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Saros posted:Be nice guys we are all friends here.  lol this is so good
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Jun 4, 2020 17:45
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I can't get over how peak boomer that signature is. CUSTOMER SINCE 2003.
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Jun 4, 2020 17:46
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Jesus Christ. What the gently caress is wrong with these people? I go to reset my password (because for some reason it isn't working). It then brings me to some Matrix/Slitherine page that clearly shows my username, account, password, etc. It even says, "Hello {Username}," so it is clear I'm actually logged in. Then, when I go from that page to either the Matrix or Slitherine individual sites (using the links for those drat sites that are on the page) to buy something, neither of them recognizes the same drat user name (or email address associated with it), and neither will let me log in again (let's not even ask why I would need to log in again in the first place). I swear to god, why is it so difficult for these people to do website things that the average mall shop nail salon figured out 10 years ago? SlyFrog fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Jun 4, 2020 18:02
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Saros posted:I can't get over how peak boomer that signature is. CUSTOMER SINCE 2003. Username "Steely Glint" is great too, I can only imagine it is 100% unironic and earnest.
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Jun 4, 2020 18:04
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Saros posted:Be nice guys we are all friends here. Boy I really hope someone got fired for that blunder!
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Jun 4, 2020 18:14
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 Young Indiana Jones lookin good! Saros fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Jun 4, 2020 18:18
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Saros posted:Be nice guys we are all friends here. Aww. Now I wish I had enough money left over this month, because this guy is tempting me to spite buy and spite having fun with blatantly posting screenshots of tanks while spite-describing them as infantry or whatever this kind of guy thinks is the most annoying
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Jun 4, 2020 18:18
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Good god. They literally have a link that says, "To get support please login to your account and go to Helpdesk." Um, geniuses, what if the thing you need support for is an inability to login to your account? EDIT: Good loving god, even their "Contact Page," requires you to log in before you can go to a support function.
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Jun 4, 2020 18:22
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Theres a support email, support@slitherine.co.uk
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Jun 4, 2020 18:24
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SlyFrog posted:Jesus Christ. What the gently caress is wrong with these people? I go to reset my password (because for some reason it isn't working). It then brings me to some Matrix/Slitherine page that clearly shows my username, account, password, etc. It even says, "Hello {Username}," so it is clear I'm actually logged in. I actually had that issue a while ago. If you contact their support they should be able to sort you out.
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Jun 4, 2020 18:38
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Saros posted:Be nice guys we are all friends here. That's actually a mild case, compared to some other types.
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Jun 4, 2020 18:49
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Well I guess at least he's not an actual nazi so there's that. Lol he's back. https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4823733 Saros fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Jun 4, 2020 18:58
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After resetting my password, I've reached the point where instead throwing errors when I try to login, it simply just refreshes the login page without comment. Am now recalling why I didn't apply for the Shadow Empire beta edit: Grog Website nooo 
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Jun 4, 2020 19:09
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AARP LARPer posted:aw c'mon man, it's not like that. you have to admit it's kind of funny that a group of people who pride themselves on enjoying spreadsheet games like WITP can be flummoxed by a website. in the spirit of Saros' post above, i really do apologize for my tone. take care. It's okay, I'm sorry and I love you, I am just dying on a four hour Zoom meeting and lashing out at everyone.
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Jun 4, 2020 19:14
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It's up for sale on Slitherine's website as well for people like me who don't like shopping on matrix.
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Jun 4, 2020 21:05
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I'll wait for it to land on Steam, with luck there'll be mods to add stupid poo poo at that point. Also that official forums thread is great and I love it.
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Jun 4, 2020 21:13
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Well, I just got Shadow Empire. Did you think Alpha Centauri was a complicated game? You were wrongSaros posted:Be nice guys we are all friends here. This is hilarious because the first thing I noticed was, these guys are motorized infantry, this is the wrong symbol
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Jun 4, 2020 21:50
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Earlier I was asking myself, "Do I want to wait and pay more for the game just to show that people will buy it on Steam." 20% is enough of a difference that I won't wait. This is a broader grognard thing so I posted it here instead of the SE thread.
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Jun 4, 2020 21:56
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Okay this is bad enough: But it gets worse. If you zoom out, they're armor:  I'm just gonna go have a little lie down, I think
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Jun 4, 2020 22:13
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I'm GOING to be SICK!!!
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Jun 4, 2020 22:17
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Foo Diddley posted:Okay this is bad enough: Does Matrix do refunds!
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Jun 4, 2020 22:19
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Hippocrass posted:Does Matrix do refunds! Awesome game, nonetheless
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Jun 4, 2020 22:20
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Yeah the NATO symbols thing is genuinely baffling, Vic has made several wargames with proper symbology so it's very odd that he seems to have chosen to go with an extremely abridged set here. The most egregious one is the AT guns using the artillery symbol.
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Jun 4, 2020 22:23
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Saros posted:AT guns using the artillery symbol. You really know how to kick a guy while he's layin' down, don't ya
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Jun 4, 2020 22:28
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At least it is better than those multiplayer games of Advanced Tactics Gold, where people choose misleading NATO symbols for their units on purpose. These symbols in Shadow Empire still show the right mobility type, kind of. And it may be that today NATO has a strict set of symbols, those symbols have been been used with quite a lot of variations in the past by different armies, and using them in the modern way for even WWII is already an anachronism, let alone for 6000 years in the future.
