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And I think your habit of giving mines low output is going to make anyone using iron extremely rare (which might be a good thing) ... but certainly never any legions with iron anything will be made. So I guess its just a balance idea, and an idea of personal preference. Only time will tell, I suppose.

I like Demiansky's Well of Life idea. I think this direction is good for using essence to get more out of one particular city. Plus I like the idea to tie this essence expenditure to a building. However, one thing I will argue is that it should still require essence to expand living earth (at least once). There should be a definite choice between using essence to spread the wealth (twice) to get a monopoly of land, or to spend it once to (use the other essence) build a s

I like Demiansky's Well of Life idea. Double post happened, somehow, due to editing. So more building ideas (following Well of Life's inspiration) are below as follows.

Well, perhaps we should reduce all building-based essence outputs by 10x (or 20x), and Sovereign presence in the city repsectively increases essence by 10x or 20x. Although, it is worth noting, that given the current system (assuming you didn't focus on Spell Point buildings) even sitting in one city for 100 turns is only going to give you a couple levels worth of essence (if that). Of course, if you are a Magical Researcher, it will give you 50% more ... and of course if thats your p

XeronX ... its not anywhere close to a remote possibility that you would be able to outfit a legion, or even a company, of heartblades. The most you might be able to outfit is a party (4 people) with heartblades ... but that would require sacrificing 4 armies to kill 4 different dragons (by that time, your enemies definitely would invade and take your cities) Also, when I say a specialty item is random loot (other than the Talisman of Souls which may appear twice among the Cat

When I say all Sovereigns, I do not mean all Champions ... I mean all Soveriengs, as in each PLAYER will only have one Sovereign. As in, all essence created by a nation adds directly to your ONE Sovereign's essence bar. As in, ya know, the guy who -if he dies- you lose. Have you read my most updated essence-gain based ideas yet? You can find them here https://forums.elementalgame.com/382224 If you simply want to use your

:( .... 20 days from now? sez Beta 2 is 3 weeks away?? Mew ... le sigh :/ That'll be during my first week in Japan

And I have given such "Sit at Home" Sovs some of this needed loving. Please read the posts on the following thread. https://forums.elementalgame.com/382224

Have you considered increasing the proliferation of essence through such methods as suggested here? https://forums.elementalgame.com/382224 This could be either in addition to (also) gaining essence by leveling or the new alternative to gaining essence through levels. Other discussion about whether essence should be gained by levels or not can be found here https://forums.elementalgame.com/382176 although there is a lot of overlap.

Yea, semester is over ... I want BETA TOMORROW!!!! :p

I think the one think I would have liked from Civ, is that once I was huge-empire kicking ass and taking names, I would like for the other nations to rally together against me. Just to, ya know, give some challenge to the final battles. Or, for instance, to get some use out of my high-end units (instead of winning before they can arrive at the front-lines)

Hmm, is it really that tense?

Its not necessarily the length of the development period (although that certainly helps) but it is the determination to get things right, as well as willingness to cooperate with the player base.

suggested methods for finding/ placing the Specialty Items Saphire Orb - in 5% of the games is random loot in dungeon chests (appears only once per game this way), in another 20% of games you can find it in the bedroom of the Jade Empress (head consort to the Mafia Boss of the Southern Crystal Bandit Ring), within the cavernous temple in the side of the Volcanoe. The empress will probably try to kill you (even if the Saphire Orb isn't there) and

https://forums.elementalgame.com/382223 Could you move your latest idea (or any future ideas) on the topic of Mines, camps and foundries ... to this new thread? I would like for such discussion (about the Metals production mechanics) to this more centralized thread, and away from an Empires Lore dev thread.

Yep, I suppose you could say that. Finding the Quest for the Hanzo blade should require a mid-level Adventure tech(lv 7+), and completing the Hanzo quest (final dungeon) should probably require a red-level Adventure tech (that turns yellow at Adventure level 14??) Meanwhile getting a Dragon Heart requires finding a Dragon (much easier) and killing a Dragon (much, much Harder!!! requires massive army, or super soldiers, or both) The main difference between the Ha

I think that if anyone breaks a diplomatic deal -like declaring war on an ally -or attacking a neutral city while "just passing through" Your cities should get hit with a prestige penalty for 10-20 turns, so that if you keep acting decietful your people will start to migrate away. Of course,, you can always choose to kill them instead with Sacrificial ALtars ... :3 Anyways, point being that doing crappy things should probably be dealt with by causing long term

Eh ... it sounds like more of a gimp than a balanced alternative. I would rather have the Hittori Hanzo blade only buildable in one city at a time, and requiring 20 turns to complete (or 30), rather than to make it weaker. I'd even through in a maximum, like you can only have 5 total or something (although that would take 100 turns of dedicated Hanzo forging). But maybe that's just my level of attachment to Kill Bill Yea, I agree with a generic, randomly found recipe, that it

Well, I mean there are a lot of "game play excerpt" videos using the non-cloth map function, even in the Media section, so its not like we would be completely surprised ... I would like for Beta 2 please.

Well ... I personally don't mind if essence is divorced from levelling, for as I have stated earlier it is probably a better investment for the Warring Wizard to leave the magical schools to provide his essence, and for his levels to provide his intelligence and wisdom. (stronger and cheaper spells, faster mana regeneration) Could you bring this discussion to this thread? https://forums.elementalgame.com/382224 I think such a thread, to start from the open system I hav

The idea is that each of the specialty items are in themselves rare, with maybe a 20-30% chance of showing up each game, and even harder to find even when they are within a game. As you can see, there are many more types of Heartblades than there would be Dragons on any given map. Even rarer, of course, is the person crazy enough to spend so many resources to hunt down and kill a dragon that isn't threatening their kingdom. Therefore ... the Heartblade is incredibly hard to ge

You might have heard my statements on an Iron weapon costing X iron (say 4 iron), while a Steel blade might cost say 6-8 iron, and a refolded steel blade costs more, ect. Well, beyond simple refolded steel, I thought "why stop there" when we could go beyond the realistic and into the legendary as far as masterwork blades of intricately refolded steel that is even more relatively powerful than its historical (and extremely deadly) counterpart. Given the examples below, a truly

Can I have a copy of this Sid Meier based Bible? Can you place it in my copy of Elemental:Limited edition before it ships? :) Well, but seriously I would like to read what he said ... I once some time ago got a link to a preview, but it wasn't opening up the entire dialogue. Could you provide a shortcut to this discourse? Is it even currently available on the net? The only part I read was a very short snippet about the psychology of the gamer, including gamer paranoia,

Perdon ... Iron is simply Iron. There is no difference between the ore or the finished product in Elemental ... in fact, its never finished product until it is reforged as a weapon during Unit training. So, just look at all values as a monolithic "Iron" the idea will be that Steel weapons merely take more Iron to produce than a more crude "Iron" weapon. and refolded steel (as seen in Toledo and Damascus) will require even more Iron. Intricately Refolded S

Well, warmonger, the idea is that the essence would be siphoned directly into the Sovereign. Whether he was in the city or not. The idea of the Magical Researcher is to increase essence output (and spell points output) by being present within the city. But yes, all essence output is given directly to the Sovereign. In other news, this Topic has been moved to a new Thread. https://forums.elementalgame.com/382224