Yesterday there was an Internet outage in my neiborhood. So I tried to start Elemental from it's .exe file as I usally do (I don't go to Impulse then start the game) but I kept getting an error that said I could not access a file due to the internet being down. Once the internt came back up several hours later I could get back into it.

So in the mean time I played Age of Wonders Shadow Magic (Have not played this since Elemental came out.) Well after playing AOW:SM for several hours the internet came back on so I tried playing ELemental and I just could not play it for more than 10 minutes before I went back to AOW:SM. I was kinda surprise how really bland and unfun Elemental still is when compared to AOW:SM. I mean yes I knew it was not as good and I've said as much on the forums before but when played back to back it was really showed how fair Elemental has yet to go.

Anyway does Elemental need the internet to be played?