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[quote who="arstal" reply="6" id="2731694"]One other thing- there needs to be a TOUGH difficulty level that has no AI bonuses or penalties. Right now normal has gimped AI, and challenging has *2 starting gold. [/quote] Is a piddly stack of starting gold the only bonus the Challenging AI gets? [quote who="HJFudge" reply="5" id="2731689"]Another issue Ive had with the AI is that they dont use there sovereign wisely. For example, I declared war on one of the AI t

How do I finish off a civ? Taking all their cities doesn't seem to do it. Do I need to hunt down and kill their sovereign?

[quote who="klno" reply="11" id="2729956"] Quoting Lavitage, reply 9So what happens if I've got both a helmet and a suit of plate? Okay, so a helmet is good against crushing damage and a suit of plate isn't. So... pretend the helmet has a rating of 8 and the plate has a rating of 5. What's my defense roll? 13 (the sum)? 8 (just the helmet)? 8+1d5 (the sum of what they'd do individually)? Quoting klno, reply 6 I had a bunch of fights today and got t

[quote]Have you updated to the latest version? The cost is more balanced now.[/quote] I started my first game a couple hours ago, and I updated the game immediately beforehand, so I think I am. I'm playing as risoln, and boar spears cost roughly 80 in the sovereign store. That sound about right? (They're an 8 atk weapon with no other perks)

So what happens if I've got both a helmet and a suit of plate? Okay, so a helmet is good against crushing damage and a suit of plate isn't. So... pretend the helmet has a rating of 8 and the plate has a rating of 5. What's my defense roll? 13 (the sum)? 8 (just the helmet)? 8+1d5 (the sum of what they'd do individually)? [quote who="klno" reply="6" id="2729848"]I had a bunch of fights today and got the feeling it was soming like this. I had my king with a bow an attack of 9 and defend

[quote]1. Is there keyboard movement?[/quote] Numpad keys 8, 6, 4, 2 [quote]2. How do I rotate the camera?[/quote] >rotating the camera >4x game >laughingsharkman.wav Yeah I'm pretty sure you can't.

I'll keep asking more as I find them. Weapons in the store sovereigns can access cost like 10x more than the same weapon when used to outfit a generic troop. What gives? Is there a way to get a weapon on your sovereign for the same low cost a troop can get them for? Mounts in the unit design screen seem to require an actual mount resource. Where can I get these resources? And why can I buy them in the sovereign store as soon as it shows up? Is there any drawback to cit

If difficulty levels only modify what the AI does rather than the player, one option you could consider is allowing each AI in the game to have its own difficulty level. The standard method of "pick one difficulty, every AI gets its bonuses or handicaps" would still be the default, but there'd be somewhere on the AI players screen where you could pick on an individual basis. We could play games like setting one AI to the very highest level with all the accompanying cheats, and the rest to be

I got the MoO series from there, it was released a few days before MoM. It's not that great. Worth 5 bucks sure, but... meh. Is MoM significantly better? There are just as many old-time strategy gamers who cream their drawers over orion as there are for magic, so it's certainly not ahead in terms of hype.

Well, I think this idea is better than how you handled races in GC2... I'd do it differently though. Scrap default SOVEREIGNS, but keep the stock races and really cut down on the changes you can make for them. Maybe get rid of em completely. In GC2, every race had the same pool of strengths and weaknesses to choose from, with similar point totals, a few starting stat differences that were outweighed by the custom points, and only one real form of differentiation: super abilities. Even

I can't waituntil we can actually play 1Z so we can know firsthand what we're talking about when debating this shit.

[quote]Overview: The major resources in the game have been switched over to being GLOBAL (per-player opposed to per-city). Building materials, metal, and crystal are added, per-turn, into their pool overall pool, while food is stored as a players 'net-food', whch gets spent on housing as the player wishes to expand it's cities.[/quote] I bet this'll get a lot of hate, but I kind of like it myself. Shuffling r

From what a beta tester told me, combat speed is how many times you swing every time you order an attack. A troll had 1 CS, a pimped out warrior sovereign had 7 CS. The sovereign got 7 hits for each one the troll got. What are the actual algoriths planned to be like? That's an important bit of info to include in the game's documentation which many strategy games miss. It's nice to know what exactly 6 blunt defense does to 4 blunt damage.

Speaking from experience: #1 works. #2 can work. #5 doesn't work. You don't even need to take #1 as far as the OP described. Simply pre-canning the usual 6-8 victory conditions but allowing the player to edit the exact values needed to fulfill them, be it through sliders or an editable text file or whatever, helps a lot. Hate the lategame warfare? Cut it out by lowering the amount of land you need to take to fulfill that victory condition (there's always one like it in a 4x game). Wan

https://forums.elementalgame.com/376774 This got asked already. As I see it Brad pretty much laughed in the OP's face, but some people think his answer was legit. Who knows?

I miss thick, geeky, 250 page manuals, so this is pretty tempting, but I'd be paying 20 bucks just for that (things like cloth maps are bound for the trash can.) Eh... probably pass

4) You can't use those heavy swords and armor unless your strength is pretty high. 5) You can't just dump everything into strength because if you neglect dexterity, you can't hit shit with your shiny sword. This is pretty ubiquitous in games like this because it works.

It's been outright stated by frogboy that you fight for the entire city, not individual sections of it. Can't find the post so you'll just have to take my word for it. Going off of that... Forcing the battles to be multi-staged a-la Mount & Blade would be retarded because it would allow the defender to park a relatively tiny force in the city and have it so the city holds out for 3 turns or whatever anyway. Makes no logical sense and adds arbitrary brakes to the game for n

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[quote who="Tasunke" reply="19" id="2556898"]NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE would use Earth magic/Map changing magic, if it used Essence Drain. Essence cost? Probably not many people would use it. Essence DRAIN!? Absolutely no one would use it, other than for perhaps the novelty of it.[/quote] Is there a difference between the two? Doesn't everything that "costs" essence, such as healing land and... healing land... (edit: and imbuing/hero buffing when they get around to adding those) do so

You could have it permanently drain a fairly small amount of essence every turn you maintain it. That way stonewalling an overhelming AI with a river out of your ass, a move which could potentially turn complete destruction into not losing a single city*, has a cost that isn't crippling to you but that you'll feel for the rest of the game, and you won't be able to rely in a river as a wall whenever you want to play builder. *one of the biggest problems in a 4x game is having a big eno

Civ4 and its set of major mods was based mostly on RAM, with a decent processor being a distant second requirement. Doesn't mean elemental will be the same way. GC2 was lightning quick compared to basic Civ4 let alone ambitious mods like FfH so I never really researched what hardware makes stardock's games tick. Didn't matter to me.

[quote quoting="post"] A fun and interesting story-driven campaign. I love sand box mode but I want to make sure the game comes with a campaign that tells the story of Elemental. [/quote]

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2549692"]In Elemental, the pre-canned text will NOT be silly (except some in the beta). There will be an official announcement about this in fact at GDC. [/quote] Am I the only one who gathers from the bolded part that Frogboy is bullshitting you guys...? Poking a little fun at you?

He never even said that we could focus research. [quote]In this UI, the player has researched the ability to research 3 things at once (no penalty)[/quote] Way I figure it, when you unlock the ability to add another research slot, that's all you've done. You've gone from putting X research points per turn into 2 fields each to putting X research points per turn into 3 fields each.