Wintersong

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="15" id="2555591"] I almost hate the term 'balanced question,' but isn't this something that's supposed to come out in the beta wash?[/quote] Absolutely right. In that and in the huge map thing. Wait and see, I suppose.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="13" id="2555529"] I would think that the simple game advantage of polygamy would be the increased production of offspring. Not that I expect so see anything other than serial monogamy in the game (maybe the occasional quest/event-related child out of wedlock). [/quote] I have real problems envisioning this part of the game. can our Sovereign marry more than once (after the previous died of old age...) or not? Will they have fertility windows to

The problem is that I only see spouses being special if they are Hero type. So if we are to get pop ups about heroes for hire and/or that want to join us, for possible spouses it should be something similar. And I'd not mind at all if you could marry one of your heroes...

Broken thread (IE 7) by Darkodinplus, reply #132: https://forums.elementalgame.com/376942/page/6 Thanks to whoever fixed the other thread. :)

[quote who="Resist_The_Dawn" reply="1" id="2555498"]umm.....You do know Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age are published by EA right? [/quote]Ding![e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Welcome to another spam thread by yours truly, Wintersong. The idea of this thread is based in: https://forums.elementalgame.com/376437 And more precisely in: Q: What are some example mods you would make? A: We would try to cover the full range with our samples. Here are some specifics of what we plan to provide during Beta 5 and after release. ... 5. U

https://forums.elementalgame.com/367727/get;2422556 https://forums.elementalgame.com/376441 Auto-resolve and Instant Resolve are the same but with Instant Resolve being instant resolution (without graphics) while in auto-resolve you watch the battle unfold a la Galactic Civilizations II. Both play by the same rules. Armies get the bonuses they would get in a

Have you seen The Meaning of Life? That scene about birth control with the catholic mother "letting fall a baby"? Something like that comes to my mind whenever one f my female Sovereigns gives birth while exploring far away from home and without more warning that "Hey, you got a child!". And as long as spouses for the Sovereign are nothing but pinups, I'd only ask for a event window like the one when we start the game. With a dynamic pic as background (if you are in a city, then a cit

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="4" id="2554620"]**its not actually a disadvantage, but by maintaning Morale Authority, you are able to spend more points on other facets of life, its not to say that monogamy is "worse" merely that it allows you to be a better person in other areas. Likely Faithful Monagamists and Legal Polygamists would be at opposing ends, and thus have diplomatic difficulties.[/quote] Marry some dozens of women; pick one as favourite, rest in the harem; fiddle with the o

[quote who="MxM111" reply="37" id="2555199"]"I am out of gum" is silly and breakes the mood[/quote] At this point, we don't know if gum is some kind of spell component.[e digicons]:-"[/e]

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="2555220"]I dunno. I tend to think sand box mode should be just that. In the campaign we can stick to lore. But in sand box, I'd like to make it so that people can play however they want. [/quote]You surely want to elaborate more about that. Could be considered a hint of "In sandbox there is an option in which you get to play dinasties and forget about the 'Sovereign Death = Game Over' issue." which has been denied over and over

[quote quoting="post"] I like the idea of a time bank. You get N seconds per turn. If you finish your turn early, you get to add those seconds to your time bank. If you run out of time, it starts to cost you gold. Like 10 gold per second. If you run out of gold, the turn goes automatically. There could be city improvements that give players additional time to take turns. Example: The default time you get would be based on what “L

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="21" id="2554361"]Any chance it would be translated ? Even if I can can follow the discussions on the forums, my english-level in really not enough to read a book. [/quote]Reading D&D 3rd Edition books in English helped me with my English (and I was quite bad). :P Edit: well, I'm still bad but I blame the layer of rust. :P

The Quest Victory will involve (probably) some kind of event that submits the world to your will and/or destroy your enemies. Some kind of triggered event. Somehow like Magic Victory that will be (supposedly) based on achieving ubermagical powers of total control and dominion to the point of making useless the actions of the opponents ("You resist to my dominion claims? *poof* Not anymore!").

@Hackbar: victory condition means that if you achieve it, you win. It cannot be a Quest Victory if you get the artifact (supposed end of the Quest Victory) and end having to win the game by a militar victory (that i's not even assured with the artifact because if not the other players would go 'GG').

While you fiddle with black powder, I'll be using crystal shard based guns (you read it here first!). *pew**pew* :P

[quote quoting="post"]Naturally, it will again be disturbed… [/quote]I blame Tas. Shouldn't the last paragraphs be in past tense? Not that my English is good enough to allow me to judge but... In any case: Lore, sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.[e digicons]:drool:[/e] And more arguments for people about if the Sovereign dies one of the sons can take over as Sovereign. (campaign is campaign, obviously, just refering to sandbox).

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="130" id="2553938"]Traits, abilities, personalities, mental disorders, allergies, favorite colors .... I want it all!! Favorite Color Gold-Better deals with Mercenaries/ Mercs like you Purple- royalty are treated better, prestige bonus for Royal champions Red- Warlike NPCs and AI treat you better/like you. Green- Sovereign is more lucky (more later) [/quote]You don't know about one of my discard

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="30" id="2553509"]Winter, I had no idea that a forum post could be that nicely tricked out. You've taken a handy thing and made it handier, with lots of pretty on top. The art devs should mail you a souveneir sketch or something. [/quote]Hehe. You are too kind. Altough I'd not mind such thing, I don't think that I have done anything special to deserve something like that. Just went to the main page to check the styles, to see what I could use for this thread

[quote who="Locklear93" reply="127" id="2553877"] Anyway, what you're talking about is done elsewhere as "traits." A talent is inherantly positive, a weakness inherantly negative, but a trait has no connotation--it's simply an aspect of someone.[/quote]Right now there are only Talents and Weaknesses, therefore I work within that frame... well, change it a bit for more flexibility. As the Beta progresses Stardock will make more changes and we will see if we get traits and/or somethi

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="12" id="2553706"] OK, it sounds like it might lead into anime/FPS-land anyway [/quote]Not a single drop of anime in it. ;)And all TBS.

If you manage to have it published in my country, I'll be close to believe in higher powers. Lucky me for getting in the future a nice deal of book plus collector's edition fom Stardock? ;) Very good news about that deal with Random House. Just remember to learn from them so you can do it by yourselves when needed (not that I want Random House out of the business :P ). *starts humming The Neverending Story at the sight of the cover*

I want elven mechas. Don't ask.

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="3" id="2553658"]Already preordered Elemental. When will Dragon Age be worldwide? As much as i love the Settlers, with that DRM i wont buy it. Ubisoft = Fail [/quote] This. @Island Dog: we forgive you for being biased towards Elemental because it deserves it.

[quote who="Aractain" reply="106" id="2553393"] Talking of such, Wintersong, why do you keep changing that avatar thing. [/quote] You can pick one or more of the following reasons*: Just because I'm cool One different for each of the personalities There is no avatar I like pretty pics People (barely) changes their avatars and that's boring Life is change Forces people to check my username</l