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I just had the most ridiculous dominion match, we were losing badly to an akali who racked kill after kill (she even quadra killed us right at the beggining and then aced us by killing the last one), and we had like 50 points left while they had over 300. But then we managed to defend 3 capture points for a long period of time, and it was like 15 / 60. And then they got one of our cap points and we managed to get it back at the last second, and we defended successfully after that, with litterally one single point left to our nexus.

I played quite a lot of MTG at some point, using a freeware called "Gccg". I got bored eventually, but i had a nice white deck that i had refined over many games. It allowed me to gain massive amounts of HP and create incredibly resilient creatures. The best is that it worked even against "swarmers", my only weakness was a combo deck. It was when "rize of the eldrazi" came out, so it was also geared to counter stuff like "Emrakul, the Aeons torn"... quite a feat i have to say.

edit : i actually recreated the deck a couple months ago so i could give you the composition, if anyone is interested.

Singed has a counter?

The only one I can remotely think of is Ashe. (And the usual, kill him early on and deny him farm shtick)

I think Vayne and Corki can counter Singed too, as long as they know how to kite. Possibly Nidalee too.

One of the common mistakes against Singed is to waste some of your skills on him and be on cooldowns when his team follows. Moving out of his way and autoattacking him until his teammates show up is probably the way to go.

From what i read, it's not about scanning your hard drive and taking whatever they feel like, it says "technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware".

Sure you could twist the meaning of this but i don't think it's really that bad. Not that i approve forcing this upon their customers, but as far as i know, EULAs arent law, and if they try to justify crazy things with it, they will face legal action.

x2yzh9> Actually that's exactly the plan ^^
To be more precise, i have sort of "technological ages", although it's more of the way i organized the core of the tech tree and decided to pace the game, not stuff à la age of empires. There are 5 technological levels, and although there will be more and more stuff in each of them, you will still need to reach the 3rd "level" to be able to leave your home system. The first alpha release will feature only the first level of technology, which is about making steel, crude plastics, basic electronics and glass,build basic infrastructure, and also producing food, water and oxygen for your colonists. I won't spoil what you will find in the next tech levels, but suffice to say that you won't get the hyper-propulsion right away :p

_DivideByZero_> About game maker, i think it'll be ok, because most of the things will be static and i'm running it at 12 steps per second, also i'm trying to make it so that things like production and consumption are centralized around bases (your first base is the landed colony ship), and the production update is every 4 steps (3 times per second). Things could get out of hand if players built really massive and unoptimized empires, at this point i might migrate to something else if i feel there's really a need to.

If you want to make art assets, you're welcome to. Right now i'm using Paint.NET, which is surprisingly good. The first sprites i draw were really basic (colored squares with a text), but when i need to make new ones i'm now being a bit more creative. For instance, here is the last sprite i draw (the main base) :

The nice thing about game maker is that i can easily replace the current sprites with something more inspired, so if you or anyone else is interested in drawing them, send me a PM and i'll give you a list of stuff you can draw.

So what's humanities way of traveling to another galaxy? Warp? Taking advantage of wormholes? Trillions of years of conventional travel?

In fact, it depends. Your starting colony ship was slower than light, and as such it will have taken a long time (about 1 million years) to reach the sagittarius galaxy (if you do the math, that's travelling at 7% of light speed). This is why it's using cryogenic pods.

However, at some point you'll be able to discover faster ways of travelling through space, including several generations of hyperspace drives, and eventually building the equivalent of big stargates in space to link your main colonies. However, I don't plan on including natural wormholes, unlike many 4x games where each solar system has convenient gates linking it to other systems (i always found that very unrealistic).

Related to that, since many things are based on realistic numbers, and we don't want to wait realistic periods of time while things move around, everything in the game is 720 times faster than in reality. It means that 1 real second = 12 game minutes.
It all falls nicely into place so that 5 seconds = 1hour, 2minutes = 1 day, 1hour = 1 month, and 12 hours = 1 year (360days).

Millions shipped to a single planet? Make it more like hundreds or thousands of cryopods.

It's actually something i thought about, but the scenario explains it : thousands of those huge colony ships were launched because earth was starting to get overpopulated (like tens of billions too much people), but that's only part of the plan, there's also some science fiction related to the fact that you end up in another galaxy, and on a planet not suitable for life. The idea is that you must find a way to get off the starting planet with most of your colonists still frozen, and find a earth-like planet where to establish yourself. Numbers in the millions are necessary to provide a steady output of population (i've done the math, and with realistic reproduction rates, you need millions of colonists if you don't want to wait ages before colonizing other planets). Also, i tend to think that only hundreds of colonists means a severe rate of inbreeding, and we don't want that.