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[quote who="psychoak" reply="23" id="2606595"]I ditched Civ4 completely, for FFH2. I ditched it because the vanilla races blow.[/quote] What races? [e digicons]^_^[/e]

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="85" id="2606374"] Who says all winged dudes can fly? [/quote] True! *stares at his avatar* :D [Sorry for going OT, I couldn't resist!]

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="5" id="2606369"]Nah, they will be busy with the true RPG in which Stardock is working on. (as in totally early preprepreprepreproduction) [/quote] I can already see the Beta1 reports of that upcoming RPG. [CTD]When hitting an [b]elf[/b] with my warhammer [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]

[quote who="Razgondk" reply="12" id="2606310"]Master of Orion was the friendliest game I ever played...when you quit the game, a window would appear, saying "Thank you for playing"...was just so nice... can we have this feature please? [/quote] Heh. I guess the EWoM Beta1 quit message should've been something like: Thanks for suffering! (c) Frogboy [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="71" id="2606297"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 63 Well, it will be easy to set up some "basic", yet unique custom factions if they will go with option 2. You won't have to mod anything in that case. Sure modding is the real deal anyways, if you want to add a truly unique race/faction, but you get the picture, yea? Option 2. will be good for "casuals" who don't want to mod anything. Also option 2. means that we end up having more

Froggie...maybe it's time for a new poll in the Journals section? :) It looks like that the people are "voting" in this topic already. The question is simple: Where would you like to see the focus of development? 2 options: Eliminate the race distinctions and instead build out the Factions with more lore and artwork. Current customization of factions would remain. Expand the race distinctions and provide more assets and code to support players creating

Hehe Tasunke, this is like the 3rd post from you about the same stuff. :D

Additional note: It would be cool if the units would get random traits when leveling up. Example: "Pool" of Traits A - The unit must be lvl5+ in order to get one of these traits: Precision Strike, Overpower, Evasion Chance to get one of those traits @ lvl up: 10% Obtainable by: Races/Factions

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="24" id="2606137"] On a bit of a tangent, one of the biggest internal debates we have is on features. I veto any feature that the AI won't be able to effectively use. It's one of the big reasons why Galactic Civilizations doesn't have the breadth of player features of say Space Empires V. If I can't get the AI to effectively use them, then they don't go in. [/quote] Even tho I love multiplayer, I gotta say that I like this approach. :) [quo

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="91" id="2606152"]Definitely UNIQUE FACTIONS are more important than UNIQUE RACES although both are acceptable. [/quote] Why do you think so? They are equally important in my book of Magic. :)

Since I am an AoW2 - SM & Dominions fanatic, I vote for this: Expand the race distinctions and provide more assets and code to support players creating their own custom factions made up by their own custom races. ----------- Unique, diverse & well detailed races will enhance the game[play] a lot. That being said, whatever direction you devs will take, make sure that the lore itself must be decent as well. I am going to quote Den, because I abso

[quote who="Raven X" reply="9" id="2605973"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 8 Yes I know. Basically you are talking about a "Spore type" creature creator for Elemental. It would be awesome to have a built-in creator like that of course....but it won't happen...probably ever, but who knows. Not really a "Spore" system exactly no. But for instance if they were to incorporate what Frogboy said about "making Dragon-Men" they will include some l

[quote who="Silicor" reply="85" id="2606016"] My proposal is: Set a fixed number of races (~6-10) that have character all their own. [/quote] How could they add new races [not factions!] now? It would require lot of time to implement new races. [New 3d models & animations, testing and balancing etc.] I think even the Q1 2011 release date would be pushed back, if they would start to work on the new races.

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="82" id="2605996"] E.g. I think the factions in Dominions 3 are wonderfully thought out and would love such unique and fantastically flavoured factions. [/quote] Yep, and the same is true about AoW2 - SM as well....but we won't have that kind of racial diversity in EWoM. It's against the lore. Sure we can have very different factions, but those are factions and not races.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="6" id="2605960"] I think it's quite possible to have fully fleshed out standard factions with deep lore, like has been the plan all along, plus have the sweet ability to custom make some other races without having to Mod them in with a bunch of hard work and importing models and everything that goes along with it. The AI will only be one file anyway. What will change from faction to faction will be how those factions play and what the AI does with what each fa

Raven, this is a good post, and this is something, what is worth to discuss. I understand that what are you saying, and I still say that we need to have these static factions. First of all, it's part of the game lore. Each factions should play differently, in a unique way. That is fun. Sure it's predictable, but it's not a big problem. If you randomize them, you will figure out that how they gonna play later on anyways. Also, the AI will be more challenging with having static fa

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="44" id="2605567"] The question is what level of complexity should be introduced. Do we have Factions AND Races that are distinct or do we simplify and simply talk about factions. [/quote] Needless to say, I vote for distinct and well developed factions and races. => Diversity should be important in a game like this Froggie. :) [quote who="BoogieBac" reply="69" id="2605879"]Just so there's more than one Stardockian posting in this

NT, I've made a sorta similar suggestion a while ago as well: https://forums.elementalgame.com/370949 This feature must be implemented...even if we won't have it in the retail game, it must be added later on in an expansion.

I had no problems running MoM v1.31 on x64 Vista.

[quote quoting="post"] My bias is to focus on our own canon and introduce players to it. Players could still create their own races but they’re not going to be making any half-dragon half man races or Ents or what have you. That’s my bias on it because that sort of thing can be added later in post-release if the game’s successful whereas we only get one opportunity to really explore the depths of the rift between say Kraxis and Capitar or the doom of Paride

What? Oil as a resource in the vanilla game? You gotta be kiddin'. [e digicons]:(O[/e] Seriously...get real guys.

[quote who="TarponCrest" reply="4" id="2605202"]One of the problems with AoW was that in multiplayer everyone rushed to get the high level units ignoring the use of the low level units because they were well useless, unless you are playing low level as a side rule. [/quote] That is true about the vanilla game [AoW2-SM], however this problem was fixed via modding. [3in1 is awesome. ;)] Actually this is one of the reasons why trained units must gain xp. High tier [equipped with

Yeah, we've talked about this, and it's a must have feature in my book. Froggie has posted something regarding this [..I am unable to find his post/reply], and IIRC he has mentioned that this is not implemented yet, or something like that. So I think that trained units will get xp and lvl up in some upcoming beta version.

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="74" id="2605166"]I am really confused by this post from Stardock. And a bit exasperated. How can we do a poll when we haven't even seen what the factions will finally be like (tech trees, faction buildings, magic, 3D graphics ...)? Just the thought that such a poll would be the basis for a game changing decision gives me vertigo. [/quote] Yep, exactly my thoughts. [I've made a post about this already btw..] This poll should ha

[quote who="Tridus" reply="49" id="2604925"]At the moment we just don't know much about most of the factions. Too much stuff is missing from the game to really get to know any factions that well. So the poll numbers can be kind of misleading that way. We certainly need factions to play against. While I might like to create my own, I also like to play as some of the built in ones and really don't want to have to create ones to play against. Letting people create their own races is c