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[quote who="TCores" reply="39" id="2621254"] quoting post I think there is somewhat of a Consensus to Remove Essence from level gain entirely. There is a smaller Consensus to have all essence be equal and slowly gained over time at an equal rate (among all Sovereigns) -> meaning no sources of essence, just the essence that your Soverign gets over time. I am not at all in support of "essence" be

[quote who="Krooldeath" reply="14" id="2621243"] It's really a fantastic game, but I've never been a single player campaign kind of guy. I like to fire up 'skirmish' mode and have everyone go at it, AI or MP. [/quote] Yeah same here. I prefer multiplayer or sandbox mode in SP. This is why I am not even completed the campaign in King Arthur....and it's an awesome game as well. You should check it out [ Official website: http

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="1" id="2621237"]Saboteur (Btw I think instead (or in addition to) spells there should be some counter-espionage (or "true seeing") units that are able to detect them) Or destroying buildings can be one of the abilities of spy units that can do other things too. [/quote] Ah, Saboteur. Sounds better indeed! I'm gonna edit the title. :D + I like your proposed ideas as well.

[quote who="Krooldeath" reply="12" id="2621222"] One thing I would like to see for this game is sandbox mode vs. a story driven campaign. I'd like to for the AI to be attacking each other as well. As far as I can tell, its Philip against the word. [/quote] Hm...I wanted to buy this, but if this is true, I will skip it. No sandbox? The AI's are not fighting with eachother? Weird stuff. I can't wait for the King Arthur expansion however. They gonna add the sandbox mode

[quote who="psychoak" reply="35" id="2621217"] The current essence system [gain essence @ lvl up] will only work if your sentence -what I've quoted- is valid. It is, the frog himself said it. Your sovereign teleports home when he gets smoked. Don't you guys read the dev journals? [/quote] Hm...I guess I missed that one. [e digicons]o_O[/e] So basically it will work like now, in Beta 1. I thought that

We've talked about assassins, and I have an idea for a sorta similar -yet different- "special unit". Wouldn't it be cool, if we could hire some nasty creatures and send them to an enemy city to cause some trouble? Like they should try to burn down some buildings and stuff like that. These units could move undetected on the strategic map because of their stealth ability, just like the assassins. [...Of course there should be global/local for a specific city spells which will "unhide" thes

Froggie - You should check out this thread as well, since it's on topic basically -> https://forums.elementalgame.com/382345 It's an interesting discussion about the essence "system".

Bleh, I replied in the wrong topic. [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]

[quote who="psychoak" reply="22" id="2621140"] Assuming we can get them to change this evil plan to have your sovereign survive death on the battlefield to warp home , [/quote] The current essence system [gain essence @ lvl up] will only work if your sentence -what I've quoted- is valid. Read my post about the AI, and you will understand that what is my biggest concern with regard to the current system. However even if the Sov won't die on the battlefie

Nice stuff! You deserve [e digicons]k1[/e] for this. [e digicons]:)[/e]

[quote who="lwarmonger" reply="2" id="2621134"]Personally I think that having "dungeon" style combat for things like assassinations, special missions inside cities (say you are sending some champions to whack a crime lord who is siphoning off money and threatining control of your city, at least the underworld portion of it) and special missions against other factions and sovereigns (because you just have to have that artifact) is a must... if not for elemental, then for an expansion. [/q

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="18" id="2621081"] Just because someone want to have his Sovereign tied to a chair since turn 1 and still get Essence to do stuff without risking him into battle and/or because it isn't his style, doesn't mean that tying Essence to leveling up is bad. It only means that he need game mechanics that make viable such strategy. From gaining experience from the rests of the units (naturally to due to a spell) to gaining exp from using Traits based on staying

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="56" id="2621032"]And yes, there is a definite difference between Marriage for Diplomatic relations and keeping Family Hostages to enforce the Vassalage/Obedience of a nation. [/quote] Yeah, but this is a fantasy strategy game. Why should an "immortal" Sov care if his daughter/son is being kept as a prisoner? This would only make sense, if we would have a successor system and if the Sov would die because of old age. Right now the chi

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="7" id="2620957"]Why not use the MoM system ? It was a good one, I think. You have a "magical research" value, and you must split it between mana or maybe crystals ? or spell points ? or maybe split between all of that ? and increasing your essence. For instance with 10 points of magical research you can do : spells points (2), crystals(1), essence(5), life spreading(2) or spells points (1), crystals(1), essen

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="53" id="2621014"]I wasn't clear enough : I think that's a good idea, and it would add an interesting option in the usual pacts/treaties/etc .. that would be a real way to be sure your allies will remain ... allies. Sometimes reality is a good teacher. [/quote] Erm....isn't this already in the game? I mean you "offer" your daughter/son to marry to another Kingdom's Sovereign or family member. -> You improve the relations between the

[quote who="Blazerules" reply="18" id="2604982"] well actually i am russian im Yiouri and my dad has companys [/quote]

[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="4" id="2620937"] do you guys think this is to much? unbalancing perhaps? or maybe there is alot more stuff you can do with essence that we don't know about. unclear right now i think until we know what more you can do with essence. [/quote] Yeah, we must wait 'till Beta2 or Beta3 even in order to give constructive feedback with regard to the essence system & balancing.

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="28" id="2620928"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 26 Quoting Tasunke, reply 14 How about a Warhammer 40k mod for Elemental? Doable, but it will require enormous amount of time to make a mod like that. Think about FFH2 for example. Not necessarily. If you have a fairly large team each working on something, then you can do it pretty well. The key is finding out who knows

I don't think that we are able to specify a dir for saved stuff. So...perhaps you should download and use Total Commander for example. It has access to all directories, and its very easy to use as well. All you gotta do is: Download&Install / Configuration / Options - Display - Show hidden/system files

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="14" id="2620396"]How about a Warhammer 40k mod for Elemental? [/quote] Doable, but it will require enormous amount of time to make a mod like that. Think about FFH2 for example. :)

[quote who="Murteas" reply="26" id="2611713"]What about the idea of assigning a permanent envoy to an empire. Instead of having an envoy actually on the map moving around, when you meet a civilization you assign an ambassador to that country. It is assumed that you will have some form of rapid communication with that ambassador (magic, birds, etc.), so that you can "immediately" make proposals and respond to the other faction. However, your relat

Nah, Essence gained @ lvl up is absolutely ok. Gaining some essence / turn could work as an additional method. However I really like the idea of gaining essence via special sites/buildings or even creatures. Here is a post of mine, on topic.

[quote quoting="post"] Well, on Friday I finally got to see why it’s there and what it does. The internal build on Friday added in the spell effects (i.e. when you revive land or cast fireballs or whatever). I had assumed that each spell effect was being created in Maya and exported to be used. I was shocked to learn that no, all of the spell effects were made with the built in effect editor. The spell that really shocked me was whirlwind.&

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="42" id="2619775"]Karma, like life itself, is what you make of it. [/quote] Yep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawmDDqebF0 [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]