I've played Elemental off and on since I got it last year (October? When the expansions were offered) and recently I was playing some Starcraft II and Age of Empires 2 when my laptop overheated because I forgot the cooling fan for a week. 
I didn't see this posted here, but I could be wrong. I'm not an avid forum member, to my disadvantage. So, anyway, I was wondering if maybe further down the road (1.4, 1.5, 2.1) the coding could be updated to allow real-time combat too. The game wouldn't need to change drastically. It'd be an option. Just everyone acts at once, spells and buildings move to a timer as opposed to turns, and battles could be the same as long as the units meet on the field.
It's not a complaint, a necessary feature to keep playing, or anything drastic. It's just an idea.
[Edit] I should have said game play. Coding is a very different matter. [/Edit]