Istari

OK. I can take a hint. Fine then, I'll do it. Just let me reorganize my schedule and I'll be ready to work on MoM II... I mean Elemental WoM for you. [e digicons]:P[/e]

It would be nice if some things were a given in level up, while some things were a choice. For example, with the Sovereign, offspring, and champions, base stats like to-hit, hitpoints, and moves should be increased incrementally on each level up. You then get an option to increase other things like STR, INT, etc.

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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="35" id="2799711"]That was a large amount of text, Lord Ebonstone, so please let me, as a fellow pretend Lord, summarize what you said: "Brad is incompetent and released a game that wasn't ready and I have sand in my vagina" "As the owner of a software company( I had to assume this part, as its the only way to make his post make sense) I say your product was not worth my money and was in Alpha stage! Alpha! And I have sand in my va

I just wanted to mention that I'm quite surprised at the performance I'm getting on my mediocre machine. I have a Toshiba Notebook with the following specs: Intel Core 2 Duo @2.17GHz 2GB RAM GeForce Go 7900 GTX with 512MB Dedicated. Windows Vista 32-Bit. I'm running the game on maximum quality settings, and while there is some lag, it is a very acceptable amount that is not at all a bother or annoyance to gameplay. Considering tha

In Aussie land here, and the situation is not much better. I went to GAME, the main competitor to EB and pre-ordered Elemental. I was told the release date was Aug 19 (which I knew was BS as the U.S release date was Aug 24). When I went to call them on it, they told me it had been pushed back to the 'I don't know what' of September. I then purchased the LE from Impulse which is not available here. Just out of curiosity, I waited until about October 5th to see if I'd hear from them, which not

I hate consoles so much that when I bought a Wii for my little brother, I had to put it in an empty PC case just to hide my shame. On the topic of soft-core porn, the consoles are already designed to be forwards compatible with that engineering path. I will demonstrate: XBOX becomes SexBOX. XBOX 360 becomes SexBOX 69. Playstation becomes Gaystation. Dreamcast becomes Reamcast. Gamecube becomes the main rival of Gaystation, as Gaycube.</p

[quote who="CrazyHarlequin" reply="13" id="2799469"] Quoting Istari, reply 11 I think Wintersong means 'fighting fire with fire' here. It reminds me of an anecdote I once heard. Ah hemm. Long ago, an athiest went up to a man of religion and said, "If your God is so great, tell me how He can punish Satan by damning him to burn in Hell, if Satan himself is a creature of fire?" The man of religion looked sternly at the athiest for a moment and didn't speak. He then bent over

This has happened to me on a few occasions. Never with mounted units though. I haven't had a chance to play since the latest patch, so I'm not sure if that's resolved.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="3" id="2798827"]This leads to a question- why do you need a tech to raze a city? Doesn't make sense to me.[/quote] Indeed. While I think we can understand that the cataclysm has reverted everything back to scratch, some things are just too basic to have to be researched. I don't think we need a tech for 'Ass Wiping' for example. [e digicons];P[/e] Techs like being able to spot the potential in a hero does not really sound

I like the idea of a Sovereign being temporarily out of commission when they escape a battle. Regarding the dynasty card, I have a query. If a player's heirs can take over for them, won't that force opponents to have to hunt down and kill all of an enemies lineage to win a conquest victory? If so, that could get a little tedious. Perhaps defeating a Sovereign in combat will cause them to be banished for a period. But if you also demolish or take over their home city, that Sove

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="8" id="2796448"] Quoting hairrorist, reply 3Fire spells should not harm fire elementalsThe Master of Fire cannot use his knowledge to disrupt the natural flow of a Fire Elemental and harm him using his own element? I could accept a "no" with a newbie channeler but a devoted channeler of an element should do "impossible!" things with it. That would suppose some kind of specialization system with proper "rewards" for it.[/quote]

[quote who="JSJ101" reply="12" id="2797994"] I'm going to wait and see. The one thing I'm pretty sure I don't like is a mana maintenance per turn to have other casters imbued.[/quote] Yes, I think it should probably be a sizable once-off mana cost if essence is shifted to boolean. Otherwise the terminology should be changed from 'Imbue Champion' to something like 'Augment Champion', as that would make more sense as an ongoing cost.

