Mandelik

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="9" id="2828515"]I've never spent serious time playing a game with multiple mana types, but I liked the idea for Elemental because it sounded like a good way to increase replayability for folks (like me) who tend to stick to one play style but still want new games to play out quite differently than past ones. [/quote] Never played Dominions 3 then? You should! A nice way to make you wait for the future Elemental expansions and bring you lots

What is Diplomatic Capital concept for? Not much currently. What could it be for? A lot! From Frogboy's own words: [quote]I think there’s a lot we can do with this concept as we go forward. It definitely gives diplomacy some teeth, especially when we get into getting various players to declare war on each other.[/quote] and many of us gave detailed descriptions for it as a vital component of the game. Again, here is the official thread about

[quote who="Istari" reply="12" id="2821661"] I don't see why you'd choose this particular event to respond to with displeasure. [/quote] *feeling like Luke in front of the Emperor* *Don't letting hate fill himself!* *cooling off* Ok, I'll reply somewhat more constructively. After all, if I am still on these boards, it's proof that I'm still hoping for the game. [quote who="Istari" reply="12" id="2821661"] I don't see why you'd choose this

I am just fed up. Not against Derek, he just arrived. Against the whole thing: official threads for nothing, marketing ideas to drink the Kool Aid, asking for things that could be found by the hundreds just reading Dom3's or AoW2's paper manual, the sensation that 'they' just don't know what 'they' do, that 'they' just never knew what'they' were doing... Yeah, I could choose one cool spell and do the contest. I won't. I already have a graphics card and the only game I

Dear derek I am sure that you will find here (see link: an official thread!) everything you are looking for. No need for contests when you've got at your disposal such a mine of ideas/suggestions/lists/mechanisms as this forum. It's becoming tiring to see Stardock wanting to look cool by asking time and again the same things. STOP ASKING! You've got all the cards in your hands; now create the game or throw the towel, the customers won't do your job! [e digicons]XO[/e]

To Frogboy: I would have LOVED to beat the dead horse HARD but I shall finally restrain and hope that Derek can adress the many flaws of the game. However I have some underlying question. Since "the engine" seems to be the perfect mute scapegoat for all missing/incomplete features, how shall the future be different? Is it improving fast in capability? Because otherwise it's no use to ask people once again for input/ideas/suggestions. (and honestly, if the engine can't allow fe

I can't see any relationship between the world being barren and the number of resources. Antarctica and most deserts on Earth are barren but are full of mineral and energy resources (and even archeological. Good for Old Libraries and such). A "barren world" for our game should be more in relation with human population, vegetal density and even some 'cursed land' (places like Mordor or the fetid swamps full of corpses in the LotR movies).

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="154" id="2784699"]IMO, you don't "deal with it" by nerfing the stack of doom (in whatever way) but by making the AI create it's own "stack of doom" & use it against the human player' "stack of doom". This is much more interesting to me, also, I might add. [/quote] There were an entire thread dedicated only to the problematic of stacks of doom and how to prevent/circumvent them...but as everything else I suppose all those posts have been l

[quote who="Razgon" reply="21" id="2772460"]For some reason I had two delivered to me in Denmark this week. I only ordered one. Wierd. [/quote] I had a strange case of immediate precognition today. I was just reading a post on another forum saying "Hmm - I just received my second Limited Edition in the mail today." when the postman knocked on my door. I thought "Oh, no!" And, of course, he had in his hands the very same cardboard box that the one

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="121" id="2782322"]Dungeons were originally planned but they had to scrap them during design, Frogboy has stated that he still wants to add dungeons to the game at a later date. [/quote] And meanwhile they are still advertised as being in the game. [e digicons]:-"[/e]

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="111" id="2781776"]I like Stardock and i like the attitude they have toward their customers. But the more i read the threads they open to get feedback, the more i have the feeling they should just not do this. They should sit down, create thier own vision of the game and stick to it. Give feedback on the progress, but dont ask for opinion. You will get just to many to filter in any useable form.[/quote] You kno

