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Looks interesting. I like the unit formations.

[quote who="goodgimp" reply="110" id="2711720"]No LAN option, for starters? The way battle.net went down and people couldn't continue their campaigns? I'm not bashing on Starcraft 2 or anything like that, but axing Civ5 for DRM while being fine with Starcraft 2 is... strange.[/quote] Not to mention region locking the game's multiplayer...

0 day patch also acts as an anti-piracy measure to persuade people to purchase the game to get access to the new content brought by the 0 day patch.

Reminds me of skydiving [e digicons]:O[/e] . I really enjoyed the 1st game (didn't bother with the sequel produced by a separate studio).

You guys can have Celine and can definitely keep that moron Bieber. SYL over all of those fools [e digicons]XO[/e] .

EB Games has long lost any respect that I may have had for it. I haven't bought a physical copy of a game in a long time too which helps me avoid their constant delays and inadequacies. [quote who="Raven X" reply="5" id="2711260"]Someone call a magician haberdasher!!! America's Hat needs Elemental!!![/quote] America's hat? More like, America's head - you know: where the brains and important stuff are kept [e digicons]:-"[/e]

[quote who="Tridus" reply="1" id="2711035"] I want to estimate how many days/hours it will take to download. Beta 4 is 1.67GB according to Impulse. That's installed size, I believe the download size is a bit smaller. Release game will probably be larger, but I can't imagine it growing tremendously. I'd be surprised if it's over 2GB (but that's a guess). [/quote] Going from what Brad has been saying about the amount of graphical content that is in the game that was not p

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="5" id="2711017"] Are you Chuck Norris? I don't think so. Only he is powerful enough to transmit diseases to a computer.[/quote] And oh boy does he have a great many to share.

I already have. Not sure why you wouldn't.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="42" id="2710822"] Elemental will tank "Tank" is higly situational and non-descriptive. Number of copies sold is less important than return on investment. Civ 5 *needs* to sell a crapton of copies because a ton of money was spent on the game. Elemental cost what.. 1 million? 1.2? Something along those lines, I think. Comparatively, it needs to sell many fewer copies in order to generate a great return on investment and end up generating good busin

[quote who="AbsynthMinded" reply="55" id="2710689"]If I may ask, what is the expectation of load times in a worse case on single core?[/quote] 5 seconds +- 1000 seconds. Honestly it is impossible to answer this question accurately for a general case.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I think I may also check out Icewind Dale 2 and play as a wizard.

[quote who="Zukaza" reply="9" id="2710374"]Variety of units is always good! [/quote] As long as it's not just cosmetic variety. Special abilities / bonuses to make certain recruitable forces perfect for filling niche rolls is always nice (shock troops, witch hunters, cavalery, archers, element-immune soldiers, etc).

I'm getting this error in Firefox when trying to upload an avatar image.

In regards to the parsing issue and the amount of time it takes. One possible solution could be to parse all of the xml and produce one large binary file upon starting the game (and loading assets from the binary file). Then for every subsequent re-launch simply scan the entire XML directory for changes (time stamp changes) since the game was last run, if no changes were made use the binary file. This way you can reduce what ever I/O overhead you're having on loading every single XML

[quote who="Raven X" reply="19" id="2710321"] ROFL....I almost fell outa my f'king chair laughing....nice.[/quote] Heh thanks. Noticed a typo I made: should have said "breach his cell" rather than just "breach".

[quote who="Raven X" reply="12" id="2710188"] Detective Raven of the International Galactic Crime Squad saves the day again!!! That's it you criminal. You've got a cell waiting in urAnus!!! grab your buttplug, you're off to Intergalactic prison!!![/quote] Now for your hourly update here is Rebecca Brock, of International Galactic News: "Thanks Jim, breaking news this hour: Notorious space cr

[quote who="Raven X" reply="8" id="2710175"]Nope, it's not there...someone's pulling some dickery around here!!! [/quote] Alas, I have been found out. I was bored @ work and had photoshop open...

I thought Stardock and Valve (or at least Impulse and Steam) were competitors. But earlier today I found Elemental on Steam for 10% off.

I reported that the game seemed to be only running on one core (beta 4) but no responses were made.

Will it be possible to have 2x1, 3x2, etc sized tiles in the future?

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any games that feature really in depth magical combat systems. Doesn't necessarily need to be an RPG, but any games that treat magic fights more like dueling and less like two people pointing cannons at one-another.

Looks extremely bland IMO.

I'm guessing / hoping for some form of simultaneous turns / battles.

Ok yeah I got the impression he was freelancing (and the client was worth $1,000,000). Out of curiosity what exactly was the demo?