Yeah, I remember that. I think they took it out because it could only generate rough stories rather than interesting ones. I dont think it helped that a buch of people on the GC2 forums were dedicated story AAR writers with alot of creativity and attention to detail that SD probably did not want to try to compete with with computer generated stories. They DID put an event calandar in instead that lists events (like when technologies became available and war declarations) so you could go in and fact check things of your empire should you want.

I doubt a computer generated story could bring the same kind of creativity and interest a story written by a person has.  But if they included an event calander with Elemental as well, one that records a variety of information, tech research, battles, victories, defeats, heroes recruited and their advance ment, quests, etc, with filters so that the player can exclude items based on when they occured or the type of event, I think that would be fantastic.

This event log would make a good back bone to write a story off of, and the story writers of the community would probably appreciate it.

BoogieBac, could you consider to add a "notepad" to the game? So I can open it and add whatever information I need to record. And that whenever an event (popup/window/message/globe) appears, it has a button that adds the relevant text of that event to the "notepad". The text file for that game's "notepad" could be edited in and out of the game so the player can add and/or delete as needed.

Also, make sure that Elemental comes by default with a clock so we can know when is too late to go to bed and have to go to work without any sleep.

Wow, that's an excellent idea. And if you don't want to take notes, just ignore the feature. Simple idea that could make empire management much easier.

I second the idea of an "event log".  I enjoy writing AAR's, but they're a huge pain in the ass to do when I have to notate everything down manually.  An event log would be an extremely useful tool in this regard. 

Yes, an even log will be 100x easier to implement than a story generator....and the notes ides should be doable (just add an empty 'Event' wher eyou get to fill in the details...then you even get the timeline of when the note was posted).

Awesome.  That would make me very happy.   

I bet the event log would also be useful for trouble-shooting, too.  If games were crashing, you could consult the event log to see if somehow the event triggered the crash.