RavenX

Ok, just applied the 1.08 Hotfix and I decided to make a new Sovereign. I was deciding what race to make him and I was on the Appearance/Head tab and for some reason almost none of the races have a available choice for hair. The Ironers have 1 hair and a Hat to choose from but none of the other races have any choices at all. I saw that my custom undead race has all the choices I gave them in the XML. Did the new update change any of the XML behind the core races? Did the updat

[quote who="Ishantil" reply="10" id="2774425"]@Raven X: I just think of it as access to "tamed ley lines". Your sovereign provides access to the global mana pool, being the primary caster. The others who are imbued with power, are granted access to these ley lines and mana nodes through a network of mana that permeates the world. [/quote] That's actually not a bad way of thinking about it. There was a fantasy book I read years ago, and sadly I

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="81" id="2776211"] Quoting Raven X, reply 80 Quoting Das123, reply 79Looks nice Raven. Just one suggestion to help try and simplify things a bit, I had a look at the zip file and the files need to be saved all over the place. At this stage you can pretty much put all the files in the Mods directory but graphic links would need to be re-referenced. The XML files will need to be renamed but it won't interfere with the

Did you take out the map seeds to play random seeded maps and forget to put them back? I've started a few games now with the 1.08 update and had quite a bit on the map. It does sound like a bug or something. Have you tried making a few more games and seeing what happens?

Congrats getting you Mod added to the game in the 1.08 patch :) Truly excellent work.

[quote who="ChungasRevenge" reply="7" id="2775993"]I disagree. Every 10 turns? I think you are a very small minority. From 1.06 onwards the crashes have dropped significantly. On my system I can play for a few hours before I have crash to desktop. Annoying but not too much of a major.[/quote] I haven't tried reloading my saved game with the really Epic map I have going to check, but that map hits a OOM error every 22 turns, I counted, and it's consistent. I'm hoping when I load i

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="130" id="2776502"] Quoting Raven X, reply 119 Quoting Lantros, reply 116 I think adding more units to the unit counts as so many of us want to see @ravenx Pls, can you stop proclaiming this. There are also many players, who dont want this. For example me. Isnt one big thread enough? Really, I'm NOT proclaiming for You. I'm proclaiming

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="343" id="2776331"] Quoting LDiCesare, reply 339 Also I must state that making an 'official' thread on behalf of a community that hasn't endowed the OP in any way with any authority is just arrogant, as are the remarks to many who disagree in this thread.If anything here is arrogant it's defining something too narrowly, assuming the narrow definition is the only possible way a thing can be, and then insulting those who stray bey

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="337" id="2776053"]Yep ... gotta agree, when it comes down to it, while I never wanted a unit of 1000 soldiers, I ALWAYS wanted a unit of 40-100 soldiers. Call me a Total War purist if you will, its just my preference, and I believe that single heroes can be balanced against a squad of 80 soldiers. // I'm not saying a hero will always kill 80 soldiers, I'm saying balanced ... as in a really good hero will *actually* be really

[quote who="Das123" reply="79" id="2773041"]Looks nice Raven. Just one suggestion to help try and simplify things a bit, I had a look at the zip file and the files need to be saved all over the place. At this stage you can pretty much put all the files in the Mods directory but graphic links would need to be re-referenced. The XML files will need to be renamed but it won't interfere with the content and would make it much simpler to install and manage. The file nomencla

Excellent work :)

[quote who="Excerion" reply="331" id="2775099"]They probably ditched the idea of epic tactical battles when they moved away from this kind of battle system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kwEcgHifaM to turn-based [/quote] Wow...Lords of Magic!!! Man I loved that game back in the day. Elemental could learn a lot from some of the finer points of LoM, though not the style of the battles. Turn based is good, And, it can still be epic. There's a lot of oth

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="320" id="2774830"]I want to add my /signed here. The ability to have battles as represented by that pic would add a lot to the game. Those who think it can't be done, or would somehow 'ruin' or 'hurt' the game, underestimate the skill at SD. I'd also like to thank Raven X for bringing this up. You put a lot of effort into this (and other things) in your attempts to make the game all that it can be, and have gotten a lot of unme

I haven't been replying, but I have been reading, and I've seen the kind words many of you have aimed my way in the last couple pages. Thank you my friends. It's is greatly appreciated that so many of you understand how things are with my position especially with all the issues I have going in my personal life. The kind words sticking up for me mean more than you could possibly know. Thank you all.

