@Primal_Savage: Thank you very much for your good work! This help me to understand the system of FE and your tip with the delay is very good. I disable so much UI as possible and play with no faction power window and with the uEye mod... As workaround I have played FE in some hot times on the cloth map only to see clear what is going on.
@BlackSmokeDMax: Yes, you understand correctly. You mean its not possible. But why it works in the cloth map? @Primal_Savage: I can try giantic units, but I can't distinguish the units well without fraction colors [e digicons]:([/e]
@Primal_Savage: Thank you for your inspirations! I will take a look on the weekend on number 3. But my biggest "problem" are the units: In the cloth map every unit has a colored base, but not in the 3D map. It needs a color on the ground only, this would be cool.
Hi @all, I found the possibility to mod FE yesterday [e digicons]:D[/e] Does anybody know if there is a mod for the HUD icons? I disable the icons for quests over quest locations and units, my dream are colors on the ground. Is there a HUD mod or is it easy to create it?
@Mozo293: I feel like you. The early game is great: A lot of exploration, weak troops and magic, but very few micromanagement. But how about a beginning with a lot of units ("surviors") and a start in a destroyed city? With not so fast unit growth then? I think this setting has interesting and new possibilitys for a 4X-game.
At first: Magic is not unfair, it is the great difference between the 4X games. But let us talk about AI: We have a good AI in chess today. But it needs 50 years and tousands of developer and player for it. In my opinion, the best solution is an AI editor for the internet. Please give us the possibility to wrote a better AI. You can't know all strategies and a strategy games, you implement three or four or five, but if we know them, the game is dead. If you want a game tha
Hi Brad, at first: Fallen Enchantress is a good game with a lot of new ideas. I hope this game will push the genre of 4X-fantasy-games! 3D, Editors for all contents, nice towns, all has levels and the very cool idea of unit-design are fantastic. The elemental game series has editors for all kind of content. In my opinion it would be consistent, if you have an AI-editor like in Dragon Age ( http://dragonage.wikia.com
I#m confused, I read, that there are no TC anymore? Is that right?
MoM is very, very great. I played it 9 years, because the game is very good designed: Its a run to the spell of mastery and even in the last rounds you can loose, if the enemy speaks the word of death, armageddon, meteor storm, great wasting and so on. So you are motivated up to the victory, if the land change the form, units are died without combat and vulcanos occurs on the map suddenly. Its the beginning of the end of world, an apocalypse like ragnarök, and only one can survive it, th
[quote who="Tridus" reply="41" id="2330885"] And I agree with your first comment, AoW 2 had some very nice maps to wander around in. You should be able to do that in Elemental when its out of beta too. [/quote] And don't forget the very good UI in AOW:SM. I hope for Elemental-HD-YouTube-Videos next time :)
[quote who="Tourresh" reply="36" id="2330688"] This is why developers don't like doing alpha tests with members of the public. There's always people like you coming in and not actually reading anything about the game and then complaining that the alpha isn't pretty or isn't fun. The developers clearly stated that the alpha wasn't supposed to be pretty or fun. In fact, that's one of the only facts about the about the alpha that they've confirmed for months.[/quote] I played a lot
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="31" id="2330505"] These are only graphics from the Cloth Map, the 'Tactical' view of the map (when you zoom out enough). Check out the screenshots section (https://www.elementalgame.com/media.asp) to get a better feel for the graphical style we're shooting for. All these shots are pretty ancient at this point, but we're not expecting people to shell out cash for just the cloth map [/quote] Tha style of the startegic map needs gettin
I'm waiting for a follower of MoM and AOW:SM , but I'm not sure, if Elemental is it. The map of Elemental is only brown for me. I have no fantasy feeling , more the feeling of a explorer in Civ. I wish to <span
Hm, as great fan of MoM and AoW:SM I'm a little bit confused of your design goals. You want to write a fantasy 4X-all-is-possible-nothing-is-unpossible-game with the biggest map you ever seen with tons of units and so on? I can't believe that is possible. There are too many game mechanism to work together in the right balance. PS: Do you think about updates of the screenshot gallery?
The System in AoW:SM was good, but expandable. Underground and normal Map are a must have. Then you need a more then one "Dimension-Areas" like the shadow-world in AoW:SM. That was continents without water and no chance to go from one to another without using the normal map. One dimension can be a dimension of darkness, another a dimension of a god, then another for a other god and one dimension is not a dimension but only a representation of the kingdom of heaven in he sky. That will be real
I like the GUI of AoW:SM. It's very clear and the idea of unit-characteristics on the side is very useful (especially if you have a 16:10-screen). Icons are not the best, because you don't understand them if there are many types of it. So the text in AoW:SM is a good solution too. For citys is the GUI of AoW:SM very good too: in the middle the city, left the menu to build units and buildings and right more information. Please do not something like overall icons with infos, cha
A good game should have well balanced units. The AoW:SM-Mods are very intersting. A level-1-unit can be build and is note a waste of time and money, because they have important features like long sight (AoW:SM: vision I-IV) and level-3,4,5-units have a lot of disadvantages like flammable or slow speed. It will be great, if Elemental would be not a game with three dragons who kill a great army in a solo attempt. They should have other advantages like mana-production, casting spells, le
I'm not a friend of randomness. I defined magic as a realization of thinking. You think a firewall and it appears after a time of thinking and use of mana. Your spellbook is really only a choice of type of thinking. In my magic-system you can speak every spell, but the better spells needs a lot of mana per round, so not every magician can speak them at the beginning. You must practise your magician and so he can speak powerful spells later in the game. A last word to the spell
The system of AoW:SM ist quite good. But it can give a penalty if your hero died: your hero is resurrected after three rounds and in this time you have no production, because its chaos in your nation.
It would be nice if a spellbook with the spells in it would be published by the developers. So we can estimate the tactical possibilities. PS: MoM had 210 spells! That was very cool. I hope there are more spells (f.e. taken from MoM+AoW:SM-Spells :) ) and a lot of spells with intersting effects. Armageddon (MoM), Mass Confusion (AoW:SM) or Tornado (AoW:SM) are very cool. Take a look on: http://aow2.heavengames.com/aowsm/gameinfo/magicspells/
Tactical battle was the A and O of MoM. And in AoW too. For a multiplayer-game is the AoW mode ok, because all players have time for a pause. But it can be increased in speed, if the battle are in realtime with little pauses after 10 seconds or with the possibility for timeouts. So every player can arrange his strategy.
Hello @all, it would be nice, if the game would be have not only a world map, but rather a globe! vicwaberub, master of magic!
Hello @all, for more atmosphere on the world map it would be nice if the units of the battlemap can be used on the world map too. This means, that you can see every member of the unit on the world map in a nice formation! That would be cool, then you can see armys on their way on the map :) vicwaberub, master of magic