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Reply to Tonight Maybe? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="21" id="2683681"]*laughs* Poor Europeans we make up for the loss of 5 hours because we don't waste time on Soccer. Just kidding don't want to offend anyone lol. I hope the Beta is polished nicely so no more random crashes. [/quote] Don't worry, considering the show of the US team at the World Cup, I'm sure you'll change your mind in the future. Your national team is getting better. I'm su

Reply to Help Stardock on succession of vassal children (poll inside) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

In terms of female children, I think a more modern view on what they can do is more fitting. While the setting is in a fantasy realm, we don't need to get bogged down with medieval thinking. I'd be perfectly fine in having daughters become powerful mages, shieldmaidens or skillful overseers. Though I don't know how Stardock's vision of the lore and setting would dictate female roles, I think giving them some sort of unique job/skill over males would make it a more meaningful and diffi

Reply to Help Stardock on succession of vassal children (poll inside) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Nice survey, it touches on a bunch of important aspects of child care in a monarchy type government. I'd say give the player maximum control since he is, in effect, the all-powerful ruler that decides everything. Though one thing I'd like to see is that children have their own preferences on what they want to do. There are a few ways to implement their wants. Maybe this can be "hidden" in their stats: High intelligence will have them excel at intellectual persuits li

Reply to Could the beta program be an experience unto itself? in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="241" id="2346431"] Quoting SavageBananaMan34, reply 240 My two cents: there is no way Starcraft 2 is going to be a "black hole of money." For pay custom maps and over ten million copies sold easily will ensure that. It'll be a black hole of money for anyone who wants to play it (and not just pirate it). And it will probably take them some time to make back everything used in development. I mean, they've been

Reply to Could the beta program be an experience unto itself? in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Well, I really did not aim to make a profound and sweeping statement that Blizzard is doing everything right nor that Starcraft 2 is a holy project of divine excellence. My phrasing of "perfect example" was probably too generic in regards to that project. I wanted to point out that a game with a longer than normal development phase has the luxury of large changes to gameplay/technology that might normally not have been done in a "normal" development timeframe. I just keep hearing how the

Reply to Tropico 3 Trailer from Gamescom 2009 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

That trailer looks pretty good. I've always liked the first Tropico. I probably wont pre-order, but I'll definately have a look at the reviews for this game to decide I will pick it up. The fact that it's available on impulse is a big plus. [e digicons]:D[/e] Viva El Presidente!

Reply to Boring Linear Tech/Spell Trees in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="70" id="2344292"] Yeah I was perhaps hoping to have various materials be found on the map itself,They already will be. All resources will appear on the map, and you will need to mine them to build stuff with them. I do not, however, like the idea of the resources you control affecting the techs you get: to RNGish, and doesn't leave room for techs that don't directly tie into resouces. Plus, what happens if you lose a resource? [/quote] I wa

Reply to Boring Linear Tech/Spell Trees in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Yeah I was perhaps hoping to have various materials be found on the map itself, making protecting various deposits to be more important. But again there's the question of balance since everything's randomly generated. I guess a minimum distance can be put in. Materials of value >= some value must be at least X tiles distant to starting location. They could also be guarded by creatures. Or going back to the finite and rare materials idea, you could have it so you find an ancient bat

Reply to Boring Linear Tech/Spell Trees in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Finding an interesting, working way to research techs is difficult for games. You want to keep it simple, yet fun and rewarding. The RPG Evil Islands had an interesting system that might work for Elemental: There you didn't research but you did have schematics for various weapons and types which you put together using different materials. So you find a Short Sword blueprint and you build it using iron. Iron Short Sword is basic and wont be nearly as good as say super rare Adamantium o

Reply to Elemental and story focus in War of Magic Stardock Forums

There's some great stuff in this thread. As for dungeons, I believe a mixture of randomly generated and fixed encounters would be good. Randomly Generated: You are out scouting and find a mountainside with many caves. As you explore these caves you will have a % chance to encounter one or more enemy groups. The reward will be scaled to the danger. Greater danger, greater reward. I think this is a pretty standard system that works well with keeping things different ever

Reply to Could the beta program be an experience unto itself? in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

There's a lot of benefits from taking longer to develop a game using the feedback of a large base of testers. From past experience in Stardock betas I've always felt that the community had a lot of positive, creative things to suggest. There will of course always be suggestions that are unrealistic, but that's part of the fun. No financial pressure to release is a pretty rare thing and it's often said that they never finish their games, they simply stop working on them. As long a

Reply to Concept: Understanding unit production in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Torment" reply="2" id="1992355"]Dear Brad....I am wondering about that picture what you drew. Units will only have weapon/armor/helmet slots? That is _NOT_ enough. What about slots / number of arms for example? Even a simple human should be able to hold a shield and a 1h weapon or a 2h weapon. What if a creature will have 4 or more arms? Also even if we are talking about normal soldiers, and not heroes, there should be an additional slot for leg armors..

