Tridus

Personally I'd just make them wait. It's never bothered me in other games, though I'm usually playing coop. I use that chance to get a drink and change the TV channel. :)

[quote who="surlybob" reply="200" id="2731975"] Quoting jochance, reply 199Sigh... I agree with the essence of your post that gaming reviews are a total farce, but I really wish people would stop spewing this particular line of ignorance. Failing to frame limit is not the most optimal thing to do... You certainly don't "need" that umph for a menu. Still, this equates to "using hardware at 100% of it's potential caused it to fail". That is not a software flaw no m

You in Canada? They don't seem to be carrying it at all up here.

How do I build farms, mines, and research centers? These can be built on resource tiles (fertile land, iron mine, gold mine, lost library, and arcane... something?). Once you have a city border that includes it, click on the *resource tile* and you'll see the build option there. You can't build them from the city build screen.

The threshold is how many people have to be in a fight before it gives you the option of tactical combat. If you always want that option, set it as low as possible (should be the far left). :)

[quote who="asteroides" reply="1" id="2731958"]Is there a way to get a prompt to end turn? One of the most annoying things for me in this build: When i move the last of my units and the game ends the turn for me without me checking my buildings to verify if my reasearch options are set up properly[/quote] Yes. In the game options, disable "Auto End Turn". You'll have to click the end turn button yourself then, and you can use the idle unit/city

To propose, there's a wedding ring icon you click in the bottom left. I *think* it's when you have the appropriate person selected.

Since we've seen several of the same questions over and over again, we know there's some things that are confusing or different for new people. This thread is aimed at helping out. This first post will be an index to other answers. As I find answers to common questions I'll add them to the top post. Please feel free to either add a question and answer to this thread, OR post a link to someone else's good answers and I'll add them. :) <a hr

[quote who="Aseir" reply="8" id="2731883"]We honestly need a FAQ for starters. I'll be willing to contribute to it. THEN we can think about writing game guide.[/quote] Good idea. I'll go start a thread.

Ironically I was alt+tabbing out to tell a friend about how things were a lot more stable when I got the alt+tab crash bug. C'est la vie. There's a known issue with ATI hardware there. But when I didn't alt+tab I had no problems anymore, so it is definitely improved since before the last patch. I know I already posted, but the last game I just played had some neat stuff I think. I founded a city, went out to recruit some guys, got ambushed and nearly killed by a wandering thief.. imbu

It took a few alt+tabs before this came up. This last time I was tabbed out for quite a while, but I'm not sure if the timing is relevant. Win7 x64, ATI Radeon 5870. debug.err file: http://www.hiredgoons.ca/elemental/debug.err

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="16" id="2729761"]i heard steam refused to sell star ruler because it was too similar to another game on steam....which ever game that is....i dont know it. which is complete nonsense if you look at the amount of games on there anyway.[/quote] Yeah that's kind of silly considering how many random generic FPS games there are. :P

Sounds like a website bug. After you're logged in to the website, try going back to the Walmart page. Since you're logged in this time, it should let you enter the code.

Agreed about the "not fun" part of constant missing. There's a bunch of ideas to fix that, such as splitting hit and damage rolls into two things, and having a minimum damage if you manage to connect. You won't be able to one shot that guy in heavy armor, but you also just won't do nothing most of the time either.

[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="35" id="2731489"] No where in all the screenshots and videos (and descriptions) or on the game box does it say "*not available in muliplayer". IF full MP comes out with tactical, nobody will be happier than I and my friends; we will celebrate for a week; We will buy 4 more copies; we will sing praises on the forums. But until then, especially after the Demigod MP release, can anyone blame us for it sounding like "The checks in

[quote who="wynams" reply="18" id="2731500"]New to SD but was aware of them from GC2 praise (MOO fan). Not surprised by fan base that feel compelled to refute all criticism (valid or otherwise), but has any other SD release met this much day 1 issues? I don't know the answer to that as I have not made a habit of checking the pulse of SD on release day, but given the common denominator sentiment of fans/people who want to be fans saying "it will get better" .. I would wait for that

[quote who="cephalo" reply="143" id="2731437"] I believe that if they had released this version to us beta testers first, many of these ridiculous problems would be ironed out by February and the game would be released to universal acclaim. I've been a beta tester since the beginning and 1.05 is the first time I've even been able to comment on the gameplay! Now, to salvage their reputation, it's gonna be crunch time until February anyways! [/quote] Yeah I rea

Multiplayer will be up next week. The patch yesterday fixed a lot of the crash problems. Some ATI hardware on Windows 7 64 bit still might be having some issues, but there's a lot fewer problems today then yesterday. I'd say that if you're concerned about the hardware issue, wait for a demo. If you want a perfect game right now, I'd say wait a couple months. If you're willing to deal with some spots being rough around the edges, the general consensus among people is that it's

[quote who="Filthgrinder" reply="2" id="2731403"]I too was gonna ask about food. Anyone have a clue as to how the numbers add up? I still only have +5, but have 100+ people in my kingdom. Does 1 food support 50 people or something?[/quote] Food is used for houses, not directly for people. When building a hut/house/etc you can see on the info card how much food that house costs. Techs let you increase the number of people per house. So it's not a direct "X food = Y p

Food is a "perishable" resource in Elemental. You can't stockpile it. +5 means that you're producing 5 more then you're using. In this regard it works different from every other resource, which you can stockpile. When you build housing in a city, it uses some of that food. People then come to the houses and your population goes up. Building more farms on fertile land resources as well as researching various techs increase the amount of food you get. If you've got negat

[quote who="cephalo" reply="134" id="2731336"] This is what I find unsatisfying. I've been reading the dev journals for a long time and that's where my expectations were formed. I was very much looking forward to this because of what I had been reading here. All of a sudden, before we got to see anything approaching a well designed, functional beta, the plug was pulled and we went from beta 2,3,4 in like a month and then release is the first time any of us had seen what the game might be

[quote who="GeneralEtrius" reply="131" id="2731315"]God, I really hope Elemental doesn't follow the path of Demigod... Wasn't Elemental supposed to be released in Feb. 2011?[/quote] Feb 2010 was the first release date, IIRC. It got pushed back, not forward. I'm not worried about it following the path of Demigod because Demigod is a MP focused game. You need other people around to make it work. Elemental is a SP focused game, you need the AI to make it work.

[quote who="toyboyrobot" reply="77" id="2730910"] It's not unprofessional. He's just disappointed and i think he has every right to be so. What are the reasons for releasiong so early? i can't believe that many of the developers are happy to release this "game" in such an early state. Someone had to know that releasing such a buggy thing will put the people off. So what's the reason for this early release??? it is just completely counterproductive. fear of civ5? money issues? they knew i

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="69" id="2730622"]It's already open to really unhappy people. It's always been. It's just that people would rather go on the forums and rant nonsensically about some part of the BoR instead of emailing and asking for the refund. Liked your posting better when you put some thought into them, Tridus. Been going closer and closer to just trolling lately [/quote] I don't think that's actually true though Annatar, some people have tried and simply be

In the campaign, you can't learn magic until the campaign plot turns it on. When you can, it'll tell you. In sandbox games, you can learn spells right away as ddd describes.