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[quote who="Twohawks" reply="9" id="2764473"] Actually that's not quite true.. originally it was developed as SP or at very least an SP focused game ... there are some threads on this as well as an audio interview some where.. Brad explained that the beta testers convinced them to do it.. however that was looong before I got in to beta 3 so.. and has been a promised part of game for a good long while now.. here is one of the threads.. I wish i could re

You guys know the game was always planned to be multiplayer and the code is already there, right? Someone isn't slaving away building MP into the game tonight.

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="139" id="2764198"] You're comparing contracted-for software (say, for banks) and off-the-shelf software (say, for computer games) -- apples&oranges. Compare off-the-shelf bank software and off-the-shelf computer game software, holding all else equal so the comparison is apples&apples -- would that bank accept said software if was in the 'release now and fix later' condition that many computer games companies do today? We

[quote who="Belizan" reply="59" id="2764369"] Well, I wasn't talking about the perspective of Stardock delivering what they promised. I think that topic has been pretty well beaten to death, shot in the head and left in the desert to feed the vultures. Yes, they (insert your favorite invective here) messed up the release of Elemental as badly as anyone cares to state. I think that's pretty unequivocal. The question here, I think is, to get from where Elementa

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="21" id="2763749"]The problem is that the term "beta" is thrown around too casually and with little regard for what it actually means. [/quote] Yeah... like say, Elemental "beta" 1. :P

If it's anything like Civ, you can save and resume the game later.

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="20" id="2762308"]You know the game isn't that bad once you find out it was designed to be played with a Gamepad and not a keyboard/mouse. Plugged in a 360 controller and tried it again and it plays pretty good. Though I did just find out that in an effort to throttle game advancement speeds (ie leveling) they are only allowing 8 thresholds (a threshold being however much xp they deem it should be) per week of 100% experience gain followed by 7 more thresholds o

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="35" id="2763282"] Right because two weeks of not having a feature advertised on the box, in no uncertain terms, is so much better than 3 weeks... and since it's not on yet, we're sure its going ot be out in two weeks right.I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt just this one time. Thus I assume English isn't your first language and I will also assume you don't fail at reading comprehension. Now with those things assumed, why don't you head over to the

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="30" id="2763326"] A lot of people also thought the world was flat. Generally, I find the more people support something, the more wrong it's likely to be. The problem is the scale is off, not the system. 1-N works fine if the maximum value for N is limited. Without it it's impossible to balance, there's far too much randomness in the system. Limit N and you can use hitpoints to balance it out - if the maximum attack is 10, then a

You guys seem to be having the same problem we had in Canada. It's supposed to be available, but nobody has it. Something didn't work out with distribution.

Damnit Nick. :P But you get the general point I hope. :)

Multiplayer is on the box. At some point you have to enable it. I mean, really. It's been 3 weeks since launch. It's time. It'd be pretty out there if Civ 5 managed to have working MP before Elemental. It's not like the people asking for it want a whole lot. People aren't asking for special modes or custom tech trees or tactical combat disabled. We just want the SP game with more humans. (Stardock wants to do those things anyway, but I really don't think it's a good idea at this point

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="98" id="2761626"] The battles in the Civ games are all about RNG basically. It's possible to beat a tank with a warrior, and I don't like it. ..as for tactical battles: I think it's a must have in a strategy game, because it adds a lot to the gameplay.....but that is my subjective opinion of course. [/quote] That's completely false in Civ 4. The battles are pretty deterministic, with some RNG thrown in. But if you ever have a warrior be

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="4" id="2762776"]We should have a poll to decide whether or not we should do a poll. [/quote] Based on the way the government works, we need a poll to elect members to a committee, who will then meet and decide if we should have a poll. They will then form a subcommittee to come up with questions, passed back to the committee to be put to a poll. If the questions are approved in that poll, then we can have a poll. Just throw i

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="215" id="2762029"]Wait a second people got upset because Brad likes Avatar: The last Airbender? That show owns holy crap you nerds will complain about everything. Hahahaha. [/quote] Yeah. I just saw that thread recently and the way it went was downright baffling. Not only is it a good show, but it was only being used as an example as part of a point. I mean, WTF?

The upside to a shared casting pool is that aside from fixing more casters = more mana regen, it lets you have big spells. You can't have 100 mana spells right now, because it's effectively impossible to get any caster to that point. With the new system? You can. Make wisdom become your "casting points" or how much mana you can channel in a turn, and combat is pretty similar. What you gain is that the spell of making can take say 5 turns. AoW 2's casting system was pretty much built a

You're sure that system won't play it? I'd check the demo, you'd be surprised how inaccurate requirements sometimes are. Demo is coming out the same day as the game is.

[quote who="dalamb" reply="88" id="2761154"]It seems to me one element people haven't commented on is how the forums have "changed." Did the change coincide with the release? I just started early last week, so I don't know about "before": was the Beta community less inflammatory? Are the majority of flames coming from people who joined after the pre-release?[/quote] The change actually started a month or two before release, but the biggest change was at release, yes. What

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="11" id="2759607"] Or even better get rid of Square tiles in tactical combat and replace them with a hex gridmap.[/quote] Even if you assume they wanted to change that, the technical work involved now that everything is built (and designed artistically) for square tiles is huge. It's highly unlikely, and given the option it's not the area where the work would do the most good anyway. In regards to combat speed, yes. It needs to d

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="182" id="2760931"] Generally, to fix a problem it first has to be acknowledged. While generally acknowledgments regarding mistakes made have been made, at the time of posting of these points, it's not been clear these points have been among said acknowledgments. If you disagree, that's fine, but that doesn't mean bringing this up is unreasonable, as there's room for disagreement on that.[/quote] <a href="https://forums.elementalgam

[quote who="Fearzone" reply="56" id="2760683"] Quoting tevans6220, reply 43Brad I have an idea. Instead of having praise threads and critical threads all over the place, why not start and sticky two threads for just that purpose? With the understanding that people posting those types anywhere else in the forums will have their post deleted. It would make it easier on you and your moderators. You know I think maybe have a sticked and unmoderated "Elemental Sucks" thread that pe

They should be listed in the credits IIRC. They were inspired by the style of Alphonse Mucha.

I like it, actually. It's one way to make sieges effective. If you're under attack and can't leave your cities, you can't wander around fighting monsters to build up more gold, soyou're taking an economic hit that way. It's kind of strange to make more money from killing things then from gold mines, but it seems to work.

Agree totally. This mechanic sucks. Aside from the AI problems, where's the fun in spending the whole game building up a strong sovereign only to be told once war time starts "oh go park that guy in your capital and don't use him/her offensively"? This fails the single most important test in gaming: the fun test.

[quote who="eldrone" reply="139" id="2760122"]The irony with this thread is males deciding what females would find good or not. Stand still for awhile and imagine that females might want to have some more exotic armours. And I'm assuming most females will not want to dress up in a bag and shapeless metal tin can in games, they want to have things that define shapes, they want to dress up. Stop assuming that things are automaticly sexist. I ag