Kravick3

What settings during random map creation determines how frequent you'll run into land you can settle on? Much like in Gal Civ 2, I find that having lots of land to create new settlements on just creates a lot of tedium, in that you have to micromanage to many cities. However, at the same time, I've also had maps that have next to no usable land for creating cities. I looked in the online manual but didn't find anything that answers my question.</

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="86" id="3210310"]Yes, since unexpected loss of internet is ALWAYS a possibility, Steam should ALWAYS default to off-line mode when the internet doesn't work. And it should not download ANY updates until off-line mode is turned off, MANUALLY.[/quote] I would think this would be the case, but it doesn't work that way. Or at least it didn't for me. Steam absolutely refused to let me play the game I purchased until

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3178033"]It is never more "ethical" to pirate something. Pirates are the lowest form of scum on the Internet, particularly those who rationalize their shittiness.[/quote] [quote who="kryo" reply="13" id="3177999"] Quoting enoeraew37, reply 12it is more ethical to pirate than to pay No such thing. If you don't like it, grow up and abstain.[/quote] I must disagree with both of you. Now be

This is actually a carry over from previous versions. I was going to report it sooner but I've been preoccupied lately. Whenever I cast the death magic spell Corruption on any shard to turn it into a death shard it causes the shard to vanish. If I hit the Next Turn button and I click on the space where the shard used to be I do get an option to build a death shard temple, but there isn't a shard showing in the square. Once I start construction

[quote who="MightyM79" reply="52" id="3067106"] Quoting Kravick3, reply 50The download keeps interrupting for some reason. I've tried downloading the game 7 times now and every time it gets to about 50-60 MB downloaded, the download closes and says the file finished downloading. Obviously it hasn't if says it only downloaded about 50 MB. I understand there are probably a lot of people downloading this file right now but why does it keep disconnecting like this?&

The download keeps interrupting for some reason. I've tried downloading the game 7 times now and every time it gets to about 50-60 MB downloaded, the download closes and says the file finished downloading. Obviously it hasn't if says it only downloaded about 50 MB. I understand there are probably a lot of people downloading this file right now but why does it keep disconnecting like this? No, not using a router.

[quote who="Aeon221" reply="14" id="3043156"]I mean sure this game is free and all, but maybe you guys should cast Summon Standards or possibly research Modern Gaming. [/quote] Modern gaming is terrible. Its what gave us Call of Duty 8. I would very much like it if developers would STOP dumbing games down. The RPG genre is an absolute mess as it is. Taking away stats just turns games into a FPS clone but with swords, much like Skyrim.

Middle Market games are primarily what I buy. I don't buy AAA titles any more. Oblivion was the last one. AAA titles are marketed on consoles as well as PCs. This means the game has to be dumbed down for the console audience for fear of it not selling as well. Middle market games also tend to bring more than just graphics to the table. I don't care about stupendous graphics. My primary concern is if the game is fun and it has replay-ability.&n

The bigger the better. Unfortunately, the largest maps in War of Magic seem more medium sized then large. I realize of course this is due to memory limitations though. I always played gigantic maps in Gal Civ 2.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="21" id="2880186"] I'm not sure how popular our concept of an RPG would be. We're talking pretty old school stuff. No first person. Just old third person, party (Baldur's Gate / older Ultima). Very niche.[/quote] DO IT! DO IT NOW! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AND RIGHT AND ALL THAT JUNK DO IT NOW! You have NO idea how much I would like to see a modern make old school top down isometr

[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="51" id="2863232"]Holy shit. 2k has no issues employing lunatics and fanboys and people blame Jon Shaffer? That reminds me of the UT 3 fiasco only 100 times worse.[/quote] What was the UT3 fiasco you speak of? I never really paid attention to it all that much but I did hear about it. I'm still not sure what happened though.

