Frogboy

I don't think it's Times New Roman, it's a Serif font, forgot which one.

Squads already work as people are requesting, even in beta 4. They even lose guys and disappear and reduce their strength.

Crafty - how much beta testing of MOM's tactical battles did you do? Did they implement your ideas?

I'm on US and I'll happily play. I was Platinum during the beta. :)

Isn't there an Elemental Wiki somewhere?

[quote who="Beric01" reply="9" id="2703453"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 7You can share factions. You can play more than 3 person starcraft even though they only have 3 factions. Then will there be 2 Lord Relias's or whatever?[/quote] Your sovereign will be named you and your faction named you.

[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="8" id="2703400"]i just need to know if i can save a game in multiplayer and then load it back up with the same, or perhaps even different players at a later date. if so, does it save the game to the stardock servers or everybody elses?[/quote] I can't speak for this sadly but I know it's supposed to let you save games MP to continue them later. I just don't know how stringent it is on getting the other people back.

The final version has a lot more techs.

I like the concept of # of spells you can cast to turn being tied to wisdom. Wisdom is under utitlized I think and makes for an "interesting choice" at level up time.

Yes. In an XML editor. :)

You can share factions. You can play more than 3 person starcraft even though they only have 3 factions. :)

It would be great if someone could gather this stuff together. I'll be writing this stuff from the airplane on the way to G4. At G4, I will be demoing the internal version of the game which looks somewhat different from the public beta (different UI).

[quote who="Nymeros" reply="152" id="2702725"]Are there any plans to make the game (especially the CE) at least available in euro online stores such as amazon? No Impulse.eu yet? I would buy at your impulse store but 15€ for shipping alone plus customs puts the CE over the price of two games. I would really like other options besides overpriced CE or download for boxed price.[/quote] You should be able to buy the boxed version in Europe online. It's the stores (retail store

This is interesting. Another possibility would be to make use of wisdom which is underused presently.

[quote]As backwards as it sounds, DD is always more expensive for the user (in the UK anyway) than retail. You can get new PC releases from online retailers for as low as £18, but usually £25.[/quote] I'd imagine Amazon UK and such having it. The main issue we have is with regards to continental European retail channels (storefronts). By the time everyone has touched it, we see virtually nothing (that's when we get paid at all). This has been a

Spells a Casting Time? Definitely something we can look at but it'll be a post release update. Not enough time to implement and balance.

1. There are flying units but they are very rare (dragons and flying drakes). 2. Yes. Horses and Wargs and a few others. 3. You can't breed dragons and they would be offended if they knew we were even discussing that. :) 4. You can turn off auto-turn in the options. Hope this helps. :)

[quote who="dsk2293" reply="49" id="2700661"]I have 32-bit XP on my laptop and memory usage is very high, like 700-800 Mb before I have to shut it down. It becomes unplayable very quickly.[/quote] 700 megabytes on a game isn't high. That's actually been low for several years. Elemental requires 1 GB of available memory. Even Galactic Civilizations I used more than a gig and that was 7 years ago.

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="59" id="2700884"] It's almost as if the garbage collector simply doesn't work on some systems. I almost never see the memory usage drop.[/quote] Yea, the whole garbage collection system is premised on when something is no longer being used, it is removed from memory. However, it appears (quite obviously) that on some systems that it simply doesn't do that.

Great stuff! I agree. Quest Locations depend on the level of the quest (Level 1: Inn, Level 2: Huts, Level 3: Ruins, Level 4: Dungeons, Level 5: ?). The number you get is based on the size of the map. Regarding the unit design screen. I think the key missing thing here is Combat speed. That is probably the difference. Great feedback though.

Hi Das. 13. Talking FPS indeed. We will continually optimize it but it's pretty close to where we expect it to be. 19. I think I agree with this. What do others think? Seems to me that operating a bow should be quite a bit slower. On the other hand, we might be able to just lower the combat speed of the weapon a lot and that would have the same affect. We do want to support a Legolas type unit if the player focuses on this.

Hi there! Thanks for the kind words. Indeed, the release version will be quite a bit different in many different respects (visually, gameplay, and balance). When I get a chance, I'll write up a journal that walks players through the new UI, the special abilities, the updates spell system, updated quest system, etc.

If you can, uninstall and reinstall the Elemental Beta. I'm finding that Impulse didn't remove the file corespells.xml and a few other items and these have a pretty major impact on stability and gameplay.

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="53" id="2700755"]Going through the getting married window increased memory usage by 4M.[/quote] I'm not going to comment on this.

I think you're touching on something there Jag. It's almost as if the garbage collector simply doesn't work on some systems. On our setups, it goes up 3MB and then goes away after a few seconds.