[quote who="jscott991" reply="67" id="2728404"]Really? https://forums.elementalgame.com/391741[/quote] Yes, really. Of course you're going to see people reporting issues in the support forums, but when you consider that Stardock sold enough early copies of the game to at least make back their $2.5 million development budget, you have to expect some problems. I think for the majority of people, Elemental is playable.
[quote who="Xiara" reply="61" id="2728336"]Its not like the game is totally broken or anything.[/quote] Exactly. The game is playable out of the box with no major game-breaking bugs. That counts as "finished" in my book. And we're already seeing the promised post-release support with an epic "Day 0" patch that's apparently 5 versions ahead of the gold build (gold is 1.00, the Day 0 patch is 1.05).
Maybe now he'll be good for more than just an early-gamer resource boost.
"LOD levels on main map are now back to what they used to be for better performance" Sweet. As much as I love the cloth map (I really do, I'm not being sarcastic) it'll be nice to actually have the game playable from the 3D view.
Holy crap, we're going from v1.01 to 1.05? That's pretty epic!
"Finished" is a matter of interpretation.
[quote who="jscott991" reply="37" id="2727682"]In Civ, the units clearly don't represent 1 legionaire or 1 tank or 1 artillery piece.[/quote] You mean it's an abstraction and you have to use your imagination to see the hundreds of troops represented by 3 knights? Hmmm... [e classic];)[/e]
[quote quoting="post"] I've been concerned about this for months. In fact, it caused me to sit out the beta and delay my preorder until last week. And after playing for most of yesterday evening and getting deep into one sandbox game, I realized I was right to be concerned.[/quote] So, if you had so many misgivings about the game and were apparently pretty certain you wouldn't like it then why the hell did you go ahead and buy it?
[quote who="HobsonA" reply="5" id="2727595"]I feel like I must be playing a different pre-release than everyone else. I've had some weird issues in tactical battle with the mouse being aligned improperly and clicking not being registered sometimes, but I haven't seen much other problems besides that in terms of stability/fluid gameplay[/quote] Same here. Except for performance problems (that are almost entirely solved by using the cloth map mode), I've been enjoying the ga
[quote who="SuperTimo" reply="3" id="2727196"]...I get under 10 fps late game with all video options as low as they can be set.[/quote] Some folks are getting rock-bottom frame rates even with just a single town onscreen. I'm hoping the Day 0 patch improves things.
Doesn't look like it. I'm sure there'll be an announcement when it's ready for download.
Nobody is entirely sure how well the game runs at the moment because there are some performance enhancements coming with the Day 0 patch that we don't have yet.
Population costs food. The number you see is what's left over after all the costs have been deducted. You could in theory build up your population until that number hits zero, meaning that your population is consuming all the food produced by your kingdom.
[quote who="condar28" reply="56" id="2724644"]Unfortunately you missed everything else.[/quote] I didn't miss it. I just didn't consider it worth responding to. [e classic]:D[/e]
[quote who="db0" reply="64" id="2726268"]Aren't you people tired of whining about something you can't change?[/quote] Who's whining? I'm just having a conversation. You doth protest too much, methinks.
[quote who="Renevent" reply="56" id="2726237"]By the way, same Mtn_Man from the Hellgate forums?[/quote] Yes.
[quote who="Kyorisu" reply="55" id="2726233"]An utter shame this argument doesn't work. You cannot make a DRM system that will stop piracy without wasting tonnes of cash and royally pissing off all your users. You'd do more damage to yourself than you'd get in return by any magical pirates that decide to buy the game that requires an always on man servant watching you insert the disc into the drive.[/quote] You completely misunderstood my point. I'm simply countering the notion
I sat down at my computer around 10:30p last night figuring I'd play for half-an-hour before going to bed. Next time I looked at the clock it was 12:30a! I have a love/hate relationship with games that are so good that they make me lose track of the time.
Um... there's only been one patch -- 1.00 to 1.01. Today the 2nd patch will be released and that's the one that contains the performance improvements, so whatever's going on with your system, it wasn't the patch.
[quote who="Kyorisu" reply="49" id="2726211"]every pirate that ultimately buys the game who would have otherwise completely ignored it seems like a bonus to me.[/quote] And that "bonus" is likely offset by the number of people who would have bought the game if they couldn't pirate it.
[quote who="db0" reply="45" id="2726161"]All of those claims you mention are debatable as well.[/quote] The only thing debatable is to what extent piracy is harming the gaming industry and not if it's harming the gaming industry. [quote who="db0"]The fact that big companies are making decisions based on half-arsed arguments is not surprising.[/quote] But the fact remains that they are still making those decisions based on perceptions that are a direct result o
[quote who="db0" reply="37" id="2726064"]On the question: Pirates don't do harm. By a large extent, they wouldn't have bought anyway and also spread awareness about the game via word of mouth. Many of these who like the game will turn into paying customers for the easy of use that having the game patched via impulse provides.[/quote] The extent to which pirates financially harm the gaming industry is debatable -- it's not as high as some publishers claim, but it's certainly not zero i
[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="24" id="2725370"]Do you people speaking out against piracy honestly have NO pirated software on your computer whatsoever?[/quote] Let's say for the sake of argument that every piece of software on my machine was pirated. So what? Piracy is still wrong, and it's still hurting the industry.
[quote quoting="post"]Well, someone leaked Elemental. How messed up is that? Less than a day after "Early" Release.[/quote] What did you expect?
I prefer the cloth map over the 3D view. Not just because the 3D view has some performance issues at the moment but because it's so much easier to tell at a glance what is happening in your kingdom. It may not look as nice as the 3D view, but in terms of accessibility and the way it presents information, it's superior.