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So just what is about Thursday that good for Release dates.Amongst other reasons, it means the mod is available for everyone to enjoy for the whole weekend. If we released on Friday in Corey's timezone it'd be the middle of the weekend at the other side of the world!
I would prefer to have the Yuuzhan Vong in Ascendancy. But that should be a nightmare to have them balanced with other factions and still with a specific gameplay which would portray their uniqueness in the lore.Personally I'd imagine if the Vong ever made it into Ascendancy they'd be handled somewhat like the Borg in Star Trek Armada.
The same forces that pushed these genera to deaths door are being reflected directly in the superhero genera and Disney is planning MULTIPLE film releases PER year of SW. TFA didn't do great because it was a superior film, it did so because of nostalgia, not having direct competition and a decad break in SW. While TLJ got many views it received a 49% rating because unlike TFA it didn't have the gap. And that is now, wait til we have 3 or more films a year. SW will cease being a phenomenon and become mundane mass produced normalcy until it dies from lack of profit.Disney will have to really ramp up production if they're going to manage multiple SW films per year, and so far I've seen no evidence of that being the likely outcome. So far they've managed one per year for three years (soon to be four years), and we've only got firm details of a fifth film (Episode IX). We've no idea when or over how long Rian Johnson's trilogy will emerge, and only really have rumours about potential further spin-offs (e.g. Obi-Wan? Yoda? Boba Fett?).
Also, the specific classes of the Dominion and Megador are never explicitly stated. Based on the limited information, we have gone with the assumption that the two related-but-different vessels are the 8000 meter long Mandator II for the Megador, and the 7200 meter long Bellator for the Dominion. In 2.2, both will be Bellators, but ideally in the future we'll be able to make the Megador a proper Mandator.
If what your saying is true then Disney should then do different types of star wars stories like IDK Deathtroopers, a Empire story, the adventures of Shriv and Lando? You have to understand that Disney will probably not got that route.Why won't they? As Pali said we're just over five years into Disney's ownership and less than four since the Story Group reset canon. Sure they started out fairly safe by bringing back fan favourites to support a new cast in the sequel trilogy but then Rogue One was quite a departure from safe space, and there's no reason to think Lucasfilm doesn't have the same freedom to nurture creativity as Marvel has done since joining the Mouse House.
If it was up to me i would flip the idea of the factions on their head. Maybe make it so the at in Episode 9 the IR comes to the rescue and saves the resistance. It be a great story and show the old vs the new factions.And this is why Disney have professional story writers. What's an IR? We've already got like three factions with limited back-story in the sequel trilogy (which you and others have complained vehemently about) so why on earth would you want them to go add another? "Surprise Thrawn!" or "Surprise Pellaeon!" rolling in on a white horse (which I assume is what you're envisaging) would be pure fan-service to a relative minority of the intended audience and have no meaning to most moviegoers. It would fall as flat as Bendict Cumberbatch's character reveal in Star Trek Into Darkness: Khan who? (Disclosure: As a Trek fan I actually really liked STID)
The han solo movie also isn't a original idea.Please stop. The movie isn't out yet, we've had no trailer and know practically nothing about it. You can't say it isn't an original idea (and really, what IS an original idea in movie terms now?) or that it's guaranteed to be rubbish or flop.
With Star Trek in many ways the franchise is largely a shadow of it's former self as well, sure there will always be a core fan base for it, but Star Trek is hardly the household staple it was a decade and a half ago.To be fair Star Trek was never as much a household staple as Star Wars, certainly not in international terms. And although I agree it did suffer from a measure of saturation and audience fatigue during the late 90s and early 2000s that was far more to do with having three full-on TV series on the go at once or immediately following one another than anything else. Plus the relatively weak movie offerings following from the TNG era. In fact if you read on some of the Trek-related community sites you'll find a lot of fans are actually clamouring for more "proper" Trek on TV (vs more movies), no matter whether they personally approve of the direction Discovery has taken the franchise.
EA loss 3 billion dollars in stock value and were threaten into losing their star wars liense. Disney got bad PR for the issue and it has had a negaitve impact of BF2 sales.So some investors suffered a minor blip. Hardly the end of the world for EA or Disney.
1. While i agree that is somewhat true at the sametime their were things in the EU that layed the ground work for the prequels like the Thrawn Triology which establish coursant. Say what you want about the prequels but that is true. They had other options like IDK erasing the all things that were unnesary and keeping things like the Thrawn Triolgy in canon. they were plenty of ways to go about it and they chose a nuclear bomb style clean slate that pissed off people.Lucas re-used the name of the planet and a handful of other inconsequential items which he liked. In other ways Lucas completely disregarded everything outside his own world-building (and even some of his own work), such as Zahn dating the Clone Wars much earlier and having the clones as the bad guys (rather than part of the formation of the Empire).
