Wintersong

Yet you could still see everybody picking the same traits for their sovereigns if they aren't balanced properly too. Or units. Or spells. That's fine, just that those examples aren't good. You rprevious comment about balanced was enough and correct tough.

[quote who="MHJeffries" reply="2" id="2387931"]While we're adding bonuses to cosmetics, why not give a fire damage bonus for having red hair, a research bonus for beards, and a diplomacy bonus for green eyes? [/quote]While I do agree that some people (don't care if most or just a few) don't like the idea of the coat of arms having bonuses of any kind and that's fine as we are just suggesting things here, I fully agree with myself when I say that your examples are quite bad to formulate y

Not sure of how units are going to be (stats wise) but I'd not mind if when creating a new unit model, you could stablish which stats should autolevel (if normals units have levels at all). So I could have my Paladins autoleveling Defense more often and my Berserkers autoleveling Attack more often, for example. Heroes should get sovereign treatment. The differences are the starting essence, not losing the game upon death... Sovereign? We should be able to choose what we want f

[quote who="Raven X" reply="2" id="2387074"] It would be like the Ultimate planet destroying ships you get in Gal Civ 2, Doom Stars I think they're called. End Game units of course. [/quote]Bad example there. No matter how much I love Gal Civ II, the Terror Star (was that the name?) was bad bad bad bad bad bad bad. With just 1 point of movement, I'd only build one for the fun of doing it. I have never blown up a sun yet and surely will never do it. XD Different planes

We better have a male/female units system or else... Sovereign background and traits: The sovereign can select a background for a cost. This background gives some "skills and/or traits and/or bonus in something" as benefit and at the same time unlocks a set of specific skills/traits only available to those with that background. Then you have the usual list of common traits. All these traits can only be bought with points that share pool with civilization traits (it's

I like it but I would prefer something more complex. I think I mentioned it long time ago but too lazy tosearch so: At Sovereign creation, you can spend perk points into your coat of arms (the same as you could spend those points into sovereign stats, civilization perks or whatever Stardock allows us to have). You have a selection list of traits that can be added to your coat and that each gives some kind of benefit (+1 gold per turn, +5 morale in times of war, +2 Diplomacy...) with d

The cheat load, again, has nothing to do with sovereign and the AI. Those who cheat load will do it anyways for ANY reason. "So that war I started turned bad so I'll load a save game of before the war 20 turns ago.". How can the AI cope with that? The same way as with sovereign death: no way. So as I said, cheat load worries are silly. Worries about a proper balanced and fun mechanic about sovereign (life&death) that we and the AI can properly use (cheat loads ignored) is a different beas

It was a sad moment when I had to delete my Frogboys and BoogieBacs (between others) when the selection screen got too crowded. [e digicons]:'([/e] Oh, no implemented surely. As Scoutdog said.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="26" id="2386485"] Honestly, in a game of this epic scope and depth in a fantasy setting, I highly expect and want to see Elves and Orcs and Dwarves and Giants and everything else that's the usual "cannon" for most things of High Fantasy.[/quote]That's the road to stagnation. Like developers trying to create the next WoW. XD Sounds like (just perception, sorry for it) "I dont want to care about what they are trying to offer me. I just want my standard and

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="4" id="2385640"]Having a mortal sovreign is a pain in the butt, unless when they die, one of their children can take their place with his\her own skills\attributes (like in the Total War series). A kingdom after all, doesn't end because the king dies!! [/quote]If you are "roleplaying" the sovereign (as in the figure who starts a new kingdom and then leads it to glory), as soon as he dies, your story ends there. Your kingdom may still survive but you will

The cities dissapearing must be a bug or means that there are still things that aren't implemented. I doubt very much that is a feature.[e digicons]o_O[/e] It would be the shorted lived feature of this game if it was. The units iss a bit silly. If cities dissapear, why not units? It's not like they go rogue or something.

I'm not sure this is a bug. The previous build also had this and I think that the feature of selecting opponents isn't really implemented or only partially, as it always seems to force you to face four opponents.

Coup d'etat!!![e digicons]8O[/e]

Yeah, obviously merging should be something you decide to do. If could affect production of the cities for some turns, cost extra gold (that not essence)... But considering that this is not even Beta 1A, I get the feeling that these kind of ideas are still out of place not knowing what Stardock has already in mind and what not.

Did you try right clicking somewhere else? Sometimes my sovereign stops autoexploring for unkown reasons and after aI select him and right click somewhere else, he resumes autoexploring after finishing that new movement I ordered him.

I'd say bug. If you select the group and click on the small arrow on one of the icons of the enemy units, they will split. I have been able to do it three times in the same way. Altough the result is quite quick in both of the cases, in the third it took a time (sloooowly separating, not sure why, until more than 30 seconds after, each one was in a different square). In the pics, I clicked in the bandit: <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Utaku_Areka/Elemental/Elemental_12

[quote who="edpfister" reply="16" id="2383211"]One of the reasons I am drawn to fantasy games is because of the diversity that you just don't get in real life. [/quote]You only talk of visual differences, right. You could have "elves" and "orcs" in human shape and still complain? Because if you do, you are only worried of appearences.

I swear it! See here (sorry the size but my comp isn't in its best moments these days): Supposedly fixed but maybe not for this faction?

I also found this in the previous build (try sorrounding one with the other. XD ) and not sure about what should be done. The impact in the graphical engine part is something we cannot see and judge so it's difficult to make a good idea about it (one citiy semi surrounding the other.. and both with walls. Surely, graphically must appear like a mess) Merging seemed a good idea then and it still seems it. But I'm not sure how it could be handled and it's possible flaws/problems

It should be solved by a diplo screen in which the type of political marriage is determined: Who goes with who, possible exchange/donation/payment of resources... Then you can have AIs that favor patriarch attitudes while otehrs favor matriarch ones, and some others who don't care as long as they benefit. But the whole mess should be solved by "bartering" in the diplo screen. "My pretty daughter with +25 to morale will join your smaller kingdom in exchange of that iron mine in the was

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[quote who="FidelCastrol" reply="3" id="2383779"] Didn't get this. What did you do in order to have it ? [/quote]Stardock customer survey so they have some feedback about what we like, how are they doing... that kind of stuff. When you complete it, you get the coupon. Hey Stardock, I actually noticed (after sending mine) that the preorder of Elemental counts as "buying a game through Impulse in the last X months" so sorry for the wrong answer I sent. XD Question 19 needed ra

? All that marriage stuff.... wooooooooooow. Man, this game is going to be so sweet I'm going to need false teeth.[e digicons]:O[/e]