Wintersong

In the Media section there are three new screenshots (new as in "new there" because they have been shown already here) and three new wallpapers (a couple of them quite drool worthy). Just saying for those that don't check often.

[e digicons]:-"[/e] IE 8, the Gorgon, reply #59 : https://forums.elementalgame.com/378327/page/3 I'd use Chrome but "quote" doesn't work and I cannot live without that cute button. Off topic, check the Lore section (Kingdoms/Empires/Beasts) of the web for IE. It has been broken for a while. And it's a pity because it's quite neat the effort put into it.

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="26" id="2568606"]And then you decide how they should be raised ... as a Warrior, Administrator, Sage, or Bargaining Chip. [/quote] I think that Frogoby said (don't make me search for the link right now...) that the children were decided (in class and stats apparently) once born but that we didn't get to know until they were 20 years old (grown up). But to be able to provide some education to the children would be good. SO if my baby Miranda is goi

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="28" id="2568491"] a spellcheck and a quick grammar check[/quote]Hmmm Interesting concepts. Too lazy to try them though. XD IE 8, Tyrrel reply #54: https://forums.elementalgame.com/378327/page/3

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="24" id="2568308"] How is taking the most powerful unit of an empire out of the game NOT a weakening of said empire? Imagine if it was leading your army to an attack of an enemy army...your sov suddenly gets teleported to a city and your army wiped out. The difficulaty is set by placing different enemy empires in the world. Difficulty by numbers is only used when you give the AIs certain bonuses. And while this is not desirable, there will certainly

[quote who="Beric01" reply="21" id="2568420"]I assume the game will decided which version to install? [/quote] If you install from Impulse, it will install the proper version for your OS. I suppose that the game disk should behave in the same way.

I still hope for cities only being taken when the city centre is conquered, making city development/tetris an important part of it's design. In any case, I don't find it boring. It's just some extra clicks. I'd agree with prestige buildings being a bit "meh" though.

(using IE 8) the Gorgon, reply #27: https://forums.elementalgame.com/378327/page/2 Why does people insist using other than Notepad(++) to write their stuff before posting? Or why does Microsoft use such bad code in their stuff? Edit: taking a look into the source code, seems that reply #28 also has "sutff".

Would you ask a Mac focused developer to make the jump to Windows?

Damn, I'm out of place here with those requirements. Too much DMing and not so many opportunities of regular play. [e digicons]:([/e] Unless I can start talking about NPCs and those were mostly individuals, not groups/parties*. [e digicons]:\[/e] I suppose it's somehow sad that my only characters are of the marvellous Neverwinter Nights 2 and Dragon Age, which campaign story ye surely know already. <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Utaku_Areka/El

From a biological point of view, diversity is good (survival, adaptation, improvement...). I hope that Impulse::Reactor gets the attention it deserves. Especially kick the ass of Steamworks. Nothing like to have a preorder cancelled (not by my choice) in Impulse because some publisher decided in the "last minute" that they were to use Steamworks. Did I say that I fear for Alpha Protocol? Who should I contact in Stardock to provide incentives for figthing for a releas

I didn't get a flier in my copy. :( I like pretty pics. XD

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="12" id="2567440"]Perhaps Brad, you would consider starting up a bit of an Online Training Program for any up and coming modders to be.[/quote] Some AI tutorials...

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="2567145"]There will be a 64-bit version of Elemental it appears. [/quote]Could you provide some more detail/info? As in: "We reached a satisfactory deal with INtel and blah blah blah" or "I menaced the people at Intel with my Bee Hives and blah blah blah". Just for the record.

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="12" id="2567313"]Well, assuming that for the most part, every turn might end up = year (or 6 months, or 4 moths) ... Pregnancies probably woludn't last that long. Maybe a turn or two at the most. [/quote] And if the female Sovereign picked talents that give benefits for being in a town, it's not like she is going to care too much for being in a place she wanted to be anyways. No matter if 1 turn or 200. Unless she had urgent errands to run somewhere el

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="10" id="2567283"]weakening[/quote] I fail to see how "to be forced to spend some turns at home" equals "weakening". You may want to say "take some choices away from the player in very concrete circumstances". :P And difficulty based on just "buffing numbers" is dumb difficulty (sometimes needed). Difficulty on adding extra game mechanics that add to the decission/choices pool on the other hand...

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="5" id="2566836"]Wouldnt that apply to female sovereigns too? So picking a female one would give you a disadvantage which cannot be justified other than for realsim in a fantasy game....alas not at all. [/quote]But people has no problems with Difficulty Levels in games.[e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="32" id="2566955"]I stopped caring about what categorization companies themselves put on products these days long ago. Even Mass Effect 2 is labeled as a RPG, if you ask Bioware themselves. [/quote]Well, it's a RPG. Cinematic RPG if I recall correctly. And surely it has more RPG in it than most of that shi... er... those games that claim to be RPG just because their doods level up (like RPG meant to level up your toon). It's not supposed to be like Baldur's Ga

Who is supposed to keep updating the Elemental AI and all that stuff if you are modding*? Oh, your modded AIs will be used maybe? * in your sabbatical, I mean

[quote quoting="post"]Turns would not be required to match up one on one. Meaning in the time it takes one player to take one turn, another player might have completed three. [/quote] That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="1" id="2566697"]...egalitarianist... [/quote] Just remember, doods, "same rights as person" is not the same as "same rights as biological entity"! What? It had to be said and I took such responsability.[e digicons]:P[/e] But for the Fun Factor tm better if dumb... er... simplified. No need for angry noobs (and not so noobs) complaining that their women behave (biologically speaking) like.... you know, women. Even if realist

I don't know what the thread is about* but I'm going to say that I love those screenshots!!![e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [e digicons]:drool:[/e] P.S. Qaka? XD * Lies, lies, lies

Wow, I didn't know that "-->" would break the quote, Jafo. XD Sorry. Well, Outlaw's nick also breaks the quote system with those "=". Thank you Jafo! :)

Totally broken, I swear: outlaw, Reply #51, IE 7 --> https://forums.elementalgame.com/377195/page/3

[quote who="tanafres" reply="6" id="2565934"]They might not all be from the same city, but they're also not coming from your 5 cities of 500 people each. That is, any forces you marshal should always be proportional to your population. [/quote] Your troops don't die of old age. The turns continue to pass and you can keep on recruiting troops from your cities that keep growing population as long as they have room from gowth in the city...