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I think it comes down to inovation and or re-inovation. I see a game like The Witcher that was really done by a small team and then grew now into a huge AAA title after word of mouth went big. Sure, the graphics where pretty , but they took another engine to make it etc.. The devs there where very open on how it all went down etc. Now with their new releasing definitly in the AAA club, they kept to their roots of what made the first game great and in the end they will see that pay off ye

well an easy way to smash this bug is to notice the no ai movment postioning and to follow that up they could code a limit max to hp, if it goes beyond , the game auto deletes the units in question. Thou that number would need to be the possible max in game. I have witnessed this bug as well.

has anyone tried this with no damage on unit stacks , save after they took damage and healed and see what happens? Just figuring I would ask those that have this issue to help out, might help or not.

If I remember this was done on purpose, so that you expand into other cities to get the tech you want instead of teching up everything on the first city or even major stuff on the first city. Eh it sucks, but it can be done later. Also the AI has the same rules now so we don't see on turn 20, so and so world item used by the ai so quickly.

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="13" id="2738492"]shards are not working in manual tactical combat atm. thats why you see so low damage outputs. [/quote] really? I didn't know about this to be honest, first build after beta has been more tankage army for me, but alas if this is the case, this would be why many think it's under-powered atm.

Magic is OP if you know how to "Channel" it, haha love that pun, anways as stated you need to optimize your channeling threw research and shards in the world. If you do, then you will hurt your abilities in other things like making better armor for your army etc. In elemental there is give and take, you are great in one thing or mediocure in it all, that choice is up to you, but if you want those huge exploding 100+ damage fireballs, do the research and know what you need to get there. Assumi

I will take my array of bowmen and whipe the floor with your channeler :) Then "they" will pay for their defiance next!

[quote who="greywar" reply="187" id="2731873"] It isn't germane to the meat of the review of this game which is spot on for large chunks of the customer base. [/quote] bah defend your publisher all you want, but pc gamer uk is known to be the "worst" review/preview etc etc in all publications. Maybe the people in the U.K, are actually blind to this fact, but not many others outside it. Funny thing is, the Pc Gamer US version is always pretty much right o

[quote] Remember a CEO is NOT a normal person[/quote] best quote on this thread, CEO's are monsters! LOOK OUT! o_0 funny stuff

[quote who="enigma691" reply="156" id="2731716"]Empire Total War was imho way buggier on release and still managed to get high scores from nearly all the major reviewers. I thought it was the worst by far of all the total war games released. Yet somehow this game is worse for having all the bugs that Total war had? Yeah I would say this reviewer has some sort of axe to grind with either stardock or the CEO. This game has a few glitches but it is still playable whereas Total War was not at rel

The reason I play stardock games and love them is frog for one, he says it the way it is. No ass kissing, no fumbling around with words. While it is pretty obvious to anyone with any brains that a comment like that is more for the concept of "hey, we do our best, give us a break we always fix our stuff to be launch worthy" at least they do it and with a history to prove it. Numerous companies release titles and could careless after if they have a budget for "fixing it". Stardock always has an

Eh just for the new guys that came after seeing the mailer that went out. You have no worries, I am not saying the game will be perfect (as all launches always find something) but the issues we had in beta where the same issues we had with previous titles by these guys like Sins game. it as many should know comes with in beta a tracer , basicly a built in system that monitors the game constantly and records all issues. This sort of monitoration in a game will kill it's performance and c

lol long responses , here is the simple summary.... Sins is a big game and allot to take in. Elemental is something you know if you played ANY tatic game or quest game. Very simple indeed, took me less the 20min to figure it all out. Details, now as time goes on there is a ton to learn (items , setting up units etc) but you can jump in and play day 1 , having fun and learn it quickly. Definitly off the sins build, but allot easier to follow. You should h

Well as the devs have said and I have no doubt will repeat, the CE really is no money maker for them they actually make no extra off of it, other then offering cool stuff to the fans of the game that want it. I myself bought the CE which comes with everything and a digital download version, As with their title Sins , I won't open it, eh call me sentimental, but I think it's cool I have these collector titles from stardock when they still are small ;) I predict a big future for them, so alas t

Some great ideas here for sure, again the trailer wasn't bad, but wasn't awwww striking as well. With some time and love it can be something dramatic that would get people on the first view. Again many of us knowing what the game is and pre-ordered, it really matters not. It again (as another pointed out) is ment to show those that have "no clue" the game is even coming out. I have seen plenty of post latly going... "holy crap, there is another stardock game on the way? Sweet!" along those li

https://www.elementalgame.com/launchtrailer

Follow up, come to think of it you have allot of the elements in that vid allready, just add some city stuff, a bit more on x4, the combat and showing mass armies definitly liked that, if I didn't pre-order allready that there would have had me at least look at it. So really it only needs a bit more polish and a bit more info and I think what you would have would be what I would make.

You could probably have the fans make you guys one that's a bit better. The dream vid? It's more on the game, you had elements there, the casual music is a good intro and should have had a more dramatic up beat (IE climax) to the end, getting the player excited. Some would say add all the interfacing and while interesting that can turn people off as well. My dream intro... 1. Opening scene as you have the game coming , name, keypoints flashed on the screen. 2. Zoom in to see t

Same things where said on Sins AI and now, it's one of the best AI I have played against. Definitly with all the additions that game has it all. I have no doubt this one will follow suite.

A quest journal and the other thing I have a hard time sometimes identifying is the icons to the next location. They come up yellow like the gold mines and sometimes if they are in an area you haven't explored it doesn't always show that little spot on the map. I was thinking (not sure if easy to implment devs) but could we have the journal described above and when we click on a quest we have listed to do it shows us a little icon on the compass showing the direction of the quest ? or maybe a

Definitly not, I remember in MOM when we asked for stuff, it went on death ears. I love where this game is going and as the devs said before, the system is pretty much where it's going to be like it or don't. In time thou as they said, things will change and improve on the ideas and suggestions of the community and themselves. No other company out there ever asks so much of a community on their opinions good or bad and actually does something to fix them. When something is really bad, they sa

yes, I noticed the same thing as well.

Great IDEAS! I am all for this , when after the game launches and devs have time, I would love to see this added in.

Well there is a balance here that is being worked on, right now mid to end game you will have so much gold that those cost are nothing compaired to your income once you have 3 or more towns trading.

well as one that prefers a tank build, I can say this much, I would love to have potions to use in combat. Sadly thou, most monsters I come across I have to be x5 times higher in hp or abilities and range just owns. You can go against 45 hp mobs with basicly rank 1 (first ones made) archers and drop the mob. Try doing that with melee, the mob hits you once and u die, so the only way to play is a range game sadly. I was definitly hoping for more melee combat. it basicly nulifies the whole reas