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This journal entry is the most important i have read so far about FE and i know now that i will buy this game. I always felt that the greatest problem in Stardock games was the total lack of flavor. Galactic Civilizations 2 with its expansions was really a beautiful game but i couldn't enjoy it fully because technology, races, improvement description were so bad and bland that i couldn't find its atmosphere immersive. It's really nice to know that Stardock is trying to improve thi

Me and 2 other friends of mine have already preordered civ5. Assuming that Elemental has a good post release support which will make it a fun alternative to Civ5 and that it will be packed with an expansion at a budget price i will buy it istantly and i think my 2 friends also. What saved us from burning 50 euros on Elemental as it was released was the release of Demigod which made us wait for reviews or player feedback. I really hope that Stardock learn th

I can only be grateful to the community for their honesty. Me and 2 my friends were following the developement of this game since it was announced, considered it was such rare to see a new TBS. We just didn't buy it on Day 0 and waited for reviews and community feedback due to previous release of Demigod. That's really a shame that we have to wait this game to become a budget one or be released with an expansion at discounted price, when we are TBS enthusiasts. I reall

any official statement from stardock about preordring Elemental in UK or Europe?

I haven't yet seen listed Elemental in UK. I have browsed amazon.co.uk or game or play.com but there is no way i can preorder Elemental because they don't list it.Is it just temporary or those e-shops won't sell the game? Is there also any plan to release the Collector's edition in europe?

[quote who="Frogboy"] You certainly have a right to your opinion. And I have the right to say your opinion is stupid too. Galactic Civilizations has a great deal of lore behind it too (they're in the same universe, just different times) but I doubt most would agree that the sandbox mode is broken. The races in GalCiv are all basically identical other than different BINK movies. In Twilight of the Arnor (made two years later) we finally

This map looks to me like Ireland and Alaska connected by a bridge :)

In my opinion tech trading could be implemented on a multilateral level. Trade Routes should not only increase money but also research (for example +1 RP on random tech available to the civ you are trading with) and culture. With civs with whom you have particularly good relations you can exchange knowledge but it should just mean an increase on RP/Turn got from Trade Routes. I agree also that battles or the conquest of enemy cities should have an effect on your tech l

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2509324"]Elemental will have a lot of text in it. So much that I'm not certain we'll be releasing non-English versions of it except for Russian (our partner Snowball is awesome at this stuff). As for the book... Wrote a chapter today that involved a golem battling this umberdroth. The book isn't based on the game but rather the game is based on the books (originally just a series of outlines over the

One of the things which i have always disliked in TBS games is how tech trading is handled, considered that it's not only an unrealistic feature but it also unbalances the gameplay and make it more cheesy. I don't know if any of you guys remember but until later patches GC2 had some big problems with Tech Trading considered that it was so easy to take the tech lead just by trading.The no tech trading option introduced later was really welcome but it indeed impacted gameplay