[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="37" id="2772490"]Bah.. I am not going to argue with you e-hero's. If Civ is your favorite game, go post on civ fanatics. If you like Elemental, stay here. The end.[/quote] Look dufus, you're the one who brought the Civ comparison into this in the first place, though in a completely misguided manner, suggesting you haven't played much civ. I don't really think civ is that great myself, but yo
Moiiska is just a civ hater, no real need to engage him in a discussion about that game since he simply doesn't like it. Nothing wrong with not liking it, it's not for everyone's taste, but there's just little point in watching him beat a dead horse over and over.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/simon-r-green/ One of my favorite 'light' fantasy authors. Blue Moon Rising was just a very fun read, and most of the rest of his works are in a similar vein. Though I've not read his detective stuff since the setting doesn't appeal to me so much. All the Deathstalker books are fun as well, lots of great Sci-Fi ideas.
You guys do know that you can set Civ4 to play at different speeds right? Want a game that finishes in a couple hours? Play Quick, or even with advanced start. Want a game that slows down growth and techs and everything? Play Marathon! (Or Epic is my sweet spot). Want a game that speeds production of units but keeps buildings and techs slow? Make a simple mod yourself. Want a fantasy setting?&nb
[quote who="Eudamon" reply="21" id="2770439"] Once people compare Elemental favourably to GalCiv 2 I will buy the game. And the expansions.[/quote] Um... Some 'people' (though they are usually referred to by a word which begins with the letter 'f') already are. Though mostly along the lines of 'it's not as bad as GC2 was when it was released...
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="19" id="2769762"]No thanks, I'd rather play Sword of the Stars than micro-manage every aspect of my civilization. I've played GalCivII UE, and I can't stand the sheer minutiae involved in leading an empire. Planetary governors should be able to develop worlds without any input from me, since that's way below my pay grade as supreme executive dictator-for-life of a galactic civilization. I should be supervising the expansion of territory and th
It's really a MP game though. The AI is just balls for SP games, though it's still a fun little diversion from time to time.
[quote who="divvu80" reply="59" id="2767729"] Quoting shadowtongue, reply 58 The elemental fanboys. Do not use the "F" word lightly. [/quote] I do not believe I did. We know who they are, and once they showed up the original point of this thread was going to be swamped by pointless and occasionally nonsensical attacks on Civ. Even if the merit of some criticisms leveled at the Civ AI is bel
I know, it's laughable falconne... The elemental fanboys are out in this thread and for some reason they have a bug up their ass that Elemental has to 'beat' civ for whatever stupid reason. Elemental probably will be more complex than civ at some point, of course that's not necessarily a good thing either. So to have a 'good' AI will be more difficult, but honestly, I doubt elemental will have a 'good' AI. It's not as though the AI in
It comes down to standards. If you enjoy the game in it's current state (yes 1.07) then you simply have very low standards. Even Brad has essentially said this. Ok, so it doesn't crash as much anymore (or at all for your rig), but the mechanisms in the game really don't work the way the way Brad wanted them to, the polish was not there (again directly from Brad) the AI is basically useless (again, from Brad), the magic is boring and undiffer
https://forums.elementalgame.com/393123 Overhaul of the combat system using mostly stats already in the game with a couple others.
I'm confused. What 'solid concepts' are you all talking about? Because from what I've seen there are 'concepts' but the execution of them is so poor and incomprehensible I don't really see how anyone taking an honest look at the game can call them 'solid'. Even Brad seems to hold this position. Unless you mean something like 'it has tactical combat, and that is a solid concept' or 'it has spells, and that is a solid co
Taking the GC combat mechanics and applying them to Elemental would be a horrible decision. Elemental actually has tactical battles, and ideally/eventually multiple weapon/magic/defense types. Compared to the junk combat (though it worked well enough for simed battles in GC) model of GC2 this would be a major step backwards. To the rest of your mini-rant (because, yeah, that's what it was)... The people who will agree with you are not
Yeah, I've got enough working games to not want the frustration of dealing with 'works in progress' right now. I'm watching MH2 though. I prefer to play minors anyway, but it sounds like most minors are really non playable economy wise in MH2 at this point, so I'll probably just keep on watching it for the time being.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="63" id="2753147"] I don't really agree with this. Most mechanics are solid, just need a good balance and scaling pass. All the games you listed are purely subjective, too. I played AoW:SM, but I don't really think it's essential for Elemental to model anything from it. I played FFH2, and don't particularly think anything needs to be in Elemental from it, either. It's entirely possible to tweak Elemental's tactical battles to work with the current stat system
I am impressed, Brad and BB. I was hoping you would see it this way after you had some time to distance yourselves from the hecticness of the past month (once you closed the beta down). I'm glad to see that your objectivity does not appear to be impaired. I wonder though, what remedy? Is the game really 'fixable' (well ultimately it is) by patches? Or is a 'recall' more along the lines of what you are thinking.&n
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="9" id="2752619"]Right below this thread, on the forums list, was another post called "I did not pay to Fix or Finish Elemental", which I beleive is (ironically) the answer to your question. When we put something out, and it gets a 50% dissatisfaction rate on our own forums, that's a HUGE chunk of our customers that feel it wasn't ready to be put out. There's a lot to learn from the release of Elemental, and 'let's make every launch like this one!'
[quote who="Yalbik" reply="23" id="2751936"]Is the GalCiv2 demo a fairly good representation of the game? Just asking, cause I loved MOO and MOO2 (I stayed away from MOO3...which was a good choice says a friend of mine), but I just couldn't get in to the GalCiv2 demo. It seemed that nothing ever happened, and the "universe" seemed really really empty. If I didn't like the demo, is there any chance I'll like the actual game?
[quote who="Jharii" reply="325" id="2751582"] Hey, I resemble that remark! In all seriousness, I really did want this game to "be the one". The review is spot on, sorry. It's just an opinion. Yours, theirs. Others have their own. Many disagree with you.[/quote] Not that many though, if the poll question is to be taken seriously. Barely more than half the respondents appear satisfied with the game, that's a bad sign.&nbs
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="16" id="2751606"]there was actually an employee who worked full time writing some of the descriptions. It wasn't all Brad, though the book was his.[/quote] I thought Brad said at some point that the 'professionals' at RH were helping with the in game text. Or at least with the descriptions/lore. I don't know about the book, because I really don't care about the lore of this game, so I'm not likely to bother reading it, b
Well the text is what you get when you hire 'professional' writers apparently. I wonder if random house is taking any flak from any of this.
The only way to save the humans is to kill the humans.
[quote who="Qyth" reply="6" id="2749469"]Guess I will grab the demo for it and check it out. The reason I haven't looked at it before is that I immediately see EU / HOI and think buggy paradox game.[/quote] MH2 is not paradox, or are you saying that it looks like a paradox game? Because I really don't think it does. It did have severe issues at launch though, I was popping in and out of the forums there, but decided to pass on it until it wa
Meh... for my money the AI in SotS is by far superior to the AI in GC2, though the tactical battle AI can be a tad predictable, but in any case it's nominally about who has the better ships in the matchup (not always the technologically superior, but if you went heavy beam weapons and they are fielding ships with refractive coatings...). or if you brought your destroyer swarm against their cutting beam cruisers, only to find out that they swapped in some fusion
MH2= Making History 2?