[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="25" id="1964686"]Say, CondarF, any chance you'd be interested in translating the text around this bit of concept art?[/quote] [quote who="CondarF" reply="4" id="1926102"]And last but not least for the other Concept Art, all four sides are the same and it says: Top: The Kingdom of ???? Elemental
[quote who="NelsMonsterX" reply="16" id="1964235"]Will Elemental be multi-threaded to let the AI take advantage of multi-core cpu's? I've heard that the more cores, the more human-like AI can get. So, in the near future, we'll see 100 or even 1000 core CPUs that will be able to mimic human behavior completely.[/quote] Don't get your hopes up on anybody being "able to mimc human behavior completely" any time in the near future. Yeah, maybe in the near future we'll have the
[quote who="Luckmann" reply="17" id="1964610"]Lies! We got tired and didn't want you![/quote] Yeah, so tired that you stopped thinking and gave them all that worthless land sitting on top of all that worthless oil ;)
[quote who="Anomander" reply="12" id="1964213"]The three Elementeers fighting amongst themselves. tut tut tut, this will not do.... Will S'partagnan arrive to united the feuding parties?[/quote] LOL
FlyGuy, you are blowing things way out of proportion. For one, Luckmann's entire post was basically a joke. Don't take it so seriously. Also, Stardock is not stupid. They aren't going to include something that has no place in the game regardless of how loud anyone is supporting it on the forums. Some sort of joke like this develops and pretty much all game forums. One of Stardock's other games (Sins of a Solar Empire) had a huge following of Space Ponies. In the end Star
[quote who="Cauldyth" reply="14" id="1963914"]This reminds me of something else. From screenshots, obviously terrain features can be given names (either by the player or automatically by the game, it's not clear which). Can wars also be assigned names? That would be cool, particularly if the AI would occasionally refer back to them.[/quote] If I'm not mistaken the names on the paper map are put in during map generation. Somewhere, I think one of the devs said that yo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="1963233"]There are neutral cities in the game. Other problems can occur because of those freaking adventurers who go into dungeons, get killed, but end up causing a demon or a dragon or some other bad thing to be wandering around the world. You'll never look at a D&D party the same again. [/quote] By neutral cities do you mean neutral human/fallen cities? Or beast cities? If beast cities, please tell me that they'll be in a form that
[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="7" id="1963172"]omewhere along the beta, you may want to switch to a more open mode where it's possible to play locally.[/quote] [quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="1961583"]For example, the initial betas of Elemental are going to require the user to be on the Internet to play.[/quote] Edit : quoting on these forums is so broken. I had to go find a different post of frogboy's, quote it, and copy the tag from that be
[quote quoting="post"] Thankfully, the Pink Space Ponies "thing" from Sins of a Solar Empire hasn't carried over to Elemental. However, as I've been reading through the forums, I see more and more references to bear cavalry (and not just from one person). So, at least for now it seems like the Bear Cavalry is the new, official mascot of Elemental. Granted, the Beta hasn't even begun yet, but that's only a matter of time. Growl?
I think it would be pretty silly if they don't let us name hero units and towns. You should be able to name towns when you settle them and when you conquer them. Also something that might be fun to mess around with in terms of heroes is give the player the ability to give them their name, but any title or nickname would be assigned by the computer based on the traits/actions of the hero (like in that screenshot with Martin Longstrider, Martin would be the name, longstrider would be th
I agree with Luckmann. If they were to implement Chocobos as we know them from Final Fantasy, it would be terrible. But if they were to implement them in a way that they look like bad-ass meat-eating ostriches - that would be cool. And you know that people would still call them chocobos.
