[quote who="Sethfc" reply="16" id="2595763"]Customization can be improved but it will be and its going to be awesome i'm gonna wait for empires to be enabled before bringing that up as a topic.[/quote] I'm pumped for Empires. My first 'real' faction will be an Empire Faction, definitely. I like all of what I'm hearing. Keep flooding my inbox with those 'Replied to Topic' messages!
[quote who="Myles" reply="59" id="2594970"] Quoting Rishkith, reply 58 But it seems the team is to gung-ho on this one to want to stop and consider customer feedback on the issue anyways so I hope Elemental works out as another game with Global resources. Quit being melodramatic. The Devs have seen countless posts on the subject supporting either side. Don't act like everyone is against this when clearly that's not the case.[/quote] That's what I tried to say.
I want to know how everyone feels about the Beta right now, as compared to past builds, and as compared to your hopes for future builds and the retail game. My questions (And my own answers,) are as follows: How has the stability of the current build [1Z2/.30] gotten better or worse for you? 1Z was the first build I got to play, and I noticed the stability wasn't great, but not terrible either. Now, two patches later, I can easily play 800+ turns
[quote] * How will I know if it’s ready for beta 2? * The goal of this build is stability. If it is stable and doesn’t run out of memory then it’s ready. If it’s unstable (crashes) or runs out of memory on you then it’s not. Beta 1 is not about game balance. If you’re enjoying beta 1 then we have failed as beta 1 should not be remotely fu
Firstly, about beating the Dead Horse... Whilst this debate (Argument in some cases it seems,) is purely Academic, I don't mind it on the basis that, for the New Beta Testers like myself, we get the chance to discuss the current Eco Model and compare it to models we're used to, as well as compare our data against the Testers who have been around since Beta 1. By that token, I think that this particular topic is going to be a warring point for GlobalEco VS LocalEco, which is po
[quote who="liq3" reply="17" id="2589568"]Rikaze, I'm going to be blunt. Your post screams to me "I play P and I'm bad at SC2. I'm gonna blame Blizzard instead of myself and avoid responsibility". There's plenty of Ps in top 10 platnium position. They have no problem getting and staying there, even tho according to you Protoss is being nerfed into to ground. Actually scratch that. I reread the paragraph and I'm not even sure what your point it. It's a terrible vague paragraph.
So, I have a LiveStream account and ProCaster for streaming images on my Desktop to a live channel. But ProCaster can also record and save streamed video data. I'm not sure if it would save to my Hard Drive, or if I'd have to link the appropriate video's in the forums, but my suggestion/question is this. I've been posting some of the particularly wonky 'Random Crashes' I've been having, as well as any CtD's I can consistently recreate, like the Conquering Crash they fixed
I would try to make the title of the topic more descriptive if I'd had any idea as to why it crashed... I can think of one thing that might have caused it though. I was running around literally wtfpwning with my Sovereign because Lord Relias decided to declare war on me the turn after he met me. I should have captured three cities. Instead, I captured two, and the last one just kind of disappeared... Also, after defeating Relias and the Soldier i
[quote who="Istari" reply="14" id="2589179"]I agree that Wonders should be faction and race specific, and that rare or unique items are needed. This will do two things. Firstly, it will add more strategy to the choice of race and faction, secondly it will feel more special to have a Wonder. What about a Wonder that actually affected the way an entire city looked? City of Gold anyone? Have the streets paved with jewels, etc. Also, Cloud City Island i
Good stuff man. Brings a question to mind though, which requires a slight preface. It was my understanding that this patch would fix the 'City Conquer Crash.' In response to that, I've tried to load my game that crashes when around turn 153 (depending,) whenever I try to capture a city, but the game is deciding to hang up now instead of load it. Does the new build invalidate prior saves, or am I just having problems loading again? Edit: Whoa, the new bu
[quote who="Tridus" reply="13" id="2589177"] Quoting RikazeMA, reply 12Edit: Read further, you tricked me. It wasn't made by Blizzard, it was made by a different company that later became Blizzard. Silicon & Synapse is very obviously not Blizzard. There's no telling if it was even all the same people that made Warcraft: OVH. Good one. Same core people, the company was renamed when they started doing PC games.[/quote] That wasn't meant to be
Okay, where should I start... The Road. It very obviously goes -through- the city rather than -to- the city. Second is the Villa's. They began overlapping with other buildings, (Look at the left side,) after auto-upgrading from Houses Next obvious one is the Palace being cut off by the forest.
