Nick-Danger

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="37" id="2760578"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 36 we're in shock and we're mourning. Let's not over-react But you are...[/quote]How so?

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="41" id="2760606"]The level of "Brad stalking" has reached an unbearable level [/quote]Those who do that are idjits. "An insult from an idjit is a compliment, a compliment from an idjit is an insult" I can't change idjits into not-idjits. I can, however, change how I react to them. When idjits pester me I take it as a good thing -- a badge of 'honor' that I got to them. That turns a possible negative into a positive. Positive

[quote who="sagittary" reply="9" id="2760196"]...That said, what would one want to see out of small kingdoms? It would help to figure out how we see each one operating on equal terms before just making changes and suggestions. After all, most things that help small kingdoms will likely help larger ones too.[/quote]You're correct that what would help small kingdoms must be carefully done so as to not also help the large even moreso. Back when this was being hotly discussed there

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="8" id="2760182"]...But to try getting back to kyogre's reason for the thread, I have always wanted the game to have some form of 'offiical village' settlement form that gets built directly on a resource, maybe draws a small population from your nearest normal settlement (or from the general surroundings), and needs a garrison to protect it when it's away from your strong areas...[/quote]That sounds great, and it sounds like one of the things we kinda/sorta had a

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="156" id="2760369"]...but what's the end goal of saying "I told you so" ?[/quote]I reject your premise that that's what he is doing. I think the reason why those that raise that point do so is because: -there was a mindset regarding constructive criticisms that not only were they too often ignored when they differed from what brad thought, they were too often met with disdain. -there doesn't seem to be sufficient recognition of this, enou

Regarding the OP's view of the state of the community -- we're in shock and we're mourning. Both will soon pass. Let's not over-react, as this is a normal process after a "loss". And there's still a lot of fun here. There are 2 sides to every coin. The OP addresses one side -- the overly negative. The other side is the overly positive. Face it, there was (and still is) some sort of froggy cult -- as if he could do no wrong,

[quote who="stax77" reply="3" id="2757684"] -I thought the Sov generally leads a stack always, but in a city I'm seeing a different result. That's because noone leads a stack in a city. Inside a city, the bunch of units are not considered an army, just a bunch of units...[/quote]That explains it! Thanks!

[quote who="Ilindil" reply="6" id="2759669"]It is a good idea! But for this champions special abilities must be in. Imagine champion who is some sort of assassin/spy with abilities to silent kill enemy champion or kidnap royal kids [/quote]Special abilities for champions is a great idea. There's been a few threads about that in the past. A search will show you some of them. If you want, add your ideas to those threads, or here, and hopefully adding your voice wil

Good beta testing requires an unbiased eye. We all have our biases, of course, but it's important that our biases be recognized and minimized as much as possible. Someone in another thread pointed out that linking beta access with pre-ordering adds a bias -- towards fans. It's only natural that our feedback tends to that reflect our bias, try as we might to minimize it. Note I said "tends to", I am not saying the feedback was too biased, or unusably biased, or the

[quote who="Istari" reply="93" id="2759672"]Point 1: Brad has already admitted on more than one occasion that he gets upset, annoyed and even angry as a result of negative comments and unhelpful complaints.[/quote]I am amazed at hearing this. The only thing I've ever seen remotely similar (and I've followed things here fairly closely) is what I quoted in my first reply to you (reply 77 in this thread) where he said "The only thing that really frustrates us ( and honestly is maki

[quote who="Istari" reply="91" id="2759487"] [/quote] I've been ignoring this following quote's topic because it's irrelevant, but I'll address it now since you've brought it up 354545 times...[quote]Here again you have disregarded the arguments I gave to support my statement.[/quote]You made a number of statements, I picked out one and responded with 2 points (for brevity let's refer to

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="7" id="2759441"] ...It's possible one or more developers did post accepting responsibility and I've missed it...[/quote]One of Boogie's posts that you may have missed. He even used the "A" word: "As an employee of Stardock that worked on a product that many customers find sub-standard, I apologize." Boogie is Aces in my book.

[quote who="Astrobia" reply="6" id="2759426"]I've seen BoogieBac take responsibility.[/quote]Aye. Boogie has shown himself to be a standup guy (I'm assuming a guy, and if wrong my apologies!), who's earned my respect with his posts here, especially since release.

