Denryu

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2242283"]Ranking other folks? Egad, I have a hard enough time with my ambivalence about the karma system (and am glad to see hints that it is out of the criteria for the lottery slots). Plus, there's the 'problem' of folks who often drive me up the wall with some of their typing yet also reliably give me rewarding hmmm... moments. Is that helpful of them or just weird taste in forum typing on my part? Ranking myself? I actually got a semi-serio

I just feel that NO ONE is entitled to alpha, including myself, so I think all rankings aside, we should all be prepared to just keep our chin up and not get pissy if we are not included. Be happy for those that are, etc etc. I wouldnt do a numerical ranking but I would say there are probably 10ish folks that I would feel badly being picked before because they are just so freaking awesome. Just going from memory, some poeple that I would personally like to see in would be:

So two dozen people that have the inside track +~76 others... hopefully the people that are active on the forums own at least some of the other games - we ALL own GC or GC2 amirite? Are there even 76 active people on the forums? (In the EWOM sections?) I think all of our chances are pretty good... As bad as I want in to alpha, it hopefully won't be too long until beta which will probably be MUCH better anyway. Just hope those that do get into alpha post TONS of info for those who don'

Winter, all of your avatars have boobs, if that doesn't put you on the inside track with a bunch of computer geeks, nothing will. [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

If they go with karma, they should go with current karma. Not saying anyone is unscrupulous enough to jack up their karma score, but it would be very easy to do. What am I saying, this is to get into alpha - of course people would jack up their karma score to get in...

I have HEARD that StarDock doesn't put beta testers under NDA, the beta is fairly open to anyone that wants in (all they have to do is preorder) and I am sure they want to build maximum buzz. That is not official, I know I have heard someone somewhere say there is no NDA with SD betas tho. Do NOT take that to the bank.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="14" id="2235049"]On the 'armies moving on their stomachs would make zombies too powerful' channel, the simple fix would be mana overhead for each undead unit. IIRC, all summoned units in MoM had a mana upkeep, possibly in part for balance reasons. Maybe some serious necromancy could create a totally freestanding undead entity, but it seems reasonable to expect that 'undead regulars' would cost some mana in exchange for the whatever 'bonuses' their undead state e

2 Dev jounrals in one night - how cool is that? [e digicons]5*[/e]

I was thinking along the same line GW, that if mines could indeed play out, that maybe weathering over time or something would expose new sources. There are lots of fun ways they could do that, including placing all the resources at game start with a turn timer before they became exposed. I also like how Civ has new resources pop up after you gain the tech to utilize them. Lol at your microphobe comment! [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] I'm with you, give me complexity until my heart or

Wow, I wonder what qualifies as "really helpful in the past"....previous beta bug busters? What would I need to do to be considered helpful? Stop posting so much? You got it![e digicons]:X[/e] Obviously we are all dying to get in - I have all three GC2, and SoASE - hopefully that gives me a decent shot. I hope being on these forums counts for something - would suck for someone to get invited to alpha who had bought a lot of the other games but wasn't following EWOM....with so man

Now getting new essence when you levelled up I could totally dig. That would correspond to unlocking "partitions" of magic as you gained skill and did research. I just don't like the idea of recharging (even if it is slow) or getting more in any mundane way. As a rare quest reward, possibly.

I have seen a lot of threads that appear to be posting to, because they keep showing as having unread topics (and jumping up the list of topics) but I show zero replies. Also depnding on the thread I post to, sometimes it goes in and sometimes it doesn't - even posts I submitted yesterday are not in the threads. Just wondering will the rollback delete posts back to the rollback, or will the data be maintained and just the code rolling back?

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At 44 respondents, some things have changed, among which camp 3 made a move! It's now the top "camp" choice! 1. Please respond to how strongly you favor each of the features discussed in Elemental: Internal discussions made external. Higher scores for what you like, medium scores for neutral and low scores for dislikes. Camps are listed first and then broken down into feat

A few questions I would like to pose on resources.... Should an iron mine ever play out? The mine startw with a set amount of iron and can eventually be depleted. Maybe a minor spell could reveal the total amount available. I personally like the idea, but it isn't anything I would get to worked up about either way. Should resources come in different qualities? Not just the total amount of resource that is there, but the amount of resource it can produce at a base level. Some m

I'd be wearing your stone proof armor before making any suggestions that EWOM be morphed into a RTS in any way, shape, or form.

Another idea for the UPB's - you could make some levels introduce new unit types. A level 1 barracks could make only unarmored combatants with a weapon only, level 2 could train armored units, level 3 could train mounted units... In fact you could make levels 1-3 the recruit level, 4-6 the higher skilled versions of the same units, and 7-9 the highest you could train. Level 10 could give a modest additional bonus to all unit types.At even the highest level of training, they should sti

If you tried to make a beast of burden out of a dragon, first he would eat whatever resource you were trying to make him haul, yes even ore, then he would eat the channeler silly enough to think of such a thing.

Being out of essence != no magic. So thorwing out a scenario where everyone runs out of essence (we have no idea if that is even remotely possible) but even if they did you still gots mana, you would only be limited from the most powerful spells that do use essence To me, essence is equivalent to the queen in a game of chess. If only one player loses the queen, it doesn't mean the game is over for that player, ESPECIALLY if the queen was well spent in taking other pieces before being

A TBS in an hour....wow there must be turn timers or something. I have played with people that an hour would DEFINITLEY limit the game to 10 turns or less unless there is a 1-minute-to-take-your-turn limit![e digicons]:time:[/e]

Szadowsz, You have almost perfectly described what I have been trying to describe in various posts. There are just a couple of nits I would like to pick (all in the 2nd section) Upgrading of UPBs should increase the training level that they can provide, not increase the number of units they produce per turn. i.e. a level 1 building produces a unit with a given amount of xp, raw recruits, a level 2 provides more xp, creating average recruits, 3 skilled recruits, 4 highly skille

[quote who="Ynglaur" reply="8" id="2238031"]And here I thought Denryu meant "Troll" in some ancient tongue... [/quote] It means electric dragon in Japanese actually. He is actually a dark blue dragon with golden eyes that uses electricity as his breath weapon...Been my online persona for as long as there has been in interweb...

The beloved "worker" concept art! Vastly improved by Landisaurus! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

I like everything except for point #3. I do not believe "factories" should be able to convert UNLIMITED amounts of NR to MR. That just seems silly. That would mean you could just stockpile tons of NR and then in one turn create MR only limited by the amount of NR you had on hand. Most of the rest of your concept is quite good, but this item would have to go or I would hate it. Each factory needs to be limited to how much MR it can create (could be increased with upgrades) but having them do u

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2237359"] And not to be a pain, but could you shed a little light on whether LAN/Hotseat/PBEM multiplayer will be available? You made a lot of people concerned in your getting back to Elemental post. LAN almost certainly. Hot seat maybe. PBEM, not sure yet. [/quote] Thanks! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]