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"Steam is bad. What if the servers ever go down? I don't own the game I'm only renting it." but limiting the number of computers you can install it on (apparently servers used to generate activation codes don't count) and requiring manual emails to reauthorize if you go over the limit is different and okay apparently.
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Switching to a more interesting RtW note rather than just bemoaning the foolishness of grog devs... The ship designs the AI uses in RtW 1 are based on two things, the designs the player builds (it can and will copy your designs and make modifications) and some predefined template designs. These templates are saved in basically the same format as player designs get saved during a campaign. At one point I had considered collecting various player designs from goons and modifying them slightly for use as additional AI templates, though I never got around to it before I lost interest and decided it too much effort*. I presume RtW2 will use basically the same template system, so I'm considering resurrecting this idea for the sequel. * The majority of the effort lies in figuring out which rough "tech era" any given design belongs in, as the AI template designs are divided as such. My idea at the time had been to create a set of saves for each "tech era" and design ships/have others design ships based on that.
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# ? Apr 20, 2019 22:27 |
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Random thought RE: UBoat. Given the game has the ability to send officers and helper crew over to other ships (such as investigating a derelict Type-VII found floating off France) it'd be interesting if the game encouraged/forced the player to adhere to Prize Regulations in the opening months of the war. Probably wouldn't be fun though.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 00:09 |
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It would be fun if you got prize money and could spend it on fancy new clothes, a new sword. Maybe a parrot
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 00:17 |
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It is so gross that they are going to include DRM like they are. I despise how developers punish people with that crap. He already gives bad service by making you wait for a serial number. Why tack on even more hoops?
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 00:46 |
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Lord Windy posted:It is so gross that they are going to include DRM like they are. I despise how developers punish people with that crap. http://nws-online.proboards.com/thread/1936/running-rtw-on-personal-computers?page=1 quote:Hi all, so in short, they're pulling a battlefront and assuming that any wisdom they gained being a tiny grog dev in 1980 is still relevant today/was ever relevant in the first place.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:00 |
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I barely trust Valve to keep my games available in 5 years. I don't trust A Guy With A Mailing Address to do it
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:03 |
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Yooper posted:This thread maybe : http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4599077 ? Yeah that's it.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:07 |
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Yeah, i'm not buying this anymore because that really rubs me the wrong way.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:09 |
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Realistically it seems like a lot of the people that buy it are just gonna download the cracked version once it comes out to save themselves the trouble.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:14 |
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LostCosmonaut posted:Realistically it seems like a lot of the people that buy it are just gonna download the cracked version once it comes out to save themselves the trouble. Sadly if their homebrew DRM bullshit proves troublesome I will probably do this. I will be buying it though.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:16 |
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LostCosmonaut posted:Realistically it seems like a lot of the people that buy it are just gonna download the cracked version once it comes out to save themselves the trouble. Wargames. Wargames never change.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:44 |
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And then they can justify an ever harsher DRM next time around. Fun for everyone.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:50 |
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 02:12 |
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Wow, it's literally that they are brokebrains from the 1980s who don't know technology has advanced in the last 40 years. That's crazy.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 02:42 |
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I will be buying it though. Yeah obviously. I still want to support them even if their DRM policy is stupid as poo poo.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 02:45 |
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Man this is like when DRM started to be really annoying all over again, it was so nice to not have to think about that for the last few years
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:05 |
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Switching to a more interesting RtW note rather than just bemoaning the foolishness of grog devs... I think people have done this, yeah. Isn’t there a mod you can find over on their forums that adds new AI templates?
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:06 |
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Oh gently caress YOU. Silent Hunter III could have been so great :germany:
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:09 |
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Pirate Radar posted:I think people have done this, yeah. Isn’t there a mod you can find over on their forums that adds new AI templates? Oh did someone else do that eventually? I guess I'll take a look later. Maybe.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:23 |
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I can't wait to see how quickly and easily their derpy amateur homebrew DRM is cracked
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:27 |
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will any of the actual major groups even notice rtw2 who knows quote:The system we are working with is very simple and easy to use and will allow all to instantly play RTW2 after download for a certain time length while you wait for the final registration unlock code. I'm going to laugh if this lets you break the drm with a memory editor.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:42 |
Stairmaster posted:will any of the actual major groups even notice rtw2 Change your date to 2030 and start the game for the first time after install. Revert your time back to 2019 and continue playing for the next 11 years.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:58 |
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Stairmaster posted:will any of the actual major groups even notice rtw2 I'm expecting that it's going to be something one step up from trivial that you don't have to be a major cracking group to break
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Oh did someone else do that eventually? I guess I'll take a look later. Maybe. I’m not 100% sure, I just remember it being talked about.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 04:40 |
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True DRM - people who want to buy the game thinking about removing an annoying bit of programming. Grog programmers really know how to keep that 90's/00's feel alive, don't they!
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 04:56 |
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I'm wondering if its going to be a single line of code that needs to be changed or added. Just a "isAuthenticated=true"
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 05:07 |
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"Enter the first word in the second paragraph on page 23"
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 05:50 |
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Dadbod Apocalypse posted:"Enter the first word in the second paragraph on page 23" not gonna lie if the copy protection was this I'd buy it even harder
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 06:09 |
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Dadbod Apocalypse posted:"Enter the first word in the second paragraph on page 23" "No longer will you have to wait days to receive an email with a cdkey!!!" "Instead you will need to wait a week to receive a decoder wheel in the mail!"
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 06:10 |
the password is swordfish as in the plane you see
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 06:13 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:not gonna lie if the copy protection was this I'd buy it even harder
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 06:20 |
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Their forums even require a human to approve you! I wasn't even going to complain. It was just to ask if RTW2 would be free to download just off the site which would be a nice way of not keeping track of all your exes
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 06:28 |
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There's people in that thread claiming that Steam is subscription-based. Frankly I just don't know. About the download thing, I'm pretty sure I bought some Cryptic Comet games more than once, because they only give you a time-limited download and my HDD died. (2 days by default but you can pay $10 extra for a year! who'd not want that)
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 12:29 |
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There's no way I'm not going to buy it, if it really turns out to be that much of a pain then maybe I'll pirate it too, but I suspect it won't be that much of an issue. If they don't let you have 2 simultaneous installs though then I'm definitely pirating it for my laptop.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 12:34 |
Private Speech posted:There's people in that thread claiming that Steam is subscription-based. Frankly I just don't know. Steam is subscription based? Huh. That's new to me. My only hope through all of this is it opens a sub-genre of grog games and someone else comes along, improves the design, and makes a "Rule the skies" for fighter jets or something. I'm sure there's a grog somewhere who invented the hex-and-counter game layout that's complaining about that Grigsby guy and his newfangled computer programs. I'm sure I'll buy the game on day one and enjoy it. But man, I hope someone iterates the whole system and makes something with a little less VB6 charm.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 12:44 |
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Yooper posted:Steam is subscription based? Huh. That's new to me. every year around Christmas I re-up my Steam
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 13:56 |
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Yooper posted:Steam is subscription based? Huh. That's new to me. https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/27538-ultimate-admiral-dreadnoughts-enters-testing-phase/
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Yooper posted:Steam is subscription based? Huh. That's new to me. Rule the Skies would be a game about managing engine production and dealing with The Leader demanding a four-engine air superiority dive bomber
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