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Soooo my question is this. I get that fallen enchantress will be its own stand alone beast and I will happily move from war of magic to it. My question is when the game after enchantress comes out will I have to make a choice between enchantress's content and what ever the next one is called. To simplify my question will the game after enchantress still include all the content from enchantress such as the lairs, quests, spells, gameplay changes etc? Also I know war of magic and enchantress wi

While I agree to a certain extent. My own opinion is that perhaps you are over thinking this abit.

I really like this idea. Either this or they should let the units go based on their combat speed rather than one side at a time. They said they are making changes to combat so this could well be already in the works. They are releasing alot more information over the next few weeks.

[quote]Elemental: Fallen Enchantress will be released as a stand-alone game[/quote] As in you don't need Elemental to play it? Seems like a smart move if this means you can get the game to be reviewed all over again. That is a smart move aslong as the game continues improveing at a rapid pace :)

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="11" id="2865885"] On a related note, I'm very dubious about the concept of 'Questing technology'. If you discover a quest that you aren't ready for, you should simply get your butt kicked when you try it, ala Master of Magic... "You see DEATH KNIGHTS guarding the ruin". The idea that you don't have the questing 'know-how' makes no fictional sense. It's just way too gamey. That whole questing tree should just be scrapped. It breaks the cohesion of the narrati

[quote who="FatNonFree" reply="19" id="2865625"]This a nice snack wish there was screen shots of these places. But maybe just maybe those scouts never made it back! Also there nothing menched about the Fallen Enchantress herself.[/quote] Shes at the bottom of the Bhinadmi Fissure. Just don't ask how she got there :P

[quote]In Fallen Enchantress players will be able to explore the world of Elemental and discover a wide range of unique locations, including dangerous wild lands that can’t be settled until they are conquered. There are areas like the Bhinadmi Fissure, a massive chasm that spawns demons and earth elementals, until a player goes to the edge and challenges the elemental lord that dwells within. These undiscovered lands contain new characters and creatures: from the tragic Butchermen who

Great to hear your thoughts Derek, sounds like things are very exciting in your offices atm. I just finished reading island dogs post about the expansion and it sounds great in the sense that it is obvious you guys have taken alot of the forum feedback about bringing the world of elemental alive with lairs and unique locations that can be taken over on top of a good old fashioned heaps of content added to everything from spells to quests (which will add some much need choices and variety). Al

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="189" id="2865495"]We need an emoticon for beating a dead horse. Not just for this thread.. but this one makes me want it more than most. Furthermore the horse should have jons face to commemorate his welcome at stardock. Or at the vary least the code for it should be :shafer:[/quote] Whoa not the threads fault. If you read the OP this thread was started in order to give jon a nice welcome, not my fault some people have brought the "grr he ruined my civ d

[e digicons]:grin:[/e] sweet. Now someone dissect this post into a feature list so we can discuss this badboy.

[quote]but its of no use because my sovereign is at home making babies.[/quote] Your sov doesn't need to be at home for babies to be made... as long as your sov is married they can go anywhere and still will pop out those babies somehow. As for food, use the green thumb sov ability and also look into the farming related tech in the civics tree, use these and pop out a few babies who inherit your green thumb and then maximise your food output from cities using the civic techs a

I find it crazy that when designing the game they felt that one mount type for each race was enough. I can't decide if it was a blinkered design process or just plain bad decision making or lack of time. surely when they created the engine part of the thought process should have been what will people need in order to add to this game. I see people trying to create spells and quests running into the same problems. But like you say this is indeed where are, and at least the view of wher

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="42" id="2865234"]Uploaded 1.8 with the new spider mounts[/quote] very nice :) I take it no joy yet in getting the changes needed for the ai to use your created mount resources?

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="180" id="2865220"]Soon... very soon... The world of Elemental WILL BE MINE, muhahahahah MUHAHAHAHAHA Jon[/quote] Edited your comment to reflect the sinister undertones I was senseing for some reason.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="9" id="2865143"]This place is nice, cause it has super nice people like me in it![/quote] If your so nice then why does Brad hate you so much?? I hear Brad perfected the Elemental AI before christmas but he is holding it back from all of us just to spite you Lord Xia.

I feel you hit the nail on the head when you said DC is something intangible. I think they should strip DC out of the game. I like the current bonuses you get when you look at your relationship with another faction eg +1 when you have mutual grandkids and -5 if you have different alligences. Perhaps if Stardock used some of your great ideas and each could add or take away more to this stat. Then they need some sort of structure where by you get more benefits and options the greater your + sta

I used to do a fair bit of modding for Morrowind and while the engine wasn't perfect it had enough functions and tags that you had alot of options. So far from what I have seen looking the XML files elemental really needs to offer modders quite abit more to work with. With morrowind there was almost always a work around. Seems thats elemental offers modders alot of brick walls and dead ends. I agree that not every request from modders will be usefull however alot of the requests I have seen f

Well as someone who uses alot of the mods you guys are making I hope they take this post as a vote for more mod specific changes. To be honest I think the devs are listening just not acting... and you can kind of understand why when over the next few months they might be changing the way abilitys and tactical combat works quite fundamentally. They could put the time now in to giving modders new tags now which might be completely redundant by March. Don't get me wrong I am not supporti

Lol how did this thread end up just like that other one?? hmm I am pretty sure a couple of you skipped straight over the first post. Any how I have a few facts you guys might find interesting. Since Jon has joined the Elemental team the following has occured in the stardock offices Smiles have risen by 373 smiles a day (on average). 67% more back patting has been recorded "High fives" and "thumbs up" are at a record high the standard of the

Great idea, one question if there is no limit on the amount of research studys which apply across the board why would I choose to build a building that give the exact same bonus just but only to one tech tree? now if the civic studies were worth +1.5 or +2 i could see the point. I think that more interesting cities will come from the future balance of a number of factors. These factors in my mind are as follows a population cap that we have to think carefully about and

Let us know if they manage it.

I find the same thing happens in my games. I feel the solution is fairly simple, firstly i feel we should be able to edit the primary/secondary/unit colours on our heroes that we can at least create unique looks for them. Then its a case of content, the game needs more weapon and armor models and particle effects that match certain abilitys would be great. I guess my point is I feel the same as you but I am sure over the next two years you will see some real strides in this area.

trolls = people living out social fantasys they are too scared to comit to in the real life. Well... if this person does act like this in real life I feel sorry for those around them, meh mind you at least those people have the option of giving them a swift kick to the face.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="2860632"]Absolutely, Welcome Jon. You will soon get to know all of us, I am the quiet sweet one.[/quote] Bashfull?

Yeh so atm there is that other thread, which lets be honest isn't the most welcoming thread for Jon to be reading in his first week here. I would like to think we as a community are at the very least a balanced sort so I figure why not have a place for positive opinions of Mr Shafer. So yeh, heres your place for Jon Shafer love, Oh and don't get bogged down in petty things like the "Truth" or "Facts" I am looking for the more positive side of our little elemental community to shine through.</