Luckmann

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="23" id="2236697"]But not by you![/quote]Catch a bear, grasshopper. No more foxes in the Hierarchy! They are akin to horses! ;o

[quote who="Szadowsz" reply="3" id="2236649"]rawr?[/quote] RAWR! [e digicons]\o/[/e]

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="21" id="2236660"]Catch one, if you can.[/quote]

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="14" id="2231464"]Like bears. [e digicons]:fox:[/e] [/quote]Foxes just became marked as unclean animals in the Ursaris Hierarchy.

[quote who="Nights Edge" reply="2" id="2236464"]It does look from recent dev journals like we're going to have human looking channellers. I guess there could be possibilities for changing into something greater as you gain essence? Or, failing that, modding. The pre-game customization stuff that MOM and Dominions offers does add a lot in my opinion. Edit: I should mention Stars! I could spend hours just playing with making different races.[/quote]Maybe a line of shapecha

I don't know if we've discussed this before. I'm sorry if we have. All pictures we've seen of the Channeler so far is that of some boyish-looking man-child of a human, so I got thinking - Is that all we can play? Ultimately, I'm sure we'll have quite some opportunities to customize our channelers wheter it's in gear, faces, magics or skills. I'

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="2" id="2236274"]I wouldn't get your hopes up for even 2010 release of Diablo 3, though. They're still only "hoping" to get the first chapter of SC2 out the door by the end of '09.[/quote]Actually, if the rapid progression of information is any indication compared to previous Blizzard games, I'd say that 2010 is a definite possibility.

On the official site, you won't find -too- much information and the official forums is a trollfest of miscommunication and fail. Updates comes in waves, and I think that we can be fairly certain that the next wave of information will come at Blizzcon, August 21-22. Hopefully, they'll unveil the next class. The best way to stay updated is to hang around a secondary forum, such as diablofans.com (which I occasionally frequent) that track

[quote who="Darkodinplus" reply="15" id="2236032"] To my knowledge mana != essence and they don't do "pretty much" the same thing. As I understand it mana is the fabric of magic which is easily renewable and the resource used to cast spells. Essence is a portion of the channeler's will, spirit, or whatever that is nonrenewable but can be used in conjunction with mana to increase spell powers. Then it can also be used to imbue heroes, items, or land whether this cost is purely based on es

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="10" id="2235917"]I don't like the idea of a finite "essence tank" that never comes back. The problem I see is that hoarding your essence is not particularly fun. You don't get to see the settlements, cast the spells, fight the battles, etc. But you pretty much have to do it, because hoarding confwers a massive advantage late in the game. Thus, in order to win, you have to take a strategy that makes 75% of the game boring. This does not seem like a good idea

I still say that this entire "Everything will be hosted by us and when there's problems or you don't have direct access to us, you're screwed, muahahahahaha, ACHTUNG!" -idea is poppycock ! We'll have multiplayer, but not really. And yeah. Still a dealbreaker. I'd like a definite answer to the issues raised before I finally pre-order. I'm almost kinda glad I haven't, yet. [quote who="ozo" reply="2" id="2235883"]Wait, does Elemental have hotseat? <br

[quote who="Darkodinplus" reply="3" id="2235451"] I would add that the versatile soldiers shouldn't do as much damage with the specific weapons as soldiers trained with only one weapon unless the versatile soldiers spent more time in training. [/quote]Of course, in my mind, training a soldier to use a weapon would increase build time by x . For any weapon. Let's say that it takes 10 turns to train a basic soldier. No fancy things, no extra t

[quote who="Darkodinplus" reply="7" id="2235448"]I’m a bit torn in this debate on the one had I believe essence should be a nonrenewable resources but having something be completely nonrenewable would be hard to balance late game. You would potentially end up with situations where decisions made in the first 10 turns determine if you won the game. I would propose a simple fix to this problem; have regular essences and core essence. Regular essences would be completely nonrenewable in ad

I wouldn't mind it at all, as long as you don't have to normally fight it off like some goddamn plague. I want my people to be reasonably loyal, with the chance to make them both overzelously devoted or backstabbingly hangable. I think that cities will be a very major thing in Elemental, though. I somewhat doubt there'll be something like this in the game, barring a major event, for that reason. Loosing or gaining a city will probably be a fairly major thing, able to decisively change

It's not a secret that I, Luckmann, master of the towers of azurite, quartz and onyx, defender of the central territories, hero of the hierarchy and cuddler of bears, have a slight preference to the idea of bear mounts. But I'm not sure, mechanics-wise, if we'd want many different races of a single mount species. How'd you keep track of them all? Sure, at first, it wouldn't be much of a problem. But then, suddently, you have four different kinds of bears, four different stacks of a re

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="1" id="2230200"]I know. I just was expecting a cheer from you about it. Though, you didn't actually label your bear Luckmann.[/quote]True that. *cheers* [e digicons]\o/[/e]

Wow, I can't believe I missed this thread. Some interesting stuff posted. Thanks a lot for the update. Now, about those bears... [quote who="BoogieBac" reply="4" id="2212311"] If a simple "more food" spell looks that nice, I can just imagine what your artists will come up with for the end-game mass destruction spells! One of our goals will be to make just as many 'passive' and 'defensive' spells as 'offensive' ones. If we can actually make it exciting to play the peac

[quote who="JuleTron" reply="18" id="2215171"]During WWII. During Vietnam people HATED the war. People hate this current war as well, but not so much. These days, people are less easily sucked in by war propoganda. War is unpopular. Everyone thought that WWI was going to be a picnic. In a new major war, many Americans would question the purpose of the war. If they hated it enough, then they would elect someone else during the election. The American people ques

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="10" id="2227105"]I must say though, wintersong, I hardly recognize you with the demigod avatar. Everytime I see it I'm like "who is this person, oh its Wintersong" because I'm so used to your older avatar(s)[/quote]Oh wow, until you actually said that it was Wintersong in this post, I just scruffed it of as "That new guy" . Didn't even bother to check the name. I just assumed it was someone I didn't know. :D [quote who=

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="20" id="2214528"] [...] I'm sure Luckman can get behind this one, if nothing else.[/quote]Of course. Didn't you see my original post in this thread? Bears! [e digicons]:D[/e]

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="3" id="2222349"]we of the forum have talked about weather a few times. Haven't heard anything from Stardock yet. I suspect it would be after the 1st few betas at the soonest (just because everything else I can think of with weather effects, didn't have it until either A: late production, B: a few patches after release, or C: from expansion packs or sequels[/quote] "We of the forum". :D

I thought 3D-graphics was crap when it was the latest craze. And I still think it's crap.

The division of political ideologies into left and right is a erronous and faulty system of categorization. [quote who="landisaurus" reply="7" id="2222316"]Yeah, I have to agree with Spartan. That is not surprising at all.[/quote]I wasn't suprised. I just found it interesting. :D

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="11" id="2221895"] I'm still remembered, even after all these long months! I feel loved [...] [/quote]Wait, what? When I went on a sort of hiatus, did EVERYONE leave at the same time? I'm away for well over a bloody month, and when I get back, people are acting like it's the second coming, and how the forum is suddently active again. Did all of us disappear and then suddently decide, despite there not be

I got a little inactive, due to my short attention span. Been spending my free time at the CivFanatics forums, I suppose. I really should pop in and say thanks for the shirt! Not a huge fan of the little "By: Stardock, www.ElementalGame.com", but who can argue with getting an awesome free shirt?! I really like the material aswell. It's thick, but not too thick. Thick-but-light. Enough to soak up the sweat on summer, and give some warmth when there's a breeze. Thanks! :D