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Same thing happened to me. CC expired since I pre-ordered, now I have to wait for Beta. I did pre-order, so hopefully it won't take too long.

[quote who="leeboy26" reply="6" id="2361711"]Nice, but I prefer my spiders a little less on the bulbous side. Games never get the aspect of primal fear of spiders right. Wolf spiders make better models, imo.[/quote] Wolf spiders are definitely scarier than garden spiders. And these look like garden spiders.

What about having gun powder being part of the technologies you have to find? Once you discover it in the world, you can then research ways to use it.

Also, perhaps the longer someone is at their job, the better they are at it. Except for slaves, and perhaps laborers.

I like the idea, but perhaps it shouldn't be a simple progression. We would need to figure out what citizens add to the empire and design different types based on that. Some ideas could include... Craftsmen increase production and taxes, neutral on research, and weak on political influence and cultural influence. Enlightened Folk increase research and cultural influence, neutral on taxes and politics, but don't add to production as much. Statesmen increa

[quote who="popoto2" reply="4" id="2354440"]I think one of the first thing to be modded will be races. Elves, dwarves, undeads... those kind of racec everyone expects in a fantasy game. And I also think that a group of pepople will join forces to re-create MoM usin elemental engine.[/quote] I too think people will mod units to create new races and then try and re-create MoM.

I'd like to see a Soft50 or a Soft25 before judging. Soft100 is the weakest, the other two are a toss-up.

[quote who="Denryu" reply="13" id="2353514"] Quoting BoogieBac, reply 2Weapons can have their base attack, attack speed, and any combination of enchantments (fire dmg, poision dmg, ice dmg, etc), and add in ranged options and the matrix of possibilities is actually really large. We dont want to get into too fine of detail with battles since the war-game is only part of a much larger picture. The question is, if units do not have different resistances to different el

I kind of like the early art. It had a style to it that I really liked that is lost a bit when the better graphics are used. Maybe it's just me.

In the game M.U.L.E. there were random events, some good and some bad. The better you were doing, the more likely a bad event would happen to you and the less likely a good event would happen to you. And the wose you were doing, the opposite would be true. However, the random events rarely turned the tide. There could be something here. Help the player that needs it the most, but not so much so that it is actually a bad thing to be in first place.

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="10" id="2350829"] One thing I remember about the Space Empires diplomacy was the delay of turns. For example I send a peace agreement, they send a counter agreement, I accept the counter agreement, then they read my acceptance of the counter agreement. The problem here was only after "they read my acceptance of the counter aggreement" would space violence stop between the two players.... they'd be attacking my ships and vise versa.

[quote who="Pnakotus" reply="9" id="2350044"] To answer everyone else's questions, the IDEA behind SE dip is good. You can offer varying degrees of concessions, treaties, trade, use of bases, etc in exchange for similar over xyz turns. It's WAY better than the simplistic system in GalCiv2 in that you can actually offer allies use of your starbases and then take it away when they're bad, you can lock people into trade agreements tied up with military assistance treaties, etc.

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="42" id="2341585"] Of course this is all opinion. I'd say that most of us agree that AoW did not "FEEL" like MoM. MoM felt like Cizilization with armies and magic. AoW felt like HoMM with economy, diplomacy, and a "main wizard" type character. I'd agree it was close. When I played AoW I kept noting things that were more or less a direct rip from MoM. But the general game-style was too far off to be a s

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="83" id="2347061"]In Elemental, there will be random techs as well as techs that you can only find in the world.[/quote] I like this. It definitely adds a new dimension to research. I look forward to learning how it is handled.

[quote who="MatBerryman2" reply="3" id="2347229"] As for SE4 any chance you could post the links to these modding guides?[/quote] Sadly, no. It's been too long since I've played the game. Lost all my modding stuff in a recent crash and haven't found my backups.

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="67" id="2347425"] If they read in every review that Elemental dos not top MoM and that MoM is the better game, I think people will indeed download MoM rather than buying a game that is not good.[/quote] I don't think that's going to happen. I think you will see comparisons, but I think Elemental will at the very least have some good points when compared to MoM. And if Elemental is weaker than MoM, then that's Stardock's fault, no

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="81" id="2346556"]The first few dozen turns you keep research wide open to build a decent base of beginning tech. It will be random, but we have to assume you won't get 30 consecutive agriculture techs and no weapons[/quote] You could grow so much food that you could have legions of poorly trained, poorly equiped soldiers that could flood into an area and take it over. You could also trade food to starving empires in exchange f

[quote who="MatBerryman2" reply="1" id="2346568"]I really don't like space empires. I tried SE 4, got it on steam for £4, and its a wonderful game full of really neat ideas. The only problem was the interface was naff, the game always seemed too complicated* and in the end I just stopped trying to learn it. Any gems it did hold were quiet obviously locked away from plebes like me.[/quote] I've played the franchise since their first release, whcih was actually SE2. Since

I was reading a lot of the suggestions on this site and what people were comparing the game to. Obviously MoM comes up a lot, but when it comes to espionage and diplomacy, I was thinking we could look to the Space Empires franchise. Anyone else here play that game?

[quote who="Salaena1000" reply="12" id="2346335"]ahh i thought since it mentioned a june release initially it would be n alpha stage now, sorry didnt mean to sound whiney or impatient, just very enthusiastic:)[/quote] I think most people here understand your enthusiasm.

[quote who="Denryu" reply="60" id="2345985"] [quote who="Frogboy" reply="55" id="2345753"]On Monday, we will be revealing a major new component that we think people will find extremely compelling.[/quote] Oh mah ****ing salivary glands! and tear ducts! [/quote] It's cruel to tease us like that. But I will definitely be coming back on Monday.

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="77" id="2344961"]Could be useful, as long as it's balanced. I wouldn't want to be forced into an RNG situation, or for that matter forced out of it.[/quote] Balancing it would be hard. It would have to be a tough choice between trying to get as many techs as fast as possible or concentrating on getting the techs needed most right away. But I think it is realistic. After all, you tell 100 scientists, 'Come up with someone.' at least one of them will

[quote who="Winnihym" reply="56" id="2345787"]was what made the game so great (and unbalanced, if the truth be told).[/quote] Balance can be overrated. I liked the fact that some races were just harder to play. Trying to force balance can also sometimes mean you have to sacrafice diversity. The easiest way to make sure all races are balanced is to make all races the same. Age of Wonders, a game I love, had this problem where the races felt too similar. http://e

[quote who="Shurdus" reply="52" id="2345355"] Quoting BrotherAlpha, reply 51 On the other hand, 300 pages of people talking about why one game was better might give the Devs plenty of ideas on how to make their game better. And it would give the general audience an idea that they better download MoM for free rather that buying Elemental. The developers are making this game with us during the beta phase. After that we want no bad feedback because it may scare customers away.[/qu

[quote who="Tridus" reply="25" id="2292441"]"Researchers, I command you to develop improved bows." "Oh dear leader, we have researched away and developed what you asked for: improved wheels!"[/quote] Maybe there should be two-dimensions: Speed and Accuracy. You could tell your researchers you want them to come up with a bow with longer range and in six months they will do it. Or you could tell your researchers you want them to come up with a b