Well HOMM combat is more like chess using rock paper scissors method and Civ combat is like checkers and too much luck factors. I still remember those days when spearmen from caveman age took out tanks and archers took out battleships. That has to be the worst combat engine around.
Waiting 1 month isn't a long time to wait for another patch. I'd be happy with 1 month patches myself. You should get Paradox games where you wait years for a patch that finally fixes the games.
I bought Elemental CE or LE whatever you want to call it because of the many months of pleasure I got out of GalCiv 2 series. I NEVER pay $80 for anything game wise but I did Elemental because I trust Brad et al will make it as great if not greater than GC2 eventually. I already know EVERY game released is going to have issues. How they can give Civ V in the 90's on reviews just pisses me off though as it hardly rates in the 90's with the problems it has on release. I think Eleme
[quote]I don't see the point in going back to build the same building over and over again as population increases, when you could just increase the production of one building in proportion to population. And i don't think that demolishing buildings to build units sounds fun.[/quote] I suppose you never played Monopoly then an enjoyed one of the greatest games of all time. I can't remember the countless times I built houses and then had to remove them and then build them again lat
I've been reading posts from Civfanatics of CIV V burning up video cards like SC II. This doesn't bode well for 2k games or CIV V. Getting Elemental even with its little flaws is not as bad as Civ V now. Besides the Civ games have been done to death. At least Elemental is new an innovating and in a years time you won't even know it and maybe even "multiplayer" will be in the game by then. "_)) I'll get Civ V just like I did Civ IV when all the expansions and the "complete" gameset are $7.99 a
[quote]Also, I really want them to stay away from GalCiv2 design because GalCiv2 is excruciatingly boring.[/quote] Well Brad that statement right there should keep you away from anything lordebonstone has to input. He will never be satisfied about anything unless it's what HE wants and nothing else. GC2 was hardly boring as it's the best Scifi 4x game to date next to MOO II and they stand hand n hand in the MAJORITY of players books. So I would just ignore anything he has to
I like Brad's idea best and yes this game should be moving CLOSER and CLOSER to GALCIV2 in play value and difficulty and AI approach. GC2 is the best scifi4x out there and I see no reason why Elemental shouldn't follow that path as well. I'm actually pretty sure it will but you will always have your naysayers no matter what you try to design and do. You will also have those that want to redesign the game for themselves like lordebonstone.
[quote who="Istari" reply="7" id="2758940"] Quoting wynams, reply 3 cuz hex maps, AAA level polish and working multiplayer out of the box suck amirite? Enough "wynams". You don't have Civ V and I suspect you don't have Elemental. [/quote] Get em Istari ban him ban all those who oppose Elemental please. ;)) I also wish everyone should have to register their game and have an icon to show they bought one before they can post in TH
Another thing about Age of Wonders vs Master of Magic is it took away too much of the army feel of the game and made it more of an RPG romp than a fantasy stragety wargame. Nary a unit is a regiment they are all individuals and playing a stack in AOW felt more like playing a Gold Box RPG game. Fortunately Elemental brings the army stacks back again. 10 units with 10+ members per unit. A regiment of fighting units that feels like a regiment of fighting units instead of "Frodo goe
[quote who="csebal" reply="21" id="2788254"] Quoting rossanderson48, reply 18 Please ban that troll ^ above...thanks First, you come here barking at us for discussing something that you do not care about. Then you throw insults around, calling people trolls and now you want to have me banned for participating in a (admittably kinda heated) discussion, whereas all you did was barging in here, like you owned the place and started issuing orders
Please ban that troll ^ above...thanks
Railroad games are so easy to beat. All you have to do is float bonds till you get a nice rail line an income then buy all the open stock as the player and then have the railroad buy back all the bonds. When you buy that last bond your stock will skyrocket and you will go so far into the lead nobody will ever catch up especially the AI because it never counters this method by buying at least 1 bond of your railroad. I used to do this in Sid Meier's Railroad and Rails West (hah does anyone rem
[quote who="csebal" reply="5" id="2788172"]Comparing CIV5 to Elemental is an insult against CIV. "...ain't the same ballpark, ain't the same league, ain't even the same fuckin' sport..." 'nuff said. [/quote] CIV V is an insult to strategy gaming. It's just another donkey milking same old game like the past rest with some new TRIX (are for kids like you) nibbles to play with. Go away you bother me boy.
