BlackRainZ

[quote who="reguam" reply="87" id="2740932"] I hate to be a hater but really not feeling the love here. I have become almost as interested in the forums as the game. Some very interesting dynamics here. A plumber comes to your house that you pay $100 to fix something. When they leave the house floods. The plumber starts telling you how over worked they are, never rest, need to take a week vacation, we really love you but,

[quote who="BoydofZINJ" reply="48" id="2740966"] Quoting greywar, reply 46SD is doing a good job post release, that has always been their very best focus area. Great ideas in the article as well arstal. I will give SD credit for not giving up. However, why am I paying for a beta? Why was the game released this early. I have heard reports that SD rushed the release of the game by.... um... 2 days... because retailers broke the street da

[quote who="Tridus" reply="41" id="2740906"] Quoting Mistwraithe, reply 36 I was astounded at how quickly Stardock wanted to go from making major gameplay changes in the beta to going gold and releasing just a few weeks later. We had conversations about it in the office, all trying to work out how and when they were going to polish it. We just couldn't see how it would work - they were only starting to work seriously on the AI what 6 weeks or so before release? The data files were i

[quote who="BoydofZINJ" reply="40" id="2740883"]How to get the people back: Get the game more polish. Have longer build queues. More options, more technologies. Make more magic... magical. Fix the AI. The most important thing to do is.... Fire people at Stardock and hire gamers that like to MOD and know what they are doing. [/quote] Worst advise yet. The last bit that is.

So I think the consensus is that Tactical Battles should utilize special abilities. If units have special abilities, perhaps tied to different weapons and armor, then tactical battles would be much more interesting.

[quote quoting="post"] I think it is now obvious that Elemental was launched premature. It is not only the bug, the bad performance. There are many feature apparently not working at all, like controlling elemental shards doesn't do any affect I notice. It is also the many things not really tested and thought over. Take magic. It just makes no sense. Summoning is useful, but anything else does so minimal damage and misses so often, it is near to hilarious. <br

I created a great 20x20 tile map that I play on all the time, you want to try it? It is really good.

[quote who="db0" reply="13" id="2734312"]AFAIK succession does play a role. If your sovereign dies, the successor takes over[/quote] No, once the sovereign dies it is game over for you but as I said above, it does matter for the AI factions.

Im pretty sure that succession does matter just not for the player faction. If you kill an NPC sovereign than their next in line will become king or Queen.

I found that mana regen is actually taken out of the code, take a look at coreunitstats.xml. The code for mana regen is actually quoted out, they added a

If you look in the CoreRaceConfig.XML file there is a variable for mana but I dont know what it does LifeSpellbook 50 F_Civilization_General 50 F_Civiliz

Guys listen, changing the core files WILL NOT affect the game unless you do the following steps (PAY ATTENTION NOW) First, you must go into your elemental\data folder and delete the file data.zip. Then you must open up the file you want to edit and do whatever it is you want. Than you must make a shortcut of the elemental.exe file and add to the end of the target the command /createxmlbinary make sure you put a space after the quotes and before the /createxmlb

The game is great, I have had very little problems and I can mod the game to be more like I want it to be. I have been supporting you for a while now stardock and that isn't going to stop. The naysayers probably wouldn't have liked the game regardless of what you do. You can't please everyone and I have to say that the game is shaping up to be great!

You build roads with caravans. Build a caravan and send it to another city.

[quote who="maniakos" reply="81" id="2730855"] Quoting BlackRainZ, reply 60 Quoting maniakos, reply 49 Quoting BlackRainZ, reply 32Honestly, after playing version 1.05, there were very few problems left, and none which was making the game crash, etc. There were issues with some of the game mechanics not working but they fixed that in a hot fix. I really don't know what people are complaining about, the release of starcraft 2 was much worse. This game is awesome. &nbs

[quote who="maniakos" reply="49" id="2730398"] Quoting BlackRainZ, reply 32Honestly, after playing version 1.05, there were very few problems left, and none which was making the game crash, etc. There were issues with some of the game mechanics not working but they fixed that in a hot fix. I really don't know what people are complaining about, the release of starcraft 2 was much worse. This game is awesome. The release of starcraft 2 was OK man. You always ha

Honestly, after playing version 1.05, there were very few problems left, and none which was making the game crash, etc. There were issues with some of the game mechanics not working but they fixed that in a hot fix. I really don't know what people are complaining about, the release of starcraft 2 was much worse. This game is awesome.

Yeah I figured it out, thanks.

Anyone know which XML files handle unit sizes and caps for units in a group. I think right now you can only group 10 units together and I believe 8 units per squad is max. I want to be able to field a larger army at once so which file handles these variables? Anyone know?

I made a 20x20 size map and am playing on it hehe.

[quote who="Profligate" reply="51" id="2728217"]This is what I thought they were going for: This is what they delivered? [/quote] I have to say though that I wish combat in Elemental was like the first picture.

Let's talk in real terms, even if your city has 1000 people in it you have to think about this: How many of those people are senior citizens, both male and female? Let's say 150-200 of them are. How many are mothers, and children? Lets say another 150-200 of them are. You are already at 300-400 people who are unable to fight. Than you would require a pretty large number of workers and such to maintain the city, that is another 150-200. Than you probably don't want too many women off fighting

well I saw it said in chat.

[quote who="Supergulo" reply="53" id="2725535"]I believe that I should mention that I am unable to play the game, seeing that as soon as the world loads (I can see the bottom of screen display) the map itself remains white forever, and it's really annoying, considering that in the beta such bug didn't happen... Hope you can fix it or tell me where I messed up, I'm itching to play [/quote] I believe they said if you have this problem to lower your resolutio

Downloading the update now, I must say i am quite impressed. I really can't wait to see how great this game will become. I know they are going to add lots of new content, like spells, maps, etc.