Tridus

[quote who="novagenesis" reply="131" id="2687563"]Just one thought... If retaliation costs AP, it will actually be a bad thing to counter-attack. If this mechanic is in place, I'll bring an extra dozen or two sacrificial peasants. 3-gold to wipe out an action point of a powerful opponent? I could take 1 hero and a bunch of peasants to kill anything. I'd keep attacking every turn until they are out of action poin

A lot of the resource improvements seem buildable from both places. I was able to build on a farm from my city build menu and by clicking the tile itself. Could just be not hooked up everywhere yet.

[quote]Obviously, right now, none of these 6 things are in. I am hoping to get a Beta 3C up on Monday that has them though.[/quote] Yep, it does say that. But if they go with some of the suggestions instead I wonder if it'll still be today?

So how do you actually get it? I don't see a download or add to cart link or anything.

You could get away with one movement stat that applies overland and tactical. AoW did that after all and we're all praising it here. :) It's just that with the type of numbers Elemental is using, the tactical movement speed would need to be some multiple of the overland speed (tactical battles where most units move 1 tile a turn would get REALLY annoying). It does seem that we all agree that combat speed and movement speed need to be split somehow though. You need to be able to boost

[quote who="Sareln" reply="97" id="2686910"] Agreed. In terms of tactical combat, I really think AoW:SM had it done well. Had cover, high-ground, movement penaltys by terrain or spell... And takes care OK of the retaliation without abusing... pedroente, how did the AoW:SM system work?[/quote] Units had a "moves" stat. Moves used the same number overland and tactical. Numbers ranged from say 12 for a very slow unit (like a zombie) to 40 for flying dragon

[quote who="CHiZZoPs" reply="9" id="2686781"]First: What is a sovereign--leader of the realm and only with the ability to "channel"--doing running about in a dangerous land where they could get themselves killed? While there are times for it to be called for (game start, key battles, etc.) There should be far more reasons for them to hang back at the city and imbue a couple of heroes to cast spells.[/quote] That's kind of up for debate, TBH. AoW 2 used that kind of model of a stay

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="75" id="2686069"] Quoting Tridus, reply 65 edit - One thing I would say is that a unit should be able to attack once. That is if you have AP = 4 and combat speed = 1, you should be able to move 3 and attack once (the attack in this case would cost 4, but just uses whatever you have left). A unit with AP = 4 and combat speed = 2 could also move 3 and attack once, or move 1 and attack twice. Absolutely unrealistic. I don't like this idea. Creature

If nothing else, the faction selection screen needs a label explaining how to make custom factions, or a button to launch the faction editor. Someone who hasn't played a previous beta right now would have no intuitive way of knowing that faction customization exists (or will exist once it's put in).

[quote who="NullAshton" reply="17" id="2685605"]Here's one idea I had that would give more flexibility. Action points = Move Number of action points it takes to move one tactical tile = 1 Number of action points it takes to attack once/cast a spell once = Action Points/Combat Speed Number of action points it takes to counterattack = Half that to attack That way, combat speed is the number of attacks you

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="18" id="2685610"] This is very very interesting. I'd like to hear what others think of this. The main thing we are looking for here is that we want a user to be able to have god like heroes (think Sauron at the beginning of LOTR) and the best way to do that is to make sure that unit can go around and kill a lot of units via either Melee or magically in a single tactical turn. We can't do this if we use moves as the number of tiles they ca

[quote who="TheBirthdayParty" reply="4" id="2685738"] For the last part of that, not enough ram, is there something i can remedy the situation with that isn't adding more ram?[/quote] If you have other stuff running, close it. That's about it. You do have enough RAM to run the game, but not with a lot of leeway so it's making room. The release version of the game should also be better optimized and will use less RAM.

Not sure if beta access is open right now or not. If it is, you should get another email from Stardock with the keys, and it'll let you in then. You may have to check in again on Monday about it.

