Tridus

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="4" id="2678334"] I'm not trying to be rude here, just curious, but are you aware that the Beta build that we have is, at least, several full build versions behind what Stardock actually have? The game, on their servers, would be much, much further along than the Beta that we have. The first stage of the Beta didn't even have the graphics engine turned on, however it was completed long before that. They're turning on and adding individual

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="57" id="2679081"] What's so boring in turn-based combat? It's just you making decisions. If the battle is too easy, you can resolve it automatically. If it's balanced, every decision matters, so it's not boring.[/quote] Not in multiplayer, which the last page of posts was about. In multiplayer it's you making decisions, then you making a sandwich while the other guy is making decisions. As you scale up the number of players involved, the time you spen

[quote who="shimwooley" reply="46" id="2678831"]I am very poor and have a NVIDIA 6600GT video card. I wondered if the final release will work decent with this Card, because the Beta 3A doesn't work very well ?[/quote] You should submit a report on the beta forum, but don't read too much into it right now. 3A's performance is choppy on my GTX 260 as well, and that's certainly more then powerful enough for Elemental. There's some optimization work left to do. :)

Until I know what's in the release version of the game, it's really hard to say.

[quote who="Anomander" reply="36" id="2678742"] If MP sucks for the first two months, by time you get around to trying it you probably won't find many people there. People don't tend to stick around online that long if something isn't fun to play (and Civ 5 is also coming out by then). Speak for yourself. I play MP games with friends on a regular basis, its hardcoded into the calendar week. [/quote] What does that have to do with what I said? :P If MP isn't fun, people ar

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="29" id="2678683"] Well, I think it'll be really fun for LANs. I'm not worried about imbalances or just flat out poor MP at first. LANs will be my multiplayer for the first 2 months. But once my friends are bored of this game, then I hope to go truly online. That means, to me, that they have an extra few months to balance out MP and stuff before I get too worried about it. I just don't want it TOTALLY forgotten about. [/quote]

explodey forums, double post

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="20" id="2678412"] Competitive RTS. Single-player focused TB 4X. I would expect most RTSs to have 3-5 races tops (the one I currently play has 5 and is going to expands one more each year). Simply because balance is so important in that game. Compare to Civ, where the racial differences are much smaller in comparison to Starcraft. Additionally, I believe that it'll be "no doubles". There isn't an issue going Terran v Terran in Star

Send an email to [email protected], they'll be able to tell you how to take care of it. And 5 gig? Geez, even Rogers isn't that lame.

Ah. Must have missed that one. Thanks for the heads up.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="54" id="2678209"] Did you play the dwarves at all? That dwarven area, to me, was the most complete, interesting and fully thought out piece of the game.[/quote] Yeah, the Dwarven area was great and pretty interesting.

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="7" id="2678204"] I dunno. I don't really like the direction they are taking with custom created factions, races and units. It's basically an "in-place mod". It seems like it could easily be wildly unbalanced and the custom factions was something that I liked for Multiplayer. Sure, certain combos would undoubtably be better than others. But if there are ONLY TEN GODDAMN INITIAL FACTIONS then how can you have 16 man multiplayer? Plus, I'm sure some

[quote who="tesb" reply="12" id="2678224"] No. We mean you don't see them. Auto-resolve just runs tactical battles under the covers with it being AI vs. AI. really? not some stupid total war auto resolve stuff (basically it just compared army strength but did not actually run a real combat)? doesn't this slow the game down when there are huge armies colliding and i choose auto resolve?[/quote] Computers have gotten dramatically faster since tha

How do we give the special abilities to units? Is it something trainable, or do you have to mod them (and to mod them I assume you modify the unit's XML to add a reference to the ability?)?

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="47" id="2676335"]While I REALLY like RealID in that people will FINALLY have to face the music when they talk crap on the forums and ingame, and also have to realize that you have to be STRONG enough to hold your own and can't rely on the authorities (police) to protect you, the bad thing about it is that since I'm politically active and are politically incorrect, I open myself to serious risks.[/quote] No, it'll be more like this: <p

Unless they changed it again in this build, you should be able to build 1 garden per city.

Blizzard has cancelled this plan.

The revival land thing was changed, you don't need to do it anymore. Essence is (or was) spent to do something like create a fertile land farming plot. Caravans do create roads, and they do provide trate route income as the caravans move back and forth. I'm not sure about the unit movement speed. Lumber mills provide materials at a much higher rate. Used to be able to build them on any forest tile, now you need an "old growth woods" resource to bu

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2676117"]We'll bear these thoughts in mind for future betas. We ran this beta pretty much as we've run every beta in the past. However, I do agree that in hindsight, we would have benefited by enabling the graphics engine earlier so people could provide feedback based on what the game looks like in its mostly complete state. We will have an opportunity to address this as the first expansion pack for Elemental is due out in

Pretty sure Stone Prisoner comes with every new copy. But the stuff they released afterward was pretty weak for the price (Awakening was an expansion and was better, yeah). It's a common DLC thing. They seem to have some minimum price they don't want to go past, no matter how weak the content really is. I mostly blame the Xbox crowd for making all developers think that people will pay for a map pack (since the Xbox crowd WILL pay for a map pack).

I only hate their DLC. Overpriced and under-delivering, all of it. The core games are pretty good.

Pulled this off the official forums, in regards to the Real ID fiasco. Usual grain of salt applies, but it fits the situation very well. [quote] “Got in touch with my ex-flatmate, whose sister works as a GM for Blizzard, to see what the internal buzz on this was. Apparently, at the moment the employees are largely as pissed as the players, and she stated that despite attempts to keep it hushed, it has become known that the big creativ

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="106" id="2674982"] I thought that we gonna have abilities like first strike in the final version. Froggie has mentioned special abilities in one of his posts here in the dev. subforum. Archers will have secondary weapons. IIRC this has been confirmed. I hope that dual wielding will be implemented as well later on. [We've talked about it a while ago, and it's not in yet because of some animations related stuff.][/quote] Secondary weapons was t

[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="14" id="2395957"]I like C as well, especially if you can design units via equipping them with things that break the rules. I think making sure we have the ability to create rulebreaking units is important to unit diversity. If we're only deciding attack/defense and hitpoints then the idea is just to make the best we can. For example creating a unit with a "first strike" like ability that allows them to attack first whether they are defenders or

A lot of suggestions are good. Hexes are a lot better then squares for a number of reasons, particularly diagonal movement with squares being wonky. The only problem with the suggestion is that it needed to be made 8 months ago.