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[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="10" id="2866709"] I must admit that the game balancer part of me wants to remove sovereign customization from the game (which will never happen because it's awesome!) because of the inherent balance concerns it raises. We can balance Procipenee's Attunement vs Verga's high starting strength but when we allow players to make their own it allows them to make crazy combos. We can either remove sovereign customization, keep some traits

i find that cursing isn't really insulting enough for my needs. i find it much effective to look people directly in the eye and just tell how horrifically ugly they are in comparison to me.

a lot of people keep making the request that we be able to upgrade our military units to newer versions with better armour, more experience and larger maximum group sizes. we make it as an aside, in the thought that it's such an obvious usability thing that is bound to be implemented eventually. only it hasn't been, nor has their been any talk of doing so. and the past doesn't compare well: although there was an upgrade option of a sorts in GalCiv2, you'd have to restructure your enti

sorry to repost this, but i've been thinking a lot about the game recently, and the boards over there are pretty dead. despite my admiration for gc2 and all the hours i've given it, i don't think it's fair to say i really love it. the game just has no atmosphere and the visual style is too cartoony. you never feel that you're exploring the infinite wonder of the cosmos; there's no scie

the game mechanics don't have the scope for much variation unfortunately. in theory you have a choice of maybe three kinds of hero: ranged weapons, melee weapons and magic. unfortunately stats don't effect spells nearly enough that there's much advantage to focusing on INT, and even if they did it wouldn't effect your equipment because there is no magical equipment, nor any real disadvantage to armour. the easiest solutions would be - increasing the role of stats in spells. so

i too am waiting for the big announcement so i know what to rant about next. good choice of spell winner though; i just hope some more get in: it's not as if we've got too many spells.

despite my admiration for gc2 and all the hours i've given it, i don't think it's fair to say i really love it. the game just has no atmosphere and the visual style is too cartoony. you never feel that you're exploring the infinite wonder of the cosmos; there's no scientific believability OR imagination. neither is there any sense of dread or unknown at the prospect of war with an alien race. there are too many aliens that look like squirrels, purple gems floating in space and messages like "

i'm with the OP broadly. if it was up to me sorcery and spell research would be the same thing. it just makes sense. personally i would remove the idea of specific spell research entirely and just research the books: once you get the book you know all the spells in it, even if you can't cast them. we would need many more books though (which i would be arguing anyway). i would also like a tech that increased your mana regen by 1/turn each time it was researched. then, finally, sorcery would ha

i can see why people would want more flexibility with the tile limit, but i think they're thinking small. if nothing else, there are performance issues to consider. I think the idea of urban congestion and squalor is beyond the scope of this game. We already have perfectly good ways of limiting buildings without approaching the tile limit. ie, population and level. those are the mechanics we need to make work. once we start playing around with the tile limit, we have effectively ack

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="1" id="2851820"]if there's no tile limit... doesn't that mean you can cover a whole map with just 1 city?[/quote] i'm not saying we shouldn't be hitting an ultimate tile limit or that we should be able to cover the map with endlessly sprawling cities; i'm saying that if the game was designed properly, neither of these things would be a risk anyway.

pretty fair, generally. have been abusing the volcano spell myself recently. you know that casting it on an enemy city doesn't even count as a declaration of war?!?!

so you may or may not know that level 5 cities will eventually reach a limit beyond which it can construct no more due to a hardcoded tile limit. most games have limits of this kind, but the question that needs to be asked is whether this limit is there for performance/visual reasons, or as a gameplay mechanic. neither answer is particularly satisfying. if it's genuinely a gameplay feature, it seems like a pretty lame one. it's one thing to say that a city can only support a certain n

unless there is some strategy to city design, then what purpose does it serve? couldn't it just as easily be represented by an image that simply grew tith city size? if nothing else then we'd stop running into the city tile limit all the time. which raises another questions: is the city tile limit supposed to be a tactical gameplay restriction, or is it just a performance thing to save memory? i mean, if it's the former, than it's a pretty lame mechanic, and if it's the latter then wh

[quote who="jecjackal" reply="83" id="2850715"] With this post, I tried to point out that we could have 10 or so weapons that would continously get better (tiers would be mat used). Each weapon would have strengths or weakness (passive stat changes). Kenata's Weapon Mod is also an excellent example. https://forums.elementalgame.com/400876 Her(?) example gives 1-2 abilities to each weapon. I think this is an excellent idea and if combined with tiers of mats, an excellent

agreed. not saying it should be easy, but i would prefer them accessible somehow. also perhaps as quest rewards?

btw, i personally think the AI would do better with a bunch of premade units. i don't think there's really enough variation in the system at the moment to warrant unit design.

much the same as others: the ai doesn't build groups it doesn't go for the right technologies first like a human player: food increases, housing bonuses, groups, armour and weapons. perhaps we're manipulating the game because certain techs are essential (overpowered), and in the long terms this might mean a rethink of technologies, but in the short term, it needs to learn to go for these techs and build those groups. it builds too many settlements too cl

i really like resources and really hope that the GC3 economy would be more fun if it was about achieving a balance of resources than messing around with those confusing and counter intuitive production sliders and focus buttons. i really think this would would help with the atmosphere of the game. most great space games have a sense of the infinite expanse of the cosmos and the unthinkable possibilies contained therein. your evil opponents should have the threat of the unknown. the ga

the more and more I think about this, the more i think it would improve the game. right now the initial jump from individuals to grous represents a huge jump in power that makes it an "essential" tech. one of those techs we all go at in a straight line early in the game (like housing and food techs). what's worse is that the AI is awful at building groups even when it has the techs. this will likely persist switching from a 1/3/6/12 progression to 3/6/9/12 would have many benefits inc

yes, i am getting sick of having huge sub continents of land in which there is not point in building even the smallest of settlements. i mean, look at russia: it's basically all the bits to the north of the other countries that no one else wanted, but they've still managed to find some useful stuff there. resource distribution is key to getting the settlement distribution right in this game. more and more now i'm starting to wonder if the solution is perhaps a lot more resources, but smaller

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="2" id="2848310"]Following up on Istari's excellent suggestion, I too would like to see a D&D system for units. [/quote] tbh, most of suggestions i make for how to do the combat system tend to be D&D based; it's a very good system for this kind of thing. though there's some things i wouldn't keep (i currently like the distinction between dodging and blocking dnd lacks). generally though, the D&D system of random number + stat const

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2848032"]Really? Do you seriously believe that? Then tell us about these problems that you can directly trace to "fan" intervention. I mean, you must be thinking about specific problems with Elemental that were directly caused by the "fans", right? Not just making sweeping statements. [/quote] i agree. i'll happily take this seriously if some good examlples can be supplied. the minor factions thing is har

is it just me or are my created sovs not being saved for future games?

i'd personally move all the magic research into the spell system, and instead of researching individual spells, research spell levels and the books (and add a lot more books, like Greater Fire, Greater Air, Wild Summons, Dimensional Summons, make Terraforming not a starting book either) then merge diplomacy and adventure. that would seem like the easiest immediate solution that doesn't involve scrapping separate spell research buildings, or redesigning concepts like how monste

a lot of it is that a lot of the content is either always unecessarry to meet the objectives (adventuring, or recruiting creatures) or not competetive numbers wise (no effective end game damage spells). in another words a lot of it is numbers still i think. it could use a bit more OMG content, but that will have to come later.