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[quote who="Spartan" reply="78" id="2336110"]Quoting KellenDunk, reply 77 Quoting Spartan, reply 75 Frogboy on the other hand, could snag it as a "mobile office" and "executive retreat facility" and put it down as a business expense. It would do wonders for those trips to CA for SD staff. Hell for access to that I would move to Michigan! A trip from Michigan to CA by boat would be long and expensive. Also what route would be best? Take St.lawrence seaway and g

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="97" id="2339175"]Wow, I had no idea those guys charged so much - that seems ludicrous. Hey, they do AMAZING work...well worth the money and 'peice of mind' if it's in the budget We outsourced the GC1 intro for around $40k and that was a measly 3 shots! The DoW intro is 2 minutes of (crude estimation) 80-ish cuts, and we all still remember it so that was probably money in the bank. We just don't have that kind of cash to gamble when the tea

[quote who="alanor77" reply="60" id="2339409"]The key point again is: It should be internally consistant. Magic has to have some rules to even make sense, sure... in the grand scheme of things it might not have 'structure' but its best for keeping that kind of magic in the 'high/arcane' realm... for tabletop play.. Magic should have rules that keep it internally consistant... however... if you do manage to gather up enough crystals... you should be able

I think what brad was suggesting was a lot more like game B in your descriptions than it is like game a

Anyone here ever read the bartimaeus trilogy? It's one of my favorites, although I have no clue how it would relate to elemental in any way.

[quote who="Spartan" reply="75" id="2335117"] Frogboy on the other hand, could snag it as a "mobile office" and "executive retreat facility" and put it down as a business expense. It would do wonders for those trips to CA for SD staff. Hell for access to that I would move to Michigan! [/quote] A trip from Michigan to CA by boat would be long and expensive. Also what route would be best? Take St.lawrence seaway and go all the way along the east coast? Probab

I somewhat agree with Scout on the issue of 'non-magic' things being based on what ew now know to be real. Instead things should operate on how the people in the setting believe things to operate. However, there's really no reason to mention whether magic is involved in farming etc..

[quote who="Thrawn2787" reply="46" id="2333975"]4.) Energy and matter can be transfered, never destroyed. Isn't that just a general rule of science thanks to Einstien? e = mc2 and the law of conservation of mass (second one not thanks to Einstien ) [/quote] Yeah it is and I disagree with it's inclusion in a discussion of magic. Magic should be able to produce wildly amazing powers. Following laws of conservation would get too much in the way.

[quote who="Hortz" reply="51" id="2332390"]Quoting endofdayz, reply 25In another thread a SD dev said they would never sacrafice gameplay for graphics Well, I think that's just a false dichotomy fallacy, breaking the game like that into such inherently codependent elements and then opposing them to each other. It doesn't make any sense. [/quote] It's not a false dichotomy in any way. There are resources involved in game development. THings like time an

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="28" id="2331284"]The simulation is more of a rough estimate to avoid throwing away its units against an army it has no chance of beating. The AI should really only attack when it knows that its units have an almost guaranteed win (greater than 75% chance of winning). The AI should also recognize that there are situations where kamikaze attacks to force attrition on a superior enemy is sometimes necessary (but it needs to evaluate when attrition i

[quote who="Sammual" reply="31" id="2331955"]Quoting Pnakotus, reply 29The way it handled units and squads and modifiers. Different races had character through not only empire-wide bonuses, but changes to how their generic units worked. Squads took casualties that reduced their ability to attack. Powerful monsters could sweep away several units. Throwing axes, striking first, all that stuff. I agree,l I love the way squads became less effective when th

[quote who="endofdayz" reply="24" id="2331186"] 2: The AI would be playing itself in this battle, and unless (here I go again...) we see SD develop true artificial intelligence and bring about the singularity, the AI in battle wont match a humans cleverness. The AI might think deploying its archers in the rear and using them as artillery is the only way a human could use them, but the human might be like "Nah, I've got plenty" and use them as a fodder like meatshield. Suddenly ever

[quote who="Bingjack" reply="34" id="2331149"]By the way, getting back on topic, would anyone like to go on record, and try to convince us that you bought Civ 4 because of the *trailer*, and not for the virtue of it being *Civ 4 * ? [/quote] What trailer?

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="5" id="2330613"] And you'd be suprised how much small-team development feels like 'side-project' development. No big meetings about focus group feedback...we're literally making a game that WE want to play, and once the gameplay development really gets rolling you'll see beta builds released that feel different by the week. [/quote] you have no idea how that sounds like ab ideal job for me.

Persistant spells require continual use of mana to maintain in many systems..

The rules about energy bother me. Why should magic follow our laws of conservation? or Friction etc..

[quote who="Wahngrok" reply="9" id="2326748"]Undead armies are a dying breed. That sentence is wrong in so many ways. But I agree on your notion that to earn the status of Really Evil Overlord you need some kind of mind controll - or even "worse" just corporeal controll. It would do some nasty stuff to your mind if you had to watch your body do terrible things. [/quote] Yes, it would be called the imperius curse [e digicons]:bebi:

I'm not interested in inventing a particle called the magiton, or arcaton in order to make magic a type of energy that we can observe in the world...

[quote who="Tim4fun" reply="3" id="2327152"] b. some way to get more spellbooks; if you didn't get lucky you could sometimes not get high levels of spells. I'd prefer that you could buy one, or use mana to buy one (maybe 10,000) [/quote] I seem to remember finding spellbooks in caves and whatnot.

I agree with everyone else who says that apple products are a waste of money.

If it works the way I'm thinking the difference in life and death magic is going to be about the aggressiveness of the player. So long as things have to keep dying for you to gain death mana then theoretically KILLING is the best way to get more. ANd if living things give you life mana then growing your cities would be the best way to get it. That's assuming of course that the description Brad gave translates to gameplay in any way. Perhaps life an

*is not saying a word*

I don't want to play a game where some guy gets a guide about what to research and in what order and he wins every time. That would be absolute fail.

This is a gorgeous piece that is very much what I consider to be along the lines of elemental's art style. I found this one on the search for the artist I'm looking for. I remembered he had done a piece that Kokomo Glass commissioned him to do with just their glass. His piece is on this page with no attribution or name for him ... GRRR.

I just thought that I would put this image into this thread as it's off topic in the other one. Stained Glass windows are part of the A.N. artistic style, and they are absolutely gorgeous. This window for example shows a lot of the same kinds of color usage as a lot of the images from the game. OH! I should show some work from a modern master who developed an amazing tec