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Man, Shadow Empire is the most purestrain grog experience I've had in years. Blowing the dust off of a Matrix Games account that hasn't been logged into since Obama's first term. Giving Slitherine my shipping address for some reason. A windows installer that seems to date back to Windows 95. A launcher that opens a PDF manual. Incredibly ill-advised vocals in music over an intro cutscene that feels like a bad powerpoint. My body is ready.
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Jun 4, 2020 22:43
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Lotti Fuehrscheim posted:At least it is better than those multiplayer games of Advanced Tactics Gold, where people choose misleading NATO symbols for their units on purpose.  Habituallyred I'm never forgiving you for that one! [e] I think the billing/shipping address is because the matrix/slytherine lot are the weirdly excessively rule following strain of brits and they compulsively add the right VAT/sales tax for your country/state to sales. There's someone on the matrix forums right now complaining about being charged more because they are from Texas which has an online sales tax 
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Jun 4, 2020 22:56
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everything about shadow empire rules. be gone, heretics
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Jun 4, 2020 23:15
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Saros posted:I think the billing/shipping address is because the matrix/slytherine lot are the weirdly excessively rule following strain of brits and they compulsively add the right VAT/sales tax for your country/state to sales. This may change, now that the UK seems determined to abolish the rules based society.
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Jun 4, 2020 23:22
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Dominic Cummings uses the tank nato symbol to mean infantry with body armour, and the anti-tank gun one for tanks.
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Jun 5, 2020 07:54
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241910/Victory_and_Glory_The_American_Civil_War/ Victory and Glory: The American Civil War is out from the same people who have done Victory and Glory: Napoleon and Hannibal- Rome and Carthage. It is a strategic-level turn-based game, with abstract "tactical battles". The entire feel of the game is very boardgame-like, including cards and activation limits. Unlike the previous two games, you can play both sides in this conflict and the game is thus more "balanced", the other two games being very (realistically) punishing in terms of winning battles but still losing the war anyways. I think the game is very enjoyable and the art is really nice. The UI is clunky, of course, in particular the "zoomed-in" map area of Virginia/Maryland/DC. My main gripe with the game is that there is quite a lot of dice-rolling (every time a unit attacks, checks to recover, checks for routing hits, etc), and that dice-rolling is important. The fact that there are so many dice-rolls does mean that the law of averages will eventually apply, but it may feel particularly unfair because the game does a poor job of communicating why the rolls work out the way they do (although the game will list modifiers, there is no clear formula being spat out telling you what you rolled). One specific event card is particularly broken imo, which is the Lee/Jackson card and the flank bonus it can give. The bonus may be "faithful" to history, but the in-game engine application is quite significant. Overall I recommend the game. Ghost of Mussolini fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jun 5, 2020 |
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Jun 5, 2020 16:33
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Lotti Fuehrscheim posted:And it may be that today NATO has a strict set of symbols, those symbols have been been used with quite a lot of variations in the past by different armies, and using them in the modern way for even WWII is already an anachronism, let alone for 6000 years in the future. Perhaps it was the decay of precision in NATO symbols which lead to the downfall of the galactic empire?
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NATO symbology standards neglect to provide symbols for units of hoplites, halberdiers, powered armor infantry and armored core next, it is predictable that as it rigidifies thinking such, it will eventually cause many a downfall.
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Jun 7, 2020 22:06
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Technically this post isn't about video games, but it's similar enough to some of the communal wargames we've played here that I thought I'd crosspost this announcement because some of you might get a kick out of it.Class Warcraft posted:
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241910/Victory_and_Glory_The_American_Civil_War/ That’s exactly what Joe Hooker thought. And it was real embarrassing after all that, “god have mercy on General Lee, because I shall not...” talk.
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Jun 8, 2020 03:06
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JOE HOOKER INNOCENT
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Jun 8, 2020 04:59
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Just thought I'd post a public service announcement: don't give Battlefront any money. In my case, I got the itch,as it's a long weekend here in Australia, to reinstall cm fortress Italy. So I find my order details on their website, download the installer, and use the activation key from the order page, only to be told it's an invalid serial key. Contact their support, and it takes them half a day to ask me what the error is,then a few more hours to ask me which key I'm trying to use even though I told them already in the original request. Nothing since,so now more than a day later, I still can't activate my USD 65 purchase. gently caress Battlefront.
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I would totally buy some of their more recent games*, but not at those prices and dumb DRM. Put them on the drat Epic store if you want a bigger cut, just admit it's 2020 and act accordingly. * I know they've put some of their ancient ones up on GOG Edit: I was curious what their latest position is and welp (bolding mine). quote:On 2/19/2020 at 4:28 PM, Battlefront.com said: We've found it people, peak grog. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Jun 9, 2020 09:35
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The climb down if they ever do go steam is going to be hilarious.
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Update, it's now been 2 days since I first contacted them. I'm using the activation keys from their own website and they're not working. It's loving ridiculous.
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