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[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="111" id="2882265"] ... What? Sure they are not always needed, but how do the other options force them on people (unless the API for Elemental requires it)?[/quote] Python is object-oriented. Lua is procedural. Python dictates (ie: forces you to use) a specific object-oriented model, whereas Lua doesn't. Some projects are better written procedurally, rather than using objects - and vice-versa. Lua gives you the power to do both.

I'm going to go w/ recommending Lua. Lua easily integrates into C++. Its faster. It doesn't force objects onto you (objects are nice, but not always necessary). Finally, its easier to understand.

1.1 was pretty stable. I didn't have any crashes, nor were there any major bugs that stopped a game for me. I didn't notice as many OOM errors on the forum either for 1.1. I do find the vanilla game somewhat empty - but the mod community fixed that with ACP, Weapon Mod, and Extended Factions. Murteas Grimoire made the start game more magical by not requiring me to research to gain my first usable spells. The most recent is a beta patch. There

[quote who="kryo" reply="21" id="2877436"] The onus to do this shouldn't be on the user. Never mind that you have to be online to enable offline mode in the first place, so it's useless if you experience an unplanned connectivity loss.[/quote] If you're offline, steam auto starts in offline mode. I've never had Steam crash a game from a loss of connectivity while playing.

[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="14" id="2876979"] It doesn't turn itself off when I stop playing the game, I don't like that. Always pinging its homebase even when I'm not playing. I hate that.[/quote] Steam->Go offline. No more pinging the home-base. After you're done playing, kill Steam w/ the game. Its two extra clicks. I'll never get the argument against Steam. Steamworks is about the only DRM that works for the user: it stores all my

[quote quoting="post"] I am close to a victory with approx 15 cities and only 1 empire to quell,I have played for about 6 hours solid on this game, but now when I click end turn nothing happens. No error messages, nothing I just will not go to the next turn. Should I ask for my money back or is there a simple solution? [/quote] This used to be an auto-explore bug which may still exist. Navigate through your units, cancelling auto-explore/moving them manually un

[quote who="impinc" reply="7" id="2874961"] Quoting HsojVvad, reply 6Oh I do have one problem with Elemental. When I click end of turn, I am waiting and waiting, for my turn. The reason why I wait? Because it goes so fast, I don't even realize that it went by. So far in the begining of the game as soon as you hit end of turn, it is so fast, not like in Civ V and other games where you wait 20 seconds or more between turns. 1 second inbetween turns is so nice and makes the game go faster.<

[quote quoting="post"] I at this point am finding it extremely boring and one dimensional (build up Sov get best weapon clean house) rinse repeat. [/quote] If you know you can win this way, why not try another? For example, in MOM you could rush paladins every game, if winning was the only thing you cared about. I think the point of a strategy game is to find new, notable ways to win. Your best bet is to go to the mods and download a few of those, notably

If you want it to be building: Start by looking at the KindomSpecialImprovements.xml. Within the file, check out the Temple of Essence. If you want it to be a resource (ie: like a gold mine) check out Heavenfall's mod here where he creates a resource that spawns on the map: https://forums.elementalgame.com/398720 Also recommended, which will eventually have tutorials on pretty much anything you'd want to do (Heav

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="4" id="2864755"]Hmm... you're right. All I know is the problem, not what's causing it. Anyway, if noone else has this problem it could be I'm just imagining things.[/quote] I don't think you're imagining it. In another post, Frogboy said that the land one which the fertile land spawned was a problem. I think in that case, the fertile land spawned on a Swamp, making it impossible to build on.

[quote who="yankeefox" reply="25" id="2864126"]Reading another thread gave me an idea, are you rushing adventure tech? Becuase it seems based on reading another thread that world monster difficulty is tied to your adventure level. Not sure if that is based on an early version though. And personally I think that is a bad way to determine the world monster level.[/quote] Yep, monster difficulty is based on the world's adventure level. The more players that r

[quote who="yankeefox" reply="4" id="2864124"] horses?, there are horses in this game? Are you sure?[/quote] Ha. They do seem awful rare. Usually, I play kingdom to find wargs and play empire to find horses. Lost libraries are really rare for me, but I see them every once in awhile.

I don't think there is a way. Everything seems to affect next turn - not current turn. For example, I can take away the unit's next turn or even lower their overall AP next turn (by reducing combat speed by a multiplier), but I don't see any way to set an AP cost. I think such a tag is necessary for both abilities and spells.

Novice.

To help mitigate rushing, use Murteas' Grimoire . It gives each player the ability to summon a defensive unit that can't move from its home base. The AI makes use of it, effectively making you at least level up heroes before trying to take on the capital city. It'll also give sovereign's with the combat magic a level 0 combat spell that I've seen them pop off often, Having a guy with 14 attack and 6 defense at the

[quote who="Kestral2040" reply="66" id="2862548"] They don't make Suikoden figures! [/quote] Which is sad. I enjoyed the Suikoden series far better than most of Square's games, the second one being my favorite. I would really, really like to see a story and characters as strong as 2, with the tactical battles of 3. Could such a thing be done, I'd declare it the best game ever made in a heartbeat. Favorite game of all time: Chrono Trigger wins for me hand

I think people are misreading. The OP says his unit had ~400/400 where the hermit had 100 defense. It'd be interesting to know the hermit's dexterity/dodge stats. However, why leave a final battle to Auto-Resolve? Its always been a little off. Take the extra couple of minutes to do a tactical battle, surround your sovereign and have him blast the dang hermit with spells.

[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="33" id="2862815"]Updated for ease of installation and to remove some weirdness with updating. Now no core files need to be moved.[/quote] Thank god for that. I'll give it a try now. I always hate to move about core files.

[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="14" id="2862031"] Batman fanboys.[/quote] Only a superman fanboy would post this.

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="107" id="2860490"] Ironically, Neverwinter Nights was originally going to be released as a set of mod tools only, but Bioware reasonably feared that it wouldn't sell without some sort of campaign, so the single player game was basically thrown together at the last minute using the mod tools they had developed.[/quote] Well, that would have been dumb for multiple reasons. The major one being that without a ready-made game, only modders would have

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="96" id="2860425"] Wasn't Civ 5 a critical and commercial success? I fucking hope one day I fail like that. Brad, be careful, this Jon guy might cause your future games to fail by being a critical and commercial success! The end of Stardock is nigh! /end fucking stupid nerd-rage rant.[/quote] Hee!

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="49" id="2860179"]So to the heart of the OP's beef...What's the dealio with Jon Shafer and Civ5? Why did Jon leave Civ5 series for Elemental? Was Jon not happy over there? I am quiting my job of 16 years simply because I no longer enjoy it. I no longer believe my management. Actions speak louder than words, it does not take a rocket scientist to match actions to words and when they do or they don't match - draw your conclusions.&n

Awesome. I was hoping you would do this.

[quote who="glucero0" reply="22" id="2860024"] Brad, that may be totally true, but I personally couldn't care in the list about an extensible, moddable game. I want a good game and Elemental is a lousy one. The campaign is awful and the rest of the game is disappointing. [/quote] Ha. Insanity reigns. Neverwinter Nights would have failed, had it stood on its campaign alone. What made it a success was that it was highly extensible and modifiable. <

[quote quoting="post"] Not anymore. I will not buy any other game that this person touches. [/quote] Shafer was a well respected modder of Civilization before he was ever hired. He worked on Civ IV and its expansion packs. Civ 5 isn't the best game in the series, but it is still fun to play.