RikazeMA

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="1" id="2812487"]This is actually a prove that the AI more clever than we think! [/quote] rofl!

Dynasty Idea: Concubines. 'Nuff said.

There's actually another thread where we're discussing something along these same lines. The posters in that thread, (Not including myself, I'm useless at this kind of thing,) have come up with some interesting ideas. https://forums.elementalgame.com/399403 Additional insight and brainpower would be much appreciated, especially by me, because I've only contributed a single half-baked idea to that discussion.

Yes, it's just as the title describes. [IMG]http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt324/MedicAir/Elemental_1288281021.jpg[/IMG] Close-up of Lord Karavox stuck in a city I took from him. We're at war and I'd been trying to find him forever. He had units out and about, but only one more city that I didn't know about, which I'd taken, without him in it. I've been wondering where the hell he is for the longest time, when suddenly.... DUN DUN DUN .</p

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="17" id="2812386"]There ain't a whole lot of shit I don't know about this game as it is right now, I've played it's dick off. That makes more sense if you are one of the few people who like to interchange as many of your words as possible with profanity like me.[/quote] lol. Just lol. Yeah, I've noticed Resoln soldiers toting around Karrazan's before too. Don't think they're Elementium, but they're definitely Karrazan's.

[quote who="Istari" reply="17" id="2812270"]Here's another idea - Subversion. Through espionage, bribery, intimidation, magic and deception, the Sovereign sets all rival factions at each others throats, making sure that there is no faction that is not at war with at least one other faction. There must be a minimum of 4 surviving rival factions for this victory to be achievable. Personally, I think that would be a lot of fun to do, but I don't think the game is really set up for it.

Chapter I: The Northlands And thus, his journey began. It would be fraught with danger and peril, but in the end, it had the potential to be something amazing. He traveled for many days and nights, unsure of where he was going. Without food or water, and with Inn's being few and far between, Jormund's survival skills were pushed to their limits. It didn't help that he'd dropped his dagger the night he'd found the stone. &n

Hopefully someone with more background knowledge on the subject will be able to give you an answer, since I can't. I hope there does end up being city-buying. Influence take-overs seem a bit iffy, but it'd work in theory.

We'll be getting some new Quests and Notable Locations with 1.1, so hopefully we'll be seeing less of this kind of thing in the future. You -could- always go into the Quest XML's and set them all to be repeatable if you wanted to though. (If you've no experience with HTML or XML, it doesn't matter so much. It's really not that hard, you're just changing some 0's to 1's in the section of XML code tagged as .) Edit: If you were to make use of

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="11" id="2812136"] By culture I mean an abstract number that measures all the factors that indicate how developed your nation is, like there is currently a score that measures military might.[/quote] My only gripe is the terminology. The system you propose is, itself, sound. My thinking here is it would be a Prestige Victory as opposed to a Cultural Victory, terminology-wise. Not really an issue, of course, but that's what I'm thinking

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="9" id="2812068"]Yes I did completely read through your ridiculous great wall of RikazeMa and felt only one area was worth commenting on. I pointed out the long length to benefit you for future reference so more forumites will read your posts, I was trying to help you because not everyone has my patience. No good deed must go unpunished. Since you choose to judge my work without inquiry then I'll repay in kind. It's disappointing that so

I've noticed that this quest has been broken every time I've gotten it. I receive the quest, and travel to the first location, and nothing happens. The location disappears, sometimes without the shiny this-is-a-quest-tile marker going away. I noticed an inconsistency in how it's shown compared to other quests though. The text of the location is in bolded white, rather than standard, non-bolded black. I don't know if that helps. If you'd like me to provi

[quote who="riadsala" reply="27" id="2811754"]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 eve

[quote who="DKL" reply="17" id="2811757"] Is that to say, it is now more difficult to pirate the game? Yeah, its so much more difficult that games are pirated BEFORE release date now Just look at TPB, you will easily find ANY released game there. Its _IMPOSSIBLE_ to protect software that is installed client-side. I have no idea why didn't Big Guys figure this simple fact yet. Its one of the basic properties of information. Only real solution is to k

[quote who="Gizmet" reply="6" id="2811680"]Thats right, from the way I understand it you cannot build within 5 tiles of another city. Once that "wild" library, or whatever, is linked to one of the cities you cannot build toward the other city any longer. I understand that, what I am talking about is I have an AI player that has MASSIVE cities within 1 or 2 spaces of each other. -Gizmet[/quote] I will confirm having possibly seen this myself. In the game be

[quote who="Sunjah_Kahn" reply="12" id="2811715"]2. They actually play their games, and [care] about making them Quality Titles. Here, here!!! Very well said, and I fully agree![/quote] Very well edited! 'Twas the true spirit of that post anyhow.

