LightofAbraxas

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="18" id="2940002"]True unless they're underwater (or sunk), or unless tethered port and starboard.[/quote] Don't forget bow and stern! More seriously, I think that all economies go through something like what Scoutdog describes as their economies are established. It certainly happened in the US. The sooner that a significant percentage of China or whereever's population have the opportunity to make non-sweatshop money, the sweatshops will

[quote who="Jafo" reply="16" id="2939987"]Buy American .... means your purchase dollar goes to support American business. The dollar stays within the US and doesn't end up in the coffers of some offshore business/industry. Same thing is of issue in Australia....where we do absurd things like importing food which we are ENTIRELY CAPABLE of growing locally and thus supporting our OWN farmers rather than some un-regulated and over crop-sprayed/chemically unclean crap from China/el

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="32" id="2939924"]Dynasties would've needed so much work that I believe this was a good choice. Cool concept, but it's more important to get the whole game right. Maybe dynasties could be included in the Elemental game that comes after FE. [/quote] Yeah, that's what I got out of them saying that it was on the other side of the 'feature split.'

[quote who="kenata" reply="28" id="2939841"]Im not sure if I completely agree here. I think something that has been woefully overlooked is the factions themselves. While each faction will have its own unique flare, it doesn't seem like much is being done to make cities more interesting. It is true that they are trying to make cities less micromanaged, but in my mind, this places a heavy burden to ensure that players don't simply set and forget their cities.[/quote] True enough

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="26" id="2939784"]While some of the latter posts here offer a modicum of hope, overall, it seems FE is, well, 'falling............." I'm disappointed..... but then I don't play elemental anymore, either.... we will see what the Devjournal "suggests" might happen. [/quote] Oh, I don't know. I think that they picked the three most important areas to gut and renovate. Plus, I'm sure that there wil

Yeah, it was probably a smart choice. They have to have something to focus on in Elemental: Game 3, after all.

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="36" id="2939056"]Who says you have to? I have worked for over 40 years now, and only 12 of those were for a "big corporation". The rest of the time I worked as a consultant/entrepreneur, either for friends or on my own. And I have done very well. Those who think they "must" work for big corporations lack imagination or incentive or both. The difference between this story and America is the fact you can do just what I - and most people in the work force -

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="246" id="2938879"]Ok - time to get back off topic. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? [/quote] The egg. External fertilization of eggs was present long before the modern chicken had come around. Geez. How about this one: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Yeah, just to echo what they've said, I've played a bunch of games up to turn 100 or so and haven't had many problems. The one thing that has given me troubles is clicking the End Turn button really fast. I think that with the multi-thread code they're using for the game, clicking End Turn before all of the threads resolve will cause a crash pretty consistently. Other than that, I'd give it the green light.

[quote who="BoobzTwo" reply="241" id="2938860"]I cannot find it in me to compare WWII with Iraq on any level.[/quote] First, thank you, I always appreciate when these threads turn into a civilized discussion. And yeah, I do know what you mean. But, I think that if you look a little bit, there is a fair analogy to be made between the Jewish population of Germany/Poland/elsewhere and the Kurds of Iraq. I'm not sure how the numbers stack up, exactly, but both populations were

[quote who="zigzag" reply="32" id="2938823"]That's brilliant. I'm putting that up in the kitchen at work.[/quote] I disagree. I think Marley said it best: "A hungry man is an angry man... a hungry mob is an angry mob." Leaving aside all of the evolutionary psych behind this, I know that when I'm f'ing hungry, I'm f'ing angry.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't mind getting rid of the custom cards altogether if it had a significant effect on memory management. I'd take a bigger map any day.

[quote who="BoobzTwo" reply="234" id="2938699"]This is a good example American hypocrisy. American lives are important and Iraqi (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libyan) non-combatant civilians are less so? We can go to their countries and blow them to bits and if they fight back they are terrorists and we will crush them and kill most of the fighters that would have been needed for internal protection. I am tired of this self-righteous attitude that Americas’ shit doesn’t stink. Where

[quote who="myfist0" reply="28" id="2938743"]Corporations are our new masters to which we, all over this great planet are slaves. To divide most decent human beings to fight and die for wealth we shall never see. It is time to release the entire earth of this great and destructive burden.[/quote] I agree. I've never understood why we need someone to tell us what to do, or why I have to spend all my prime years doing work for Big Corporation. We'd be much better off without all

I like this, too. Though I agree with Umbranoth that maybe some special tactics should be scaled with experience instead of unlocked. Also, it would be nice if training level could be attained through experience gain in battle as well as initial training. Now that I think about it, it doesn't really make much sense to do it any other way. Edit: Although I like this, the way that FE development is being run, I highly doubt that features suggested by the community are g

Honestly, most of my own effects last a few seconds at the most. Have you tried adding in the code for projectile effects with an invisible projectile animation? If you set the speed low enough, and there is a way to get the effect bound to the target to play before the projectile 'hits,' you might be able to get what you're looking for. If that doesn't work, it's probably hard-coded. Also, slightly off-topic, I'm kind of curious as to what you've c

I really appreciate that the Lifesteal function works now, but it would be even better if there was a way to set a custom loss:gain ratio. That way it could be used to create custom spells that either: 1) Damage you, heal me (like it is now) 2) Damage me, damage you more 3) Damage me, heal friendly unit Better still if the AI could use it effectively.

Following this thread is more fun than playing Elemental. That is all.

Possibly to see how you did it? Personally, I really liked your recruitable monster mod, but I probably won't try it until the AI can use it.

You know, this has to be one of my favorite threads. Honest situation reports that include what the internal line of thinking is on a given topic reminds me of why I like your company. I'd still like to see a couple of low-cost-high-reward modding functions added for FE, but appreciate that you want a fun core experience above all else.

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="114" id="2937416"]This thread is convincing me to buy & try Dominions 3. [/quote] I'd recommend trying the demo. As far as I know, you can play a full game with a limited selection of faction. My quick impression is that it's a very deep (sometimes confusing) game that would be much better if single player had tactical battles.

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="20" id="2937295"]Sorry guys, it's disappointing on this end as well. Our first priority has to be deliver a solid, fun core experience. When we've accomplished that, it will give us the opportunity to flesh out the other parts of the game. As you all know, the launch of Elemental was rough, and being a small company means its impossible to address everything we want to at the same time. Jon [/quote] Yeah, that's di

Hmm... have you tried messing around with the EffectDelay tag (maybe a negative number)? It's an outside shot, but the only thing that comes to mind.

Yeah, I agree. I understand that this isn't a top priority, but hopefully it's still on the list somewhere.

To continue with my philosophy of only addressing posters that are willing to engage at a more than superficial level: Also, what about the dinosaurs? If the Bible had said: "You won't believe this right away, but, one day you will discover that before I tried creating Man, I messed around with giant lizards. You'll find their bones eventually," then I wouldn't have any problem with believing. It's some food for thought.