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Some things are similar to Galciv 2. Tech research is handled pretty differently. There's five "areas" to research, and you can pick discoveries as they come up. But you can't specifically say "research bigger swords". You'd research "warfare" until you get bigger swords. Hope that makes sense. :)

Civ 4 had a mode something like this, but you still controlled your own cities (you were a team for things like diplomacy and victory). Elemental would have to go a similar way, it'd be pretty confusing for two players to share a single sovereign. A "team" where you start off in permanent alliance makes more sense with the game mechanics.

[quote who="LordTheRon" reply="55" id="2723410"] Agreed, Brad always stated the focus for the game is on singleplayer. In singleplayer balance isn't such a great issue. So give us the random maps for singleplayer and if need be use the current system only for multiplayer.[/quote] There's balance, and then there's balance. Having resources be a bit imbalanced is one thing. Having to wander 50 turns before finding a place suitable for a first city is another, and the second one is

[quote who="Tyveil" reply="11" id="2723402"]Yikes.. if games lasted longer than 12 hours actual game time, I wouldn't want to play it. 12 hours game time will take me a month to get in. Not everyone has a solid 12 hours they can devote to a game. I have 3 kids and if I get 2 hours of gaming in a day, that is a marathon session for me (most of the time I only get 30 mins or so). Just saying.. if you want a 200 hour game I don't have a problem with them having settings f

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="1" id="2723419"]You're over reacting the game UI is fine. But, it's going to have bugs and stuff that's to be expected if you didn't expect them then you're a moron. You also can desire TONS of things but I doubt you will get them all without modding the game yourself. It's made to sell to a wide audience not just one individual.[/quote] Buttons not working and then suddenly working later for no reason is not "over reacting". It's a problem.

[quote who="Dariune" reply="34" id="2723203"]When i first wrote that there wasnt more information except the top three posts in that thread. With further information it seems it is a feature left out that some people want to remain in the game. My point is unaffected though, people are being rude. A guy just now started saying Stardock was being money grabbing and dishonest. Hardly a fair statement just because they left a feature out of day -1 release is it?

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="18" id="2723235"]Bearing in mind it's not quite the Day 0 release the lack of polish isn't exactly unexpected. So far I'm quite happy with the game, although as I said if they'd simply gave me Beta 4 without the memory bug I'd have been happy, so they've exceeded my expectations There's some minor niggles still and several areas that could use improvement, but as I see it anything further they add is just gravy. [/qu

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="45" id="2723284"]Quit bitching, if you want true random maps you can delete/move the seeds in the folder and get fully random maps. But Dont complain if they are not balanced in any way shape or form.[/quote] Random, playable maps are not an either/or thing. It's an expected feature that isn't there. People have every right to complain about it.

Asharak has it right. You can boost unit HP by giving them "veteran" training once you unlock the tech.

[quote who="nOObonian" reply="1" id="2723040"]After saving the game and trying a few combinations out, I figured it out. You need to get to weapons, Archery, and Armor. (The Armor was my problem). BUT how do you make a group of archers, say 6 or so?[/quote] I think the research for that is called "squads" or something like that. It's in the Warfare line. When you go to train units, you can pick how many you want in the group once you have the tech unlocked. Once you have

1. When I got a new machine, I simply installed Impulse on the new one, logged in, and could redownload and install the game without trouble. I think as long as it's just you using it (ie you're not playing it at the same time on both computers) you should be fine. 2. If you buy it through Impulse what happens is the digital version is registered as soon as the order goes through (due to the early release I"m not sure if that's today or tomorrow for new orders, but original release wa

[quote quoting="post"] ... with all the trolls, ... with all the lurkers comming out of their closets, ... with all the whining, [/quote] ... and all the whining about the whining. [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e]

A lot of these could be solved by a tutorial, which would have been a nice thing to include. Since the manual is from an earlier beta, I don't think it even mentions things like how to build on improvements by clicking the improvement rather then the city (which is confusing a number of people) or the tactical battle threshhold option (which is also confusing people and probably should default to zero). Can't really argue with much else you said.

There's no item forge in this version. Apparently that's an expansion thing.

[quote who="Filthgrinder" reply="19" id="2722853"]I might be wrong, but it IS still the 23rd. Perhaps we will be getting a patch on the official release date which will include what is missing, and fix bugs. We are on a "early-release" version after all. But I think that is just high hopes...lol[/quote] Realistically we're on a version that is at the oldest, the gold disk version (and might be newer). It's not the 24th patch, but it's not beta 4 either. There won't be a pat

Some of Civ 4's map scripts have patterns in how they do things. I use Fractal a lot in my coop games, and I know that with our settings we always get put on the larger continent, on one side of it. But I don't know "head W and there's a choke by a mountain to block everybody else off". Plus there's options like climate and water level that can further alter things. And if I get bored of that map script, there's quite a few out of the box to try out (and more from the modder community

On the map, try selecting the fertile land itself. The build commands are on the improvement tiles rather then in the city. That's been confusing a lot of people.

[quote who="Dariune" reply="5" id="2722773"] Oh i agree, i dont like either, nor am i either. I am merely commenting on the reactions. The same people who were being all nice and respectful last night are now being insulting and rude because they found a bug which they dont like. Did any of you really think there werent going to be serious bugs in the game? In the real world being rude isnt acceptable and i feel the same should be applied to the net. I havent even played the g

[quote who="Jharii" reply="24" id="2722683"] Quoting endofdayz, reply 9 They just got lazy and needed to push it out the door. Obviously, you haven't been paying attention to Elemental for the last year. Stardock has been anything BUT lazy.[/quote] But they did push it out the door. The list of things that are MIA and coming later is surprisingly large.

Wait, this didn't make it in to release either? Sigh.

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="6" id="2721919"] Quoting Aseir, reply 2lurk moar! Why should he lurk. It's a legitimate question and a lot of people are worried that they won't get the game tonight all due to a sales screw up for some people.[/quote] Because Aesir's got nothing better to do tonight then to post in every question thread telling people that.

[quote who="Aseir" reply="11" id="2721923"] I have one response to anyone who doesn't have the brain-power to figure out what I'm talking about: lurk moar![/quote] Yeah, because it's certainly wrong for someone to buy a game and then come ask when they install it and the registration doesn't work for them.

[quote who="Kjun85" reply="18" id="2721836"]So if I deleted the beta... But still have the Option to install it on Impulse. Will I still be able to play tonight?[/quote] Once it's live you'll be able to install it, yeah.

edit - nevermind, Kryo beat me to it and the post hadn't shown yet. GG forum caching?

If you go into the Dev Journals or News forums, near the top where it says "Recent posts" on the right side there's a small RSS button. That's the feed for that forum. here's the dev journal one: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/27/forum/513