[quote who="Squiggled" reply="4" id="2755306"]Conditions for hiring a hero. 1. You have to have enough gold to hire them. 2. They are in your sphere of influence OR they are beside one of your units[/quote]In my 1.06 game there was a bug feature where occasionally I was able to hire some champions that were not adjacent to any of my units and that were several squares outside my area of influence. Normally this is
[quote who="georgeishere" reply="20" id="2754044"] Quoting lordkosc, reply 19Is anyone having an issue with the NEXT TURN button ? I am 329 turns into my first game of 1.07 and I am unable to progress. I saved , and reloaded, and still unable to progress... You should check to see if any of your units have no where to go, such as units set to auto explore,that's usually the case for me.[/quote]Not just the auto-explore units, but any that have been given a destination that
Saving seems to be a big instigator/initiator of in the OOM crashes. In 1.06 (starting around turn 200 in a large map 5 fallen faction game) when I'd start to see fps slowing down and then save, it almost always crashed and the save didn't take. Even if there was no apparent fps slowdown, if it had been awhile since I started the game (10 minutes or so) I'd save and it would OOM crash, the save not taking. Non-programmer speculation: the new save write to a new set of file
[quote who="Winnihym" reply="160" id="2752050"]Hunh. Mistwraithe, I can't think of any reason for you to dig this up from 2 months ago that doesn't begin with "neener, neener". It's not helpful at all. It implies you knew better than the industry veterans, and they just didn't listen to you. If that's the case, I'm eager to play your mod. When do you think you'll be releasing it?[/quote]As Mistwraithe said, I linked to this thread in another (several other, actua
[quote who="Xiara" reply="15" id="2753926"]Running fraps....is game locked at 65fps? I'm stuck at that on menu's. Usually in the 300's on menus. Notice theres no option to unlock frame rate now either.[/quote]From Boogie's thread under the Performance section: + Added new framerate limiter ( limits framerate to refresh rate of device ) <spa
[quote who="Cryptomancer" reply="152" id="2753854"] ...2. If the game had been released in February 2011, it would have been of a stellar quality. I really do not understand why Frogboy is so pessimistic, cynical, and nihilistic on that point....[/quote]As I understand his posts in this thread, he's saying that his standard for 'release-ready' was off. He achieved his goal/standard with 1.0 and even 1.05, but his standard/goal was off. Given that the goal/standard was off, th
I'm downloading and installing an update now.
Rewarding community members for significant contributions is always a good idea. Given all that's gone on with Elemental's release, rewarding those that have stepped up and made significant contributions is especially important. I am nominating Machater for his OOM fix. See his thread for details. I think his contribution is
[quote who="Erlynmyre" reply="8" id="2753512"]I've had the goody hut unresponsive thing several times, and was able to get it to work by making sure my sovereign HAD THE EGG IN HIS INVENTORY when I went back to the hut. The most recent time I did it, hero 2 actually got the quest, and got the egg, but I had to trade it to the Sov to complete. Didn't matter that when I went back, hero 2 was in the stack with the egg, had to actually give it to the sov to complete. Try it.[/qu
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="67" id="2752444"]I apologize for the lenght of this one, but bare with me... OK, back to wrapping up 1.07![/quote]Boogie, you're Aces in my book. I'm happy to support you and the work you do and the games you create. Respect!
[quote who="Dale_" reply="90" id="2753412"]...will you [Brad] remove my post revocation on elementalgame.com domain?[/quote]I'm still here after some pretty critical posts, and you're banned? *boggled* After reading your posts in the Civ5 thread, you'd be on my short list of folks to listen to. Advice to SD on compiling a 'short list' of folks to listen to: First, eliminate the folks who cheer everything you do. They're the worst to listen to. &
[quote who="Birdmon" reply="327" id="2753400"]So, let me understand you. Curly>Moe - but if cheese is used Moe>Curly. Ok, got that part, but I have to disagree with you on the Larry thing. Watch closely at Larry when Curly Curly (this one will confuse them). I see this: Larry>Moe><Curly. Its a rare oocurrence, but it happens, I dont think its a bug. The last patch used a Shemp, total fail, IMO.[/quote]While some of your other claims may be a
From Frogboy's posts in today's Why is everyone upset the game came out "early"?!? thread it's clear there's no "if" in his view regarding the game's release, and thus I retract my comments in this thread regarding that, and I commend his brutal honesty. Salute to [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e] !
