Femmefatal48

Having stayed caught up in Beta I'm wondering if we'll have to redownload the entire game when it's release or will we be able to just update the Beta version?

CIV V is a pile of garbage why even bring it up in an Elemental thread? Off Topic Off Topic Off Topic throw him to the wolves. Ban Stick alert...troll alert Danger Danger Danger Will Robinson!

[quote who="jmccrea" reply="8" id="3253398"]Awesome work on this but im curious about HEAT. After playing Civ 5 and noticing heat issues on my gaming laptop that cost me 3k...Im wondering what you have noticed on your rigs running this. I know there's a difference between laptops and desktops, but after Civ 5, im always trying to be aware of heat now. I still cant entirely figure out why that game runs so hot, but just wondering if you guys have noticed anything with the

Wow Brad you suck as a strategist and tactician. lol You should have attacked that town with another force before going in with your sovereign goup. It seems this strategy works in every other game I play as I march around the map with a pre-assault group and then the assault group. The pre-assault group whittles them down and the main group finishes them. As one or the other of the two groups loses units I usually have a line of reinforcements coming up from behind to replenish them. E

77 just because of all the bug reports and lack of ai challenge I've been reading.

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="13" id="2992506"] Quoting Femmefatal48, reply 10 Oh wah whah cry us a river. The MAJORITY of gamers want a game of challenge and replayability not some ROMPER ROOM GAME like YOU want. The Developers are correct to listen to the HARDCORE gamers as they are their biggest support group for THESE TYPES OF GAMES. Only a HANDFUL of ROMPER ROOM players buy these types of games and then they want to come along and ruin it for the HARDCORE wit

[quote quoting="post"]Is there a way to revert back to, say, version .7? The game was actually fun back then. We had awesome ships to sail around in, dynasties, minor factions, and I could actually beat the AI. The game had its share of troubles back then, but the game we have now just plain sucks. [/quote] Just because YOU can't beat the AI doesn't mean the game sucks or needs to be turned back in time. I think it's great the AI is kicking YOUR

Not only NO! but HELL NO! :)

Hah Hah 59% say NO! Solo single players WIN again. ;) No need to implement multiplayer until waaaaaaay down the road after the game is released. It's just a waste of resources to me because I would never play it multiplayer nor did I ever care to play Master of Magic multiplayer. In fact that's what's wrong with so many games today is they add a multiplayer element to the game and then spend all their resources after the game is released trying to balance it instead of IMPRO

[quote who="Xiskio" reply="11" id="3069497"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 6 Your opinions on WOM pretty much mirror mine.At a certain point, we could either spend millions revamping WOM which, no matter what, is a tainted title or we could make a really good sequel and give it to our WOM pre-order group for free. We chose the latter. Correct me if I am wrong but as I understand it only those who preordered EWOM in 2010 get the sequel for free. Peo

The key element required in all strategy games like this is CHALLENGE. To Challenge the player above and beyond the norm. To make that middle and end game just as challenging as the early game. This by far is what so many games FAIL on when they are created. They make a game and THROW IN an AI. Thus why so many games get such bad raps for being non-challenging and not fun. Even though the fanbois will cream their pants about how much fun it is because they like EASY or just LOOK AT THE

[quote who="Alfdaur" reply="37" id="3125947"]Hmmm I played MoM and found it quite boring. It lacked the polish of Civilization. AoW and AoW2:Shadow Magic where both a blast to play for me. [/quote] Yep that's the way I found AOW and AOW:Shadowmagic. AI was so simple it was boring. Something you could never do in MOM but could EASILY do in AOW:SM was make an alliance and then march 3 STACKS of units over to the AI's capital doorsteps then declare war and win every single t

My version doesn't crash, must just be your crappy computer and probably a ton of viruses that I'm sure you'll say you don't have any of. lol

Age of Wonders Shadowmagic is the worst POS fantasy strategy game to date . The AI is horrible and the pathing even worse for it. Besides this is just a BETA it's not the finished product. It will be 10x better than AOW:SM ever was or will be. They also ruined it by patching for multiplayer instead of fixing the AI in the single player game in which the MAJORITY of gamers TRIED to play it. It's way down on my list of fantasy strategy games and not even on any of my hard dri

@RavenX yeah the easy game is easy to get high scores on isn't it? ;)

Stupid ideas. This isn't the Forgotten Realms and that stupid combat engine "attacks of opportunity". Tactical battles are nice the way they are now. Don't need to go mucking them up with silliness or making them more complicated or long and drawn out.

OIC you're schizophrenic also and delusional yeah that makes all the sense now. LMFAO

Who died and left you moderator ? When you get to be one then you can tell me what i can an cannot say. Until then just STFU eh? lmao Talk about your EPEEN you actually think cause you got 70 karma you can tell others what to do here? lmfao

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="66" id="3032384"]If Civ III and IV had good tactical battles like in Rise of Nations or Total War, ohmigosh that would be like crystal meth. I would live for the face-offs between two mega-stacks-of-doom. Only problem would be that that is hard to implement, having to deal with all the technology levels and unique units. Plus the really early tactical combat such as scouts vs. animals would be just silly. Civ is already insanely long

[quote] Quoting Frogboy, reply 43 If there is MP, there is definitely not going to be tactical battle MP. It would require total recoding. So right now we're simply deciding whether we want to include MP at all given so many people will be disappointed without it.[/quote] That's ok Fro

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="62" id="3032206"]I'm still worried about balancing. A year of work didn't fix WoM balancing issues. All the great content in the world doesn't matter in a strategy game if its basics (units, weapons, armor, magic, tech research, single hero vs groups) are not balanced. If the only way to play is to tech straight to Lord Hammers again, I will rage vomit in a bowl and mail it to Brad. [/quote] No I disagree about "bal

I usually buy games only when they reach bargain bin below $10, but, in the case of EWOM I jumped into the fire that has burnt me time and time again on software games newly released. I paid the $80 for the game also cause I wanted that Pewter Dragon which will probably be worth a fortune ohhhh about 4000 years from now because I'm going to bury it in my backyard. lol I'm not really disappointed in the product though since I believe that Brad will make good on his WORD and PROMI

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="4" id="3028442"]Nope... if people don't like FE, it's going to be the last game they make. [/quote] The last game EVER they make? Or just the last game in the Elemental series? I can't see them quitting making games just because FE falils. THeir GCII series rocks though I am bored with sci-fi after playing GCII like forever now. I honestly don't know why anyone likes that "Distant Worlds" POC game from Matrixgames either. A stupid re

Considering I will NEVER BUY anything from ripoff GAMESTEAL I'd prefer a separate server to download AND BUY ALL STARDOCK games. I don't buy any of that other crap anyways. It will be STARDOCK or NOTHING games for me for now and forever. ;) I would also buy from STEAM and/or GAMERSGATE, even Direct2Drive but not ever Impulse owned by Gamesteal.

I agree Alstein we don't need resources thrown at a dead horse. Improve the AI first and always. ;)