Tridus

There's a "charm" spell for luring monsters right now. I haven't seen anything in the game for doing the same with humans, but it's pretty early and there's no reason why such a thing couldn't be added. Either as a spell, or as an ability on a monster unit you can recruit.

Depending on how tactical combat works, you should be able to move units into a formation that you want. Might be nice if there's a way to set it up so that the army automatically deploys in that formation when combat starts, though.

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="199" id="2574053"]Tridus and Shurdus, on the gold discussion: I came up with this constructive solution, a try to be inventive!: when the game starts, the economy of all civs and all trade is based on barters. (value can still be numerically expressed for the player, but in brackets, or cows! or whatever) The first civ that researches Minting as technology get to name their currency which is then automatically also used as currency name for everyone for the rest

Game saving/loading needs to be solid before it gets my vote, for sure. :)

Most likely, a lot of this will appear once tactical combat is also going to appear, because its going to matter more. The stuff we have right now is a a skeleton, there's a lot of details to be fleshed out. Personally I think it'll be done with things like weapon modifiers and abilities, but we'll see. Don't worry, the final product won't be as simple as it is now.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="36" id="2573339"]So, of the three huge RTS sequels comming out this year (SupCom2, C&C4, and StarCraft2), at least two been seriously disapointing. Not like StarCraft needed any help beating them though. Of course at this rate it might follow suite too. [/quote] Starcraft 2 plays a lot like a tweaked Starcraft 1, with better graphics and some truly excellent matchmaking and other online features. They didn't screw it up like C&C 4 or Su

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="190" id="2573498"]Indeed, if one nation insists on calling the coin the gildar because it was called that years ago, it beats me why other nations would also do that. After all, maybe once the gildar stood for something the people knew and could relate to, but these days the exonomy that the gildar represents is gone. All that remains now is the gold it is made of, the little picture that was made on the coin is useless now. In this context, calling that little coi

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="180" id="2572985"]Eh, no country/region on Earth might have called it just "gold" until now. But you might have noticed that this is a PC game, and a fantasy one to that. And in these games it's the standard, if not "state of the art", to call it gold or gold coins or something similar.[/quote] Except when it's not. It's not hard to point to games that call it something other then "gold". The Elder Scrolls games use septims, named after the imperial fami

[quote who="IgorM" reply="5" id="2572814"] Oh, my mistake then, although I don't get that "cloth map" thing. It seemed bizarre why would anyone disable all of the visuals or why would that option even exist to begin with so you can't expect people to see through all that strangeness.[/quote] Ever use the zoom feature in Sins of a Solar Empire to zoom all the way out to the farthest view? At that point, all the graphics are off, you just see icons for planets and phasel

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="173" id="2572829"]This thread now has me doubting the merits of naming things like the currency for the sake of a realistic touch. It is almost like giving things fancy names for the sake of fancy names rather than serving a purpose. What would be against calling it gold, really? No one calls it's coins that except in games? What is this then?[/quote] You mean other then all the already listed reasons? Also, lots of games don't call their currency g

[quote who="eobet" reply="159" id="2572458"]NOOOO! Please do not commit the "calling a rabbit a smeerp" violation from the Turkey City Lexicon! A cheap technique for false exoticism, in which common elements of the real world are re-named for a fantastic milieu without any real alteration in their basic nature or behavior. “Smeerps” are especially common in fantasy worlds, where people often ride exotic steeds that look and act just li

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="152" id="2571972"]Post Cataclysm I think its best to stick with plain "Gold". It's also easy for anyone to understand and doesn't draw attention to itself. A named currency like Rigma or Gildar would fit better in a campaign with existing civs - not in Elemental. Just my two copper coins. [/quote] Brad had this to say about tha

[quote who="DoomBringer90" reply="31" id="2571296"]Would it ever be likely that we would be able to log into I::R with a Steam account? I understand if it's not possible because it requires access to VALVe's servers to log in with them, or some sort of VALVe proprietary technology to implement it, but it is a large chunk of digtal purchasers that I'm sure developers would love to have access to without screwing the rest of us with our pants on. [/quote] One of the things they men

Beta is currently closed. You'll get in when beta 2 comes out, which is tentatively in April sometime.

