Well one brush fire put out. A sticky like this is going to get a decent amount of traffic, being up at the top. And now I'm going to get some sleep, us 3rd shifters need to do that sometimes! I hope you all have a great day!
A consolidated resources page, with a focus is good idea ID!
Hence, the comment about the old hands, and new ones. I did read the Elemental FAQ for dummies, but still didn't see it, until I did a ctrl+F to find it. And a few months ago, I didn't see Brad mention it. I think that calling attention to it is useful. Because maybe.. others missed it as well. Or further, maybe they've missed some other key piece of information, that is obvious to some. But not obviously to them, till found later.
Well that was a pleasant diversion. But what I liked was that it gave us a look at some monsters..
I would have to say, one thing I learned as this thread prompted me to find it. 224x160 is the tile size for this game, which compared to Civ IV 104x64 is just a mammoth beast. That said, I don't know if the campaign (Single Player) will be more advanced larger drilled down focus on the region, or be more abstract and pulled out with that above map fitting in the 224x160 or not. That'll be answered later on. But this should be a fun ride.
[quote who="Kestral2040" reply="44" id="2646566"] It sounds like your Digg submissions were rejected because of some confusion on how they were linked, the system is designed so that if something is rejected it can be re-evaluated and we will look at them again and award points where they are deserved. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, remember there are a lot of submissions so there will be mistakes from time to time but they can be fixed.  
What in the nine hells am I talking about. Well the link http://www.giantbomb.com/elemental-war-of-magic/61-24369/ Was posted as a Unique Promotion. What did it do you ask? Well, when I clicked on it and glanced over it, I found myself getting questions that were sitting in the back of my mind. Well answered. The part about world size 224x160 tiles. Was clearly right there, at the bottom
[quote who="kryo" reply="22" id="2646544"] How do we know what digg articles are submitted by Island Dog? On the Digg site, I didn't notice any articles submitted with that name. http://digg.com/users/IslandDog I did Digg his most recent ones. Here in June, and they were rejected. And the rules aren't updated to reflect it. I just went through your previous submissions (the admin tools were just now updated to permit that) and it
I'm really also looking forward to this path of the process. And what it all entails. More on how the implementation will work, and how expansive dungeons will turn out being. Like the sovereign going on dungeon raids as it were, finding ancient lost whatevers... And then see if there would be some tactical combats against various denizens of those lairs. And so on. And if we'll be able to bind a few "adventurers" to a band and have them adventure together, exploring the
[quote who="Tridus" reply="42" id="2646512"] The whole point is to sell more copies of the game. This is a business, after all.[/quote] Yes this is the responsibility of a for profit business. And this is part of the marketing campaign, building viable hype before it goes live. But Stardock has always been very honest and upfront about all of this. So if they said they were doing this to reward the fans, and in a sense help build hype. That I believe. Brad Wardell i
[quote who="damonlundy" reply="20" id="2646523"]How do we know what digg articles are submitted by Island Dog? On the Digg site, I didn't notice any articles submitted with that name.[/quote] You can do a search for elemental, and find him as a poster, and then view his history for elemental posts by him. Which is what I did. (Mind you both Digg Articles that he posted that I dugg were rejected.) Mind you again no mention of a time line involved. That said I'm obviously not tr
[quote who="kryo" reply="18" id="2646486"] I'm going to point out, that you also need to update and change the rules again then because when we HAVE submitted reward requests, for posts by Island Dog, they've been rejected as well. Which is not cool. You were most likely trying to get credit for ancient posts which have no realistic chance of benefiting from being dugg (and would be kinda pointless even if they did make it to front page since they're outdated info). As I've no
[quote who="Locklear93" reply="39" id="2646417"]Edit: Apologies to Gorstagg--I was writing this over a fairly long period of time, and your post wasn't in place when I started. Your tone and post are quite rational, and you are absolutely not the "butthurt" fan I warned would come to pass in my post![/quote] Hey good person, I took no offense to your response. Because I do feel it was reasoned by myself, and also your opinion is quite valid. I do want to say thank you thou
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="19" id="2646450"]So much talk about multiplayer and I still haven't seen Frogboy say that he is ready to sacrifice single player experience for multiplayer one. That said, I'd expect him to stick to the "If you do multiplayer in your game, you do it well or don't bother at all.".[/quote] I'm gonna have to agree with Wintersong here. Brad is definitely the guy who does it right, or doesn't do it. At least my experience with him and Gal Civ and
I really can say Fallout 1, is one of my All time favorite games. Fallout 2, was a fantastic continuation of the series. Both were just great games, (though not with their .. ahem bugs). As far as Fallout 3, I've not completed it due to graphics glitch, and a bit of boredom. But that being said, I think it's a wonderful game for what it is, an artists recreation of a beloved series in a different perspective. Different, with it's own very strong gotcha moments. (How abou
[quote who="zampolit" reply="11" id="2646404"] So in a sense if it's too out of date, you could point that out. And it would make sense, and oh, probably keep people from essentially wasting our collective time trying to go by the rules as written. All of my diggs(pre 9th) that were rejected did get "out of date" as the reason. Go recheck, calm down, and breathe. [/quote] I hear you Zampolit, but my were not noted for that. And the base rules themselves don't men
I'm going to point out, that you also need to update and change the rules again then because when we HAVE submitted reward requests, for posts by Island Dog, they've been rejected as well. Which is not cool.
[quote who="Island Dog" reply="9" id="2646351"] Quoting kryo, reply 3Also, please don't report threads from months ago. The focus is more on current and future activity (particularly insightful or helpful posts), or those on other sites that bring attention to Elemental. [/quote] Then may I suggest you update the How to Rules. Because if someone hadn't seen this forum post by you guys, and they get rejected, because "Nothing" in the How to part of the rules states we s
Just take into account people that even if you DO follow the rules based upon what is written. You may be in for a surprise when you get many rejected ones. Even though, you as it may of been were communicating and participating on various forums. Oh and don't even try to submit your Diggs, cause they'll get rejected out of hand, even if you only do exactly as they say. Which is digg an article by Island Dog. Why am I putting this here? Honesty, I spent several hours las
[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="1" id="2636115"]Nice to get some coverage, but i found the preview a bit lacking (on all fronts). It somehow read as if the reviewer wasn't very interested in the game at all. *shrug* But maybe i got it all wrong .[/quote] I'm gonna have to agree with you OsirisDawn. That was an incredibly anemic review. It lacked any passion, and interest. It was like reading something by someone who's forced to fill a quota.
With tactical battles out for this one. (Which is fine, cause doing them right is important.) My question would lead upon the lines of defenses within the landscape, forts and out posts, castles, and things of that nature? Anyone have any information on what the planned nature of that will be? Castles/Keeps etcetera after a period of time, not just at a town/city. But outside of those areas.. so we could create natural choke points. Maybe with them being merchant support sites, etcete
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="2643775"] Quoting TheProgress, reply 18How large of a landmass is this representing? It looks fairly big, but then you're calling what looks to be an ocean a bay... It's actually not that big. This continent (Anthys) is actually only one of many continents which hopefully we'll be able to expand upon over the next several years.[/quote] This was the first thing that popped into my head. This is just a small conti
Pigeon, one of the other map videos he's put out recently show that hills are available as well. And they look good, up close and far out.
Brad, is it a case of setting a priority for the AI or for it to set one for itself, on exploring the world, to recover magic/resources. And then as you mentioned for it to learn. I for one understand the part about it learning. That makes sense. My question in general is how important is a navy going to be. I get the part of the test meat grinder. In all of this, I have complete confidence in your AI skills. And this version sounds even better for it to learn within the progr