While I'm not happy with the idea of a mini-game which influences research and such, I'm actually kind of fond of the idea of a "gambling" mini-game with gold in the pot. As long as the pot is relatively small, I don't think there's much harm in that. Otherwise I'd be happy with a small Tetris or Bejeweled game to pass the time.
At this point, I barely am able to cast a spell before I murder everyone else's sovereign. Or I get murdered. I wish they toned down AI aggressiveness a tad so I can make it to mid game.
[quote who="Luckmann" reply="51" id="2557861"]I am sorry. I have to say this. Every time I see the second concept art image, all I'm seeing is a dead man-horse with blue jeans and blonde hair.[/quote] Lol You aren't the first person to think this. Maybe I should alter the original art.
(My art skills are the suxors right now. I'll have to make something later) [GAMEPLAY] Planets and Gameplay It's been a while since I posted, and I wanted to show you guys what I'm looking at right now. Today I started playing around with Python. It's an extremely easy language. So easy I sort of did a "proof of concept" planet generator. You type in the inputs and it tells you the coloni
[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="20" id="2551235"] Quoting MagicwillNZ, reply 19In response to this, I actually captured a Elemental AAR... You simply throw the pokeball on the ground, the Elemental AAR appears and they fight.[/quote] What type is a Elemental AAR? Grass? Fire?
I've never been a fan of westerns, but I could definitely see this as being fun. [quote who="Tasunke" reply="2" id="2552366"]Give everyone magical powrs[/quote] I'm pretty sure Orson Scott Card wrote a book with exactly this premise. I could be wrong.
In response to this, I actually captured a Elemental AAR... unfortunately, I can't figure out how to convert the files and such.
I tend to think a lot of anime has very similar visual cues. It's not so much that Gene Simmon's son plagiarized. It's that he's not good.
I don't mind humor. Even the darkest settings should have a little humor, because that's something that's pervasive in human nature. Pop culture references, however, do break immersion.
Click and drag?
Though I think this idea is generally good, it does give particular advantage to people who happen to spawn nearby several food sources. In order for this to work, you have to make it prohibitively expensive to have more than, say 3 towns with considerably less benefit. Beyond a certain point the production of the town should become so expensive per-unit that the town has to get scrapped.
Hmm... that reminds me. I wanted to do an AAR on dom 3. Maybe I should work on that.
Everything looks great. Little disappointed by the lack of hemmorraging from the ears, though.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="16" id="2545336"]I hate Hexes. I know I'm in a minority on this. Consider this: It takes just as many turns to take the red path as the white path. The closest distance between two points should be a straight line. With Hexes, that's not necessarily the case. I know squares have their own issues too but that particular issue with hexes always drives me crazy. There are certainly some tactical benefits to hex
I don't like this idea. While I do like the idea of governors, all I can really see coming out of this is players spamming heroes to make their governors. I'd rather just make cities past a certain point an economic liability. I'm a big believer in the bell curve
Wow, just wow. I cannot wait to start playing around with this stuff!
[quote]Modders can create their own 3D models in whatever program they want and then export it to Havok’s format.[/quote] This is extremely good news!
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="481" id="2543712"]As far as I can tell the dollar is nowhere near as bad as the Euro. Probably has something to do with the productivity of our free-market economy. Well, freer than Europe's at least. And also, I wonder how much spending we could cut if we ditched such entitlements as Social Security and MediCare?[/quote] How much money would we save by ditching vampiric government contractors? What the government needs is budget refor
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="21" id="2543877"] Just tell us what we can do, we humble people from outside of North America, to convince Firaxis/2KGames to sell it through Impulse without regional limits. Or cannot Impulse have a "Desperate to purchase" option in which you can buy a game not of your region paying your local price instead of the cheaper Impulse price? (Or have Stardock stablish a "Stadock gifts you a game not of your region that you pay us for". Not everybody has bu
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="479" id="2543568"]Oh, you mean Eurosocialists like Greece, Italy, and Poland who have such huge debt and deficits it's going to seriously mess with the Euro? Yeah, great idea.[/quote] People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
[quote who="pslblog" reply="13" id="2543346"] OK, you've never actually met a real infantryman, let alone been near one in the field. I'm not an infantryman, I learned I'm a really good sailor and a quite bad infantryman (photo is of me in a Navy uniform...as a dirt sailor...long story). One of my problems with being a soldier is that I'm used to bathing at least every week or so and real soldiers go well over a month. [/quote] It is, as we in the buisiness
I remember reading all those Fighting Fantasy adventure books. Those were a hell of a lot of fun. I'm not sure how much we need them in Elemental... I think we can do better. We already have a robust adventure system in the works and we should take advantage of it. Also, if people wanted to play a text adventure, they'd... well, play a text adventure!
[quote who="docbates7" reply="2" id="2542563"]For similarities to Norse Ragnarök, See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k For painful similarity to the Dragonlance series/world. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance[/quote] Hmm... I don't feel comfortable judging someone's labor of love... based on... well, so little. Can't people hold back just a little, seeing as we've seen just vague and tiny portions of the lore of which app
Hexes are nice, but the inability to form right angles is sort of angering. It's a major strategic weakness when every other unit in a square or line formation is exposed to x3 the contact area of a neighbouring unit. This is mostly why I prefer squares. A few table top games allow units to occupy half-hexes but I've never seen this in a computer game. EDIT: That's a pretty looking game... what game is that?
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="1" id="2542769"]Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude....................... whatever you did to do that must have a cheat key in the final game............................... MagicWillNZ, I think we have our Dark Republic cloth map....[/quote] Yes, yes we do... Oh man, after a whole week of frustratingly trying to make a nice looking holotiles... how to make the same effect 2d is the challenge now, ma