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[quote who="Aeon221" reply="16" id="2849393"]Fewer but bigger attacks will make combat, and thus the game, more random. Not sure how I feel about this. More one hit kills is not a good thing. However, combat is already stupid long and imba towards melee. Reducing the melee output 66%-80% would cut out a lot of cheese and make magic out and out better on a per turn basis. Still, it's lipstick on a pig. 4/5ths of the tech tree is at best borderline useless. 3/

Two things I would like to see changed: 1) Whenever a player hovers over an icon of anything that requires resources (for a building or improvement), the UI should display the number of resources required and an icon/picture of that resource. What we have now is a number and a string: '25 materials' - this looks cumbersome and I always catch myself reading the word. The brain can identify pictures and symbols faster than words - it will be easier on the eyes this way. 2) Inste

Brad sounds like my old WoW guild leader heh

I think your fear is unfounded. I believe SD knows what they are doing vis-a-vis fan feedback and its implementation in the game.

I agree, this is a good idea. To be honest I hope they redo the whole empire tree because it can get very messy very fast. Besides, it seems like SD just took the empire tree from Sins and slapped it on Elemental. Although there is nothing wrong with this, it feels and looks dated. It needs to look like it belongs in 2010 and not 2007 - both visually and functionally.

I just got an out of memory error at turn ~580. Screen froze and was booted to desktop with a message saying 'Out of Memory'. Debug file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8680122/debug_oom_15_12_2010.err Dump file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8680122/Elemental1_1-2010-12-15T23-33-34-547.dmp

No they don't have it. The name was just not erased from the trait list.

[quote quoting="post"] The Civilisation, Warfare, and Diplomacy trees could all be moved to buildings that are unlocked at different city levels. Or are unlocked on events. As an example, Town Halls unlock at level 3. Schools unlock at level 4. Want to build chain-armour troops? At level 4 you can build a blacksmith that will allow you to build chain-mail at that city. Want plate? After you have built a blacksmith you can then build an Armourer in the same city. And so on. Ca

Yeah I posted about this a week ago while v1.1 was still in beta. This bug has been in the game since the organized ability was first removed.

Steps to reproduce bug: 1. Get negative gildar. Shown by negative sign and red gildar amount font. 2. Use alchemy spell (converts mana into gildar) to go back into positive gildar 3. Negative sign disappears but gildar amount is still shown in red

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="41" id="2844637"] Do you guys remember me talking last year about ME learning Python so I could begin putting that into Elemental? Think about how misguided that is. The CEO of Stardock picking up python and trying to learn "on the job" on how to integrate deep modding like that? No. Wrong. The correct path is to find people who are already gods at this. [/quote] Modding with Python was one of the things that initially got me interested in the gam

[quote who="scifi1950" reply="134" id="2844048"] Quoting loondenhur, reply 133Actually the point is becoming moot, we are now at 1.09v, that only leaves 4 more updates 'till you have to go 1.1. Due to the fact that you will be out of alphabet possibilities. (assuming standard English). So at the present rate of 1 update a day, you will have to go 1.1 on Friday. I don't think Beta numbering follows standard English. Think more like Excel. After Z comes AA, AB....AZ,

[quote] At the same time, there have been developers who have released smoking piles of buggy crap and then left it to dry in the sun and be stepped on. [/quote] How is that a justification for anything? When you want to see how well you did something you don’t measure yourself against people that perform worse than you… [quote] What are you hoping to accomplish with that statement? [/quote] Ratatosk7 took an

[quote who="Ratatosk7" reply="1" id="2843761"]...while a lot of developer/publishers out there simply drop all support post-release as if they never were involved in the game in the first place. [/quote] Well "a lot of developer/publishers" also tend to release finished games with concrete systems and a semblance of balance. As far as I am concerned all of these post-release patches we are getting are simply an extension of development. I'm getting a little bit annoyed by posts saying

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="49" id="2842892"] If the consensus is that we should push v1.1 into January, we can do that but it could effectively end Elemental if it's the wrong choice since this Christmas is, effectively the first impression most people will get of the game (sales are already starting to reach a new height and I see some of the support tickets from v1.09). That's why it's important to make the determination of which game is better - v1.09 or v1.1 (what we have + fi

I'd say wait until January for 1.1. There are still plenty of bugs in the game and they need to be dealt with before you start moving on to other patches. Also, this would be an excellent opportunity for you (and Derek) to see what the team can do with an extra bit of time. EDIT: Tempestwrath made an excellent point. Take the time to make the game look polished!

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="38" id="2841911"] Quoting marlowwe, reply 31Yeah I don't think I've played a single strategy game where the AI could play effectively on island maps. Rise of Nations. In that game moving units onto water turned them into boats automatically. All naval AI issues solved.[/quote] Ah yes I remember that too! What a clever solution that was.

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="29" id="2841801"] Quoting pad152, reply 26 The issue here is the AI, it's not able to play on a map of islands because it doesn't use boats, something CIV games have been doing from the begining. Selective memory here.. Many of the vanilla release versions of various Civ releases had major issues with AI using boats. Civ IV for instance had issues til about the time of release of BTS.. and the vanilla patch tha

These pictures do look amazing. I really dig the art style.

It's awesome that you're giving WoW a shot - it's a great game. Make sure you fully soak up the leveling experience, especially with Cata's release.

[quote who="Istari" reply="11" id="2837097"] Quoting Dairuka, reply 6I personally put a naming scheme beside each of my city names, so that when the pop up comes, I know precisely what city is being specialized for what. (G) = Gold (A) = Arcane (T) = Tech While that is a very practical idea, it is also meta-gaming. Bad Dairuka! [/quote] It's true! He's breaking the fourth wall!!! Perhaps we can

[quote] The first game where I scouted was WOW... with scouting I went from losing to 3 levels below to beating 3 levels above. (thats for both other players and mobs btw) as well is vastly improving in other aspects of the game (wealth generation, xp generation rate, etc). I looked back to a lot of games and found how much better I was with that application... but I wasn't playing the game anymore. I would spend much more time on forums scouting then I would actually playing, it was a t

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="94" id="2836497"] It is NOT a truism. You have no clue what other gamers think, what traits they have, nothing. You don't get to decide what is true and what is false simply because you say so. You cannot possibly have anything backing up your statement about a universal trait about gamers. You think you have some sort of "in" and you do not. I don't need to carefully read your blanket statement to know that.[/quote] So far you haven't backed up your ar

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="91" id="2836470"] Actually YES I would argue exactly that. I would bet that for a large contingent of those who play Chess the fun is in the besting of a worthy opponent and no longer derived from "the game" of Chess anymore.[/quote] I don't agree with you. You mentioned 'worthy'. What kind of reasons would push a person to seek a 'worthy' opponent? One reason is that worthy opponents provide a player with an opportunity to improve their

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="92" id="2836478"] You should never make a blanket statement like this. People play games for different reasons, and you certainly don't have a direct line to all their thoughts.[/quote] If you carefully reread what I wrote, you will see that I made no claims about reasons for playing. I will repeat what I wrote: Every gamer gets enjoyment out of getting better at a game. This is a universal trait shared by every gamer. This truism is not, howeve