2. I know that, but still it shows disney is making a monoploy where they are fully incontrol of what is said and shown and Marvel is not the best at making comics IMO, but neither is Darkhorse.They own the rights to the entire fictional universe, of course it's a monopoly. It always has been. When Lucas owned the franchise he got to say what did, or didn't happen, what was and wasn't permitted. Major plot points on the novels went through his approval, e.g. major character deaths in the NJO, plot points in the Clone Wars TV show, and story outlines for games. The only difference now is Disney set up a group to oversee things from the off (the story group) and have put in place some more comprehensively structured license deals.
Ever since the purchase of both Lucas film and Star Wars by Disney we have had controversy after controversy. i fear that this is a sign of some trouble on the way for both Star Wars and the Star Wars fanbase. I am here to talk about how in the name Lothal did this happen, who is causing this problem, andHonestly, it's all been a series of storms in teacups. There was a bit of upset when Disney sidelined the previous expanded works, there was frustration from some quarters at the direction taken in the new trilogy, and there's been a lot of frenzy over EA's Battlefront (which I've seen no evidence has actually resulted in any real harm to EA or Disney). Despite that we're all still here, Star Wars as a franchise is still growing and attracting new fans, and it doesn't look like it's going to disappear any time soon!
why this is going to get worse over time.
How this happen?: Lets go back to before the Purchase of Star Wars by about 2-6 years. Star Wars was suffering from two things a series of poor Star Wars games (Exceptions: Lego Star Wars, and the X-Wing and Tie Fighter games) and that most of the Star Wars projects did not make money.What? Since when has Star Wars lost money? It's a massive multi-platform media and merchandise powerhouse, of which games probably make a relatively small contribution to the bottom line.
Disney locked in star wars and started putting in new people into positions above other workers. This resulted in the story group who erased the EU from canon which cause a shit storm for a bit. Disney also shut down LucasArts which sucks, they also only allowed Dark Horse to write one more Star Wars Comic, and the cancelation of the Clone Wars before it could properly end. They locked down the rights to make comics only to Marvel which is not bad but no good either since it limits who can write star wars. ... On top of that the Han Solo movie is apparently in chaos with little to no explanation of WTF is going on.Over-reaction, much? Disney is a business, not a fan-serving charity!
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<AutoResolveWinnerAttrition>0.75</AutoResolveWinnerAttrition>There've been a fair amount of changes, both to the planned roster and just general changes. Too many to list here but the manual will be out before the actual download, with all the information on who gets what.Um, yeah. I'm meant to be working on that, aren't I? I take it we can't Valve-time the release so I have longer to rewrite the manual?
Do they? I'll have to try them out then. Their tooltips didn't say so I couldn't be sure. Do bonuses stack with other Leader bonuses?Since the demo we've updated the hero text to make it clearer when they provide bonuses. Most bonuses don't stack but I believe the game applies whichever is highest for each bonus category available in battle.
Oh, do multiple factories of the same type per planet give bonuses? I usually default to a barracks/light for garrison purposes and then specialize one or two planets for heavier factories elsewhere.Yep, multiple structures of the same type on a planet give a build-time reduction. This is a feature from the base game.
This board is just asking to be spammed in the coming weeks lolManagement reserve the right to move this thread into a subforum where posts do not count towards a user's total posts.
And to say the least it's a big failure. Nothing changed with the "new" Story Group. Also I was not talking about quantity but about quality something the new EU is lacking. Here's the list of EU content besides the first movie of a trilogy :I'm not sure that's an entirely fair comparison. Phantom Menace wasn't aligned with a newly blank slate expanded universe - most of the related media which followed that film's release was heavily influenced by or related to the previous nine years of world-building.
Luke already knew how to fly, Luke already shot targets as big as the Ventilation VentEvidence? All we have is Luke's word for it, which is really no different to Rey's "I'm a pilot" to Finn before they board the Falcon in TFA. Really across all three trilogies the only desert-planet protagonist who properly proved their ability was Anakin with his podracing.
WHY she can use Jedi-Mind-Trick beside never ever heard of itPersonally I'm happy to chalk this up to the film subtitle - "The Force Awakens" in Rey and for some reason she's naturally in-tune with what it can do.
WHY she can use the force on the same level as Luke after about 3 years of self-training
HOW she can hold her own against Kylo Ren in Episode VIII where he is NOT! wounded
WHY she suddenly has such huge Force Powers and it was never shown before
to 5: Please don't get me started on the BS-Force Projection god that was just... NO....What? That segment with Luke facing down the might of the First Order and then showing up Kylo Ren was one of the highlights of the movie. I loved how they portrayed Luke's power to project his image and thought it was really well done (it's consistent with Legends Luke too).
