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[quote who="Wintersong" reply="1" id="2286548"]I didn't forbid second guessing if you (or me) failed your first try. Nothing but forum rules and common sense prevents you from posting every five minutes saying "getdate(); (gettime();+5)" [/quote] Well allowing massive repeated guessing effectively takes away the victory from an individual which has guessed once who would have guessed closer to the actual release date. With allowing only one guess even a forum

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="23" id="2286092"] Ok, let's be optimistic and say... july... 13th... 18(6pm) GMT. There, Those who don't try, cannot lose. [/quote] Hey ... no second guessing... otherwise one individual can always say tomorrow 8am... over and over and over. Even worse multiple individuals can make repeated guessing several times a day... if they have the time.

[quote who="Gerry" reply="23" id="2284307"] As for what Karune said, I'd say I agree with this but it will affect a minority of people who would like to LAN without connecting to B.net. ... ... And in this day and age if you are without internet or on a 56k you need to catch up with the times lol [/quote] Obviously you completely missed my previous post #42 providing several problems with a connecting to B.net only option. Please try

Just one question: Typically I play LAN games with my brothers and my son(15) at my brothers house which ranges anywhere from 3 to 7 players. Due to the location the internet access is very unstable with frequent drops. The question: Will we be able to play Elemental as a LAN game on the computers?

[quote who="Dyranum" reply="16" id="2283910"] Blizzard have said that they'll implement L.A.N. through Battle.net 2.0 somehow. [/quote] If Blizzard means LAN will be available thru the game option Battle.net 2.0 without using the internet then this is good. If Blizzard means those playing LAN must connect thru an ISP which then connects to the Battle.net 2.0 servers then this is bad... as explained within my reply #42.

[quote who="kryo" reply="11" id="2283757"] Forcing you to go through battle.net (which is free) should not be a big deal Yup. Even when I played SC at LAN parties years ago, we always just used battlenet. Unless you don't have internet at home (in which case it's unlikely you'll be the host of a LAN party anyway), this won't have that much impact on you. [/quote] These comments are insanely close minded and inexpe

I would also like to chime-in and say this is enough reason for me not to purchase Starcraft_2.

[quote who="Sir-Astral" reply="7" id="2281296"] To Jafo & NTJedi: Your comments make no sense. If this is all about moving forward, then are you saying that SSD's are taking a step backward in technology? [/quote] No one ever said that or even implied such a statement. SSD is a step forward as we've been agreeing with the OP of this topic. [quote who="Sir-Astral" reply="7" id="2281296"] Additionally, just because the "OS"

[quote who="Jafo" reply="15" id="2280084"] Sir Astral: Face it, having RAM beyond a certain point does not a single thing for your performance. Right now 6 gigs appears to be the sweet spot. Well said. I told everyone it must be a overcompensating for something else thing... Jafo: Once upon a time 'someone' said no-one would ever NEED more than 640k. 6gig may be a 'sweet spot'

[quote who="ThreeKings" reply="14" id="1943315"]I hope there will be the same map creation options ala AOW: random campaign map editor (to create your own) [/quote] I completely agree... the random game generator and the map editor are two features which provide intense replay value.

[quote who="twifightDG" reply="2" id="2277735"] And great music too "Windows should use less RAM" is a moot (I learnt a new word ) argument. First, is doesn't 'use' that much, and the word "use" is kind of trivial here, it can mean many things. Most things in Windows will happily give away their RAM usage as soon as you start up a game or such. Recent versions only use a couple hundred MBs of RAM, and you can lower that if you strip down your Windows install. The

[quote who="kona0197" reply="25" id="2275485"]Did anyone mention to Frogboy that his apps are still 32 bit? Why use a 64 bit OS if your apps are all 32 bit? [/quote] Actually Stardock is currently working on a game called Elemental which will have a 64-bit version. ;) The main reason for using a 64bit version is the 32bit version has a 4GB memory limit. As described in the developer journals the game Elemental will have an advantage unlike previous TBS games bec

Alpha will be released on July 8th 1:05pm (EST)

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="22" id="2271075"]so are we going to be expected to create several versions of whatever we mod so it can scale, or are the mod tools going to figure that stuff out for us? (I'm not sure how difficult it is to create an editor that takes a high quality image and figures out how to auto-adjust the resolution/poly-count to fit its needs) [/quote] Yes, I agree... several months ago I asked for more details regarding the graphics and images,

[quote who="mrlarone" reply="2" id="2267083"]well.... guess it's time for my eye test then. it's alright when i sit up, but i like to kick back on the forums... [/quote] Besides what Aesir Rising has mentioned it might also be your monitor or display drivers. I'v

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="15" id="2267406"] I can swear that Earth's time won't stop while I play my turn in this game. [/quote] Yes, Earth's time will stop while playing this game. It's one of the intended features so there's no need to take vacation time off from work. According to the chat channel it will be beta tested during December. Thus... turn based.

Considering the game will have battles at different fort type structures (aka=sieges), which frequently do last multiple days... I see no reason why battles on the map must be one day only. Also take into consideration the enormous 64_bit maps where armies will be massively larger by middle and late game. Also having a method for battles taking multiple days(aka=turns) opens more gameplay strategies such as assassinations between turns on enemy command

[quote]Players can win the game in a variety of ways including achieving the spell of making, completing the quest of mastery, diplomatic victory as well as the traditional military conquest means of victory.[/quote] I don't think any one single action such as a single spell should allow a victory. On a very large map a smaller nation can instantly end a good challenging game... there's no clues to even identify this threat. At least with a diplomacy vi

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="12" id="2264512"]Well, won't you be playing the game in real time? And is it not a strategy game? There, real-time strategy. [/quote] No, the course of real-time is stopped when playing your turn during this game. Thus... Turn Based Strategy. Even in the most recent developer journal it reads as " Elemental is a fantasy strategy game (turn-based) developed ... ... ". [e digicons]:g

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="5" id="2262257"] So far it's going very well...this week it's all about getting those load times down. It only takes 5s to make a random map, but up to 1m40s to get into the game. We've gotten it down to 24s on my machine, I we feel there's still improvements that can be done. [/quote] Excellent information... will gamers notice gameplay improvements on quad-cores and greater? Also how's

And after 6+ months Gamespot still has Elemental:WoM listed as a Real-Time Strategy game . [e digicons]o_O[/e]

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Another annoying bug: Is it's not possible to quote from the original posting of any topic. When this is attempted it will use the following: [quote quoting="post"] which never works.

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="1" id="2259355"]Might want to look in the Forum issues section. [/quote] For some reason this is not listed by default... in the off topic section I only see Personal Computing; PC Gaming and General. I'll bookmark this one. [quote who="JagerJack" reply="2" id="2259364"] Stardock is already aware of the forum bugs, as there are other threads about them, but I'm not sure where they are when it comes to fixing them. In the

Multi-Layered... let's take even a deeper look at possible strategic elements if the battlefield could even be more multi-layered. I'm talking about not only ground units, but flying units and burrowing units. The amount of strategic options would triple if a group of flying units could exist on the battlefield above a group of ground units and burrowing units under the ground units or slightly in front. There could be weapons and spells specific fo