RavenX

That's awesome stuff. How much would that set you back in Dollars? I'm horrible at conversion rates. I take it you play a TON of driving games? It says it supports joysticks too so I'd use it for a flight sim or a mech game. Still, that's a killer set-up.

A Organic road structure is nice and makes sense, but, are people really willing to give up control of manually placing roads? I know I for one would very much like to decide where my roads are placed. I'm sure we've all seen cases where the AI will make bad decisions placing roads taking the long way around a mountain or lake where there was a obviously faster way. Also, what about making roads to improvements that lay outside of town? I would want a road running from my town to the largest

Even "Feeling pretty confident about the date" , people should understand and expect a month or so in either direction, early or late. The other thing to keep in mind is there is a TON of balancing that needs to be done. Of course the final word on what's "balanced" and what isn't falls to the SD team, but conceivably there will be some things that could be argued well into infinity at which point the game would never come out. It will be up to the Dev team to ultimately say "enough i

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="21" id="2549172"]I'm disappointed that despite all the forum pressure we still don't have equal-gender or faction-specific-sexism dynasty systems in any way, shape, or form. If this is because of the beta restrictions, please feel free to tell us... we can handle it. Also, while this radius thing is definately an improvement, I still forsee problems with hard-maxing out cities with no apparent reason. Have to go to school right now.... more c

[quote who="=Outlaw=" reply="19" id="2549165"] I'm not Stardock of course, but this must mean March 4th. Thats my impression too, but I can how see the how wording would get people to hope So on the 4th (or 25th!), beta will open by allowing people to sign up for it on the website, correct? But its only open to poeple who have pre-ordered [/quote] You won't have to "sign up". By pre-ordering the game you get into the Beta. If you pre-order now or

Your ideas will be added when I do my next update, no fear ;) . The next update will be this weekend most likely as I want to give people some time for the flood of ideas that will come after the launch of the next Beta tomorrow. Then I'll add them all at once.

If improvements will be allowed outside of the city it would make sense to have roads be build-able to them as well, not just from city to city. To start building a road, click on the city where you'd like to start the road, then you draw in tile by tile where you want the road to be. Each tile has a certain cost in materials and time which could be accumulative the longer you make the road. Workers will rush out from the town to make the road and when finished will go back to the tow

That's a whole lot of additions. I can't wait to jump into the meat of the early mechanics and start coming up with ideas to fine tune them.

[quote who="FalseMyrmidon" reply="38" id="2543058"] Reduced 97% Original 315 x 450 The Kurgan [/quote] lol I thought about Highlander as soon as I saw the name too. It's a cool name, I think Elemental can use it. They even spelled it different.

[quote quoting="post"]As part of unit design, will we be able to give units special abilities in addition to equipment? Examples: Cause Fear; Inspire other units; Resist Magic; Flight; Regenerate; etc. Certainly it would take longer, but this seems like a good way to make variety in the units. It could require an item to do this, or maybe be part of the research tree? Again, if it could be part of Unit design, it would vastly increase the variety of units if you c

[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="54" id="2547834"] Quoting WildBoarPie, reply 51 Finally - I'm old enough to own an original copy, a limited edition that actually came with a Master-of-Magic T-shirt. I still have it, heh heh I'm so sad. - Guess that feature only works for me!!! Could you take a pic of that and post it, I'd love to see that. [/quote] I don't have the shirt but I do have two copies of the g

[quote who="Aractain" reply="47" id="2547728"]"Your feirce Amazon Warriors got stuck on a rock formation." "Oh no! An enemy has attacked your Amazon Warriors burtally!" "Oh no! An enemy has attacked your Amazon Warriors burtally!" "Oh no! An enemy has attacked your Amazon Warriors burtally!" ... "Your Amazon Warriors, alas, have died in a storm of glory but managed to kill [0] enemy forces!" [/quote]

[quote who="Expack" reply="50" id="2547714"]Unfortunately, due to the fact that I was unaware that the Elemental and main Stardock forums were intertwined to a degree, I accidentally duplicated my idea. Could you please update the link to my idea, Raven X? The proper link is: https://forums.elementalgame.com/376363 [/quote] Link fixed my friend.

I think the "Concept" Frogboy is getting at is that Necromancy can be used for a lot of things. If you follow D&D, certain types of Healing Spells are Classified under "Necromancy". This would mean that a Holy Cleric of good was using Necromancy. When most people think "Necromancy" or "Necromancer" they usually assume it's something or someone evil, which is simply not the actual case. It's a stereotype. Following that same concept for Elemental, Death Magic is nothing more then a

[quote who="edpfister" reply="44" id="2547660"]I like getting to see the details but with that level of detail wouldn't it get completely overwhelming in a 1000 vs 1000 man battle? I had a proposal for auto-resolve combat I've been thinking about but never got around to posting. In the past I played PBM games where battle resolution was handled by the computer. Instead of just telling you who won or how many points of damage were done the battle was broken down int

It took me an hour or so but I went through it. It's pretty good. I picked up a copy of Dom3 a while ago but I haven't had the time to play it so this helped a lot. Now I have some idea of what I'm jumping into.

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="45" id="2545676"]I know I'll be buying Elemental on day 1, for what that's worth. Jon [/quote] Most of us already bought it ;)

[quote who="leeboy26" reply="111" id="2544717"]My one hope is that there is an option that allows you to change the growth/building turn speeds of settlements in bigger games. For some reason games developers are very unimaginative when it comes to difficulty options. I'd prefer more than just 'easy' 'medium' and 'hard', give me custom options, damnit! (SoaSE was on the right track). I want to play a huge map that takes me real-time hours to build cities up, it helps emotional investment as w

When it comes time to do that "Example Race" go with Dragon-Men, or Bird-Men, some kind of winged race. I need a good basis and model for that when I start building Draconians for my Dragonlance Mod ;)

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="10" id="2535503"]Drink enough south Floridians you'll be fluent in spanish in no time [/quote] That aint limited to south Florida. Sadly we'll all be learning how to speak Hatian here real soon too...

Have to say I agree. Without ways to defend against those ultimate spells the late game will be all about who can get mana and cast the fastest. The first person to lay the smack down destroys everything/everyone and wins. If we look back on MoM there was a way for one player to "Dispel" another's Global Enchantment. I want to say the same thing could be done during combat if you had the mana. What the player would do is spend a equal amount of mana to what was used casting the spell

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="91" id="2546436"]A note one Essence and reviving the land... Right now the part of City Building that takes essence is the re-habilitating of the land. By spending you essence and breathing new life into it (or twisting it) you make it livable for your people and a city can now be placed there. Cities also radiate this healing (or twisting) power, so as the game progresses you see the world come to life (or, again, twist) to your will. This

[quote who="Cerevox" reply="10" id="2546094"]Start a fire at mouth of cave, suck breathable oxygen out? teleport spell? Tunneling dwarves? Or just wear them out. I will live for centuries, what are a few months to me? If they have spells protecting their air or preventing teleports or tunneling in, i can just dismantle those spells. I am a channeler, rivaled only by the dragons in my magic powers. Why can't i just inflict a horrible plauge on them and let them die? Or fi

Here's a thought Boogie. The quote isn't working so here it is directly: "4. Not really solved, in fact this approach favors large cities. Maybe my idea and the governor idea could be merged, and this would be the area where needing governor's would really help. In fact, it will also factor into balancing between problem #2 and problem #3 as well. So the governors should still definitely be in, imho." Perhaps have cities that are built close together auto-join together when th

All New Ideas added, 2/21/10