[quote who="Ahroo" reply="1" id="2753517"]Who is tom francis and why should I care about his opinion? [/quote] Tom Francis is the guy that Brad Wardell personally compiled and handed over a copy of the 1.0 version of the game in order for him to preview it. He is also a friend of Mr. Wardell's. From https://forums.elementalgame.com/394855/page/4/#replies [quote] Tom Francis's debiliatin
Stardock is being very cryptic about multiplayer in this game. I think nobody has any idea when it will be in the game, how well it will work, or what features it will include. All I know for sure is it will definitely be different somehow. Last week they said it would be available this week, and earlier this week the in-game message, when clicking multiplayer, said "Later this week." After the 1.07 update the in-game message says "We are looking for feedback on sing
[quote]The EXACT same as Single player but with humans.[/quote] Agreed! Well, I would actually make one tiny adjustment (as an option): Allow "simultaneous" turns a la Civ 4 or AoW: Shadow Magic, that way turns are only as slow as the time of the slowest person, instead of as slow as the time sum of all the players combined. Cloning the single player experience has the added benefit of allowing the developers to focus on the single player development, instead of developi
[quote]I would say the vast majority of the Beta community was saying that.[/quote] Yes I guess that's what I meant. I also made the mistake of addressing the poster, when he was just quoting another poster on another message board.
[quote]I have been following this game on the official forums and I have witnessed the loyal/excited fanbase nearly scream for the game to be released early for months now.[/quote] You must have been following a different part of the official forums than I did, because during the Beta process I felt the vast majority were telling Brad that the game was being wrapped up too quickly.
[quote]Also, is there a big step change in the quality of players from one league to the next.[/quote] I was taking a break from playing competitively tonight. I was playing with my guest account and using absurd strategies so I'd stay in the lower leagues just to see the caliber of players. Playing primarily bronze through gold, the common theme is that my opponents never had much stuff. I wasn't trying to win, in fact I was just messing around with various units t
I don't actually know the official way of checking out your region, but if you go to sc2ranks.com and look up yourself it should tell you what region you're in. There are 7 regions: Russia Taiwan SE Asia Europe Korea North America Latin America So it's possible you're on Korea, Taiwan, or South East Asia I suppose.... but my guess is SE Asia
Aussie server? Is that South East Asia region? Hate the region lock, but I have to admit, it probably exists because of suckers like me; I'm probably going to buy a second account at some point to play with my European friends....though not when it costs $60! Sounds like you should get promoted soon, it could actually be that you haven't lost enough since you've started to dominate. I've heard that you have to lose to some extent to get promoted; there ar
The last Radeon drivers screwed up AoW: SM for me, have to play the game without Direct 3D. Hopefully the new version will fix the problem! Edit: No, still broken. Ah well thanks for the news anyway, maybe it will help out people who are having problems with EWOM.
Sweet! finally got my Diamond promotion! I know, as they say, that the league's don't mean much yet as there are a lot of new players and it is still tuning itself, but I wanted to enjoy being in the highest of the leagues while I can.
Yeah was going to mention that after I tried one more game to make sure. Yes it occurred when making a custom faction and not when using one of the pre-made factions.
Just fired up 1.05 and started playing a game, but I ran into this problem: I'm assuming that that's not supposed to happen.
[quote who="Othello" reply="49" id="2720302"] I believe he already has my code, it's on the first page. [/quote] Heh, yeah sorry, I didn't notice you were Jack. I have added you also, if I see you online I'll send you a message.
In case people haven't read the latest Dev journal, there is good news on tactical battles, [quote] Frogboy: "One piece of good news on MP. Originally we had planned to eliminate tactical battles from MP entirely because of balance. Some people correctly guessed the misguided (in hindsight) reason for this: We were approaching MP from a purely competitive point of view. Based on the persuasive arguments made by our players, we have decided that tactical batt
[quote quoting="post"] One piece of good news on MP. Originally we had planned to eliminate tactical battles from MP entirely because of balance. Some people correctly guessed the misguided (in hindsight) reason for this: We were approaching MP from a purely competitive point of view. Based on the persuasive arguments made by our players, we have decided that tactical battles will be made available in MP – as an option – at a later date as a free update. [/quote]
When I play turn-based games with friends/family I too don't use a time limit. We have more of an honor system and have never needed to institute a timer. In any event, turning on an in game timer should of course be an option.
[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="97" id="2719811"]to me, if thats the way the game works, then for the dedicated stardock servers then autoresolve only should be enabled, and when the custom servers are released to us then there should be a threshold limit set by the host.[/quote] Yeah I kind of wonder if the tactical battles are being disabled for the sake not swamping the Elemental servers, or because they might lead to game instability and crashes, or some other reason that wasn't me
[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="87" id="2719034"] because, if in order to have tactical battles i have to watch every battle that takes place(whether its my faction or not), then i totally understand why they were taken out. that would be a terrible experience. [/quote] This is how AoW worked, and yeah was a little annoying at times, but the game always had a switch to disable tactical battles. Again, I think there are perfectly valid concerns over having tactic
I guess I'm still curious what exactly is in the multiplayer version of the game. So far, tactical battles are out, and I just read that quests were taken out. Are these changes only for the dedicated Stardock servers? Will we be able to set whatever game rules we want when you enable custom servers?
Nice letter Naydien. I guess I'm wondering, since it isn't mentioned in this thread, is tactical battle the only thing missing from multiplayer in the day 0 release? Do we still get the full tech tree? Will we have quests? Is the dynasty system in place? What about diplomacy?
I agree with maxlongstreet, I think a large portion of the TBS MP crowd simply want the Single Player experience except with players filling in for some of the AI. Sure, some people might not appreciate the longer games that are caused by tactical battles, and maybe some of those same people might not realize that turning on the tactical battle option is what is making the game "unfun" for them and thus they will rage on the forums, but is the number of those people greater than
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="49" id="2717848"] I don't mind watching battles or being able ot just sort of explore my empire and dig deep into stuff while someone is playing. I see this as an issue for the random person/ so called casual crowd, but the game was never billed as casual. It would be awesome if it could be like AOW, in that you can have more than 2 people in a battle. Brad says it has potential for a group of friends to play, and that is exactly what
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="47" id="2717809"] Well that pretty much confirms my fear of what Stardock wound up doing with MP. At least some information was given, and there might be potential in the future, who knows. I keep hearing about demand for MP, except when you ship a game with less than barebones MP, it seems unlikely to drive up demand. We'll see.[/quote] I'm still holding out some hope that this will moddable, at least at some point, regardless of what Stardock decides.
Well there is your answer: https://forums.elementalgame.com/391013 Looks like no options.
[quote quoting="post"] I would like to see the tactical battles take on a life of their own. The day 0 multiplayer does not have tactical battles in them. We took them out. Yes, in an ideal world we could have made this an option, but anyone who has been on a forum for any amount of time knows that you'd still have people flaming us who found tactical battles boring because while the other guy was fighting some drawn out battle, they were stuck watching it. [/quote]