1 it is possible to build improvements on resources with in your influence zone, but if they are more than 5 tiles from a town they are not linked to the town, 2 you can build new towns at 5 OR more tiles apart, so for the greatest effectiveness I suggest building towns withing the 5 tile range of the desired resources. harpo
the usual causes for elemental ARE (in my expierience on win xp 32 bit & win7 64bit) 1 memory leaks causeing the program to end up requesting MORE ram than can be allocated to a program of the relevent bitage ie x86 which has an addressable application data space limit of 2GB, but elemental crashes at typically 1.5 to 1.6 gb and on 4 bit windows the memory leaks ARE TWICE the size because all variables,pointers etc ARE twice the size as allocated BY the windows memory requests,</p
xghost, do a forum search for LAA, you will find a thread that offers the LAA trick, I do not have a link to it, so can not post a link. harpo
this issue has been around since beta 4 and in both 32 bit and 64 bit windows including xp & 7 (from my own testing) and I also believe in vista(but I do NOT use it so can not confirm), and also affects the tiles designer and the effects designer so badly that I suggest open it ONCE, do what you want to do in ONE item/map/effect/tile, save the EXIT elemental COMPLETELY, and re-load elemental, and yes this does WASTE A LOT OF TIME, but prevents the dreaded CRASH and even more wasted time.<
you can not build on a location that had a razed city as the tile IS NOT empty it contains the razed city. I would like the razed cities to fade out after about 30 -40 turns, but do not see how this can be acomplished, but still want it. harpo
nikmesh & lord xia, I also want the weight of the armours to effect the dodge stat as well ie leather/padded minimal effect(-1 dodge), chainmail more effect(-2dodge), light plate (-3dodge), medium plate(-4 dodge), heavy plate (-5 dodge), master plate being better designed/lighter (could have -4 dodge), imbued master plate (-3dodge) (these numbers are just suggestions to give an idea of the effect/choices wanted. please add this eff
yrag, I have used a ati mobility 200 with sins without problems, and in my experience the biggest improvement is cpu speed, the second best is the ram speed, and video card a poor third, and just for your info my primary development system (which I use for quick testing of maps/mods/etc has only a geforce 7600GS, and im my experence is cpu/ram bound far more than gpu bound. harpo
derek, what are the TYPES of armour vs weapon types effects eg dagger vs leather, arrow vs plate, sword against leather/plate and hammer vs leather/plate? meaning how will the weapon class fare againt the armour class? harpo
actually this is the correct info from the page 'Contest moderators will choose the top five most creative/implementable spells. The top five will be posted and you, the community, will choose the winner! Submissions must be received by December 13, 2010 at 12:01am " harpo
phylast57, was the enemy a empire and you a kingdom? if yes then it is a known issue where a player can add the kingdom unit buildings to a former empire city with the empire unit buildings and get a 100%boost to unit creation speed. has been happening since the betas harpo
there is another campaign to be created for those that bought the book and entered a code in the elemental web site when logged in and frogboy did post a while back saying that the current campaign was also a tutorial and that he wanted to do some more campaigns, but at present it just leads to the sandbox where you can add mods different maps and play against EXPANDING but very weak AI's. harpo
[quote]The reason the limit exists, which is actually 5 tiles, is to prevent cities from connecting. This would not help two cities with roughly the same influence could easily be built right next to each other. Currently, it picks whoever has the lower player ID to break ties. I'd like to change this to whoever has been influencing the tile the longest, if it doesn't slow down the calculations too much. [/quote] carielf, just a suggestion regarding the resourc
my thoughts are based upon the town 'voting' which faction is best for the town, ie stay with the faction they are in and have a tiny influence area OR switch to the surrounding faction and GAIN access to the resources of the influence zone, possibly also factoring in what improvements are in the town, eg pubs,ins,townhalls and their equivelents contributing to the stay, and if the surrounding faction HAS MORE of the improvements in it's surrounding towns, then switch. harpo
carielf, if you could add it to wanted/desired features list it would be appreciated. thank you harpo
there should be a zip file for each of the crashes in the (xp folder for elemental crashes) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic the advice is to create a drop.io or dropbox location and upload them with the dxdiags & preferly saves and post a link to them so that the support staff at stardock can download and examine the files to try to determine the cause, and hopefully add a fix for the
carielf, in several of my games I have had a situation where my influence completely surrounded another faction's city and had actually forced the other factions influence to within it's city, at that point I was more or less expecting the other faction's city to switch to my faction, is this sort of situation going to be added in in future? harpo
how do you see slow for downloading? I get the download speed AT the bandwidth limit of my connection PER computer, and I can have several downloading at the SAME time and ALL are reporting that they are downloading AT the maximum speed regarding my connection speed eg 153kb/s PER COMPUTER on a 1.5mbit connection, and as osirisdawn states impulse is ONLY needed to install/update and you can ARCHIVE an installation so you do not have to download it again on the computer if you need to re-insta
another suggestion for the name of the area being 'My Space' MS, although a particular very large software company known for releasing buggy and flawed software and only patching on a slow cycle might object to the short form, then the alternate could be 'My Ground' MG which would suggest a old make of sports car. and good work carielf, altering a previous programmer's work is twice as difficult as creating your own code for the job, but as the existing code has already
there was a statement by frogboy that they will be releasing dvd's with the current version when the update reate slows down, that you will have to subscribe(i think) to get, but impulse IS the only updater for all of the current range for stardock supplied games/software. harpo
please explain what theis ig nore is, and why I should use/do what ever it is, and what is in it for me? harpo
summon OpRaH, causes all players to declare perment war against the summoner and it's summons. harpo
glowing ember, I also have had that exact same issue happen to me also, it seems that the cause might be that the animations AND sounds are modal(have priority over) the keyboard and mouse inputs, when ALL other programs give priority to the keyboard AND mouse over sound and animation., and this is on both my older AND latest computers, so it is a program issue. harpo
I have also noticed an issue with the sounds holding up the keyboard input until the SOUND had finished playing, especially on the birth of a sov's child/grandchild and it poping upthe name kid window, I can NOT type anything in this box UNTIL the kid sound has finished playing. this might be related to the animations issue as well. harpo
the most likely cause of the 10-15 turn crash is memory leak either from the 3d rendering OR music, the only way I have found to help the frequent crash issue is 64 bit windows & laa the elemental exe, but it will still OOM, but at the 3gb ram use point, not the 1.5gb ram use for the standard game, and I desperately WANT the 64 bit version that can handle ALL of my 8/12gb ram in my beast machines. harpo
heaveanfall, is there any chance of getting the polar bear to fight using a pole? [e digicons]:grin:[/e] harpo