Sad news. Kael is one of the most gifted, intelligent and positive people I've ever met on the internet. A gentleman extraordinaire.

Do you know where I could read something about the game getting canceled?

Thank you. I totally missed that since I only browsed civfanatics for updates to Rife lately. He,'s a great guy, you can really understand this by the way he explains why the project got cancelled.

And to answer the OP, I would gladly welcome Kael's presence in Elemental. Either as a modder or as a Dev.

Indeed! Elemental's game mechanics could be the perfect bread for Kael's butter.

His input on improving Elemental wouldn't be bad to have as well.

 

Kael already asked if he could work on Elemental's backstory but Brad turned him down

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=7415642&postcount=2

Maybe a mistake, but I think Brad has everything story planned out for this years in advance.  Hence the book.

A lot has changed in two years.

Please get him over to Elemental!!  I hardly play Civ 4 WITHOUT the FfH2 mod!!!!!

My greatest fear is that Elemental python API will not affect enough aspects of the game to make a mod as different from original game as FFH2 from Civ4.

If the scripting will be powerful  enough, we can still hope to have FFH-like mod.

Well, the core game is changing to rapidly just now that Stardock could probably facilitate any advanced modding requirements. Especially if it would increase the chances of a redemption for Elemental. And I'm pretty sure I read that Fixaris made some changes in a patch and opened up more of the code to help Kael and his team (or maybe just modders in general).

No doubt!  The Fall From Heaven mod is in my top 3 games of all time list.  I think it goes way beyond being a mod.  The FfH2 team wouldn't accept donations for their work, so I took them up on their suggestion and made a contribution to charity (to my local PBS station on their behalf).  The mod/game is so good that I was compelled to support it with money. 

When I heard the news of FfH3 I had thought that Valve was backing them.  Then as I learned about Stardock, I dearly hoped that it was they who were behind the game.  Is a shame that FfH3 has lost its funding.  I hope this is a temporary situation.  And I hope that Kael, AlazkanAssassin, Chalid, Corlindale, C.Roland, Hexagonian, Loki, Nikis-Knight, Ploeperpengel, SeZereth, Sto, Talchas, White Rabbit, Wilboman and Woodelf all migrate to Elemental modding. 

Yes. And thousand of peoples playing it over commercial games are idiots.

You never played FFh2, did you?

FFh2's gameplay aside, it *was* ameteurish. They ripped off art assets from a bunch of games and used them instead of making their own. There's nowhere that can pass for a "professional" mod. Ten minutes of staring at Guild Wars icons in FFH2 made me set it aside and not play it (I'm a big GW fan).

I love the idea of the mod and there is fun gameplay, but if the team makes it for Civ 5 I'd hope they would make their own art assets..