[quote who="tetleytea" reply="79" id="2854657"]Bought CIV IV Complete based on the recommendations from this board. Hope I don't regret it.[/quote] Are you joking? CIV IV is possibly the best game ever made. Enjoy!!!!!
I dont know how the game should be on your laptop excactly, but I know one thing. These Vista machines (and other Windows version to a certain extent) tend to fill up with crap that loads every time you start your laptop. So I reccomend a round with CCleaner to remove stuff on startup and clean your registry. I have done this on 5 computers last 14 days. Friends and colleagues who all have had their comp slow to a crawl. Other things to consider is antivirus. Set your Elemental folder to be e
Its a big step in the right direction, but they are not there (a great game) yet. If they keep moving in the right direction they will get there. My guess is that this game will be great next fall.
Happy Holidays ppl. In two hours I will be eating my mothers "pinnekjøtt". Salted sheep ribs steamed for three hours. Best there is!!! [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
I got CIV IV complete and Elven Legacy at Gamersgate. I think the problem here (for the sellers) is that we as consumers gets used to getting a great game for a few bucks. When I buy CIV IV complete for 6 Euros I find it harder to buy a new game for 50 Euros. There are always a great number of games on sale, why buy anything at release? A lot of games are pretty useless until patched a few times anyways (will not name names, will not...)
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="6" id="2849259"]Biggest problem with the game now is that it is bland. Factions all play alike, the world is empty and not that fun to explore, the champions are fairly interchangeable, the quest are few and often unrewarding.[/quote] Yep, more quests, more monsters, more tech and more content in general...
1. Why should everyone have a weakness? If someone has some strong traits, then a weakness can balance. Doesnt mean that everyone should have one. 2. Agree 3. You find mines when you have researched the right techs for it. Cannot remember excactly which.
yes, but they would be very different and dynamic. Thereby making the world more alive and unpredictable. In CIV V you see people discussing the Minor nation giving food and that is all it is. People always know what they get when they meet this minor nation. Its boring.
@Glowing_ember Sounds more like you would like travelling traders who offer special things for sale. That would be cool too :o) Or an ogre camp that can be visited and recruited from. Maybe it would produce 1 orge per year (4 seasons), and first come first served when it comes to buying it. Could lead to some interesting "discussions" between recruiting Sovereigns :o) Earlier I know that the influence border did not expand after you captured a minor nati
Meeting "smaller" races has been in 4x games for a long time. Even in MOO II you could find a planet with some special farmer people. Its in CIV V and in Elemental as well. I have a problem with the way this is evolving in modern games. These smaller nations are just there to be played with. I want a living world were everything can happen. When we look at world history there has been city states, but that was not because of faith/god/allah or someone decieded that they were city states. They
They probably dream about Elemental and bugs are haunting their nightmares. Take a little rest and come back with full force. Still much to be done :o)
Play on cloth map only (there is a setting in options) and use auto-resolve for battles. I used to do this before I got a new comp.
I assume that Stardock will ask you for link to savegame :)
just give us more monsters in general :)
A patch a day, makes the bugs go away! [e digicons]\o/[/e]
[quote who="tamides" reply="8" id="2841412"]YES to prisoners and i would also add capturing creatures for study[/quote] Capture x number of wolves and get a x% bonus when fighting wolves as a bonus.
@RedWind You misunderstand my example. In your example the city has 20% of total storage cap. 20% of 2 materials will be rounded to nothing. Not 200
If you get no feedback on your crash reports, its a good thing :) That means that you have reported in the requested format (with the zip file) and that Stardock has downloaded the files to see what the problem is. Feedback will normally be "Could you please include zipfile and debug.err file" and such. So you are good error reporters when you get no feedback, thats all
City walls could be something that would cost lots of materials and give a defensive bonuse to city (loong buildtime too). That is one way of giving use to the excess materials. City level upgrades could have a cost too. You do need materials to make your city larger and better suited for your people. Back on topic: Storage buildings would add an extra layer of choices, which I like if its done elegantly. They can also be robbed when you capture a city :o) But the reso
Its a perfect thing for an expansion.
I am amazed by the speed of these fixes. Keep it up Stardock!!! [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]
How about you leaked the AI code and the designdocuments for 1.1 of Elemental to Wikileaks? You sure would get a lot of free press :)
When I had trouble paying for a game, I got to talk with Stardock ppl on irc and got help. No problem for me.
[quote who="Sethai" reply="13" id="2837737"] Quoting Alstein, reply 2Diplomatic option idea I saw from someone else: Spend diplomatic capital/gold to bribe monsters to attack other factions. Unsure if AI can handle this though. yes, this got a lot of support when it was mentioned and i'd like to add my voice to that choir.[/quote] +1 I have been a vocal supporter of this too. Mercenaries. Maybe even a building required to do so?
Good post this