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Fanboys and haters aside, Civ V and Elemental are really too different to compare. I hope that after a few expansions, both will become classics in their respective genres. Speculation, at this point, doesn't seem productive. Time will tell. I think people are really wanting something different, at this point. You see people kvetching about Civ V or Elemental and most of them are saying they are same old same old. I'd really like it if devs really took some chances in game design and

Teleport should be nurfed further. Even at 15 mana, it is still the best spell in the game by 1000 miles.

Increased mana regen would certainly help magic be more worthwhile. Anything to encourage me to do something besides make yet another unit of peasants with hammers would be most welcome! The magic changes in 1.08 plus the severe gold nerfing is encouraging me to use magic more and more. I think things are really moving in the right direction.

[quote who="killer105" reply="124" id="2762292"]I think we also lose some of the more rational individuals in forums because they don't want to deal with a complete lack respect towards everyone else. What is the point of posting if twenty odd jackalopes are going to attempt to jump down your throat? This applies to both developer and community alike. It would be a true loss if yet another developer decided to take the silent approach, like almost every other game com

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="20" id="2759063"]I Was so hoping you were gone, guess not yet. You add nothing so are basically nothing, have a great life.[/quote]Aww, how sweet! I love you too!

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="12" id="2759000"]Yeah he played 100 hours of elemental, got bored and asked for a refund which he got then cam back to the frums to cause shit....(this from another board minus the shit part.)[/quote]I'm imagining you, right now, sitting at your computer desk and flipping through the "dossiers" you have created on all of the "Elemental haters" you are tracking over the internet. I bet every time another one gets banned for stinking up one of Brad's pity threads, yo

Very sad news. I wish everyone at Stardock the best!

I'm not sure if there's a trick to it, but I just kept going to the highest level places available (Level 6, maybe?), and it started the Master Quest sequence, after a few tries. The final battle is pretty funny, too!

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="129" id="2755687"]Surly, you're starting to wear out your welcome here. Checksum checking is not DRM by any measure. And I've now seen enough of your posts to see that you're not really here to be part of a community or to receive technical support.[/quote] Sigh, I'll bow out, then. I really don't want to lose access to this forum.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="227" id="2755670"]I got a PM this week from a customer who said I should kill myself. That seems pretty "frank" too. Like I said earlier, my rule of thumb is to talk to the person as if they were actually there.[/quote]I'm sorry, was there something that I said being referred to here, or is everyone now supposed to associate me with some random guy who PMed you a death threat? I'm not your enemy and I don't wish you harm, Mr. Frogboy. Please believe m

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="224" id="2755641"]Well, surly, accusing a moderator of "weasel speak" would probably fall onto the "rude" side of things but I'm not a moderator so what do I know.[/quote]Well, sorry if I came off a bit harsh. I only post because I care. Your frankness is appreciated. I only hope that yourself and the other forum mods continue giving our frankness the same consideration.

Some kind of option to assign armies to suppress monster spawn in a given forested area would be greatly welcome! Call it "patrol" or something.

[quote who="Istari" reply="222" id="2755602"]To my knowledge, no one has been "banned". Some particularly rude users have had their posting privileges revoked but that is not the same as a ban. And we would not revoke someone's posting privileges because just because they don't agree with us. I We do not welcome trolls. Any reasonable person going through the forums can easily find constructive criticism of the game and of Stardock. We draw the line at "haters".

[quote who="kryo" reply="116" id="2752401"]Piracy is not a victimless act. [/quote]Like misrepresenting a public beta as a completed game? Oh, forgot. It's only bad when consumers ripoff corporations. Its good old free market capitalism when corporations ripoff consumers. Ah ha. Is this REALLY the proper time to be grinding that particular axe? Right after you do the kind of release that is Exhibit A for pirates justifying piracy? Note, that if you had stood by your principles and rel

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="45" id="2753014"]I don't think people yet fully realize the completeness of Stardock's fail on Elementa's launch. I'm going to write more about this but not only did we think v1.05 was ready for everyone but we felt v1.0 was too. That's the level of disconnect/poor judgment on our part we're talking about. If the game had come out in February, it would still have been a disastrous launch because lack of time wasn't the issue. It was blindness,

Ooh, this is good stuff! Thanks for the thread! [e digicons]k1[/e]

[quote who="Vhorthex" reply="68" id="2752119"]What is your clothmap zoom threshold? Set it to something like 86% and it will definitely help you out. [/quote]Is telling people to use the "cloth map" (no graphics) really supposed to be a "solution"? Stardock might as well have added a text mode interface, as visually appealing as that "cloth map" is!

[quote who="Carewolf" reply="12" id="2752116"]Is the part about no copy protection really true? At least the download version I bought from Impulse has all kinds of crappy broken DRM. If moved to a new computer it asks for authentication and product key.[/quote]It's not true. Fanboys like to delude themselves that Stardock stuff has no DRM. Try copying it to another computer or changing the EXE, and you'll discover otherwise. It's marketing hokum. Their brilliant plan of forcing every

Yeah, it was a different era when MOO3 came out. Back then, if what was in the box was pure crap, it was game over. You suck as a dev. All the reviewers would maul you. Now, "indies" like Stardock can get away with selling $50 boxes that say "IOU: 1 finished game" and use the sales of those boxes to finish the game. It's a catch-22 for fans like me: Either support "indies" and reward that kind of behavior, or rage against them and contribute to big corporate domination of the games industry.<

[quote who="Baleurion" reply="32" id="2752031"] Quoting dchalfont, reply 30I haven't bought the game yet, launch reviews were not too kind. I don't like the idea of the game I buy being outdated and in dire need of multiple patches on day 1.... The same reviewers also gave Spore a near perfect score. (no i wont let it go! ) Bribed = high score, not bribed = low score[/quote]Except that Stardock has taken out a two-page ad on the first two pages of PC Gamer,

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="11" id="2744806"]Neither, Sword of the Stars (and it's expansions) is clearly superior to both. Especially GC2, which becomes trivially easy to beat due to piss poor AI implementation on the strategic level. Then again I don't know what the going prices are for any of those games, so maybe you can afford to just get all of them [/quote]Sword of the Stars is quite awesome. I bought it on impulse, so either way, Stardock got pa

While i'm disappointed that the patch isn't being released tonight, I really do appreciate that all of the Stardock devs are taking their time to make sure that when it is released, it is released right. It makes me hopeful for the future of the game! :)

[quote who="Deth2" reply="90" id="2751803"]No Rune, I never felt threatened. But your "should I tell 'em what you're doing elsewhere" comes off as nothing more than one.[/quote]Careful, dude! He'll let Lex know that you are really Clark Kent! EDIT: Sorry, that was supposed to be edited on to the end of the last post. [e digicons]:'([/e]

[quote who="kryo" reply="83" id="2751786"]As noted previously, the revocation on that account was based on three points of evidence, not a whim. This can easily be resolved civilly with one private message, which seems like it'd be a lot less effort than arguing the point all night on this thread. We're not out to get people. If you have an issue with a moderation policy or action, it's a simple matter of contacting a moderator and we will gladly clarify or investigate. It might fe

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="86" id="2751789"]Now I really am done talking to you. [/quote]You said that before, cupcake. Your word is not worth crap. [quote who="Rune_74" reply="84" id="2751787"]Nope, but you pretty much admit your in here stirring up shit[/quote]Link, please! You two are like filthy alley dogs. You bark in unison every time I kick you!