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Wait for FE, which they almost have to demo.

I see it as a kind of indifference curve Pumping more capital,more time or more labor will allow for either a more ambitious or better executed game, but there are limits, the more of one thing you put in, the less efficient that one thing will be.

I hate saying it, but I'm having doubts myself. We may get stuck with a monopoly , and it's our fault as gamers.

relevant links: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6609288/AutoSave.EleSav http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6609288/Elemental1_19-2011-01-29T02-56-27-589.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6609288/debug.err

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="31" id="2877918"]Yea, we're pretty good friends with the Paradox guys (i.e. talk to them very regularly) and we're seeing what we can do to help them with Impulse::Reactor integration. It would solve a lot of problems I suspect as IR doesn't require a client (i.e. no Steam or Impulse client required).[/quote] You guys really do need to get Reactor out more and get more done with it. With Elemental, Reactor to me was one of th

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2877651"] Quoting Mayjori, reply 19ill be getting it, i love steam . I actually get irritated when games dont come out on it or come out on other distribution platforms except for it :/. I'd love to be able to pick one DDP and stick with it (nothing against impulse, i just have a HUGE library on steam . edit: oh, it would be awesome if someone did something for DDP's like trillian does for messengers! /dreams<br

Brad toned down the wandering monsters because they were getting too strong in the early game. I think it was overdone some. Skaths on turn 100 is fine. The problem was getting skaths on turn 10 previously.

I've been thinking- several techs I just flat-out don't use, even situationally. It's like the choice is so bad it doesn't exist. Idea: make several techs a function of the overall tech level, instead of actual techs How it would work for each branch I think Diplomacy: I don't know. Maybe a static defense bonus to caravans/DC bonus/trade bonus? Adventure: maybe heroes should be spawned this way, the

The levies idea sounds interesting, but leads me to this question? Why would you research it instead of something else? Part of me is thinking several things in this game technologically, shouldn't be specific techs, but maybe tied into the general tech level instead? That may be a little too out of the box for EWOM, but might be a good idea for FE.

Saw the improvements in 1.19, look nice, but I still think more work could be done in the UI department. a) The casting on individual units in a stack is great , but there needs to be an option to cast the spell on multiple targets, unless this causes more problems then it solves, in which case- save it for later. b ) There needs to be a clear way to handle grouping/splitting from groups. Some suggestions here: b1) Car

today at some point hopefully. Under Kael patchtimes tend to average around 10pm or so, as he's not a morning person. ^_^

I would not be shocked if one of the next-gen consoles actually did use Steam, or a Steam-like service.

The patch notes look promising. What I'm expecting from 1.2: For the game to meet GC2 DL final pre-expansion patch levels of polish in terms of UI, performance and Stability, to leave the game in good shape for the work that will begin soon on FE. Gameplay-wise, I'm not expecting a whole lot, but any improvements will help. If you're wondering why I put these things out the way I do: I think it's good communication on my end to show what I e

One idea for blink- have it randomly teleport the target whenever they take a blow over 50% of their remaining hp.

Here's a legit question- how many of us want resources to be spent on War of Magic once FE comes out, if FE ends up a much superior game? I'd rather see the resources spent on what 99% of people will be playing, not the other 1%. That's not to say improvements from FE could be back-ported to EWOM, but I wouldn't want anything over token sums of money/time spent on that, provided FE ends up being what it needs to be.

MoM has improved AI. I wouldn't call it great, but decent. The problem with MoM is that I think there's a little too much bloat in the design. I think Wildmana was in some ways better (the predecessor)

On those areas Brad mentioned in GalCiv 2, he did pick on the weak areas of a very good game. One thing I've noticed, I tend to be much more harsh and vicious on a game the better it is for some reason. It's like I can forget a game if it's crap, but a really good game- those things keeping it from greatness I'll really scrutinize and be difficult about. I have my own biases also. I tend to strongly dislike inelegant design and weak AI.

My guess is once 1.2 is out, work begins on the FE beta. (and some work is being done already, most of these fixes would be needed for FE anyways)

[quote who="Tim-Bur" reply="60" id="2873481"]I have really mixed feelings about this expansion pack. It sounds like it will have lots of great stuff, and I really appreciate the thoughtful realism in Derek's post above. However, I'm a little confused and disappointed by the fact that this will be a separate product. I feel that the stuff which is planned for the expansion is all stuff which ought to have been in the original game. A living world? Heck yeah! But why is it coming in

One UI suggestion of my own: 44) For targetted spells on armies, since you can cast unlimited strategic spells in a turn, allow casting on multiple targets at once? Maybe like AOW2 have right click invert your choices? (don't know how exactly you're designing this right now) Very promising looking changelog right now.

[quote who="yaromir" reply="31" id="2873105"]Well, I for one would like a game that has a solid 4x identity with some RPG elements (MoM). EWOM has features which do not fit a Strategy game at all and are more appropriate for an RPG (do you really need to mix-and-match multiple pieces of armor?). Second large issue is this. Yes EWOM is a "new game", but it is a Spiritual Successor of a genre. As such, we expect certain features. Ce

[quote who="unacomn" reply="19" id="2872919"]The hat analogy made me think of only one thing. But contrary to what Team Fortress 2 has thought us, too many hats can be a bad thing.[/quote] Those hats ended up runing a great game turning it into a crappy MMO. (sorry, very salty off-topic rant)

One thing I wouldn't mind seeing, is "dungeon" type goodie huts where you can send adventurers, and have all sorts of various things happen from that, kinda like the lairs from FFH, perhaps though with several of those effects rolled into one: like adventurer gains 2 level, finds a +1 shortsword, but is having to run from a dire skath. You wouldn't know the effects until a few turns later, during which time the adventurer is unavailable (might be 1-4 turns, depending on how epic things

[quote]game and players that didn't enjoy the dungeons game (unless we made the explorable dungeons optional, in which case the time spent developing [/quote] I don't know how much budget Jon has to work with, but I thought part of his job for Elemental was to have things developed that modders really wanted.

[quote who="Freebird1956" reply="2" id="2872675"]Truth !!!!!!! What does truth have to do with anything. Its all about making the money. Give me the cash and I`m good to go. So what if I let the gaming community down. Yes, I realize things are heading now in a different direction. I`m tired of hearing half truths and pasting blame. Lets move on. I can not wait for Derek`s version of Elemental. It should be everything we were expecting from Brad`s version that we did not get. Freebi