I would say you are probably maxing out (or getting close to at least) the top end of what you could expect to get from a forum post on our own forums with this... which is a way of saying: great job! :) Up to you if you want to post more of it, its probably not going to peak at much higher point wise then this got you though. Its more of a category (on our own forums esp) limit then quality/quantity of work.
[quote who="Tridus" reply="52" id="2646847"] (I will say that another concern about doing this now is that it puts pressure on them for an August release that didn't exist before. If it turns out they're wrong and the game isn't ready for that release, do they have to push it anyway because the hype created by the army has forced the issue?) [/quote] No, this will not happen. The game will come out when Brad decides its ready. Period.
Worth noting that things that are old and dugg will not get points as the way Digg works its only relevant for articles that are new (its kind of like a 'news' site so no one will ever see anything older unless digging through archives). Also we will try and go through and double check old wishlists if there are errors. If you notice something feel free to mention it and we can fix it. Plus the how to play scoring rules are updated as we change stuf
[quote who="Gorstagg" reply="38" id="2646380"]Just take into account people that even if you DO follow the rules based upon what is written. You may be in for a surprise when you get many rejected ones. Even though, you as it may of been were communicating and participating on various forums. Oh and don't even try to submit your Diggs, cause they'll get rejected out of hand, even if you only do exactly as they say. Which is digg an article by Island Dog. Why am I p
there isn't a way to un-sign up, however, the Army will only be going until release and then the icons will be removed (we could find a way to keep them on there I'm sure for those that want them to stick around as just an image, but for the most part they will be removed).
[quote who="Raven X" reply="17" id="2645243"]I think people should get points for Forums Activity as well. Even if it's only 1 point per post. Not to mention I was plugging Elemental on Gamespot and a few other sites way before the "Elemental Army" started, and I don't seem to be able to go back and get "retroactive points" for things I did months ago. Honestly, I'm concerned with "Winning". I already bought and paid for my copy and the upgrade to limited edition. Having a spare wo
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="7" id="2645079"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 6Wow, kyogre.....you really want to win this competition as I see. Nice! Depends on what you mean by "win" Do I want to be in the top ten and get one of the grand prizes? Yes, very much so Does it matter what place I am in the top ten? No, not really. First, tenth, seventh, I don't care. Although I will tell you that I am quite shocked I'm doing so well. I know it's still very early in the competition
I think that if you look at the submissions so far they haven't been just baseless talking up of an unknown product. They have been forwarding of information put out already about Elemental to people that may not have otherwise seen it. Also because of what the prizes entail (copies of the game you are talking about) I think it implicitly shows that the people saying good things about Elemental for the Army are behind what they say as they are doing it to get copies of Elemental.<
we are looking into past entries that dont fit our new Digg requirements (to keep everyone on even footing going forward) along with online videos specifically. We have adjusted the points you can get from online videos as well so that we don't have to just negate all those types of submissions out right but can instead adjust their values. Our initial idea with online videos were people would make their own video not repost videos others made so we have had to adjust scoring.
another update: the refer a friend bug seems to be ironed out. Let me know if you still get the web service error.
well the big thing I would say to combat a lot of the negative feelings you have is that what's done is not done. The mod tool improvements were made expressly so we can go back and check up on some submissions that we may feel are not valid. Look for point totals to come down for people who have inflated them soon. also as a side note the fan art thing is probably in the wrong category but I'm pretty sure its a model being made for a Lord of the Rings based mod of Element
[quote]Kestral, would it be possible to tie that back into the Elemental forum, so that we can access it from folk's icons here?[/quote] yep, that is planned for today :) you will still have to login to see their profile stuff though still looking into why some emails seem to be eaten by the server :(
pre ordering will get you into the beta in the next wave. Buying the game for a friend will get your friend a copy of Elemental :D no prizes or anything. I'm working on more mod tools to make it less likely for repeat posts to be accepted. Also we can always go back and change scores if we notice something being reported more than once.
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="8" id="2643983"] Quoting ThreeKings, reply 6Download firefox or chrome and your problem should be fixed as well. Not sure if it's fixed but you cannot Quote with Chrome and I hate that little tiny fact. Not sure with Firefox as I only use it at work (because it's neat for web development). Quoting Peace Phoenix, reply 7Thanks, that worked. You are welcome. [/quote] this has been fixed (quoted in chrome!) :)
to reiterate what Island Dog said, if people actually sign up for the army there is no difference from signing up for Impulse, you will not be added to spam lists or anything. You could opt in for Impulse mailers but that's about it. For the referral emails those emails are all throw away. The only place they will ever be used in our system is to verify who referred whom. I'm trying to say, don't worry about referring friends and having them get spammed, their
update for Elemental Army: you can now view other Army members' profiles by clicking their name in the side boxes, leaderboards or Quest reports. This will bring you to a view of their quests they have completed to get where they are along with the loot they have gotten so far. If you would like to return to viewing your own profile you can click up on "My Profile" on the top right next to the logout button. While viewing other users' profiles you can still su
[quote who="Storm" reply="40" id="2643242"] Quoting Kestral2040, reply 3looking into the refer a friend issue, seems like it is just not working some times (or with some email addresses) I've tried using 2 different gmail addresses, one worked and one doesn't. Is there some form of filtering on the address? ie. preventing bad words or something?[/quote] there is something checking its a valid email address, however, if it doesn't think its valid
well we have no official right way to do it right now, I suggest posting it somewhere you can link to and then submit a link to the image. If you are concerned about people taking your image or something I suggest using www.screencast.com as the content there is linked to your account and you can disable others from viewing it. We are looking into setting up an email account you could mail your art directly to but for now hosting is
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="21" id="2642591"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 19 Quoting kyogre12, reply 18 Quoting DoomBringer90, reply 17 I have a question about the rules, as well. Can quests be completed multiple times? Like Digging multiple articles, or adding Elemental to multiple wishlists, etc. The rules are rather unclear about that. If they are different articles on Digg for example, su
we are manually checking, however, if people are just posting new threads of no real value or reporting like a dozen threads at once some of them will probably get rejected. Or get 0 points.
looking into the refer a friend issue, seems like it is just not working some times (or with some email addresses)
[quote who="DrGroth" reply="41" id="2619864"]This is my first post. Daily I check the journal entries and appreciate the close communication that the developers (I think Frogboy is the leader) have with the customer base and beta testers. I cannot wait to play this game! I remember Master of Magic as a masterpiece at the time and had a wish that someone, someday would create a newer game that utilized its template. Elemental appears to be this dream come true (alm