Nick-Danger

[quote who="Tridus" reply="276" id="2750524"]... At the heart of it, you've [BoogieBac] got a fun game and most of the ideas are good. What caused this outcome is simply not having enough development time. That's not a reflection on you or the dev team as designers and programmers. Once things have been given the time they need, it'll be in good shape.[/quote]Since there's been some 'selective reading' regarding my posts here (to put it mildly...), I want to re-re-mention saying,

[quote who="Asmodean_dk" reply="261" id="2750139"]What Brad said was that "if" that version is considered flawed, meaning that it is up to the reviewers themselves to judge whether 1.05 is flawed or not. He never said whether he thinks it is flawed or not. You may, however, read his post in it's entirety, instead of employing your tunnel vision to one particular word, and then try to deduce for yourself whether he thinks 1.05 is flawed). And if you actually do that - reading it in c

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="6" id="2745748"] Quoting joasoze, reply 5The bad thing here is that I see nothing in the game that stops infinite city spamming Well, for one, on a finite sized map, there is only so much space in which to build these cities. It also means, you have to put more into defending those cities, so that's more resources tied up. You also may spread yourself thin, which means those cities are more vulnerable to being taken over...[/quote]I know you

[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="23" id="2749797"]All I heard so far is that there would be no tactical battles, then, that there's "going" to be TB be in MP. I never once read that there "are" tactical battles in MP. That's why I'm so concerened. "Going" could mean "in several months" for all we know. Again, I guess we will see soon enough.[/quote]From what I've read here on the forum they didn't include tac battles in MP (due to something about p

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="14" id="2749454"]Hmm yup I see bullet point 8 and since it does not specify MP on launch how can it be false?[/quote]Trolling, must you be...

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="46" id="2748950"]I've got an 1.5 year old, fairly standard i7 920, 6g RAM, gtx260, win7 x64large raptor system. Prior to I 1.06 didn't play more than a few minutes, and the only stability issue was 1 white screen during tac battles. Currently playing a large map, 5 foe, ridiculous difficulty, all settings maxed but only 1024x768 game, and just hit turn ~300. Things were pretty smooth until last night starting ~turn 200. Got a few '

[quote who="Twohawks" reply="11" id="2749331"] False advertisement claim? no actually at first they were not going to implement MP .. It was at the beta testers insistence that it made it in.. However the very early MP was allegedly not fun.. so it took a different direction.. if you search you will find posts on this subject (admittedly it will take some searching because of the many threads with MP in them).. So if it takes time its as was said because they want to at least

[quote]2. Memory Leaks 1. On Win7-64 machines with ATI Cards...[/quote]It's not just ATI cards (much like the dx error crash isn't confined to ATI's) as my gtx 260 win7 x64 has this as well, appearing ~turn 300 and almost instantly going from 'all's fine' to 'bad stutter' to 'OOM crash' in a matter of 5-10 seconds. [quote]10. Late game Stuck Turn-buttons 1. Some are reported to be fixed by disabling auto-explore...[/quote]As was reported during beta, ships who have t

This bug and its cause was reported back in middle beta. I'm surprised it persists in release.

I continue to get this as well, as I have since beta 2 IIRC when it first showed up, almost every time (maybe twice out of 10 it didn't occur, since 1.06). My comp stats/error report/etc were reported during beta so won't repeat them here (quick basics -- win7 x64, gtx 260, recent drivers, i7 920). As to your question, my settings are for my time zone (Arizona USA). If you wish I'll recreate it and append the relevant reports, just let me know (nothing on my system has cha

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="254" id="2748645"] Quoting Clawdius_Talonious, reply 253 Quoting solidsmooky, reply 251I think the devs abandoned this forum.Then you clearly haven't tried to embrace the old adage "read more, post less". "Read more, post less" ye olde adage coined 1999 on AOL.[/quote]I thought the old adage is "Never get in a land war in Asia". Or is it "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker"?

I've got an 1.5 year old, fairly standard i7 920, 6g RAM, gtx260, win7 x64large raptor system. Prior to I 1.06 didn't play more than a few minutes, and the only stability issue was 1 white screen during tac battles. Currently playing a large map, 5 foe, ridiculous difficulty, all settings maxed but only 1024x768 game, and just hit turn ~300. Things were pretty smooth until last night starting ~turn 200. Got a few 'generic' crashes, then after an ~2hr stretch with

[quote who="Istari" reply="14" id="2747104"]...although it appears the release was somewhat premature... despite any teething issues.[/quote]Are you the same Istari that posted "Brad's pretty used to it. Once he sees people posting "game won't make date" he just starts ignoring all their posts and focusing on people with useful feedback." back in June (at that time an SD employee)? If not, NM.

