Denryu

[quote who="psychoak" reply="7" id="2317252"]My MoM fetish is simple. Civ, but with tactical combat and magic. The details really aren't that relevant, it's tactical combat and magic that mattered. You take an otherwise boring and trivial game and make it wonderful with those two additions. If there were something besides AoW to compare to, I'd gladly drop other names when talking about mechanics. Unfortunate, the original is still the best

I think Picasso sucks. But I will concede he must have been a great artist because everyone says so. I had an art teacher in college that said that the goal of art was to try to evoke an emotion in the viewer, and if you conveyed the message that you wanted to convey, then you succeeded. In my book, Picasso must have wanted to convey "wow whoever painted these really sucks." Obviously he must have evoked different emotions in a great number of people, and they would probably say I jus

[quote who="Tridus" reply="19" id="2318143"] Quoting pigeonpigeon, reply 17 The sword of truth was TERRIBLE. How can you include that? I think The Sword of Truth started out great. Wizard's First Rule is a first-rate fantasy story as far as I'm concerned, and the next few books in the series are pretty good, too. The story started to drag on and get too convoluted starting with the 5th book, at which point the series degenerated into a steami

[quote who="Tridus" reply="14" id="2318014"]If your AI is going to remain in C++, will the game ship with a sample python AI script so that we have something to work with? Seeing examples is really helpful to learn how it works as compared to starting from scratch. [/quote] Yes a well documented sample script would be amazingly helpful for modders. Sample scripts for more than just the AI, but all kinds of things would be wonderful.

Since maximum mana is tied to essence and essence is only gained by leveling, this can be balanced by requiring a high mana pool to cast the "world altering" high level spells. It will be all about balancing.

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="20" id="2317865"] 1- Pure -->hypothesis I really didn't want to answer any of the questions (leave that to Brad) but this is one that I keep going back and forth on. It's definatly more rewarding, for us and the players (I beleive) to do meaty, full blown expansions where we stuff all the goods in. On

How many spells do you expect a player to have access to in a given game? Are spells available based on faction? Are spells made available based on the number and type of nodes? Are there going to be spells that require access to multiple elements? What other sorts of options at game creation will add replayability to the game? Do you foresee including any player created content (from beta) in the Canon release? Is February 2010 still looking li

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[quote who="Luckmann" reply="2" id="2317714"]Edit: What is with the forums today? This time I even reloaded this page to make sure that I didn't double-post, and only reposted after checking. Bam. Double-post. Bah! [/quote] Feel lucky; my posts are all getting eaten. I spent half an hour writing a huge epistle in response to GW, and it was pretty well written I think and it got ate. And I unwisle had not copied to clipboard before hitting submit.

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="10" id="2317687"]It would be neat if the top fan contributers got some sort of in game feature in the final version. Our names listed in default name generators for example. the city of Luckmania, or the Spear of Spartan for example (I believe those are the top in karma rank) [/quote] If Denryu were in the game (either modded or in the canon) I would want a midnight blue dragon with a lightning bolt breath weapon. Denryu is Japanese for

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Well to me there are so many different things you can like and sometimes even what is important may switch around. For instance, usually for me the epitome of skill in story writing is that epic feel that you practically experience the story and you feel the eons that have gone before and you see the present of the story as a culmination of events that have been transpiring for hundreds or thousands of years. The authors created world becomes "real" in a sense. Tolkien and Fra

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2317350"]Speaking for myself, I'm a Python newbie. But I think what you see is our desire to make Elemental a game but also a platform. We've seen this with RPGs like Neverwinter Nights where modders could keep creating interesting things. That's what we're hoping to do. I don't think, at release, Elemental will have anything close to that kind of modding capability as it will be the result of months/years of migration of C++ to P

GW, I just gotta say, I have always deep down held Frank Herbert and Tolkien in esteem in a way that your previous post alludes to. Whatever faults they both may have had, they certainly had an ability to not only tell a story, but to create a world (worlds in Herbert's case) that not only existed during the time frame of the story being told but there was a real sense of history, of thousands of small events happening over hundreds or thousands of years that brings the world(s) to th

Yeah, in fact I think they should provide a script that will play the perfect game and give it to everyone. That is what I call fun! [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="20" id="2316563"] Just think about 'spoiler' reviews and you should get some sympathy for what I'm trying to type about. I don't presume that the Elemental boards will somehow be free of posts from zero-sum 'win' lovers. I'm just fairly certain that making the core AI code public would do nothing for me except increase the number of posts I wish I hadn't read. I play to play, and people who play to win mostly seem to value things that I find to be no fun, or

Yeah MoM defintely was not the perfect game by a long shot. It seems like I remember a ton of late game crashes, sound problems, etc. I guess like some here agree, the gameplay made it worth putting up with all of it's crap. EWOM could capture that same magic in a completely different way. There are many things that have been revealed that at this point, an updated, stable MoM would be a little bit of a disappointment. I am all for innovation and trying new things. Like Scoutdog said

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="4" id="2316074"] ... I was refering more to the general idea of "EWOM is a spiritual sucessor to MOM, thereofre it must be like MOM". [/quote] I challenge you to find any post any where on this forum where anyone has promoted this idea. AFAIK no one has. I think GW Swicord understands what I am saying - your argument for "something new" has some merit, but I don't think anyone (OK there are a few sickos out there that would) wants to eat

A good many people were attracted to EQOM because it was sonbwhat billed as a "spiritual successor" to MoM. While it should be entirely clear that it is not all that much like MoM, I still think it is completely right and expected that people express ideas on these boards and why they like or dislike them. Of course if someone is expressing an idea they like there is an unspoken "therefore it should be in EWOM." there is a logical point that I am getting to. Not many people ac

[quote who="Darkodinplus" reply="15" id="2314662"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 13 Empires = Fallen, Kingdoms = Humans There are no humans in the game. There are men but they aren't humans. That will be understood better later. Uh, a man = hu[man]. Might want to call them something different from men if they arn't human. Also, the current pictures look pretty human to me. Edit: This should be addressed as well if there arn't h

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="20" id="2314321"] As you revive the land, you should get some mix of everything. Obviously it shouldn't be random and spotted everywhere, and you should probably even be able to tell what the land will become even before you revive it. Well, my concept of this is that there are three terrein "pallettes" (life, death, and unrevived), that contain many different terrein "types" like forest, plain, mountain, river, and so on. Investing essence i

Thanks pigeon, karma to you for tracking down that dev post. I was sure I had read it somewhere but I could not find it (and I used search and everything!

Aeon is not a dev; I was just stating the post that I drew my possibly incorrect conclusions from.

As far as adding your own races, creatures etc They said you could import stuff from Maia or possibly some other 3D object creator. So it is not going to be like Spore. At least that aspoect is going to require a decent amount of know-how-skillz.

Hmmm the most definitive post I can find on it was posted by Aeon....I could very well have been led astray, my brains may have made a connection that wasn't there... In my defense here is what Aeon posted a LONG time ago.. It might be a bit of a pointless diversion, but let's speculate on the characteristics of factions based purely on their names (which is pretty much all we have right now). It might throw up some good ideas/stimulate