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I'd just like to give Everyone a "A" for Effort :) . I would like to suggest though that we should be trying to come up with more Spells that Change The Game . Damage spells are a Dime a Dozen. In Game the only REAL difference in damage type spells is that one may come from one school of magic while one comes from another school of magic. The Only Real Difference is in the Animations and Cosmetics. Lets see Less +10, -10, Damage Damage damage... and Mor

[quote who="k10w3" reply="60" id="2669574"] YES, we CAN live without crude oil, if we replace it with hemp. All those items you listed could be created with hemp. http://www.hamline.edu/personal/dhudson/eng3370/3370s01/lutterman/hemp3.html [/quote] M'Lady, you are my New Hero [e digicons]:)[/e] [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="283" id="2669700"] Because they are, by definition, mundane troops and are not "powerful beings". There is no "fantastical creature-oriented strategy". You are never going to have an army Dragons. You are going to be able to have an army of Champions. The only reason you see a double standard is because you treat Champions as "fantastical". Being able to hire a guy for 60 gold is not fantastical. [/quote] Last post, just had to get this

[quote who="Tridus" reply="274" id="2669429"] You said you wanted champions so powerful that only other champions would have a chance of taking them out. I quoted it above. I don't see how that can be misinterpreted or "taken too far". It's quite clear. [/quote] Yes, my friend, you're right, I Did say that. I didn't mean it quite so blatantly though, I was being a little abstract. When I say "Super Unit", like the Sovereign IS and Should Be, I mean a Single Character that's able

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2669088"]We have to do a lot with a little. The mod tools really make it apparent and help show why the game is basically done even right in beta 3 even though that'll only be obvious with the hindsight of the mod tools. [/quote] On a side note, the Modding Tools are my Second Motivation for having bought Elemental, because I know Stardock LOVES to let it's players Mod the hell out of your games. The first draw for me to Elemental was that it wa

[quote quoting="post"]If I could, I'd cancel the modding beta. So when modding starts, please don't think less of me. I am not a real game designer like Chris Taylor or Will Wright. I'm a gamer who likes to code AI. The limitations in our games (galciv included) are typically the result of a lack of imagination in my part.[/quote] I wouldn't worry about it too much, Chief. We can tell :P J/K In all seriousness, I think you're probably the most personal a

I won't say don't try, my friend, but the time for implementing a lot of new ideas is mostly past unless they don't involve making new assets. Aside from that most new ideas suggested at this stage will be looked upon to considered for adding at a patch after launch.

[quote who="Autarkhos" reply="86" id="2668265"]Does Raven REALLY mean comprehensible or does he mean comprehensive? [/quote] Take your pick :P

[quote who="PoPsuX" reply="32" id="2669095"]Man my laptop sucks!!! Twice while i was running beta 3.. It crashed my computer to a complete "power off" stage.. It shut my computer off in an instant... Either it is my laptop (wich is only 10 months old).. Or it might be beta 3 overloading my 4 GHz dual core processor..(Running Win7). Looked good the 5-10 min i got to spend with it! Like the Empire [/quote] Is your Lap-Top getting proper air-flow? If Elemental is causing your Lap-T

[quote who="Beric01" reply="2" id="2668917"] Yay! For my birthday! [/quote] Happy Birthday :)

[quote who="Tridus" reply="269" id="2669344"] Why is that? As I recall the Sauron thing, he wasn't defeated by magic. He was defeated by a guy with a sword. [/quote] Oh come on man, you know damn well as good as I do that he got Ultra Lucky with the swing that cut the ring from Sauron's hand. Entire Armies couldn't stop the guy but one lucky swing that cuts off his finger and his whole evil empire comes crashing down? It's called Drama and Fantasy man.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="268" id="2669337"] I don't expect or want champions "so powerful that only another champion would have a chance of taking them out", which IS what Raven wants. [/quote] It's practically set up that way now isn't it? How many times do you think a Powerful Sovereign is going to come up against a Mundane Army that will pose NO Threat to him, especially in early to mid game? Quite often as it happens now even in Beta 3 without tactical battles. What about w

[quote who="Tridus" reply="262" id="2669008"] We must not play games with the same people. People do not fun things in games ALL THE TIME, because they're effective. The broken hero is so imbalanced that on a level where you're drastically outgunned army and production wise, on hard it might be the only way to win. So people will do it. When you're playing to win, you don't sit back and go "well I could do this and win, or I could do this other thing and probably lose." One st

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="18" id="2668992"] [/quote] LoL that's a good one too, Twohawks!!! Someone caught hell for that at the next office meeting.

