Island Dog

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It downloaded at around 800 for me, which is what I got before.

Congratulations to Stardock for their perseverence! I have not played in a few months personally. I thought the game needed work but was still very feature rich with great potential. I play on a 4 and a half year old Vista install. And it always played perfectly for me. I now have new parts - quad core, MB, 8 G DDR 3 RAM etc, and can't wait to play again sometime next week after my new system comes alive!

Will this game ever perform with 64 bit Windows 7 in the future?

Very excited nonetheless!!!!

Something terrible has happened to the tooltips since 1.1

Unit cards and such are staying up even when the mouse is no longer hovered over top of the relative unit. Tooltips are failing to be displayed when hovered over the top resource bar, tooltips are failing to be displayed over the build button on improvements (they used to say which techs were needed).

For me, the download took about 5 minutes to prepare, then downloaded an approximate 20MB patch.

Great news!

Thank you guys/gals for your hard work and dedication.

As soon as I get home I'll start this puppy up and kill me some mean ol' meanies...and get me sovereign 5 wives...

Well gotta say I'm not very enthused. I make a full blooded warrior (max con/str/dex) die to a bandit on turn 4. Make a wizzy (max con/int) die to 2 bears on turn 5 with no prospect of a offensive spell till probably turn 25-30. (both on easy, both seeing the NPC come out of the fog of war one turn then dieing the next turn with no option for retreat)

Now the above probably wouldn't bug me all that much, I would just suck it up and take easy mode for the new ultra hard mode but.....

Within 5-10 minutes of every game I play (happened to me 3 times before I gave up), my game crashes to desktop with a out of memory error or something similar...

I have a core 7 950 processor

Windows 7 64 bit

My geforce gtx 560 graphics card has so much internal memory that it leaves me thinking that if it were possible I could install the game just on my gpu's ram alone and still play it.

The fact that I'm getting booted to desktop because my 12 gigs of ram have been used up just boggles my mind.

This game has been out 6-7 months? This is ridiculous.

You've lost my support Stardock, your game HAD potential. I'm done with the come back every month or so to be a bugtester.

Oh ya I play this game on low settings.... sad I know

After six games, none of which went past 80 turns, here are a few observations about v 1.2 

First, Janusk has never appeared.  I played on the top two levels in v 1.1, but starting out without a compadre (Janusk), in this version, makes the game VERY tough.

The AIs seem to be FAR stronger. I had to back down to the hard level, just to survive to turn 50.  The bears, archers, and wolves spawn so often, that I cannot keep pace. My best score in v 1.1 was 148, so I am no newbie.

Nine times, in tactical combat, the game has gone to freeze.  In each case, I am not as strong as the enemy, but I know that I will win using my moving/tactical skills.  Since the game freezes, I can exit only by selecting auto combat, which kills all of my units, and that, effectively, ends the game.

I am not super-smart, but the AI is even less intelligent. So why do I have to go back to an auto-save, in order to win he combat that I could have easily won without cheating, simply because the game went into freeze mode?

For positive vibes...the game loads very quickly...

A few more hours of game time will allow me to add more positive (or negative?) postings.

Again, I am no newbie...I was in the top 20 in GalCiv I, and top 100 in GalCiv II...with no cheating and no membership.....

I’m probably fairly unusual in this community, running Elemental on an iMac using Windows XP via Parallels Desktop. You might think that was a recipe for disaster, and by and large, it used to be. The new version, however, hums along (with one or two crashes which are probably related to the setup) and I managed to finish my first game with a score of 60. Since Stardock give us no idea how this score is arrived at nor allow us to see past scores, I have no idea whether that’s good, bad or indifferent. 

I have some points that maybe people can help me with; I was playing as Ceresa. (I won by vastly superior magic with 2 spellcasters allowing very easy conquests against armies more than twice as strong.)

Firstly, I had several warg kennels, but none produced a single warg, even though their index cards said they were producing 0.25 or 0.3 per season.

The contagion spell didn’t seem to work at all.

I found 4 pieces of elementium but had no clue what to do with them.

Is there a logic to which technologies in Adventure/Domination put your leader up a level for questing?

There were only 2 lost libraries, both in the same country. Seems mean.

Things that need fixing: unit exits from city – keeping to caravan paths on intercity routes; some goodie tiles still don’t disappear. You can’t have a Consular’s Palace – consular is an adjective, it should be Consul’s Palace.

The game needs some unpredictable events to throw you off course. It’s just a tad too predictable at present. The sea part seems to be all but useless at present, but will probably be more fun later. I had one priceless moment when I put my crew on a boat, moved the boat and the crew were left behind up to their chests in water! But enjoyable none the less. I going to try a large map now!

Gypsy Davey...I'll try to answer a few questions, but I play very differently than you, so I can't answer everything.  The elementium helps you build some VERY strong units later in the game.  Just keep it on hand for now.  You will find them helpful in making custom units.  Lost libraries often show up in pairs, I have no idea why, but I do take advantage of them as soon as I can.

I play Elemental on a Gateway PC, but play most of my games on a MacBookPro using bootcamp, so I understand what you are doing.  Bioshock I & II, Europa Universalis Complete, and Civ IV worked perfectly.  This game is so erratic that I have tried to keep it on XP.

You can control a unit's exit from a city.  Select the unit while in the city, then click on an exitspot.  The space can be several spaces away.  Using the city's exit screen allows no choice.  This can be tedious late in the game if you have a lot of units in a city.

For Warg Kennels...did you go to the nearest city and select them as units to train?  They will not show up automatically, you need to go to the city training screen to select them and build them.

Like you, I would like some unexpected events.  GalCiv I & II had them and you had to be a good player to recover.  It made for an interesting game.

I have been experimenting with v1.2.  I was deep into a large map, just starting to feel that I was in control. I had conquered 4 of 9 AIs. Then the game froze.  I could find no way to recover.  After 10 minutes, I pulled the plug.  Upon re-boot and re-launch into Elemental, I was told that Elemental had bad sectors and I had to run Scandisk.  I did that, got the game to start, but all of my saves are lost. 

I have had so many crashes in v1.1 and now 1.2, that I completely give up.  I'll be back when 1.3 arrives. 

The game has such potential that I hate to say goodbye.  I have well over 350 hours invested.  I have also had over 350 bugs, crashes, or freezes along the way.  It is time to take a break.

 I loved Oblivion.  I bought the expansion packs of Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles on eBay, not so long ago. Playing those expansions on an old familiar game (I never once had Bethesda's Morrowind or Oblivion crash) will keep me busy long after v 1.3 is out.

This update is very frustrating, is has fractured the graphics making each avatar look as if they no longer have a face and has also fractured the appearance of the map. The new additions to the game look great; however, I the loss of the game looking playable are not worth it. 

I still would like to play the game, so I hope either you (stardock) can fix the bug and send out a workable update or make it possibe to get the 1.1 update available again.

Thanks if someone from stardock read this.

Also if anyone out there knows how to get the 1.1 update could let me know I'd greatly appreciate it.

running on a nividia 8200 gm I have had no graphical hiccups, slow downs, there were two major freezes that caused me to d a hard shut down, but I think that may have to do with my os,vista 64 bit has been giving lots of trouble, the only time I do have slow downs is when I bump up the shadows to highm but then thats normal  (8200 gm has a hard time rendering shadows).

outside of graphics everything works fine, but then I just got the game and updated it as soon as I could so I cant really say if there is anything wrong.