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[quote]If I could be sure that SD would not be leashed by the publisher and made to release a buggy piece of mess just to keep a release date I guess I would probably reconsider though. [/quote] I would guess StarDock (that is, Brad Wardell) would only be willing to make a MoO3 or StarControl3 (the others don't count) if they would get total controll over the licence. (Which seems to be what prevented them from making MoM2 since Atari didn't want to give those licences

[quote who="Tamren" reply="5" id="1942948"]I thought it was "let sleeping pegasi fly". Horses can sleep standing up, some birds can sleep while flying. Think about it [/quote] Ach, you're right of course. How shamefull of me to get the pronoun wrong, so: Let sleeping pegasi fly. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

[quote who="StoweMobile" reply="9" id="1942902"]I'm also curious about whether walls are going to take up a building space. I would guess yes, as this would force you to choose between sacrificing some of a tiles utility or leaving it defenseless. This would also encourage the player to take the terrain into consideration much more when expand their city, as a properly placed tile facing a river for example would not need to have a wall (since the terrain is providing protection). But this wo

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="3" id="1942907"] Haven't you ever heard the pronoun "Let sleeping bears lie"? [/quote] Actually that goes: " Let sleeping pegasi lie. " [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

Hmm... I think the one in the lower left looks better then the one I have at the moment. Though it's a bit more brown then the original, so... Argh, I can't decide for myself. I suck at deciding for something and I wan't to call myself a magic emporer? I really can't say which ones do look better. [e digicons]X([/e] PS. [e digicons]k1[/e] to you too.

[quote who="Spartan" reply="14" id="1941259"] The only thing that might work is to take a picture of it at full size on a LCD monitor with a digital camera set to 100x100 at high contrast. [/quote] Oh well, I can live with it I think. But thanks a lot for your effort. Very appreciated. :) PS. [e digicons]k1[/e]

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="23" id="1941209"]Before I forget, on the subject of Unit Customisation, did I mention bears in this thread? Because if I didnt... BEAR CAVALRY! [/quote] Bears? Who wants bears? I say Pegasus Knights ! [e digicons]\o/[/e]

[quote who="Spartan" reply="14" id="1941211"]@Vandenburg - OMG! You karma just for that avatar! It is pure awesome sauce! [/quote] Yes she's awesome. She's the reason I want Pegasus Knights in the game. (Oh and Florina of course. Her over the top shyness and ability to land on peoples heads with her pagsus. :) )

[quote who="Spartan" reply="11" id="1941215"]Also if you link me the original size I'll see what I can do with the reduction sharpness to make it better.[/quote] I got it from here . If you could make it a bit sharper I would marry you, bear your childrean and... uhm, would be very thankfull I mean. [e digicons]:D[/e] It's Tate from Fire Emblem. And yes, she's as awesome as s

Ah, mine is a little bit too detailed to shrink it so small... But Pegasus Knights ! [e digicons]:D[/e]

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="3" id="1940931"]BEAR CAVALRY![/quote] Pah, Bear Cavalry is no match to my Pegasus Knights! You can stumble around on the ground with them while my Pegasus Knights spike them with arrows from above. [e digicons]}:)[/e]

[quote] If it doesn't turn you off pretty quickly , [/quote] With that being the important part. I won't say how I think about the books, but ask the nice clerk at your local bookstore for good fantasy books (you'll always have a fantasy nerd at larger bookstores) and they'll give you enough to read until the beta release of the game. :)

[quote who="Cervomix" reply="10" id="1940796"]Which Wiki do you think would be the more suitable Vandenburg ? I am creating a Elemental:WoM fansite and I could add a wiki to it. I am waiting for Frogboy answer about using original website design and once it is ok I will show you guys ![/quote] Well, I don't have that much experience with the wiki software themselves (I'm more of a contributor) but imho MediaWiki is a very good one.

Btw. speaking of fansite: Could you incorporate a wiki function in to it? (Or make a seperate wiki site for that.) Imho wikis are the best and easiest way to collect and add information about a game from different and smaller contributors and somehow loosens the problem of larger sites to maintain a high amount of activity since you don't need that much constant staff for it.

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="18" id="1939652"]Yep for sure Anyway, have we a chance that those ideas will be implemented? Yes i'm talking to you devs [/quote] Well, I think we will have to wait for the beta to get a definitive answer. Problem is, StarDock will allready have decided for a system for the battles in the game and most likely won't change it until the beta. They'll probably wait until we've played their system until they s

I like the idea of spoils of war a simple system could look like this imho: - Part of the equipment of the losing side is salvagable after a battle - You can pick it up with your army and equip your troops with it (if troop equipment change is possible after troop creation) - Everything not used stays at that tile until a caravan (automatically generated from the nearest possible location) comes to pick it up (If units have inventories to store stuff, yo

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="10" id="1938887"]Well, a War of Magic without conjured beings is not worth its name. We want at least golems, elementals, demons/devils, angels, and a number of inventive extraplanar abominations.[/quote] You'll get them, judging on the words floating around in the trailer. It's just so that you won't have civilications made out of fantastical creatures and that powerful units will be rare (and powerful ;) ).

[quote]Or is it a just a question of taste / style of the game?[/quote] This.

Imho while those ideas sound fun in concept, they're probably to rigid and abstract for the game itself. Basing the player's doctrines on his past actions sounds good in concept, but if the actions that lead to certain doctrines aren't chosen very carefully it can be very confusing to somebody why he gets a doctrine or why he doesn't. Also, as keithLamote discovered, such a system has only one axe (it can have more of course, but it will get very confusing then). Final

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="11" id="1938563"]Spartan and I were talking about this and I think we'll probably need a variety of help. I've offered to contribute content and general ideas, but someone good with graphics and web layout would be good, as well as others who'd like to add in info. I'll post some ideas and concepts about the site here later.[/quote] Well, I could occasionally add info/proof read existing article (not for grammar but wrong information),

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="12" id="1937708"] it would be nice to see sub-forums for the races with subs for the factions (as they are reveled of course) and maybe one for mods set up.Forwarding to the powers that can execute change.[/quote] You know, going all the way to Obama sounds a bit too extreme... Lame joke is lame. [e digicons]^_^'[/e]

[quote who="Gambler" reply="9" id="1937581"]Black borders and somewhat pale textures with lots of "smudged" colors make screenshots look like a bunch of flat cardboard cutouts. Graphics is okay, but it needs a better representation of volume. Different lighting? Higher contrast? No borders? I don't know, but it needs something different.[/quote] Which is why they said on multiple occasions that the graphics aren't finished and lightning and shadows will get changed/tweaked quite a lot

[quote who="Polistes" reply="4" id="1937024"]I just preordered as well, one question though why did I get charged for it since there currently is no BETA out yet?[/quote] You shouldn't. Are you sure it was really charged and not just testcharged (is that a word?), ie. the bank just tested if that creditcard is still valid?

[quote who="xthetenth" reply="24" id="1936354"]I think the units get to move based on initiative considering that queue on the bottom, it looks like it shows when each unit's going to get its turn, a system I like considering my experiences with that type of system.[/quote] Hmm... that would make it more of a active-time bar battle (ATB like in the old Squaresoft games) then continuous turn based battles (like in the Paradox games). Makes me more even more impat

[quote who="No1Gunner" reply="17" id="1936229"]Makes me wonder if more vital resources, say food, will be handled similarly...?[/quote] According to the Gamespot interview the following ressources are confirmed: Food Wood Iron So prepare your capital to be sieged and starved by my non-flying non-unicorn valkyries. [e digicons];P[/e]