Looks like it wont happen anyway, the devs are doing so much right now that there only free time is spent in bed sleeping. Apperntly there chained to the desk to make sure elemental will come out on time and under budget while at the same time even random beer shipments have been turned down due to the fact that the perfect level of beer is pumped into staff via IV to keep everyone at a healthy buzz. Aka anouther day at the office of Stardock :)
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Well Elemental (alpha?) is coming soon, I tossed boogie a PM to see if he got word weather we can have a small unoffical get togeather (nothing more then a few devs just showing up at a bar and forgeting to take there work badge off) Hopfully he says yes to this. I also started thinking that Stardock needs to have its own fanfest, thay have the fans, all the games so far make money and having gone to the EvE-Online fanfest I can say you dont need a lot of people t
Im flexable :) It could be a great day to get out after puting out an alpha, or a really bad day after puting out demigod :P
Soon as we get the Ok there will be a donate link put up, (most likly a new post with a stickey) Im sure that since Boogie knows that the fans want to put something to geather we should get word in a few days. Current sugested date is 26th of June
Thanks BoogieBac! I wasent trying to do anything that would Kill your crunch time, just shooting for a friday night event for the community to show there support for you guys and girls who make our life great. Lets say the 26th of june. I dont know any good places near your offices so if you could sugest one that would be great. Since a good chunk of the team is marryed lets say right after work (would that be around 6?) Ill give the bartender what ever the com
I've done that before(for the staff of Gamestorm a board gaming event), but I don't want to set anything up till we hear from one of the reps if this is doable. If it is doable then I be honored to setup the event and put a booze link for those who cant show in person(or to young to get in the door).
Actully im from washington state, Ill be in town for family reasons but when I found out the team was local I figured I could offer at least. This has nothing to do with geting in the alpha phase. I put my pree order in many many months ago before the date was even given (I think I've preeordered 3 stardock games now) Really its about thanking them for all there hard work.
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As a long time supporter of Stardock I found out that Stardock is located in Michigan which is where I will be in about 2 weeks. As such I would love to support you guys for all your hard work on Demigod and Elemental with a round at the bar on me. This would be for the years of hard work in providing me with both entertainment and useful products like Multiplicity and I would like to encourage Stardock to stay in business for a long time to come as one of the best modern development stu
The cloth map is so that elemental gets the correct "game" feeling with out dedicated hard core art work. Keep in mind more work has gone into elemental so far then the earler game Master of Magic had total. That said the game needs to have the "fun" element figured out at the macro level before working on the micro level. Its really a great idea to build the game and then add detail.
Why do corporate sinkwholes so over value 10+ year old names and never allow anyone to use them with out shelling out massive amounts of cash? Master of Magic was a great game in its day but the amount of users now a days who have no clue about the game is going to be massive. Each year that goes by im sure the value of MOM goes down due to the lack of games released under the name. And its us gamers who ultimatly suffer :(
I havent had slow down on sup com at all and I totly cant wait for this one. Idealy this time the game needs dimminishing returns on a lot of stuff to slow down the resorce imbalance currently made by the current game (he who plays sim city the best runs the game)
Pull system (part of choice 1) Why cant we use a pull system, Where you define what you want built, and the AI starts shipping the goods to build that item to your city. Use a drag and drop trade route (like google maps for directions). On top of this each town could have a "do not trade" level in the town store of goods and any goods above this level would be "pulled" to the new town wanting to build a specific unit. AI for this would not be as hard as one thinks.
Thinking Tatical: Leadership: Several types of leadership, small unit, big unit, shock troops leader etc. the type of leadership + unit mix given to the leader should define which AI scripts the leader will have access to. More advanced AI scripts will have access to more advanced formations and attacks. Dirty Tricks: We are playing a tatical game, Dirty trickts will be like horse archers kiting slower creatures, charging units creating a rota
So I want to destroy the world... Well I would first drop rocks on citys I dont like, more magic = bigger rock Next I would open rifts on top of citys I dont like, more magic = bigger rift After that I would use plagues accross the world, more magic = stronger plague Bring the dead back from the grave more magic = larger area of effect & the farther back the spell goes I like ice age BUT! it should be progressive, start at the poles and start moving
To fix path finding issues, when opening a gate bettween 2 citys, do something like this: Each city needs a pree built gate. To connect citys you need to "explore the eather for a route" A space time relm thats differnt from our own, days weeks or months could pass for the people in the "eather" while only a turn passes for us. Weak units could get killed to the nastys. Once you create a route you still have drawbacks, including raids from the eather, possable
I have aways enjoyed death magics of other games, the idea of summoning the weakest skeleton to the strongest dreadlord of the underworld, making your towns people undead so they dont eat food (and can never recover) but instead cost some of your power as upkeep apeals to me. Elemental could even make this the "forbiden" element as all the other magics are about doing good things for your people and bad things for those aginst you, Death could be about doing bad things to everyone, in