[quote who="TCores" reply="45" id="2692830"]Might I recommend some easy listening in the form of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZsU8elXrI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqvmCiNMpCU&feature=related Better for you than Enya.[/quote] I recommend Pink Floyd - Echoes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6iwrBlb1Bo <a href="http://
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="269" id="2692777"] Quoting SpaghettiMon, reply 264 Quoting Spitz, reply 254 Quoting Frogboy, reply 249 In Beta 3C, spells go right through armor which was a bug that was fixed. I would eventually love to have magic mitigated by magical resistance, rather than mundane armor. I agree. I'm not sure how much Brad & co want to complicate equipment, but it would be nice to see at least a difference bet
[quote who="Raven X" reply="32" id="2692757"]You're trying to calm down so you don't slit your wrists aren't you? This is why you hire the code monkeys, so they pull their hair out and you don't end up going bald.[/quote] I had to watch this video after your comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_wd9Qf0IE
[quote who="Tormy-" reply="266" id="2692695"] Quoting Spitz, reply 254 Quoting Frogboy, reply 249 In Beta 3C, spells go right through armor which was a bug that was fixed. I would eventually love to have magic mitigated by magical resistance, rather than mundane armor. Resistance to elements/dmg types > magical resistance. All damage types should have the corresponding resistance type. -> This would be
[quote who="Mandelik" reply="12" id="2692662"] I just use the cloth one to find goodies, quest objectives or my far away units. If these would be better signalized, it would be perfect. And to whom belongs a unit should be more obvious too.[/quote] Agreed. There should be a banner or something similar to tell at a glance whose units are whose. TW is good at this, but I have to click things to even know what a unit is (or hover over it). I hope who ever does th
[quote who="Spitz" reply="254" id="2692286"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 249 In Beta 3C, spells go right through armor which was a bug that was fixed. I would eventually love to have magic mitigated by magical resistance, rather than mundane armor.[/quote] I agree. I'm not sure how much Brad & co want to complicate equipment, but it would be nice to see at least a difference between armor and magical resistance. I'd prefer a system kind of like
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2692584"]I've not played with cheat codes nor managed to fully explore a map, but in .92 I can't seem to get a large map without a very close neighbor, which definitely makes it feel cramped for a snapping turtle player like me. That plus the wildly reduced chances of dynasty offspring have me wishing that there was a new build already...[/quote] Yeah I love playing on large maps in TBS games because I'm a turtle who saves world dom
I use a bit of both, but I actually prefer the 3D view most of the time because it feels more adventurous to me that way. Sure I could zoom out and instantly see everything around me, but it's also fun to wander around looking for things that may not be entirely obvious, which through a few plays makes it almost as easy to spot things as the cloth map (once you learn what goodies look like). I'm sure, just as in GalCiv, once i get a kingdom big enough I'll go more to the cloth map to get the
What? Elemental isn't a pirate sim? How do I get my money back?
[quote who="Blazerules" reply="30" id="2692239"] Quoting Murteas, reply 4Frogboy said in another post that they typically review the day 0 version (i.e. RTM + day 0 patch). So hopefully it will just be the pirates that get the lesser version. Na I dont think so pirates get updates easy just look for them on the internet lol. And even C&C4 can be played online with a pirated version :/ so i dont think getting a upda
I think that the music, espectially the title song, sound pretty epic and get me psyched up and immersed in the fantasy. I guess I'm a sucker for this type of orchestral kind of music though. Send my props to the musician for me Brad.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="24" id="2692012"] Quoting Spitz, reply 23When do you expect we'll get to try out some of the new goodness. I'm a bit put-off from testing 3c since I'm not sure how much of the feedback I'd provide would be useful at this point and how much of it would simply be: "You're worried about that? We completely revamped that two days ago!" I'm expecting a week from today. Yea, Beta 3C is a distant memory at this point for us. We've gotten a
No marriage? Can I at least have concubines? If not how will I create an ever-lasting Spaghetti Monster dynasty?
[quote who="Malleus_magician" reply="12" id="2691891"]I really can't wait. every time i go into a tactical battle, everything just lags HORRIBLY. its fine just up to that point. i had to wipe my harddrive mostly since a corrupt file from windows appeared, probly after all that hard restarting from previous beta's[/quote] If you really had a corrupt system file it could be any number of things un-related to beta, but may have been triggered more by the beta. It could be
It looks impressive guys. I really like what you guys are doing with Impulse reactor. I'm glad there's finally some REAL competition for Steamworks, assuming you guys plan to release Impulse Reactor as an API/tool for future games on Impulse.
[quote quoting="post"] 2nd question is the AMD 6 cores/6 full threads or the Intel 4 cores and 8 threads. Has any internal testing been done to see who wins out in that scenario? [/quote] It's not all about cores and threads (just like it's not about bits), especially with games. I'm not sure if Elemental is multi-threaded or not, but just to show you an example here are L4D2 benchmarks ran using the 6 core Phenom vs similar Intel chips incl
[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="30" id="2691472"]this is more of a alpha build then a beta since you can get a blue screen[/quote] I'm not trying to sound mean, but you obviously don't know how alpha/beta cycles work. Alpha is basically testing systems as they're being made, sometimes with little to no graphics or UI except what you need to test that system. Basically think about what they were testing internally before we even had the Beta1 cloth map, which is the cl
I don't think this game will be the best selling in all time, because let's be honest brainless cookie cutter games like GTA and Call of Duty sell to the masses. However, I think what we have here is a significant evolution, if not revolution, in RTS sandbox games. The Civ games, while good, have remained kind of stagnant. Civ 4 was great, but didn't offer much to the table except for its modability. Civ 5 will be adding some significant changes to the Civ game style, but nothing significant
Not much I can say that hasn't already been said. You guys at Stardock are awesome. Keep up the good work. I'm sure you guys will nail everything down as you always do.
I'm playing Ultima Online until we get the new beta [e digicons]:D[/e]
My question is how long until Frogboy is flying around his office with toy space ships while bugging guys to check in their code ;p
[quote who="EvilTwinTepe" reply="1" id="2682380"]Perhaps a silly question - but I assume the 'base' buildings at least produce 1 of an item?[/quote] Based on what he's said so far, no. Buildings now only provide a boost, and now you actually have to find the resource to get anything.
Dang. Such a tease Brad! Can't wait to see what you guys have done :)
Isn't imitation the highest form of flattery?
I think it should remain optional in the game settings. As for the default? Right now, the first one. However, I think the scale to zoom thing you checked should remain an option if it's worked on. Other people have already proposed fixes for it, like a min/max size thresh-hold so that it will look a bit better.