Wintersong

[quote who="charon2112" reply="4" id="2824056"]with this attitude, I truly hope you don't get you $50 back.[/quote]With all honestly, I must agree.

Procipinee: "Oh noes! Ceresa has lots of archers and I have no access to horses to counter those archers with cavalry! What do I do??" *Procipinee casts Summon Coconut Cavalry* Procipinee: "Ok, that solved it. Now, what do I do against those heavily armored parties that siege my capital?" *Procipinee casts Coconut Storm* *Ceresa casts Counter Coconut* Procipinee: "Aww, bummer."

[quote who="luketan" reply="213" id="2823957"] Oh well, I'll wait for EWOM II in 2014 then... [/quote]Nah, that would be Galactic Civilizations III. Or maybe I get lucky and we get an RPG.

Some buildings could have a tag about "Only works for Kingdoms" or "Only works for Empires", in addition to those of who can build them. For some buildings it would make sense and you would have it there, taking space without providing you with anything. You could always destroy it and use the space for something you can actually benefit from. And who says tag about "Only works for [insert Alliegance]", also says "Only works for [insert faction]".

[quote who="Dhraconus" reply="1" id="2823953"]Except with the way cities are built in this game without a 1 to 1 building set for empire and kingdom it's not possible to 'convert' a city as far as I can see. Just removing all the buildings which don't have a 1 to 1 between the groups would create other problems like chunks of the city going missing. [/quote]Make building conversion when possible, destroy buildings that cannot be converted, destroy chunks cut off from the city. Add

[quote quoting="post"] Requiring my email address just to install? Requiring email and full name just to get patches? You've crossed the line. I will never buy another stardock game. [/quote]Make sure not to visit the forums either. Ever again. After all, it requires you to register and you don't want to support such kind of DRM heavy and lame forums!!!

[quote who="LeBlaque" reply="141" id="2822562"]Can you imagine if we told Brad in that Summer thread, "Hey Brad, just *hit can the whole Essence idea..." [/quote]Release problems > "lore"? Edit: DanZu: all channelers (champions AND Sovereign) had Essence. It was what allowed them to cast magic (a tie with the magic in the shards, and the bigger the connection, the more magic could be channeled). No Essence = no access to the magic in the shards (no caster)

I read yesterday in his blog (wow, I use Impulse for that too XD ) that he has been in sabbatical and trying to work on Gal Civ II (TotA). http://draginol.joeuser.com/ I miss them too but none in the horizon anytime soon... fortunately for Gal Civ II.

[quote who="ScreamingHippo" reply="45" id="2822342"]I feel like I wasted my time contributing to that original thread. That may or may not be the case - maybe it had some influence, maybe I'll see that influence in the game at some future date or read about it in a dev journal - but I don't see it right now, so I feel like my time was wasted. When you feel like your time is wasted, you are allowed to be annoyed.[/quote]Considering that any kind of thread about "give us feedback/ideas/whatever

[quote who="db0" reply="87" id="2822177"] Or maybe morale should have an area of effect, or a unit limit. So that when you have a lot of units or they are too spread out, it would make sense to have more than one hero with them. [/quote]I'd vote for area of effect. Am I to suppose that if I lower the Charisma to 5, I get negative Prestige? :P

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="9" id="2821917"] Essence is gone, units dont have individual mana anymore, global mana is used instead (as it was in MoM).[/quote] Is there somewhere in the nebulous land of "Lets consider ideas" the possibility of adding units that can tap into your mana reserves to cast "specialist spells"? Something in the line of magician units in MoM. As for the rest: <img src="http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn195/summersong/Homer20D

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="18" id="2821704"]They could launch some interesting contest: they could ask people ideas about the magic system as a whole, or who have the best ideas about the use of shards, their properties, or how books of magic schools should be dispatched, what each should encompass, the ways to use magic power far away(sphere of influence? Magic tower? Distance?...), how magic artifacts should be created and with which resources (crystals, mana, use of shards...). Something

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="16" id="2821786"] and why Obsidian made NWN2 and not something of their own. [/quote]Except for Alpha Protocol (and the canned Aliens RPG, as much as it can count), Obisidan is always like: "Someone approaches me to do a sequel of...". No choices about NwN 2 anywhere beyond what Atari wanted. Drakensang is made of an existing PnP for that of being a famous PnP system somewhere (Germany and somehwere else, my ignorance in the topic is not small I ad

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="3" id="2821611"]Dear derek I am sure that you will find here (see link: an official thread!) everything you are looking for. No need for contests when you've got at your disposal such a mine of ideas/suggestions/lists/mechanisms as this forum. It's becoming tiring to see Stardock wanting to look cool by asking time and again the same things. STOP ASKING! You've got all the cards in your hands; now create the game or throw the towel, the

Weren't autoresolves just battles played normally but your army being controlled by the AI? (with no graphical feedback beyond a list of general actions in the battle report like: "hero_A casts spell_B, does X damage to enemy_Z")

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="3" id="2819863"]Oh, one more thing I almost forgot; I miss Wintersong's many chaning avatars. Back when the community was smaller and I knew everyone, I always found it entertaining to see what new avatar he would have each week/day/hour [/quote]With no doubt, my greatest contribution to this our community. XD

I'd suspect of an RPG based on the Elemental lore/universe. Custom ruleset most probably. The point in the timelime wouldn't be important to me. Something like a prequel could be cool too! <a href="http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn195/summersong/Elemental/world01.png

[quote quoting="post"]The game ( aka unfinished product ) is still expensive . Reduce the price at least 25% . [/quote][e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Stardock should raise the price a 200% and then offer it with a discount of the 25% over the new price.

[quote who="hairrorist" reply="3" id="2795954"]Fire spells should not harm fire elementals[/quote]The Master of Fire cannot use his knowledge to disrupt the natural flow of a Fire Elemental and harm him using his own element? I could accept a "no" with a newbie channeler but a devoted channeler of an element should do "impossible!" things with it. That would suppose some kind of specialization system with proper "rewards" for it.

[quote quoting="post"]Only sovereigns could found cities (or at least the first city), and that COST ESSENCE.[/quote]Only Sovereigns could create cities and they would cost Essence unless in favored terrain (plains for Kingdoms, dead for Empires). The issue seemed more of a "Why I cannot use Settlers for revived lands?", "But I don't have so much Essence!!!" and "I don't want to waste my Sovereign in such mundane task!!!". I agree with the first, the second is a matter of balance

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="2796025"] Any chance of some information on the first Expansion pack? I think I remember reading that Tactical Battles are getting an over-haul? I'd love to share those details...[/quote] New Resource: Trog Porn New Tactical Combat rules: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock New Diplomacy option: Lick Boots New Dynasty option: Crossbow Marriage New Armour for females: Chainma

Earth map with all the Civilizations >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fall From Heaven (any version) Cannot wait for an entrepeneur of the map making to create a (good) Earth map for Elemental (and then some minor Kingdom modding to add the Civilizations from Civilization by someone) so I can play "Magical Civilizations" in it. That mod would rule my mod Elemental area.

[quote who="Goontrooper" reply="2" id="2786689"] 1) How do people feel about trying a mod based on original lore, rather than established lore or the base game's lore? 2) How do people feel about the priorities I have laid out for the mod?[/quote] I would position myself in the "Fine" area for both questions.

Don't the civ leaders have "cutscenes" too?

[quote quoting="post"] It's in time of crisis that people reveal their true faces. [/quote]So very true for users too.