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Yep. :)

There's a few reasons: 1. Stardock's earned a reputation over the years for supporting games and making them good over the long haul. People think that can happen again because it's happened before. It's a loyal fanbase. Some of them feel betrayed, which makes them very passionate. (And the still loyal ones are equally passionate.) 2. How many games in this genre do you actually see these days? The only one in years is Elemental, and a Civ 4 mod. Fans of the genre want it to s

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="76" id="2753190"]There was ONE big problem with the BETA. At no point, ever, in the beta was there a GAMEPLAY beta. Never, ever. I was absolutely astounded at the ability of other players to make comments on stuff like what should go in city building when it was, actually, totally irrelevant to winning the game. I don't think I ever cast a single spell in the whole beta because there was no point to it. I just went to build a melee sovereign

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="68" id="2753173"] That really depends. Defense scales with DEX, and if it has a minimum roll which also scales with DEX, it will be able to keep up with weapon advances on squads as long as there's a defense roll for each attack roll. Basically, due to the stat bonus the Champion/Sovereign has a much higher armor than a mundane unit, and with better rolls (like 20-40 instead of 0-40) rolling against each attack from a member of a squad the single champi

[quote who="lackoo1111" reply="314" id="2753051"]" We're not going to be leaving this game to work on some other game. " Demigod deja vu .[/quote] Demigod was actually made by someone else, despite Brad being more visible then any of the GPG people from it. GalCiv 2 and Sins got better support.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="63" id="2753147"] I don't really agree with this. Most mechanics are solid, just need a good balance and scaling pass. All the games you listed are purely subjective, too. I played AoW:SM, but I don't really think it's essential for Elemental to model anything from it. I played FFH2, and don't particularly think anything needs to be in Elemental from it, either. It's entirely possible to tweak Elemental's tactical battles to work with the current stat system

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="58" id="2753126"] I wonder though, what remedy? Is the game really 'fixable' (well ultimately it is) by patches? Or is a 'recall' more along the lines of what you are thinking. Clearly it's not a 'recall' in the traditional sense of 'send back your baby formula', but in the sense that the product was clearly not what it 'needed' (by your definition, not mine) to be. I'm on the side that thinks the game play mechanics are utter

There's no ETA for LAN support, but the custom servers we expect to also enable LAN play are coming at some point. As Annatar mentioned, hot seat was *never* promised and never got more then a "maybe".

[quote who="cattess" reply="19" id="2752709"] "The problem I have is that when I pay $50 for a game, I expect it to be complete - not the utter mess that the current game is. If I wanted to wait until February to play it, I would have kept my money until February." I understand...and you would have had $50.025 in Fenruary, and would have spent the money then, and had a game that was in worse shape than it will be in Febuary under the current process....I am claiming you are be

[quote quoting="post"] I have a hero who has the merchant master talent and a high INT but no mana. Just wondering can he ever learn spells or is the main character the only one who can ever cast spells and has mana. thx [/quote] Yep. Your sovereign has an "Imbue" spell. You can use that on the overland map to target the hero you want to have spells. That transfers 3 essence to the target and turns them into a spellcaster. (At level up yo

To be fair, we don't actually know *why* August was chosen. I'm a regular around here, and I don't even know *when* August was chosen, let alone why. It's one thing if someone sat around in July and said "hey lets release next month!" It's quite another if that decision was made back in January when it looked like August was a doable schedule. And I don't know what you want out of them, honestly. BoogieBac has been nothing but straightforward about the issues and what they're do

[quote who="Jandurin" reply="23" id="2752629"]lol i think you're reading too much into it. [/quote] Yeah. Seems like one of those weeks at Stardock HQ where even when they try to reassure people it goes wrong. :(

From release, presumably. "Content" is going to be in the form of patches that add stuff as part of the patch, not an extra DLC pack that some will get free access to and others won't. The paid expansions will be an add-on thing.

[quote who="fsovercash" reply="3" id="2752590"]It's a good thing car manufacturers don't work this way. Otherwise, you might find out the car you just bought doesn't come with brakes. 'They're going to be added in a month or so, we promise. You can still drive it until then. You just might have a few problems along the way.'[/quote] Different industries are different. When someone like Walmart tells someone a lot smaller (like Stardock) that they'll give you shelf space in August but

It's interesting to compare the message in this thread with someone saying the exact opposite around the same posting time . I'll admit, I'm pretty baffled by your comments. Would the Reductio ad absurdum version be that they should release it the instant they have something that compiles? :P People who wanted access to the game (ie: people who like the game in your breakdown) already had it. It was called b

The bar at the top middle *should* be the totals, except for food (since you can't stockpile food). If you're seeing per turn instead, something very odd is going on.

IIRC there's supposed to be more campaign coming in one of the planned content updates, that would be free content. I don't know what the exact plans are yet for that stuff, but there's no point where you'll have to pay for a patch to the game once you buy the game.

[quote who="howell_6_2000" reply="45" id="2752487"] .i can understand the people angry about multiplayer these are things that could have been helped with a delay of release. Then People would have been Mad because of the delay. I don't think they could win for losing on that.[/quote] "A game is only late until it ships." Some people would have been annoyed by a delay, but when you come out and say "it's not in a state that meets our standards

Once they're recruited, you can take them to the item shop and buy some gear. :)

It's just a poor choice of wording. What they were trying to say (and I've seen another thread on the same question confirm it) is what Annatar said. They'll be patching the game for at least a year. There's no extra charge for those patches. It sounds like there will be a couple of free content patches (ie: more campaign) as well before a paid expansion, but that doesn't affect the bug fix patch cycle.

Here you go.

[quote who="searro" reply="8" id="2751652"]I personnaly i like the idea of wandering around killing stuff and having my wife get pregnant ) Wonder where the kids come from [/quote] It's even funnier as a female sovereign leading the army, because it's *you* who gets pregnant and has the kid in the same turn you're fighting stuff.

Probably get a faster response in the general forum then the multiplayer one, but last news was that it'll be today sometime. (Note that "today" has around 15 hours left in it in SD's timezone.)

[quote who="dchalfont" reply="30" id="2752018"]I haven't bought the game yet, launch reviews were not too kind. I don't like the idea of the game I buy being outdated and in dire need of multiple patches on day 1....kind of defeats the purpose of having a disk at all. So much for all the pro single player ( no DRM ) aspects of the game when you have to go online to update the sucker. I find it more than a little bit amusing that this game launched as it did when B

[quote who="DKL" reply="179" id="2752149"] Quoting Xan, reply 168Elemental has its flaws but it's a masterpiece compared to MOO3 when it launched. And only became marginally better because of fan patches later. So spare us the hater bullshit that Stardock is somehow getting cut a break. Oh really? I played MoO3 retail version, w/out any patches, and it worked. And MoO3 has muuuuuch more content and gameplay depth than Elemental. Maybe, someday, if Brad does not back out