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I don't think there's an accurate representation of how combat will really work anywhere right now.

[quote who="Jack Trowell" reply="34" id="2646302"] Could we gain points in the Elemental Army by linking forums posts where we explain why we don't like the concept of the Army itself ? [/quote] Nah. We need a forum title " conscientious objector ". ;)

[quote who="Saeter" reply="11" id="2646342"] Turn based games with tiles feels more strategic to many people, since it is more suited for calculation, planning and detailed understanding what is happening. The chess-like and abstract nature of such a system has a logical appeal. A real-time pausable model can certainly be just as strategic, but tends to be more chaotic and difficult to grasp. That is more realistic I guess, but real

Yeah, it should have been. But Cryptic isn't exactly a top tier MMO developer. They churn out games quickly, milk it for a while, then move on. (Can you tell I played Champions Online?)

[quote who="TBS Gamer" reply="53" id="2645927"]"We're staging a candidate now to test this evening (6/9/2010)." Internal testing, I assume? I don't see an update available on Impulse.[/quote] Staging it means they put it up on an internal server. Brad will play it and see if it's ready for release. If it is, someone pushes a magic button and then we get to see it. Or if it's like 1g, we'll get teased like this and then he'll decide to pull the plug

[quote who="Aeon221" reply="44" id="2645935"]Don't b&m retailers take a similar cut out of the game's net value?[/quote] They take a cut, and there's an extra cut for things like making boxes and shipping them to retail. But the numbers make sense. Walmart sells a lot of copies (IIRC they were the top single source for sales of Sins, overall). Take it out of there, and you lose a lot of sales that you won't get back any other way. Comparatively, how many people will buy it

[quote who="Hobsonzgt" reply="6" id="2646022"]I've been kicking around the idea of using my status to change my University's homepage into an Elemental advertisement. I wonder how many points and how much trouble I would get in for doing such [/quote] I can see the headline now: "University Webmaster fired for replacing website with Stardock ads to win contest." Schools concerned about their image as a serious institution tend to frown on what looks like having their sit

You may have to email [email protected] to change an order that way SavageBananaMan.

[quote who="gapper4" reply="3" id="2646242"]Thanks for the link Wintersong. I'm not a huge fan of turn- and tile-based combat due to its chess-like nature. I may be missing something, but can anyone point out the advantages over the TW model, where you can pause at any time and give orders ? As far as I understand, the tiles in Elemental are square, which would seem to make for some pretty crude manoevering and flanking, no ? [/quote] At the moment we h

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="14" id="2645841"] Considering the insane potential of a Star Trek MMO and what Cryptic did with it, I'm surprised the shareholders haven't demanded the execution of the entire senior management team. What massive waste, both in gaming potential and money making potential.[/quote] Why would they? They got a bunch of pre-orders for lifetime subscriptions. That's decent profit. Cryptic is making money off it, so the shareholders are happy.

[quote who="Aeon221" reply="27" id="2645851"] I'll keep my reply short, as we appear to be talking past one another. This contest potentially damages the credibility of people who speak favorably of Stardock by creating the impression that they are motivated by prizes (large or small) and e-acclaim rather than the enjoyment of Stardock's excellent games. [/quote] Agreed totally. [e digicons]k1[/e] Normally, if I talk about a game to my friends

Sigh. I hate this contest. [e digicons]x_x[/e]

I write software that gets translated as my day job, and this is totally tree. If you take it into account at the start, things are a lot easier. Either make the UI elements big enough initially, or let the translator have an easy way to alter the size as needed to make it fit.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="17" id="2645243"]I think people should get points for Forums Activity as well. Even if it's only 1 point per post. Not to mention I was plugging Elemental on Gamespot and a few other sites way before the "Elemental Army" started, and I don't seem to be able to go back and get "retroactive points" for things I did months ago. Honestly, I'm concerned with "Winning". I already bought and paid for my copy and the upgrade to limited edition. Having a spare wo

Oh, so its like a facebook game.

[quote who="larrypeters" reply="4" id="2645202"] Quoting Chancellor Maximus, reply 3Dont buy the lifetime membership it's not worth it just yet. I thought that was only available when pre-ordering. Later, LAR [/quote] Seems like they brought it back. It's a good deal for Cryptic, given how sparse and shallow the game is. People pay for a "lifetime" membership, and get bored in 2 months. That's a lot more profit then a short term paid subscription.</

Open beta appears to be limited to Asia only. Is the game coming out here at all?

Age of Wonders used to have a forcefield upgrade that would shield a city from overland magic attacks. Doesn't help protect units in the field though, you'd need something like a counterspell or something like anti-magic barrier to do that.

[quote who="Ravenstrike" reply="30" id="2641070"]Blizzard have been overrated since they begun to solely develop sequels, and the abomination to Mmo gaming that is WOW..... meh. They have been coasting along on their past successes for awhile now. I doubt anyone is really left who made those classic Blizzard games in the 90's[/quote] You mean except Metzen and all the other top folks? Turnover at Blizzard is pretty low by industry standards. Not to mentio

Looks neat. Just a couple of questions if Cydereal is still here. :) 1. Does the coop mode work with any number of players? FutileEmotion was playing 4 player, would it work with 2 player as well? 2. You mentioned that multiplayer follows the larger community, are the Steam and Impulse versions split in terms of who can play with who? Thanks!

[quote who="Syneptus" reply="104" id="2642863"]Has GPG withdrawn after all of this flak? I mean, there was a hilarious "ChrisTaylor." masquerader going around on the SupCom blog page, but I havent heard much from them after their "failure", other than their patch releases. I might not be looking in the right places...[/quote] No, Chris Taylor is pretty active making video blogs for his next game (Kings and Castles). That's just standard GPG, their post-release support is ge

[quote who="Climber" reply="22" id="2642000"] As the post above described. I want 5 different economy types[/quote] I don't see that happening. The economy of the game is based on farming, research, gold and resource gathering. All of those things are in the civics tree. Because you need all of them to do anything, you can't split them up amongst the other trees. You could start duplicating things, at which point you've made the civics tree redundant. Sorry, but I d

They've been throwing that August date around for a while now. I dunno, it doesn't seem realistic to me.

Looks like its coming along. :) It's hard to see in the video, what were you doing to recruit the NPCs? Was there a cost for that?

[quote who="blk_sheep2004" reply="141" id="2641894"]Wow, i really get your point regarding graphics and stuff... But i just think you pre-ordered the wrong game. There are enough people around that would risk diabetes considering the eye candy they need in their games, but this isn't elemental's style. As far as i saw, it's a more minimalistic aproach. Everyone remembers masters of magic not for it's top notch graphics, but it's lasting gameplay. Myself, i grit my teeth and play a game of