AceQ

Starcraft never had a commander unit. It always had lots of little units. The idea that your Sovereign is so powerful is something to consider. He CAN walk through just about any defense you can build very quickly early in the game. If this was Starcraft, you could also build lots of little units and stop the assault. In this scenario, you can only hold back your commander or somehow gate him to the city to defend it as all other units are inferi

I get the odd feeling our job as testers is done and our job as players is about to begin. :)

It's great fun for sure. My only complaint, you really can't defend your own city without the sovereign for many, many rounds.

How much damage can you actually do in the first 50 turns of the game? A LOT OF DAMAGE. How about owning 5+ cities and 2 of them opposing forces capitals? Just in case you haven't done this yet - I was quite surprised at the vulnerability of all the starter towns within the first 50+ turns of the game. So much so, it became apparent the only way to protect your town is to keep the sovereign in it. Bec

[quote who="Bogatz" reply="12" id="2692761"]Second the twins motion.[/quote] Oh it sounds cool - until it happens to you. *cough* love them to dead but jeez 1 at a time is easier *cough*

[quote who="ferang" reply="10" id="2692622"]I find the cloth map much easier to use too but love the look of the 3d art style. maybe a setting to allow icon overlay on the 3d map or some other way to make the goodies stand out. maybe a key to toggle between the icons/identifiers to allow you to highlight them if needed. [/quote] Awesome idea!

It's good to know I'm not alone on this but also, kind of scary to think all this work goes into the graphics of the game and spell abilities etc etc. Down the road, perhaps all spell style abilities and graphical flare can still happen on the cloth map. Or a really dumbed down colorful 2d look instead of the 3d terrain as an option. Not sure. I only know that, the cloth map is where I spend a lot of time and - it's pretty boring after a while? hmm... Use

I guess this is a poll of sorts. I still play this game on the cloth map 90% of the time. There isn't a good reason to play off the cloth map, the special areas are quick to pinpoint from a distance and you get a better tactical feel. (for the most part) It makes me wonder how many others play the vast majority of Elemental on the cloth map. ?? -AceQ

Ahh thank you. I wasn't sure if it was my setup or perhaps the game. I'm going to download it to the secondary drive from now on.

I have a SDD primary/boot drive, it's a small one at 30gb but Windows 7 absolutely loves it. Applications open near instantly. The Page file is obviously on the secondary drive. Has anyone run this configuration? Do you load your games on that smaller OS/App drive? Just curious. -AceQ

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="21" id="2683351"]Solution: * After a quest escorting a noble or saving a village or some such, having enough charisma, you might be asked if you want to spend the night at the village / estate celebrating. * If you choose yes, there's a chance of having a baby born out of wedlock. This risks your spouse running off and might cause loss of prestige in your capital. The lower your charisma, the higher the risk. [/quote]

[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="12" id="2683037"]i don't know...i understand that yes its a bit unrealistic, but is it totally destroying your ability to suspend you disbelief? i'm not sure its good for the game to make your sovereign stay at home to just bang it out with his wife to get some kids.[/quote] Pure tongue in cheek here. Just noticed and had a good laugh about it. Not disrespecting the game, just poking fun at a funny attribute of it.

So, does it bother anyone else that you can find a great woman, marry her on the spot, send her to your home city to live peacefully and then... She starts hooking on the streets and pumping out 'our' kids while you are protecting the frigging realm from hellish fiends and renegade wizards in the underworld? I mean, hey toots, I know it's been a while but what the hell? You've gained a solid 50 stones and why do I have 2 sons and a daughter to marry off all of a sudden? &n

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="28" id="2682824"] Quoting Blaze of Glory, reply 27I have already stated I am not a fan of learning everything is a spellbook when the nearest shard is forever away, but I can't learn spells for shards I have. I would like that changed to be able to learn spells for things I DO have. I think the research tree is a good idea in that you aren't guaranteed to learn A tech, but one of several. Why are spells different? If combining shards to

[quote who="Dagwood" reply="24" id="2682683"]@Reianor - we clearly just have a difference of opinion on this. By your logic, why even bother having to learn spells at all? We could just spend all arcane knowledge "leveling up" the spell books. Then get all the known spells for each level of each respective book we choose/find. The only limiting factor on use would be by shard/essence/mana requirements. That's certainly an mechanic I've seen implemented before, and I'd be

[quote who="Tridus" reply="53" id="2682229"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 45 Given the sheer amount of $$$ being spent on multiplayer, it's safe to say that we're taking it seriously. However, what I am not in favor of is simply taking the single player stuff and making it MP. I'd rather add more modes later like a dedicated Arena mode and such. That's perfectly reasonable, but until you have all those other things leave tactical battles on in MP. [/quote] <

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="2680718"]I love modding but I'm not convinced they can move units. We'll see. Essence = mana cap. Nothing more or less.[/quote] This is obviously troublesome. Using your mana cap to produce effects in the game will do a few things which I'm sure we'll have to prove through play. Perhaps after this next beta release, enough of the game will be in to either prove Frogboy is a genius or perhaps sway his intellect to

[quote who="jshores" reply="7" id="2680721"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 5I love modding but I'm not convinced they can move units. We'll see. Essence = mana cap. Nothing more or less. Modding may not move units, but it definitely contributes to the longevity of a product![/quote] The longevity can move products. By the time Demigod figured out what it was, the community was gone and I couldn't get any friends to move into t

9800 GTX+ is causing other issues in the game, I'm going to assume Video Card tomfoolery.

[quote who="KWAiRT" reply="6" id="2678406"] Elemental has multiplayer. To ensure that it is robust, we basically threw money at the problem (i.e. set up servers around the world to just host the game) rather than monkey around with trying to get players to connect with one another. However, Elemental IS a single player game that happens to have multiplayer. Out of the box, Elemental’s multiplayer will be essentially skirmish on fixed maps that have been pre-balanced (i.

For some crazy reason, I can't get the game to come out of minimized mode. It sounds like it's running, but there is no screen to play the game. Does anyone know the full screen switch within the .exe? ALT+Tab does nothing nor does rebooting etc. I want to give it a crack - but can't get past this bug. :( -AceQ-

[quote who="ogredpowell" reply="25" id="2677848"]right now pacing is huge. Im finding that in able to afford even PARTIES of units, i have to build up to level 3-4 cities, and my armies do not seem to match that of my poplualation (when i have over a grand of people working for me, and I have like 15-20 soldiers total +5 champions....[/quote] I agree here, pacing (which we know is being worked on) the first 50 turns of the

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="38" id="2676102"] Quoting JayC1407, reply 37Adding my name to the list of people waiting on 3-A. Please release soon. Couple of people above mentioned saving needing fixed/unplayable as a result. Unless you're referring to loading hang-ups and crashes which are present and annoying and occasionally refuse to go away, I've found that quick-saving (Ctrl + S) works well enough, at least I've pressed it a couple of hundred times in fear of CTD's.[/quote]

[quote]How did i get it? I simply went into the game and pressed update lol I guess it's karma, who knows. I think i'm playing beta3a. Ahh, egg on my face, it's actually version .085, my bad. Funny thing is i hit the update menu thru the game menu it said there was an update available...weird.[/quote] Thi

This is like Warlords of so many years ago. It really is a great idea.