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[quote who="Wintersong" reply="126" id="2617945"] That doesn't prevent factions from the same side playing totally different inside their common frame. Not that I expect the 10 factions to totally play differently from each other of the same side (not enough time/money/whatever?) but surely (hopefully?) each faction from each side will have some kind of "tactic/strategy" that is important enough as to be crucial when choosing which faction you want to play in one of the sides</st

[quote who="Tridus" reply="120" id="2617876"] Most likely it's just not in yet. [/quote] Let's hope so. :) It's perfectly fine if the Empires cannot recruit veteran troops from their towns. It's perfectly fine if the Kingdoms can. However, all units & creatures including the mightiest beasts should be able to gain XP on the battlefields. It's perfectly logical. No lore/setting can change this fact, since it wouldn't make any sense, if it wouldn't work like that.

[quote who="TarponCrest" reply="32" id="2617785"]This is good news. Elemental sure bringing a big punch for the money. I hope it will be as user friendly as possible (with in the scope of things of-course. Will this feature be accessible from the editor or it will need more advanced tools to implement? [/quote] You can mod the AI via editing .xml files. It should be easy....even I could mod the AI, and I don't know any coding languages at all. More infos can be found i

[quote who="Tridus" reply="116" id="2617823"] For standard units there is no combat experience in the game right now. [/quote] This is true probably, and I don't like it. It makes no sense that the units won't gain XP at all. Battlefield XP should be in. Having a system like that opens up new strategic & tactical possibilities. [We've talked about this already.]

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="2617153"]We're moving forward to beta 2. Based on reports, it's working pretty well for most people. It makes more sense to deal with edge cases during Beta 3 when the full engine is on. [/quote] The criteria we will be using to determine whether we believe it's ready to go to beta 2 would be: 3. The ability to run a new game from within a new game. This should be fixed for Beta2 Froggie [

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="49" id="2617808"] I'd vote for a single tiny map for Beta 2. If it's just about connecitvity and all that, one map is more than enough. Maybe? [/quote] Agreed.

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="14" id="2617238"] Quoting MagicwillNZ, reply 13 I'm happy about this. It feels like we've been in Beta 1 forever. We have. [/quote] Eh, but the engine is much more stable now. That is a good thing. [e digicons]|-)[/e]

[quote who="Tridus" reply="89" id="2617098"] That's the option the Empire doesn't have. Presumably if some kind of unit XP system comes in, both factions will get it . [/quote] We don't know the details, but I am not sure about this. Even tho it would make no sense if the units of the Empire wouldn't gain battlefield XP.

Bellack - we won't have planes in EWoM. [Many of us would like to see planes in the game, but it won't happen, so we must try to implement planes via modding.]

[quote who="Bellack" reply="91" id="2616985"] Quoting drakkheim, reply 69 Oh and incidentally Master of Magic is now for sale from the excellent fellows at GOG.com for a princely sum of a cup of starbucks. $6 I think I'll stick with my Age of Wonders and Age of Wonders:SM. I find those games more entertaining than MOM. But Don't get me wrong MOM is a good game after all they are similar. [/quote] Yep same here.

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="4" id="2616938"] Quoting joasoze, reply 3 Quoting Shurdus, reply 2 1z4 is the latest beta. Just a heads up.There has been another update a few days ago. Commonly known as 1z5 EH? Was there not an update called 1z4 a few days ago? Also was 1z5 not announced in a journal then? I ask because I can only play once every so often so I can't really keep up unless the journals warn me. [/qu

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="60" id="2616525"]Meat farms has promise. [/quote] Heh, I like this one. :D [quote who="Nero_zero" reply="73" id="2616892"]I like the Vizier name, suitably archaic.[/quote] Yeah, Vizier sounds proper indeed.