For me its a toss up between Fallout 3 fanboys and Civ 5 fanboys. But the Civ 5 fanboys actually made me not want to buy the game period, so I have to give the award to them. I stopped by the 2k forums a few months back asking how the game compared to Galactic Civilizations 2 since I have never played any game in the Civilization series. I ended up getting flamed by a bunch of people for daring to compare a Civ game to any other game. They acted l

Edit: How the heck did I end up posting this in the wrong thread? [e digicons]X|[/e] I don't see a way of deleting this to fix my mistake either. Welp, might as well fix it by contributing to this thread properly. [e digicons]:(O[/e] GC2 has definitely taken up a lot of my time in the past. Its a good game, but there were a few things I didn't like about it. Specifically the way the combat worked. Combat in GC2 i

The area of the game I feel most needs work is the AI, however you have already expressed concern with this in another thread and have already said you'll be working on it extensively after 1.1 so this isn't what I will discuss. Instead I want to talk about tactical combat. More specifically, diversifying the weapons. I am going to make a few references to MOM. I know, Elemental isn't MOM. However, there is one thing that I feel this game lacks t

If you have any mods, you need to delete them. If you are playing an old save from 1.07, you need to give up on it and start a new game. I had the same problem. Icecrowns mod was the culprit. It is not compatible with 1.08 because of the way the mod works. He didn't just change the spell graphics but also copied all the spell information from 1.07 and made it a part of the mod itself.

[quote who="mondos" reply="24" id="2776742"] quoting post + Organized ability added to general special abilities What are the general special abilities and how do I get them? I've read some post saying Organise is OP but I figured it was just a vocal minority and it would stay as is, my personal preference is that the Organise ability stays in as the pacing of moving an army 1 or 2 tiles at a time is frustrating gameplay particulary on

The only problem I have with Elemental right now is the AI. Its pretty bad even on the hardest difficulty. Stardock has fixed most of the big issues already with performance and stability (still some OOM issues though for some people). However, Brad has already said in this thread that he isn't happy with the AI. He has said a few weeks ago that he will be taking a sabbatical after 1.1 rolls out and working full time on the AI to make it truly something to be proud of.

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="7" id="2775243"] 1 more point I should let you in on. You seem to be under the misconception that you get 1 of a resource by researching the tech. This is incorrect the research lets you see All of that resource that is hidden in the world.[/quote] No it pretty much places the resources inside your territory. Getting those techs is one of the first thing I do when I start a new game. I always get at least 2 levels in adventuring f

[quote who="Baleurion" reply="98" id="2774776"]Awesome earth spells!! Is this 1.08 compatible? Im guessing not (im too early lol), ill check back tomorrow [/quote] Right now its not. While the spell graphics do work, every spell cast will miss unless you use auto resolve. Turning the mod off (or deleting the files) allows spells to hit normally again in tactical combat. I have no idea if its the mod itself or if Stardock broke something with mods in ge

[quote who="TS22" reply="7" id="2775063"]Yeah the issue seems to be with the bugfix mod and the icecrown mods. I deleted both and spells work fine now.[/quote] Yep, this is the problem. I had a brand new game for 1.08 and only had Icecrowns spell graphic mod. Every single spell I cast would miss. After disabling mods and deleting the files in the mod directory (and making a new game again) I was able to hit with spells.

[quote who="BLoads" reply="4" id="2763197"]They produce food because the farmer driving it has to stop and shoot buffalo, even though he can only carry 200lbs of it back to his wagon. Mary and Todd have cholera.[/quote] I always ended up with dysentery and broken wagon axles.

The order was incorrect. You have failed to summon Captain Planet to save us from the BP oil spill.

[quote who="ConQueso" reply="17" id="2753429"] Windows 7 Home version, FULL! $180.00 Windows 7 UPGRADE version! $109.00[/quote] You know this didn't even occur to me. You can simply just put the old OS on a new computer.

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="14" id="2753311"]Do you ever get the $$ from the old OS you upgraded your computer from?[/quote] A program isn't a tangible object where as metal can be recycled by melting it down and reforging it into something else. Yeah, you'll lose some metal in the process I'm sure but you're still capable of reusing it.

I'm having the opposite problem. The game is way to easy regardless of what setting I choose. AI tends to go to war with me almost immediately after I make first contact and then never make any units, or they just aimlessly wander around with Sions. I never get attacked unless its a sovereign doing the suicide maneuver.