Want to add my thanks here as well. Just played for about an hour, and this is what I was hoping Elemental would be back in 2010. Having so much fun with my squad of heroes and monsters exploring around, while building up cities behind them :).
That sounds like an awesome idea for it, kind of like a Magic: The Gathering MP version of Elemental. In a good way!
Thank you for even considering LAN users, in this day and age where everything is increasingly going internet only for multiplayer. Looking forward to some long nights with some friends! :)
Rath, in Red Alert theres a toggle in one of the .ini files labeled "AI Paranoid" that is default switched to on. When it's on, the AI's all ally against you around the 5 minute mark. If you turn it off, the FFA's really were FFA, made it much more fun. My favorite AI so far is the one from AI War. It manages to do the darndest things.
This sounds similar to how some Diablo 2 modding would work, where running Diablo 2 with -direct -txt would load all the txt files and convert them into bins. It seemed to work very well from what I remember of tooling around with it.
" As someone who has gone to bed reading various Civilization manuals over the years (and who can forget Ultima IV!?) the CE version really does make the case IMO as to why it’s good to give customers more than merely a piece of digital media." I remember, as a child, sitting down to read the 100+ page manual to the NES version of Ultima IV, and loving every minute of it. They even had a section in there talking about secret passageways and showing you
Any idea when the cutoff date for pre-orders will be? The limited edition sounds awesome, but I'm short the moneys at the moment. If I have an idea of when the cutoff is I can probably budget it in/find some freelance work to cover it.