Wintersong

[quote who="Raven X" reply="5" id="2398180"]He meant Late Fall.....2011 j/k [/quote]So soon? :P

[quote quoting="post"]Sovereign Handling People do not want luck to decide the fate of their sovereign in a battle. Many people don’t like the idea of ones sovereign dying meaning the end of the game. The sovereign being a unit in the game is key to the game mechanics that will become more apparent later. But we have been convinced by the feedback that there shouldn’t be an “evade” ability. Instead, we’re now leaning towards if yo

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="4" id="2397259"]So, Stardock is dropping support for all Microsoft products and operating support and is now exclusively developing for the Mac and Linux platforms? [/quote] Over my cold dead body. XD

Give your Sovereign the power of Vicisitude a la Tzimisce Antediluvian and be happy. XD Each games is a tale in which your Sovereign starts his path upon the salvation (or damnation) of his world. The end of the tale is one of success or one of defeat. Sovereign death not being epic? Managing some cities isn't epic. Designing units isn't epic (altough it's use can be). Research spells isn't epic. Etc. The only thing that could be considered epic (beyond world background and de

If you are going to talk about card design, please avoid MtG. L5R owns (I miss being able to play or collect my Battle Maidens [e digicons]:'([/e] ). <img src="http://www.espiriturokugan.com/IMG

I like Option 3 more than the rest. I don't like the 1 and the 2 seems interesting but at this point I'm not sure if I want to reach that level of detail. Being able to choose and depending of how things work, I'd prefer a mix of the 2 and 3: you can have the cavaran with some default protection (with which you would fight battles if the cravan is attacked) that can be improved assigning some extra troops (with whichever micro it needs for the different situations, included upgrading their eq

Yeah, I know it's something like that somehow... but we know nothing about it (yet). I mean, come one, I just got (lucky with) Frogboy to share some bits of Sovereign creation here. This topic will surely have to wait some time while more important things are sorted out (i.e. economy model) but I feel curious about how we can impact the game with the Sovereign and civilization choices.

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="128" id="2397061"] As for Wintersong, I'm not sure what to say. I've explained it to you at least 4 times in different threads, but it still sounds like you are arguing with someone else's point. Telling everyone to adjust how they play a game isn't a workaround for the shortcoming that a game might have, and neither is just assuming that the programmers will make a godlike AI that will trump all hurdles (as godly as the Elemental team is .)

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="2396714"]Magic related abilities (various abilities for magic) Dynasty related abilities (abilities related to producing a family) Governing related abilities (abilities related to running your kingdom or empire) Adventuring related abilities (abilities related to your sovereign going on adventures) [/quote] Ok, let's see if I understand it correctly. :) As you put it, it seems that the civilization cannot be changed. The only thi

Er... when you start the game, the people start recovering from a cataclism that was close to destroy everything. The Sovereign (and the enemy ones) start rebuilding the world and attracting followers from the forsaken lands to live in his first city (and the later ones as Prestige increases and population reproduces). So it's quite normal that at the beginning you go recruiting 1 guy at a time. If you start recruting too many people too soon, who will make the cities grow? Who will

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="121" id="2396830"] The AI won't be able to reload the game you know.... [/quote] Let's drop the reload comment for good, please. If a player isn't skilled enough (or is lazy) that he must have his victories by trial and error (save/load), then leave him to do so. In singleplayer no one can hear you scream. Blunty put, we need a very competent AI that can handle itself well to avoid mistakes and be able to judge situations can could endang

[quote who="Sammual" reply="56" id="2396727"] Example - If the levels of metal working are Copper, Bronze, Iron, and Steel you should see the Copper Resources on the map before you have researched the Tech needed to use them. Once you research what you need to use Copper, Tin appears on the map (Required along with Copper for Bronze), Once you research what you need to use Bronze, Iron resources should show up on the map, etc.[/quote] I was reading this morning in the Wikip

Considering that the terrain changes, it makes sense that animals too. The problem would be if they function the same or not.

TL;DR version: there is none. You are free to go now. Seriously. XD So I'm bored and still some hours more of office ahead of me with no real job right now (I already have done the work for the wednesday so go figure). I have been writing about a possible mod and that includes writing a "Perfect World" draft about it. And I have decided that I want to know more about the Sovereign creation process and.. well, what do I want? What do you want? What does Stardock w

In Gal Civ II, if I had Lasers I and the need of building some defenses, I'd build some ships with Lasers I. And the only way for me to create ships with other Lasers (II, III...) was only if war was close and needed some buff in my army. The only other reasons would be having reasearched some milestones in weaponry and the need to start making ships with them to increase militar strenght to avoid wars and/or prepare myself to start a war. You don't have to desing a new unit whenever you

Gold common?[e digicons]o_O[/e] Sorry. I know that we base the game's economy in gold based currency but now that I have read that... I'd prefer some kind of "credits" system. Maybe just call them Coins.

I don't remember which economic model was going to be used for starters... I'd favor A mixed with C. I mean, if you don't have mithril, forget about those nice mithril armour pieces and swords. (no more Dread Knights for you) You should get a warning about substituting pieces if je still wants to build them but... well, that would be like a new unit. If instead of the lack of mithril we talk about the lack of twilight bee apiary (why do I get the feeling that some bees at Stardock are

Wow. I didn't notice the flamefeast the last time I post! [e digicons]XD[/e] Reading it now, I missed some "Carebear" here and there as well as some "Boicot" (flavor of the week, you know) in those flames. [e digicons]:P[/e] I warn you that Landisaurus is our resident troll...[e digicons]:-"[/e]

The norm is that your civilization develops techonologies for resources they don't have and that once developed, you can see those resources to exploit them. It's an abstraction, obviously, as it just means that the civilization gets access to some cuantity of that resource to investigate it and only once the investigation is complete, the resource per se is considered something that can be exploited by the civilization. Honestly, I'd prefer that you can see the resources from th

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="95" id="2395368"] Yeah, but don't forget about something. Galciv 2 - ToA AI was very good. The AI in Elemental must be much more clever however. It must be able to control the "Sovereign dies = Game Over" gameplay element perfectly. It won't be easy. [/quote] As I already said somewhere (not sure if this thread or another) that's why we are here. That's why we need to play the game, that's why the multiplayer part it's going to also very imporant.

What is sure is that Frogboy will keep updating the AI according to players tactics to improve the AI. Some people will never find the AI good enough as to play with another player but some != everybody.

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="5" id="2326355"] One word... Domination [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [/quote] Unfortunately, you will have to spend essence in each of the riders if they are to mount such essence powered horses... :P

Hahaha XD You only had to ask for it. It's not like I keep them as treasures or something. [e digicons]:P[/e]

Frogboy recommended Jing too. I found it nice because it also allows you to capture what you want, write in it... (I use it at work now when I need pics for the manuals of our applications XD ): http://www.jingproject.com/ (with the free version is more than enough)

Man, don't make me blush. [e digicons]:blush:[/e] Thank you for the comment. ^^ With the Elemental Fantasy one I was just checking the style because I'd like to use it with the Elemental engine when we get to have some "meat". Maybe I can get some practice with the unit creator... Wow! It took a bit to find that icon. XD It's small compared to the original avatar size (I didn't have to resize the icon for this one). <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/U