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[quote who="Saije" reply="80" id="2681334"]Well I disagree... On all your points. Sure the Melee sovereign may spend all his essence on stupid crap like farms... Then whats he gonna do when i cast famine on him? Ok, lets say the melee sovereign is great in combat... I don't think any amount of agility is going to bother a fire spell that does damage based on my Int%... Meaning his armor is useless. You keep talking like there is a serious balance issue here an

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="79" id="2681319"] This is incorrect, a melee sovereign most definitely needs to invest in Constitution as well, since he's going to be getting hit. This isn't the case for a caster, unless he chooses to dance around on the front lines.[/quote] Or you're fighting someone with ranged units, or another caster. The melee sovereign is going to have more agility and thus more defense against the ranged units at least (not sure how spell defense works right

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="75" id="2681289"]It's also not quite accurate. Strictly speaking, a melee sovereign who only raises melee stats will be able to cast much fewer spells per turn (and not even all spells due to having low essence) while a caster sovereign who raises his INT/Essence scores will not only do more damage with his spells, but be able to cast more per turn (and more mana in tactical battles as well). So while the melee guy hacks better, the caster guy is able to fling sp

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2681084"]Personally I'm a fan of just an even split. If a monster is worth 100 xp and you have 5 xp earning units in the army when you kill it, each gets 20. Easy and fair. Rewarding more xp for more damage done helps keep leveling at a steadier pace (higher level units do more damage, so get more xp, but need more xp to level up), but it's also common for games to expect you to "catch up" new heroes to the higher level ones. <br /

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="45" id="2680973"]Modding does not bring in short term sales, nor a very large portion of sales overall. Modding is good for game longevity, and once some high-profile/high-quality mods come out some more people may pick up Elemental from the bargain bin (or wait for an Impulse sale), but the vast majority of the full-price sales will have to come from the game built from those tools on release. The majority of people aren't modders, and don't play mods. These peo

[quote who="VermillionChaos" reply="49" id="2681004"] Well in the case of Grecian-Roman 'borrowing' as long you don't lift the textures and models, but instead just look at them for inspiration it is in no way a copyright violation. Last I heard no one had a copyright on history.[/quote] Raven was talking about taking specific unit designs and "borrowing" them, converting them to work in Elemental, and distributing them. That isn't allowed. He even admitted as much whe

[quote who="Slainangel52" reply="46" id="2680975"] As for Roman things. Once we can import models and make them work in Elemental, there are Plenty of games out there that you could "borrow" units and units designs from. That way all you have to do is convert them over to work in the Elemental Engine. As far as I know doing such is perfectly Legal as long as your work is a "Fan Work" and distributed for Free. Once you start charging players for it you enter the realms of IP infringement

[quote who="Raven X" reply="70" id="2679948"] Did you see some of the First screen shots of Elemental over a year ago that showed Huge Armies? If someone saw that and that's what they were expecting, then found out the game Didn't have that before they made their purchase, they might change their mind and not buy it. That would decrease sales.[/quote] The game plays exactly the same if there's 40 guys in a unit or 4000 guys in a unit (except for how you balance champions against

[quote who="Raven X" reply="60" id="2679907"] My friend, think of this. If they were removed Solely for "Balance" reasons, then why not tweak the costs of the units or tweak how much food they eat or tweak something else to make 10,000 man armies more viable? They Already Know a LOT of people want to have Massive Battles like those in LotR or Dragonlance, and yet they still took out the 10,000 man armies for "Balance" or because it was too time consuming for the average player to play th

[quote who="Raven X" reply="53" id="2679863"] Edit: Also note, I've asked if that particular thing was Moddable at least 3 times in the last few weeks and haven't been answered in any of the threads where I asked that. That's a little scarey when you're planning a epic mod like I am and then the Devs dance around your question.[/quote] I've asked for details on how you give special abilities to units a couple of times without an answer either. I don't read anything into that exce

[quote who="Bellack" reply="90" id="2679837"] I've blayed many RTS games and no the "clickfest" comments are not overblown. RTS games are simply not fun. They always turn into one side zerging another and it turns into Highlighting a bunch of trroops and thow them at the zergers. You have no time to build up even when fighting the AI, because as we all know the AI always cheats in a RTS. With players the Zerging is not as bad but it stills boils down to who can create the most

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="51" id="2679852"] Yeah let's hope so. [/quote] I'm pretty confident. :) From the 3A patch notes: [quote]+ Replaced/Removed Stone Walls, Platoon, Batallion, Regiment ... Technologies for the Kingdom and Empire[/quote] That tells me the larger squad sizes were there and were just turned off. If it's just a tech tree thing there's no reason a modder couldn't add it back.

