A morality tale? I must say that it's different sort of post! I would print it off and read it to my children but I don't have any children. However, it is very well written, well done.
By removing tactical combat and you might as well remove unit creation and that is a key feature of the game. I like the tactical combat in strategical games as it provides a more complete experience. It is true that at the moment it is a little simple but with a little balancing and AI tweaks it could be quite acceptable
Do you realise how difficult or what is involved to program a random map generator that produce maps that are realistic and playable? Just try it with only 2 terrain types - water and land. Say you want a map with one third water and two thirds land. You can not just look at each square and random generator because you will end up with chess board type maps. So you need to be random in a specific areas to create islands and bodies of water. That is just 2 terrain types. Stardo
[quote who="dawgs4ever" reply="17" id="2725957"]That could work - so long as there was a relatively decent cost and production time for the upgrade (certainly shouldn't be free). It wouldn't be 100% of the new unit cost, but defrayed by a % based on the original unit cost and possibly by the amount of xp the unit has gained (higher lvl units cheaper to retrain - but they revert to lvl 1 upon being retrained because they're new to that equipment and/or squad size). I think that wou
You could have a re-train building. A unit returns to a town with this building and it allows the unit be converted to unit type that have been upgraded. Space Empires IV had something similar with the retrofit option but that had some additional rules to stop an abuse (something about converting a Ship with 50% different components)
I joked with my friend that the best copy protection is to release a good game broken. There is a joke about me winning the lotto? I am waiting for that to come true [e digicons]:D[/e]
I noticed this post this morning: https://forums.elementalgame.com/391280 A simple introduction but you maybe looking for more
I am missing something...why do you keep regenerating the map? Have you finished a game already that you need to start again? Most of these 4x games take a while to complete, usually days. This looks like a major complaint so stardock will atleast release a bunch of seeded maps and that should be available in the next update. That will keep most people busy until the they get to looking a random map generator. I agree that a random map generator is require as exploration is part of ga
Out of interest, is there a downloadable manual? It would be nice to read it before i get home and install the game
This is the funniest thread I have read all day!!! When GDP was mentioned I thought I was going to split my pants. There are people complaining about the price of a computer game like it’s the price of a pint of milk or bread. [quote who="Sareln" reply="22" id="2714866"]We should never forget that video games are a luxury good [/quote] You are correct and if someone thinks the game is not value for money then do not buy it. You will not go hungry or not hea
In general, most turn based 4x games are limited at the beginning because the options are not available yet. These open up due to research or building certain structures. I have not played the Element beta's but I can predict that the first turn will be simple and something like move your only unit, build a building/unit and select your first research project. However, things generally snowball after but as mentioned its turn based (better than RTS, IMO) you can spend as long as you w