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[quote who="Servius" reply="41" id="2613550"]I know you guys know about the turn button hanging. But damn it is still annoying, every game I start goes well and awesome until that happens then it is screwed. I assume when the multiplayer is actually enabled for the testers that will go away. [/quote] Weird, I haven't noticed this yet. [e digicons]o_O[/e] ..not that I miss it. :D

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="3" id="2613563"] I understand from that that the base game won't include them (ok, maybe dungeons if they have time?) but that it should be possible for modders to do them. But as my English sucks badly sometimes, feel free to prove me wrong if I'm. [/quote] It is possible to code in stuff like paralell maps. I am pretty sure about it, and I won't even search on the forum. Why? Because as we all know, Froggie has stated that wit

Ok some funny stuff. :D I created a Sovereign with a scar on his face. He became married to the damsel, and they had 4 kids. 3 girls and 1 boy. The boy had the same kind of scar on his face like my Sov had . What the?! The "genetics" system must be tweaked. [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]

Ah well....it looks like that the save/load system still isn't working flawlessly. I tried to reload a saved game [autosave], but the game locked-up on the first try [I had to kill the process after CTRL-ALT-DEL]. I managed to reload the saved game on the second try. Debug.err: http://pastebin.com/AacdPqhG Save: http://www.sendspace.com/file/xg98so

Heh. :D While we are it, when I created my Sovereign, the color of his sword's blade was black...as I see your Sovereign also had a black bladed sword.

[quote quoting="post"]Arrgh - I loaded the latest update and now Elemental freezes immediately after starting a new game. The graphics go bad, the mouse and keyboard are frozen and I am forced to unplug my machine to reboot. As I killed my computer I don't have a dump file. I've run regular diagnostics and nothing turns up and everything else seems to run fine. Here's my dxdiag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6650375/DxDiag1.txt

[quote who="strager" reply="12" id="2612955"]90 days +- a few weeks until RELEASE? Are you insane? Don't you mean 90 days until Beta 4? Granted your build is WAY ahead of ours .... but there's still so much to do..... [/quote] It is....Froggie has mentioned it a couple of times already. :) *Update* Okay, like I've said I continued testing 1Z4 today. I created 2 games. I completed 500-600 turns total in those games without having any CTDs or lo

[quote who="lobosan" reply="1" id="2613232"]@Publius of NV Where do you find the dump file? I am still having out of memory errors too (https://forums.elementalgame.com/381778). [/quote] https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285 " For crash reports in particular , the most helpful file you can provide is a memory dump that the game will generate when a crash occurs. If you're running Windows XP, there will

Okay I couldn't resist...I had to try out the new version hehe. No CTDs or lock-ups after 45 mins of playing [I completed hundreds of turns]. Very good job devs! I will continue the testing tomorrow, but it looks like that we're ready to move to Beta phase 2. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Nice! I am going to test the baby tomorrow, since I am going to sleep now. Hopefully the stability will be acceptable.

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="5" id="2612783"]The next step: Buy our game and come into approved UbiCenters®, where you can play your games under the supervision of UbiTechs®. Official photo ID such as passport or state issued driver's licenses required for entry. [/quote] I lol'ed. [e digicons]:w00t:[/e] Good one. ..on topic -quote from the forum post-: For the record I think Ubisoft are being asshat idiots in continuing to ramp up this obsceni

I doubt that you will get a proper answer, this is not our business. ;) While we are at it, I think lots of people will pre-order, when the devs will release some proper gameplay videos about magical spells, tactical combat etc. Hmm....IIRC some video related to tactical combat supposed to be "released" in this month.

Check this out: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1630600&cid=31975686 "I work at Ubisoft as a programmer, which is why I'm posting as an AC. What the next step will be in the DRM, the ramp-up, is gameplay code that is run from the server. So in order to crack that one the pirates will have to fully emulate the server side code. Not the whole of the gameplay code mind you, just a

...with regard to games: IIRC MoM, AoW1-2-SM[?], Dominions 3, Civ4-FFH2.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="2612545"]Well clearly I won't be modding or getting Civ V now. [/quote] Hehe, at least you will have more freetime to mod EWoM. :P ..as for Civ5, I will only buy it, if EWoM won't be released in this year....I don't really care about Civ5 that much.

Thanks! :) Ok, I've uploaded a new icon, and deleted the first 4 icons, because those weren't good enough imo. [e digicons]O:)[/e]

AoW: SM is a much better game overall imo, but needless to say, MoM is still is on my HDD. :D

[quote who="endofdayz" reply="195" id="2611451"] Quoting pigeonpigeon, reply 193 "You only have one chance to draw a player into the game..." Yes, and you do that by making a fun game. Strategy gamers don't care about story, they want to make their own. Compare the success of the civ series (the only "story" being a vague tie-in to history) to... um... I can't really think of "lore" heavy grand strategy games. I guess the scope of

1 more icon has been added, I think it's the best one so far. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] [e digicons]:w00t:[/e] Hm....I gotta make one with the Balrog! [e digicons]*_*[/e]

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="55" id="2611114"]Awww.... So now I found out that the game ctd on creating a sovereign as well as on generating the world. Will there be any possibility that there will be characters added up until well after beta 1z4? Every 1z beta caused a ctd for me so far so I did not get a single turn in yet, and I did not get to create a character. [/quote] Hopefully the devs will fix the XP related CTDs/lock-ups for 1Z4. Either way, perhaps you shoul

[quote who="taq" reply="6" id="2611441"]My display drivers are up-to-date. ("Update your drivers" is the last gasp of the desperate support person.) [/quote] Maybe updating your driver won't help, but your nvidia driver is not up-to-date. - Driver Date: 6/26/2009 This is the latest WHQL x64 Win7 [your OS] nvidia driver for the 9800GT [your gfx card] - http://www.nvidia.c

[quote who="swordguyj" reply="57" id="2611294"]so now that i have done a few how do it post it useing drop box? so i just post the link the forum? or do i use it to send it somewhere? [/quote] Make a new topic for your NPC in the Elemental Mods subforum. :)

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="191" id="2611288"] Genre-dependent. Dragon Age is an RPG. The game is the story, the two are inseparable. Even in an RPG like Dragon Age that gives you a lot of choices, so that the story can actually play out somewhat differently each time, you can only play it so many times before you lose interest. For me, that number was two and a half times (until the expansion). The reason was because I was just seeing the same story elements over and over. In parti

The OP has been updated with 2 new icons. Enjoy! :)

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="32" id="2610697"] One of the things I admire most about y'all is your flexible, open approach to game development. But every silver lining has a cloud... Also, I personally don't feel like the magic system has been there in any critique-useful way so far. That might be because stuff I'm thinking of as functional gameplay elements are actually 'content' from y'all's POV. Or maybe I've been onto something for quite a while with my pa