Kantok

It uses the wow installer, which is kinda nice. 15gig, but you can start playing before it finishes downloading all 15gig.

Starts noon PDT. You can play with friends and play any class to level 13.

Finished the Arena quest all the way through, including the golem battle at the end. I never received Heartseeker.

I killed all the golems. The quest doesn't complete and the original quest start location is still on the map, but inactive. The actual site of the battle with the golems is gone.

Can't cast Wellspring under any circumstances. It gives the following error: "Invalid Target: Caster is within radius of offensive spell." This happens the moment I click Wellspring in the spell book. I never have the chance to select a target.

Okay, I'll start watching each one. It's likely I was looking on the same turn that the shrine was built.

It looks like, from my admittedly not exact checking, that the loss of a shard causes a relevant buff's strength to decrease. For example, losing a fire shard causes my sovereign's burning blade strength to decrease by two. However gaining a new shard does not have the reverse effect, causing existing buffs to increase by the relevant amount. You still have to dispel and recast the buff to get the new shard to effect the buffs.

Whenever an enemy dies from attacking one of my heroes who is buffed with Mantle of Fire, combat goes screwy. First, the enemy dies from the MoF damage. Then my sovereign, equipped with a sword, counterattacks and kills him again. Then tactical combat is stuck with no one able to do anything, at which point I have to hit auto resolve to move passed the battle.

I took Draxis into my army in the slavery quest. So I got him and the daughter, "Noblewoman", to save. I took her back to the farmhouse, got the rewards, and the quest completed. However the daughter never disappeared from my army. So I guess Draxis has a play thing now... Also, the turn in was at a farmhouse, but the daughter was called "Noblewoman".

Turn off AA if you have it on. I have a beast of a PC and AA killed the games performance in tactical battles. I still notice the occasional stutter, usually in combat, but nothing like when I had 4X AA turned on.

When a resource is next to a city and you build on it, in the case of my current game an air shard, it gets added to your city's build queue as if it were another city improvement. When a resource is not right next to your city and you build on it, it does not get added to the city's build queue. This has been reported before and we've never gotten clarification if its intentional or not. The behavior seems kind of goofy. I'm curious if it'

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="12" id="3131870"] Depends how one defines "quality". Poisoned food doesn't rank highly on mine. [/quote] I think I was pretty clear in how I define quality in my original post. Things like electricity, electronics, cars, and home heating. My point is that the overall quality of life, and the hopes for a better quality of life for those who haven't reached it yet, depend largely upon these industries. Without them, many of

[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="431" id="3131814"]Reduced 42%Original 1350 x 824 Anyone get where I'm going here?[/quote] How much does it cost to ride this merry-go-round?

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="5" id="3131780"]- [/quote] I certainly wasn't making the point that reckless companies should skate on responsibility. BP should be, and will be, paying for this for years. And they didn't just change CEOs. They also created a $20 Billion spill response fund (which they are adding $1.25B per quarter to until it reaches the $20B). They posted their US assets as against the $20B as collateral.

You realize that this argument isn't nearly as one sided as you make it out? Without all those industrial and mining corporations that you demonize we're not having this conversation on the internet. You're not playing any Elemental game. You'd be lucky to have electricity and a car (and likely neither of those). You certainly don't have a cell phone. Hell, you don't have phone lines. There are certainly example of companies that h

This looks great. Looking forward to next week.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="8" id="3115288"] Quoting Kantok, reply 7 Don't bring wisdom into this. Everyone knows you either love something completely and stand by every aspect, or you hate everything about it and nothing about it is good. They are only two options with everything. And so clearly because Brad made minor criticisms of Steam, therefore he hates it, but he also said some positive things, therefore he loves it. So, in conclusion,

[quote who="niz032" reply="18" id="3121274"] That's what they tell you, but the real issue is that they don't want to spend the resources. It's not that they don't have the money to spend, it's that it would eat into their profits. [/quote] That's a monster of an assumption on your part. Regardless of how much money they have to spend on the game, that amount IS finite. What planned features should they cut to satisfy the&n

Looking forward to April 12th even more.

[quote who="Guest83" reply="5" id="3115151"]Mr. Wardell, it's not as black and white you are trying to make it look like. Of course you said you love Valve, but you also said some other things you didn't quote in your posting above. A few examples: Does this all count as badmouthing? Propably not, but it sounds a bit different from what you provided in your posting above.[/quote] Is there no service that you are a fan of generally, but

[quote who="lambdaman" reply="20" id="3112528"] Too bad, I'd love to play FE on my tablet .[/quote] Good tablet + good remote desktop app = FE on my tablet. Works pretty well.

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="110" id="3112442"] Not even bringing up WoM would help. A focus on FE as being its own game. Entirely new. Standalone. [/quote] If you think that's even remotely an option you're living in a dream world. If SD doesn't bring it up, the reviewers certainly will. The combination of SD's reputation & openness, WOM's major expectations, and WOM's awful, awful launch guarantee it. Not to men

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="98" id="3112070"] I remember how Elemental was rushed to make the marketing 'shelving' deadline, and hope history isn't repeating itself. [/quote] I'm pretty sure there is no shelving date. Isn't FE digital distribution only? [quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="100" id="3112103"] Do people really think that paying for advertising helps ratings? Someone should have told Duke nuke em Forever.

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="82" id="3111885"]My rating for the FE current beta release, using Civ4 BtS as the standard '10.0', is 2.0. To those that will say Civ4 BtS is an unfair comparison -- that's ok, opinions are just that, and feel free to substitute your own standard. Civ4 BtS is the product of ~20 years of work and several expansions. FE had Elemental so it's not a new product, plus the 'wheel' doesn't have to be entirely re-inven

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="26" id="3111459"] I somewhat agree that the build is not ready for reviews ... but I guess its more a marketing/business decision. But it sounds a lot like when the 'Elemental Army' started based off of promises ...[/quote] None of us have any idea if the build they're showing off is ready for public viewing. We've never seen that build. Also, it's not being shown for review, but preview.