[quote who="Jharii" reply="303" id="2774497"] I think I will test this out tonight with varying numbers. 16, 24, 32, etc., to see the hit on performance and what Raven means by: Us modders can't do it easily because it causes issues with units appearing in groups, but you guys at Stardock have the animation tools to fix that. My initial thought that the tiles could be made bigger (by Stardock) and/or the units could be made smaller (by modelin

*Bump* hehe

[quote who="Satrhan" reply="181" id="2774236"] I would have been quite happy if they had met somewhere halfway between total war and the current combat system. [/quote] Satrhan, I think you'd really enjoy this post here by Frogboy: https://forums.elementalgame.com/343449 Frogboy specifically mentions Total War Type Battles in the last sentence.

[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="281" id="2774229"] Quoting Raven X, reply 274 Quoting KingHobbit, reply 272Hobbit, go read the Dev Journals I quoted from in the OP. Go read where the LEAD DESINGER talked about havoing Thousands of Men in the world HE CREATED, and then come back and tell us how it doesn't fit in the game HE designed. The game concept good have easily changed over time. I was not in the Beta, and clearly have not followed

[quote who="cwg009" reply="276" id="2774212"]RavenX, throwing a temper tantrum isn't helping anything, even though I sympathize and would be irritated too if I was getting flame-baited by a few people like Lord Ebonstone who clearly hasn't read the thread or carefully considerd the arguments. There are others of us who are expressing concerns very civilly and I think thoughtfully. I still think you haven't adequately addressed the concerns of those of us who are worried this change

[quote who="Lantros" reply="123" id="2774122"] Really, I'm NOT proclaiming for You. I'm proclaiming this for Those Who Want It I understand that. You wrote it once or twice. And your "official" Thread is ok. I have nothing against it. You want that and you fight for that. Everything ok. In this request-thread you describe what you want and everbody who is with you could say "Yes, i want it". But other threads are started and written in anoth

I thought Distant Worlds was a very "decent" game. The last couple patches tightened things up considerably.

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="1" id="2774095"]European Royalty (IRL) set the precident a long time ago. [/quote] I think Egyptian Royalty might have done it before the Europeans did ;). Either way though, it's been done by many, many, royal lines down through the ages. It's also been done by many, many, rednecks...down through the ages...LoL.

As long as the update Doesn't Delete the install folders, and all your Mods files are named something other than the names of the base game files, your mods shouldn't go anywhere. If it Does delete the files like a few of the last updates have, then yes, if you don't back up your Mods you'll loose them if the directories are deleted, so John's on the right track there. Back em up, just in case ;)

[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="272" id="2774169"] To use your same logic, how does it not? To answer your question, Raven has already explained much of this. I don't need to repeat everything he has said. It's what this entire thread is about. It also take away from the concept of the game. A small Kingdom struggling to rebuild itself after a world altering event isn't going to instantly become some Roman Empire with 1000 of troops on hand. In the

[quote who="lord ebonstone" reply="261" id="2774112"]OK, I didn't realize you wanted real-time Total War combat, RavenX. I though you just wanted a bigger tac combat field and cooler animations. I don't want Elemental: Total War of Magic. It seems that most of us don't want that. You idea is idiotic, and I'm pretty offended that you had the gall to speak for the "Official Player Community." It makes you sound arrogant and pretentious.