Not to derail this thread even further... if this thread really had a meaningful train of discussion to begin with, but... Has anyone played Reign: Conflict of Nations? I keep vacilating over getting that game...
Wont' run on a 64-bit os though :(
[quote who="Pvthudson" reply="1" id="2771435"]http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9553042 Should have waited for CIV 5 it will be awesome...and work[/quote] That is evil. You make me cry.
[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="5" id="2763923"] Quoting the_spyder, reply 2I haven't purchased yet. Still waiting on fixes ... As of 1.07, most major issues have been resolved and the game is really fun. If the game had Sid Meier's name on the box, it would be pulling 8's easily.[/quote] As of 1.07, the game seems to be playable. It is, however, quite boring. The world is bland. The mechanics are simplistic and lackluster (or w
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="57" id="2764350"] I appreciate and understand your comments, but I cannot support the idea. You walk into a place like Wal-mart, right on the back of the box it says there is multiplayer up to 16 people. There is no excuse not to have this feature in the game yesterday. It's listed as a feature, and it's simply not there. I want you to consider what this industry would look like if every publisher put out a game with bullet point features and just left them off
Not to invite people to yell at me, but... For my 2 cents, multiplayer functionality is secondary to making a fun, interesting game that people want to play. For me, for the moment, Elemental is pretty boring. It tantalizes only as long as you don't know the game logic behind what's happening on the screen. Once you work it out, you quickly find the mechanics to be childishly simplistic, stilted and/or artificial (not all at once but in turn for various features), and the ga
Well, somewhere between patching, chkdsk'ing, virus scanning, reinstalling, rebooting, etc., etc., etc. the game now works again. Yay :). No idea what was wrong.
I haven't been that I am aware of, before or after these problems began. I do have the Nvidia graphics utility installed and it is capable of doing that, but it is not configured to do that at the moment, as far as I know, and I have not altered its configuration in any way since in the interval between when Elemental worked and when it stopped working. I did try to run Sword of Aragon in that interim, which I couldn't get to work, but in the process of doing that I tried to force
On the grasps at straws level, it occurs to me that I also updated Flash and Adobe Reader in the last few days.
I put one up in the drop.io collection above. I could put another up if you like? The trouble is, the game isn't "crashing", it's simply not rendering any video feed. So I get sound, and sometimes (although not as often/where you would think, which makes me wonder what resolution it's trying for) I get the mouse over sound for buttons, I have the feather cursor, and a blank, black screen. The game only exits when it gets
Alright... I uninstalled everything. When by hand and erased the Elemental directories in the My Games folder and the Program Data folder. Reinstalled with fresh reboots in between (harking back to Win95 days of installation/uninstallation paranoia). The game still loads to a blank black screen and the feather cursor. Now with no sound until I hit escape or space bar (skipping past the initial non-player media?) then the theme music starts up. Again, the only thi
Hrmm.. reinstalling has not worked either. Is there some sort of conflict between Elemental and Visual Studio 2010 or Expression Blend 4?
Oh, and that's the most recent .zip file I have there. No dmp files at all. I'm assuming that's because it did not crash gracefully.
I added my debug.err, but like I said, it seems to get reset everytime you launch Elemental, and I tried launching Elemental about a dozen times working around the corruption issue. Edit: Trying to work around the corruption issue :/. I didn't succeed.
DXDiag data is in the head of every debug.err file, but I uploaded it anyway. I also uploaded the 64-bit version, because, honestly, I'm not sure if it contains any additional useful information, and I am running on Vista 64.
I skimmed the debug files sticky, missed the "Game Data" vs. "Game User Data" directories. Presumably, this is the correct crash file. http://drop.io/corruptcrash
A quick PS. In the interim between the two events, I installed Vis Studio 10 and Expression Blend 4 and built/ran some Silverlight apps, if that potentially makes a difference. Nothing else of significance was done on this machine.
Unfortunately I do not have a debug.err file for the initial event because I didn't think much of it at the time and debug.err gets overwritten every time you launch Elemental. Where I am now: When I try to launch Elemental, the game "starts" with a black screen. I hear music but nothing else. It will continue like this indefinitely (longest I waited was 12m). I have rebooted, Verified my installation from Impulse, exited every oth
When attacking a unit next to part of a city such that you need to move through the city to reach it, you end up stacked with the target unit rather then attacking it. This can also happen when unloading units from a city. When replacing a caravan for a route that has been destroyed, the caravan rewalks and establishes the route, rather then simply returning to walking the route as a little mini caravan (perhaps there's a hidden interface for making this work correctly). <p
A few more... When summoning a new unit, the new unit does not always appear in the stack's lists of icons. Reselecting the stack usually fixes this. When selecting a caster (at the start of a turn/just after loading?) you can open his spell book to cast spells and not be able to cast any spells (the cast option does not show up). Reselecting the caster usually fixes this.
Oddly, I have a pretty old system, relatively (E6850 Duo 3Ghz w/ 8G of Ram) and the game runs pretty fast for me (modulo the lock ups of course). Faster then C4/Wild Mana for instance. Another bug. When you are building in one city and click on another city's icon from the left hand screen, you will get a display of the city, but your build options will still be for the first city you were viewing. Other related behaviour is similarly bu
Oh, and I forgot, you can use the "influence" area markers for quest locations to build on resources, should one happen to be in range.
[quote who="Lord_Asmodeous" reply="106" id="2743682"] Quoting fatindian, reply 104 "If you try comparing it to the steaming pile Civ4" I bought and played Civ4 on release. You are really stretching comparing it to Elemental's release. Take off your blinders. I'm not wearing blinders. Civ4 on release was a nightmare. The only thing it really had over EWoM was that it didn't crash -- it did have a pretty horrific memory leak though. A
I am 98% sure that the following bugs have all occurred under 1.06.19. This isn't an exhaustive list, but these are the ones I can remember at the moment. When creating multiple sovereigns without restarting the game, sometimes previously lowered statistics for the previous sovereign are replicated for the new one, but no points are awarded. Often talents behave oddly in this situation as well. Newly created sovereigns do not always appear in the sov
[quote who="Mauxe" reply="37" id="2743343"]Is Dominions 3 a good single player game or do most people play it for the MP? I am getting convinced to give it a try but I would be in it more for SP.[/quote] I've almost exclusively played it single player. You will eventually "learn" the AI though.