[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2758902"]At this point, I'm thinking the disk version might cause cancer. [/quote] Explains why it's taking the LE so long to clear customs. You didn't put a radioactive symbol on it did you? I've already used the DeLorean as an excuse once and I doubt they'd fall for it again. Plus the Libyans would get upset if they thought I had another supplier.
[quote who="Mobella" reply="32" id="2759040"]i must be an absolute gaming simpleton... i love this game... [/quote] I like it too. Sure there's things it could do better, minor niggles and a tendency to go boing on occasion but it's still fun, and that's the important part. There's a solid diamond at the core, we just need to whack out a few pieces of coal to let it shine.
Make sure they're all in the inventory of the hero who initiated the quest, go back to the temple you got the quest from.
Caravans transporting different resources was in one of the beta's, but I don't think anyone liked it.
[quote quoting="post"] SOLUTION - Elemental Dev Team go play Age of Wonders 2 and Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic. Learn what it is to have a dynamic and exciting magic system [/quote] Playing AoW would be a solution for a flaccid magic system? I doubt it :P [quote] SOLUTION - Again, learn from AoW2 and AoW : SM. The battlefields there are varied and make use of tactical things such as LoS and fortifications. [/quote] There's vario
Elemental isn't trying to be a remake of MoM. It's got a few influences from various games. The dungeons and questing for example, along with the focus on NPC's, is heavily reminiscent of Sierra's Lords of Magic. Which by the by, if you're a MoM fan and haven't played it yet I suggest you do, and it'll probably tide you over till Elemental is fixed. Good Old Games have it in an XP/Vista compatible format for a few dollars.
You can often skip landmasses with a decent border push and the teleport spell, but yes, the random maps leave an awful lot to be desired.
There's several different problems when testing a game compared to an application. The two main ones being you'll see a much more diverse set of hardware in the field and of course testing can tell you whether the code is working, but it can't tell you whether what it's doing is any good. You might pick up shards aren't working properly, but you still don't know if the shard system as a whole works as a game mechanic. Although the customer expectation is a problem
[quote who="Sethai" reply="1" id="2757029"]i still haven't found the tech for archery as an empire player. and i'm 10 techs into conquest. [/quote] Weapons of Piercing I believe. The thing about the Empire tree is that most of the techs are only likely to show rather than guaranteed. The guaranteed techs tend to be those primarily useful for conquest - allied races and the group techs. I suspect the intent is to encourage the player to start recruiting ar
Not to mention the Soldiers Cloak and Cloak of Thwarting are identical. Except of course one requires Elementium if equipped on a unit.
Actually, a lot of those suggestions in the beta are what they're talking about implementing as a fix now. So I wouldn't say it was their fault, I would however commend the lack of anyone saying "told you so".
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="224" id="2755641"]if you want to release a high profile PC game in 2010, these are the kinds of things that have to be taken into account BEFORE release [/quote] Someone ought to tell that to Bethesda. And GSC Game World while they're at it.
[quote who="Twohawks" reply="21" id="2755470"] question I have only seen them with ogres and only empire can use that unit type, is there a kingdom equivalent that I have missed? if not then make it so both races can recruit them and call them half ogres instead.. [/quote] Yup, sometimes they have refugee's, pointless though that is at the moment. I'd rather see them all with a unique resource. Doesn't have to provide recruits, though it would be a nice way to add vari
I always find the inability of archers to counter attacked a fairly good reason to protect them myself.
Try a medium map with three AI factions. Found your first city next to the fertile plains and send your sovereign scouting for resources. Ideally you want at least one of each - goldmine, ancient library and ancient temple. As soon as you can, research diplomacy and grab the trade tech, then switch to warfare and aim for bows. Once you have the trade tech train a caravan in each city (they're free) and move them to other cities to start trading and building roads. Once you get the tech for Ce
One thing to think of when talking about lowering the numbers is that we also have combat speed to play with. It's fine making a Dragon and a guy with a lord hammer have the same attack; you just let the dragon attack three times for every one swing the lord hammer gets and it's still a nasty critter. To get around the heroic problem you can make defence fixed. If you've got six defence then the enemy needs to roll at least a seven to do damage. The only issue you get then is that if
[quote who="Eisenhund" reply="5" id="2750537"]So basically all the actors in Elemental are wearing the same costumes and saying the same lines. I wonder what Shakespeare would have thought of that.[/quote] "Yet another means to torture third grade English students" probably ;) [quote who="Nathikal" reply="4" id="2750476"]You know what's scary? Now that you've mentioned all of the copy-cat spells in Lords of Magic, I realized it. [/quote
Could be problematic - what if someone builds a city on a square with a mine they can't see?
[quote who="mastroego" reply="57" id="2752937"] The explanations proposed here are fine, but they have to be stretched really thin to cover everything. Why do I "uncover", conveniently, only stuff of the proper level (heroes and lairs)? Wouldn't I hear of more legendary heroes, first, for instance? [/quote] Because you have to find the great ruin of Ib to secure and translate the mural giving you the location of the Vaults of Lollth? :P Funnily enough you do actually know o
They've been chucking spells at me since 1.00.
I haven't got it yet. I'd wait until next week before I start to worry - although that would be mainly that Customs have opened it and I'm going to get one of those nice little "you have custom duty to pay" letters.
Just a thought, but maybe his definition of "fixed" differs from yours?
[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="4" id="2752053"]How about Linux ?[/quote] See how the minimum requirements specify Windows operating systems? There's a reason for that.
[quote who="mastroego" reply="26" id="2750797"] But... it takes a damn lot of "imaginative effort" to explain everything this way. I can't accept to be able to SAFELY journey through the land in the first part of the game, when I know that those same lands are populated by hordes of ravaging monsters, including dragons. [/quote] Despite the fact their appearance is explained as being let loose due to your scholars meddling in things man was not meant to know?
The game is ready for release when the devs say it is. You mightn't like what they release, but they tend to have more clout in the situation on account of it being them doing the releasing. It's like the argument I often have with my boss; my shift is over when I say it's over. They may disagree, but unless they redefine my duties to include leaving the building early they'll find I'm always right in the matter.