Frogboy

These are good posts and I want to add some of my own issues too: #1 N^3 game mechanics. These destroy any hope of a good AI. A game having ONE of these would wreck the AI, Elemental has multiple of these. Specifically: a. Enchantment slots that are PER caster. b. Individualized mana pools PER caster. c. The requirement that one must control map resources and those resources combined with the ease of building cities which requires the AI to

There's supposed to be a v1.09E this week which combines v1.09 and v1.09b (the beta) into a single release with some fixes in it. V1.1 (v1.10) won't be out for a few weeks still as it is a MAJOR change. v1.05 to v1.09 (v1.05 was the day 0 version) were maintainence updates.

Yea, one of the big things I'm noticing in our internal v1.1 build is how much the population as a resource allows the player to control the pacing in the direction they want it to. The reason for this is because in v1.1 you can build multiple barracks, multiple workshops, multiple studies, etc. But all these things require people. In Elemental v1.0, the player really doesn't have a lot of say over the progress of the game, it just boils down to capturing resources

Ive been thinking of requiring food to construct an outpost. Thoughts?

Thanks!

We're working on it. We only became aware recently of its availability on the Nook.

Very interesting. Would you mind posting up your saved game? I'd like to take a look sicne the team has done a really good job on optimizing memory use so I'd like to see if there's something else going on.

Yes. He went there! :)

[quote]I hope Trebuchets dont show up in V1.10[/quote] Ooh. Good idea!

I was wondering if any of you would mind me looking at your saved game? If you can post it, I'll check it out and see if there is something else going on.

[quote who="MasonOfSparta" reply="7" id="2792407"]While I'd love to call this a lottery feature, and not a bug, I'm afraid I'll have to look into this. Enjoy your socialist pig money while you can.[/quote] Don't envy them. They EARNED that money. They killed the mighty Pioneer!

[quote who="gsitetfs" reply="23" id="2792383"]The AI is going to keep getting smarter, till it is unbeatable (Its inevitable, like Gary Kasparov eventually being defeated by Deep Blue + AI ). In SoaSE, I got good tips from watching the AI in recorded games (eg build a Capital Ship factory *first*).[/quote] Well, it'll take many years of work before the AI is good enough to defeat the top 5%tile of players and it'll never be good enough to beat the top 1%tile of players without g

That is very interesting actually. Can you do me a favor and look at your debug.err right after such a battle and look and see if it says anything about missing annotations? That is what causes those pauses but there shouldn't be any missing files but that's what it sounds like to me.

I'd rather see gates be something anyone can use and become strategically valuable.

Yes. Wait until you read it as the characters give away their abilities.

I have a pretty lengthy list of things I want to play around with this month and next (for starters). If you guys want to see what I've been doing in my spare time, check out this video: <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

The map of Anthys is now up.

It's random. Literally. That's part of the problem is that I think we need to have a minimum distance based on map size. We don't want players to be able to count on opponents being far away but if we have the extra space it would be nice to have them not start so close.

Personally, I would prefer to have a tech that allows players to find Moon Gates or something like that. But that would be some thing in the future.

REAL gamers could get well over 625K free with QEMM386 to get Wing Commander going. :) [quote]BTW Brad, working anything more than 60-70 hours, when responsible for Intellectual capital creation, no matter how tempting, diminishes your creative/cognitive output enormously. It *seems* a good idea at the time but leads to some bad situations later on without fail. [/quote] If I were forced to nail down a single root cause of the horrible month of August I would put it

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="94" id="2791259"]I think Dadoo made a lot of good points. And I feel like he has every reason to feel that way. I really like this game, Stardock and Brad. But, that doesn't mean that I can overlook that this game was released with a ton of flaws and a ton of mistakes that should have been caught before release. [/quote] I agree they should have been caught. What would you have me do at this point? Would you like me to terminate the

I will say that most of my AI work is being reserved for v1.1 as I've done so much surgery on it since release. But v1.09 fixes some bugs in it (v1.1 by contrast is a major overhaul of the strategic AI system).

[quote who="Vladesch" reply="89" id="2791119"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 85I look forward to your game and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. In the meantime, go somewhere else. What he said was spot on, and this response was completely uncalled for. Guess nothing's changed.[/quote] I'm sorry you think your purchase entitles you or others to endlessly complain or criticize our work on our own forums. I can assure you it doesn't. We

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="108" id="2790673"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 107uber armored horse mounted mega archer. The reason those never existed is because armor slowed the horse down, and the really good bows (longbows and the really powerful versions of crossbows) could not be used on horse back. And it is hard to aim from the back of the horse, but that might be hard to add in.[/quote] The mongols had pretty good bows though on horseback but were lightly armored.

[quote who="drakonfire" reply="56" id="2790698"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 55 Stardock made one of the expansions for Starcraft back in the day and our design had to be altered based on what the engine could do. Mind = Blown (For anyone else who had NO idea this existed Linky 1 and Linky 2) How the flip did those two AUTHORIZED expansion/spinoffs slip into the void of the last 10 years? Learn something new everyday, I guess. &nb