The starting side in a tactical battle is now chosen randomly. The attacker and the defender have an equal chance to go first. Well that's a step in the right direction! Should make tactical combat more interesting in the short-term at least. :)
Why are people so self-righteous about DLC? If that's a revenue stream that allows PC gaming to stay in business, I personally don't have a problem with it. Anything else in life that I want to upgrade requires additional funding; why not my computer games?
[quote who="control-SEVEN" reply="25" id="2780751"]Review is up for Civ 5! IGN: 9.0 Does this mean the end for Elemental? (Reminder IGN Elemental socre: 6.0) [/quote] Nah. It means we have something to do while they fix this game.
[quote who="davidjc_af" reply="8" id="2777659"] the CTDs seem to be related to special ability usage in battle. For instance an air elemental uses it's special ability in battle. I see the start of the animation (hand go up in the air) but then it CTDs right there on the spot before it finishes. [/quote] Only anecdotal (no log), but this happened to me as well. Only CTD I had today in about 6 hours of playing with the latest patch.
So what's the ETA on this? The weekend is here and I'd like to actually play.
[quote who="Dhraconus" reply="1" id="2773477"]Good tip for people, potions of essence (+0.5) also work like this, not sure if you need just one or if you need two to make a full 1 essence before leveling though. [/quote] Pretty sure one works - I know I've gone this route.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="140" id="2773239"]Yea, we're not going for epic tactical battles. MOM is our influence, not total war.[/quote] Good to hear!!! Thanks Brad!
Don't forget the Best Buy "exclusive content." :p
+1. Pain in the rear.
For a Pangea type map, take out all of the "SpawnSize" lines except Huge. The number you enter appears to be the number of map sectors that the continent will occupy. For example, I created a new 9x5 map (45 sectors), and wanted mostly land. I entered " 30 " and " 35 ", and this generates maps that have 30 to 35 sectors of land. Same goes for Mountains and Forest - enter numbe
Awesome - thanks so much for the mod and the quick response. Have some karma!
Stupid question: Do I have to take the "HF106_" off the file names, or does the game pick them up as is?
[quote who="Stuie_acs" reply="10" id="2745744"] Quoting Callesen58, reply 3Copy elementaldefs.xml to your mods folder, go into it and change the part that has to do with sov level up points from 1 to 3 or so. Should fix the scaling issue. Are points for heroes in there too (at work and can't check right now)? I'm thinking 2 for heroes, 3 for sovs, to try to keep everyone relevant.[/quote] For anyone curious, changing this value is universal for heroes (sov and al
@ James009D - I have been unsuccessful getting the game to read modified tech files. I tried different directories, renaming files, etc. etc. and no luck. Please let us know if you have any success.
[quote who="Darknutter" reply="7" id="2736519"]did you start a new game, and have the game option "use mods" enabled?[/quote] Yes to both. Really not sure what the problem is here. I have modded games before (including other Stardock games) so I'd like to believe I'm not completely clueless.
[quote who="Darknutter" reply="5" id="2736440"]for XP its "My Documents\My Games\Elemental\" Ive been putting my stuff into the Items folder. Right now The game doesnt seem to allow seperate Mod folders, need to use the ones there already.[/quote] Tried that just now. Same result. Guess I'll wait and see if someone else has any success modding the tech files.
[quote who="Angelo85" reply="3" id="2735858"]For Windows Vista: *Windowsfolder*\Users\*Your Username*\Documents\My Games\Elemental[/quote] Still not working for the Techs_Amarian.xml file. I used this directory (using XP): C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\Mods The changes in the CoreSpellBooks.xml file still appear in game, but not the Techs_Amarian.xml changes.
From what I've seen in the .xml files, you don't (at least from the tech tree).
[quote who="Darknutter" reply="1" id="2735580"]Modding the core files wont take effect unless you delete the data.zip file in the /data folder. From what i hear, personally i avoid modding core files and just use new files in the mod folder[/quote] Ok thanks. What's the folder structure for the mod folder?
Ok, something's not right. I'm making simple changes to Techs_Amarian.xml and they are not appearing in the game. What gives? I have the file in the Units folder - no luck. Then I tried editing the actual data/English file - still no luck! Where is the game getting this info if not from this file? I also made some changes to CoreSpellBooks.xml, and those show up and work just fine. Any ideas?
The guy at my Gamestop (which still has a PC section) looked it up and told me that since it said "Rating Pending" that meant it probably wouldn't be out for "like a year". So I went to Best Buy, grabbed a copy off the shelf and went home.
Forget all that. Where's the Best Buy exclusive content!?!?111!? [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="105" id="2728011"]Its been released two days now and you guys have already exhausted all available maps. Rage quitters? [/quote] That's not the point. The game box states "each game produces a new randomly generated world." No, it does not. We just want what the box says is included.