RavenX

It would be cool if you had a random chance to capture a spell book from an enemy Sov if they knew a book you didn't. It would also be cool if when conquering an enemy city you would have a chance to steal/learn one of their technologies if you didn't already have it and it was used in the town somehow. Example: An enemy city has a Horse Stable (hence they know animal husbandry) and can make mounted units. You conquer that city and the Horse Stable is not destroyed during the bat

Fake illness and stay home for "vacation". If you can't play Elemental I wouldn't even call it a "vacation" as it would be more like an extended stay in hell while trying to find a glass of ice water. Good luck and gods speed.

This is the Elemental site. This is the General section of the forum if that helps. Aside from that, yeah, we need to know where "Here" is. I'm running IE8 and the site is fine except for a black box up top where the logo should be. The logo looks fine on the main page however.

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="13" id="2717556"]Just a precaution is all. It won't slow down or extend the Update Install as ALL files will need be brought down for comparison anyways. I will, and would suggest that you clean your Registry, but remember, not knowing how to do that properly, is the same as using Raven X's suggested method. [/quote] LoL, indeed. It's to the point now that I don't even tell people how to delete things from their registry. All y

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="69" id="2717566"] Quoting Raven X, reply 68 Toting, it means "to carry". Meaning you're always carrying around a baby.I know about toting. I don't about the "baby". Quoting Raven X, reply 68 You know I'm just messing with ya man.What? I thought I was a woman??!?!?!!?!?? [/quote] LoL no, I don't think you're a woman. Now you're confusing me though :P . You're not suppos

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="66" id="2717460"] All I can say is...[/quote] Toting, it means "to carry". Meaning you're always carrying around a baby. You know I'm just messing with ya man.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="20" id="2717499"] I think you're confusing yourself a bit. This isn't going to be a perfect analogy, but close enough. Consider the tile editor. We get all the bits and pieces that we can put together to make our own tiles. We're not *changing* any of these "core" pieces, we're using them to build something else. Python scripting is basically going to be the same way. Our pieces will be the different things the Elemental engine is capable of doing, and

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="17" id="2717466"]Mods do what the exposed engine functionality allows them to do. They would absolutely have a problem if someone tried to decompile the executable and rewrite a bunch of core functions That's why they're going to let us use Python eventually to do more fancy stuff - it gives the modders the ability to mess with the mechanics a bit (how much will remain to be seen) without making public the source code. [/quote] True. What about all t

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="15" id="2717450"]It's not really "files". All the code is basically in the compiled .exe. The files are mostly just resources for the game (dlls aside). Stardock's legal department would love to have a word with you if you tried The code base is propriatary, after all. [/quote] You think they'd have a problem with people wanting to "re-compile" their own mods? I can see where there would be a problem with people taking apart their code, bu

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="11" id="2717436"]Now there's an interesting quote. It sounds more like it's left for them to try something with, since he said it's not exposed - which sounds like when they do come out with Python support for messing around with mechanics and not just content we won't be able to do anything with it. Still, that's a mark towards "This might actually be possible" [/quote] Agreed. I think you worded the "we won't be able to do anything with it" wrong

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2717299"]Well, yes. I'm sure they can dig up the bits of code in the early revision, but that's useless if it's not present in the current compiled code since nobody will be able to do anything anything with it What RavenX was asking is if the code exists to be turned on so the modders could play with it. But modders can't really recompile the source code using whatever old stuff they've got, so.. [/quote] Well, we "could" recompile the code i

[quote who="Malloreon" reply="7" id="2717379"] Raven X: This is definitely correct, however, adding files into the folder you mentioned is unintended (that one is for Core files provided by Stardock) and can lead to update/compatibility issues. You should always put mod files into the /Documents/My Games/Elemental folder. I specified the 'units' subfolder, as frogboy previously mentioned this one as the folder currently intended for mods. This will likely change once we get the full game

[quote who="Lord Grotius" reply="3" id="2717378"]Thanks, guys. [/quote] I was kidding about that magnet thing btw, don't do that. (just making sure)

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="43" id="2717253"]I actually was sad to see 8 attack, 2 defense on the unit stat. Armor is so much more expensive than weapons, but vastly underpowered compared to them. Combat is still going to end up in one-hit-kills unit trades with stats like these [/quote] Dito [quote who="Annatar11" reply="50" id="2717373"] Quoting TLamming, reply 49 Why is the attack so much more than defense in the combat? Isnt this going to caus

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="63" id="2717369"]Except for the part where Wintersong is a guy [/quote] Nope, nope, I'm not falling for that one anymore (sorry Winter). See, I'm like Bat-Man in that my deductive reasoning skills are infallible. I'm never wrong about these things you know. He's always got either a female avatar, or an avatar that has something to do with a female. He..I mean SHE, is always toting around a baby (women take care of babies). She never talks

I'd recommend taking a large magnet to your hard drive just to be sure you got all those pesky left behind files and folders... hehe

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="57" id="2717199"] Quoting Raven X, reply 55 Ok, here's a better excuse. My wife dropped her digital camera in the ocean, we can't find mine, and my web cam sucks. Better? That's the spirit! [/quote] you crazy, girl, you crazy... :P

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="52" id="2717335"]The next item, right after "Whacky Tabacky", I add to my own Research Tree, will be proper Paper(s) btw. LOL That Hemp stuff they have now just isn't cutting it. Until then, "My Kingdom for a Bowl!" LOL [/quote] LoL Nice ;) . I can see the Mod now. You have researched "Magic Weed". Once you build farms for it you get the effects. On the strategic map you get a low laying green cloud that hangs over your city. Food

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="54" id="2717162"] Quoting Raven X, reply 53 I appreciate the vote of confidence, my friend. My "live performance" days are loooong behind me though. That's a very bad excuse! "My LE copy has to cross the ocean (hopefully well protected and above water) so it's more probable that someone from the USA makes it first. If that was not the case, I doubt that a webcam or the mobile cam are go

[quote who="Tridus" reply="8" id="2717166"] Quoting Raven X, reply 7 Of course we all know graphics should come secondary to Gameplay, but those character models....horrendous, simply horrendous. I can draw and animate and steaming pile of cat shit and make it look better then those characters... I'm going to hold you to that when the Dragonlance mod comes out. [/quote] Civfreak saw some of my skin

Of course we all know graphics should come secondary to Gameplay, but those character models....horrendous, simply horrendous. I can draw and animate and steaming pile of cat shit and make it look better then those characters...

Digital Download plus Boxed Special Edition shipped to me from Stardock. It's the only way to go ;)

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="52" id="2717133"] I'm sure some will be posted on YouTube. Would rather see a Satrdockian do it though. Or maybe Wintersong or RavenX or another forum regular. [/quote] I appreciate the vote of confidence, my friend. My "live performance" days are loooong behind me though.

Ok, Hey Frogboy, if I go to my local Wal-Mart and take a pic of them selling it early can I have mine now? ;)

[quote who="Tiberonmagnus" reply="3" id="2717020"]How did the continuous turn system work? Was it like Dominions 3 where you just set up everyone to do their thing and then have them fight while you watch? [/quote] [quote who="Lorthirk" reply="4" id="2717086"]When I read about it i thought it was like Neverwinter Nights/Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale series, isn't it? [/quote] From what we understood it was like what Lorthrik here describes. We never got a chance to try