[quote who="Lost_WLd" reply="1" id="2589142"]https://forums.elementalgame.com/379817 [/quote] Oh, neat-o. Thanks! ^^
[quote who="Tiavals" reply="21" id="2589136"]Everything is an opinion, especially here. That's why we are trying to see which opinion makes the most sense and why. Opinions are the basis of enjoyment. I will clarify on the "forced" part. It means: I don't want to play five billion games to enjoy building the Star Golem. This essentially forces me to play MP games where I must trade parts with others. Because otherwise I would never see that Star Golem. Simple as that.[/quote]
Debug.err Link http://pastebin.com/wt0KkQMU DxDiag Report Link http://pastebin.com/7ikkKrBS Dump File http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6019728/Elemental0_298-2010-04-10T02-42-18-298.zip Was able to, (For the first time ever,) load the game and recreate the crash. Save-File In Question http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6019728/Riklan%20Turn%20151.EleSav
[quote who="Raven X" reply="31" id="2589061"] Quoting RikazeMA, reply 29 However, I'm unsure of how to go about reporting that as a problem... (Meaning, what Stardock needs to identify the problem, and what tag I should put it under in the Forums. I'd assume [Crash], but even if I'm right, like I said, I don't know what data you guys need out of me to get it fixed.) Go Here my friend. All you'll need to know and how to do it are there.[/quote] Th
[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="11" id="2589098"]Wait, the OP owns every version of "The Lost Vikings"?[/quote] Just looked it up... I can't believe there's something older than Warcraft: Orcs VS Humans that Blizzard made... Thank you for relieving me of my ignorance on the subject. Edit: Read further, you tricked me. It wasn't made by Blizzard, it was made by a different company that later became Blizzard. Silicon & Synapse is very obviously not B
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="28" id="2589017"] Quoting Denryu, reply 25So my guess is that since we are at 1Z (kind of implies the end of beta 1) that there will be no major gameplay changes to Beta 1 and all or almost all updates will be to get stability to the point that everyone (I mean 70%+ of everyone) can support moving to Beta 2. This is my guess, any comments on it's accuracy or lack thereof? The remainder of Beta 1 will be about stability. Making game mechanic changes
....Is that a... Midget Vader?!
Is there anything we, as Beta Testers, can/should do towards the end of finding out why Saved Games won't load? I didn't see anything about that specific issue...
[quote]Yes, what I meant is that they wouldn't keep their fortification bonus. Personally I think if you sally forth, I don't think you should be getting any bonuses at all from anything, except for a place you can easily retreat to.[/quote] Except that, as I already stated, there are any number of reasons why you -should- get a bonus. Furthermore, a sallying army should ALWAYS get a bonus on the grounds that, whilst the enemy's been laying siege to the fort, stuck out in
[quote who="Bob-Morane" reply="12" id="2588495"]I agree that late game can become tedious, but i don't think "game breaking events" would be a proper solution. I think anything that can suddenly, and out of pure luck, turn the tide of a game has nothing to do in a strategy game. I'm no hardcore chess player that can't live with some randomness, but i hate events that suddenly ruin a game with nothing you can do about them. Events can exist in a strategy game, but they should only h
Speaking of the auto-upgrade, when you research the tech to upgrade housing, it only applies to Huts/Houses/etc that are already built, and doesn't seem to carry over to future buildings. Edit: I've confirmed that this is just me being a moron, disregard this post.
[quote who="Tiavals" reply="19" id="2588364"]Frankly, that sounds like a terrible idea to me. If a game(map) has one piece of some super-artifact, the same game should also have the other pieces(though not easily obtained perhaps). If a part of the game is robbed from me(yes, I did say robbed) because I prefer not to play multiplayer games or collect achievements or whatever, I would be quite incensed. The whole "collection" frenzy that has afflicted games these days is a very bad
Ravenx suggested some interesting things on this subject in this threads doppleganger thread. [quote who="Raven X"]More MoM, less Civ. Don't get me wrong, Civ games are great and they do have their "strengths", in my opinion though, "Variety" isn't one of those strengths. Neither is their horrid combat model but this isn't about that. The Races should mean something, just as they do in MoO2 and MoO3 and countless other Fantasy/Sci Fi games. As said above in numerous rep