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="17" id="2668422"]Ohh....thanks for the help Raven! [/quote] NP man, btw that's one funny ass baby dance LoL

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="246" id="2668798"] Overpowered champions and sovereigns that can take on huge numbers of regular troops sounds perfect to me. As long as the game's AI is horrible, yea. But it's not so fun when it happens to you. I mean, good grief guys, we had people screaming because there were tough creatures spawning in their starting locations and those creatures don't even target anyone in particular yet. It would be a riot if a pla

[quote who="Outlaw" reply="253" id="2668852"]I took that high rez pic and with PS, counted and marked each unit. The number of individual soldiers (even the dead ones) on that screenshot is actually very close to 550...with around 400 of those on the empire side (the side the dragon is killing). I assume there are more kingdom soldiers behind the hill. Assuming equal sides, this would be around a 400v400 battle. I think you can't compare this to the total war games. You can e

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="126" id="2668879"] Just wait until the AI uses it on you when YOU are about to win. [/quote] If it only happens every once in a blue moon I think that would be pretty cool...LoL. Like I said it would have to be Super Rare ;) . I think it's safe to say everyone loses sometimes, well, everyone except for me that is, but pretty much everyone else loses sometimes. No one can win every game they play every time they play it (except me of course).</

Edit: Sorry, I skimmed the OP the first time and didn't see the 8 needed items. My bad. Here ya go :) 1. Spell Name : Time Travel 2. Is it Strategic or Tactical? Strategic 3. Arcane Knowledge required to acquire : As Much as Possible 4. Mana required to cast : All of it!!! 5. Does it require any shards to be controlled? : One of Each maybe? Whatever you think is be

[quote who="diamondspider" reply="237" id="2668613"]If you want 1 model = 1 soldier scale, then it's going to be graphically difficult to have a 10k battle, no matter how you do it. [/quote] Not really. When I play Med2 TW I often play 4 players against each other each with Maxed Out armies. I have 20K to 30K units on screen during battles like those and each man represents one man. Elemental was designed from conception to have 1 man be 1 man on screen. Those of us who have been

[quote who="Tridus" reply="236" id="2668559"] Because there's also a stack limit of 10 "units" in the army. A champion is 1. Just how powerful would a champion have to be in order to be worth 1000 troops that also count as 1? Of course that's really just another problem with stack/army size limits. [/quote] I honestly Don't See a Problem with having a Super Powerful Champion by End Game. Remember back in MoM by End Game when you could make Super Powerful weapons a

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2668388"]My format your hard drive mod is not likely to go over well. [/quote] I'm still really looking forward to the "Melt Your Graphics Card" mod you mentioned would be available back during Beta 1 :P ;)

This spell might be complicated to pull off or maybe even plain out impossible, but I think it's a cool idea none the less, so here goes.. Time Travel: This is a End Game Spell, Very High Level, Very Ultra Rare, but it has a very interesting feature behind it. Before I get into what the spell does, I need to side-track to compare this to something else. System Restore Points...and/or Auto Saves. Think about when y

So Tuesday night at 12 AM, even though I'm not really supposed to be getting out of my bed or chair, I took my wife to go see the newest Twilight movie (Eclipse) . Before I get into this though, let me explain that before my wife and I got together I didn't know anything about "Twilight" except that it was a Vampire Love Story. I've never read any of the books nor am I going to. So, having known nothing about Twilight I started watching the movies. I have drawn a conclusion about this

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="15" id="2668151"]How can I link a youtube video in a proper way? The [youtube][/youtube] tags are not working... ..Either way -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0AamE1Bxs [/quote] When you grab the "Embed" code, just use everything that's in the sections. Start copying where the first " " is and stop copying where the second " " ends. Go into HTML mode (after the broom icon in the tool