I don't know is your being in the campaign affects this suggestion, I only know about the sandbox game. In sandbox games, when turns stop advancing, it's usually because some unit has its path blocks and so is unable to complete its move. So look for units on auto-explore, or units where you set the destination at more than 1 turn's distance. Some report something about animations not playing out and zooming all the way out allows then to play out, fixing this.

[quote who="Istari" reply="89" id="2759130"]Again, I said that some of them may or may not...[/quote]I took your statement "The negativity of these complaints can contribute to a decrease in the morale of the community and the development team, and may encourage others to post similar fruitless comments." -- which your above quote acknowledges that it means that you think it's possible the SDers might allow unhelpful criticisms to adversely affect their work -- and made 2 points in respon

[quote who="AndonSage" reply="6" id="2759228"] Quoting Nick-Danger, reply 4not sure where the other 60% is from but I haven't tried to find out yet Each shard you build a shrine on gives you +10% Essence.[/quote]Thanks for the info :) Hmmm... I have no shrines. And not just no developed shrines, I have no undeveloped shrines either. And not just no shrines at all in my area of influence, but there are no shrines at all on the discovered part of the map. &

The idea of surrendering/retreating/etc., and not just dying, has merit. Unit morale is already present in the game and could be used for this. Non-fatal outcomes for champs does open up a lot of possibilities as you mention -- ransoming, quests to free (not just freeing one's own champs but freeing a third parties' champs or especially its' royals from a captor to gain a big diplomacy bonus with the third party), bargaining chips in diplomacy, etc. This would be esp

What was supposed to make Elemental special? Why were we supposed to buy it instead of dusting off the old MoM and AoW and Civ games? Does the release version of Elemental deliver on the promises that were made regarding Elemental being special? Elemental will be overhauled pretty much from the ground up. I think it's important to step back and try to remember the original vision for Elemental -- and what was supposed to make it special. The overhaul should

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="2" id="2759210"]The old "Going Gandalf" strategy I've long hoped that it would be a viable strategy, but as marlowwe said, the game has pretty much evolved away from that.[/quote]Not only that, but essence has morphed into merely being the same old mana that's found in other games. In early beta there was still the feeling that essence was special -- it had to be spent to place cities (unless you waited for the 'reclamation' to spread out and then settle

It appears from my simple 'testing' that each temple of essence adds 50% to a caster's base essence (I just built one and my sov's essence bonus went from 260% to 310%, Sov wasn't in that city, and hasn't been there for quite a while). [I have no clue how he got 310% generally -- I have 5 temples of essence for 250%, not sure where the other 60% is from but I haven't tried to find out yet]. This does seem overpowered, for a city spammer anyways (imagine having 50 cities

This is one of my pet pursuits -- small but puissant kingdoms being competitive, using magic to offset size. There was a lot of discussion of this goal pre- and during beta. Release took a big step back from this, removing the increasing cost per city constraint on city-spamming. No explanation for it, either (I've looked, did I miss it? Please to link or point me in the direction if so). Still, in both 1.06 and now 1.07 I've been trying this strategy.

For campaign game saves try selecting Campaign, your campaign saves are located there, not where you'd find sandbox saved games.

[quote who="MensEtManus" reply="162" id="2757864"]...I've seen how this company operates. They are persistent...[/quote]This is a good point MensEtManus. Just about everything has a good side and bad side. Brad's doting on the game produced a 'bad side' -- blindness as to its release-readiness. On the other side said doting should (hopefully) produce a 'good side' -- persistence in continuing to work on it to make it into what his dream envisions. Time will te

[quote who="Temparr" reply="157" id="2757839"]Seriously though, it was all a grand mistake. Hell, I have even made some of those![/quote]One can't graduate from the School of Hard Knocks without making at least one Grand Mistake. Don't ask what my several advanced degrees from there required [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="Danners" reply="161" id="2757619"]Well, don't I look like the fool...[/quote]Negatory Danners. I had to read it several times to be fairly confident I understood the instructions. It's not the clearest. It's one of those 'if you understand it, it's easy to understand' instructions. I hope you enjoy Elemental and stick with it. Big improvements are on the way [e digicons]:beer:[/e]