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[quote] Spam is a game strategy that is present in all 4x strategy games, from founding multiple settlements in "civilization" to colonizing as many worlds as you can in space games such as MOO, Distant worlds, Stars! etc. Maybe 4x strategy games are not for you, perhaps you'd like FPS or MMPOG games more? The second "x" in stands for "expand" ("explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate"). Spam matches the "expand" aspect of 4x strategy games. This is a ver

It was so much fun in GalCiv2 development times to look into Brads games vs. AI and his comments what's to improve. It made me happy following a game designer who cares about stupidness of AI and always tries to make it better. Didn't see something equal for Elemental. :(

Thanks, didn't note it.

Shouldn't 1.1 being up since yesterday - at least beta? I can't update even i've set the property for pre-release/beta versions.

Hmm, you can easily buy the download version. Just for your information, at least in germany this game is only available as download. So be lucky to get a box actually.

Well i think it would be not a good way if everyone is able to return games because they just don't like it. I mean if you start this there are open doors to give games back 2 weeks after release just played through. Sure they need to patch it! But if they do and fix all major issues refund isn't an option. I just remember spore which i threw out of the window 1 day after release but nobody wants to refund me.

Playing as kingdom i also run into more than 1 caravan issue. Strangely only some of my cities can suddenly produce 2 or even 3 caravans while the other are restricted to 1 and it were not the biggest cities. I also run into a bug that after reloading the game which completely let caravans vanish. I can't rebuild them and they are not under way just totally vanished. (patch 1.07) Also i had the feeling that caravan bonus was still given even the c

Do you play on tiny maps with all AIs?

[quote quoting="post"] It's wrong. Sorry, but it is. The feel should be organic, flavour-oriented and meaningful. Lairs should not appear, they should be just there. [/quote] No, there was time in beta where all was filled with dungeons and it was totally confusing and for me boring because you have to check every time can i enter or not. The system now just give you a few things and it definitly a better way of a game!

Yep i fully can support this analyze. I started a game on ridiculous difficult and got a war declaration. The AI did absolute nothing against my cities even a really bad defended was in direct neighbourhood of my opponent. I for myself moved to his cities, the enemy stacks IGNORED me and i just conquered his cities one after one. All was bad defended and the big stacks seems to move outside around without any goal. I also re

Just a short maybe stupid question: I want to play on hardest difficult but i'm not sure what the hardest is. Between "extreme" and "novice" there is "ridiculous" difficulty. But what does ridiculous mean here? "The game is so ridiculous easy" (ultra easy) OR "its so ridiculous that you even try on this level" (ultra hard) I'm not english native so maybe its more clear for a nati

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[quote who="TCores" reply="2" id="2659807"] but it's a reason I often don't spring for 64bit either. The market is small. [/quote] But it grows every day by a huge amount. At least in germany all people i know which build up a new game/dev windows system use the 64 bit version. The 64bit systembuilder version of windows 7 leads the selling lists on all shops i normall buy my stuff.

My End of Turn button is disabled after some playtime: image (the image include doesn't work) I reload and try again and on the same time its disabled againt. It maybe related to the Oasis! Its always the same turn the oasis is finsihed. I can't

Update at 50%

Is beta 2 today? Brad noted it will either on last Thursday -which i was not- or this week Tuesday which means today... Or did i miss an update?

I really want to see a turn based battle mode. I didn't know that it was ever planned as a RTS before.

No No No and No. just because i know that you can't code the AI good enough to defend it in a best way and also the AI will not send his own troops good enough to target your own which will be essential under this circumstances. So never!

From Brads Journal: (https://forums.elementalgame.com/376728) WHEN can I get into the beta? Officially the answer is Beta 2 which won’t be until mid next month. However, if you have pre-ordered (or plan to pre-order) we may open the beta for one day this next Thursday and let everyone who has pre-ordered the game up till then in so that if we have to delay beta 2, users aren’t having to keep waiting and waiting because we want to

+1 Vote for organic development of roads. You normally ALWAYS build roads so whats the fun to build them manually? The best is a system where can't influence roadbuild but it automatically improves with the city and always connect resources and other cities.

Sorry for the offtopic question but wasn't there a planned new beta yesterday (18. february)? I still can't update my beta version.

A short querstion. A few days ago BoogieBac wrote this in the blog: "So the next big beta is scheduled for this Thursday, where evenone on the beta group will get their first taste of several new features. " Does it mean this is completely canceled now?

Dominions 3 is the best. I have played it from start on more than 3 years ago. the game is so deep and has the best MP mode ever.

[quote who="Resand" reply="4" id="2376432"]I had the same problem for a while. Not sure what I did too fix it, but I think it was my firewall that somehow messed things up. Got a question from it about elemental, said yes, and everything worked fine.[/quote] Thanks for your help, It was really the problem! I was sitting behind workplace firewall! I just connect via guaest account which doesn't use a proxy and now i see

Same problem! Here my debug.err: DebugMessage: Version 0.22 last updated on: Thu Sep 17 11:59:54 2009 DebugMessage: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 9/18/2009, 10:42:22 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: BERN00172185A Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.080814-1233) Languages: English (Regional