monsterfurby

Well, all in all this kind of factors into what I have been preaching for a while: As Frogboy mentioned, the game has its lore - but it is just so in love with that lore that it smothers everything else. By design, it is made to allow customization (similar to GalCiv), but at some point apparently the team decided to go with having an own setting over letting the players make their own out of what the game provides. I still believe this to be a bad decision. With more faction customization, t

[quote who="ogredpowell" reply="44" id="2858435"]there IS a way to do it, only its complicated- there is a 'factoin creator' optoin in the 'workshop' section but there are some bugs in the coloring. I've actually found it easier to mod my own factoins in. What i do is create a faction with the 'faction creator', then copy and paste the XML of the 'vanilla' faction with the colors and names created from the faction creator.[/quote] Hey, I didn't realize that. Thanks for the

If I may add my 5 cents here - custom factions were essentially the only thing that lifted GalCiv over other Space-4X games in my book, and the only thing that's keeping me from buying Elemental is that feature not being implemented* (yet). Maybe I was hoping too much for a "fantasy-themed GalCiv", but I guess I am not alone with this specific wish. Anyway, all the other issues appear important as well, although I can not comment on that before having played the game properly. Edit: A

I'm currently in China. It works. When in doubt, use a VPN server located in the US.

(and replying to the reply-chain to my reply. Wow, what a sentence ;) ) I have no problem with the setting itself. I just feels like a waste of a very dynamic, very multi-faceted engine. Right now, with the way terrain changes and so forth, there is no chance to, let's say, make a Lord of the Rings-mod for it. Or just imagine relatable battles/scenes/storylines. This way, it's kind of "us" playing "their" story, a feeling, by the way, that caused Morrowind to receive its due pra

Actually, I agree that they are, in my opinion, a bit too much in love with their own storyline. Yeah, it's great and all, but a game like this does not really profit from that much background story. Look at GalCiv, look at the Dominions-Series, heck, the Heroes of Might and Magic series had less backstory than this one - and it worked just fine. I feel that Elemental's backstory is a tad too specific and spends more time explaining what happened to the world instead of fleshing out the facti

Well, there are worse DRMs. Starcraft 2 uses one of them. Honestly, to support an independent developer, I would install Starforce if necessary (and I did, on more than one occasion). But that's not really the point of your post, and despite being a devout supporter of Stardock and many other Indie developers, I have to agree that either they screwed 90% of all potential customers or at least miscommunicated this. I would assume, considering that GalCiv 2 never gave me reason to

Since you bought it anyway, you might as well revisit it later on. It worked well with many other bug-ridden games. Just leave it in your shelf, come back around patch 1.2 and you'll probably find it much more enjoyable :)

The resolution should not be a problem. My EeePC is modified to handle 1024x768 (with some stretching) :D Thanks for the input, I will wait to see if 1.1 fixes the memory leak issues or at least tunes them down a bit. Then I'll see if a new PC is the way to go. Again, thanks a lot!

Azkatraz - well, there's integrated graphics, and there's integrated "graphics"... While I don't know what kind of system you have and it is of course good to hear that it runs on it (the cloth map display sounds good, actually), I always assume that this here thing will not be able to play it. My system specs are namely this: Intel Atom 1.66 GHz; Integrated

One hour ago, I was not aware of this game. I remembered some talk about "GalCiv in a fantasy setting" back in the GC2 forum, a long time ago, but I dismissed it as being far off. So now I am stuck in China, with only a cheap Asus EeePC netbook at my disposal, and then I see this gem. Thank you Stardock, you have just managed what Fable 3, Civilization V and anything else that is going to be released in the coming five months combined have not: you made me want to have someone mail me