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Don't worry. Regarding Elemental on this forum, all you'll hear is a deafening silence.

These are excellent suggestions and I support them. It's too bad this forum appears to be dormant when it concerns Elemental. Create a post regarding any other game and you;ll get twenty replies in about five minutes. Post about Elemental and the silence is deafening. It's actually a pretty good game now and I hope some of the players will come back.

Thanks for the link. I'm enjoying the game now quite a bit.

After the player reaches the fifth magic level, the spellbook will pop up after every turn even though the player is not researching any more spells. Since the spell book can be accessed easily by clicking the spellbook icon at the bottom left of the screen, it might speed up the end turn by disabling the popup. This would not affect gameplay in any way and could easily be accomplished by having the spellbook research a "NULL" spell infinite loop in a separate thread until the player cli

The kindly game designers send you naked and unarmed into a cold and hostile world. I highly recommend the mod Murteas' Grimoire which gives you a low level but decent staff and an arcane arrow spell that gives you a ranged attack. With that, my sovereign can more than hold her own against roving monsters and even kick rival faction's ass playing solo at challenging level once I got the hang of maneuvering in combat.

That was Frogboy, the CEO of Stardock.

Actually, it could be an awesome trait if you could contract the bandits you hire to harass another faction - similar to SoaSE. Lord knows they can be a pain in the ass for my faction and it would be refreshing if you could get them to bug somebody else for a change. What do you guys think about that idea?

I love the new approach that Kael is taking. No more rinse and repeat games. As a great philosopher once said; "All plans go out the window once you get punched in the face".

Seriously, it is clear that portraiture needs to be fixed on the way to ver 1.3. It is rather silly that it is often difficult to distinguish between a female sovereign and a male grunt. It has led to some embarrassing moments on the tactical screen when I accidently selected the wrong one.

The xml files for the old watchtowers (they were once in the game) must still be laying around somewhere. I don't think it would be too difficult for the devs to put them back in, but an improved version with a view radius of six tiles and a small defensive bonus to any units within that radius. It would resolve a lot of issues with the caravan routes as well as add an interesting flavour - God knows the game could use more flavour. How about some gambling casinos and strip bars? I'm

I have used the erosion spell without any problems in every iteration of the game including the latest beta patch. I think you may be missing something. How you line up the buildings in relation to the cliffs does make a difference. Try experimenting, the erosion spell does work.

Yes, you need to start a new game for the mod to be recognized. You also need to check the 'use mods' square in the main menu before starting a new game.

When you click on the Mods button you will see to the upper middle right a button labeled other ( beside the campaign button). Click on that and the mods will come up. If you don't see the Fish Market mod there. just type it in to the search box and it will come up. If you don't already have a utility to unzip the mods into the Elemental Mods folder, there are some good free unzip utilities you can download for free - just google for them.

When I go to Paradise, none of those hairy Turkomen trollops for me, but nice smoth-skinned Cappadocian babes. By the way, anyone want to talk about boats?

The ability to create more than three caravans is an Empire tech only. Kingdom cities can only have three caravans at one time. The dialogue box unfortunatly does not inform you of this. You probably captured an Empire city when you created more than three caravans. Not being able to delete a boat is a bug. What you can do if you have no further use for the boat (as often happens), you can use it as a forward observer to give warning of oncoming hostiles - it takes the place of a watch t

Like you, Kapeman, I am also determined to use harbours and ships and I have built harbours in every game as soon as a city reaches level three. As you have discovered, they are a little quirky. You need to have a full beach tile (all four sides) adjacent to one of the city buildings on one side and touching the water on the opposite side. You can have a small fraction of a tile along any of the sides of the full tile - that's okay, but a grouping of partial til

They are both on separate tracks, so work on one does'nt affect the other.

Sorry! Double post.

I respect your suggestions, but I think the time and resources required would be much better spent on making the game more interesting and accessable to new players. If the Elemental franchise is to become what we hope, we are going to need a lot of new players. The franchise needs more than a handful of hardcore players.

To EternalReqium: There is already a low level area effect spell called 'Revive Land' which will clear the rubble tiles and allow you to build on them as normal. I use it all the time as it is very handy when you want to use a resource but don't want to be stuck with a gimped city (as most other faction cities are).

Your post is appreciated Xia, and you deserve credit for keeping a stiff upper lip, but the latest iteration (ver 1.19k), from the most recent playtesters indicates that this beta is completely unplayable. Not good. Frogboy needs to get serious about this or there won't be anyone left who cares anymore.

She was one of the great superstars of her day. A wonderful actress, a caring person, and one of the few that was drop dead gorgeous in her youth even without makeup.

Dragon Age 2... I'm a patient person.

Now that Gamestop has bought Impulse, a boxed version of the game might be very viable ... and with a 300 page manual ... YES! Lord Xia would even dance the Hookie Pookie. I would even kiss everyone, except no one respects an affectionate wizard.

I believe only slave owners should be allowed to vote. In addition, making the world a better place by killing anyone who isn't a member of your church is the highest calling anyone can have, and those who do so shall be absolved of all sins.