Nick-Danger

Geez, not only do you state what's not working, but why, and how to fix it. Nicely done!

[quote who="Tridus" reply="145" id="2764456"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 139 You're comparing contracted-for software (say, for banks) and off-the-shelf software (say, for computer games) -- apples&oranges. Compare off-the-shelf bank software and off-the-shelf computer game software, holding all else equal so the comparison is apples&apples -- would that bank accept said software if was in the 'release now and fix later' condition that many computer games co

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="93" id="2764494"] Quoting Rune_74, reply 91Lets not forget expanded vs extended memory...god who thought that shit up. I'm going to have nightmares now. Thanks. Glad we don't have to deal with that crap anymore.[/quote]Sometimes the act of getting the games to run was more fun than playing the games ;) [quote who="tetleytea" reply="94" id="2764529"]I was an Apple guy. Not only do I have no recollection what

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="55" id="2764281"]Sorry, I think I'm misunderstood.[/quote]My apology for mischaracterizing your view :( From your last post it appears our differences on this are more a matter of degree than kind. That's normal and a good thing (differing views politely expressed make the game and life more interesting!). We're still a long, long ways apart, but I now understand that we're in the same ballpark. The above applies to b0rsuk too if I've m

[quote who="Fearzone" reply="141" id="2764298"]Bank programs calculate payrolls or maintain account portfolios. Objectives of the software are clearly defined and specific. The needs of the customer is straightfoward. A program that generates a sense of fun, to a broad range of tastes, that is something else.[/quote]I'm not sure if you intend this to be a response to my point regarding computer game companies too often using a 'release early and fix later' strategy. If

Do you use a firewall like ZoneAlarm? Each time Elemental updates, zonealarm considers it a new program and I have to give ZA permission to let Elemental proceed (yes, even for a SP game, Elemental is trying to connect to something). I have to ctl-alt-del out and give ZA permission, then Elemental continues and starts up. Dunno if that's your problem, but check if you have a firewall.

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="7" id="2764252"] ...Sometimes the enemy is 2 squares away(1_movement_turn) and sometimes 6 squares away(3_movement_turns)...[/quote]That reminds me -- some of my tactical battles start with some of my units standing next to the enemy, widely separated from my other forces. It's not 'my guys on one side and their guys on the other'. It's 'most of my guys on one side, their guys on the other, and some of my guys jumped the gun and are now adjacent to

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="18" id="2764179"]"Localized tracking" means that each city keeps track of what it produces. [/quote]So, in the current release, the effect of localized resources is seen in 'modifier buildings' (that modify, say food production) modifying that cities' produced food (and not modifying the global food total)? If so, I was wrong in my above post, and the localized tracking number is not just "...a number on a city screen in our current setup..." a

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="137" id="2763279"] ...But unlike a Bank who pays for a concrete piece of software for some price and to be developed in certain time limits, we as gamers get the privilege of having games developed for free (they don't cost us anything) and then the ability to wait if it interests us (demo, reviews...) and finally buy it (the moment in which the game actually costs us money) if we decide that it's worthy of our money. imho[/quote]You're comparing co

[quote who="StBlasius" reply="132" id="2763180"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 125 I think it's necessary to clarify the "...nature of software..." bit. Consider a company that produces software for a mid-sized bank or a company like Target (software for financial records, tracking stock, online sales, etc.). How would customers of said software react should the software be released in a condition similar to Elemental's? For whatever reason, customers of computer

[quote who="Raven X" reply="1" id="2763331"]Because it wants to hammer down the walls of your cities in tactical combat!!! Huh? What do you mean we don't have walls in tactical combat?!?!?!?! ......[/quote]That bugs me (too?). AoWSM has walls in tac combat, right? (at least when walled cities are the battle scene...) I was pretty floored when I saw no walls in city siege Elemental tac battles.

