Tridus

Can we take the bickering to another thread, please? 1. We know that release MP isn't up to expectations. We already had a gigantic thread about it, just a few days ago. In this one we've got the ear of the boss on what we want to see in MP. Let's stick to that here, and put the complaints in the complaint thread. We might actually get some of this stuff that way. 2. Single player folks antagonizing people just need to STFU in a thread about MP. Seriously. Since we just got as

I really think when it comes to MP you need to split up who you're talking about into groups and look at each one individually, because even from this thread people want drastically different things (and this thread is small). I see three general groups: 1. People who want to play Co-op. These folks are the easiest to please. They want to play with their friends, against the AI. Give them the single player game only with a friend or two they can ally with, and t

[quote who="Shalkto" reply="30" id="2718191"]you guys do realize that he didnt say they were gone for ever...just not initial release... this drama queeness is so unnecessary [/quote] I love this well thought out and constructive post. :P

[quote who="okabore" reply="10" id="2717647"]God, this thread scared the pants out of me. Just bought a copy for me and my wife and missed that the thread was concerning XP 64-bit and not win-7 64bit which I got [/quote] Yeah, Win7 64 bit is the future. You're in good shape there. :)

[quote who="ddd888" reply="38" id="2717590"]i dont get how can stardock force ppl to play like they think the WORLD is based on casual gamers there is no one who can change that like i said b4 a casual game is easier for everyone and thats why it is whats is gonna happen more often you will play ofc with your friends but the HIGH NUMBERS wont be your games but the casual random

[quote quoting="post"] I cant seem to figure out what ten unique factions means because there all human it seems. do they all have different army types to draw from.[/quote] Depends on what you mean by "faction". There's two sides, Kingdoms and Empires. Those two sides have unique tech trees, different buildings, and other differences. Within each side there's five organizations, which is what you probably mean by factions. Those have some differences i

IIRC you can see some of the Elemental forums through the Impulse forums. What kind of error are you getting? Is it just not letting you log in?

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="10" id="2717472"]Right click it in Impulse and select Uninstall. Then delete Documents\My Games\Elemental, and (default) Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental if it's still there. Or whereever else you installed it. The uninstall within Impulse should clean both of these, but I haven't checked the user folder.[/quote] Don't forget about c:\programdata\Stardock\elemental c:\programdata is a hidden folder, and in my experience the uninstaller is no

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2717299"]Well, yes. I'm sure they can dig up the bits of code in the early revision, but that's useless if it's not present in the current compiled code since nobody will be able to do anything anything with it What RavenX was asking is if the code exists to be turned on so the modders could play with it. But modders can't really recompile the source code using whatever old stuff they've got, so..[/quote] <a href="https://forums.elementalgame.com/

[quote who="Raven X" reply="2" id="2717371"]I'd recommend taking a large magnet to your heard drive just to be sure you got all those pesky left behind files and folders... hehe[/quote] Friend of mine once wanted to make sure, and used a Magnum 357. It did the job admirably.

All these other markets don't threaten Microsoft in the PC area. The threat is that the PC area is going to shrink relative to everything else. I mean, IBM is still a big player in mainframes, but aside from existing customers who is buying those anymore? That's the problem Microsoft faces. But PCs aren't going away for a while. When you have to do work, an iPad just doesn't get it done. Ever tried typing a 20 page report on one of those?

Someone probably screwed up and put it up early, then when they tried to do the checkout the computer told them it wasn't for sale yet.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="7" id="2717161"]Of course we all know graphics should come secondary to Gameplay, but those character models....horrendous, simply horrendous. I can draw and animate and steaming pile of cat shit and make it look better then those characters... [/quote] I'm going to hold you to that when the Dragonlance mod comes out. ;)

Unfortunately he's not kidding. Future Shop doesn't have it either, and the last person who visited a Walmart said they knew nothing about it. Amazon.ca only has this . Amusingly, they do list Destiny's Embers in the books section. So, I can't think of anybody in Canada that would have it at retail. I get why that's true in Quebec (no french tra

[quote who="SumoX" reply="37" id="2717077"] I agree that some of things used against Steam (including the ones you listed) are pretty hokey, though I personally hate auto-patching. Before you give me the schpeel about how you can disable that, if you have an older version of the game and want to reinstall after a newer version has hit, you MUST update to the newest version. In games that sometimes lose performance with patches (I'm looking at you, GTAIV), this can sometimes between the d

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="28" id="2716488"]Well I don't judge the game by the ai competency alone I also take into account the difficulties and how hard it is to beat and how fast. MOM was just better overall in every respect vs AOW. I add how the ai plays plus the difficulty and how hard it is to beat the GAME not just the ai. MOM once again was just better overall in every respect vs AOW. The only thing really AOW has over MOM is graphics and that's not even that great. Plus more ai o

[quote who="AgentNihilist" reply="5" id="2715952"]I do not belive they actually charge the card until a product is available to ship. I orginally pre-ordered before the Beta started and did not receive an activation email until Beta 1 started - the same time my card was charged. Since you pre-ordered after the last beta phase was avaible you will probably by charged on the 23rd (when pre-order customers can start downloading the 0 day version of the game). I wouldn't worry to much

You should have gotten an email confirming the pre-order. If you didn't get that, send an email to [email protected] and explain the situation to them. They can sort out what's going on. The game itself won't appear in Impulse until it's released, or available for pre-load if it's going to be available that way (not sure if it will be).

Okay that diplomacy other race stuff is neat.

1. Wait for the demo, as Kryo mentioned. That'll answer the question accurately. 2. That was somewhat of a problem in beta 4, but if units start off farther away it can be mitigated a bit. Ultimately it's a problem with TBS style combat.

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="93" id="2715814"] Quoting Myles, reply 91Were realtime battles even originally planned? I thought it was a continuous turn system that got replaced with traditional turn based. It was continuous turns. Realtime was never planned AFAIK, but to be completely honest, I have no idea what the difference is between continuous turns and realtime. They sound the same to me. I was always on the side of continuous turns/realtime, but when the anno

What he said. :) You can also email [email protected] directly. If it's giving you an error like that, you'll need to contact them to sort it out.

The AI in beta 4 was smarter then previously, but still not very smart. To be fair, beta 4 was the first time the full game was assembled at once for public consumption, so it's not surprising the AI didn't know how to do some things yet. They've had a fair bit of time since them to hammer away at it with all the systems in place and largely locked down (except for bug fixes). So there's no question the release AI will be better then the beta 4 AI. How much so is a mystery, but the Ga

[quote who="Sushikawa" reply="79" id="2715711"]TY Tridus. Honestly the realtime battles were the only reason I purchased Elemental, so having them gone is a bit of a $50 sore spot...I get cranky when they are mentioned.[/quote] Yeah, I understand. Originally I wasn't sure about the idea, then it grew on me, then it grew off me again... right now I'm thinking once we get up to larger armies with the special abilities in, tactical combat should be pretty fun despite the switch.

I don't see an ice cream emoticon here, but you can have a snowman? [e digicons]:snowman:[/e] Well guys, this was a painful thread. No question. But I think it was good, in the long run. Everybody got their points heard and responded to. Nobody's going to walk away saying "we were ignored". I've been popping up in other threads talking about other things, and I'd encourage everybody else to do the same. The single player side of the game is looking pretty good,