Reply to Elemental Physics part 2 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Tehee... I love the stampede of bear comments. To summarize: Honey God worshiping Paladin Bears with Guns protecting innocents while fighting a mysterious and unseen enemy army in 50g environments. I think that's pretty gangster. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]\o/[/e] [e digicons]XO[/e]

Reply to Elemental Physics part 2 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="19" id="1994805"]Are you nuts? Mount and Blade has fantastic physics. Weapon hits do damage depending on the speed of the your weapon and hits are not random, you will only do damage if your weapon actually touches your enemy. Sure it might not be a very "sophisticated" game but it does mounted combat like no other. [/quote] Agreed, Mount and Blade is a great little game. Considering how few people actually worked on the core game (not counti

Reply to Elemental Physics part 2 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

From the screenshots I've seen so far and that video, I can say that I'm a fan of the graphics. One trend I've noticed with Strategy games over the years is that as graphics improved and complexity increased, the amount of units on screen has reduced. The Total War series is, nevertheless, an excellent example of some large scale combat. The upcoming Empire: Total War looks inspiring! By keeping the overal graphics simple and compatible with a lot of systems, it frees up a lot of

Reply to Are you a human? Are you SURE? in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Keithustus" reply="1" id="1993385"] Quoting NorsemanViking, reply 20 One more thing, Frogboy, I hope you will implement take over AIs for those human cowards who leave in the middle of games? Considering the success of AI hot-swapping in Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead, it's pretty much got to become a basic feature for all multiplayer games from now on. You should be able to both drop out and join late, if they really want to

Reply to Empire Window Clutter: A Solution... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I sorta like the root tree fashion... yeah but you also like rusty spoons... figures.

Reply to Empire Window Clutter: A Solution... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I agree with Sponge that there's definetly possiblities in making the empire bar a little bit easier to keep track of. Sponge means to have a "Tabbed" view, solar systems each have their own tab, seperate window, so that you can only see the planets in the empire window for the solar system you selected. That would make the list of planets shorter and will give us a better overview. It would make sense since the distances between solar systems is rather long, so there's no nee

Reply to Automatic repairs in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The way I play, I take one hostile planet with my fleet and fortify it so that when I move to the next, it can hold off a small attack. With this I mean it has 1 repair facility, 1 or 2 hangars and some Gauss Guns to watch the jump lanes. Now the repair facility is the first thing I build in order to repair my ships as well as the orbital structures should they be under attack. It makes sense, you fleet should only have limited auto-repair functions in enemy territory, relying on repair

Reply to Some UI issues in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

One is that the empire tree keeps moving up and down on it's own making it difficult at times to give the orders you want. This has been quite frustrating at times. Also when using the slide bar it sometimes doesn't stay were I slide it to goes back to the original position. Yeah, sometimes happens with me as well. Perhaps a transparent outline around the empire bar might be handy?I don't really want to see the game screen fill up with menus, borders and

Reply to Possible additions to game 'personality' in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The TEC should be ferengi, the Advent space rednecks with lasers and the Vasari should be rich persians that wear pink t-shirts and too much hair gel. (Kryo, put this on the roundup, hehe) How's that for personality? Sorry... couldn't resist. The Devs have said they have a big list of eye candy and fluff they are going to add to the game once we're closer to release date. I'm sure somet

Reply to Automatic repairs in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Yeah I like Blair's idea as well funny how we get bombed with such a simple solution and everything makes sense.... Must be Blair's Jedi Mind Trick... just on the Forums!

Reply to Fleet Machanic Redux in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

There is already a waypoint system in the game - if you hold down shift, you can queue up multiple orders (which can be move orders). I think this is covered in the tutorial, but I could be wrong. My bad Thanks for clearing that up.

Reply to Fleet Machanic Redux in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Nah it's not that, but I feel that there's not a whole lot that can be done at this point. Most ships have forward firing angles (excluding flak frig and capitals). This means that they should be static in order to get a clear shot at the enemy. You suggest that there should be more movement within combat, and I agree on that point, but I don't see how that's going to happen. As for missing your point, I got sidetracked in my own wishful thinking as to the benefits of truly making use o