Frogboy

[quote who="Alstein" reply="32" id="2816844"]Are we sure it's going to be next Thursday, that's Veteran's day, which many places get off in the US. [/quote] We're bastards here. No day off.

I have been able to get a ton of AI stuff done this week which is nice. The interaction with AI players will be a lot better.

[quote who="Khardis" reply="57" id="2816799"]Hopefully we'll still run into you on the forums, Brad. They would certainly not be the same without you. And a big welcome to Paxton (Kael). I've played FFH2 a ... 'bit' and there's a lot of good imagination and imagery there; he should be able to make some interesting changes. [/quote] Oh I'll still be around making journals and such. It'll be much more of what my role was like on GalCiv II and Sins.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="26" id="2816796"] Quoting Answulf, reply 25 I'm still playing it, but it needs some serious patching too. Between Elemental and Civ5, I am going to start waiting about 3 months before I buy a new strategy game. I can see myself switching between the two as each one gets patched... Yeah seriously. I'm getting to the point where buying games at full price is only for suckers. Give me a sale six months after release and an already

Thanks guys. We're glad you like it. We're chomping at the bit to show you some of the things we've been working on that we think will make it a lot better still. There's been some phenomenal feedback from players such as yourselves that have made us think of things (example: breaking quests into components that can be mixed and matched together so you end up with an infinite diversity of quests that also makes it easier for users to submit their own quests "components".</

[quote who="mighty_scoop" reply="52" id="2815854"]Hello Frogboy, i'm a software developer by myself and just try to get into multi-threading. Do you mind to share a bit of your experience ? Do you use a multi-threading framework like openmp, tbb or something similar ? What do you suggest to use ? I would be thankful for any advice. Thanks in advance if you will take the time to answer this off-topic question. Greetings

As long as you've opened up Impulse at some point with Elemental in there you're fine. The point is that as long as there is some entry somewhere showing you bought Elemental prior to October 31. In a pinch, a store receipt would do the trick but that would require manual (i.e. talk to a human) intervention.

This is outstanding. Going to sticky.

There will be a lot more religious aspects discussed in the upcoming expansion packs. Thus far, we have really only touched on the worship of The Destiny which is largely a western Kingdom based religion. The Fallen and other Eastern peoples have a different perspective. It would be dangerous to assume that Men = Good and Fallen = Evil. This will become more obvious as we go forward.

Current update is for the v1.1 beta to be made available to the public in the next week or so. Right now, with Kael having just started, we're working on transitioning day to day management from myself to him.

64-bit allows for much bigger maps.

I don't think most people realize that Kael's strength isn't just that he's a great designer but he's a veteran project manager. The single must challenging thing during Elemental's later development stages was when I had to take over last Spring as Producer, I still had a company to run and so I couldn't focus full time on managing the project (at the time, I thought I could just add 45 hours to my weekly schedule but that had unintended consequences in itself).

I'm complaining. We need some v1.1 changes for it to work. Here's why: Right now, there's no sense of urgency when playing. You can sit back and wail on the turn button. In v1.1, we have some systems that don't give bonuses to players who just sit around.

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="92" id="2815166"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 91 Quoting Notger, reply 87Damn, frogboy. I was planning to hold out until 1.1 and the demo came out ... but two expansions for free ... had to take that offer. Now I feel like a girl in winters sale, laden with a dozen price-reduced shawls. The general idea is that at some point Elemental's price point will go down (it's selling well and in fact sold more units at retail and direct in October than in Septem

[quote who="FatNonFree" reply="6" id="2815120"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 4 Quoting FatNonFree, reply 3I hope it's this Thursday. Can you have 1.09e and 1.1 installed at the sametime? I got a huge war going on right now and don't want to loose the save game for the beta but I want to try out the beta! The 1.1 betas won't be compatible with 1.09 so you'll likely want to wait. The game rules are dramatically different. Sounds like I got a lot land to conquer soon! Have mo

Welcome back guys! We're glad you're here. I don't know about you guys but for me, half the point of these games is the community experience. That was what kept drawing me back to Galactic Civilizations. When you buy a Stardock game, you're not buying a disposable commodity. It's something that we hope people will want to play for years and years to come.

[quote who="Notger" reply="87" id="2814204"]Damn, frogboy. I was planning to hold out until 1.1 and the demo came out ... but two expansions for free ... had to take that offer. Now I feel like a girl in winters sale, laden with a dozen price-reduced shawls. [/quote] The general idea is that at some point Elemental's price point will go down (it's selling well and in fact sold more units at retail and direct in October than in September) and we want to make sure that those people who

As long as you downloaded an update at some point prior to October 31, 2010 you're set. Right now, everyone who buys as of November 1st 2010 still gets the first expansion pack we're working on for free. These expansion packs are more akin to GalCiv II level expansions (they're not micro expansions).

I think most people know which "camp" I was in back in the day. I liked the idea of managing resources -- turning something into another and working out the logistics. But I'm in a tiny minority on that feeling. But I do like the idea of letting modders eventually changing things a lot.

[quote who="FatNonFree" reply="3" id="2815113"]I hope it's this Thursday. Can you have 1.09e and 1.1 installed at the sametime? I got a huge war going on right now and don't want to loose the save game for the beta but I want to try out the beta![/quote] The 1.1 betas won't be compatible with 1.09 so you'll likely want to wait. The game rules are dramatically different.

The first public beta is scheduled for this next Thursday. Right now, the team is split fairly evenly between v1.1 and the first expansion pack (free for those of you who have the game already). There are, ironically, more people on Elemental now than there were during development (part of this is the elimination of the second games team). It's going to be an awesome upcoming year. We, and by we I mean us all - the community and Stardock - are going to do something

Yea me too. Once the v1.1 series gets rolling, we hope to return to that. The main thing is that v1.1 is such a major overhaul of the game mechanics that there's no "baby steps" possible between v1.09 and v1.1.

What was the problem?

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="20" id="2811451"] NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm so sad. I like Population as a resource but I do not like the fact that you are showing population in such small numbers I liked seeing my total population in the thousands, it adds to the atmosphere of my civilization. If you are just going to have population as a resource and make it small numbers that part will be ruined Unless I am misunderstanding things it looks like population will be represented as ju

[quote who="noobshot" reply="11" id="2811397"]do you have to have the game registered to get the credit of th expansions?... i've had the game but dont got it registered so im very curious if u need to have it registered.[/quote] You need to have updated it from Impulse at some point. It's the only way we know the date.