riadsala

Why not allow for very powerful characters, but make them very rare. So you won't get one every game, and if a powerful character does appear in your game, there's no guarantee that he won't end up choosing to work for your enemies; but if you do get a fabled hero working for you, then boy are your enemies in for a rough ride :) This has a couple of advantages: Balance isn't so important. As they're not in every game, it doesn't matter that they are overly power

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="161" id="2801890"]I guess I owe Riadsala a big thank you for his support![/quote] ha, you're welcome. I'm not big headed enough to assume that my thread had anything to do with it though! I just glad that my faith in Elemental has been restored. It'll be interesting to see the direction in which you take the game. While it's too early for any details, is it safe to assume that you'll be carrying at least some of Ff

Multi-player options. Hotseat and PBEM. They've already stated this isn't happening. :(

I like the fact that they're not using all the usual tired Fantasy stuff. It's just a shame that none of if has been fleshed out very much in the game, in terms of game-play and in-game lore. But that will come with time.

I agree with a lot of this. And I would also add that the map/world is very lacking in personality. I think the zoomed out overview map is PERFECT. (is there an option which allows me to zoom in a little more while still using the map display?) But once you zoom in, the world is just boring. Wasn't there meant to be some sort of apocalypse? Surely we could have some giant chasms, towering mountain ranges, rolling hills. Old battlefield sites from

[quote quoting="post"] When the reviews came out, I thought, What are they complaining about? It isn't that bad. Meanwhile I haven't played the game even once. I don't count messing around with it a few times during beta. I just don't feel any compulsion to play the game. [/quote] I'm exactly the same. I fire her up now and then, lay for 10, 20 turns, then decide I can't be bothered trying to work out the odd interface. Figure I

Crikey. So much negativity on all sides.

[quote quoting="post"] I've learned about FFH2 on this forum and spent some time playing first scenario of the campaign. The second one was too boring, so I abandoned it. [/quote] Have you tried the main game though?

Fantastic. I'll look into it. And it should keep me busy until Ele is tidyied up. Thanks a lot :)

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="62" id="2787069"]Civ IV is awesome ... FFH2 (the better versions) are 10x better than Civ IV the (lesser) versions of FFH2 are around 2-5x better than Civ IV. [/quote] Hey, you might be able to help me... where can i find out which versions are better? I'm currently playing around with the standard FfH2 mod. But I see there are loads of modmods. Any you can recommend? I don't want the game to get any bigger, but if there

[quote who= Quoting riadsala, reply 10Any plans for supporting PlayByEmail? No, we will not be supporting PBEM or hotseat as they're not compatible with simultaneous turns.[/quote] that's a real shame, as that's the one type of multi-player I'd be interested in for a game like this.

Any plans for supporting PlayByEmail?

[quote who="PiersAS" reply="56" id="2784276"]Just got the Customs charge of £15.84. Honestly since I already have the game, I can't believe whats in the box is worth £15.84 so I guess I just leave it.[/quote] I'm very tempted to do the same. As, even though I have the digital version, I've only played the one game, and haven't gone back to it. :( Gaming disappointment of the year.

[quote who="Zard0z" reply="15" id="2784194"]My greatest fear is that Elemental python API will not affect enough aspects of the game to make a mod as different from original game as FFH2 from Civ4. If the scripting will be powerful enough, we can still hope to have FFH-like mod.[/quote] Well, the core game is changing to rapidly just now that Stardock could probably facilitate any advanced modding requirements. Especially if it would increase the chance

[quote who="arstal" reply="9" id="2784138"]Maybe a mistake, but I think Brad has everything story planned out for this years in advance. Hence the book. [/quote] I know, but unfortunately, the book isn't meant to be very good, and from what I can see, very very very little lore has made it into the game. Just a short paragraph or two giving a brief description of each race. While FfH2 has almost too much lore and background!

[quote who="Zawath" reply="7" id="2784118"]Kael already asked if he could work on Elemental's backstory but Brad turned him down http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=7415642&postcount=2[/quote] A bad mistake on Brad's part I would say. He should of jumped at the chance of getting Kael involved.

Indeed! Elemental's game mechanics could be the perfect bread for Kael's butter. His input on improving Elemental wouldn't be bad to have as well. :) I say, give him a nice little budget, and get him to make a "remix" of Eleme

Hello, apparently the stand alone Fall from Heaven game has been cancelled. :( But on the plus side, maybe this would be a perfect opportunity for Stardock to entice Kael over to modding for Elemental... his work his admired by a lot of people, and I'm sure he'd have a lot of invaluable insight into expanding and improving elemental. Stardock just need to give him a reason to switch from modding the hugely popular CiV (he's already produced a coup

Personally, I don't really care for the total war style battles. I mean, sure it can be fun but eventually the novelty wears off for me. When I'm playing a game at a strategic level I'd rather not have to fight out each individual battle in a total war style battle. Agree. I would prefer if the TW battles were turn based. As, with real time battles, I give my orders, then I have to wait a while doing nothing while my army walks up to the oth

+1 from me. It may be horribly nerdy, but if Warhammer/GamesWorkshop can implement a tabletop turnbased game where both sides field large armies, then surely a PC game can do the same? I really don't want a King'sBounty/HoMM style tactical combat game in Elemental. Which isn't to say I'm not enjoying King's Bounty (have been playing while I wait for Elemental to at least get past the savegame breaking patches...), but they don't really fit with th

Hello, apologies if this has been discussed before. I thought it might be an interesting topic to discuss, and it would be cool to see in a Future (like, in a year or two's time!) release/expansion of Elemental. Maybe it's just because I live in Scotland, and there's growing talk about Scottish Independence, which would end the United Kingdom as we know it! I really love the idea of civil wars and decline in games. But, in practise, they rarely work. I'm not sur

[quote]Quoting Tormy-, reply 52 Quoting joasoze, reply 47I am serious. If you have a suggestion of a better game feel free to offer your insight There's no tactical combat in the Civ games. The ATT/DEF -> DMG system is way too simplistic. [...having unit unit counters is not enough in my book.] I don't want to mention more stuff like dmg/resistance types etc., because I prefer to play with fantasy themed games anyway. Funny,

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="3" id="2759875"] There's no need to discuss the practical details, I'm just putting the idea out there to see what people think of it in general terms.Obviously, this would only apply to total conversion mods (think FallFromHeaven2), rather than mods that tweak a few things here and there, and add a couple of techs, but don't change the core game. I guess you're talking about total conversion mods that have no relation whatsoever to copyrighted m

Yes (with Stardock obviously taking a large and fair cut). I'm assuming there would be a charge, but ideally, an option of releasing a mode for free would be nice too in an ideal world. but I understand that that's unlikely. As if they don't do that, the potential audience is very limited (assuming that not many players actually try mods, and only a fraction of those who do will bother to try YOUR mod, and only a fraction of those will actually like it!).

Hello, I have a question that I think should get discussed: one of the clear strengths of Elemental is it's modding tools. However, as a potential modder (I've been playing around with Unity3D this last year and fancy getting involved in stuff), I'm put off using Elemental as its never going to have the market penetration that the Civ series will have. And given that only a fraction of players ever try mods, well, I'm left with a very limited potential audience. <p