[quote who="hewhocaves" reply="82" id="2898289"]You know what would be awesome to have in FE? multiplayer. I'm just surprised no one has mentioned it before. [/quote] It's the first comment of the thread. :P
[quote who="IBNobody" reply="64" id="2898124"]How many of you 'yes' people would honestly play TBS multiplayer mode for more than just a day or a week?[/quote] Played Civ 4 online for a couple of years. The gameplay works pretty well in coop because you can play with friends who also like the genre, and thus long games aren't a problem. So yeah, I don't see a problem there. Civ 4 worked quite well as a MP game, and nobody was complaining about it being gimped in SP.
[quote who="kapeman" reply="58" id="2897995"] Not sure if SD supports it, but I have seen many games that allow you to do LAN play with one purchased game.[/quote] They don't, in Elemental. Sins of a Solar Empire did. IIRC Demigod did too. (Though really since both of those had LAN support it wasn't realistic to try and stop it, but it's still a very player-friendly policy to allow it and helps get your friends into games.)
[quote who="kapeman" reply="43" id="2897829"] But doesn't everyone have some sort of a LAN these days?[/quote] That'd require the game to support LAN play, which it doesn't. Besides, hotseat only requires one copy of the game. Online requires one per player.
[quote who="TCores" reply="18" id="2897651"] They are second-guessing themselves. Where possible, they should leave the option to have these in place in the Advanced Options panel of game setup. Players that want X feature can have it, and if it really really sucks, they won't enable it in the end. This isn't just a gameplay decision, it's also a PR decision! Clearly a group of players wishes to shoot themselves in the foot*: allow them to do so, though not by default. By not
[quote who="kenata" reply="6" id="2897332"] As for MP, I wonder what percentage of Elemental players wish to play primarily MP, what percentage wish to play a couple of games, and what percentage don't want to play at all. I would bet that probably 1% want to play a lot of MP Elemental, 10% might want to play a game or two, and the vast majority have no desire at all to play multipler. If you were a game developer, would you reallocate the time and resources from SP to enhance MP under t
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="13" id="2897608"]What do people think of the new Impulse::Reactor announcement? Where people would pay less for the base game, but extra for any extra features they choose like MP? Best regards, Steven.[/quote] Not when it was already a full priced game that had "multiplayer" on the box, no. As a game where maybe the campaign mode costs $10 and MP costs $10? Maybe... but it'd have to be a decent implementation. I mean I play WoW, so
[quote who="Wizaerd" reply="50" id="2897229"]Here's a new and innovative idea for MP... Leave it out altogether!! That'd suit me just fine. [/quote] With how badly its supported in EWoM, that probably would have been preferable. Then people who wanted an MP game would have known ahead of time to look elsewhere.
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="12" id="2897071"] Quoting Whiskey144, reply 9 Also, Corvettes=WIN. I'm actually kind of worried about this. Sins already has too many small ships running around, I don't know how we are supposed to deal with something smaller than frigates. Though at least it sounds like they won't be primary combat ships.[/quote] Thats why I asked about multithreading. Yet more small ships running around will be really bad for performance. But if they can a
Far as I know, it doesn't work well at all if the unit isn't stationary, and it certainly won't be on a bus. Would probably work alright on a plane, except for the battery life. As for phones, what people forget is that most people already have a phone. It's not a $300 expense just to play games, it's something you're already getting for some other reason that also happens to play games. As the power of the phones keeps increasing, they reach a point where it's "good enough" for a lot
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2896622"]Civ V doesn't have quests or other things that take the player away from the main game.[/quote] AoW:SM does, and it manages to work as a multiplayer game. It also has tactical battles in MP, which EWoM is also missing. This doesn't make any sense. Where is the demand for this "Elemental-lite" competitive MP game? It's not on the forums, where people want the SP game only with humans > 1. It's not in EWoM right now, going by the c
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2896543"]2. Personal opinion on this: The MP is likely to increasingly go in a different direction to make it better for MP without gimping single player (quests in MP for instance not doable).[/quote] I'm having a hard time understanding why. All I ever wanted out of MP in EWoM was to be able to team up with a friend or two and play against a lot of AIs. I have a hard time believing that fewer people want to do something like that then want a heavil
1. Is the beta going to have everything enabled this time? 2. Is Multiplayer going to get all the stuff it's missing right now?
