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This takes quite a bit more mechanics from Master of Magic then prior elemental games. Thats a good thing [e digicons]:sun:[/e]

I seriously don't get all the nerd-rage about windows 8. I got the $40 digital upgrade and after about 5 days of tweaking and customizing, I find that I really like the new windows. To be fair, my setup uses HDMI out to my HDTV so it might be different for traditional monitor setups but I really like what Metro brings to the table. Once I figured out how to fully customize the start screen and get all the apps working I couldn't be happier. I really th

The wandering monsters are still way too strong in 7b... On normal world, normal difficulty, sparse monsters... I get hordes of ogres and trolls near my starting location... The monsters also seem to be taking a toll on the AI as well... Another thing is there's ALOT more Champions being spawned all over the map and a lot of high level ones near my starting location..

I'm not sure if I'm just missing it but is there a guide to editing the different XML files for creating new items, units, spells, etc...? I can get the basic premise of adding new content, but a guide to the different XML tags and scripting commands that are available to use would be helpful..

Great mod!!! Do you plan on adding more spells/summons at any point? I think the game definitely could use more magical diversity...

Any AI changes? No? Strategic spell casting?

I sure hope they're not going to release (in 3 days) with the AI still unable to cast strategic damage spells effectively nearly 2 years after the release of WOM? In MOM as bad as the AI was, they used strategic level spells...

Can you mod all those new spells in and get the AI to use them, and use them effectively? I'm sure if it were that easy, Stardock would've done it...

Don't get me wrong the AI in MOM was horrible... With the unofficial patch it's a lot better.... MOM's spells were interesting and diverse, plus there were tons of them. Sure they were unbalanced but they sure were fun to cast. Why doesn't FE have more summon spells? Why doesn't FE have global enchantments? Item creation? Variable races? Sure you can say that FE isn't meant to be MOM, but come on in terms of depth it doesn&

Magical content is pretty much my concern when it comes to depth. Over 2 years after WOM and magic still isn't close to the level of MOM...

Someone mentioned financial reasons for this release. According to steam, FE isn't even in the top 100 top selling games. It's being outsold by political machine for Christ's sake. It seems to me that's Stardock is losing money hand over fist on the development of this game and had it not been for the fact that Stardock doesn't rely on it's game division for its primary source of revenue than things would be much worse. All in all FE

High 70s... if I had to guess I'd say 77 or so.... I think some of FE's design decisions will irk some reviewers (such as the way research is handled). I still believe the different game systems feel a bit disjointed and the balancing is not quite there. Also magic is STILL behind MOM in terms of spell diversity...

I'd just like to comment on the prospect of a Doctor Who mod for Elemental (and please, it's "Doctor Who" not "Dr. Who" ;) As an obsessed fan of the series and someone who's seen every episode from 1963 to today I have to say that I'd love to see you eventually complete this mod. I'm not sure that elemental is the best game to do a Doctor Who mod for, but I think it could work. Consider fashioning a better lore-friendly back story. Here's an idea I've been tossing ar

Thanks for coming clean about the Elemental launch. I really wish though that you would just admit though that the beta testers who kept advising you to delay the game were right. I realize the whole retail shelf space thing but wouldnt it have been better just to wait the six months and in the mean time making Elemental the best it could be for release? Maybe you could have done an online only release in say November and release it to retail as an "enhanced edition" in Feb? &nbsp

[quote who="CainStar" reply="7" id="2750149"]Yes I am using a pirate copy.....and I like this game and I will buy it once all the expansions are out and most of the bugs are gone. I did this with Galactic Civilization 2. Like it or not......ban me or not.[/quote] LOL... I work as a loss prevention officer for a major retailer. If all thieves were like you it would make my job a whole lot easier. You realize that you essentially told the developers that you stole the game.&

[quote who="LikeTheWhirlwind" reply="38" id="2736278"]I'm personally reviewing all the spell XML and I want to let you guys know that changes are coming. We're looking into separating the hit and damage rolls for offensive spells. The hit roll will be caster INT vs. defender DEF. The damage rolls will be between a min and a max value, not just from 0 - max. Here's the fireball description in my current build: "Target enemy unit is hit with a

[quote who="I Intrude" reply="253" id="2736559"]GPU issue not fixed in v 1.06, confirmed on IRC.[/quote] Didn't think it would be... this seems like it's a systemic issue with the engine... We better hope that they don't have to rewrite major parts of the engine or something!

Maybe the best way to solve this issue is to find people that don't have the issue. Is there anyone out there who gets good fps when viewing cities and or other 3D objects...

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="213" id="2734183"]I believe that if the game becomes very slow after a tactical battle where the screen went white then that is a different issue and one that has been resolved internally. If the issues continue with a save game (reloading elemental in between) then that is the issue that is still under investigation.[/quote] The tactical battle issue is defintely a different issue. I actually don't have that issue on my machine...</p

[quote who="Wyvern" reply="183" id="2732720"]The crazy performance lost from Beta 4 to release was fixed by the 1.05 patch. Great Work.[/quote] Maybe on your system but not mine and not others... what's your FPS when viewing large cities?

Alright... I'm going to do a detailed report on my system's performance issues in hopes that the info that I give you is helpful in solving this as quickly as possible... First of all, my latest debug.err: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9170386/debug.err Secondly, besides the general performance issues, I'm also having issues with spell effects disappearing, sometimes working something not.. and I've also seen the name o

You definitely deserve a vacation after all this... ;) I just hope that it won't delay releases of patches/hotfixes though...

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="166" id="2732081"]You can be sure this is being investigated as a priority.[/quote] Thanks... please update when you've got some answers...

Any update from the Stardock guys on this one? This issue is keeping me (and many others) from playing this game because the framerate becomes unplayable after a while... Have you guys at least been able to reproduce this issue on one of your machines?

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="81" id="2729597"] Yea, your machine is a beast. It should be fine. I DEMO the game to the press on a 3 year old Thinkpad without problems. [/quote] Well my machine is not a beast... but it should run elemental no problem... here's my screenshot using afterburner... only 25% utilization... Maybe a graphics driver issue or something? I have the latest drivers from NVIDIA, btw... <img src="https://d