dragoaskani

hmm I think perhaps having an Engineer type military unit might be best, it could fight, it could be paid to build roads, forts, etc.

In soviet russia, hexes move on you.

bleh it double posted...

Shame I am spending all my money on my new PC this month. :( I will have to wait till the official release to get to play. But thats okay it will be worth the wait and I will have a beefy rig to play it on. :D

Frogboy Elemental 2 should go with Octogons. [e digicons](\B):vulcan:(\B)[/e]

[quote who="Cerevox" reply="12" id="2544148"]hexs are nice, but they can also be very irritating. TBH, i prefer squares in TBS. Hexs are good for tactical combat where the extra exposure is often very handy. For big empire builders, tiles are nicer even if your land does look a bit blocky.[/quote]Civ 5 is going with a 1 Military unit per tile approach supposedly, so the hex tiles will be very strategic with armies and such.

Because they like killing things? Perhaps they are like Necromongers.

[quote who="Toppins" reply="43" id="2544112"]Civ V will be great, but fall 2010? This is game development here. March 2011 would be optimistic.[/quote]We don't know how far along they are though. Sid's really good about keeping things under his hat at Firaxis when he wants to be.

maybe we can sell all our olympic gold?

[quote who="midn8t" reply="77" id="2543497"]you think the beta just be automatict you pre order it puts it into your impluse account you download it yuou play it and then as updates come out we get the updats pushed to us thro impluse thats why sins of solare empire was ?[/quote]The sins beta was the "fun" beta this is as brad puts it the "unfun" beta. Its mostly work, not so much fun. Your job would be to find things that are wrong with it. Beta 2 is the "fun" mu

I don't think I woulda been interested in Civ 5 as much till I saw the screen shots. HEX grids for Civ excites me. I know it sounds dumb, but really it allows for such awesome terrain possibilities, not to mention army movements and such. Call me a sucker from the old Mechwarrior Pen and Paper on hex days I guess lol.

[quote who="Aractain" reply="22" id="2543722"]Humm sounds as if they leaned too heavily on the idea of short attention span fools who made barrens chat famous... Oh wait, thats the mass market. Damn.[/quote]Ah yes good old barrens chat, which was only overcome by global trade chat. I been clean from wow for a month now and hopefully never go back. Its amazing how much free time I have now when I don't feel I need to be on to raid 3 hours a night 4 nights a week. (not to mention all

Heres my take on it. I was in the Settlers 7 beta test. Its a cute game, I had not a single problem running it. No problems with the save game features, where it saves the games online. Not even any problems with playing really. Though there were a few times where others in the house were using the internet also and my game started slowing down. See thats another thing they don't mention in their PR. If your net starts lagging, your game starts stuttering. (really lame to have happen in a sin

[quote who="FallenDevil" reply="28" id="2543523"] But one thing, Play Staton 3 sucks warm fuzzy anus sack. Just sayin' [/quote]Well it does have the advantage of being a blue ray player. Kinda nice if you have a good HDTV seeing as HDVD lost the high definition movies war.

Ugh the spelling and grammar mistakes make my head hurt...and I was only a C english student in college...I hate english, I hate your spelling more.

It's to TEST the game not to just play it early anyways...geez get your priorities right.

Gal Civ is a fun series, but I won't consider it top of the line. Though I do enjoy my copy of Ultimate its still not as good as my Civ 4: Beyond the sword. At least in the ability to eat up my time. I find I am much more likely to stop playing galciv and find something else to do, then when I play civ. Then again I haven't touched my civ 4 in months and months. I'm getting a new i7 machine in 3 weeks and was gonna install civ 4 on it. With the announcement of civ 5 I find any interes

Yeah the dead minimum of eye candy weather effects would be awesome, but even more awesome would be some seasonal effect upon gameplay. Though this might complicate the engine more then they are prepared to do at this time what with beta 2 in like a month.

[quote who="NoobFukaire" reply="11" id="2543429"]I mean, do you really think galactic civilizations was better than: Deus Ex, Fallout 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment, Diablo II, etc, etc. Your "reality" is obviously seriously flawed in this case.[/quote]There is an edit button for a reason. Use it.

Its gonna be a good year for strategy gaming. Supcom 2, Star Craft 2, Elemental, and civ 5 this year! busy busy busy!

I will be buying... BOTH!

hey brad, have you guys thought about implementing a weather cycle into the gameworld and how it would affect armies in the field? More specifically things like winter and how it tends to make waging war more difficult on armys. That kinda thing? I don't know if thats even something you are thinking about trying, but the idea sounds like it would fit with elemental. Maybe even some types of magic that can change the seasons. Ya know, turn summer to winter and watch an army that was he

[quote who="NoobFukaire" reply="2" id="2540075"]Sounds like a hodge podge of Tolkien and Dragonlance. Stardock doesn't have any creative writers?[/quote]Ignorant troll is ignorant and a fuggly troll.

[quote who="Aractain" reply="2" id="2538928"]Why does the ranger... err.. "Tarthan" look sad and depressed? All the others have this pose going on and this rangers like Good stuff.[/quote]Well if they are "rebels" perhaps they are losing their rebellion and that would depress them? I dunno, but I really like that first ones art quite a bit.

Don't forget we don't get to see the back of it, or the fold out flap. Assuming its going with the flapstyle cover that shows more stuff.