Wintersong

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In terms of UI, we use DesktopX. All the .dxpacks in Elemental (and Galactic Civilizations) are made using DesktopX. It’s a free download. Free download but which version for modding? Surely the DesktopX page has different price tags for the different versions. Q: When should we start modding? A: That would be Beta 5 which is scheduled for this Summer. It will be during that time that we start to release our own example mods. <

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="19" id="2543865"]I'll be buying Civ 5 on day one, hopefully off of Impulse. [/quote]Just tell us what we can do, we humble people from outside of North America, to convince Firaxis/2KGames to sell it through Impulse without regional limits. Or cannot Impulse have a "Desperate to purchase" option in which you can buy a game not of your region paying your local price instead of the cheaper Impulse price? (Or have Stardock stablish a "Stadock gifts you a

Necrospam! [e digicons]:O[/e]

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="2543745"]I remember when Galactic Civilizations was being developed it was supposedly doomed because Master of Orion 3 was also in development. The two games shipped within 30 days of each other. [/quote]Someone is bound to tell you how they didn't know how awful MoO3 was when they were saying that Gal Civ was doomed. And that Civ V isn't going to be MoO3. Maybe? Edit: Damn

Resource gathering isn't so bad. It can be annoyed sometimes but I didn't find it bad. The Bypass minigames though... [e digicons] Missed interparty chatting. Clipping is always an issue. The interrogation scene comes to mi

It lacks magic, tactical combat, world class AI, dynasties... Not much to play to.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="44" id="2543357"]Think, Magic the Gathering. [/quote] Angels. What?[e digicons]:pout:[/e]

[quote quoting="post"]Civ5 will be coming out this fall! I hope that doesn't cut into the success of Elemental. Maybe SD should slow things down and see what they're up against. You wanna make sure you can top Civ 5. [/quote]Doomsayers already? Why not cancel Elemental? Civ V will come with mod tools and someone will make a "Raise from Hell" mod or something for those who want a fantasy TBS. :P Some people will never buy Elemental becuase they only like the "real" style of Civ. S

[quote who="NoobFukaire" reply="11" id="2543429"]I mean, do you really think galactic civilizations was better than: Deus Ex, Fallout 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment, Diablo II, etc, etc. Your "reality" is obviously seriously flawed in this case. [/quote]Glad I don't live in yours, Noob![e digicons]:O[/e]

[quote who="Tridus" reply="66" id="2543133"] However, it is a bit screwing over the players who want to get in-depth and play this game all-out since without being able to quantify factors it can be hard to choose what to do.[/quote]I did say that you could still check the numbers. I know there are a lot of number freaks out there that are never satisfied with a game unless they have all the data in a spreasheet. I also did say, it wasn

Which is the point of this thread? [e digicons]o_O[/e] I feel that there is something more to that pic but I seem to fail understand it.

I personally wouldn't mind not to have to read numbers (or percentages) but to read words. Something like in the Fudge RPG: Terrible, Poor, Mediocre, Fair, Good, Great, and Superb. Add to them some bars to indicate their actual "level" and how much until the next word. Not a popular idea, I know. But sometimes it'd be more precise that some % to describe me how well I'm doing. I can have my accountant doing all the numbers, which I could check any time, but getting only a ge

[quote who="reapy54" reply="6" id="2542613"]Ok, we can scale back all works of fantasy and find a common theme... every story has already been written before, we know that... but its the variation on the classic theme that makes it interesting. So we see the classic theme going, happy to start, bad guys come, fight, blows up the world, now we rebuild. I can see how the game mechanics are writing the story, which is a fine approach to take. I see the components of ideas c

[quote who="tenchifew" reply="8" id="2542119"]Something to do for the summoned succubi/erinyes and vampire queens would be nice.[/quote]Incubi and vampire kings complain.

[quote quoting="post"] immortal beings of great power dominated the moral races of Elemental.[/quote][e digicons]o_O[/e]

My Polar Faction of ebony skinned people is going to rock. My Desert Faction of fair skinned people is going to rock too. And smurfs while rule them all!!!

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="12" id="2542476"]Maybe a reason for SD to try and get EWoM out well before CivV is out ...!? [/quote]No, EWoM should only be out when Stardock really believes that it's the best they can do (expansion pack materials aside).

The only problem I see for weather is how it works for the different terrain types. You know, the "life" lands and the "death" lands. Maybe just cosmetics would be enough.

[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="26" id="2542464"] but those badges are convenient when skimming a thread for official responses. [/quote]Yep.

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="19" id="2542445"]So basically every serf in the village immediately and for no apparent reason just got wealthy and decided they needed a bigger house... [/quote] A Sovereign did it![e digicons]8O[/e]

[quote who="Myles" reply="2" id="2542411"]While I don't really care either way, those nation borders look funky as hell. [/quote]Real world's countries hasn't "borders" so meh. :P Hexes sounds good and not sure how difficult would be for Stardock to use them (if they were really interested in using them). Especially interesting to see in the city building department.

Out of topic but... Stardock badge? Not that I doubt you but I find myself curious by the lack of it. Will the minimum space between cities increase too? And some extra info about why the Sovereign is the only one who can create new cities even in terrain that is already imbued and of his type?

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THe problems I have with MoM, Diplomacy aside, is that it needs DoxBox (cycles and all) and resolution is too small.