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[quote who="Cruxador" reply="15" id="2846231"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 12Well, one of the things I'm looking forward to starting in January is having two of the top industry designers on hand to address this. As you guys know, I'm an AI guy. Not a designer. I just want to play the damn game.Even with designers, do please remember to listen to users. Professional designers are great, but part of the appeal of Stardock games, at least for me, is that I can suggest things and, as

Egalitarian works. I agree with those who say that it shoudl be a 0 point cost. next update I guess.

[quote who="xaltotun" reply="4" id="2846193"]A long awaited moment. The recent betas have been rock solid and the direction of gameplay is good. [/quote] Today's update is even more solid. There was a crash bug with the improvement list that got fixed (that's been the #1 crash bug during the betas) and there was a deadlock (game locks up) that got fixed today. I love my job these days. My job is to crash the game. I'm so good at that.

Not necessary. Random House is currently working on new content for the next parts for owners of the book. The stuff is amazing. I bow to their excellence.

Well, one of the things I'm looking forward to starting in January is having two of the top industry designers on hand to address this. As you guys know, I'm an AI guy. Not a designer. I just want to play the damn game.

Elemental has demons, dragons, drath, etc. that one can research up to. That said, I think there's a real pacing issue that needs to be addressed in the future. I am not convinced that we need 5 different tech trees. I could almost imagine it broken down to 3 like: Civilization Lore Magic where Warfare, Diplomacy, Adventure and Magic get split into these areas. Or put another way, the 3 basic means to victory should be the paths

It's staged. Now it's being uploaded to the hundreds of servers worldwide.

[quote who="jmccrea" reply="52" id="2846048"]So we just need to delete files in the My games/elemental folder right? We dont need to uninstall what we have? I certainly like the idea of just the folder haha.[/quote] You don't need to. Impulse will take care of it.

YES. We want people to buy it at retail.

That said, the AI will keep getting better and better over time. The difference between 1.09 and 1.1 is pretty massive. There will always be people out there who can beat the AI. You just keep posting suggestions and I'll see what I can do.

The AI does take that into account: [code="xml"] Your military actions Event_MeetFaction.png -2.0 <Description&g

We love you guys. Seriously. This is why Stardock makes games. By gamers for gamers.

[quote who="Dual_CoRed" reply="41" id="2845513"]What is the point of this thread? The game looks exactly the same as it did on release. What am I missing here????????[/quote] The purpose of this thread is to help people who are NEW to the game entirely have an understanding of the basics of the game. If you want to know what's in v1.1 over the previous version, you'll need to look at the change log.

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="5" id="2845762"]I thought that anyone who purchased before Oct was getting the 1st and 2nd expansion for free, while those who purchased after Oct but before the year's end were getting the 1st expansion free.[/quote] Everyone who purchased before November 1 get both expansions. People who purchase after Nov 1 but before Jan 1 will still get the first one.

Yep. We'll be talking about v1.2 right after v1.1 goes out. My *personal* short list includes: . Getting the AI better at building grops . Better unit design by AI players . Better city specialization . More awareness prediction of enemy destinations . MUCH better diplomacy So as much as you guys may like v1.1, v1.19 betas (for those who want to play the test builds) will begin right after Christmas I suspect.

v1.2 is not the expansion.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="53" id="2844981"]For shits and giggles I tried introducing a mod mechanic that would give the AI comparable levels of metal to that of their materials. The AI still produced lower quality gear, even when higher quality was available. So I assumed a theory that the AI would always produce units when it could, with the highest quality. This would lead to it perpetually being out of one resource, as there would always be a limiter. But this was not so. E

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="48" id="2844801"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 42There is a lot of internal dislike of the current way ships are handled.There is not much to dislike. Boat that explores. End. [/quote] No. You have to find a beach. Then you have to build a city. Then you have to build a harbor. Then you build a ship. Then you have to load units onto the ship. Then you have to find another beach to unload the units. That's a lot of work. In Civ V,

[quote who="pad152" reply="40" id="2844611"]Will the AI ever be able to play on a map of islands/continents? [/quote] Yes. Once they (those bums upstairs) tell me the ultimate way naval mechanics will be handled. There is a lot of internal dislike of the current way ships are handled.

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="28" id="2844007"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 25Depends who the mod specialist is. Most of you have probably heard of him. Ooh, who is this person? When will we know? I wonder if I've seen his posts here... I've gotta hand it to you, Brad. I'm starting to see where this thing is goin'. Building a solid infrastructure to allow the mod community to content the crap out of this will be a real future money maker for you guys. I

Depends who the mod specialist is. Most of you have probably heard of him.

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="128" id="2843899"]Frogboy, do you guys include polish and cleanliness with "stability?" Because I think that's almost two separate conversations. Stability wise, it's almost there. Polish wise, it has a way to go IMO.[/quote] Each update will continue to polish the game and so on. But that's not a go, no-go issue on releasing a particular update as long as it hasn't regressed.

I don't actually work on the tactical AI but I'll pass your info along.

[quote who="Beakie" reply="120" id="2843635"]Thanks Frogboy.... I hope you consider a Manual release with 1.1... would make me for one happier about the release ... [/quote] Yep. Working on it.

[quote who="Ratatosk7" reply="1" id="2843761"]Stupid question here. Are AI changes added each patch like crashfixes or are they only added when specifically mentioned in changelog? I'm so glad Stardock has such great post-release support. I wish I could go a few months in the future and play an Elemental I won't even recognize, while a lot of developer/publishers out there simply drop all support post-release as if they never were involved in the game in the first