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[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="27" id="2811326"]Can anyone answer my question above? haha This is a big discrepancy in my opinion. There is no way that Procipinee's daughter is like 90 years old by the time Relias comes back from the east. She was already 70 something when Relias was born and than 90 something by the time he comes back from the east. How can that be? She looks like a child in the game.[/quote] Procipinee looks like she's in

[quote who="louist" reply="2" id="2811360"] quoting post Until the end of THIS MONTH (October 31), anyone who purchase Elemental: War of Magic, will get the first two expansions for the game for free (as well as our normal long-term support for the game itself). Is this offered retroactively as well? [/quote] Of course. It's everyone from October 31 back.

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="24" id="2811281"]Brad, You mentioned Warrior-Priests, but nowhere is there anymention of religion and any roles said religion would have and no where in the game are there any chapels, churches, mosques, cathedrals, etc to build... You do not need to personally have a religion or believe in a religion to appreciate religions role in societies fact or fiction. This just sort of jumped out as a kind of o

[quote who="TeamM" reply="11" id="2810877"]Thanks for the history lesson. I enjoy having a thorough background to the game. Although, it has left me with a number of questions about the Shards: - Apparently the Shards were scattered across the universe at some point. Did Elemental have Shards on it prior to the arrival of the Arnor, or did they bring the Shards with them? Also, did the Arnor bring ALL of the Shards to Elemental, or are some Shards s

[quote who="impinc" reply="2" id="2810679"]Seems a little off in the end... 148 A.C. Death of Tarth. Irane, his daughter, seizes power. She is a masterful warrior; she is also a tactless, heartless ruler, who will come to be as despised by her people as her father was lionized. ... then *after* that... 153 A.C. The great rebellion; slaves led by Tarth rise up against their m

New journal up with video. :) Your wish is my command. lol.

I'll see what I can do. :-) Some of the guys are at Blizzcon on vacation. I was actually out this week moving. I'll gather up what's been a-happening and put it up shortly.

[quote who="Viperswhip" reply="118" id="2809198"]Please make it so your children can also cast imbue champion. They are channelers as well aren't they? Or did that change as well, either that, or make combat oriented heroes way more effective. As it is, only the spellcasters remain useful in late game.[/quote] Children can't imbue champions but they, unlike imbued champions, do not have a mana upkeep which makes them extremely valuable.

Welcome to the Elemental Community! If you're new to a Stardock game community you're in for a real treat. Here are a few things to be aware of and help make your stay with us more enjoyable. 1. The developers of the games we make actively participate in the forums. The game itself is only part of the experience. Hanging out with you guys, chatting about the game, coming up with new ideas for the future is part of what we enjoy doing as well. 2. The CEO of Star

[quote who="wbino" reply="98" id="2809055"] So Frogboy what's the answer then? I expect some tinkering being a pc gamer, but you know the problems of mass confiqurations are there, how to fix it for your future releases. When you "hire beta testers" does the company actively search their specs or look for someone thats has a spec you havent tested yet? [/quote] I can't speak for how the industry should handle it. I can say what Stardock is going to do is just ha

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="95" id="2809037"]I was talking about #5 that says "Gamers have the right to have their games perform adequately if their hardware meets the posted minimum requirements" And that's what cpl is saying. I didn't write this bill, you guys at Stardock did. Did I read a lot into it? Maybe. But that is the risk you run if you put out something as ambitious as the Gamer's bill of Rights, you will be held to a higher standard and face criticis

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="87" id="2808928"]Well, I got that from Stardock's Gamers Bill of Rights. If they created that shit, they should at least live up to it, if not them, who? I don't think it was intedned as bullshit. They need to try harder to live up to that.[/quote] The Gamers Bill of Rights states that a game should function without technical problems. If it does, the gamer has the right to return it for a full refund. This is something Stardock did

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="81" id="2808892"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 79Let's put it in a real nutshell: I make a call to get a piece of memory from a video card via DirectX. On Card A, I get my memory. On card B, I get an error code. On card C, I get a bad pointer returned because it didn't handle running out of texture memory gracefully. On Card D, it crashes the process because it expected me to first query the pool available prior to calling it. I

Let's put it in a real nutshell: I make a call to get a piece of memory from a video card via DirectX. On Card A, I get my memory. On card B, I get an error code. On card C, I get a bad pointer returned because it didn't handle running out of texture memory gracefully. On Card D, it crashes the process because it expected me to first query the pool available prior to calling it. If I, as a developer, don't happen to own Card C or Card D, I will have customers t

Summoned units have a mana maint.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree.

[quote who="OldMsgt" reply="3" id="2806625"]I was wondering if you are considering being a politician as a lot of words to say "My advice to those who, like me, “live on the net” is this: Don’t get too invested in your online persona. You will never be able to control how people perceive you because human nature abhors a vacuum and they will fill it with their hopes, dreams, and prejudices that have nothing to do with who you really are."[/quote] I'd never want t

[quote who="Gazz_" reply="2" id="2806624"]Man, stop posting "who you really are"! It only messes with my carefully fabricated assumptions of who you are. =P [/quote] I'm told it's not the killing that gets me into trouble. It's the eating. :)

What's nice about Apple TV is the ease of accessing all your "stuff". If it's in MPEG 4 format, it can view it.

Steam's growth has been impressive. I am surprised no one has pointed out that Steam claimed to have over 20 million active accounts last year (which I believe) and yet states they had an over 100% growth in active users in the past year which, strictly speaking, is impossible (20 million to 30 million is far less than a 100% growth). Steam has definitely taken off. Impulse too has done well. Its revenue has gone up over 100% in the past year and it has over 3 million ac

I need this game. Only this game will make me happy. :)

I was talking in another thread and you want to know what is going to "save" PC gaming more than anything? 64-bit games. Period. No other single issue causes more problems for game developers than this single issue. Once everyone is running 64-bit OSes, you will see a huge advantage come to PC games over consoles.

[quote who="GCFL" reply="3" id="2806069"]I personally think the problem is not in the quality of the code (in most cases) but rather the huge variances in hardware that simply did not exist 10 or 15 years ago.[/quote] The difference is the sheer amount of variants of hardware that PC games have to deal with. Let's take Elemental as an example. We've been making games for going on two decades. When I say Elemental was stable when we released it, I mean it. We tested on a

[quote who="Murteas" reply="2" id="2805918"]So first week of November then? If I remember correctly that is when he starts?[/quote] Yep.

We have a new theory on this. Could you try a game where you do no tactical battles but rather just auto resolve. We are seeing some systems where the texture memory on the video card doesn't get cleared after a battle but gets swapped to main memory. It's only on some systems but we reproduced it finally. If someone can verify that it would be helpful.