[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="33" id="3022923"]"Or a chance to sustain new negative traits?" I second that as well. Negative traits add a lot more character to a hero. Extra kudos if you can code it to make the table for determining the random trait based on what enemies or attacks the hero was defeated in combat with.
Sorry Frogboy, when you compare E:WOM which was disastrous by all common measure and then say E:FE will be boring just like it is really casting bad press on the game. It isn't because we expect better graphics, sound or any big bangs like that. Quite the contrary beta 1 of E:WOM was far more fun than anything we've had since release with all the graphics, sound, and playability issues worked out. If all you did was remake "Master of Magic" for the 21st century it woul
I think realistic maps tend to be a lot of fun. The random maps I have enjoyed the most actually belong to the Firaxis game Alpha Centauri. They had various planetary features of importance that would appear in different locations on different continents when generating a random map. But most importantly, none of it matters if you don't have locations of importance. Ditching the global resources and making location matter again is the most important part of all of it.
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="29" id="3020583"]Meh, I have no problems taking a free game after E:wom. Giving FE away for free isn't just about how E:wom turned out in the end, it's about how it was handled from the start. The next game, however... that might feel a bit wrong to take for free (for those of us who pre-ordered E:wom). We will see after FE, eh. Maybe there won't be a third game.[/quote] This! I've been hanging around Stardock gam
[quote quoting="post"] Now, if the airs are let out of my tires again…well, who knows what caused that. [/quote] **Cough Cough** Handicapped parking **Cough Cough**
It doesn't seem like making a character. I prefer something like in a more traditional RPG. But I hate the way sovereign creation was implemented in WoM so it is certainly worth a try.
[quote who="drrob" reply="4" id="2982484"]During the Beta, have a simple poll on the forum. "Is this game fun?" Perhaps version it at each update? If (isFun launchGame = FALSE Don't assume you will work out the fun after the release. Bug fixes, sure. Fun. No. [/quote] This assumes a static population. Elemental WOM even at its w
[quote who="riadsala" reply="25" id="2954571"] Can anybody think of good examples from history or literature where a country is made up of a small number of very specialised cities? [/quote] Hmm, modern U.S. examples: Detroit: Car production Seattle: Airplanes San Diego: Military bases Los Angeles: Movies and Entertainment Washington D.C.: Bureaucracy Oklahoma City: Dog and people food Historic
[quote quoting="post"] The game mechanic I am interested in seeing is one that rewards the player for intelligently planning out their cities. I.e. better to have fewer, better cities than more, wimpier cities. [/quote] Been arguing that for so long..., but how can you do that within the current resource context where cities generate resources based on tech?
First and foremost I wanted WoM to be a good successor to Master of Magic finally, which it utterly failed to do. Dynasties, Good AI, modding where all very nice extras but they were still extras (actually modding became less of an extra after it was promised during beta as a remedy to some of the rather unpopular directions they were taking the game). If they can just make a good successor to Master of Magic, then FE will be a success to me. After they've proven they can do that
The first two choices were in Beta 1, but Stardock made a conscious decision to move away from them. They made a bunch of unusual and conscious decisions to ask us our opinion, get longed detailed feedback and see what people wanted. Then go off on a different tangent entirely. Just like they launched prematurely before people who were participating in beta thought it was ready. See early discussions on the game's economy and city development if you have any doubt.
Heard this a lot before E:WOM and during early beta. But it ended up so, so far from that. It is a great idea to stick to MoM, but it needs less mentioning and more doing. Hopefully with Derek on board we can see that.
I can't but sigh and think this is what War of Magic should have been from the beginning and just hope that this time you have the follow through on it.
[quote who="RavenX" reply="9" id="2913811"]That's a great update chief . Forgive me if I'm wrong, but, the description above seems to fit in a lot with what was originally planned with Elemental doesn't it? If not what "was planned", then perhaps I should say what "was wanted"? I know we've covered these ideas before, especially city specialization, which I my-self made a post about a long time back. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's in the big Idea's List. <br /
Just sounds like a lot of the things that the forum community loved in the early design and beta stages of WOM that got gutted as you chased after making the game more like a RTS wanna-be in stop motion. This time when you finalize your game vision, please don't change it unless it is actually popular with the customers. As for multiplayer, for all TBS games I love to play them cooperatively when I can and only super rarely play them competitively against other players. Some o
AT RELEASE: F: War of Magic: C: Starcraft 2: END OF 2010: F: War of Magic: B+ Starcraft 2: NOW: Not Playing: War of Magic: B+ Starcraft 2: I've given up on this game and I only come back every few weeks to see if anything is actually progressing. I'd really like to see the mod community get involved and be able to make something of this game but it doesn't seem the tools are there even now.
[quote who="onomastikon" reply="4" id="2835217"] My only hope/concern is that you handle idiosyncracies of Stardock beta scheduling and iteration with a LOT more transparency this time around. [/quote] Transparency isn't just enough. It would be nice if they actually gave more weight to beta tester opinion that they repeatedly disregarded when they didn't like what was being said, i.e. the disastrous launch and others they consciously ignored negative fe
I like the art direction and style a lot. I like the quest system. I like the dynasty concept. I like the unit designer. I like the tech research system. I have to applaud this idea, but all to often in the beta program the baby did get thrown out with the bathwater.
[quote quoting="post"] Now we move towards the next phase which is where we begin to address the game play based on feedback and our own experience. Our goal for Elemental to become a worthy successor to classic games like Master of Magic has not changed and we will be continuing to endeavor to make that a reality. Stay tuned![/quote] I realize you are probably just fishing for rave posts, but I felt it needed to be said despite any criticism even if it
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="144" id="2783325"]We don't develop our games by "community consensus" but we do listen to ideas to see if there's something we like better than what we came up with. The same with combat. Splitting the "To Hit" and "Damage" rolls allows us to make a much more satisfying system. Anyway, the point is, we looked through the forums during the beta and made a great deal of changes based on feedback and suggestions (the concept of global food
[quote who="Rune_74" reply="137" id="2783197"] I seriously hope this is a joke... I have to laugh at this, if you are that jaded and think all these things you have posted as a reality then why stay? I mean most people would give up on people if they thought all this. I think if we keep dwelling on mistakes from the past we will never move forward, and posts like yours is only making matters worse.[/quote] I suspect because unlike a lot of people atta
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="41" id="2782949"]Here's the issue at hand and the corresponding hole in the current system: For 1.09, I am lobbying to have something put in that goes way back to an original concept that got lost and that is, using your citizens as a resource (population is still a resource, it's just not used for anything). This way, we could begin migrating back to the original concept tha tyou can build multiple buildings in a given city as long as you have the resou
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="129" id="2782889"] Just for the record, I read this thread about twice a day with my engineeringbnotebook open with pen to writevdown various concepts proposed and think about how they would work in the engine and how well theydvinteract with other concepts. [/quote] I hope you're writing down the criticism you didn't want to hear in beta and are considering that as well now. It wasn't that Stardock didn't implement plenty of ideas during the
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="44" id="2783036"] One thought- if you have some ideas you're tossing around, throw them out to the community. For sure...we're going to start getting more dev journals up, leading the way for more two-way communications, mostly as big changes are discussed. We've been crunching for so long that it'll feel good to take time to interface with you guys more often I think we've learned that it can be a GOOD THING to get your head out of the code from time
Welcome back Scott! You should get all the development team to play a game of Master of Magic and then rate Elemental as its "Spiritual successor" with it fresh in their mind.