RavenX

A small note on Balance (not to get off topic), but, in these types of games there ARE going to be things that will be greatly unbalancing. Like Dragons. Not just Dragons either. What if you get lucky enough to have any kind of flying monster join your army early in the game? Your opponents won't even have the means to hit a flying creature unless you already have Bows or the creature goes up against a enemy Sovereign who shoots it with magic. I'm sure there are other, better, example

I like it. It would be nice to lay down a "Spell Trap" on the field of battle prior to a fight. Watch the enemy unit march over it and set it off....BOOM!!! Excellent Idea.

Still unstable as hell. I can get anywhere from 40 to 60 turns in and it hangs and locks up. Happens constantly. It is more stable then the last build....but not by much. I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit. Intel Core i7 920 @2.67GHz 4 GB Ram NVidia GeForce GTX 280 All Drivers up to Date with a practically fresh install of Windows. The Elemental Beta is only the 4th program (game type) I've installed. I know this is a "Beta" and all, but it's rea

You know what else sucks about Borderlands? The extreme lack of interactivity with the environment. Not to mention the lack of physics. I saw a bottle on top of a barrel and tried to shoot it off. Not only did the bottle not fall off the barrel, but it didn't even shatter when shot....Wtf?!?!?! Unless you're into repetitive shooters with guns and a lack luster take on the Diablo weapon hunt, skip it.

Wait until you hit the armored spider ants Inerz. They a bit tough. Best way I've found to kill them is to run behind them and shoot them in the abdomen. Even a shotgun to the face doesn't phase these things.

Just a heads up, I'll be out of town celebrating my wife's and mine first wedding anniversary on Oct 30 , 31, and maybe the 1st of Nov as well. I'll update this with the new ideas in the morning before I leave but after that it won't be updated again until I return.

Ok, I downloaded Torchlight. I must say I've played it more in the last 48 hours then I have Borderlands. Still can't wait for Dragon Age though.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2425159"]Population grows based on the prestige of your city. The people come in from the wilds to your cities. [/quote] So we get Girls gone Wild to flock to our cities? This game gets more kick ass by the minute ;)

Totally awesome. Now give us the ability to Mod in our own backgrounds. :)

So does that mean stability is fixed? Can I do some serious testing now? :) *hopes*

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="6" id="2424455"]I'd say my favorite "twisted" drawing is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ... would make a great Sovereign imo [/quote] She'd make a better "play thing" for me and wife. We could keep her handcuffed to the bed....er nm, I didn't say that. No need to have the cops come to my house and look for people or anything... :P

Found another one Kryo. Poll: Do we NEED Magical Damage Types? Post on page 5 by krejci .

[quote who="daedalao" reply="50" id="2423464"]So, just in case you wanted to know you may have to put up with this as a new employee of stardock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8vKFPlOXI [/quote] I think Brad took his Twilight Bee's idea a little too far... :P

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="31" id="2424076"] Sadly Total War's limits to army size are still relatively low, and so the problem does arise by mid-late game. [/quote] 20 Unit stacks in one army. It's been like since Medieval 1. If you know how to Hex edit and what to Hex Edit you can greatly increase the unit size in the Total War games. The whole reason they limit it like that is that most peoples rigs start lagging when you have more then 20 stacks on each side

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="13" id="2424188"] In fact, if you have reclaimed the land near a min eyou can just build a town near it without using essence, then construct some hovels and the mine and leave it as is ... it's exactly what you meant : a mine, some folks around and that's it. Try the following : build a city far away from the mine, wait to get the reclaimed land, then go build a city ... you build the mine and voilà !! [/quote] That's co

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="9" id="2424026"] Quoting Raven X, reply 7 I downloaded the Heaven Benchmark. I can run DX11 and it is SWEET!!! I'm averaging Frame Rates in the 60's and 70's unless I look at the sky at which point it hits the high 90's. You can even move around the world and look at stuff in the benchmark. Most other benchmarks I've seen and tried don't give you control like that. Normally it's just a walkthrough where your view is restricted to foll

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="17" id="2423790"] Quoting Raven X, reply 7 Definitely NOT a rehash. NwN 2 was a rehash. DA:O is the most original RPG I've seen in years.Yeah. Leliana is totally not Imoen. [/quote] lol, well, if you look at it like that then all RPGs with Elves and Dragons and such are rehashes of each other. Dragon Age is the first RPG I've seen in a long time that's made more for mature gamers. Man I miss Imoen.

[quote who="joempire" reply="11" id="2423847"]Hmm... seems i was wrong. Evil Elemental Gremlins are back and really dont want me to play. I was tricked! Onward to painful crashes! And i tryed windowed mode. Seems that fails to chase away the crashes as well. Are you all able to save and load games? Thats one thing id really like to be able to do. [/quote] Load Game crashes Every time I try.

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="6" id="2423745"]Well in rebuttal to Raven. If they know about those problems, they don't usually patch with them. Most people have a different hardware and software configuration and it can be very, very difficult to get it right on the first try. You just can't be sure how your code is going to work with every hardware and software configuration. Sometimes they just screw up. People aren't perfect, even the guys in internal QA aren't perfect

Twisted Disney Princesses: I want to pet her kitty...hehe Booty and the Beast Cinderhella Little Mermaid <img src="http://i95.photobuc

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="7" id="2423636"]it would be neat to see roads curve around mountains,[/quote] I'm hoping we can get some "Dwarven Engineers" and make a Tunnel Through a Mountain. Either with Dwarves or maybe even with Magic or a Monster that we recruit.

It's not just you, friend. I've only managed to finish One Game of Elemental since the latest Beta Build came out. The hot fix they put out afterward didn't do anything to fix any of the issues except for a crash on startup that I didn't have anyway... I don't see why'd they bother to give us a Beta build to test if it won't run long enough to accurately Test anything. (No offense SD) For the next build they need to worry more about making it stable then they do the time-frame

[quote who="Scorpiana" reply="16" id="2423547"]I already posted this link in another conversation, but it might be interesting for people following this discussion as well. It's a site from someone who did some research in population density / city density in Medieval Europe, and extrapolated this to some basic calculations to make a 'believable' fantasy world. [/quote] Very interesting indeed, Scorpiana. Thank you :)

[quote who="tesb" reply="3" id="2423323"]i think it is better to require a city, since there are always settlements around resources (where do the workers + families live? etc. ). I think you have a wrong impression what a city should be. I think it would be good to have a city development tree: [/quote] Not at all. A City is a home to Lots of people. Even in medieval time periods people often "commuted" to where they worked. Many jobs were purposely put outside of cas

[quote who="bonscott" reply="17" id="2423145"] Just marry the right woman. That is a serious response though. While dating I found out my wife liked games (we played Doom all the time together), she loves sports (watches football with me all day on Sunday and goes out with me and the guys to the bar to see big games), loves SciFi and action movies and loves gadgets like computers, HDTVs and so forth. Don't marry "barbie" who doesn't like anything you li