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[quote who="keithLamothe" reply="21" id="2449309"]Boogie, 2) I hope to be much less of a jerk on point number 2, though perhaps invoking even more coder pain: what do you think about adding a rule type that takes as a parameter the name of a python method to call that returns true/false depending on whether the rule is met? That would allow a much higher degree of flexibility for us insane modders out here. [/quote] I would like to strongly second thi

[quote who="zigzag" reply="4" id="2435459"]It worked in X-com because you only had a dozen squaddies at a time. Try micromanaging thousands.[/quote] I agree that for the base game this x-com like model will not work. I am hopeful that the modding support in the game would be enough though to create a spin off tactical game that did focus on small squad fights. Elemental: Enemy Unknown =) In my mind I picture a setup where the cities are fixed and you are playin

[quote who="Climber" reply="14" id="2435199"] There is no global storage, either. There is no storage at all in Elemental. To train a unit with plate armor, you'll need the resources, appropriate facilities (presumably) and time. No stockpiling, nothing.[/quote] Right, your blacksmiths do not produce plate mail, they just change build times. The plate mail upgrade option just adds to the cost of a unit. I assume that a unit upgrade would require just the cost differential to be p

turn1 - Channeler found city, name Alpha Channeler use full movement to go NE, pause if any enemy or feature of interest is encountered Alpha - build 5 houses Alpha - train 1 defender, name Bob Start researching Adventure message Machina - "As two of the last people to reply lets form an alliance. Clearly <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl00__LinkUser" class="hand" title="Click user name to view more options." onclick="Sd.Menus.showMenu('userMenu0')

[quote who="Wahngrok" reply="8" id="2436543"] So we just need one more info: where's the pre-order page for those games? [/quote] Yes! =) I wonder what the cloth map equivalent would be for an RPG? Perhaps we could see dialog trees and help come up with more branching plot points? Sort of in the style of interactive fiction. [ Wasteland ] You stand in a blasted wasteland. The wind blows with a an ever present howl,

[quote quoting="post"] Elemental: War of Magic, will be the first game that makes use of it but the RPG we’re starting to work on will make use of it too and there are other games in the design process that will exist on it. It’s a world that we hope you enjoy being apart of and look forward to exploring it with you. [/quote] I love turn based strategy games, but RPGs are where my true love lies. These days it seems only Bethesda</

rpgcodex! That rules, and reminds me I should go there to read how bad they are ripping on dragon age ;) Most of you are all focused on research but I wanted to talk a bit about the basic economics section. I understand the desire to reduce the number of things a player has to worry about but it seems odd to have the natural birth rate of a population be tied into prestige. I do not have a good feeling for the range of populations and prestige yet, but if prestige does no

First a quick comment, the idea of "infinite research" is very meh to me. All it means is I get to increase some bonus along a line of rapidly diminishing returns. It is identical to "future tech" and I honestly do not see the point or appeal of it. Perhaps someone who really likes the concept could enlighten me? As far as a way to do research, as long as you talk about x-com as being an inspiration why not allow some forms of reverse engineering in your tech tree? You go on a quest o

[quote who="red1939" reply="45" id="2429754"] X-Com: Hard, very interesting, random generated, meaningful tactical battles Difficult management of budget (there were a few exploits how to obtain tons of $$$, but we forget about them) Interesting & meaningful techs Awesome feeling of controlling the whole world defense against aliens (from the Geo-view) - sending ships, building bases, patrolling the skies, looking for alien bases Difficult, deman

If you have not played the Civ4 mod Fall from Heaven 2 I would highly recommend it. I think it does a great job of showing what can be done when some RPG elements are added into a strategy game. Having a unit that is more powerful than other units, that gains in power during the game, that has skill choices to make as it gains power, and is unique (you can never build a second one if it dies) is all done in FFH. At the same time you still have the same core Civ4 gameplay of settling c

First of all can we stop with all the real world talk? It does not really matter if it is somehow "reasonable" for X units of some type to kill Y units of a weaker type. This is not going to be some detailed hyper realistic simulation game. You should be focused more on what would be fun to play than what would "really" happen. [quote who="Campaigner" reply="31" id="2395451"] Quoting joasoze, reply 27 Am I getting this across. Is this understandable? I am assuming that

[quote who="Denryu" reply="78" id="2400069"]or we could leave the non-negotiables alone until we understand why they are non-negotiable.[/quote] I strongly agree with this statement. One reason I have avoided commenting much at this stage in the beta is because so many core game play mechanics are not in place yet. Magic is a central aspect of the game, it is a key component of a sovereigns power, so without it in place it is very hard for me to comment on the risk/reward of allowing

In college I became very disillusioned with AI. I had all these ideas about computer learning and dynamic code and neural networks and really none of that amounted to much of anything. You basically had expert systems (bleh prolog!) that only work in very abstract controlled environments and (tree)search. When I learned that the best chess AI was nothing more than look up tables with opening/closing plays combined with just brute force game tree traversal I became saddened. To me such

[quote who="BiffMan" reply="10" id="2377732"] Quoting elmo3, reply 5Is combat in yet? Tried running over spiders and trolls but they ignore me. Upon further investigation, it appears you can only initiate combat with your soverign, not with an individual military unit. They can still get attacked though if the mob randomly moves onto you, just can't get them to start an attack.[/quote] This is not the case for me, I have initiated combat with both my soveri

Same issue, I killed the process after waiting around 10 min. debug.err DebugMessage: Version 0.22 last updated on: Thu Sep 17 11:59:54 2009 DebugMessage: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 9/17/2009, 19:26:31 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: XXXX Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234) Languages: English (Regional

Before I checked in on the forums here I clicked on the link that was placed in my start menu (http://fogbugz.stardock.com/default.asp?pg=pgPublicEdit) and submitted a few bugs using it. Should I not use that system? Also do you have any guidelines on the level of bugs you want to see? I wrote down everything I came across and started to enter them but most are only minor issues. I do not want to fill up the system with things like dialogs not remembering state correctly when you hit

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="16" id="2368452"] Can't wait 'till next week! Uh...completely out of context. Next week I get my XBox back and can finally play Batman:AA. [/quote] Frogboy - What are you guys doing! BoogieBac - Oh hi Brad, have you seen this new batman ga Frogboy - If we don't release the Elemental Beta soon we will have people flying out here to attack us. The Alpha invites took care of the real crazies but our remote locati

While I love the graphics I am concerned that I will end up playing only on the cloth map. In GalCiv I would always play zoomed out becuase it was far easier to get an idea for what was going on. The individual unit graphics were just not easy enough to distinguish and some information, like planet quality, was just so much harder to see (at least for me). I assume in this shot that the blue circle under the units feet is because they are selected. If this is true I am concern

If I can play the game, then for me the game is released. As long as the company behind the game is not in finacial trouble then I would not care if it took them 1 week or 1 decade after I started playing to call the game offically released. The games I play the most are games that recive continued support over time. From MMO's, to TF2, to civ 4 mods, these games are literally never really done. They just keep adding more and more features over the years. The upside to an exte

Am I the only one who was excited to see an email from stardock for the split second it took me to realize it was just the weekend impulse buys? Oh well I have never gotten into any kind of closed alpha/beta so I was not expecting my luck to change this time. I will be going to PAX again this year and I am very excited. Last year I was too nervous to actually talk to anyone at the Stardock booth, I just watched some games of Demigod from a distance. This year I will at

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