Darkodinplus

Sounds good so far Brad, can't wait to try it out and give some feedback.

If the Kumquat engine (or Elemental) was originally designed for RTS(ish) game-play how is representing the larger numbers of troops going to work as the game gets to intermediate and late stages? I remember you saying that elemental was going to try an avoid having 1 or 2 stacks with large numbers and instead try to render approximately the number of individual soldiers on the battlefield. This seems unrealistic to me now that tactical combat is TB with tiles or am I completely mistake

I'd be willing to get into the ring Raven or help Vieuxchat's proposed Raven Xavier Group.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="277" id="2632350"] Switching the tactical system was very expensive for us but it was more important to us to do the tactical battles right than releasing something that we didn't think was optimal. But the other tactical system, just like the other economic systems we've tried, aren't "gone", they're just not exposed in the shipping game but that is something we can change as we get time.[/quote] So just to be crystal clear the TBS tile based system f

This is more morbid then I originally anticipated. Granted facing one's own mortality is a truly difficult endeavor. Don't get dead just yet Raven still to much to do.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="165" id="2630647"]Given the cost (in terms of $$$) of tossing out the real-time (continuous turns/pixel based combat system) I think I can safely say that we wouldn't have made the change to tile based turn based if we didn't think it was a lot more fun. A game that tries to be all things to all people ends up being nothing to anyone. [/quote] I really would have liked to try out the real-time tactical combat for myself. I

[quote]* Morale[/quote] Sounds good, morale if done properly is a great game mechanic but I hate when it is overwhelmingly powerful. [quote]* Terrain[/quote] Terrain affects are always a great mechanic to have in tactical battles. [quote]* Combat Speed[/quote] I think this should be broken down into two sub-categories. Namely Attack Speed (How many times a unit attacks per turn) and Movement Speed (How many spaces a unit can move per turn). <

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2627738"] We really can't do something like this as a vote. What we can do is make sure that modders can change it later on if they want to do so. Bear in mind, we don't just put in fan requests willy nilly. We try them out ourselves. We concluded that it was kind of a "bait and switch" to have the main game be turn based and tactical battles become RTS. Especially since tactical battles aren't the main feature of the game (ala Total War)/.[

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="1" id="2627694"] Tactical Battles. Tactical battles haven’t been part of the beta but they’ve been heavily discussed. Originally, tactical battles were designed to be RTS. Then Continuous turns. But as time has gone on, it’s become clear that the gameplay that people (and frankly that we enjoyed the most) was more closest to XCom. That is, turn based. Tile based. Moving units to the best spots. And eventually working to have your units in sp

Darkodin a seeker of power NPC- Darkodin

Customization of spells equals awesome.

I personally feel the investment for making a city should be more significant. I'm not sure how you would go about that but in a post apocalyptic world making a city should be a big deal in my opinion. I think getting a city to LV 4 or 5 should be a major accomplishment that requires some reasonable amount of effort on the players part.

I'm easy going as long as the quality is there. [e digicons]:)[/e]

No complaints here, none whatsoever.

[quote quoting="post"] Players can build Financiers (until we have a better name, feel free to suggest a better one) who enhance the city’s money making. [/quote] Robber Baron Imperial Coin Lord Grand Broker Master of Treasures Principal Economist Executor of Finance *New* I'm partial to Robber Baron or Executor of Finance personally.

The only major problem i've noted so far is the game still crashes if I check the full screen box. However unchecked I have yet to crash with 1z4.

I just got done playing a game with 1z4 and the stability seems more or less rock solid now. This was a great update it fixed the major issues I had with the previous versions. I'd have to vote yes for moving to Beta 2 now. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="Raven X" reply="10" id="2607999"]Dark, what kinds of programming experience do you have? Interested in helping out on the Dragonlance Mod? [/quote] I doubt I'll have the necessary free time Raven or I would consider it.

Can I submit mine after Elemental gets more customization options or should I go ahead and make one now?

I like the idea Raven X. In regards to Havok it is not a graphics engine. It is a physics engine that comes in several parts. I believe the only part Stardock is using currently is the animation portion. Hence Havok has absolutely no impact on them creating an in depth race creator. It would have an impact on the ease and quality of making the animations for game objects / entities in general. Also I find it very unlikely that Stardock is going to tax the Havok physics engine given what I've

I agree 100% Raven X as I stated in the original dev journal that created this mini-fire storm I'd like to see a ratio of Canon(green arrow) vs non-canon(red arrow) focus about like 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. This is the way I'd like to see the game lean.

I personally will always lean towards customization but I still like to have high quality canon content within a game. Perhaps my position on this subject can be best described using a simple diagram. (Click on image for qualit

I love that idea 100% Brad. It would be worth the wait if such changes where made to Elemental if you ask me.

I saw the poll and voted no since I still CTD and freeze a bit to much. I like how Brad isn't going to give us old school XP users the short end of the stick. At any rate in retrospect you should always have N+1 Betas and this is Elemental's +1. [e digicons]:D[/e]