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[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="15" id="2870258"](You guys say to spam units and cities? What the hack can I spam if I have no money?)[/quote]I had this problem too when I was starting out - focus your first city primarily on population and gold. Each level bonus should be gold production. That should handle your money problem pretty quickly. Throw in some workshops to deal with material production. Soon, you will have tons of gold, I broaden its focus to also be my main military production

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="51" id="2873323"]I understand the association that some people think that must be between the title and the content. Yet I find it unnecesarily forced.[/quote] A direct association is not necessary. But something indicating it's about the world could be better than something indicating it's about a single entity.[quote] "Elemental: Wild Wild Wildlands"[/quote]The levity in this title is probably excessive for this particular product. [quote]"Elemental: Brave New

[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="48" id="2873307"]Also, guys, I'm really not crazy about the name "Fallen Enchantress." Can we do something about that?[/quote]Now that you mention it, it is pretty bad. I mean, what does it tell us about the game? So some (female) member of one of the Fallen races has access to the Enchantment book. We could easily add a Fallen Enchantress to the game already using the custom sovereign creator.

In the final one, the clipping with that rock and fence in the front doesn't look as great as it could. Putting something tall there would also help with visual balance. Maybe scrap fence and rock both and put a tallish building in that corner? Also it seems like that central main building could have something fancier - maybe get some of those runic patterns like the tent roof has in 2 and 3? Maybe put some additional thing on top of it, but that would have to be taller than the curre

Fixing those first two points is the major focus of FE. Terraforming changes are probably going to be involved to some extent, although maybe not a whole lot. Ocean changes will almost certainly be included, though the degree to which they're included might be unsatisfying. Faction differentiation is something Kael is great at, and is likely something that will happen increasingly as he remains in charge, though as far as I know, it's not a specific focus for the future. Barba

WhiteElk, coding things is a nontrivial pursuit. It is not affordable for Stardock to add things they don't intend to even use. As an aside, "cannon" is a thing that shoots; I beleive you mean "canon".

[quote quoting="post"]Done well explorable dungeons would break from the main game and have the player play a "minigame" for 10/20/30 minutes after which he would be returned to the main game (assuming he remembered what he was doing there).[/quote]But the same could be said for all tactical-level interfaces. If you want to avoid taking away from the strategic at the expense of ground-level gameplay, does that mean that our tactical battles are never going to get more depth? O

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="183" id="2872698"]It's galciv 3, without a doubt. Frogboy has been very open about that before.[/quote]Well, I sort of saw the "game 2" as a generic "anything and everything else we make with Kumquat" and thus supplied a variety of things.

[quote who="McNegro" reply="1" id="2872631"]This is a pretty decent interview. I didn't like Brad's explanation of why games that are digitally distributed cost the same as their retail counterparts, but that's just my own opinion. (Brad is clearly telling the truth, but I think the response was not the whole truth.) [/quote]Obviously, there's a lot that goes into any pricing decision. The interviewer asked specifically regarding physical manufacturing stuff, though, and why that did not

[quote who="Kantok" reply="177" id="2871244"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 175What's Game 2? Is that Jon's game? What is it? What? Huh? So, what is it? Tell me now, please? Please? Now? PLEASE? NOW? PLEASE! NOW! NOW! At least tell me what kind of game it is? 4x turn based? Fantasy, Sci-Fi? Come on! Haven't they already hinted/mentioned that the next planned game wa

Yeah, Stardock forums are really a bunch of disparate things that only sometimes overlap. WinCustomize and JoeUser and Impulse and Stardock and all the game-specific forums all have boards that can't be seen from anywhere else.

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="5" id="2872091"] That is definitely one of Brad's strengths that I will never be able to outperform. The real amazing part is how fast he types out huge pages of completely coherent text. I write a few paragraphs, then go back and edit for a few passes. After pass 3 or 4 it begins to resemble English. Brad is a machine.[/quote]I'm pretty sure most of us would be totally fine with spelling and grammar issues.

