dragoaskani

From how I understand it. Its option 3, but with a minor cavet, different armors have different properties. What I mean by that is take a piercing weapon like Bows for example. Lets say your Plate armor has an armor rating of 8 and is strong vs piercing, then it will always roll an 8 vs piercing attacks, but against Blunt or Slashing attacks it will roll a value between 0-8. Its a simliar system to what they used in GalCiv. The only difference in GalCiv they told you what armors were strong a

You should have built 2 or so Peasants at the very least during the first 20 turns. So this kinda your own fault. You are the one that left a city undefended, if you can't spare the 10 gildar and 2 materials to defend it then you got bigger problems then bandits. Not to mention you shoulda escored the Pioneer with at the very least 1 peasant if not 2. This is essentially 4x game 101 by the way. Its kinda just how these games are. The wandering monsters/bandits/barbarians (in civ)

This topic is now about the superiority of Cake over Pie. Discuss. PS I like cake!

Good or bad I won a free signed copy of it which is supposed to be mailed out this week. So once I get it we will read it for shits and giggles at the very least.

[quote who="BababooeyHTJ" reply="5" id="2758013"] Quoting wayninja, reply 2 We do not give refunds on beta or pre-release versions of software or subscription renewals. Refunds are only available for fully-released programs. So, sorry, think you are out of luck. That has nothing to do with Elemental which is a fully released product. <br /

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="9" id="2757806"]I sure hope SD does something with the AI... one thought I had would be to make it so that if your sov declares war on another sov then takes him and all of that Sov's cities over then the others of that faction unite to try to stop you. If you are Kingdom and do this to another Kingdom Sov then both Empire and Kingdom factions unite against you, if you are kingdom and do this to a Empire Sov and maintain peace with Kingdom Sov's th

[quote who="James009D" reply="5" id="2757808"]I doubt it's lore, I think it's been overlooked. The Empire factions, I believe, can actually have a few more trade carts because their tech trees allow it. I also can't understand why trade caravans add to food and not income, doesn't make any sense. This would all be ok but I can't find the code to change any of it either.[/quote]Well I think the reason Trade Caravan's don't add to gold income is due to the simple fact that a trade treaty option

[quote who="mastroego" reply="17" id="2757800"] Quoting dragoaskani, reply 16Nothing like looking at the past through Rose colored Lenses eh? Mom has and had more then its fair share of problems as well. You had to purposely force yourself not to game the game a lot of the times with it as well. Or have you forgotten that? Nobody denies that. Yet the game was so funny that everyone accepted those issues and played the hell out of it anyway. <b

[quote who="wayninja" reply="7" id="2757801"]Yes, that would be clearly wrong. I'm still having trouble figuring out how to tell the minor factions from the major ones though. I've definitely seen factions do 'nothing'. Although now I'm thinking that maybe they were a 'minor' faction. Is there some indication that I'm missing that the faction is 'minor'? [/quote]Yeah its easy, the Major factions are the 10 that you can pick to play as. All others like the Snathi,

Yeah if you are talking Sov's and not minor empires they should be doing stuff. Mine do. Wonder whats wrong with yours....

[quote who="hairrorist" reply="76" id="2757778"]That's not how copyright law works, Drago. Return policies actually have nothing to do with copyright law. Copyright is what protects a brand from being replicated and sold by separate corporate entities.[/quote]Well tell that to the assholes at Walmart or Bestbuy that won't let you return a PC game and state "Federal Copy Right laws won't let us take back your opened PC product." =(

Nice, organized, and boring. Done to death, I like this approach, but then again my machine doesnt slow down even by turn 500 on large epic game speed maps, with 9 ai's....

