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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2671811"]Not sure if sea monsters will make it in or not. We have sea monsters (the assets) but there's no code behind it. As for the monsters attacking each other, so what I did is that IF they're monsters of a different type, they'll be randomly inclined to attack one another based on the intelligence of the species (higher level ones are not inclined to attack other creatures unless it's part of its other objectives such as leveling up o

[quote who="diamondspider" reply="267" id="2669162"] Frogboy comment 264 Someone asked earlier the difference between public and private betas.That's a long answer.The short answer is, in the public version, you guys just finally got horses. In the private build, they're already riding Wargs.It's about the AI, man. People poo poo this stuff but it matters. Can't put this stuff out there without at least basic AI knowledge or it might as well be a tech demo. Sucky AI

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="259" id="2668908"] (and for info: even in AoW2 I must care for my level 30 champions for, oh yes, they are mortal! And I know it too well since I'm at half the campaign these days) [/quote] I just had my 30 level Hero with 20 in all stats killed by 6 stacks of 1 thru 3 (and two 4th level units) this morning in AOW:SM. Damn AI jumped me while I was liberating his cities from his evil Life like ways, Damn the Archons.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="246" id="2668798"] Overpowered champions and sovereigns that can take on huge numbers of regular troops sounds perfect to me. As long as the game's AI is horrible, yea. But it's not so fun when it happens to you. I mean, good grief guys, we had people screaming because there were tough creatures spawning in their starting locations and those creatures don't even target anyone in particular yet. It would be a riot if

[quote who="Nathikal" reply="207" id="2667939"]Peoples were going on about army size. So I'll say this. Age of Wonders did it in a very clunky way. If a battle started and you were RIGHT NEXT to one particpant, you'd join in. Battles were autodone and thus happened in a second, which kinda sucked for team battles. Cities were easier - you could put your units into allied cities (to attack, you'd have to take the center of the city, while the 'outskirts' were free for you, or

[quote who="diamondspider" reply="164" id="2667605"] Raven X comment 163 That's why You can End the Battle Any Time YOU Want. If you don't want to play through those long battles, YOU don't have to . Just hit Auto Calculate which you'll be able to do at ANY TIME. See what I'm getting at here?There's No Need to gimp the game for those of us who DO want to play through the long battles when those who don't want too don't have too. As I've said, I beli

[quote who="Raven X" reply="137" id="2667538"] Like I said in another thread the other day, if this isn't Done Right the First Time then Elemental will get Bad Reviews and it will be tanked by gaming sites before it ever really has a chance to get off the ground. No Matter What I DON'T want that to happen and I doubt anyone else here does either. We ALL want Elemental to succeed and be the next Successor to the Legend that is MoM. Even Age of Wonders, though it was a Great Game, di

[quote who="lwarmonger" reply="89" id="2667233"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 14 Obviously you guys have been working on it for a while and are better judges, but a 2-3 minute battle seems less than tactical. As long as there's enough opportunity for beneficial unit control (meaning, not just charge the enemy head on), it should be good. I too am very interested in this. 2-3 minute tactical battles would make sense for multi-player, b

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="33" id="2666852"] Quoting VermillionChaos, reply 32 Reply to Markie: Pioneer build time + Escalating cost(which could be adjusted up or down as needed) Imagine that the first is 100, then 100, then 200, then 300, then 500, then 800, then 1100. then 1900, then 3000 (i.e. summation type) This is pretty irrelevant though, since it's only a factor very early o

[quote who="Zawath" reply="12" id="2666757"]3 minutes sounds about right for tactical battles. If they lasted longer, people wouldn't use them in multiplayer. [/quote] 3 minutes is a bit too short for the tactical combats. You can't get anything done in 3 minutes. Well hopefully they will allow us to set the time on the combats

[quote who="ddd888" reply="1" id="2666731"]i like changes to magic system, looks promising and solving various problems reported in past beta im looking forward to try it asap also its very cool to have units(and champions) with special abilities, i loved very much that kind of things in kings bounty and if its going to be similar im very happy [/quote] Kings Bounty was good but AOW did this even better (Had a lot of spec

Well I applaud you for not making the Tactical Battles RTS there are too many RTS games in the market as is. I do have a question, Can we set the Tactical combat to always start no matter how many units are particapating. For me one of the funnest elements of the game is the tactical combat as it was for all the AOW and MOM. Without this I would probably just stick to CIV. And please allows us to scale the lenth of the tactical combat (put a setting that says 'It's over when it

