![]() The best part - both of the electricity providers in town will pay a part of the bill to seal those ducts! You should also have your ductwork checked for leaks & sealed - the average home loses 15% of the heated/cooled air you payed for into the attic because of leaky ducts. Blowing in 6" of cellulose to a 2000 sq ft house will likely come in under $1k, and you'll notice a difference in comfort and your utility bills immediately. If you want to save some money quick & make a dent in your cooling bills - look at getting some insulation blown into yoour attic - there aren't many houses in the valley with enough insulation there - R49 is ideal, and many homes here still have R19. That said - replacing single pane windows in a stucco house can be very expensive & isn't likely to pay off financially for a very long time. ![]() We were ripping out double-pane aluminum windows 30 years ago in favor of vinyl or wood back east, and it was still a worthwhile upgrade. Gameloft have created a game that any strategy fan will feel right at home with and one that oozes quality throughout.I'm originally from back east, and when moving here, I was appalled that builders here were still putting single pane windows in until the 1990s. This allows you to set many different parameters for play, all of which means that you can come back to the game time and again.Īlthough Starfront is nothing new in terms of gameplay, it’s certainly the best RTS the iPhone has ever seen and takes the strategy genre to a new height. Skirmish is available for those who don’t want to play multiplayer against human opponents, taking a similar approach but using the AI for the enemy. These can sometimes get very frantic and human players certainly make for a far greater challenge than their AI counterparts. ![]() You get the choice of playing local or online in impressive 1v1 or 2v2 matches with up to 4 players. Multiplayer is well catered for, using the tried and tested Gameloft Live system. Once you’ve played through the 20 levels on offer in Campaign mode there is still plenty to do. Only when it comes to finding a specific vehicle over the expansive maps does playing the game on a small screen become more of a problem but, in all fairness, an iPad version would be the only way to solve this hardware-based issue. Battles play out in realtime as you watch your troops defeat the enemy or get senselessly destroyed in the process. Crisp HD characters and vehicles move realistically across the huge roaming maps and the varied scenery over the 5 environments is impressively detailed, especially when using a 4 thGeneration device. Boxes can be drawn to highlight groups, patrol lines are created so you can leave troops in an area while you go off and do something else and menus can be flicked through in seconds, ideal for when you’re under attack. Luckily, Gameloft have had plenty of practice with all types of iOS controls and their touch based controls here make the game a joy to play. while some levels can be played by going in with all guns blazing, many require you to think about how to attack and to plan your resources well enough to survive the relentless onslaught of the enemy once you find them.Īll of this would be nothing if it wasn’t for the control system, the key to any RTS. It helps to keep the game varied and provides some interesting changes of pace.īuilding bases and balancing resources goes hand in hand with exploration and using scouts to scan the area before sending in the heavy duty guns. Taking control of one of the 3 factions in the campaign mode will see you take on missions as varied as rescuing scientists, outlasting an enemy attack and infecting the enemy. Humans, the insect Myriad, and some cyborg-type creatures called Wardens all want to harvest the Xenodium in the ground and will do anything to get it. Just like Blizzard’s classic PC title, the game pitches 3 species against each other in a bid to control a planet’s resources. Starfront Collision is an unashamed take on the Starcraft series, itself a product of the classic RTS genre. ![]() ![]() They’ve triumphed in football, golf, war shooters, sci-fi shooters, fighting games, action adventures, the list is immense. But obviously it’s not good enough for them, because now Gameloft have tried for the Realtime Strategy genre too. ![]()
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