[quote who="Vigoratus" reply="2" id="2757779"]Aha, yes. That would explain it, though I'm not sure I understand why the Fallen would be more efficient traders. Side note: Several quest bugs involving unresponsive quest destinations and/or quest starter locations not being removed upon completion.[/quote]Well for a lore reason maybe its cause they are more savage so make better farmers? and their farmers drive the carts? okay thats stretching it I guess...I dunno.<

Not necessarily Tevans if they were so overconfident on "projected sales figures" that they started to put the cart before the horse it could easily lead to this situation on its own just from poor sales after release. Breaking even from preorders and making a profit large enough to sustain future development of projects for a 2nd team are completely different things. [quote who="tevans6220" reply="147" id="2757782"] I thought I read where Brad said th

Yeah cause google is so damn hard to use. Here took me less time to do then it took to type even one of your bulletpoints... https://store.stardock.com/policy.aspx

[quote who="wynams" reply="142" id="2757741"]I thought Brad said Elemental wasn't rushed out, that Stardock didn't rely on game sales and that even if they didn't sell another copy that the team would work on improving Elemental for the next 2 years. Guess Brad led a lot of you astray ... as my first dealings with Stardock was the game Elemental, I really do not understand where all the loyalty comes from. He seems like a real tool[/quote]None of that has anything

Empire tech gets a 2nd caravan, kingdoms don't. Just like Kingdoms can research and build a building that generates 2 more mp. As far as I know (having not played empire much) there is no such building for them. There are other differences as well. The sides are different in a few ways.

[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="10" id="2757748"] Quoting dragoaskani, reply 7 Fail more at reading comp. He did put (concept) after great game. That would imply its a great game concept not a great game....really is this stuff this hard for America's younger generations now days? Not being from America I can't relate. I don't know what definition of a great concept you have, but Elemental's is not great. I see a couple of ideas lumped together, and what I heard before beta was more

Nothing like looking at the past through Rose colored Lenses eh? Mom has and had more then its fair share of problems as well. You had to purposely force yourself not to game the game a lot of the times with it as well. Or have you forgotten that? (and in case I need to remind you when it came out it was buggy as all fuck, crashed all the time and the AI was garbage, it took a year of patches to make it fairly stable and fix the moronic AI to be better...gee hmm sound like another gam

[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="5" id="2757727"] Quoting Hozy, reply 2I would wait, it's a great game (concept) but it's just not done, or at lease until a demo comes out, as the above post said, if you got the $50, a big fan a 4X's why not but if your use to a finished product. I think in the long run you maybe disappointed. I wish people would stop abusing words like 'great', 'beautiful', 'gorgeous', and 'awesome'. Elemental may be a good game, perhaps even very good, but there's no do

I love all the legal eagles in this thread. Hey heres a good one for you. Look up things on Copyright laws on computer games. Those laws actually take precedence and protect the companies from having to refund you for your software since once you opened it you could have copied it then returned it to get your money back. Stardock just isn't one of those companies thats gonna shove that up your butt and tell you no.

[quote who="Verilee1970" reply="138" id="2757666"] A large investment was made by some folks into a game that will either pay off in spades, or sink the entire ship. If this wasn't the case, there'd be no reason to lay off more people than were actually hired to produce Elemental in the first place. [/quote]except they hired some people on who were gonna be part of the 2nd team. Now there is not gonna be a second team for now, so their services are not needed

I have a friend at work that got into the beta and apprently its a buggy crap fest in alot of ways. Well they got 3 weeks to finish polishing it up, but I think I will use those funds elsewhere and just keep waiting for our dear Star Wars: TOR to release next year. (better be good god damn it so sick of bad star wars games...)

[quote who="wayninja" reply="2" id="2757597"]They aren't supposed to do anything? Um... at the risk of sounding silly... why?[/quote]Well they serve the same purpose as minor civs in GalCiv 2, you can trade with them, etc, but they don't expand they just seek to be left in peace. Think of them as the 1900's Sweden of civilizations essentially. Of course they are useful for breeding as they do produce magical children. Similar things are very common in these types of games. Even th

You are aware the game has minor factions also that NEVER did anything, they AREN'T supposed to do any thing, right? Now clearly if you are talking about the other SOVEREIGNS like Kraxis...then there is an issue.