Kantok

You're post is based on a giant pile of assumptions. The release date of E:FE has been pushed back* repeatedly? (*When it's done is what I've always seen, with devs guessing that "when it's done" will be later this year sometime). Why can't updates be released into a core game? So you complain about stability problems and then want to alpha test new features? They are going to have a public beta of E:FE as soon as its playable. So... yeah.

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="54" id="2918461"] Firstly, I think they have placed significant emphasis on modding. They hired Jon Shafer specifically for that role. In a relatively small studio hiring someone (who surely isn't working for peanuts) specifically to focus on an area IS placing emphasis on it. Besides that, if you hang around the modding forums you'll see devs discussing what features would improve modability and implementing those features. <

[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="39" id="2918392"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 36I sincerely hope this doesn't mean you'll waste time on modding additions to make building campaigns easier, and will focus on what us modders have requested instead. Yes, it is my opinion that building a better campaign editor should be the lowest of your priorities at this point (as far as modding goes). From what I can tell Stardock is not the least bit concerned with the modding community, d

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="114" id="2918207"] Quoting LightofAbraxas, reply 113You know what I'd love to see? I'd love to see a Dev Journal that outlines how you get from Point A to Point B from here, where Point A is: having the code for a large handful of combat-related variables implemented, and Point B is: having a fun, deep combat system implemented. Not that I actually expect you all to do one just because I asked. Just curious, is all.<br /

[quote who="razor436" reply="111" id="2918051"] Come on now. All strategy game are like that, or to put it more generally, matching up my army with theirs such that I inflict the most casualties while sustaining the fewest losses. Whether you have RPS systems or units with abilities, there will always be a best choice which will determine how you will play it out. [/quote] I think he was expressing the hope that the armor vs. damage type effects weren't so powerful

[quote who="Kadrium" reply="108" id="2917845"]I'm just more interested in a system where the point isn't to create favorable weapon vs armor matchups, but to utilize special abilities and traits along with maneuvering and terrain in such a way as to gain an advantage while your opponent does the same. I just don't want it to come down to "sweet, he has hammers and I have plate mail so I'm gonna win." I understand that Derek has said that's not the case, and I&#3

[quote who="Kadrium" reply="103" id="2917805"] No, I'm just expressing my hopes that such a damage-type mechanic is not such a major factor to combat that playing to favorable armor/weapon match-ups supersedes actual strategy.[/quote] The differences in units, whether it's weapon types, damage types, traits, etc, is a PART of strategy. It's not some fake way to claim the game is strategic. If you don't think the differences between Americ

[quote who="Kadrium" reply="95" id="2917758"] If I have two units in a combat, one who does piercing damage, and one who does slashing damage... and you have two units, one who is strong against piercing damage and one who is strong against slashing damage... The decision of who fights who is made up for me. That's not poor play, that's a game mechanic giving me the illusion of strategy.[/quote] You're example is arbitrarily removing the actual strategy to prove your

First crash I've had in a few beta versions. I've actually been enjoying the 1.19x betas quite a bit, so I don't mind. The sooner we help get 1.2 locked in the sooner we get to 1.3. [e digicons]B)[/e]

A fair bit of hopping back and forth between Elemental and the web browser. Elemental is running in windowed mode. Crash Zip Debug.Err

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="32" id="2914181"]Which brings me to the next question: The ethics of what they're doing/not doing. No argument that XP belongs to MS and in all truth is theirs to support or not, but I do feel it's unethical to force XP users to go and buy something else if only because their money helped position MS to conduct the R&D to come up with Vista and 7. There's really nothing 'wrong' with XP that WB doesn't fix. [/quote] <

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="78" id="2880566"]Easier <> Easy but I can concede that, in theory (due to "plane" maps and no magic), Galc Civ 3 should be easier than Elemental (especially due to Elemental experience). But that doesn't mean that Starcock cannot "screw it", right? People will start reminding them of how Tactical Battles were considered for GC 3, how even Frogboy once said he would like to have some kind of Hero unit (yep) or the usual "Multiplayah!!!". Stardock