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="74" id="2661313"] A fantasy world with only one race is not very appealing IMO even if they are all fleshed out. Now as long as I can add more races to the existing one then it won't be too bad. Don't tell that to George R. R. Martin, author of the one of the most highly rated and most popular fantasy series of recent years (his HBO series is about to start). In that series, there are only humans factions. The world has dragons and magic aple

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="9" id="2660345"]Whats wrong with lore taking some space up in the manual. Dude the Homeworld Manual kicks ass! [/quote] Homeworld manual was ok because they had information about the game. The lore I could have done without in the manual. An manual should be an instruction guide not a novel. Now you can have a seperated book with the lore or even better have the lore in the game itself that you can read.

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="48" id="2660282"] Quoting Bellack, reply 45 I agree with you. The 'lore' should be in the initial discreiption of the map/campaign and that is it. I really hope in Sandbox mode we are not always on a dying world trying to make it furtal blah blah blah.. I hope to create many different maps with thier own story. Not that the main campaign story is not interesting it's just I don't want every Elemental game I play be the same thi

[quote who="Gorstagg" reply="32" id="2660105"]See, I knew Brad would offer you a refund immediately if your bent out of shape over this. That's the type of guy he is. Your comment talking about a 600 page book being given away for free, as opposed to the author.. receiving payment for their hard work. You clearly, have absolutely no idea what that entails. Writing a book is not a quick buck. And if someone tells you that. They are lying to you. And if yo

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2660048"] Quoting endofdayz, reply 14 The backstory for Elemental is something I've spent the better part of two decades creating. Random House has certainly been helpful in fleshing it out. But to accuse me of selling out or whatever is pretty insulting and frankly unwelcome. If you don't like it, you're free to ignore it. But it has nothing to do with "making a few bucks on the side". So

Look it is clear that his statment is based on what we have seen happen over the years in TBS as well as others. You have TBS games that are released with a campaign that usally is not very good but the Sandbox maps are great. Hence the reason that most people I know and have talked to over the years don't bother with the campaign. Now if Brad can pull of a fun campaign while still keeping a good Sandbox element to the game then this will indeed be a truly unique and fun game.</p

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="8" id="2659655"] Seems people like to put gameplay first over a good story these days, but only century later does seem a bit to fast even with magic i would think 3 centuries would be better fitted unless you want tell us more, just the pace of the beta atm makes it feel like the cataclysm had not much of an impact on the world since you can make it grow green fast. wouldn't be so hard to rebuild in under a century an easy an exam

[quote who="endofdayz" reply="2" id="2659308"]Ignore the lore - its just their attempt to make a few quick bucks on the side by doing what halo and warhammer have. I personally wish there was no "backstory", considering how this is supposed to be a sandbox empire builder... but I guess all companies have thier price. Still have to sigh when I see certain descriptions delayed in the beta because "they are waiting for random house to send them over". Not a good sign.

I'm so sick of game companies not putting out decent manuals these days. A manual should have all the information on how to play the game like what each stat does and how it relates to the unit and game. What the different symbols mean. The advantages and disadvantages of the terrain features. How to create tiles and use them. City management section and all the ins and out of building up a city and what each improvement does. Etc. There should also be a large s

[quote who="Tridus" reply="14" id="2654844"] Quoting pad152, reply 13 Will tactical battles be something like NeverWinter Nights down to the character level or hex based (Kings Bounty)? I think the tactical battle system could make or break the game. Would really like to see a video of tactical battles! Was going to be more realtime like NWN, was recently changed to be tile/turn based. [/quote] Are you talking about t

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="4" id="2650414"]Auto combat/resolve is far from being perfect right now, but don't worry....I am pretty sure that it will be perfected in the upcoming weeks. [/quote] It matters little to me since I will never use auto resolve. What is the point in playing the gamer if you just auto resolve the best part of the game.

Yes I fail to see how it would be difficult to put in Hot seat. Just look at AGe of Wonders. WE are not talking about some damn console split screen thing. Be sides Hot Seat also allows us to play multipule empires at once which I do a lot in TBG that allow hotseat. Yes multipul instalations at home is fine but some of us only have one PC.

Hot seat is a must. I still have hours of fun with Friends playing Hot seat Age of Wonders Shadow magic and Civ. And we just turn away from the screen when someone has to do some diplomancy. Usally we send threats to each other and just have a blast. So Yes please have hotseat in this game I mean after all it is a Turn-based game why wouldn't you have it?