[quote who="yocmj0110" reply="320" id="2753291"]...i moe everything down...[/quote]I find it more effective to Curly everything down. Curly > Moe. Unless the enemy has cheese. Cheese is to Curly what kryptonite is to Superman. I never Larry anything down, he's just too uninteresting.
3 possibilities I can think of: -Dropping framerate sounds like the Out Of Memory problem, esp. at turn 500. Did you try exiting/restarting Elemental, not just reloading? Regarding the OOM, when I see framerate starting to stutter and immediately try to save the game almost every time crashes with the OOM error and the save doesn't complete. The act of saving precipitates the OOM. Your save was successful, which might suggest it's not an OOM type issue causin
[quote who="alborrelli" reply="3" id="2745349"]What happens is if you have too many units in the stack you won't get the dragon.. as far as I can tell. First time I did it, I had a full stack and didn't get the dragon, the second time, I only had four units in the stack and I got the Dragon (who kicks ass by the way). Not sure what the #s are for how many you can have in a stack, but I think that's the issue. ...[/quote]I tried it with just my Sov, no dragon. Reloaded a
[quote who="surlybob" reply="297" id="2751508"] Quoting Jafo, reply 292 Why is this guy not the public face of Stardock? Mirrors break [?].... Jafo runs and hides.... I LOL'd. [/quote]Me too. Heck that ribbing from Jafo is nothing compared to the folks I used to work with. I got crushed by some pipes (on a roadway), and a few months later when I returned to work they welcomed me back with a roadkill, pancake-flat dessicated squir
[quote who="CanuckSoldier999" reply="126" id="2745531"]Hello everyone, this is my first post here... Cheers CS Owner/Global Admin Civilization Players Leagues www.civplayers.com[/quote]Nice post. Nice site. Folks like you are community builders. Salute!
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="34" id="2751495"]Unfortunatly, we've run into some issues and will have to post tomorrow (hopefully mid-day, if things go well the rest of tonight)...[/quote]Big weekend coming up, and you folks have been working hard for quite a while now. The patch would be nice but can wait. Enjoy some well-earned time off (tell Brad I said it's ok [e digicons]:grin:[/e] ). If not, then at the least I hope you folks are rotating time off -- let a few peop
[quote who="Machater" reply="52" id="2751611"]As the person who let this Out of Memory "fix" out, I must first apologize to Stardock for causing this mess... [/quote]Apologize?!?! Heck, you deserve a medal. Best I can do it [e digicons]k1[/e] (well, I could give more karma but 1's my limit) I experience the OOM crash fairly often (one thing I notice is that saving instigates it, especially if I'm starting to see stuttering then save, but also saving after playing
One factor to add to the above is 'status' (I don't recall offhand what the game calls it). From my last game, and a friends, our Sovs started out with 0.1 (IIRC) status, and our prospective mates 1.0. She wouldn't accept my offer, saying I wasn't "[I forget the term used]" enough. I leveled as did she, same answer. I removed her from the group, then I leveled and she didn't, then she accepted. So if she (or he if your sov is female) won't accept try gaining a le
[quote who="Vhorthex" reply="10" id="2750639"] Quoting Bellack, reply 9 Quoting Flinke, reply 8You must go back to the Dungeon were you started the Questline to finish it. This game is in desperate need of a better Quest management system. I will at certain points have a lot of quest but don't remember which hut or place to go back to to finish them. And active and completed quest need to be seperated. WORD! This is indeed worth something that needs
[quote who="CainStar" reply="7" id="2750149"]Yes I am using a pirate copy.....and I like this game and I will buy it once all the expansions are out and most of the bugs are gone. I did this with Galactic Civilization 2. Like it or not......ban me or not.[/quote]You're challenging Neil Ban field to ban you?!?! [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
[quote who="Tridus" reply="29" id="2750211"]TBH at this point none of the friends I wanted to play MP with are remotely interested anymore. They see Civ 5 on the horizon and assume that it's MP will work within a week of launch.[/quote]So far I've been lucky. Of the 2 friends I bought the game for, I've been 'MPing' Elemental with one of them late into the mornings the past 2 nights. What's that -- 'MPing'? The game was too unstable for him to beta test, so h