[quote who="Paradoxical" reply="55" id="2880388"] Just because Frogboy has admitted that Elemental's release was rough and they're trying to fix it does not in any way make the whole situation anything other than an embarrassment, a bad example of the development process, and a bad sign for the future. Objectively speaking.[/quote] You can say "objectively speaking" all you want. That doesn't mean you're speaking objectively. You don't sou

[quote who="NelsMonsterX" reply="47" id="2880337"]How terribly disappointing. Stardock is beginning to look like the crash and burn game studio of the decade. I've been patiently awaiting a "finished" product to show up after an expansion or two, but now, instead of making incremental inmprovements to a mediocre game, we now have a very good chance at receiving three, separate, mediocre games. Where is the logic in this? The world of Elemental isn't even very exciting.

Caused by an alt+tab back into the game. Error box pops up, black screen hangs for a few seconds, then Win7 asks me if I want to kill Elemental or wait for it to respond. debug.err crash dump

[quote who="Victor5" reply="216" id="2877080"]Because I already get an obscene amount of OOM crashes. If somebody is getting even more than before, I wouldn't even be able to PLAY LONG ENOUGH to test anything. That's why.[/quote] That's my point. If you're not willing to crash and post reports (which you don't seem to in spite of an "obscene amount of OOM crashes") then why would you even consider downloading the beta? What's the point? I don't get why

[quote who="Victor5" reply="213" id="2877073"] Now I'm DEFINITELY waiting on this one.... dammit.[/quote] If you don't want to help BETA test the BETA build for possible crashes why would you download it at all?

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="2876335"]That sucks, they are just trying to cut out the used game industry. [/quote] This is the real reason behind it. They'll never admit it, but it is. They get no revenue at all from the very active used game industry.

[quote who="IBNobody" reply="171" id="2875960"] I named a number of suggestions in my previous post and in the post where I talked about using Blink to take down hammer-wielders. You can give a cooldown to blink. Just make it an enchant that bestows the special teleport ability that demons have. You'd then have a cooldown ability that could be used in addition to attacking. (Blink, then attack.) Surely the AI is smart enough to do that...Right? RIGHT? E

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="35" id="2875949"] Why not take a page from MoM and gives bonuses to cities depending on their surrounding? For example, for every tile of the given terrain in a 5x5 square around the city, you could get the following bonuses: Grassland: +2% population limit from housing Desert: -2% population limit from housing Swamp: -0.1 prestige Forest: -5% build time Water: +2% income Hill: -5% training time etc...<b

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="16" id="2875690"]I'm sorry, but roads and rivers are the last thing Elemental needs in order to be interesting. Wide ranges of unique monsters, distinct races, clashing magics and terrain types, secret relics locked away in forgotten tombs. This is the stuff that will make Elemental interesting. Not infrastructure or water.[/quote] I think they're two sides of the same issue. The world needs more evidence that things live

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="251" id="2873518"] What else do I want? Well how about getting rid of selective memory loss. Let's not forget the f-off response fans got initially when people said the game wasn't finished. How about the arguments about what defines LAN, and claims servers just needed to be switched on in a day and still were not on weeks later. I am not going to say Stardock came out of the pearly gates from the get go claiming all would be fixed because that is not wha

[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="250" id="2873487"] That post is rude and uncalled for.[/quote] I disagree. I think he's wrong, but it wasn't rude at all.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="248" id="2873402"] Quoting Kantok, reply 247 You have no idea what they are going to release in these expansion packs just as most people had no idea how bad the game was going to be at release. If you want to throw your blind loyalty around, go ahead. I think you should thank them for the expansion packs they are giving people AFTER you actually see what you wind up getting. You also don't get to choose what is relevant to other people by the way. Y

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="246" id="2872803"] Quoting Kantok, reply 238 Quoting Nesrie, reply 236 It's interesting that you are assigning value to products that aren't even released yet. I don't agree with your conclusions, but I see where you are coming from. If you're replying to me, the values I used were just the middle values between expansion pack and new game, which seems to be where the expansions are going to fall. A