Tamren

Realtime is like listening to a podcast, you listen to speech as it is played. You are allowed to stop, rewind and pause whenever you want unless someone else is also listening. Turn based is like reading a book. You have all the time in the world to read and digest each page, and you decide when to move on. Continuous turn based is like reading a book, but having someone else flip the pages every 30 seconds or so. If 30 seconds isn't enough to read and digest that page, then its too

There is a flaw in your case. Games are not about what is better, only what is fun. Argueing for TBS over RTS is like argueing for black and white over colour.

Speaking of MoM the race you pick at the start didn't really affect the endgame because you could capture other cities and produce units from other races. There were a handful of things that picking races would affect but they were invisible and most players didn't even know they existed. For example the amount of unrest in conquered cities was measured against your original race. Everyone gets along with halflings but dark elves are hated by everyone. Klackons in particular are almost imposs

One of my biggest worries is that the combat will be overly strategic. The combat in Galciv 2 could be described as entirely strategic. You basically send your fleets against another fleet, hear some dice rolling in the background and then get told what happened the next day. The combat in Sins is a bit more tactical but everything happens at such a slow pace that "twitch" controls are not needed. For the combat in elemental, I don't mind having to throw dice by hand. I just want the

If fine with anything as long as we don't have to rely on plot coupons.

Its an interesting concept but I can only see it working locally. Like you said, tuck away the noisy hardware into another room and stream it to the room in your house you play the game. Over the internet "as with TV" is probably a pipe dream. Movies already require ridiculous amounts of bandwidth and there is talk of the internet "running out".

neat!

Sounds great. :)

Well the idea was that units wouldn't have to mesh exactly, once the "octagons" that each puts down overlap they are in range to attack each other. The victor doesn't move into the tile its opponent occupied because there are no tiles. But its ackward all the same, we might as well stick witht he 7 and 5 square tile system.

What if we did use octagons but scrapped the grid. Think of it this way, you stand in the middle of the octagon. 1 point of movement will take you to the edge of any face on the octagon. You have 8 directions to move in and one movement point will make you travel the exact same distance no matter which direction you pick. Once you have moved you place down another octagon at which point you can pick another face to move towards or simply keep going in the same direction. This allows f

Exactly. The DM would control the flow of the story. His skill as a DM would be the ability to keep the story going, period, until it reaches is destination. For example the DM says : "the players must move from A to B" and a mountain is in the way. The job of the player is to reach the end of the story and the DM's job is to make the process interesting. When the players say "we dig a tunnel" the DM does NOT say "rocks fall, everyone dies" . Not only is that being a

I have much the same worries about the system. I will be happy if we get Mace/Axe/Swords/Pikes/Bow men, but not happy if we get generic soldiers with + bonuses to something or other.

20 pounds for a greatsword?!?! [e digicons]:S[/e] You'd have problems finding a sledghammer that heavy.

[quote who="Zoologist03" reply="1" id="2104880"]Reduced 99%Original 575 x 400 This thing would be awesome if it could display without requiring you to be in a dark basement. ~Zoo[/quote] Just wait until you knock the projector over and the lazer beam cooks your eyes...

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="14" id="2095282"]- Why are starting settlements being created on dungeons?!?!?! [/quote] Maybe someone tripped and spilled a bit of Dwarf Fortress spice into the Elemental soup.

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="2" id="2104264"]We're not sure what percentage you mean by saying, "rare"... but I hope 98% of my battles won't be just humans verses humans. Ideally the gamer should have a setting where he can choose the percentage of fantasy creatures available on the map before starting each game.[/quote] I wouldn't mind the rarity, at least in the beginning. If humans are the main focus then they would recieve the most attention and detail. Ev

But octagons don't tesselate [e digicons]>_>[/e]

Hexes are better at games with a much larger scale like fantasy general where units travel large distances over land before fighting. In more "tactical" battle spaces squares are superior.

"Infiltration" sounds about right. Diplomacy and espionage go hand in hand.

Great stuff. Discipline and experience are what seperates the men from the boys. Its nice to see this game take that into account, as many do not.

I wonder what the new expansion will be called. "Alliance" has already been done. "Unity" is taken as well.

The beauty of a DM controlled story is that the story ends when the DM says it ends. If the players derail the story and make it crash and burn that doesn't count. If the quest scripting engine is robust enough the DM could drop down various story conditions during a normal game. There could be a big invasion from another continent and a story based quest to repel it. IE kill the general/head honcho guy of the invading civilization. The player who manages to pull it off gets the prest

Heh, I always get tempted to become frothy mouthed whenever anyone compares modern sports fencing to medieval combat. I mean just consider the following: The swords used are bendy, blunt and have no blades. "wounds" are limited to very specific legal touch zones and slashing hits are ignored entirely. The participants must stand on a linear track and can't leave it. Eye protection. As soon as someone hits the other guy, the ma

Interesting stuff. Are these considered guidelines or skills? Terraforming for example could be used to plant an orchard where there was none before. But would tree planting be considered a "terraforming" power or part of the skill itself? I ask this because there are just so many ways each power could be utilized. Putting essense into a hero could mean imbueing them directly with essense, or it could be the act of giving them an amulet with some of your essense in it. The difference

This would be just perfect for an alternate mode of the game, just like how L4D has Versus. Just off the top of my head there are two ways you could have fun with this: 1. 7vs1: Every player starts out with a modest civilizations, they are all allied in one unbreakable alliance. Opposing them is "god", one (optional!) player who directs (but does not control) a supremely powerful AI civilization. The object of the game is for the 7 allied players to unite and defeat the AI.</p