The best user interface is one that a user doesn't even realise they're using! The cloth map is a beautiful example of this. Instead of having a screen pop-up with 'Kingdom Info', why don't we go to the private study of the sovereign or the steward, and take a look at those parchments on the desk there. Instead of a mini-map, have a crystal ball. For diplomacy, instead of selecting from a list of icons representing each rival and double-clicking to talk to some

[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="61" id="2798001"] Include a quest hut with a random event where a power suit falls from the sky. This random event will modify the master spell so that a cow has to be launched into the air with a catapult while casting it.[/quote] That is truly random and out of place sir. I take my hat off to you. [e digicons]:moo:[/e]

I love the way things are going. My only real gripe is with the proposed sharing of the mana pool. It hasn't been explained yet in a way that makes sense to me, so I'll have to wait and see. But if you have your sovereign and other spell casting units all draw from the same source of mana, it takes away the individuality of the caster, and it becomes more difficult to differentiate the power and limits of each magic user. I have stated this before, but I will put it briefly by saying

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="1" id="2797678"] MAGIC USERS: Redesign MU (magic users) so that as spell levels increase, so does the related casting times. Also, the number of levels the caster is above the actual spell being cast reduces casting time of that spell. The following is illustrative. I really don’t know what percentages, etc. would be effective. However, consider the pace of the battle given the above ‘round’ system&helli

[quote quoting="post"] 1) Battle Setup: So far we are getting an initiative system, which could be very cool. Many of us have also asked for some way to setup our forces before a battle starts so that we can apply better tactics. I think this will be especially important since SD says that 1.1 will encourage larger armies. I could see this being done in two ways. 1) Same as current where units are basically randomly thrown on the map, but allow players to reposition units within their de

[quote who="Gazz_" reply="59" id="2797354"]- when you have researched the 4 elements and the Life book to high levels you should be able to perform a special summoning. Earth! Air! Fire! Water! Life! By your powers combined, I am Captain Plane![/quote] I've taken the liberty of editing your most ridiculous suggestion sir. You'll note that I have removed the 't' from 'Planet' to bring it in line with the mythos. If this were a different 4X game, the Cap

[quote who="Gazz_" reply="47" id="2797353"] Quoting Istari, reply 44...Wait, where am I? You are a cheeseburger. The where is not important. Time, space, and speed are relative so all that matters is the cheeseburger.[/quote] What cheeseburger? What are you on about? I don't even like cheese! Also, while you are entitled to your personal opinion, I would have you know that Time, Space and Speed are not in fact relatives, just really good friends. I know this because I

Where's my cheeseburger? I paid $90 and the top piece of the bun isn't on there. I remember when cheeseburgers were $2.00 and they didn't forget the top piece. Next time I will wait until the fast food restaurant can give me a demonstration of a cheeseburger, and I will eat that demonstration, and if I like it, I will buy a non-demonstration cheeseburger. Don't insult me by offering me free fries and a coke. I want a discounted rate for a discounted cheeseburger, or I will regurgitat

-New city improvement: 'Modding Workshop'. Makes available a complete set of modding tools so that players can create and run mods from within the game. The newly created mods should also have the 'Modding Workshop' improvement, so that mods can be created from within mods. -Sovereign Lifestyle Choice should be implemented. This can have numerous ramifications. Both male and female sovereigns will lose the ability to have a dynasty. Male sovereigns will be compensated by having

I made a suggestion for what I think would be a good system for random events here . It would make a more detailed and immersing mythos I believe.

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="33" id="2786083"]- To avoid arguements over whether hexes or squares are better, all tiles should be perfect circles.[/quote] I will agree to this on one proviso. If a unit steps on the void between the circles, they awaken from the fantasy, and Morpheus headf**ks them to make them puke.

A magic strategy game without teleportation sounds strange to me. So far I like random_target's idea best, but I think we should also have something in the way of a magic spell. I think the Riftwar by Feist is a good place to brainstorm from. In that story, they had rifts that were part device and part spell/magic. So we'll say that fits in pretty well with what random_target was saying. As far as spells go, teleportation came in 3 types as far as I recall. Firstly the