Wintersong

[quote who="zigzag" reply="31" id="2406934"] I just think it's ironic -- maybe in the Alannis Morissette sense -- that a proposal that begins by suggesting that women in games should be more than eye candy, concludes with a mechanic that Sir Thomas Moore would be proud of. Usually, when I read that suggestion, it's followed by some lengthy appeal for social justice.[/quote] And there I have to point to the part you quoted. No one has problems with men in this kind of games being

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="31" id="2406901"]Didn't watch the third episode. It's all too predictable. They go through a stargate every week, looking for supplies, which takes them somewhere like Mexico or Canada, they meet aliens they disagree with, they disagree with each other, someone gets threatened with being left behind, they struggle to find/barter what they are looking for, they just make it back through the stargate when the clock reaches zero. Did I miss anything? Yo

[quote who="zigzag" reply="25" id="2406581"]Hooray for moral progress! Instead of stripping the clothing off our fantasy women, we're turning them -- literally -- into the reproductive organs of the state. [/quote] Welcome to a world where biologically speaking they are nothing more than that for the state (well, they are also tax payers). The negative effects of women using their right not to have babies are quite doccumented and one of the effect is the aging of the population

Dragon Armor.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="113" id="2406377"]At least I have my first Wedding Anniversary and Halloween to keep me preoccupied until it comes out.[/quote] Be careful, that might sound like if those were not as important as Dragon Age. [e digicons]}:)[/e] [e digicons];P[/e] A pity that it's release doesn't share time frame with my vacations. :(

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="4" id="2405345"]75% water map. Ya now I remember boats and navys are secondary right for development... maybe later on say in an expansion they get some love... or someone will go crazy and mod it in... [/quote] I'm quite sure that Frogboy mentioned something about "land based tbs" in one of his threads some time ago. It'd be a pity if the seas/oceans of Elemental cannot get more interesting in an expansion pack or something. [quote who="Frogb

The text is quite bad rules wise... I incresed it a bit for the second post but not sure if it's enough. In any case, they are resized by the HTML. You can take the original URL where they are and see a pic of it in real size: Big enough? XD

[quote who="Quellist" reply="20" id="2406124"] the computer will have a hard time getting it right and basically you can abstract it into one number, "manpower". [/quote] That is an argument against it that I can like (as negation of my idea).

I didn't know how to add the T as Tap in the Planeswlaker (it's some kind of script that should automatically convert a T in the symbol but it didn't work there). And Planeswalker work like: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/planeswalkers/week4 Once the game (Elemental) grows and has some meat on its skeleton, I'd not mind to create some kind of semiserious set. Damn, I

Considering that I haven't played any kind of ccg (be it Magic The Gathering, Legend of the Five Rings, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Rage, 7th Sea, Age of Empires, Pokemon or The X-Files*) in more than five years... you should consider any actual text in the cards related to rules as Placeholders (they are Beta 1A :P ). I didn't know what the Abyss was a planeswalker and had to dig and improvise something. [e digicons]XD[/e] <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Utaku_

[quote who="Quellist" reply="18" id="2405808"]Really they should just concentreate on the core concepts, few enough good turn based strategy games out there right now, no need to add lots of exotic concepts that add few, if any, benefits. And yeah, there is the sims if you want a social simulator . [/quote] About the first paragraph I can agree and disagree at the same time: I disagree because I don't want the current situation of (fantasy) tbs lim

Just for fun. CCG haters and those without humour sense and rule monkeys abstain from commenting. XD <img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Utaku_Areka/ImprovedFarm.jpg" alt="" w

I know you are not knocking me for bringing it up (one of the reasons to mention this topic is to have people say good and bad things about it), so don't worry.

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="11" id="2404198"] (long post) I get where you're coming from here, and I agree with you. However, remember that complexity should be implimented from the ideda of what would be fun, as opposed to what would be realistic, then "justified" through lore to make it realistic. I just don't think that maintaining a male/female ratio identical to real life would be that fun (especially at an abstracted city-based level). And the good thing is, you d

My comment about real world laws in combat was a broad one. You that have been in these forums for "some time" should get the (twisted) reference. :P But as I said, I use what should be simple to understand (and implement if it were the case). I have said it many times, I want a whole system for the game and not just war+magic(+research+economy?) with a bunch of subsystems as streamlined as possible not to annoy the wargamer types. (sorry if someone feels somehow offended, I like battles as m

[quote who="Denryu" reply="19" id="2403713"] They could also call it something like "The accumulated knowledge of "[/quote] My Dear Diary.

As someone who already tried to mod something in (and was forced to uninstall and install again because of that...), any idea of when minimods will be possible? Be it a new race or just changing the pieces of a figurine like I was trying. XD Around Beta 2? Really need to wait for Beta 5?

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="7" id="2403999"]Winter, I really think you're overanalyzing this a bit much. Although the units do appear to be all male, they are just placeholders, and it seems to me that in a world as bizzarre as EWOM's, you don't really need to follow traditional real-world population-growth laws.. [/quote] Check the unit creator: they are all men. Placeholders? I suppose that's the idea but just in case it's not, I don't think it's a bad idea to point it out. Ab

Dude, where are my Women? (Wall of Text(TM)) TL;DR Are there any women in the game appart from Heroines and/or monsters and/Sovereignesses? If the answer is yes, which are the plans for them / what can we expect? WoT: Single white man looking for... Women. Bastly ignored in games except for Amazon roles, scantily clad heroines and similar things. I like TBSs in general and I consider cities one of the most fundamental parts of an

To be undead first you need the Sovereign to die. If the Sovereign dies = game over then explain me how to become an undead and not lose the game.

Cosmic is just too broad to the point of including... everything. Also, depending of the point of view there is no life nor death, only change.

Elemental Archives, The E-Files, Elemental for dummies...

[quote who="MatBerryman2" reply="36" id="2402091"]That should be plently enough for anyone right? [/quote] Obviously not? XD Specially for those not interesed in the main game but the mods.

Pausable continous turns. A la Baldur's Gate or some other game I don't remember right now but mentioned every time someone asks about it. (too lazy and too in a hurry to search for the thread(s))

If Dragons can be recruited like if you were recruiting Paladins, then they are no special but your "big flying unit with area attack". If Dragons can only be in your army if you convince them to join you (aka you cannot produce them and can only recruit them by some kind of quest that won't be easy), then whenever you make one join you, you get a true feeling of achievement, it really feels special and... fits what Frogboy has been describing. If dragons become common (hey, dragonrid