Well, as someone who doesn't have those, here's my thoughts. 1. That sounds like it would be a constant drain on system resources. Of course, logically, I know that it's probably insignificant, and I don't consistently use much resources anyway. But logically, I also know that it's an aesthetic thing, and could end up being distracting and/or annoying to me. Besides, I have all these nice wallpaper images that aren't animated. What would I need animated wallpaper for? I probably would

[quote quoting="post"]24. Added a blue highlight representing the range of a spell when in spellcasting mode on both the strategic and tactical map, so the user can see how far they are allowed to cast the spell[/quote]Is the strategic version of this available in the cloth map as well as the 3D map?

[quote who="HsojVvad" reply="13" id="2867955"]Is there a manual I can download off Stardock, so I can read it while the game is downloading?[/quote]The manual is included in the game download, but so far as I know, it's not available elsewhere.

It looks like nobody answered this: You won't get the expansion for free. That deal ended at the end of the year. However, Stardock is doing things a bit differently with filestructures and whatnot: If you buy E:WoM now, you get the expansion discounted and at an expansion price. If you don't, it'll be purchasable as a full game. It's going to do more with tactical combat and exploration; combat should have much more depth to it, and it might include some form of espionage, although nothing l

[quote who="Napean" reply="87" id="2867112"]EDIT: Crusader Kings - Deus Vult has a great dynasty system if you're looking for some ideas on this front. The Guild was okay, but Crusader Kings essentailly has a lot of RPG elements for characters of your dynasty, and for the sovreign, the player is prompted with choices contingent on the specific traits held by the character. If your character is lustful, you might get a bastard offspring (or choose to "Resist the URge" and earn

This seems like it requires far too much investment to be gamebreaking. At most, it could be viable, but I strongly suspect it needs more than that to back it up on any reasonable difficulty.

[quote who="Panda_Power" reply="116" id="2866860"]It makes me wonder if Kael and Jon Shafer maybe just can't see doing anything with EWOM and want to start from scratch. It also seems a bit early to be talking about heading up a new team for a completely new project/game when there still seems so much to be done to EWOM. I just don't really buy the whole, "we don't need expansion packs in this day and age" story. Who is going to keep an older, more inferior game installe

This makes me think there ought to be some (very expensive) terraforming spells that spawn resources. Fertilizing the land would then make sense.

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="27" id="2866767"]It is a game. Just because you decide to exploit it for an easy win doesn't mean its less of a game. Just.. try not using the exploit.. lol I didn't take issue with the rest of your post.. simply the implications that customization options need to be balanced...[/quote]All else being equal, customization options should be balanced. They shouldn't be optimized at the expense of variety and interestingness, but altering point costs hurts

The fans ask for a lot. But the cool thing about Stardock is, they'll give it to the fans. If it's a little thing, it'll be in a patch. If it's a bigger thing, it will be in an expansion. And then the fans buy the expansion and get what they want, and Stardock gets money (which is ultimately what a business wants) and everyone is happy. Edit: also, what AlLanMandragoran said.

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="38" id="2866743"]Derek - unsure what coding is required but is it possible, if a SOV dies, that the remaining cities and associated resources pass to the monster and ruffian faction instead of just poofing out of existence?[/quote]This is something that should take advantage of dynasties - rather than falling to chaos, this faction should merely take on a new leader - the one next in line for the throne.

[quote who="Corbeaubm" reply="17" id="2866754"]Swearing is much more effective when saved for maximum impact.[/quote]It depends on what effect you're striving for. If it's merely a minor emphasis, then that is likely to be counterproductive. If you use profanity to enhance the terribleness of your rage when you well and truly wax wroth, then what you say is accurate. But at that point, word choice is likely to be a side issue.

Elemental is intended to be a spiritual successor to MoM. It's the same general idea. Elemental handles spell books differently, and also has quests. And you design units. I'm not sure how soon the demo is slated for. But if you really love MoM, you'll probably quite like Elemental.