[quote who="CrazyHarlequin" reply="1" id="2811731"]Unless your hunter is actively killing enough wildlife a turn to feed 50 people, the name doesn't really apply. Green Thumb implies a sovereign with an interest in the fields their people uses, so it's appropriate. Only major name change I'd like is the ability to input a custom plural name for soldiers I make. I don't want my Axeman soldier type to end up as Axemans.[/quote] What CrazyHarlequin said, +1.

[quote who="JeffSteel" reply="52" id="2811722"]This is awesome news man, I have never heard of such an offer. I mean, two free expansions for free, that's KRAZY!!! And yet, I can see how it makes sense business wise, entice customers to buy early so as to establish a nest egg for future development or whatever. But surely we gamers have not grown so cynical as to suspect that 1.1 will be an "expansion." Come on guys let's not be paranoid. [/quote] Than

Hey hey, now we're getting somewhere... Well, you guys are getting somewhere. I've done nothing but pessimistically shoot down ideas, and I apologize for that... This kind of thing just isn't my forte. Making the Wonder not be the victory, but turning it into part of the requirement for the victory, is exactly the kind of thinking we, (Read: Everyone but me,) needs to sort this idea out. Here's a thought though. Drop the idea of culture, as a terminolog

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="6" id="2811684"]RikazeMA, your wall of text could have been summed up in a few paragraphs. Frogboy has mentioned that intel is a major AI problem (non cheating) so rejoice, this might get some developer attention.[/quote] Yes, it easily could've been summed up in a few paragraphs, but I'm no good at that. To maintain a train of thought when posting these things, I have to actually write what I'm thinking. I tend to think in whole sent

Prologue: The Mark Assassin turned Channeler, the man who would come to be called Jormund the Bright was once a contract killer amongst the endless wastelands. The last job he would ever do under the title of 'Assassin,' was contracted by a mysterious man who happened across Jormund's Inn. The request was strange. The client sought a man who'd taken shelter in an aba

Somewhere in these forums, you can find a thread called, "Your Elemental Scorecard." The idea behind it was that someone took 1000 points, and distributed them, semi-arbitrarily, throughout the features of the game, giving each individual area a score, and tallying the total at the end. I took the scorecard and used it as a basis for writing a full review of the game. I'll save you the trouble of reading it, as it's pretty damn long... I gave it a 34% score.

[quote who="wonderloss" reply="14" id="2811299"]My first exposure to cracks came from games that were protected by SecuROM. I had purchased Neverwinter Nights, and later Knights of the Old Republic, but they would not play with my CD-ROM drive. I had to get cracks to make them work. The first time, it was provided by tech service, the next time I just decided to go find it on my own. From those experiences, I learned just how easy it was to find cracks for software.[/quote] Neverwinte

[quote who="Uvah" reply="278" id="2811305"]Go to Wikipedia and look up Drake's Equation. Done back in the 60's it gives a possible count of intelligent life in the galaxy, not the universe but the galaxy. comes to about 10,000 give or take and that's a conservative number.[/quote] I've seen the Video that explains Drake's Equation actually. It's part of the basis for my opinion that, statistically speaking, there's gotta be at least one other Civilized Species out there in the g

[quote who="Onionfighter" reply="4" id="2811356"]Great idea, but I think there should also be a less antagonistic way of making the marriage more worthwhile.[/quote] Agreed. However, it's still helpful to brainstorm these things, even if our ideas are totally off the wall, like mine usually are. Like I said, hopefully we can provide Stardock with a basis for inspiration and ideas.