Cryptomancer

In my case, at approximately the same time as Cymsdale, the game crashes during the turn when the first pioneer has been created, very early in the tutorial. Moving the mouse cursor from my sovereign to the city crashed the game and trashed my computer by forcing it to execute a catastrophic reboot! This has happened the two times I have tried the tutorial, on the turn when the pioneer was created. My system has a Radeon HD 5870 card, with the most recent drivers. No other game that I

I have not played at Elemental during the past 10 months, and I have not posted on the forum during that hiatus, even though I have regularly checked in (without logging in) to read about the evolution of the game. I have been a faithful Stardock customer and Brad Wardell fan since 1999. My hiatus was not a negative reaction to the state of the Elemental game a few months after its original release. I sto

[quote quoting="post"] Start[ing] Monday, 3 new people join Stardock and are being added to the Elemental team. And two of them are pretty well known and the other is an amazing game developer that we've bee[n] fortunate enough to find. [/quote] Awesome! This Frogboy news illustrates how much Stardock puts Creativity before and beyond Business.

[quote who="RikazeMA" reply="9" id="2811660"] Buy, if for no other reason, then to support Stardock, who has a commitment to making excellent games. And they will make Elemental an excellent game. [/quote] I second that. The Stardock Elemental team is working hard on version 1.10 : it will be the beginning of the game's excellence. Most games are dropped by producers once they made their initial profits. Stardock will

[quote who="Renevent" reply="46" id="2807473"] Been a PC gamer for 20 years now and out of 100's of games that I have purchased the vast majority of games work just fine. Saying 9/10 games these days are broken on release is crazy...either that or just really really bad luck (or crappy system?). [/quote] I have purchased hundreds of games since May 1993 (MoO) ... and most of them did not "work just fine". Your experience & my own experience only represent

@ Cryptomancer > Who cares about your personal preferences ?! Why don't you go troll on some other forum ?

[quote who="Serendreus" reply="5" id="2806137"] I was programming DirectX test stuff on my notebook, where it run without issues, but wouldn't start on my desktop system. No error message, no debug information, it would just plain crash (and my assembly sucks, I can't debug with that yet). So what I had to do was reinstall some C++ Runtimes, even though the same version was already installed. Maybe some library was corrupt? I don't know. And that was an easy issue to figure out... still

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="176" id="2803697"] I would rather have detailed lore than simple lore. [/quote] That's your preference. My own is that I do not care about the whole Elemental lore -- not one bit. I am only interested in playing single-player "skirmishes" against comps. They can be Elves or Dwarves for all I care. The current factions and their lore leave me cold. (Going back to my game of Heroes of m

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="80" id="2804537"] HOMM5 is my game of choice , in spite of the dismal reviews of the expansions (which I totally don't get). [/quote] Heroes of Might & Magic 5 / Tribes of the East (version 3.1) is the very best game I have ever played since my first PC game, in 1994 -- it was MoO. Its 3D graphics engine was coded by Russian developer Nival Interactive before the 1996 release of version 1.0, and I

I already have stopped playing CIV 5, and I expect that the upcoming Elemental 1.1 will be a blast. In the meanwhile ... I am playing Heroes of Might & Magic 5 version 3.1 -- available at a very low price on Impulse!

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="10" id="2800312"] This balance thing is for folks who favor multi-player and/or want to 'win' versus an AI instead of just wanting AIs to make the Nth game you play seem new and interesting. [/quote] As a very solitary, non-multiplayer gamer, I agree 110% with that statement. I never aim to 'win' versus the A.I. As the poster states, it is all about experiencing "new and interesting" gameplay, in dynamic interaction with the A.I

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="2796893"] Elemental has far greater potential than GalCiv II ever had [/quote] A very, very bold statement ! I do not dare say that you are wrong, but I do hope that the Future will prove you ... right. Allow me, at the moment, to be a tad skeptical -- considering that I perceive GalCiv II as being a masterpiece.