Who gives a rats azz about CIV V here? This is a STARDOCK ELEMENTAL FORUM not some crappy CIV V forum for you to rave on about. Please lock this thread and send it to the abyss or to Civfanatics website please.
COLOR made Master of Magic stand out. Just go play a game of MOM vs Elemental and you'll see what I mean. MUSIC the happy go lucky fanfaire music just kept one playing and playing and playing.... SIMPLE combat rules have mages throw fireballs, clerics heal and dispell undead, shoot arrows with archer units, charge with cavalry, melee types for defense and throw spells with heroes/leaders w/advantages for terrain and remaining on defense. (I can't remember the co
Some 10 year olds happen to be very bright and perceptive beyond an adult who usually makes open stupid statements like yours about the devs and how much they play.
I'd like to see a "turn counter" so these people that are giving you these ideas show just how many turns they've played and state things like the ai doesn't do this or this needs to be added because this happened or didn't happen. I think ideas should come from those who actually have played the game 1000's of turns not 50 as I can see too many people already stating things that would be there in the end game had they played that far. The counter should be Impluse client based stored so they
[quote who="Thiryn" reply="36" id="2785552"]Wasn't that screenshot released when the game still had RTS battles....months ago? [/quote] Yes it's an ancient screenshot and long before Brad even stated in the forum that the OP never read or looked up that there wouldn't be real time battles as such in the game or EPIC battles. The OP just wants to be a troll like all the rest of them out there just grabbing at sticks and stones of niggly things not in the game or
[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="2" id="2765905"]thats interesting because i almost always have way to many resources and gold by the middle game. i can never use it all. [/quote] Same here, obviously the OP doesn't know how to MINE stuff or plant new cities by gold resources. He just wants to be yet another troll who whines to Stardock about the game. My dad always used to say "If you can't say anything GOOD about the GAME, then don't say anything at all". My dad was a smart
/not signed as that kind of battle would weigh to heavy on older computers. Everyone doesn't own an i7 quad core with 8gb of memory and the fastest video card out there. I'm glad they went to the smaller army sizes as I was a proponent in asking for that many eons ago with good reasoning as I've stated above. Stardock in its infinite wisdom saw the light and removed the twichfest game and brought back the elements of the turn based game which is always best for strategy and tactical g
Because we're playing against AI you need to throw balance out the window for the most part when it concerns the ai. If the game is balanced the ai will never be worth playing against. Those crying for balance are usually multiplayers and you've already stated you wouldn't sacrifice the single player experience for the multiplayer one. Balance has always been an issue in most all PC strategy games and it is what ruins most of them that follow that lie that the game must be balanced. W
[quote]Some people like SP; some like MP; some like both;[/quote] Let me fix that for you: MOST people like SP, a HANDFUL like MP and a FEW like both. It's been proven time and time again the majority of gamers out here prefer SP games. Why the MP crowd acts like they matter is just a laugh and shows their level of IQ. MP brings the riff raff onto the forums and even in the games. Cheating and griefing abound online. Why I've see police cars and tanks appear in an Age of
[quote who="MrCapitalG" reply="1" id="2768707"]I like the intention but I get concerned that a real-time discussion doesn't allow everyone who wants to participate to do so and than only a small contingent of die-hard supporters of Stardock/Elemental will be heavily influencing the direction of the game. I'd rather like to see a more public version of a bug/feature implementation list, with related threads, almost like a forum but with each thread about a specific feature/bug/request, etc. I
[quote quoting="post"]Ok, I was 22 when MOM came out. I loved it. But, come on, the game was broken. It had no balance. It had no AI. Can anyone say: Highmen Paladins (I get the races over the years confused from other games - but these suckers were spell immune, on horses and kicked everythings butt)..... The AI would often have anemic amounts of cities and units on the hardest settings. Any focused strategy AT ALL with any
Finally a TRUTHFUL review and one that Stardock and Brad an Elemental deserves. It has all the elements of that review. Great review. Happy for all at Stardock and Brad and the game itself. It just shows a GOOD reviewer knows how to look past the insignificant things that only pests and trolls try to find in every game.