... to be honest, in the event of nuclear war I'm going to have more important things to worry about then if my games work.

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="32" id="2679705"] Do you honestly think Beta 3A with some refined UI elements and Tactical battles is going to be the game that ships out? Really??[/quote] Functionally? Yes. Are you expecting say the magic system (to pick one at random) to get a complete rewrite between feature freeze and release? Most of the game is there, feedback about it as a whole game is totally valid. And yes, that includes "this isn't fun". One of the problems with ask

I wasn't a huge fan of ME2 either. The actual story was pretty good... all 10 hours of it. There's quite a lot of filler to make it seem like a full length RPG. Like the hours spent scanning planets, which has to be the most ridiculously boring thing I've ever seen in a game. I also played as an Adept, and there was almost no problem not solved by Singularity. Let's not even get started on how badly the DLC fits with the rest of the game. Honestly I'm glad to see Dragon Age did better

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="76" id="2679712"]I'm guessing here, but it should function fairly basically. You'll buy the game on D2D. Either during or before the installation process you'll need to download and install Steam. You'll then need to run the game through Steam to play.[/quote] It's part of the installation. The game installs Steam, and after install Steam tries to run to have you create an account or login. If you cancel it, trying to launch the game just s

[quote who="Raven X" reply="41" id="2679606"] Is that Hard Coded or can we Mod it? *crosses fingers*[/quote] You can mod it. Looks like they didn't put techs in to let you create something like a Battalion. If a mod created that tech and stuck it in the warfare tree, then you could unlock say 1000 unit stacks.

We need some kind of executive forum decree that arguing over what "strategy" is can only take place in one isolated thread and away from any meaningful discussion. :P

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="15" id="2679336"]Still, the point is that they ABANDONED their Steam-based Delux edition to come up with this "better" special edition. Now the people that bought the Steam-delux are just screwed out of dollars [/quote] How do you figure? It's still there, it's $40 less, and it comes with the best part: the soundtrack. This is for people who think an artbook and figurines is worth $40. For the people who just want the so

Yeah, this is too expensive for me too considering the soundtrack is in the deluxe Steam edition for dramatically less money. Artbooks and figurines arne't worth this premium.

[quote who="ddd888" reply="71" id="2679224"] if time is set correctly no one will dislike it ofc you need a function of units/moves/magics/ etc not just a fixed time[/quote] Yes, but "correctly" is a matter of opinion. I play with a friend who moves much more slowly then I do. Forcing him to the pace I'd like would probably cause him to not have fun. :) A value like that is actually really easy to make configurable though, since it's a base value that you apply a

[quote who="Marks1381" reply="7" id="2679230"]You guys are really rolling 3, 3A, and soon 3B? I thought sleep was a necessity. I'm starting to wonder if Stardock was the right CO Name.. Insomniacs might have made more sense =P j.k Thanks for the update! Looking really forward to 3-B.[/quote] Sleep is not something game developers get much of during crunch time. I've got a friend working in the industry who is at that point right now, and his schedule is pretty insane.

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="1" id="2679217"] Ooooh, tatical battles[/quote] Seconded! [e digicons]:drool:[/e] Any word on if we can add special abilities to units from the UI, or do we have to mod them to do that? (eg if I wanted to make a soldier with a "whirlwind" ability where I already modded the whirlwind ability in. Can I build a solider and assign that skill to him, or do I have to mod a custom unit?)

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="67" id="2679196"] *No, I'm not Hortz [/quote] As long as you don't bring up animation you should be okay. ;) [quote]@Tridius: Sorry for jumping into this thread without knowing what's it about. For multiplayer I guess the phase-based combat (like Austinvn suggested) would be much faster, because all players can give orders at the same time. Such game mode would be acceptable for me when playing MP.[/quo

My Burning Crusade collectors edition came with an artbook too. Darn everybody is copying Elemental! [e digicons]:borg:[/e]