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Well, I don't think victory should be able to be acheived without the Sovereign. Sure, you could set up a system where you get a new "ruler" unit (without essense of course) ... and maybe he could go on some epic quest to gather sacred magical artifacts to allow his "potential" for channeling, and if he ever defeated a channeler in combat he would absorb their essence. But all that aside, I don't think victory should be enabled after your channeler dies. Except for maybe conquest, an

[quote who="rakenan" reply="223" id="2414232"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 221 Sovereign dies = game over is a core gameplay element as it is now. That being said, if we gonna have other options later on...I would prefer to have a dynasty/successor sytem. Prefer all you want. I'd bet good money you won't get it. Making the Sovereign harder to kill or giving him a mechanic to escape from a "nobody could survive that!" situation doesn't violate a key gameplay element the d

I'd say just different levels of AI ... playing all in one playthrough, or rather only having one shot for each possible route (and not playing through alternate endings) isn't appealing to everyone. I wouldn't mind something like an enforced turn timer, or a city/population limit, or no reloads, although I would rather simply have more difficult AI. Having a limited empire-size/ population to deal with sounds like an interesting limitation though.

well ... since they are all unit designs, there is no particular upgrade evolution. Although yes, it would be nice to take units and retrain/re-equip them. It would be a good use of recycling veteran soldiers to fulfill future rolls. The military does this sort of thing all the time, although it is usually just field job -> office/desk job :D

yay for the full spectra of human experience!!! (at least from a 4x perspective)

[quote who="cfrpgeek" reply="11" id="2413454"] I am going to have to reserve comment for now on micro. I believe a good UI can alleviate alot of what made some TBS games drag especcially late game. We also do not know yet the level of comlexity Stardock is planning on going with like number of resources, number of buildings, ect. But I agree, It is one of those things that is a precarious balance. However, I think most of the playerbase would agree that it is better to err on

While I would probably tend to place my spellcasters as female, and certain elite recon, while the bulk of my army is male, it would be fun to have hordes of female sworswomen (thousands) led by a powerful mage (of either gender).

I don't think the pictures should necessarily be ditched if they cannot properly display information ... but yes I would rather them work as an informative graphic than merely a neat picture, although it can be cool looking and humorous (think of BioShock, or Fallout) Either way though ... pictures and colors really add strength to an interface if done properly. I wouldn't want to face any daunting walls of text when its supposed to be a fun card anyways.

In the Rise of Mankind mod ... later versions of settlers, aka colonists and pioneers, would build a new city with some basic buildings already in place. The mod adds many more buildings and units ... so its just basic infrastructure, although getting a city automatically to that point makes it immediately useful to a degree ... instead of being a useless stretch of land with a flag on top. One other thing I will mention however, is that large empires naturally have corruption

Good idea, having a dragon in your army

having scars from battle to be a battle-trait or a randomly gained feat could be cool. Could either increase intimidation/morale/ect, or it could greatly increase the hitpoints of said unit/general (experience with nearly being killed and not dying) One example of this would be Like the Chinese Wei general that fought on after his eye was pierced by an arrow, or (in the movie Kingdom of Heaven) how the Baron of Ebelin fought for two days once with an arrow through his testicle. <

I want my sovereign to have glossy, scaly skin, Elliptical eyes, an extra set of eye-lids, and a lust for gold. a lack of hair, claws instead of citin nails, and lack of ear-cartilage would also be nice.

I wouldn't mind Lexicum Elementum winning ... tis the pity Elementium is an already taken name, because I rather would think its my favorite. Although Lexicum Elementum is good too. Just don't mix too many consonants or syllables so that it sounds jarbled xD ... surely it can use some flavorful or smaller font in order to fit the space in the UI to make the name (whichever name it will be) look pretty in its place.

Hmm, perhaps the Fallen can recruit Incubi and Succubi in order to seduce the respective gender'd troops.

I would certainly be interested to know if the family tree ages over time, and how many "World Turns" it takes for a hero/adventurer/noble to age 1 year ... 10 years ... 50 years, and so on. And also if this is related to in-game time (counting births and so on) or if its going to be an abstraction (important people randomly live 10x longer) or if its going to be an explained abstraction (those with royal blood/connected with the sovereign live longer than others) ... this will be especially

well, either way, I think a user-friendly implementation of the interface is one of the most important for such things. Civ and Total War had really great interfaces. Supreme Commander was nice ... and maybe it was just me ... but I found its interface highly lacking. So while map zoom/ selecting units properly is higher on my list ... patrol is definitely an option I would like to see. Also, a more concise army group selection (like each "army group" shows up as one of those

there should certainly be spells to aid in troop/army movement o.O .... (even if only castable by a Sovereign Channeler) I don't mind 3-5 metropoli for each empire, with 10s or 100s of smaller townships/villages scattered throughout the countryside ... and plenty of wild-land for epic lairs, monsters, demons, and dragons. Of course spending extra essense on cities could increase your cities to as many as 10 large epics ... and of course I would like a highlander-esque s

I really think the idea of Sovereign death is a good idea, just make the battle system as different in HOMM as possible. Therefore its not 100% "commit him to battle or not" ... but you have an entire fluid battlefield to fight on, and you can decide how close to the melee you wan't your sovereign to be. Of course, if a dragon wants to fly over your soldiers towards your sovereign ... well there's not much running from that situation. But if you hang back to just cast spells, a horde of foot

I think to build an actual "city" you should first improve the tile with direct essense or something, and this essense helps for the immediate amount of production potential for the area, improving nearby tiles in the thin cross, for instance ... and therefore whenever you make a true "City" ... then it will have to use essense. However you can create as many villages and towns as you want, as long as you have enough physical resources and people, and as long as its established upon land whic

Yea ... I think alot of the health of a unit and amount of attack vs amount of defense depends on how long you "train" the unit (not counting equipment making time) and in what types of combat you train, and for how long of each school of combat ... for instance, a 3 days of defensive combat, and a week of offensive training, perhaps an extra week of honing rage and charge/bezerker training ... gives minimal defense while greatly increased health, and increased attack, as well as a Rage or Be

I guess Elementapedia wins ... alot better than Elementalopedia anyways :p

Lords of Magic has element based religions, Civ 4 has religions (if bland), Fall From Heaven has religions (nicely flavored ones) .... and even better Medieval Total War has all the controversial western religions, plus witches, heretics, inquisitors, and crusaders. Im honestly quite surprised you don't want Elemental to have its own religions ... Im all for it if its part of the design plan ... also I like the Idea of a completely Necromancy related religion (for non-upkeep undead at

be amazed B)

I don't see any problem with making a major religion based upon each of the 6 (possible) elements. If you want your guilds and schisms ... either go with skill-based guilds, or a cult system which amplifies certain aspects of one of the major religions. You don't have to "avoid making major religions" because it will offend people belonging to real world major religions, because its like offending minorities by making non-human races. I mean, just because some fantasy worlds have orcs

Female Soveriengs don't need clothes ... their CHANNELERS!!!! The very fabric of space and time will protect them, they are at one with the very elements clothing wishes to protect us from. In fact ... I think My soveriegn's only clothing will be an all-consuming aura of flame ... a physical manifestation of pure power unleashed of the fire element. Of course, this unleashed power can be temporarily restrained to leave a normally naked body when times require it ... for i