Maybe we should settle at:I agree they could have done a better job at putting it front and centre for the audience. A lot of cues are there in the background or covered in off-hand remarks, but obviously not as prominent as they might have been.
They should/could have done a way better Job to explain Why and how Rey got the Skills she has in the Movies.
And as to your earlier comment, i didn't arbitrarily pick plot points on Mary Sue Rey, never been off Jakku since borderline infancy/VERY early childhood, somehow speaks Wookie Jakku has a broad demographic; I get the impression being multilingual is quite common in the Star Wars galaxy (but Luke seemed to grow up in a more Human-dominated part of Tatooine), can fix the Falcon before Han She undid something her boss/owner added/changed, can FLY the Falcon all by herself when she's never even FLOWN before Just because it's not shown or stated outright doesn't mean she hasn't; we only had Luke's word that he'd flown before too, annihilates Ren by just sort of 'hmm Imma focus now on force stuff' therefore win I chalk this up to it being called "The Force Awakens", does a perfect mind trick with zero training Ditto, and for all your talk of Ren being on another level in this film it's not even remotely close to the truth the fact she has some basic self taught staff training and about a week with Luke and she's disarming the most powerful jedi Master in the galaxy I'm still going on my single watch here, but I was under the impression Luke disarmed her multiple times during their sparring until she summoned and lit the lightsaber?, ninja turtling Red guards and her 'struggles' are usually about 30 seconds of mild frustration followed by just getting it. A lot of which harks back to her upbringing on Jakku and unconventional rough and tumble moves rather than necessarily power or skill.
You have characters who routinely contradict the very establishment and development they went through in prior films like Luke contemplating murdering his sleeping nephew over something he hadn't even done, then running away to a nearly 20 odd year pity party without trying to fix anything I don't figure it being half that long (10 years at most?) and that seems to be a common trait for Jedi Masters anyway - Yoda after failing to defeat Palpatine, Obi-Wan after destroying (or so he thought) Anakin
leia NOT trying to find Luke in the Force in spite of their bond Who says she didn't? Luke cut himself off from the Force, Remember?, nor trying to bring her son back, Luke contemplating murder for possible darkside when he went through hell to try and redeem his dad because he sensed a little good Covered this one already, Han ditching Leia for nearly 20 years and Chewie being absolutely cool with it Again, I don't get the sense that it was nearly this long. Also that sort of thing doesn't seem a terribly unreasonable reaction, and is even consistent with how Han reacted after Chewie and Anakin's deaths in the old EU. Then you have build up with zero pay off, Snoke has no real point to the film for what he contributes plot wise He's the big bad boss who manipulates everything? What more do you need?, The First Order can bombard things from Space...but needs a laser battering ram They'd lost their super bombardment Dreadnought already, and the Rebel base on Crait had a shield like Hoth[color]Added a few notes to the above quotes with my take on those things.
With Leia, actually have her die when she's blown out to space, this could have had so much impact on Kylo's character development and world view. his guilt, his being forced into this position all leading to his decision that he needs to double down and go deeper by ultimately usurping Snoke.
Have Kylo blame Snoke for his mother's death, and remind Snoke of his own philosophy of killing the past to make the future tht HE is part of the past now too before betraying him with Rey.I actually thought Kylo got plenty of development with regards his parents. After TFA where he killed his father in an attempt to settle the conflict inside him and turn fully to the Dark Side (Vader his idol, and wanting to please Snoke, his master), Kylo actually just finds himself more conflicted than ever. When he senses his mother on the bridge of the Raddus he pauses, as if willing himself to pull the trigger. And then, when he consciously chooses to not kill her, his wingmen fire and destroy the bridge. As far as I can recall there's no moment later in the film where he learns that she's not dead, and maybe that moment (when he sees her supposed-death) plays into his decision to betray Snoke later on (if having decided not to kill her, he blames Snoke for her subsequent death).
Still a better love story than TwilightWhich one? Rey/Kylo, Rey/Poe, or Finn/Rose? The latter is most definitely worse than Twilight!
ANAKIN : Have you ever seen a Podrace?
QUI-GON : They have Podracing on Malastare. Very fast, very dangerous.
ANAKIN : I'm the only human who can do it.
SHMI looks askance at her son.
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Mom, what? I'm not bragging. It's true. Watto says he's never heard of a human doing it.
QUI-GON : You must have Jedi reflexes if you race Pods.
KITSTER : (to Anakin) This is so wizard! I'm sure you'll do it this time, Annie.
PADME : Do what?
KITSTER : Finish the race, of course!
PADME : You've never won a race?
ANAKIN : Well...not exactly...
PADME : Not even finished?!