Mystikmind

Can anyone advise on the combat 'miss' issue i mentioned in my first post?

Primarily the simplest thing to make things get built more quickly/cheaper/stronger is technology. Technology that will help directly or it may help indirectly by unlocking a city improvement that can be built.... or reveal hidden resources.

There is one word which i have seen used in some older and forgotten games - the word is 'overwatch'. If a unit has movement points left over when its turn ends, it can use the left over movement to perform overwatch actions during the enemy turn - Overwatch actions are triggered by enemy actions during the enemies turn. I have seen games that allow the player to specify what overwatch moves their units should make. Units with movement points left over may have an icon t

Nice one Agio!

[quote who="Krynus" reply="3" id="2783801"]I get the jump build thing too, and yeah it's annoying as hell, but it doesn't happen all the time, though it is often. Same thing happens once in a while when I move units, right before I click the screen will do a quick scroll or something and I end up clicking somewhere else, and then off the units go... [/quote] You do see the jump build thing in other games, but it is more to do with the action of pr

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="6" id="2783757"]Civ5 with the ability to design your own units would be interesting...[/quote] And the man involved in developing the civ series already did that in Alpha Centauri - so it begs the question as to how that feature could be repeatedly ignored thus far??

I know what i did wrong then... the resources were inside my influence boarder but outside my view range, so i could not get the tool tip. Next time i will remember to run a unit out before constructing. Any advice on the other issue's?

Hi, i was hoping to get a bit of advice on a couple of things in the campaign? I had one problem with terrain improvements in the game.... my second city expanded its boarder enough to encompass the terrain bonuses near the other city. That other city had no influence boarder? could be a bug? anyway, i improved those terrain bonuses and it said they are 'not connected'. I tried to build houses over to them to connect but it won't allow in that direction? The game has a ve

You can easily some up key elements of various computer games - Some brilliant elements are forgotten these days? The way army combat worked in Civilization Call to power was ingenious - take that and make it turn based and you have the combat system in Elemental! Call to Power also had the duplicate world of outer space which was another brilliant concept but was dropped in Call to Power2 probably because it sucked too much computer power and the AI cannot cope with it (But the AI in any cal

[quote who="Kalin" reply="5" id="2783650"]I'm normally someone who enjoys campaigns as well, I even bough SC2 for the campaign only pretty much. I love a good story, or sometimes, even not such a good one, heh. The reason I made the statement above is that the elemental campaign disabled a lot of the game functions and thus doesn't really "play" like a real game of elemental, so I'd suggest giving the sandbox mode a spin as well. &nbsp

some further detail about my first experiences with the game... I did notice the city construction options are limited - but i have just spent a couple of months playing Medieval Total War and anyone who knows that game will understand why i might be a little tired of dealing with city improvements for a while!!! Elemental city improvements or lack thereof is kind of 'liberating'. Most other things relating to cities are also limited, the only noteworthy thing being the

[quote who="Kalin" reply="2" id="2783593"]I hope you don't judge the game based on the campaign. It isn't a good representation of what the game is capable of.[/quote] I wish i had a dollar for every time i have heard similar to this about a game! hehehe, and then simple minded me always loves the 'crappy' campaign. To tell the truth, I have never disliked a campaign in any game i have ever played except Starcraft, and only because the Starcraft campaign tried to force

Hi all, I played Elemental for the first time last night, I did the campaign up to tracking the refugees. My verdict - The good; It is a good game and yes i can see allot of untapped potential, but untapped potential a bad game does not make! The bad; I'm not sure if my interest in this game will last tho? It does remind me allot of 'Rise of legends' which i would say is a slightly better game than Elemental but Rise of Legends did not hold my interest f

I think Abandonware is a myth. Copyright on old games is the same as nuclear waste, it takes thousands of years to stop being a problem.

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="206" id="2781336"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 205I was just over at the civfanatics forum to see what's going on, i will warn you now, don't say anything negative about Steam on that forum! They are surprisingly nasty about it as well, too many people that haven't been taught any good forum maners, but i just ignore those ones and only respond to the reasonable posts.ROFLMAO Well if you think they are mean. Don't ever go to Apolyton, I don't think your

Last night i purchased Elemental! Never got to play it tho because my computer began restarting itself half way thru the download (first i had to update Impulse because i haven't used that for a long while - i think my computer did not like that happening). I was scared for a moment, because my computer was restarting instantly upon windows Vista 64 bit home premium opening - even in safe mode! lucky for me windows decided to stay open long enough for me to log in a dis

I was just over at the civfanatics forum to see what's going on, i will warn you now, don't say anything negative about Steam on that forum! They are surprisingly nasty about it as well, too many people that haven't been taught any good forum maners, but i just ignore those ones and only respond to the reasonable posts.

[quote who="hairrorist" reply="35" id="2781025"]And this will somehow impede the salves of Civilization? I was responding to your statement that Elemental had nothing to fear from the impending release of Civilization.[/quote] Took me a moment to figure out what you talking about.... but yea, i get your point now! ..... in that case i 'hope' the fact that civ5 is imprisoned on steam will impede its sales because of blah blah (what i said before). [quote] In any case, by

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="191" id="2781012"] Elemental is "imprisoned" on Impulse (theoretically you can run it without Impulse, but to get updates you have to use it). Steam is evil and Impulse is good? [/quote] This is a good point... however, Elemental is created by the same company that created Impulse, and their not out hijacking games from other developers like Steam is. It is Steams capacity to hijack that has me scared.... you know it can only

[quote who="hairrorist" reply="33" id="2780918"]Because the largest online distributor by a factor of 10, the service that has now eclipsed retail sales, is such a restrictive sales environment?[/quote] No because where game companies have ultimate control over their software is called a 'console' and Steam exclusive is leading down the path of eventually turning all our pc's into consoles!! We should not encourage this.

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="188" id="2773662"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 187This is an interesting thread, people talking about the various civ games. Personally i still play civ2 more often than civ3 or civ4. Civ 3 has ranged artillery which for me keeps it interesting enough to play over civ 4. Civ4 has the advanced unit experience development which is a brilliant concept but sadly just doesn't work due to unit attrition that even combat odds in the 90 percentile range cannot save

Oh it has that same crash problem after 100 turns or so carried thru from all the galciv games? Remarkable!! But at least in Galciv you can spot the signs it is nearing a crash, save and restart the game - can you do the same in Elemental? Fightingweasles - yea, you could go that way with the analogy. Tridus - No co-operative mult

Some funny posts here... Wintersong - "Still waiting for companies to force me to give blood samples each time I launch a game (while being online) to check for my identity as the true owner of a license for their game" Hahahaha by far the funniest (and yet scariest) remark i have seen all year! Anyway, so i take it Civ5 will only be released on Steam?? That is rather odd? Surly they know games need on the shelf advertising in stores? Thats how i find half

Going by what people are saying here and also I have been nosing through a number of other threads... seems like there is a general feeling that Elemental might have lifted off the beta runway too soon and attempted to fly without gaining enough airspeed first? Would that be a reasonable analogy?

Thanks for the advice guys, trcanberra, thanks for the heads up on NWN2! Right now i'm in the middle of playing a new DA game- looks like i finally got the game i have been looking for all these years! That is, i managed to get a fairly well balanced game going into the later stages of the game where i am not dominating or bogged down under a huge pile of enem