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[quote who="Tridus" reply="9" id="2933321"]Saying that WoM multiplayer "works" is like saying that a car missing the drivers side door "works". It's a technically accurate statement that leaves any customer who falls for it seething with rage. Quoting ZehDon, reply 8 And as for the OP, Stardock advertise the game as having a multiplayer component. It does. There is no "False Advertising" regardless of it's functionality in your particular situation.<b

[quote who="Alstein" reply="53" id="2933303"]Curious about something- would it have worked if you made the design and then made the engine fit the design? [/quote] It never works that way. Talk to someone who worked on Master of Orion 3. You have to have the engine and then you make the game for the engine. If you want to boil down WOM's teething problems into a very very simplistic summary it's that we thought we could make the engine to

[quote who="Pantasd" reply="96" id="2933384"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 81Oh ok. Well, I'll just relax for the rest of May instead of monkeying with v1.3. i didnt say that its just better that 2-4ppl who are making 1.3 start working on FE[/quote] It doesn't work that way. The full SDE Unit 1 studio is already on FE. Me and my mini group go into specific projects to solve problems not as full time dedicated supplements. I'm trying to thin

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="48" id="2933134"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 46 Oh, I make no promises that FE will be awesome for you. I only promise I will think it's awesome. Don't ever think for a moment that I make games for other people. I make them for me. I can vouch for Brad that this true. I once told Brad that EWOM needed hero traits like HOMM, items like Diablo, UI like GalCiv, AI like CivIV, quests like WOW, etc., and he told me tha

[quote who="kapeman" reply="202" id="2933167"]Congrats on taking the time off! Let me know the next time you go to Disney, I can help you out. I do Disney travel on the side and am a certified Disney Specialist. Hope you enjoyed the time off from your other "family" (you know, the ones that like to bitch on the message boards!) Welcome back. NOW GET BACK TO WORK! [/quote] ;-)

I'm reading the threat. I have to do AI work on v1.3 because for FE I'm planning to handle the AI design for the tactical battles directly and it's better to "learn" the tactical battle AI code in WOM than FE. I just got back from Disney World with the family and we recently got a puppy (http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/408349/The_life_of_Bailey_8_weeks). I normally only get to do fun stuff like AI work in my off hours (until I can recruit more developers I can

Multiplayer works. Could you be specific about what doesn't work? Also, don't threaten lawsuits, that's asinine.

[quote] if the same criteria applied for WoM (you wanted that game to be awesome, you thought that game was awesome -- but despite of your efforts and intentions you were mistaken), how can you possibly believe that you can ensure that FE will be awesome?[/quote] Oh, I make no promises that FE will be awesome for you. I only promise I will think it's awesome. Don't ever think for a moment that I make games for other people. I make them for me. :) The d

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="33" id="2931970"]There was a long way to go from the last public beta to a workable and fun game. There was a rush to release WoM, regardless of whether it made a big difference to the final v1.0 release and months after, with the teething problems with the new engine and all. Anyway that is old news. My point was that it looks like the same mistake won't be made with FE, and that's good. Best regards, Steven.[/quote]</p

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="79" id="2933097"] Quoting tanafres, reply 78 Don't get me wrong, Brad seems to do a very solid job running the company, and his dedication to making things right is almost superhuman at this point (I know I'd have told all us histrionic whiners to piss off after the first few months if I were in his shoes), but he needs to let go and find a strong AI coder other than himself. A few AI programmers. Yes. I've felt this for a while

[quote who="Pantasd" reply="76" id="2933053"]i think its time to let go of elemental and focus on FE[/quote] Oh ok. Well, I'll just relax for the rest of May instead of monkeying with v1.3. I've seen enough posts such as yours to make the case that it's not worth my while to make v1.3 a priority when the alternative is taking some time off the game stuff.

[quote who="VonVentrue" reply="394" id="2933055"] project "unnecessary" or even "utterly pointless", hence the sudden appearance of Steamworks titles on Impulse.[/quote] While I wouldn't say that Gamestop's decision to acquire Impulse was driven exclusively by Impulse::Reactor, I will say that without Impulse::Reactor there'd been no team up. It is a critical part of their strategy. However, and I'm not speaking for Gamestop here, one discussion po

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="389" id="2932684"]This move will make Impulse less needed since people will just launch their games directly with steam. Sad to see that brad wardell sold out to the biggest bidder, at least now maybe Rebellion will use Steamworks' better cloud features.[/quote] Sins of a Solar Empire:Rebellion will use Impulse::Reactor. I think some Steam fans need to get a better idea of what Steamworks can and can't do. There'

Can you give a bit more detail? Performance is worse than before in what way? I find the drawing speed and end turn speed much faster in v1.2.

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="30" id="2931861"]Well, I think that would be a good idea. But remember, even "rabid fans" (btw: that phrase has heavy negative connotations) did not think WoM was ready for release. So it's not like fans can't provide useful feedback, but I do agree that feedback shouldn't be limited to fans.[/quote] If you recall, the public beta of WOM ended about two months before release. By contrast, FE will have its public beta drops ri

I think you guys who play the betas have gotten a pretty good idea on the fundamental change in how our betas are done. Look how long was sat with v1.19 (over 2 months) before it finally was "good enough". Our games are going to slowly move more and more to the "Google" beta model where it's going to sit in beta for quite awhile, often with it seeming like it's "final" but it'll still be beta. The bottom line is, we require that our customers k

[quote who="Lantros" reply="183" id="2930742"]So...1.2 comes out in the next days. And 1.3 will be mostly a feature patch, right? War of Magic v1.3: Changes Implemented Base HP lowered from 10 to 2 for trained units. Minimum trained unit group size changed from 1 to 4. Base map movement speed increased. World Difficulty will set the default difficulty of the AI players War of Magic v1.3: To-Do New Setup o

I've spent the last couple of days trying to wreck WOM v1.2. Each time there's been an RC, I take a shot at destroying it -- and have succeeded in doing so. Hence why we're in April and still monkeying with v1.2. I won't go through all the new features and changes in v1.2 over v1.11 but here are the things I think people will notice very quickly: 1. Framerate is substantially faster. 2. End turn performance is substantially faster. 3. Memo

The requirement for FE is that it must be awesome. That will determine the release date on it. It is substantially different from WOM though. So far, quite a bit more like MOM than WOM was.

Thanks guys. Fast pass doesn't cost extra. Universal has something called express pass that does. We've now been to all 4 Disney parks. We don't have a car so our mobility is limited. Staying at the wilderness lodge which is on the propery . Boat ride to magic kingdom.

I need morale because I originally intended it as a way to force the player to attack the AI players. When it got removed, they changed the AI to just run out after the human players (to their death). I want to make the AI focus on getting to good strategic positions on the map if it has the morale advantage. The defender will tend to have the morale advantage.

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If I have my way, WOM won't ever be finished or at least will be worked on until I can't compile it anymore (see my angst on tryign to do new builds of galCiv II). As much as I wish WOM had been a critical success, the fact it wasn't frees me to tinker with it without the same kind of crazy that would happen otherwise. In GalCiv, I hated the economic system but couldn't really change it because it has such a larger player base. WOM, by contrast, will ev

I was thinking that the distance the channeler is from the army would have some effect. either in terms of casting time or the umph of the spell.

1.19l was released less than 24 hours later to deal with the bug in question. It's available right now. Anyway, regarding the topic at hand... Thanks for your kind words. I think the post should be called faith in War of Magic, not Elemental since eventually there will be quite a few Elemental: Do *I* have faith in War of Magic's future? It really depends on v1.3 as that will really be the do-or die version for the game in my mind. If peopl