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[quote who="Red_Nemesis" reply="10" id="1947336"]I thought that in Civ4 BTS the espionage system was a bit heavy handed. I'd love to see a subtle and balanced system that could be ignored- espionage should be a minor aspect of the game. By no means should it be allowed to balloon in importance past a tool in your arsenal into a staple of your Civ.[/quote]Hell no. I want an entire civilization based around the underhanded, assassinations, shady trade deals, cloaked units, and lots, lots, lots

Even though it seems to be a movie of the new era (le sight) it actually looks like a good movie in it's own right. Based of the trailer. *drools* [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="12" id="1946271"] I only really hang around here, Yea, but that depends on what the meaning of "here" is "here." [/quote]Elemental! Is there any other?! [e digicons];P[/e] [quote who="Zubaz" reply="13" id="1946326"] [...] also [email protected] will get feedback to the right folks. They may not do anything with it but they will get it.[/quote]The system works!

[quote quoting="post"] [...] I am not so hopeful that any game could create an AAR automatically but it would be nice if Elemental could list major events so I do not have to keep such detailed notes while playing. I would love to be able to simply print or copy the major events log at the end of the game and then create my "work of art". Just a pipe dream perhaps but I will be bringing it up during the actual beta. Could anyone else

I don't think we'll be seeing an "epic story generator", and I'm not sure I even want one. This is still a 4x game. It's got RPG aspects, but it's still (supposedly) about building a civilization. I just don't see how something like this could fit in properly with the game, without the game becoming increasingly scitzophrenic.

Yes, I'm with Tamren on this one. I don't think we'll be seeing specific classes in the game, but rather archetypes based on how you choose to develop your hero(es). It's my hope that we'll be seeing something as simple as a character creation tool, such as the shipyard in GalCiv2, where we initially create our heroes, equipping them with a base set of abilities or characteristics (i.e. "Does this hero have a horse?", "What weapon does he use?") and then get a full list of "feats" or

[quote who="Tamren" reply="17" id="1947327"]Yeah why wait? Procrastinate NOW! [e digicons]*_*[/e] [/quote] Oh , I see what you did there. [e digicons]:(O[/e]

What I want, is a 4x Fantasy Civilization game. I don't want HoMM or AoW with 4x glued onto it. With heroes, we've already gone a considerable step in that direction. With tactical combat, we've gone yet another huge step (wheter it's real time or not). Extensive underground worlds or multiple layers would be just yet another step towards a Jack-of-both-Worlds/Master of Dung. The less emphasis on the leadership of the heroes and running around underground dwellings with my hero or cha

[quote who="Martok" reply="7" id="1945898"]What?? [Martok goes to double-check] Holy crap, you're right. Why the hell did Gamespot do that? [/quote]No idea. It's been like that since they put the game up, apparently. :|

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="1" id="1943738"]Interesting... [...] What's different? Look at the top of the screens. Everything else is the same except the magic meters. That's really strange. I haven't looked at the other shots to see if they show up differently yet or not, although on initial glance they seem identical .[/quote]They're not. The same change moves like a red thread through everything. It's

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="13" id="1945698"] You probably want to contact Gamespot and tell them... they currently list the game as Real-Time Strategy http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/elementalwarofmagic/index.html?tag=result;title;0 [/quote]It actually still says real-time strategy. I'm going to see if I can't grab one of the devs at the IRC later today, and get it sorted. I hadn't noticed myself, until I set foot in this thread.[quote w

[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="7" id="1945766"] Quoting Spartan, reply 6Maybe soemone who uses IRC should get on the Sd channel and report this. I did two hours ago... *tries again*[/quote]Sole Soul, get your act together and get an avatar! [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e]

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="7" id="1945954"]Diablo III does the same for example, so there may be a reason indeed.[/quote]Yeah, and odds still are that EWoM will be out before D3.

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="17" id="1945951"] [...] The real bad art choice is to draw sprites on a 3D map. they should have been consistent : or eveything 3D. Or everything 2D. They could have made some "top" camera like in most wargames, and the 2D sprites would have fit well( because there's no smiluation of height so who needs the z axis?)[/quote]On that, I can only agree. I'd much preferred if it was beautifully painted 2d backgrounds instead. [qu

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="1" id="1945928"] Furries! Run for your life! (Sorry, but the internet has forever destroyed my ability to look at animal-people seriously)[/quote] *cough* cough *cough*

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="15" id="1945931"] [...] Btw. insulting StarDock fans of being graphic whores is a bit... silly, isn't it?[/quote]So just by being a fan of Stardock's games, which Lavitage clearly isn't (regardless), you somehow become irreproachable? It wasn't directed at Stardock's fans, it was directed at "most people" that "are so force fed with commercialized crap that they don't even know what that (personal level detail)

So, who won? *opens up the blinds on the window for the first time in a week*

Green Apples. [quote who="CariElf" reply="11" id="1944776"]Hmm...I love baked apples, but oranges are delicious too...but I'll choose apples. Honeycrisp apples are teh gold standard. Definitely. I eat them occasionally even though I have allergic reactions to uncooked apples. I forget what kind I get from the orchard for baking though. Apple crisp, mmm.[/quote]Aww, that sucks. How hard do you have to cook them? Because I love apples in cooking, but th

[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="23" id="1944601"] Quoting Zubaz, reply 21 Why is karma count the only thing that isn't global?So you can be a jerk here and a hero there and have karma accordingly. But what does an hero count as? Besides, I screwed that up by giving Spartan karma on the "wrong" site. [/quote]I only really hang around here, so you're always free to give *me* karma. [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Arrgh, it's again one of those "I know the answer, but I don't remember who said it, or where, so I could have dreamt it". I think it was said that there will be water, and water combat, but the game isn't centered around it. So it'll mostly be a matter of transportation, and obstructing it.

I'm not sure I like the idea of having to assign any of my heroes to do espionage, tying them up on essentially trivial tasks. Being a huge fan of the underhanded game, though, I'd love for there to be specific actions for them to perform in relation to assassination, stealth, and so on. I'm hoping for Elemental to really allow you to play that kind of underhanded game, hit-and-run tactics, cloaked units, and so on.

[quote who="Noego" reply="13" id="1945708"] [...] ... the newest most improved soulless shiney series of blinking lights that gets waved in their face like some giant corporate cock ... [/quote]I.e. "MOAR LENS FLAER" .

Because we've been screaming for it for months upon months now? :D

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="3" id="1945055"] [...] And I'd like to say Dom3 is not a 4X too. There's little or no exploration in this game (scouting? come on, you know the map already, and black candles soon tell you where your opponents are). You have zero action to do to actually exploit the land. It's a wargame, period.[/quote]I'd say that early-to-mid game, scouting is essential, depending on what nation you're playing with. I learned this the hard way. Sco

I've been in favour of Alpha Centauri-like technological research, so why not MoM-like spell research? The only thing I request is that the two systems are somewhat distinct from eachother. I don't want both being completely random, or both being GalCiv/Civ-like.