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I actually rather enjoyed my time with Beta 1, though unfortunately life was busy enough that I couldn't provide what I felt to be a sufficient effort into testing and feedback. :( I hate feeling that I've let Stardock and the community down in my own little way, but clearly there have been quite a number of dedicated testers! Even if Elemental never got a fancy full 3d graphics engine, the gameplay is solid enough that I would enjoy the game anyway. Heck, I may end up spending a

The "user added content" aspect of this game doesn't get a lot of attention, but when you guys bring it up, you bring it up in ways that really get me excited for Elemental's future! I love the idea of user-added terrain types that incorporate both terrain properties as well as new graphical appearances. I also hope this is applicable to water tiles as well (just plain rivers and ocean aren't near enough variety for water types!).

I too would like to see something closer to this suggestion for unit movement. Right now, controlling units requires the most micromanagement of anything in the game, and feels more tedious and arbitrary than fun or natural. That's a first in a 4x game for me. ;) A lot of it is due to the lack of feedback on unit auto-movement and the need to micromanage their movement orders every turn if you're trying to either explore or track and kill an enemy.

[quote who="Myles" reply="24" id="2373909"] Quoting Thrawn2787, reply 23One thing concerns me Beta 1C: Initial AI system Implemented So what about the betas before that? No AI? What? Just a little confused here Other than that, I can't wait for beta 1 so I can complain about it not working ( I think that in beta 1A and 1

I am on pins and needles waiting for beta on this. :D

I actually like when strategy games retain high score lists. This would get my vote as well, so long as some meaningful kind of score can be determined for a playthrough of Elemental. I'd even get a kick out of a metagame similar to how Galactic Civilization 2 has for playing "ranked" games.

I've been lurking on the journals here for quite some time, but it's rather daunting trying to get in on posting feedback to them given how many people are here and how any idea I come up with seems to either already have been presented by another person, or someone has already posted an even better idea than what I was going to suggest. ;) That said, I want to throw in my vote with the "extend the beta!" folks. This is the game I am by far more excited about than any other upcoming s