Tridus

I don't think it does have more micro Storm. They added some things, but they also streamlined other areas so in terms of time spent on micro I don't think it's going up. Kotaku has a great preview up now. I'm getting excited! :)

It is a point system, the "points" just come from the movement stat instead. Effectively it's how AoW 2 worked (except that in AoW the combat speed was fixed at 3). It worked pretty well. Whatever they do, I'm not a fan of the existing combat speed implementation at all. Seems like most people aren't. I'm not entirely sure why Stardock likes it so much.

There wasn't really anything that didn't tie in with the story, but the "story" has more going on then just the main plot. I guess that could be called filler, though I like it over the more normal RTS campaign where everything has to be directly part of the main plot because the story has to move so fast that there's no time to cover anything else that is going on. Everything they have you do ties into Raynor's actions in some way.

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="36" id="2705299"] Why do they need to persist over multiple games? In fact, why make them persist over multiple characters? It could add a nice touch to the dynasty system to make achievements earned by the current sovereign, and lost on that sovereign's death. In a similar way to the traits characters can pick up in the recent Total War games or Crusader Kings; if you go adventuring with your sovereign they could earn achievements from that; maybe they kill

There's a really big combat speed thread somewhere that I can't find right now. The summarized version is that nearly everybody who doesn't work at Stardock doesn't like combat speed the way it works now and wants it changed some way or another to untie attacks from movement. The simplest method was to add a movement stat, and then have an attack use (Movement / Combat Speed) of your points. So with a CS of 1 you can attack once, with 2 you can attack twice (or once, depending on how much you

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="15" id="2705083"] Quoting larienna, reply 13I am partially color blind and I find the new color scheme very hard to read. Is there a way to switch back to the old color scheme? Check reply #80 in this thread for a Firefox plugin that should let you fiddle with the scheme a bit. I haven't used it personally, but a few people in that thread have (and there's a screenshot posted) https://forums.elementalgame.com/390048/page/4[/quote]

It's definitely looking better, thanks for the hard work. :)

Windows 7 changed some values for how the experience index works. It could be you got hit by that change, or it could be that your processor is having some kind of problem that's slowing it down in 7. Have you checked event viewer for errors or warnings?

[quote who="Malex1" reply="4" id="2704361"]I'm using Vista x64, but it should be the same on 7. I did do a complete reinstall when beta 4 showed up. I even deleted all the elemental files I could find before installing. Explorer pic[/quote] I think that did it. I upgraded from beta 3 (which didn't have the Games Explorer stuff in yet). So to test it I uninstalled and then reinstalled, and now I have the Games Explorer entry. Mystery solved

Some new details courtesy of CivFanatics . Thing that I find most interesting is that building upgrades in cities have a maintenance cost now. I think I like that. It was often a no brainer in Civ 4 to build upgrades whenever you didn't need troops, because there's really no downside to it.

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="11" id="2704563"] Quoting psychoravin, reply 5MP will not last at all as when those that do play MP find out how imbalanced it's going to be then nobody is going to want to play it. either a troll or never played FFH[/quote] You're not new around here Tasunke, you should know that psychoraven is the village idiot. He's the founding member of the "multiplayer killed my kittens" club.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="30" id="2704687"] Take Sins. I played the hell out of it, always Huge Random 9 AI FFA. Eventually.. it was all the same. Sure the maps were different, but there was nothing new to see. If I could enhance it by earning some bonuses from achievements, it would've lasted a lot longer.[/quote] But you didn't change anything. The bonuses mean it's still the same game, only easier. That's not going to make it last longer. Deeds in LotRO are a good example

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="24" id="2704480"] 10% is not a "big advantage" over the PC. If it was a big advantage, I wouldn't suggest it. I guess this is preference, but achievements that don't do anything are meaningless to me. Why would I kill 47 summoned units with cavalry under a full moon if I get nothing for it? As a primarily single player game, there's not going to be much use for a social aspect to them, unlike say SC2's portraits.[/quote] Depending on what it's 10% of

Was it a fresh install? I don't have it in there in Win7 64.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="19" id="2703740"] Why not? It's worked in ME quite well. Sure ME is a different game from Elemental, but neither of you actually said why it wouldn't work.[/quote] Very different game. I'm not a fan of it either for a game like Elemental. When you've got a sandbox game and each new map is starting fresh, why would I start with 10% more whatever then everybody else because in the last game I happened to kill 47 summoned units with cavalry unde

Previous Stardock games actually *have* allowed you to install multiple copies for LAN play. I don't know if you can do it with say 14 people, but if you wanted to play with a friend over LAN? Their stance has been to go for it. It's a very customer-friendly approach.

My wife tends to dislike it when I go out to meet other girls. Try again though. :P

[quote who="StormbringerGT" reply="2" id="2703405"]I don't chime in here often but thats one of the most retarded things I've read in a while, KillzEmAllGod. All Betas are "quit horrid". Thats the point. You are playing an unfinished version of the game and testing different functions out. The whole point is almost to see what doesn't work. I'm sorry if you thought you were downloading a Demo of a finished product, but I'm pretty sure every time you click

Nice to have you here. :) I'll be watching for the demo for sure, this looks interesting.

I notice that the Elemental website has a GFW logo on it now. Is Elemental going to be a GFW certified game? (Note: NOT GFWL! There's a difference.) I ask because beta 4 doesn't integrate with the Games Explorer, which is the very first requirement of GFW. Most likely this is just due to the game not having an ESRB rating yet, but I figured it was worth mentioning. :)

[quote who="Raven X" reply="79" id="2704102"]I never said eye strain wasn't a problem for some people Tridus, give it a rest man, please.[/quote] You didn't say this? [quote] Man, you guys are killing me. Who gives a shit about the color when most of us (using IE 7 & 8 ) CAN'T MAKE NEW POSTS . The colors are IRRELEVANT when posting functionality is Screwed!!! <span style="font-size: small

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="74" id="2704056"]Wow, I suppose someone as involved in past threadjackings as I've Quoting Tridus, reply 44...If you're using Firefox, click on View > Page Style. You can disable the styles from there, which change the site back to a super basic black on white. The layout gets blown away and the post box is screwed up, but for the purpose of reading it works. IIRC Opera has similar functionality. Not sure about Chrome or Safari. Thanks a bu

[quote who="Raven X" reply="68" id="2704020"] That's crap and you know it Annatar. I DIDN'T Get Any Eye Strain nor did I "belittle" Anyone. in Fact I said I Wouldn't Belittle Anyone. This baby crap color makes me sick. It's all opinion. People with Bad Eyes get eye strain. I have perfect 20/20 vision and I get eye strain from sitting in front of a monitor all day.[/quote] So, if I read this forum and get a headache... that's an opinion? If I put a k

[quote who="Anomander" reply="65" id="2704002"] Some guy comes on a says clearly that the forum is 'crap', and you pipe up and complain about my attitude....... and 'I'm' the TROLL! [/quote] Your first reply to this thread would have made any moron on the official World of Warcraft forums proud. So, yes. :P "Cya" is a troll reply. [quote]As far as I'm concerned people are overreacting to what is essentially 'Change', pure and simple. I perso

[quote who="Raven X" reply="58" id="2703951"] And it's NOT Shenanigans as both my comments are in the Same Post. If someone would have Read the Entire post instead of just quoting the first sentence they would have seen that. There's no shenanigans there my friend [/quote] If I spend the first half of this post swearing at you, I don't get a pass for it because the second half is on topic. You opened with a direct attack on the on-topic part of the thread, then later comp