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="16" id="2781011"]I once campaigned for a movement trail like they do in HOMM. wouldn't that be nice? [/quote]Or like in AoW too. Or even like in SMAC. I talked about it in Alpha Beta too but...nothing. That reminds me of that motto we had while I was an instructor in the military: "You talk to them, they don't listen. If they listen, they don't understand. </p

[quote quoting="post"] As anyone who has spent time in the military can tell you, one well trained, well armed man is the equal of many many unarmed, untrained men. So the scale of men in battle is significant. ... If you like the Total War series, you can imagine some of what we have in mind except here you can get that Lord of the Rings battle feeling where certain units just make mince meat out of whole squads of enemy units. [/quote] and nowadays [q

[quote who="CelestialBovine" reply="291" id="2774416"]Yes, balancing and resources and all could be adjusted to make it work, but ultimately it's a lot of effort for a mostly visual improvement . I am getting the impression that most fans of Elemental are more concerned with how the game plays, especially in the areas of tactics and entertaining spells/abilities, than they are with making the game more appealing to watch. [/quote] Perhaps it doesn't show in

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="236" id="2773813"]Yeah I remember....but the concept/scale of the game has been changed later on . They've changed other things as well , like the tactical battle system has been changed to turn/tile based from continous turn based. This is what we call "game development" I guess . You can't blame the devs for changing these things. [/quote] I am not afraid to say that I'd rather call it "a dumbing down an

[quote who="wayninja" reply="187" id="2773241"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 140 Yea, we're not going for epic tactical battles. MOM is our influence, not total war. [/quote] Where and when did he say that? Because he was the one who repeated again and again that: - there would be battles with thousands of soldiers - it would be like the opening scene of LOTR with your c

I support Raven X and his fight for epicness. [e digicons]:beer:[/e] [quote who="Tridus" reply="34" id="2771433"]If the mechanics change such that a 1000 guy stack doesn't play the same way as a 12 guy stack, I'll be a lot more interested.[/quote]Of course! And it doesn't have to be real-time or total-war-esque (I never played any TW). They could just adapt the battles Dominions-style but TBS. [e digicons]:drool:[/e] With more and smaller tiles for the battle

Switzerland. Got it yesterday.

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="187" id="2761024"]Shame thanks to the various bitchers and whiners now we will get less info since frogs decided to stop doing as many dev journals. All come some asshats had to jump all over him in the latest ones. And people wonder why the majority of businesses NEVER respond to you on their forums... [/quote] I have read the dev journal that you're referring too: https://forums.el

Ouch! I can't read 242-post threads (even if I just come back from a Front 242 concert! Was mega-cool!)[e digicons]B)[/e] So my 2 cents: - About minors. Why do people want to make minors more like majors? We already have majors. Minors provide more variety and can have very interesting mechanisms. I remember we talked about it in the dev journal when they appeared and also on the Diplomacy thread. (In fact, I fear that these forums become a few never-e

[quote who="James009D" reply="287" id="2752006"]Besides, if your in the business world for real then we both know a majority of people are incompetent and that's a reality of life, lol. They shouldn't get as far as they do but... somehow they still do.[/quote] That has got a name: The Peter Principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="5" id="2748241"]I'm actually doing one last sweep of the internet for our master list...I'll post my findings ASAP. [/quote] That would be great. It's not so about the bugs and crashes (that we know will be adressed sooner than anything else) but the 'missing features' and other improvements.

[quote quoting="post"]Once the initial onrush of new players is through, we'll lighten up on moderation some so that people can advocate or detract to their hearts content. [/quote]Seems like 7 days are not enough to let people "detract to their hearts content": a 3-page thread I was reading just got nuked under my eyes! The OP didn't seem to be so trollish nor the replies so heated that I could think it deserved it. It could have been just locked instead of

As I don’t want to write much by fear of being too flaming/offensive/rude, I’ll just quote : [quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="220" id="2746841"]-First, Brad sold the game in part on the promise that it wouldn't be released early. Reasons he gave include 1) that's how SD works 2) he has other revenue streams so money wouldn't be an issue -Second, when it was announced around the end of June that Elemental would be released in Aug, a number of us beta te

I don't know what the guy smoked to write this. [e digicons]8C[/e] I give Elemental 6/10 now.