[quote who="Lord Cobol" reply="2" id="2615748"]Still in 1Z5. At least for granary. Will see about warehouse in a bit.[/quote] I thought we were on 1Z4 now. Either way ver 0.32 still has the bug for the buildings not showing proper info after loading.
I figured I'd use a 2nd post for this as the last one had gotten a bit long. ;) Discovering hidden strategies is nice yes. And I hope they do have option in there that allow for that such as the Artificer/Runemaster combo to make mana. Though also when you combine it with Alchemy you could also most lots of money as well. Though looking at the manual I also realized why it's not that great of a tactic. Runemaster required 2 books in 3 different skills. So you have to spend 6 points of
Actually as much as I like MoM for all the good ideas it had and mechanics it introduced to games in general it did have horrible balance. The "strategies" you seem to be suggesting are more like the title of this thread, that is exploits. Exploits are abuses in the imbalances that exist in a game and aren't intended to be hidden strategies for the players to find. The strategy of taking all of one book type and summoning a really powerful character was a common strategy in MoM. While
The current magic book is a bit disorganized and actually kinda hard to navigate. I know the number of spells right now is very limited but as a way to see what it would look like later and just because I can easily afford it I always get every spell book on my custom SOV. Already with the few spells recently added in 0.32 you can get up to 3 pages of spells to sort through. I don't know how many the game plans on having but with the comparison too MoM it could become even more disorg
When a city reaches the required level or you get the required tech it automatically upgrades the buildings. It would be nice if there are an option to not upgrade, especially for modding in the future. But I also noticed a potential balance issue as when I unlocked university tech it now replaces the schools automatically and the university buildings cost 10x as much. While I have no real issue with that fact that the buidling cost more and produces more the fact that you get the upg
I agree with you guys that the current choices are very lacking. And some of the disadvantages are really a no brainer. Take all the ones that offer penalties for being IN a city and make you SOV the best army general/adventurer possible. I mean why wouldn't you get the extra points if you plan to never park your SOV in a city? Of course the reverse is true for the city bonus traits become worthless the larger the map is because then less helpful it is to have that tiny bonus in only
I loaded up a save game ran a few turns. Then I opened up the main menu and tried to start a new game. It then crashed to desktop. Dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6399047/Elemental0_32-2010-05-08T00-41-29-688.zip Debug: http://pastebin.com/v6UPcekF DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/m9zfYwUv <
I found a fun and interesting bug. It sees that like before when you right click on your unit instead of canceling the units move orders it contrinues on it's path. Only now it moves the unit 1 space regardless of if it has enough movement are not. Thus you can explore the entire map with your Sov on turn 1. ;) I've have discovered it doesn't work all of the time though and only about 95% of the time. Here are a few things that I have noticed doing that seems to prevent
I hit the same out of memory error when I pressed the End Turn button. The dump file was size 0 for some reason. But I've included the debug and dxdiag files anyway. Not sure if it matters but the turn before I got housing tech so all the houses should of been upgraded that turn. Debug: http://pastebin.com/AXb9rmWb Dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/m9zfYwUv
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="74" id="2609195"] We're abandoning the idea because I don't like them. [/quote] [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Fair enough. Your original post made it sound more like a "We don't need to so we won't" type attitude instead of the "We don't like the mechanic."
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="210" id="2608617"] I've never see a disc just go bad for no apparent reason, then again, I don't really put my discs next the microwave or anything like that. They're very durable and I have several discs that are well over 10 years old that work fine.[/quote] Which is why I question those people's claims. As until now in this thread I had also never even heard anyone claim their CD/DVDs went bad for "no apparent reason" while sitting on the shelf.
