This is my civ4 replacement for quite some time I will be more happy when the game doesnt crash on me as often and other things are smoothed out, but I'm still playing prerelease day version, so I can't complain too much

Soon as I can break myself away from the gameplay, I wanna do some major customization and make mods like the ones I have for civilization. I have the feeling its gonna be a while

Glad others are enjoying to to. I have played maybe 6 hours now and I just love it!
The Continouis mode is wicked!

Its getting very addicting! I have that "JUST ONE MORE TURN!" feeling that I get with Civilizatino and Dawn Of Dsicovery games

So glad I got this game now, so much potential and cool ideas (;

Out of curiousity, what is it that you people find enjoyable about the game in its current state? I'm mostly in the "It has potential" camp but some people seem enthralled with it out of the box. Where's the allure?

Yeah, thanks Stardock for a GREAT game.  This is the first game I thought I got my money's worth since Neverwinter Nights and expansions (NOT NWN 2).

Thanks again for a GREAT game!!!!!  

Yeah, I'm in no hurry for Civ5. Between this game, Civ4 and all it's mods, plus all 3 AoW games installed, Civ5's an afterthought. Maybe when it's half off I'll get it, but even then, eh, whatever. I'll be smokin' the Elemental crack pipe for quite some time 

I recommend Elemental to all lovers of strategy and RPG. The gameplay is fun, you have alot of freedom and choice, and it has a great feel to it. And the best thing is it will grow better and better. I love it already, and haven't been so glad for a new game since Civ3 and Civ4. This is history in the making of good 4x turnbased gaming.

I agree there is some balancing needed, especielly I find it annoying that it is to easy to found new cities, and they are spammed out covering to much of the map. Thats the only thing ruining a bit of the atmosphere for me. But I have hopes it will turn out abit better there as well.

I also understand newbies wants more tooltips etc. But I think the UI is fine as it is. When things are learned they feel logical and right.

All in all, impressive work from Stardock. Love it.

I'm really looking forward to the future patches with their performance and AI improvements. Even though the game is pretty tedious for me to play atm and so so challenging I'm still having a blast.

Mmhmm its alot of fun, my only.

Only.

Grievance i have has just been crashes every few hours, the autosave system has been having issues on my system apparently, so its just been painful >.<

I have to admit that I was very disappointed when I played the pre-release gold version and I did regret the purchase. After installing the latest patch and having played for many hours today I must say that the game needs a lot of time to appreciate, it's a tough beast, but after you learn your way around it's very, very good. It's not perfect, there are still pressing issues, the magic system especially, but the foundation is fantastic. I am so looking forward to the future of this game. Nice work. 

I swear where has all the time gone? I've played 3 days of this now and don't want to stop to sleep now. haha I have 1 more day off wow it seems just a few moments ago I had 4 days off to play this.

It's a lot of fun because it's new and it's something I've waited for for a long time. Since Master of Magic actually.

It has so many elements of so many other fantasy strategy games also. MOM, AOW, HOMM, and Alpha Centauri and it's 3D too which is the only thing that took me some getting used to.

I don't see these UI issues some are complaining about. I know what every button does and what I need to click or push to get the game to do what I want....so what more do I need here?

The way you make stacks is rather unique as well and the fact you have to research higher team and grouping abilities makes it even better. It's much like the logistics tech in GalCiv2 to me. Now we just need that shrinkage tech so we can have even more units per stack than what is it 12 max? I think the most I've gotten is 12 but I think some races or factions can go higher?

The tech tree system is just fantastic. I love the way they did it. I also like how we can design our units instead of them being static choices like in all those other games except Alpha Centauri which I think this game takes from when it comes to upgrading and designing new units.

The ai is challenging enough if you play on a small map and give them higher levels of difficulty and play on hard map. I don't know how larger maps play since small maps is all I've ever played on once I discovered the ai plays a better game on them.

So I have to say that people who don't like this game just don't want to like it. I can't see the reason for all the malcontents myself.

So much negativity lately but with the release of patch v1.06 Elemental is much improved over Day 0. Great work guys! More patches needed but there's still fun to be had!

Personnaly to have a more accurate opinion, i will wait for the next patch.I don't find it so fun right now.

I find it interesting that's why i still trust in it and won't, as i intended to, get a refund, i think SD need support, but i can't say (no rant ,troll ,blahblah) that it has the little 'plus' that would entertain me about the replayability.

Major issue for me is the lack of content (diversity) and balance/challenging AI.

Other than that EWoM seems promising but i dont like to wait .