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="21" id="2794648"] Ideally [the maximum number of allowed cities & outposts] would be something you could adjust when creating the game [...] Just one slider to scale the city spam from low to high. [/quote] I agree very much with such a game-setup option. Personally, I prefer games with fewer cities -- for all players. I should be able to setup such a type of game. But instead of a slider "from l

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2791255"]I will say that most of my AI work is being reserved for v1.1 as I've done so much surgery on it since release. But v1.09 fixes some bugs in it ( v1.1 by contrast is a major overhaul of the strategic AI system ).[/quote] Quoted from the Dev-Journals section of the forum, from its 1.09-change-log thread.

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="18" id="2793588"] Quoting searro, reply 10 : "So if 1.1 is the real game , what was the purpose of the previous versions ? " Good question, maybe Neo can answer it for you. [/quote] Sharp point made, MOIISKA ! Who said that the upcoming version 1.1 was going to be The Real Game ? Who, then, defines "reality" ? The purpose of the previous versions was to correct the flaws & upgrade the features of ve

[quote who="otakucore2" reply="8" id="2793456"]Hostility? Apathy, maybe; but there's no hostility here.[/quote] I agree with the Original Poster : there was no hostility in the thread's initial post. Apathy? Yes, in my case. I'm having much more fun with Civilization 5 . But I have an extreme faith in the Stardock team : When 1.1 comes out, I shall go back to Elemental .

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="267" id="2783780"] [Quoting TLamming, reply 259 :] "People who pc game and have problems should probably format their machines, install the latest drivers and then test. Civ V is orders of magnitude in better shape than Elemental was." [...] Please don't ever work in customer service. That is the most ridiculous and lazy answer gamers get from customer support. Oh, two units meet up and don't calculate right, yep go wipe your m

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="41" id="2782949"] For 1.09, I am lobbying to have something put in that goes way back to an original concept that got lost and that is, using your citizens as a resource (population is still a resource, it's just not used for anything). This way, we could begin migrating back to the original concept tha tyou can build multiple buildings in a given city as long as you have the resource (available citizens) to make use of it. This encourages fewer ci

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[quote quoting="post"] I see elements from various games i have played such as dungeonsiege2/neverwinter nights2 and lionheart.... but none of those are turn based games? Loved all three of those games but Neverwinter nights 2 really needed more flexible character development being so complex, and containing all those sneaky prerequisites that jump out and punch you in the face as you go along...horrid! I have played turn based games that also have real time elements such as Lords of the

[quote who="Panda_Power" reply="2" id="2778155"]Now that's what you call amazing customer service! [/quote] Yep ! Stardock CEO "Frogboy" is extremely dedicated and hard working : posting and offering to test on a Saturday evening ! That's why I am convinced this game will become awesome. I look forward. I am not interested in the past.

Well ... In my case, neither 1.08 & 1.08b were effectively applied. The 15MB downloads, extractions & installations went fine ... but once the whole processes were finished, Impulse still indicated that I had 1.07 and that 1.08 (or 1.08b) were available !?! Launching the game also indicated 1.07. I tried a few times without success. I'll try again in 15 hours ...

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="46" id="2772219"] Thursday is our typical release update window which is what I'd plan on [for version 1.08's release.] [/quote] I really don't want to come across as a Stardock fanboy, but after reading all of Stardock-CEO "Frogboy" 's posts, on this thread, I find his feedback efforts very awesome.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="13" id="2765645"]This is amazing.[/quote] Absolutely ! Lots of dedicated work ! [e digicons]k1[/e]

[quote who="Sethai" reply="3" id="2760597"] [...Y]ou have two paralell economies. if you're playing the adventure game it's barely enough [when you depend on loot from monsters to buy high-quality equipment], but if you're playing the unit/conquest/strategy game [monster-derived revenue is] way too much. the two need to be brought into line.[/quote] Noteworthy observation + recommendation.