You have to spend 20 hours levelling your zerglings (or spend $15 at the item store) before you can learn the "hydralisk" talent. Of course, before you can deploy hydralisks you need to learn the plans for a hydralisk den building, and that requires you to do daily quests (in the form of a single player RTS level) to grind reputation with the hydralisk den builders (or spend $10 at the item store). Once you finish that, you can start on the mutalisk grind! Don't plan on banelings thou
Its interesting that Nintendo is rolling out an expensive handheld this expensive at the same time as the entire handheld game market is facing serious trouble from gaming on phones . I'm taking a pass on this one. I mostly play my DS on the bus going to/from work, and the 3d flat out won't work in that environment due to the bumps. So it's a drastically mor
Civ V patch? They fixing the AI?
[quote who="Abraxis-" reply="152" id="2895512"] Yeah, at CivFanatics they've really cracked down since Civ5 came out. I'm generally very civil in my postings (though not above constructive criticism), and had been been posting on CivFanatics for years without issue. Once Civ5 came out, oh boy. I found myself getting a warning and having my posts edited every time I went there until I eventually stopped posting. I suspect 2K's PR department handles much more t
[quote who="TCores" reply="10" id="2895291"] And the more limited your options will be. Dozens of triple AAA titles use Lua without slowing down the game to accomplish mission scripting. A lot of people advance the "don't give fans X tool because they might shoot themselves in the foot and make a crappy mod," and I tend not to buy the games of people who make that claim.[/quote] Any modding ability worth anything has the ability to lead to bad mods. There's mods for Wo
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="68" id="2895619"] Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 67... I like the smell of my own farts. The sulphur content is just right. I haven't read the last book yet, so as far as I know, Moiraine is still dead. Dead or alive, I'm sure she'd look down her nose at that sort of remark. What Nynaeve might say or do in response, I shudder to think...[/quote] Go read it. Right now!
[quote who="troglyte" reply="63" id="2894934"] I almost think E:WoM would be better off if they stopped trying to fix it and instead devoted their energy into making it into a modding platform, then leaving it for the community to fix. There's just so much balance problems and loose ends, but the core engine is full of possibility. Best case scenario we could end up with a dozen awesome variations of Elemental while SD continues to improve the engine and tools. I haven't given up hope
I dunno. The forum is about PC games. This is a PC game. OP is quite up front and honest about it. It's not like astroturfing where he pretends to be someone unrelated who just stumbled on the game. I don't really have a problem with it.
This is one thing that Civ 5 did REALLY well. The notifications that required attention came up as icons that you could deal with sometime during the turn, but not right away. The ones that you had to deal with still blocked your turn from ending until you took care of them, but they didn't pop up right away and interrupt what you're doing (or pop up and interrupt dealing with another popup). It's probably too late to do that in Elemental, but they could reduce the number of things th
[quote who="Alstein" reply="3" id="2893089"] Why was Impulse limited to 3 titles per week at the Start? Manning or bandwidth issues? [/quote] My guess is tools. When stuff is new, things tend to be done manually. If Impulse only has to get a couple games a week up, you don't need a lot of automation to do it. But it would take a lot of people to scale up a manual process. They probably invested in automation tools to require less human interaction to get
Hi. :) If you've got the Impulse client installed, just run that. You should have an Elemental download option in the games area. It downloads the most recent release version, so you will already have 1.1.
I thought that Ironclad didn't want to do another Sins game. I wonder what the announcement is going to be then?