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[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="2" id="2623373"]The more I play games, the more I think music and sound are the most important part for immersion in a game. Even before visuals. Will there be "contextual" sounds and music ? Like you have lost a huge battle and your ennemies start taking your cities oe after another and the music score change for a dark composition. [/quote] Well music is not important in the game because after all I can ply my own but unit and backround

This is the worst game I've ever Pla.....Oh wait wrong forum :) You guys are doing the right thing. Every game developer should be doing this. So please tell your marketing department to shut thier pie-holes and stay out of the development of the game before they ruin it as have happened with other game companies. If this game is anything like GALCIV 2 or AGE of Wonders/ MOM then it will be great just as log as you keep the non-gamers (marketing) out of it. Perhaps make them ser

How about Epic quest like, A mysterious portal has opened up in your kingdom and either a mysterious gas/fog is coming from it that affects the land around it or dangerous creatures are coming out of the gate creating havoc with the peacful country side etc. And you have to send in a party to invistigate. And of coarse there could be all sorts of baddness on the other side (can be really creative on this.) Maybe the heros discover that there is a possable invasion about to happen through the

I do. As do I. In some games (like Age of Wonders) the campaign is much more challenging and fun then regular scenarios since in the campaign the developers made sure to put hard challenges on the hardest difficulty while the regular scenarios may or may not be challenging. However, the campaign is only good for 2 playthoughs if there's no alternative paths and such. [/quote][quote who="LDiCesare" reply="106" id="2607244"]Cities should produc

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="106" id="2607244"]Cities should produce citizens of the race that inhabits them. But if there are many races and you must design your own units, then you have to design one more unit per race you conquered. Which means more work and micromanagement, as you have to design units yourself. So it would probably be best to reduce the number of races to a minimum. [/quote] Actully this is what I would love to do. To beable to design my own troops out of th

[quote who="AlphaLegion" reply="29" id="2604783"]please leave it to the modders to make races, playing against custom races sucked in GalCiv, preset races/factions are much funner. [/quote] Playing against custom races was great in GalCiv2 not sure why you think other wise. Perhaps you did not know how to make custom races so you did it poorly. The most fun that my frinds and I have had in that game was playing with and agienst the custom races.

[quote who="AlphaLegion" reply="28" id="2604779"]Please keep it the way it is, GalCiv 2 was awesome everyone loves making their own race, but the other races had depth to them and i often played as them to get a feel for a certain style of gameplay. Now i don't mean to be rude or anything but i do not want a bunch of Avatars, Necrons, and who knows what in my games, i preffer to play game against factions preset by you guys and possibly using a faction i've twisted around a li

[quote who="Ugrok" reply="22" id="2604750"]Am i the only one to think that if people choose custom factions over premade ones, it's because the premades ones aren't appealing enough ? Maybe it would be better to work on improving the premade factions so that people choose them thinking "wow, a slave master draconian blood spitting faction, how cool !" ? In Gal Civ 2 i loved to play the pre made factions/races, because, well, destroying the galaxy with your drengin psychotic furred

[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="5" id="2604588"]How would this change affect the campaign? [/quote] Does it really matter? I mean how many really play the campaign that comes with TBS games? I know I rarely do unless I can play it with custom races. If the campaign has to take a hit in order for use to have good customi

Outstanding. This is excatly what I wanted to hear. Good work guys

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="74" id="2609195"] A lot of good ideas come from the limitations imposed on us though. And just because those limiations are removed doesn't mean we should abandon the idea as being "out dated". We're abandoning the idea because I don't like them. [/quote] Are you saying your abandoning the planes idea because you don't like them are are you refering to something else? Personally The more planes or other maps so as to buil

[quote who="drakkheim" reply="69" id="2605425"]Oh and incidentally Master of Magic is now for sale from the excellent fellows at GOG.com for a princely sum of a cup of starbucks. $6 [/quote] I think I'll stick with my Age of Wonders and Age of Wonders:SM. I find those games more entertaining than MOM. But Don't get me wrong MOM is a good game after all they are similar.

[quote who="Fimbul" reply="48" id="2498429"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 34 Re planes. Planes were in those early games because of the memory limit. We don't have that memory limit. 640k is long gone. Bigger maps. Are bigger maps then better? I love AoW:SM, it wouldn't be as good if the maps will be 3 times as big as now but without Underground and Shadowrealm. You need so much time to cross and conquer a huge ma

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="175" id="2607943"] No reason to be sorry, Pigeon. I agree with you on everything but me being "in the minority". Go back and count all the replies to this thread alone and you'll see it's more like 50-50 at this point. Aside from that I agree mostly with what you say. I still want some customization though. But see, you have to take into account the demographic. If Stardock were making a game meant solely to appeal to the people that are

[quote who="ikros" reply="51" id="2606221"]I think customization is important, but not on the art side. It's stats and abilities that are important to customize. I don't care if my custom faction has blue armor or red, I care if they have +1 attack or +5. In GC2 I've spent about 2 hours building cool little ships and 200 hours playing through races with different customized stats. Customizable art assets are cool but don't necessarily add longevity. So for the art/l

[quote who="Ryan Hanson" reply="30" id="2606156"]From the perspective of a semi-casual gamer without a ton of time, put my vote down for focusing on making interesting, distinct, and developed pre-made factions that are fun to play as and against. Some customization is ok but the emphasis should be on having solid pre-developed races that players are encouraged to play. One of my minor pet peeves with Stardock games is the multitude of options you have when you start a game;

I agree that customization is more important than story for this game. I am looking for a game to replace Age of Wonders Shadow Magic. Played that game for years and customized many maps, units, Etc. But was not able to create new races which I would have love to do like I can with Galactic Civ 2. I am hoping that this game will make customization easy and fun without having to go to a bunch of sites to look up how to mod the game. Personally I could care less about the lo

[quote who="Raven X" reply="14" id="2606112"] That all sounds good, But, (granted this probably isn't likely) what if Elemental is huge flopping failure and doesn't sell well? What would be the draw of buying or making expansions? I'd rather them add as much as they can to the base game and then Expand the Storyline in Expansions. To me a "Expansion" should continue the storyline. If the Expansion Pack for Dragon Age hadn't continued the story I doubt I would have

I'm for more races and the ability to create our own races. More customization across the board should be one of the most important elements to keep in mind. A game without or very little customization grows stale quickly

Yes Civ 4 has these but it is still the best Civ game out. And the Fantasy mods for CIV 4 Orbis is simply awsome

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="25" id="2566815"]King Bounty Gold is in the RPG category on the Impulse store http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W372 You are the leader of an army. Your stats increase and you can equip item. It is more a RPG than a TBS game, especially with all the stories and quests. [/quote] It's a combo of both. My favorite Fantasy TBS to date ie Age Of Magic:Shadow Magic no other game in this genra except

Personally I like this feature but then I have alwaysed liked the game Magic the Gathering

I'm partial to the Term Star Fleet :)

[quote who="Raven X" reply="20" id="2445645"] Quoting Tasunke, reply 19 I'm sure being a super conservative American is fun ... I don't think there's anything fun about being conservative except maybe laughing at the poor people as most conservatives tend to be rich. They're conservative because they don't want to loose their money. [/quote] WoW that is the biggest pile of BS that I've heard yet. I think we really need to explore

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="19" id="2445622"]Oh don't get me wrong, im sure being a super conservative american is fun ... but I would also like to play a Sword of Truth mod. mainly, a small continent of Magic Users vs Emperor jagang's ruthless horde of millions, who wish to wipe magic from existence. [/quote] I'm sure it w