Assuming I remember correctly, the last version of 'beta' had increasing cost for successive cities. Release had that removed. During beta there was a lot of discussion of limiting city spam, of not having Elemental reward the typical 'city spam' strategy. Examples include: City Spamming - its easy to avoid Elemental: Citybui

[quote who="nocomp22" reply="138" id="2747149"] [quote]Nick-Danger said: ... (waits for someone to correct me )...[/quote] Nobunaga's Ambition allowed marriage as a diplomatic tool. The Guild 2 had real dynasty building (offspring to further lineage, etc.). Edit: The Guild 2 also allowed succession by offspring if the sovereign died off.[/quote]Somehow the old saying 'beware what you ask for, you just may get it' comes to mind... [e digicons]:grin:[/e] *quits

[quote who="phril" reply="134" id="2744888"]Master of Magic, Civilization in just about every iteration, and Alpha Centauri all had terraforming spells/techs...[/quote]Ok, of the 3 points I raised, Nenjin made a good argument vs. my first, and you vs. my third. I'm still going with my second (dynasties), with the caveat Nenjin and I made regarding allowing succession upon Sov death being a nice change. To add to the dynasties point already made, it allows 'breeding' -- the cho

Is elemental.exe listed in task manager? What does Properties for elemental.exe say (path, etc.)? Any clues there? My win7 64bit has: target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Elemental\Elemental.exe" start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Elemental" run: Normal Window Have you tried launching with ELLaunch.exe (same location as elemental.exe)? Do you have any other programs running that may limit available memory/etc.

[quote who="arentol" reply="193" id="2746359"]...You took a comment by the company president in which he basically admitted...[/quote]Note that you felt the need to qualify that with the word "basically". Even you recognize his was at best a waffling 'apology' - akin to 'I'm sorry you made me mad'. A real 'apology' would have been "...and if that version of the game is considered flawed..." Why is this an important po

Lot's of good advice here for specific strategies/tactics. I've been trying something different. Setting: large map, second hardest difficulty, all 5 fallen foes Me: custom sov (15 int/wis, going caster not melee), Altair faction, trying just 1 city (might get a few more from captures later in the game, but would raze most and only keep total cities to 3 at the most), using spells and heroes and progeny to win. Haven't recruited a single unit yet (but am only at

[quote who="surlybob" reply="163" id="2744670"]First off, I don't think that the game sucks...[/quote]I think you understand I wasn't saying you thought it did, and you're saying this is in case anyone else inferred what I did not state or imply. [quote]That said, the environment in this forum during the runup to release was neck-deep rampant fanboyism... Whenever any thread threatened to get even a little negative, it was locked or deleted... I wasn't in beta, so I can't commen

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="130" id="2744600"]Ahem...Heroes of Might and Magic. Elemental literally is that game with some different mechanics, and a higher emphasis on 4x. It has all the same elements, arranged differently.[/quote]I'll have to take your word on this (which I do) so I'll cede you this point. I played that game so long ago I only remember it wasn't very good and I never tried any of the sequels. Maybe I need to revisit it... [quote]This [dynasties] to me

[quote who="killer105" reply="28" id="2744220"] Quoting Xan, reply 22Nick, do you ever get tired of being a dick? Seriously? Every post by you screams "sad sack". Shame on you for constantly wasting our time having to read your drivelings. Go away. A lot of us love the game as-is. New features and updates are exciting. Quit shoving your gdamn pretentious crap into every thread, nick. Don't feed the trolls. They just wan

[quote who="Dethedrus" reply="155" id="2744549"]...Granted something of this magnitude is impossible for anything but one of the larger studios, but it does bear consideration. If the pre-orders for Elemental had gotten their cookie in the form of alpha access and possible a discounted upgrade to LE, then Stardock had wrenched the doors open to a much wider audience some of the birthing pains might have been reduced or eliminated.[/quote]Elemental's 'beta' was, by traditional definition

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="126" id="2744513"]...I prefer a much higher bar before I start calling someone innovative, so it actually means something. Elemental has the potential I think to really do something that no one has seen before, or do it in a way that seems new. Elemental as it is now doesn't do that. It's doing fun, but not innovation.[/quote]I guess I'm going to disagree somewhat. What I see as 'innovative': -the Sov being 'us', the player. Yes, MoM did this k

[quote who="MysterD" reply="65" id="2744483"]...even if it meant delaying the game's official release date for a little bit of time. [/quote]Due to realities of reserving retail shelf space they locked themselves into having only 2 choices for release -- when they did, or Feb. Waiting a day or 3 wasn't possible.