I think it would be interesting to see an expansion on the dynasty system as well. Ever since the early days with the early Civ games I always thought it a bit odd how you are a leader that lives thousands of years and despite having changes in governmental bodies, such as going from dictatorship to a republic, you still remain in complete control. That's not really a change in government that's just a change in what people focus working on (aka bonus/penalties). ;) So instead I've al
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="2471004"]Re planes. Planes were in those early games because of the memory limit. We don't have that memory limit. 640k is long gone. Bigger maps.[/quote] A lot of good ideas come from the limitations imposed on us though. And just because those limiations are removed doesn't mean we should abandon the idea as being "out dated". I say that because I actually liked the idea of having another plane to fight on and so do
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="57" id="2608344"] Folks who've never worked in or around software development probably have no real appreciation of how much respect you deserve for the "Probably" there. I admire it greatly.[/quote] Actually I think that pretty much applies to almost everything. People tend to under estimate how much time and effort it takes to do something until they actually do it themselves. This goes for a lot of things as I've met a lot of people who brush thi
[quote who="StillSingle" reply="4" id="2606985"] Yeah, you're right about MoO 2, but I was talking about MoO 1 . I preferred MoO 1 over MoO 2 research system. And I'm with you on the MoO 3 system, very closed box, like pretty much everything in that game (looks at case gathering dust on shelf, next to recently used MoO2 and MoO1 CDs.....). [/quote] Wow I haven't played MOO1 is forever. I don't recall it being on CD I could of swore it was on floppies.
[quote who="TheProgress" reply="2" id="2606757"] Quoting PyroMancer2k, reply 1Someone didn't Read before posting: https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285 Last I looked you were not a moderator or developer; if they want to tell me off for taking time out of my day to provide crash details in a single long post that no one else will be using then leave it to them to say.[/quote] [quote who="astrath" reply="3" id="2606862"]Pyromancer, that was a bit tactless. The point i
[quote who="Tasunke" reply="13" id="2607669"]As well as Experience being allocated based upon Damage Proportion and Kill #, but hey.[/quote] This is one of those ideas that sounds good on paper but fails in practice. The most obvious problem is what about "support" units? Since combat is still very vague at this point but we know it allows us to command units on the field in battle. So what happens if they allow for a healer/debuff/buff/tank type unit. Those unit will do almost no dam
[quote who="taltamir" reply="203" id="2607219"] A disk is GUARANTEED to break, it has a very short shelf life. with 10 years being rare. And it is also very easy to scratch. [/quote] Your not the only one to say this but I figured I'd quite you cause it's short and to the point. Now I want to make a counter argument. And that is disk, as in CD/DVD, have an extremely long shelf life and that's kinda the point of having them. Sure they also have the benefit o
Happen again when traying to demolish a hut. I clicked the yes button and it CTD. dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6399047/Elemental0_302-2010-04-30T02-38-51-713.zip debug: http://pastebin.com/i81KNXGe
Demolishing any resource building removes the resource that was there.
[quote who="StillSingle" reply="1" id="2606701"] eg of MoO system: you research the construction topic and recieve "industry 5". The game then randomly picks 1-3 of the next level technologies to make available in the construction topic. If it does not select "industry 6", it will not be picked later on, ever. It cannot be researched. However, any previously unlocked contrustion techs can be researched, for the research cost it started with. [/quot
Someone didn't Read before posting: https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285
Well if we do go down the route of Racial Differences as well as Faction Differences I think that it should work towards limiting those options to things that makes sense. After all a lot of the stereo types that exist in the world today are based mainly on culture. For example one group is not better with math and electronics then another but because they have high educational values it seems like all the people of this "type" are tech heads. So basically racial bonuses should be thi
This seems like adding complexity for complexity's sake. Having to manage Food & Water instead of just food. Plus the whole different essence cost approach.
[quote who="TarponCrest" reply="4" id="2605202"]One of the problems with AoW was that in multiplayer everyone rushed to get the high level units ignoring the use of the low level units because they were well useless, unless you are playing low level as a side rule. [/quote] Honestly I have to ask how this is different from any other TBS? I tend to play the Peaceful City Builder/Tech Rusher route while maintaining enough forces for a decent defense to hold off rushes. Often time in gam