Wintersong

[quote who="RomanGuy" reply="7" id="2669250"]Hey, with an engine this flexible, you could even enlist modders to make new games with the engine and split the profits between you devs (who made the engine) and the modders. Paradox Interactive did this with at least three of their new games, Magna Mundi, For the Glory, and I think Arsenal of Democracy , which all started out as mods for their respective Paradox games. I think what Paradox did was ingenius.<

So much complain about boats that now it makes sense why Elemental (at least for vanilla) is only focused in land battles.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="122" id="2668861"] Why Is This Spell Useful for Game Mechanics ? : Imagine that it's near the end game and you realize you're going to loose after spending 10 or 20 hours on the same Huge Map (or even Medium Map). Maybe you left a powerful enemy alone for too long and now they are about to win the game with the "Spell of Mastery" or they are about to roll over your last city with their "Stack-o-Doom". Either way, it's painfully obvious tha

Consider the following ones as ideas, ok? They are out of context which means that I had to adapt them to Elemental setting. They originally are of a setting (Elemental mod) where magic is quite young and dangerous, each spell has three levels of power (you choose to which level you want to cast it once you have learned the more advanced levels of the spell) and each level of power has a backfire possibility. Each level of power is quite more powerful (level 3 is "epic") and the b

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="102" id="2668669"]Unlike most people here, I prefer to play as the good side in games (or neutral if it's available), and I find it boring that in Elemental it's represented only by the Human race. A book where only Humans are good can be a good read, but a game based on this setting feels a little lacking. It's nice that Frogboy has his own vision of a fantasy world and wants to make a game based on it, but I'm not happy that it causes the game to lack diversity.

[quote quoting="post"] Which do you prefer? Units to scale as they zoom or to stay a fixed size? [/quote]I don't know. [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

Currently Quoting seems to break the HTML of the post you quote, leaving only BR s. (that didn't happen before) Try better viewing the source code of the page. In the "Edit HTML source" you should be able to use the most common HTML tags(p, br, b, strong, i, em, u, table, tr, td, div, span...) and their properties (like style, for that so much needed CSS touch). I hope that's what you were asking for.

A city founded in barren land expands Life/Death land type (serving a origin point)?

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="215" id="2668079"] Only 20? I can understand that it's hard to balance stuff like this, but 20 as max looks way too low. It should be 100 or 50 at least.... If it will be 20, can we change this number via modding, or is it hardcoded? [/quote]20 units x 1,000 soldiers/unit = 20,000 soldiers 20 legions are quite cool to me.

[quote who="1MrPaul1" reply="10" id="2668052"]Bender will never compare with Homer... [/quote]True. Bender is better.[e digicons]\o/[/e]

"Death spell book: where are my armies of the shambling dead?" Partying with Waldo. No signs of undead except for the avatar of a wolf... but that's old. I don't remember seeing any other art or comment about undead. Not that they wouldn't be easy to add.

[quote who="PokeyThePenguin" reply="4" id="2667900"]But Wintersong couldn't answer the question. Because...[/quote]it wasn't directed to him?[e digicons]o_O[/e] [e digicons]:P[/e]

I'd say that of so far so good.

Actually, that woman is the power behind the nation. Obviously she is the only one with skills (as usual) and they are a small token of her big harem. [e digicons]:omg:[/e]

That's old news! Like, past week's! :P

[quote who="diamondspider" reply="107" id="2667387"] On the other hand, I ONLY play Civ IV multiplayer these days. It rocks and catering only to the SP people would be a pretty big mistake with Elemental... in my opinion of course. [/quote]Elemental's main focus is single player. Repeated like many many times by Frogboy. He also said about doing a good multiplayer or not bothering with it if not being done well. Which has more priority of those both statements? I'd vote for th

[quote who="marlowwe" reply="65" id="2667014"]I'm a little worried about tactical battles. When I first heard about Elemental, tactical battles were one of the aspects of the game I was looking forward to the most. Last week I read that the auto-resolve feature will be (or try to be) as good as playing a tactical battle out. This disheartened me because, from a designer point of view, what is the point of having them in the game in the first place if you can auto-resolve for optimal results?

Good that I have until mid july to use it. Altough there are still some games that interest me and that I haven't bought yet, I need to check more possible releases i the next days plus... you know, have some time to play the ones I bought by Impulse's birthday. :P Hmmm maybe I could, for a change, check the non-games section of Impulse.

[quote quoting="post"] When Elemental is released on August 24th, that is really only the beginning for it. Stardock, as an independent studio and publisher, has the luxury of being able to decide what it works on and the world of Elemental is where we plan to stay for a long while. There is so much that is possible to do. And yet, some people ony cares about their orcs and elves. So... Elemental MMO? (Elemental Societies? Channelers Online? World of Ele

[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="2666892"]If you're moving sometime around the ship date and don't know for sure when (and can't have it forwarded), it might be better to just have it shipped to nearby friend or family member, a work address, etc. [/quote]My only option during those days (weeks?) would be my office, which precisely has decided to close for vacation during those days for the first time ever. Talk about bad timing. ¬.¬ Still almost two months to work something out,

Is it possible to delay the delivery? I didn't expect an august release and some kind of note in the database for my preorder saying "Don't send until further notice" would be very kind of you. [e digicons]:S[/e]

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="2" id="2665961"] I just hope in tactical combat this is represented in a more fun way than just lots of turns of the dragon one-shotting one of your guys at a time. [/quote](Some of the )Attacks from the dragon should have splash damage (or blast radius, whichever is the correct way to say it, aside from Area of Effect). At least to make it faster! If I create a volcano in the location of a Drake, do I kill it? And if I lower the lan

[quote who="Nuemcy" reply="3" id="2666477"]Is there anyway to take away karma? [/quote]The forum eats it for breakfast from time to time.

The day I have to update properly this thread, heads are going to roll... mine first? XD Altough I write mods for fun, I'm still thinking of making this. But boy, aren't there some radical changes in it! As only during Beta 4 I'll be able to see exactly how things go, for now is still some speculation. Therefore, I don't want to spam you with it. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I have something that I have been tempted to post in the ideas section for some weeks but... hmmm not s