[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="3" id="1962662"]Imho you should be able to counter almost every spell with a similar spell of an opposite school. For example if my enemy uses a fire spell, I could use a ice spell to avoid some or all of it effects.[/quote] It'd be neat if that would just be an option of how to use a spell. For example, I could choose to target an enemy unit with my ice spell, or I could choose to target my opponent's incoming fire spell. Sometimes you could even be abl
[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="20" id="1962081"]I doubt that a bump in this area would keep me from playing far too much Elemental, but I like the idea that the game could include a 'sticky' and global version of the calendaer vs. turn number option that GC2 recently acquired.[/quote] What do you mean by that? I haven't played GC2 for a while. Mind explaining what that means? :)
Yeah I hope they don't copy AoW:SM's method, unless they make some serious changes. A powerful channeler should be able to enable significantly smaller armies to defeat much bigger/better ones with little magical aid. This was largely mitigated in AoW:SM by limiting your mana use per turn so drastically especially by including overworld spells in that limit. It meant that the wizard's magic was very efficient in combat when two small armies were engaged (really hurting one unit is a b
[quote who="Pancernik" reply="2" id="1962037"]However the battle system is set up in the end, I think that the key point here is that retreat should not just be a matter of clicking a single button. It should be something that needs to be planned for and then skillfully executed to be most effective.[/quote] If the devs get one thing out of this thread, that has got to be it. There are plenty of ways to handle retreat well, but it largely depends on how combat is going
[quote who="Anomander" reply="20" id="1962519"]If you can mirror this....even I'd be happy ( well if it wasn't for the Robinhood style Ithilien Rangers I would /jk or am I )[/quote] I was about to threaten to slap you... but then I looked at the picture again and the rangers are a little funny looking. What's with the stocking hoods? Are they trying to disguise themselves as elephants?
I'd say it's worth just getting the digitial download only. When galciv 2 came out I bought digital download + box, and I have still never opened the box. It's packed away somewhere in storage still in the plastic wrap. Since then every time I've bought a game online I've gone for the digital download only. And with Impulse I don't feel like I'm just being allowed to borrow it. I feel like I own it, but the installation files are being safekept against loss and damage for me. I
[quote who="Cervomix" reply="1" id="1962005"]Why Karma is so important Spartan? It gives you special access or something ?[/quote] It just makes him feel special [e digicons]|-)[/e]
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="1961638"]Here's a link to an image that gives you an idea of the look we're going for: http://angel.cs.msu.su/~salnikov/gilrond/Images/John_Howe/the_war_of_the_ring.jpg[/quote] If you succeed in making the game look or feel at all like that image, I might dehydrate from all the drool... Likewise, if the units look as good in game as they do in the concept art... [e digicons]:drool:[/e] [quote who="Luckmann" reply="5" id="19
I think there should be no fog of war within some range of population centers and watchtowers - like in galciv 2 (planets/starbases have an LoS). But I think it should be a pretty significant range. Could be explained away as travelers talking about what they saw, indirectly reaching your channeler's ears. It could even scale with population, to a limited extent (could be logarithmic growth, for example). That way a 1 million population city wouldn't be able to see half the world - in fact it
Redwall! I loved those books. They may be children's books but nonetheless some of the best fantasy out there. I'd also have to echo Tolkien (taken as a whole - Silmarillion, Hobbit, LoTR), George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, and the first trilogy Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant Chronicles. The second trilogy wasn't very good, and I strongly disliked what I've read of the 3rd trilogy. I also have to mention three series that I almost never hear any
[quote who="Anomander" reply="25" id="1961407"]I take that back then... if they are so hands on, then they obviously approved everything we see....including 'Santa's Reindeer' in the frozen waste screenshot.[/quote] Ok, now you're complaining that there are reindeer ?! [e digicons]8(|[/e] You DO know that reindeer have been around a lot longer than 'Santa's Reindeer,' right? And reindeer happen to look a lot like 'Santa's Reindeer' (or is it the other way around) because, w
[quote who="Zaisha" reply="24" id="1961385"] Having mundane research be a huge part of what makes up your power is fine in sci-fi, but in fantasy it arguably undermines the fantasy feel and definately undermines the relative importance of the channeler/spellcasting.[/quote] I couldn't disagree more. Fantasy is not all about magic. For example, magic doesn't directly play a huge role in most of Lord of the Rings. The solutions to their problems are hardly ever magical, and when ma
[quote who="Anomander" reply="21" id="1961325"]I have read all of Feist's works...all! I happen to think him second only to Steven Erikson (Tolkien of course being the Zeus of the fantasy writers). I didn't on the otherhand know that the company was named after the old academy..interesting, thanks, is there no copyright infrigement there somewhere?[/quote] I've wondered the same thing about copyright infringement... I actually have to confess that I haven't read a single one of Erikso
[quote who="Luckmann" reply="12" id="1960981"] Quoting Denryu, "I think your pathfinding wouldn't be an issue. As above noted, Waygates entrance and egress would not need to correlate to the positions on the map." Which is the absolutely greatest problem, both when it comes to my pathfinding and the computer's. Trust me, my pathfinding would most likely be the biggest problem in this case.[/quote] That's great! What better way is there to feel like you're part of the game