Vladesch

[quote who="VermillionChaos" reply="86" id="2672378"]If I wanted to play Civ like psychoak seems to want to, I would go buy Civ. [/quote] Being different for the sake of it isnt smart. Its one of the arguments that people used to use on the Hellgate forums for various unpopular parts of the game when it was compared to diablo. (Stat feed for example, if you didnt like it then you should go back to diablo) I still think a simple tweak that would va

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="10" id="2671674"]And forcing all multi-player games onto official servers where you can bet they verify accounts is not zero DRM either[/quote] It is not generally conssidered DRM to have an account and a password that you use to log on. [quote]The term does not generally refer to other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented w

[quote who="Suunman" reply="20" id="2601411"]there is a total conversion mod for Civ 4 which is fantasy magic based - it's called fall from heaven - i haven't tried it to be honest i just downloaded it and was thinking of installing civ 4 to check it out. [/quote] Do it. It is very very good, and effectively a new game from the original. You have units that can cast spells, for exmple fireball, invisibility, enchant weapon. Religions aren't generic.

Nothing particular to note. Sovreign was just out in empty land scouting around. Though I did found my fourth city a turn or two previously. http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/info0_805-2010-07-04T16-03-17-772.zip # Archive F:\tmp\info\info0_805-2010-07-04T16-03-17-772.zip <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: courier new,cour

I find I can usually get it to load by waiting, but last night I got to a stage where I was waiting for a long time and time after time it would hang. However after rebooting my PC it went back to loading properly.

At the beginning I can load a game, but after Ive been playing, and then quit back to the maini menu, I cant load a game. I need to quit out of the program and relaunch to load a game. Would be nice if we didnt have to do that :P

I think an overall improvement would be to take longer to build the buildings. This would to some extent force people to make decisions rather than just build everything. Also spend less time (maybe even none?) stagnating with nothing to build. Another idea I had as a possible compromise between 1 garden and lots, would be to have the ability to upgrade garden with certain techs, or possibly for your garden to produce an extra food (or more) with the discovery of certain techs. <

Hmm, I still have the save game, so let me check... Yes it is in fact very buggy. here's what I noticed... I moved my sovreign/pioneer 2 stack into an area of open ground with nothing nearby. If I had my pioneer selected, the create city button was grayed out, and mouseover would tell me im too close to another city (which I wasnt, nearest city was at least 15 big squares away) If I selected my sovreign, it let me do create city, however

Yes, this is discussed further here... https://forums.elementalgame.com/386332

Just moving my sovreign on the map this time. Nothing special happening. I was just exploring what seemed to be a pretty empty area. Heres the dump files, savegames, and info about my PC. http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/infol0_805-2010-07-03T23-26-30-884.zip

In the following saved game... http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/test01.EleSav I gave the sovreign and a pioneer together in a stack. If I move them to 1 SW of the ogre camp and found a city, it then tells me that my sovreign has escaped badly wounded. [edit] my previous analysis of the problem was wrong, See my post below for a correct analysis of the problem.

Here is another one. This happened when I was getting info on "sages" in the technology research window. Not sure if it was when I clicked on sages or when I was closing the encyclopedia window. (Sorry my memory sucks) http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/infol0_805-2010-07-03T20-01-51-138.zip

I just started a third game, and it put me a couple of squares away from a fertile ground. Also about 5 squares away were a fruit grove, a metal deposit and a clay pit. Then about 12 squares away there was another clump of resources, namely an old growth forest, a beehive, an oasis and an ogre village, and Ive just founded a second city there. Im using the fertile ground with an imperial farm, and almost grown the town next to the fruit grove, so its gone from too hard

I have included the dump files, 2 autosave files, and directx and other info about my PC. Id make a clickable link but the forums dont seem to want to let me. http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/infol0_805-2010-07-03T19-17-27-487.zip

I have played 2 games so far up to learning about 25 techs, and explored the enitre continent, and I have yet to find this "fertile ground" resource people speak of. In my second game I discovered I could blow 1 essence and cast a restore garden spell, which let me build a "wild garden" which pretty much solved my food problems for my entire empire. I thought the maps were fixed, but perhaps the resources are random? Shrug. Maybe Ive just been unlucky to find ZERO fertile grou

By fertile ground, Im assuming you mean a special resource on the map? (and not revived land, cos I tried that and couldnt build farms on it) Ive yet to see any fertile ground in my wanderings, unless its hidden or not marked. I must say I really dont like the idea of having to find a special resource or spend essence just to grow my cities normally.

Surely I must be missing something, but Ive tried 2 games now, one as empire and another as kingdom, and they both go the same way. I build a garden in my city, which then lets me build a house. Now my city can grow to level2. However now I cant build any more gardens, so no more houses, and my city is stuck. I can build another city and build a garden in that, which lets me build another hut in my first city, but then Im stuck again. I want to test this

This is a renamed autosave that I got just before the program CTD'd for no apparent reason. I am unable to load this save game. It either hangs the program when I try and load it, or it gets into the splash movie as it loads and keeps on playing it and never stops. Here is a URL to the savegame giving problem. Im sorry I cant link it but the forum seems to be preventing me for some reason. http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/savegame01.EleSav

[quote who="AngeloBraz" reply="15" id="2668647"]Those who think the release date is too early and only want a 2011 release, they can buy it in 2011, with all patches/mods, while letting other people choose to buy the game 2 months from now.[/quote] The problem with that is that it will get reviewed by gamespot etc, judged poorly and then that bad review will damage all future sales. This is exactly what happened with demigod, which was badly broken for multiplay

I had the game just close without any message and exit to the desktop. I'd only been in int a short time, but I noticed that I was being nagged to install the latest adobe reader patch, so I suspect that is what caused Elemental to crash abruptly. Another error I came across was when I tried to load a save game. It went into the movie as the game was loading, but then just got stuck. thee movie kept playing, finished and then started again. Nothing I could do could get

When you choose a build for one city, it would be nice to be able to click on another city and automatically be in the build screen for that city, instead of having to "done", "nest-cityname", "build-tab", "build". In fact it would be better still if you had the option to do it like civ, ie when the city finishes a building, it automatically goes to that city's build menu and prompts you for what to build. Thus replacing 4 mouse clicks with 0.

[img]http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/Elemental_1276760371.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.users.on.net/~vladesch/Elemental/Elemental_1276760385.jpg[/img] My other cities seemed to be displaying ok. Everything seemed ok, except for this display glitch.