Dang, I completely forgot to test this one, and it is part of the beta2 requirements... [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Either way...confirmed. CTD here as well. Debug.err: http://pastebin.com/PuvGBFVV Dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6604769/Elemental0_32-2010-05-11T00-56-12-18.zip

Hm...so what do you have in mind TCores? How would this work exactly? The Empires would turn the bordering cities to their sides if the given Empire is mighty/powerful enough? What if an army is stationed in a specific border town? The army will have to fight vs. the rebels? Either way...not a bad idea actually...it reminds me of Civ4's culture system. :)

*edit* No Here is why: https://forums.elementalgame.com/381981/page/1/#2616430 If this gonna be fixed, I will vote Yes, because I don't have any CTDs or lock-ups.

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="45" id="2616221"] The Fall from Heaven mod is a great mod but from what I remember, each faction doesn't have completely different game mechanics. To develop a little bit, ALL civs play VERY differently: Some dwarves get happiness and production bonuses for hoarding lots of gold. The other dwarves build units that... don't get experience (sorry for you, Empires, idea already done ). That is unless ONE unique unit (Barna

[quote who="Raven X" reply="3" id="2616067"] I understand the concept of making the Empires feel different from the Kingdoms, but this seems a little...I don't know, limiting? Maybe I'm getting the wrong impression but it seems to me the Empires (if they follow this outline) will all be war-like, which isn't a bad thing necessarily, but would lead to them all playing the same with little distinction between them . Maybe I'm jumping the gun on conceptualization, it just looks t

[quote]The Empire has taken a different path… In War Their soldiers don’t gain experience. Such a concept of thinking about individual soldiers is anathema to the Empire. As such, there is no such thing as a veteran Imperial soldier. However, they can train up special, powerful units (Guardians, Enforcers, and Sions). These powerful individuals will routinely demonstrate the inherent flaw in trying to train groups of soldiers to be more effe

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="6" id="2615940"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 5 I understand your points, and I agree with you...however as we all know, SD will focus on singleplayer. If they focus on SP, it means that the various gameplay features [races/factions/equipments/tech & spell "trees" etc.] will get the "focus", and not the balancing. It's not so important to balance the game for SP. [In fact..maybe a balanced SP wouldn't be as fun like a "kinda"

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="76" id="2615950"] Unfortunately, it crashes for me every time in the world build stage so Im totally stymied.As we weed out the major bugs and start getting into the per-user issues, we'll be working with players one-on-one to nail down hardware configs and determine what the fringe issues are. In the meentime, hopefully we stumble upon a fix for your problems, but if it's not playing nicely now, it probably needs a closer inspection. <

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="7" id="2614797"] Though i hope Stardock makes a desktop theme out of Elemental. [/quote] Yep. :) I've uploaded 1 more icon. I hope that you lads will like it! [e digicons];)[/e]

I understand your points, and I agree with you...however as we all know, SD will focus on singleplayer. If they focus on SP, it means that the various gameplay features [races/factions/equipments/tech & spell "trees" etc.] will get the "focus", and not the balancing. It's not so important to balance the game for SP. [In fact..maybe a balanced SP wouldn't be as fun like a "kinda" imbalanced one for various reasons.] This is why I say, that the MP community will have to work

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="73" id="2615884"]As long as the hackers are just as talented, and in a lot of cases more talented than the programmers making the games you'll have pirates. Hell some are probably working for the companies.[/quote] Heh funny, but I was thinking about this as well...[e digicons]:(O[/e]

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="2" id="2615902"]Ah, but that is pretty much my point. I feel like the game should come with some sort of balance. While I understand that it will be practically impossible for the vanilla game to be unbroken in multiplayer, I feel that SD should strive to make the most out of the game in terms of a balanced multiplayer game. When some people will start to make a balance mod, others will make another one, and you end up with a lot of talented modders working on a lo

I've suggested something similar a long time ago. :) [It can be found on the Comprehensible Suggestion List as well] -> Armor Coloring https://forums.elementalgame.com/366022