[quote who="Gyb" reply="9" id="2763707"]...Frogboy is a big believer in free markets. The idea being that the government (your Sovereign) makes an initial investment (the Caravan unit) and then once it arrives "private industry" takes over and somehow generates extra resources out of "nowhere" (presumably by making the whole process more efficient and cost effective than the government can by itself). Whether or not that is valid economic theory I leave for you to decide, but it goes to show

[quote who="Tempestwrath" reply="8" id="2763706"]I think the logic behind caravans and food is that food is a perishable good. A given city with a farm can produce a large amount, but it can only physically use so much of it, and a lot of it, theoretically, goes to waste. Caravans that are linked from a non-producing city to a producing city make less of it go to waste by transporting it to places where it can be used before it goes bad. This is represented by the ou

[quote who="random_target" reply="5" id="2763208"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 2I don't think you're off-base on that RomanGuy. It's hard to imagine a caravan creating food out of thin air. Caravans increasing trade which would then increase gold -- that makes sense. If realism is what bothers you, it does make sense. No matter how much a city is be able to produce, the actual benefit to the kingdom depends on the logistic setting and on the q

Try selecting the city and hitting 'X'.

[quote who="Fearzone" reply="12" id="2764098"]Localized resources, being "globalized" with roads and caravans I'd like to see...[/quote]This makes sense, and allows strategy (creating, guarding, and cutting supply lines). [quote]Rishkith quotes froggy saying: The global resource pool with localized tracking adds a great deal of strategic depth[/quote]What the heck is 'localized tracking' -- is that a fancy way of saying they sum up all similar resources produced by city (and then just

[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="4" id="2760336"]In the betas you had to build a structure ("training grounds" or something) before you could train units. They removed it because it made the early game quite boring. I think that was the right thing to do. [/quote]I can see requiring no 'training grounds' to recruit peasants, but for 'real' troops there should be one. My take behind the reason training grounds were removed is because it was taking 'too long' to start getting troops i

I got jumped by a foe with much higher power rating. I kicked the crap out of him, captured a dozen or so of his cities, decimated his forces. He was down to only a few cities and forces, and still wouldn't even consider a cease-fire. His perceived value for a non-aggression pact and peace treaty in the diplomacy screen (~3000 or so to my ~300) had hardly changed from when the war began. Seems to me that getting one

I don't think you're off-base on that RomanGuy. It's hard to imagine a caravan creating food out of thin air. Caravans increasing trade which would then increase gold -- that makes sense.

There were a lot of discussions on simultaneous turns in beta. It kinda ended up being referred to as WeGo (We Go, as opposed to I Go then You Go). A quick search on "WeGo" turns up a few threads, which I reckon reference other, earlier threads: A better combat system: we-go Tactical Combat discussion continuat

Remember trying to get the old DOS games to run by fiddling with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, loading things into HIMEM, etc.? Best accomplishment a friend I had (well, my friend did it, I just watched) was to get Falcon 3.0 and Mig 29 to work together over a null modem cable. Falcon 3.0 came out in '91, Mig 29 musta been '92 or so. They were cutting edge at the time, and a lot of fun to fly against a friend instead of a computer foe. Add in the old Thrustmaster rudd

[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="34" id="2762995"]Austinvn summed up my stance almost perfectly...[/quote]I'm assuming this quote of Austinvn is apropos: "...while dynasty inheritance is a fascinating concept for a save/continue game, it's pointless for a save/load game..." Couldn't disagree more regarding "pointless". Just because one could save/load after sov death does not mean it would always occur. Saying it's "pointless" is assuming your value is the only valid one.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="259" id="2762925"]The upside to a shared casting pool is that aside from fixing more casters = more mana regen, it lets you have big spells. You can't have 100 mana spells right now, because it's effectively impossible to get any caster to that point. ...[/quote]Don't you just hate it when when one says something and some jerk comes along and...? That's from an 8th le

[quote who="NickJames" reply="149" id="2749110"]Did anyone else have alot of performance problem`s with Civ4? I own vanilla plus the two expansions, Once the map became filled improvement`s there was ALOT of stuttering frame rates happening. It killed the game for me, I can`t enjoy something that ran so poorly. I first tried the game with a AMD X2 2.8 ghz, 3GB ram, 8800GT 512, Vista 32 bit. It ran like shit no matter the graphic settings. I then upgraded to an ATI

I think the released version of Elemental lost a lot of the 'vision thing' that was proposed early on. We did see very major changes to basic parts of the game, right up to release, and it sounds like more are to come. Maybe I'm wrong, but if I'm right, perhaps one of the reasons is that the vision got 'diluted' by player feedback. I'm not saying all player feedback was deleterious, or that some player feedback wasn't beneficial. Just saying that the 'vision thing'