted:So uhh.... the "world stage" demo has 4 playable countries
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Apr 5, 2013 00:26
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:How can this possibly be legal? Well i thought the same but i scanned it and it seems clean.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:31
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Download cut off midway through. I'm stuck with 300 Megabytes of worthless junk and I don't want to restart the download.  Maybe I'll just leave my computer on and downloading when I sleep tonight. It'll probably be a letdown after Steppe Wolfe.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:32
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My eyes are burning with the bright as hell map and complex as gently caress gameplay.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:35
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:How can this possibly be legal? It isn't?
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Apr 5, 2013 00:38
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I'm surprised that the fanboys were able to keep this on the down-low, then. I'm gonna tinker around with the demo once it downloads. This seems like the kind of thing where you can easily unlock the entire game.
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I get many error filled brigade events and keep getting spammed with useless poo poo, everything seems over complex and the sprites are basically chest sets. Then i crash. What is this pile of poo poo?
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Apr 5, 2013 00:55
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BillBear posted:So uhh.... the "world stage" demo has 4 playable countries Try out the Tutorial... I hear good things about it.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:59
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Gorgo Primus posted:Try out the Tutorial... I hear good things about it. Better than Hitler?
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Apr 5, 2013 01:01
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The survival of plucky little Ubik and his epoch-making
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I came to the "Paradox Games Scene" only about a year ago. What's all the fuss about this "Magna Mundi" and "Ubik"? Of course, I have an idea of what the game is, but I'm more interested in the contexts behind the controversy.
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Get that demo now and save it because it may not take long for Paradox to sue them and get an injunction forcing them to take the demo down. Ubik is definitely ballsy, I guess.
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DrSunshine posted:I came to the "Paradox Games Scene" only about a year ago. What's all the fuss about this "Magna Mundi" and "Ubik"? Of course, I have an idea of what the game is, but I'm more interested in the contexts behind the controversy. There's a lot of required reading to understand the true depths of hilarity here, but the short version is (and Paradox devs, feel free to correct anything I say that might be wrong): 1. Ubik (a Portuguese man named Carlos Gustavo) and his team release a popular mod to EU3:HTTT called "Magna Mundi" (hereafter Magna Mundi the Mod or MMtM). It's absolutely filled with features, some good, many bad, but the overwhelming scope of it impresses people for a time. 2. After DW comes out, Paradox, as it's done before with Darkest Hour and Arsenal of Democracy for HOI2 and For the Glory for EU2, agree to allow Ubik's new company Universo Virtual to license out the Clausewitz engine to create Magna Mundi: A Europa Universalis Game. (Hereafter Magna Mundi the Game or MMtG) 3. Ubik's team is composed of modders, some Portuguese and others from all over, who have little concept of how to make an actual video game as opposed to a mod of an existing game. Despite a gigantic budget, they miss multiple deadlines. 4. Two years later, MMtG is nowhere near release-ready status, yet Ubik keeps trying to submit the game, filled to the brim with game-breaking bugs, to Paradox as a ready-for-release Gold Master. Paradox shoots down his release candidates again and again, while Ubik and co. (the & co. including the amazing team featured here) attempt to continue to feature bloat and break the stuff that was already there. MMtG looks like a massive boondoogle and Paradox begins to sweat. 5. Ubik raises the tensions by launching his own PR campaign that the game is ready for release and is being held back by Paradox, including giving interviews and having one of the UV people do a hilarious "Let's Play" video of MMtG. He announces a hard release date that cannot possibly be met. 6. Paradox goes public with its concerns in a thread titled "Magna Mundi: the Sad State of Affairs." In the thread, UV employees bite the hand that feeds them, saying that MMtG is ready for shipping except that the multiplayer is broken. Paradox calls them out on it and tells the public that the game is barely even functional. 7. MMtG is cancelled. Ubik, not understanding the difference between licencing and selling, claims that he now owns the Clausewitz Engine and that Paradox has stolen his intellectual property. He doesn't end up filing a lawsuit. He then claims that Paradox had stolen his hard work and was going to release it as the newly-announced Europa Universalis 4. Ubik says that anyone that wants to play Magna Mundi can come to his basement in Portugal and play it themselves.
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After playing 1. The game crashed when I tried to turn the sound on. 2. The game crashed when I tried to change the resolution. 3. Once I finally got into the game nearly all the assets and sounds have been stolen from EU3 (which Ubik now owns so it's not really stealing,) except for a really annoying wind noise that completely overwhelms everything with the howling of wind if you zoom in too far. Also there's this constant gull squawking noise that I imagine would drive anyone insane in a matter of minutes which is why this game was never tested. There is a neat thing where as you zoom in and out the unit icons change based on your current zoom level, unfortunately none of the different levels seem to convey any information at all so they're useless.     I guess Ubik fired that lawyer that's been keeping him quiet for the last few weeks because holy poo poo.
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Patter Song posted:There's a lot of required reading to understand the true depths of hilarity here, but the short version is (and Paradox devs, feel free to correct anything I say that might be wrong): Don't forget that even before "World Stage", there was a leaked version of one of the final versions of the game that was utterly awful and unplayable, confirming Paradox's side of the story.
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Viscardus posted:Don't forget that even before "World Stage", there was a leaked version of one of the final versions of the game that was utterly awful and unplayable, confirming Paradox's side of the story. One of my favorite parables of this story is how ubik and co. hadn't added in war and diplomacy until two months before the game was to be released 
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Apr 5, 2013 02:41
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Look man, you haven't been to his basement... you don't know
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I guess "ubik's out of his mind" is a cliche by now, but drat. How can this go anywhere but down in flames?
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Gorgo Primus posted:Look man, you haven't been to his basement... you don't know I think this is Ubik's brief attempt to make the entire world into his basement.
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Apr 5, 2013 02:57
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The Soviet Union has lost over 20 million people in World War II/III in my current DH game. Jesus Christ 55 million casualties in total
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Farecoal posted:The Soviet Union has lost over 20 million people in World War II/III in my current DH game. Jesus Christ What happened, was Operation Unthinkable enacted just after the end of WWII?
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Spiderfist Island posted:What happened, was Operation Unthinkable enacted just after the end of WWII? Basically it was just immediate war after Germany was defeated, and right now (its 1950) the Soviets are losing horribly, what with Britain having reached Moscow from the Caucasus. Also all the Eastern European capitals are nuclear wastelands. Farecoal fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Apr 5, 2013 03:20
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Well, Ubik, that's certainly one way of preventing Ming from expanding:
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Apr 5, 2013 03:22
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