Giant kings shall rise again ... to the forum!

I'm a Titan. 'nuf said.
(puts "The Crown and the Ring" to max)

another game i 'returned'

you know why?

I could not save again.... i had so many problems with their past 2 games and save game locations

enough that you would say :" Really? i know you guys are Dutch but... really? "

Of course the last time Windows responded about 3 hours layer with the question : do you want to allow Paradox" access to that specific directory "

and I was like : " really? Like no, you know.... be like the others.. Paradox.. and present something without questions! "

So you blame Windows' many shortcomings on developers. Or maybe more likely one of those atrocious "security" add-ons.

Just for the record, works perfectly fine via Wine.

Age of DLC spam strikes again :D

Wauw! Toll!!

sjongejonge jonge.....

I understand you. You hold Paradox dear. Its'a nice developer...

Your comment might have held merit if other games had popped the question. Let me tell you, they didn't. I'm not one to be holdup by special treatment cases! Software Only and per fact. i already own the game on my steam account.

If there was just the question to be popped, some blame could be placed on Paradox or Triumph (although considering the increasing amount of WTFery I have experienced as a developer on Windows systems over the years, even that has a question mark).
However, if the question pops up three hours later something is very wrong with your system. I don't really. They produce games in a niche I'm rather interested in but there is also plenty to be annoyed about with them. I do however get slightly vexed when nonsense gets thrown around, especially if there are so many more reasonable areas of criticism.
A couple of years ago the guys in the main office complained that opening the freshly generated installer took too long. I'm cutting out a lot of noise and screaming but the end result was: some security suite on their side would refuse to execute anything if it hadn't seen it before. The installer was freshly generated and freshly signed, so no one had run this before. Everyone who tried it out would start an upload of a few tens of megabytes, it would run in a sandbox on that security suite's servers and then the hash would be added to their database of "okay" software. But until that completed every single instance of the installer would hang.

At some point this stopped. Not because we changed anything (because there was really nothing we could do, the damn thing was already signed by a very reputable code signing service), that security suite just dropped a predictable stupid policy.

And let's not get into some interactions with end users. Sure, sometimes software is legitimately broken. But then you have people without any drivers, with several security suites actively working against each other or systems most likely infected by several kinds of malware. And they still blame you. Despite the fact that you know it works for hundreds or thousands of users and a handful are screaming at you.

And I repeat: if a permission request dialog takes multiple hours to pop up on your end, something is broken there.

well, let me stay short then.

It is not for you to decide for someone else what is nonsense and what not, many years of dealing with several developers has learned me that much. Maybe it could be considered a 'occupational hazard' forgetting what human interaction is all about when you spend so much time dealing with 'machines'

They've really improved the game since launch. I do still kind of miss the gonzo flavor of Planetfall, but the customization options are fantastic in AoW4.

Man I should figure out how to disable autosave though. Galaxy sync absolutely can not keep up. I have 1 active game, and it can't sync the save files because they are too large. Really slows down game startup unless I go delete-crazy.

And it is not for you to decide who may or may not have a different opinion than yours. If you speak in a public forum you will have to live with the fact that someone disagrees with you (publicly in that same public forum).

Coming to your house with an axe: bad.
Disagreeing with you in a public space, most especially when going well beyond screaming "did!" and "didn't!" at each other: the price of an opinion.

I was rather unhappy when it first came out. I still think Planetfall has the better setting and worldbuilding (despite the fact that I would normally rate fantasy over science fiction) but there really was a lot of progress from launch to here. There are still some areas where I would cleanly say they should have just gone with the advancements Planetfall had over AoW3 but the very pleasant movement in other areas allowed me to find some peace and enjoyment here.

Despite all the screeching of the anti-DLC brigade I have come to believe that if you want a decent 4X or grand strategy game, there is no other model. The games are just too big and complex in a niche too small. Even outside of Paradox, Old World follows a similar pattern on a smaller scale.

Even your use of language can't hide the fact that you made a simple mistake. Don't worry.
To name another thing, ever heard of the phrase " Your intellect is just as good as my ignorance "

Your sprouting so much ego around that it becomes to difficult to find the difference between you and your imagination.
Did you know that the groundrules of creating a suitable environment for open and fair discussions includes this little paragraph about respecting others. Give it a look one time, you might learn a thing or two

I'm not here to respect you or change your opinion. I rather doubt you actually have an opinion, it feels like you just enjoy lighting fires.
I do however worry about innocent bystanders who might be suckered into something stupid because it's allowed to stand without contention. I feel rather certain now that the average innocent bystanders sees exactly what you are and what that means for whatever statements you try to advance.

Hahahaha, i know i know, it probably would have looked better when written after a good rest eh'

i wish you a good night