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[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="42" id="2975516"]Regardless of the merits of your arguements, the fact is that this can be easily modified on our end. Really, everyone can be happy. I can't help but feel like this has played a big part in the developers not responding to your many posts about the spell. I was completely serious before when I said that I would remove/tweak it for anyone that wants it that way. I like it, myself, but as a high-level high-cost spell. I&#39

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="15" id="2973187"]Game is going to be stuffed full of Ubisoft DRM sh*t.[/quote]That's a damn shame. These people deserve the money that they're asking, and it's a price I (and most other folks) would be able to afford.

I feel that there's something I should point out: Cloudwalk is a very powerful spell, but its school is not that great. You have to go through three ranks of spells to get to it, and most of them aren't that great. Obviously, it's good enough that this is a worthwhile tradeoff, but in this vein, there's a solution beyond just making it cost a lot. My solution would be to make Cloudwalk the 5th level spell, Tornado a 4th level spell, and bump Escape down to 3rd level. I don&#39

[quote who="Greg30007" reply="60" id="2964659"] Quoting DrJBHL, reply 59Piracy isn't caused by economic inequity. Piracy is caused by greed. Yes, greed. Wanting something so much that you don't care how you get it.[/quote]Alternately, it can be apathy. If it doesn't cost you anything to get something, even the littlest desire can motivate acquisition. After all, why wouldn't you take something that's free?

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="51" id="2964537"]I don't believe that the poor are less likely to steal if pricing was more reasonable. Those who steal non food items (those not hungry) do so for pathological reasons. [/quote]That is a huge oversimplification. There are plenty of necessities that aren't food, stolen money can be used to buy necessities, and non-necessities such as phones and computers can be sold for money. Additionally, pathological theft (kleptomania) is s

This does seem like a perfectly reasonable solution. I don't like the implications of corporations policing their customers at all, but I can't really fault this particular instance.

I'd say waiting for Fallen Enchantress is your best bet. You are too late to get FE free with a purchase of War of Magic, but you would get it heavily discounted, so if you want something to play now then you could get WoM at little penalty. FE is a substantial upgrade but WoM is getting some upgrades which have not been added to FE. Nothing really huge, though. The two don't interact as far as everything I've seen, and I really doubt that they will have any reason to do so.

[quote who="FadedC" reply="10" id="2963052"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 8Release date 27th july, price 15$ on PC. http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/2307/article/from-dust-gets-pc-exclusive-release-on-july-27/ Weird that it's so cheap, it's been in development for a long time and doesn't feel like a low-budget title. Makes me fear for lack of content. Well it seems kind of like a niche game so I'm not so surprised by the low pri

I hope my computer will be able to run it. This looks great. [quote who="4Nana" reply="3" id="2756747"]Interesting. But I'm personally wary after Spore.. it just seems similar, and might look more awesome than it really is.[/quote]Spore was originally more awesome than it eventually ended up being, and was dumbed down because the lead designer thought that would be a good idea to appeal to a broader market. It's a textbook case of the thing people are always afraid of wh

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="47" id="2959655"] There won't be siege battles like these in Fallen Enchantress. We met on sieges early on and came up with a design we liked, ran it through implementation estimations, compared it to other features and it didn't make the cut for FE. We looked at partial/smaller scope implementations, but the big thing is blocking tiles (ie: tiles that you cant ranged attack through, or tiles that can onl

Does it "wank"? Seriously? Is that the most accurate word you could think to use? To answer your question, patch it and play it again, and see if you enjoy it now.

All in all, a lot of good stuff here. [quote quoting="post"] + AI now evaluates which player they care about the most with Dynasty ties being a big motivator. When a sovereign dies, it will give its kingdom to its heir. [/quote]Oh heck yes. Just like that, dynasties have become a thing which matters. I hope this change makes it into FE too, even though that game will have dynasties disabled by default. [quote]+ Repeatable improvements now increase with cost as more are built

I'm a little bipolar on Elemental. Some times I can't wait for FE and am super excited, and other times I just play other games.

[quote who="Grizzyloins" reply="26" id="2947947"] Quoting NorsemanViking, reply 25Yes; Fallen E. first, then improved dynasties and sea stuff, continued AI development and diplomacy improvements. Then some day we will have the best 4x game ever. One that won't be challenged for centuries to come, or at least won't be challenged until Elemental II sees the light of day. Don't forget a supped up revamp on steriods for minor factions (hopefully

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="264" id="2944538"]Yeah, but the beta for FE was going to be released feature-complete, possibly a few weeks before retail. Granted, we don't know when FE is coming out, but I've heard everything from this summer to next year.[/quote]My understanding is that they are planning to have a feature-complete beta, but not necessarily to never have feature-incomplete betas. There will certainly be more than one beta release, after all.

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="6" id="2946331"] “In my spare time I liked to work on games, and I worked on a Civilization IV mod called Fall From Heaven.” Which you left in a messed up state for other people to finish. Ok, you werent paid to see it to completion, and so on, but still, you started something too ambitious for you to finish, and you slinked off instead of cutting features. Seems like Stardock set a task to gather all the second-rate devs. Paxton,

Doesn't seem to be any new information in this one, even between the lines.

There's a start menu analogue at 1:31. Additionally, at 3:08, it switches to normal windows, which to me suggests that this whole thing is just an app environment pasted over Windows 7.

[quote quoting="post"]Unit starts at 2nd level[/quote]Gifted of Memory[quote]A magical breastplate with increased defense[/quote]What, so it's basically just a breastplate+1, no fluff involved? That's no good. If elemental is okay, Stone Torso. If we want to imply a story, Chest of [person or place name, maybe you or someone else in the office has an idea based on how it will be used] [quote]Better name for a Green Dragon[/quote] Son or [Name of historical green dra

[quote quoting="post"]After all, I live in Canton Michigan but work in Plymouth Michigan.[/quote]Do you commute from one to the other using pre-industrial technology?

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="58" id="2945102"] Quoting charon2112, reply 56The more I think about dynasties being cut, the less I like the decision. Dynasties were one of the more original and interesting things about EWoM...the system just needed to be fixed a bit. Like having an heir take over as sovereign after the previous sovereign dies. Ahh, succession. This is a very interesting point, and one we talked about in great depth. You are right tha

How will savage lands interact with terraforming? Will there be terraforming spells that can limit the effects of some of these lands, or even cause wild lands to exist where they previously didn't? That would be awesome, but I know a lot of interactivity is likely to be limited by the variety that these have.

I must say, when I saw the title of this thread I was worried it was something much less avoidable. Thanks for the heads up on this!

I think a sovereign throne as a specific building would be conceptually redundant. It should really be a palace that does that stuff. If it's more like "here are some things that can happen when your sovereign is stationed in the city with the palace" then that would be a better implementation, I think.

I already made my comments on the actual interview at: https://forums.elementalgame.com/408837/page/2/#2940024 Regarding the video: Nice to get a look at some things we hadn't seen before. New Elemental Lords in particular. I do reckon the script was a bit on the cheesy side, though.