If you have two monitors, fire up Task Manager and put it on monitor 2 before you play. On the Processes Tab you can see what Elemental is doing CPU and memory wise. (If you have a logitech G15, a keyboard app called LCD Miscellany is useful for that too.) Take a look at Elementals CPU and memory usage, and see how long it takes after you exit the game for the process to actually close. Just because the game isn't visible doesn't mean it's not still running. From there we can diagnose

Didn't see this thread the first time, but I've been talking about essence lately and saw it linked elsewhere. :) So here's a post that explains what I want Essence to be like. Short version: a limited pool of power that you use to activate certain "fun" special powers that isn't tied to anything else and that you don't hoard except maybe to spend later. Generally speaking, a stat like essence is more fun when the game lets you

[quote who="Saije" reply="40" id="2684629"]@VermillionChaos You lost me... How does that gimp casting sovereigns? If your a casting sovereign you'll have a higher Wisdom anyway to get better spells. Now you can raise one stat and effectively raise three. + Wis = + Ess = + Mana[/quote] Only at character creation. They're uncoupled once the game is going (at least they were before, but I didn't see anything in the notes to suggset that's changed, and I d

Given how much more important the overland map is for Civ 5 combat wise compared to previous versions, it seems that a strategic view is pretty useful to see what is going on. In that case, who cares where they copied it from? The game is better for it.

With the patches to the beta, I've been needing to open up Impulse and look for updates in there. When you open it, it checks for updates. For released games (like Dragon Age), the Impulse system tray icon tells you on its own that an update is out.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="46" id="2682967"]The thing about essence being equal to where your mana maxes out is that the player is having to decide whether to imbue champions or stay powerful themselves. [/quote] Except there's several problems with that: 1. Melee sovereigns can spend a bunch of essence and it really doesn't affect them. They still have enough to cast what they need and support enchantments. Every time a caster sovereign uses essence, he gets weake

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="62" id="2683162"] NO! No picking and choosing at the start this is what was a major problem with MOM as you found spells you liked better than others and then one began picking those same ones every game. Don't give us a choice let NATURE make the choice, let FATE make the choice for us. The more RANDOM in the game START the better. Or at least make this OPTIONAL for those that don't want to have to be put in the position to choose what spells to start wit

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="71" id="2683278"]Wow lads...what the hell is going on in this topic? Seriously who cares that X player likes MP, while Y player hates it? If you don't like it, don't play it. The OP has only asked about clan support...and the topic itself turned into a sh*t throwing flame fest. [e digicons]8(|[/e] [/quote] Yeah. It's sad isn't it? The actual question was answered back on page one, then it turned into a "lets bash the MPers!" fest.</

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="50" id="2682985"] Your not going to get that in Elemental, and it's not necsesary anyway. If your friends and you are only after playing the most powerful faction, then you are probably better off with games designed for megagamers anyway. By the way, most people won't be playing this MP so by your logic, Stardock shouldn't give a rip what you want... right?[/quote] What "logic" is that exactly, and where does it appear in my post? You said that a bunch

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="53" id="2683104"] and it doesn't have to be balanced. It probably won't be balanced.[/quote] How do you figure? Right now, it's pretty balanced if you look at the five factions on the Kingdoms. No one of them is significantly better then the other. The only potential real balance issues right now are in a caster sovereign in the magic tree vs a melee sovereign in the warfare tree, and is anybody REALLY going to argu

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="61" id="2683180"]Just because some of you have such a big e-peen that need other real people to beat them with it, doesn't mean that there isn't some other people that is more than happy (and being challenged) with(by) the (good) AI (done by Frogboy). Plus MP (usually) implies (as much as possible) flat factions in the name of balance. [/quote] Oh look, more people who play MP hate. Quite frankly, some of you need to accept the fact that the game

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="48" id="2682869"] Perhaps you are playing with the same people which would explain why you see the same countries? Also, the goal of EU and Crusaders isn't necssarily to take over the world. In fact I play portugal all the time. I've seen England taken down, damn near wiped out until I allied with them. You want to preach this oh EU3 is historical so this could never happen. BS. It's clear you barely read what I wrote. And MP balance is not