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[quote who="sage2" reply="44" id="2678068"] IMO, the development of the first 100 turns is way too slow. [/quote] based on what? 100 turns of mom you just passed all the time to get the first buildings and a bit of exploring i already do more in elemental than in civ/mom and we arein beta i dont agree thats too slow considering you can explore and start questing, much more fun than it

its already been "discussed" (read argued and flamed) frogboy says the game will be ready and they are ahead of schedule we have no better info so fanboys will trust frog and hateboys will not and there is nothing more to add imo stability is not that big issue considering the last month will be due to that

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="38" id="2677967"]I'm really looking forward to these changes. But I do agree with others sentiments that the pacing of the game is still way out of whack. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I have trouble training even small armies. I think the most soldiers I've ever had control of in a game was maybe ~100, and that was with several level 4-5 cities and smaller ones. It's just so expensive to train, and to maintain, large numbers of troops that armies tend

[quote quoting="post"] At the moment one of my biggest concerns is the current research system, as right now it shows little variability. However, this being said, although we've had it since virtually the beginning, the research system inherently depends on everything it produces, and as it effects every other aspect of gameplay, it is difficult to point out what is wrong with just the system itself. I do have a few suggestions here however. [/quote] well tb

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="5" id="2677366"] Instead, we need to reward players more for building up fewer, bigger cities. I am not sure if you will have the expected result when you need to snake your city to get those nice ressources.[/quote] its already been stated theyll change it allowing to build on rarities without having to city upon them so the frog idea is perfect big and fully developed towns should be rewarded &

[quote quoting="post"] Tactical Battles. You guys haven’t gotten to see this part yet but you will this week. Let me set expectations here: Our tactical battles are very much like Master of Magic except that units have morale and there are terrain bonuses. So if you don’t like Master of Magic,[/quote] if you dont like MOM you should just play tetris imo :D anywyay good choice, mom was just nearly perfect, with the addition of morale and

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2677602"] Quoting Batlord, reply 2What about AI ? I don't think anyone considers AI to be an important factor. The beta community has has been pretty clear that they don't think the AI needs to be even in the game... [/quote] yes!!! no ai everyone play online!!

that depends on how many cities you build with 2 3 cities materials explode after few turns, i usually get 500 1000 no problem

[quote quoting="post"] Beta 3A has several issues that may not be bugs but do seem to impact the flow of the game: 1. The AI for the other soverigns uses the same tactic in each game start. They build one city and then pump out pioneer units to found more cities. Almost always they very quickly surround the player's first city. I have watched these new cities and their tactic is also to pump out more and more pioneers. I am not sure that the gameplay w

[quote who="neon2seo" reply="78" id="2676735"]I just updated to BETA 3A. It does not even run at Windows XP SP3 at all. It shows an error message as it is creating a world or just freeze. BETA 3A works great on both Vista SP2 and 7 systems. No random crash so far. No resolution issues even though their graphic cards are much less spec than the one with XP. I really hope the final game will run at Windows XP SP3 without any problem. I persona

[quote quoting="post"] + Monsters respawn over time. + Monsters will attack one another if they are of a different species and in their "territory" + Monster aggression based on intelligence of monster + Monsters of same type will gradually band together into packs [/quote] i tried to play a bit on new beta but its hard to see this new feature i really love the idea, imo its really great but right now i se

yeah i still have this problem too

equation need to be somewhere, ofc that popup is not the best place maybe some short description with no numerbs and a button to click for an extensive detailed description with equation eventually

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="89" id="2674584"] Quoting ddd888, reply 86watch van gogh then he didnt have deadlines But all the Italian guys doing paintings/sculptures during the 1400-1500s had. Those were contracts.[/quote] its true they were contracts but there werent really deadlines leonardo worked on la gioconda for years, michelangelo worked for the pope for decades

[quote who="Adam_H" reply="85" id="2674515"]For a perfect illustration of what a project without deadlines is like, look at Duke Nukem Forever. Deadlines, if only self-imposed ones, are needed to get anything done.[/quote] watch van gogh then he didnt have deadlines :P

[quote who="viper34j" reply="77" id="2674399"] As a developer, I work with deadlines all the time. [/quote] well lets go for a moment out of elemental and stardock and talk in general the point is deadlines SHOULDNT exist if i am writing a book should i print it when is ready or 27 september? the same should apply to every creativity job i know world

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="70" id="2674192"] To be fair, "This game isn't going to be ready!!" isn't actually helping to improve the game. [/quote] and why not? in their opinion the game ISNT actually going to be ready so what they are trying to help is sharing their thought OFC they can be wrong i hope they are wrong we all hope they are but in their opinion they arent wrong, they thi

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="56" id="2674092"] In addition, July 16 is our feature lock date. Not our gold date. After July 16th, it's all bug fixes and polish. If you're certain the game just won't be ready, you are free to hold off on playing it. [/quote] you shouldnt be so harsh since many of us already bought the game and i think we deserve respect 16th july as feature lock looks scary to many of us since the beta we

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="57" id="2674093"] I think that the release date is set in stone. Just take a look at this reply by Froggie. This is the key sentence: "As of July 1st, the game is running approximately 55 engineering hours ahead of development schedule." [/quote] well imo thats completely arguable its not like i dont trust frogboy but this is a software not a house its not like you can say "we

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="64" id="2674136"] The ONLY feature you guys should be worrying about is the computer AI. [/quote] well then im only happy since i dont care of ai and prefer playing against humans :D

[quote who="Hound" reply="46" id="2673210"] In my suggestion the shards are well defended and require advanced units and/or spells to overcome. You will have to invest time and resources into getting them. They are not for early game grabs. [/QUOTE] well defended shards is a good idea, but right now the game doesnt seem to go in that direction, if they do i could agree with your idea [quote] Food res

yeah it was an advantage to have a close node but the you need really luck to have one so easy to be killed early if those 2 conditions happened yeah you had a nearly gamebreaking powerup

well spells in elemental ar so different from mom they dont take turns, they cant be countered wihle casting as for now etc etc spell of mastery doesnt really fit the actual elemental magic system, but hopefully there will be some change soon

[quote who="Star Adder" reply="39" id="2672930"]Hound, in MoM it was pretty much the same with nodes. Either you got lucky and started near a node that related to your prefered type of magic or it was leagues away..[/quote] eh? what you are talking about? in mom you didnt need any node at all

[quote who="Hound" reply="37" id="2672926"] Would you rather start somewhere completely different and then have to walk all the way across the map before founding your kingdom? [/quote] having your own shard just near the start location makes the entire shard concept irrelevant then why just not put the shard bonus into your sovereign at start? shards shoudl be some minor random bonuses and also point of interest to fight for