I've not encountered this. In fact, starting a game last night, trying to find a spot for my first city was challenging (in a good way) because resources were so sparse. This was on normal world difficulty.
Most addictive game I've played in years. I've been late to work twice this week because of Elemental.
Buy through Impulse. Stardock will get more of your money instead of the middlemen taking their cut.
[quote who="Zorbane" reply="9" id="2734934"]I think it would be cool if champions would get experience by finishing quests too.[/quote] Huh, I just assumed they did. This definitely needs to be added. I also think gaining experience from successful diplomatic transactions would be a nice addition as well, but it would obviously need to be balanced so you can't just rack up a bunch of soft-ball diplomatic gestures for easy experience.
Only time I've seen a crash is when I was playing with the cloth map and forgot to turn on the frame rate limiter.
" Sometimes clicking to move a unit makes it move somewhere else. The unit moves into a different tile than I had selected (or at least thought I selected). Happens quite often to me. I am using the right click button on the mouse to move." Make sure you don't have auto-explore enabled.
[quote who="snakepliskan" reply="19" id="2733283"]I do hope only registered owners can vote in the poll and not just anyone who creates a Forum account? If that is the case, too open to Trolls. [/quote] I have a feeling that a large number of "I'm disappointed" votes are from people who haven't even played the game.
[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="102" id="2734726"]Did you ever stop to think that you're not the only one with a computer running the game? Because honestly, you really come off as though you think that because you're happy with it, and it doesn't crash too much for you, that everyone else should have the same experience.[/quote] Look at the support forum. Nobody is complaining that the game is outright unplayable.
Dude, they already made your mom... if you know what I mean...
I think what bothers me the most is that the harsher critics of Elemental are basically lying about the state of the game at the moment. I'd say that any outstanding issues as of the 1.05 patch are minor at worst, yet you have people out there saying that the game is practically unplayable.
I agree with you in the sense that I'd like to see something like diplomacy be just as devastating as conquest in the hands of the right player, but as long as conquest remains a viable path to victory then you can expect the AI to use it, and you'll just have to develop a strategy for defending against it. It's no more complicated than that.
[quote who="Gormoth1" reply="59" id="2734173"]I want other ways than having to rely on multiple lousy units to prevent the AI from attacking me or to protect my empire.[/quote] Like what exactly? What specifically are you looking for?
[quote who="Gormoth1" reply="55" id="2733844"]Mtn_Man, I think the problem is not just with my strategy, but with ignoring players with playstyles such as mine. What you think is a logical thinking of an everyday warmonger, which grabs things by force when he can and only talks when he can't. But that way of thinking and playing shouldn't be the only one, in my opinion.[/quote] It's not the only way of playing. As I said, you can field a strong standing army and then pursue dipl
[quote who="Gormoth1" reply="6" id="2733321"]The problem is the AI, which becomes more and more combative and war-mongering and the options for peaceful resolutions are diminishing more and more as the game is updated just to please the hardcore fans (such as you, I guess).[/quote] Part of diplomacy having the strength behind you to compel others to consider your demands. If you're just peacefully building up your kingdom and don't have much of a military then why would a much s
[quote quoting="post"]What a joke .i got ripped -off stardock ,thanks for nothing.[/quote] Then contact Stardock and request for a refund. Or are you just here to troll?
I'm sure in hindsight Stardock wishes they had held off on the early release and waited until the Day 0 patch was ready. I think a statement like, "Sorry, guys, I know Best Buy has released the game early, but we want to make sure you get the best game possible on your first day playing it, so we're going to stick to our originally planned release date when we'll have the first patch ready. I hope you understand" would have satisfied most of us us. As they say, hindsight i
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[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="130" id="2731279"]I think that you are right, but only because non Stardock fans will be gone pretty fast.[/quote] Oh, I'm not nearly as pessimistic as that. I think Elemental will be a long-term success for Stardock.
[quote quoting="post"]Is there any chance I can get a refund for this game? It's incredibly bad and I think it's insulting how it was rushed out the door the way it was. Being in beta I probably should have seen this coming but now... jesus. What do I have to do to get a refund?[/quote] Now you're just trolling. Frogboy already offered you a full refund .
I hope the sites in question have the integrity to update their articles with this response from Brad.
[quote who="jaythewise" reply="125" id="2731212"]Damm good point!!! PC gamer gave Empire total war a 90% + review. That game is total crap!!! I dont see how the review industry could give empire such a high all score![/quote] A lot of reviewers receive pre-release copies of games with the understanding -- or even an explicit agreement if the publisher is influential enough -- that they won't report on things like bugs and crashes, the premise being that things like that will be fixed
[quote who="Renevent" reply="114" id="2731125"]This is the first time I have seen this kind of negativity surrounding Stardock. I think 'ruined' certainly is an exaggeration, but I think some manner of damage has been done.[/quote] Stardock is also a lot more well known than they were prior to the release of Sins of a Solar Empire. That game put them on the map for a lot of people. The problem with online communities is that as they grow, the number of people with a
[quote who="Jharii" reply="23" id="2731132"]Or Age of Conan. Or Star Trek Online. Or Spore. Or about a couple hundred more. Heck, even WoW was a crapstorm when it first released. And if you want to see rabid flaming and trolling, go check out the D&D forums about Essentials.[/quote] You could add Hellgate: London to that list. I was there every step of the way with Hellgate: London through alpha to beta to release and after, and let me tell you,
+1 to all of the above posts. [b]Edit:[/b] Didn't see the troll posts on the first read through, so let me say that again: +1 to all of the above positive posts.
[quote who="maniakos" reply="81" id="2730855"]And it has nothing to do with specs. Old machines with components that work properly are also suited for this game.[/quote] I think people also underestimate the value of regular system maintenance like cleaning the registry, deleting extraneous and unnecessary files, and defragmenting the hard drive (basically, just run CCleaner and Defraggler