[quote who="Supurcell" reply="142" id="2571547"]Really I don't see the problem with being able to name your own currency and have every state with it's own unique coinage. No need for exchange rates or anything, just make it all the same and put a coin icon next to it and everyone will know what it means inside diplomacy dialogues. It would be a nice little touch that I don't believe I've ever seen in any civilization sim game.[/quote] The problem with that is that it's pointless and

Your maximum mana is supposed to be your Essence, so in theory if you have 10 Essence you should regen mana up to that point and be able to cast it. I've never been able to do that either though, so it may be buggy right now. Lots of beta 1 is. :)

1. Beta is currently closed. If you pre-order right now, you will get in when beta 2 starts (tentatively sometime in April). You will also be charged at that point, rather then today. 2. I don't think that's been answered yet, but I'd expect a PDF copy or something, yeah.

I don't really think Talents is a good game currency name. People see that and think of some kind of passive skill they can buy, because thats how the term is used in so many other games. I also don't think given each faction a different currency is a good idea at this point, mostly because doing it right means having things like exchange rates. If you have 10 currencies but they're all worth the same in order to make the game easier to code, then you've really just got one currency w

[quote who="rothdave1" reply="51" id="2565865"] In this case one would do so to let the card compete on an even playing field. If you are going to compare two different cards it shouldn't be against one that has been downclocked significantly for an arbitrary power spec. That and as awseome as the 5970s are running 2560res on 3 screens in intense gaming may require a smallish bump to maintain FPS.[/quote] Who is underclocking in order to meet an arbitrary power spec? Nvidia lower

[quote who="Splitshadow" reply="15" id="2564937"] Satellite internet is basically just a big, high powered router with a really well made reflector. If they could build cassegrain receivers into computers we would all have great internet via satellite everywhere on Earth. I predict that 20 years from now, most users will use satellite internet at twice the speed we have now on wired connections.[/quote] Doesn't seem likely considering the cost of deploying a satellite network to

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="83" id="2570792"]How come the coins are named? It implies a standard which is kinda weird in a world that is rebuilding. Are people not trading in chicken bones and cowhorns? [/quote] Presumably there was a currency before the cataclysm. Also we start to rebuild cities of thousands of people, doing things like mining, smithing, and adventuring. A barter economy wouldn't really work.

Well, first they need to finalize a deal with Intel. Then they need to integrate the 64 bit Havok engine. Then build a 64 bit version that is fit for release to the beta testers. It'll be along sometime before release. Beyond that, I couldn't guess.

[quote who="Connaer" reply="26" id="2570341"]The destruction of all the old civilizations brought on by the war of the Titans took away the reason for money. So the survivors reverted to the bartering of old, and went back to weighing things to assure fair trade. As time went on some semblance of order appeared and new terms of the weight and weighing became the the root of new currencies. So as the ancient Greeks of our world created 'Stater' as a coin ( literally

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2568945"]Well, I certainly don't think Valve would do anything like that. They've got better things to do. So I'm not worried that there's any sort of organized campaign. Rather, I think that Valve has fans like Apple does who take it very very seriously.[/quote] This sort of thing does go on, though. Here in New Brunswick (Canada), the government wants to sell the power utility to Quebec. To say it's gone badly for them in pub

[quote who="Sycraft" reply="20" id="2569037"]Heck this has been going on strongly with video cards lately. For those that aren't up on it, ATi launched their 5000 series of video cards a few months ago. First DX11 cards on the market and just over all wonderful performers. Generally I'm an nVidia guy but I got a 5870 and not sorry I did, works great. Ok well nVidia now has their DX11 part comming to market soon. As one would expect it looks to be a card of similar performance and features and