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[quote who="ThreeKings" reply="10" id="2636959"]Agreed, hope there will be flying units. (or at least ability to mod that). Thanks for the find Raven X. [/quote] Don't mention it ;) [quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="11" id="2636974"]well there are dragons. can dragons not fly in the game? surely so. [/quote] Maybe they can't fly over the mountains for some reason? Maybe there just aren't any actual flying units in the game yet?

[quote quoting="post"]I'm just curious what peoples impressions are of this game? I've only seem a handful of comments and they seem pretty mixed. I have the game but I just started playing it so I don't have much to base an opinion on. Other than a few minor issues (hate hacking for instance) though I am enjoying it so far. [/quote] Read this thread Here . Don't listen to the reviews.

I was hoping for WW2..damnit. Well, Shogun 2 might be good. There's a sentence there though that bothers me... "After the excesses of Empire, Shogun 2 is taking a Zen approach. Though the word "accessible" is often code for "plain," in the case of Shogun 2, it's clear that the designers want to maintain a tighter focus on the core elements and not give in to feature creep." Not too sure how I like the sound of that. I guess that depends on what they're calling "features" these

[quote who="Tridus" reply="35" id="2636561"]This strikes me as adding complexity for the sake of adding complexity. Essence and mana already control what you can cast in terms of spells, throwing arbitrary limits on what your champions can cast will just make it more cumbersome. (Especially since if you can pick the spells, people will just go for the best combat ones anyway.) [/quote] I have to agree I don't want to see " arbitrary limits " either, my friend. I would stil

[quote who="DarthPrincey" reply="18" id="2636584"]Totally agree with larienna and Raven X, a monster editor would be amazing. It's so true no matter how much you get you always want more..... [/quote] Check out This Idea post. If they add something like that we can make Races And Monsters, which is basically what I had in mind when proposing the idea. Mostly because it would help me make "Draconians" for the Dr

[quote who="XeronX" reply="14" id="2636443"]Hell thinking about people like Raven you would probably have almost 2 new expansion ready before release. [/quote] LoL , indeed :)

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="41" id="2636015"] Our original engine was developed by Mike Duffy who named that engine 'Pear'. Since we weren't selling/marketing it, we kept with the fruit theme. [/quote] That's kinda odd. I went to school with a guy named "Mike Duffy". If you still have lines of communication with him, please ask him if he ever attended school in Lake or Vollusia County in Florida. As for the engine discussion. There have been quite a few games in th

Very Awesome Indeed!!! Can't wait. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Yes I intend to test under Beta 2 - Raven X If you oppose me, you shall be destroyed, and your lands and people shall be tossed to the four winds as grains of sand. You have been warned.

[quote who="larienna" reply="15" id="2636445"]Beign able to design spell effect is something that I would never thought beign possible for the user. Designing maps, objects and tiles is a pretty common concept. The only thing left would be to have a monster editor which would allow you to create a creature without beign a 3D modeler. Maybe you can look at "the spores" for inspiration. It might not necesarily need to be as sophisticated, but for example I would like to be

[quote who="XeronX" reply="33" id="2636406"]Yeah honestly the volcano Idea scares me. While iI have no problem witht he concept per se. I would hate to see my capitol city just wiped of the map from a player on the other side of the map with no chance to foil it. My armies not so much, annoying but they can be rebuilt. [/quote] Remember "Populous"? I had the first one on the um...Super Nes? Yes, I think it was the Super Nes. Anyway, I would get Volcano's ris

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="2" id="2636068"]Thanks Raven! [/quote] NP, my friend :)

Think about MoM. You had " Global Enchantments ". A lot of the times these were less like " Enchantments " and more like " Spells of MASS Death & Destruction ". When a enemy Wizard ( Sovereign in our case ) casts the spell, you get the option to cast a " Counter-Spell " or " Dispel ". In Elemental's case I think the player should have to research a " Counter-Spell " or " Dispel " to b

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="356" id="2635574"]and I suspect we'll see mods that focus on purely epic battles as well. [/quote] pssst....Dragonlance [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] , it has TONS of Epic Battles. I think someone's even planning a Mod or something. ;)

So is the WinCustomize website tied into all the other Stardock forums? I.E. I make a post here and it appears on all the others? I believe it is as I was told that not too long ago. Honestly, the problem lies in all these sites being tied together... Some-where along the lines is a "weak link" in the chain, I.E. a site with a bad or spotty connection. Not necessarily a Stardock server, but something connected to one of their ISP's along the "chain", some hardware another comp

Check It Out Here!!!

It really is a Amazing Engine. :) What's important is gameplay, but, there is always the "OOhhhh, Aaahhhhh" effect that adds that little kick.

Psst.... Water ....not Ice ...Water. ;) Aside from that...I CAN'T WAIT!!! Man, this is going to be sweet.

[quote who="edpfister" reply="54" id="2635381"] I'd like to see the AI have some intentional personality flaws. Like maybe an AI who holds a grudge way too much, and expends an inordinate amount of resources just trying to get revenge against an enemy who killed one of his offspring many years earlier. This. Moreso than trying to make the perfect AI I would love to see lots of variety. Some that are super agressive, some that build super cities, some that foc

[quote who="strager" reply="50" id="2635182"] A year from now, the AI in Elemental will be mind boggling good. I don't think we'll have anything at all to fear in the AI department. Your a lot more optimistic than I am.... [/quote] Hehe maybe. The reason I say it will be better in a year is because of what I've seen Stardock do with Gal Civ 2. They constantly upgraded the AI. By the time the last expansion came out the AI went through a dra

[quote who="arstal" reply="41" id="2634927"] That said, the best players will beat the best AI our computers can provide. We're not getting Deep Blue in our homes anytime soon, and Elemental will be harder for a computer to handle then Chess. [/quote] Deep Blue is a Masterpiece for What It Does . We have to understand though, it was Made Specifically for Chess. Here's the numbers for the actual moves in Chess. This s

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="53" id="2634894"]I don't see Boogie on the picture. [/quote] I think that's him right behind Brad and to the left. See the shaved headed dude, leaning back, looking like he just ordered the most expensive thing on the menu so Brad had to pony up as much cash as possible? Toothy smile, that says "Ahhhhh yeah that $30 steak is gonna be sooooo good". [e digicons]:grin:[/e] @ Scottydon't : hehe ;) [quote wh

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="27" id="2634722"] Raven, dude, you aren't allowed to die. You go and relay that to your gastrointestinal tract and gall bladder, please. There are consequences to breaking the rules, after all. Hell, you aren't allowed to abandon us on these forums for any reason at all! If you ever get stranded on a deserted island I'd expect nothing less of you than to jerry rig some sort of device with internet capabilities, and to post your thoughts of the day a

@ Kellen : Ssssshhhhhh no I didn't..... [e digicons]:-"[/e] (why do I have to keep reminding you people. Not in front of the mortals . They musn't ever know the truth..)

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2634433"]As the XML makes clear (I think anyway) the AI doesn't cheat at Normal or Challenging. At below that, the human player gets bonuses and above that the AI gets bonuses. My job is to make the AI at Normal or Challenging as intelligent as I can. [/quote] Didn't you mention having a Team to help with the AI this time? Just curious as I thought you mentioned that a while ago. Whether you're doing it with a team or alo