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[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="1" id="2960198"]Wait for Fallen Enchantress. It will have pretty much everything you're asking for.[/quote] Minus the in-game card game (thankfully).

[quote who="Tridus" reply="10" id="2960370"]Nah, there's still some people hung up on physical copies.[/quote] Physical copies are nice, but to expect one for free (or 2 in my case since I pre-ordered the physical limited edition) as your giveaway is pretty weak. We're already getting 1-2 free games, come on. To be clear, Stardock is choosing to give them to us as gifts for our loyalty (suffering? :-p); we're not actually

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="8" id="2960212"] Quoting Femmefatal48, reply 3Since some of us bought PHYSICAL copies shouldn't we get FREE PHYSICAL COPIES of FE? I don't see any reason why you should.[/quote] My hope is that was just a lame attempt at humor, instead of an epic entitlement-issue fail.

[quote who="jpmcconnell" reply="15" id="2958662"] Elemental tried to come up with a unique vision for tactical combat. Frankly, it sucks. I can think of many other games that have better, more fun, visions of tactical combat. If they had just copied something and tweaked it we would have a better game.[/quote] I don't see it. Combat is an empty m*n grid with mostly basic attacks and the ability to cast limited spells, with an occasional very small +/-% de

Absolutely. Huge (currently missing) fun factor on siege battles. You can even end up with unique defensive structures (archer towers, crystal wardens, etc).

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="5" id="2957114"]I loved the fights to win an elemental node from the guardians in MoM. ^^ That was one of the funnest parts about MoM I think. [/quote] Absolutely; also how the node itself applied an automatic countermagic to any spells not of the node's type? So you ended up with a built-in preference for ownership of wizards that align with the node. Gave it character, as well. Love the big tree in the midd

[quote who="Tridus" reply="3" id="2956718"] Quoting tanafres, reply 2 I also loved Myrror. That said, I hated the underground levels in Age of Wonders (and every other game), even though both are simply another overlaid map with well-defined transition points. Maybe it was because Myrror had actual character, unique terrain features, unique races, and no movement speed penalty (that always killed me in the underground maps of other games - made the game soooo tedious). The rui

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="15" id="2956529"] Fallen Enchantress- Just got back from vacation and read the new journals and oh boy! Also its free if you own Elemental, so you can't really complain! [/quote] Fallen Enchantress is only free if you bought E:WOM before the cutoff (I pre-ordered long before release, so I don't recall the actual cutoff date).

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="1" id="2956433"]Salment: I agree with everything you wrote. One comment about the two worlds thing. i like it... it adds a 'wild card' of sorts in that a whole level of strategic and tactical considerations are added, that can be activated at various times and with a variety of consequences. I like the dark side graphics better, as well. One thing I would have loved to see was to actually have a number of these w

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="14" id="2956082"] Fantastic content is not worth much if the AI cannot put up a good fight![/quote] I've got to disagree. Master of Magic's AI was crap, but nearly everyone here (me included) wants to have it's baby. Good AI is helpful to make a stellar game, but not nearly as important as, frankly, everything I've been hearing about what they've been actually focusing on. Fwiw, I do hope t

[quote who="Winnihym" reply="10" id="2955818"] Oh, and since I'm posting, for the love of Dog, please give me a way to build a single, 0 defense, 0 offense scout by turn 3. Don't make me wait to research and build; I should have scouts out the door in the first couple of turns, who are not champions or soveriegns.[/quote] That's... a really good point, actually. Be good to be able to disband the unit back to population as well (while in a ci

From Frogboy's 1.2c changelog post: [quote] + Minimum default zoom decreased from 6.5 feet (650) to 250 feet (2500) -- this can be overridden in the options if you want to zoom in really really close [/quote]

My understanding is that population demands per improvement are deliberately empire-wide. This gives a strong impetus to specialize cities so the higher-tier (+%bonus) buildings are more effective, and also greatly reduces the incentive for city spamming. I imagine the hope is to drive the player to have more meaningful emotional attachments to their cities, and provide an interesting game mechanic. So less a chain, more a global talent pool.

[quote who="Vallu751" reply="12" id="2951658"]I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and as usual, I started comparing the current system with MoM. For those who don't know or recall, MoM didn't have simultaneous strikes.[/quote] My inner geek would not let me allow this to pass:-p MoM did in fact have simultaneous strikes - hence the great value of rare skills like First Strike (paladins, sky drake) as well as the occasionally useful Negate Fir

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="6" id="2950092"]side) moving according to a preset rubric (combat speed, initiative, or what ever).[/quote] I'm pretty sure that in one of his recent interviews, Derek mentioned that FE will do just that. [quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="9" id="2951388"]Traditional military parlance suggests that the attacker needs to have three times the effective 'force' of the defrender to insure victory. &nbs

[quote]Unit Abilities: ?- Unit starts at 2nd level Armor: ?- A magical breastplate with increased defense Monsters: ?- Better name for a Green Dragon ?- Better name for a Red Dragon ?- Better name for a Giant Black Widow Spider[/quote] 2nd level: Talented, Experienced, Skilled Breastplate: Bulwark, Rampart, Golem's Skin Green Dragon: Forest Lord, Forest Monarch, Nature's

That's a lot of love for Alpha Centauri, but honestly I'm looking forward to Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 and Privateer more:-)

[quote who="WebGizmos" reply="19" id="2943887"]I miss rose! [e digicons]:')[/e] [/quote] Seconded:-( Wish her cameo at the end of Tennant's run had been less awkward, though.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="25" id="2941886"] Right now I'm thinking the best model would be 1 supercity, then satellite cities for resources/troop production. Because of this, and to give an incentive for levelling up multiple cities, I'm thinking certain types of equipment should require a certain level of city. [/quote] This has always bothered me as well. Picture this: I have 2 cities. One is a thriving metropoli

[quote who="Kamamura_CZ" reply="2" id="2935169"]Better post a screenshot. That way, it can't be easily googled, yet still specific enough. Your description is too vague - can you at least name the platform?[/quote] Despite the title I think that this might be less of a 'figure out what I'm talking about to prove you're cool' game and more of a 'please help me remember this thing I forgot':-) So I'm guessing that screenshots are not

[quote who="id_est" reply="51" id="2931843"]Stardock, you're probably kidding. 8 month after release..... Did you realise that you dont have AI programmer? [/quote] They have one of the best game AI programmers around. The problem is that AI is not his job at Stardock. No matter how good you are, coding something complex takes time, coding something on a brand spanking new, evolving engine takes more time, and coding intelligent strategies when

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="11" id="2930680"]While you're at it, please please please update the character item / equipment screens to something approaching Diablo 3 [/quote] 1. they're clearly planning to fix the shop screen 2. any fix to the shop screen is almost certain to be based off of a de-lamed inventory screen. So, yay!

[quote who="SirKid" reply="13" id="2932483"]So, what do you devlopers think?[/quote] Boogie already chimed in (see reply#10)

I think that what LX is saying is not that you cannot have 2 quests of the same level, but rather that you cannot have 2 of the exact same quest. The quests seem to be attached on hut spawning, and are often duplicated. I suspect he's right that if you finish your quest you will be able to activate another of the huts to get a new (exact same, with different target location) quest.

YAAAAAAY! This is all wonderful news. I had posted about problems with the tech system, and it sounds like you've solved them all. Thank you very much:-) Btw, while the previous research system turned out to be completely inappropriate for navigating any system with tiered rewards (especially along linear-dependency research paths), it might be salvagable for any sort of flat-result, non-research (which by definition is always tiered