(Actual game implementation suggestions are described in Reply #36) Hello everyone, I was a little concerned as to why you couldn't build farms (food) or Mines (Iron). (Just to take 2 examples). I heard things about how there was exploits happening of people making towns full of farms and what not. I also found the following post from Frogboy: [quote]6. We are migrating towards a system wh
[quote who="Bellack" reply="9" id="2750531"] 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.[/quote] WORD! This is indeed worth something that needs to be looked at, somekin
[quote]6. Magic research: Getting access to spells is too easy. You shouldn't be able to progress in elemental schools until after you gain access to a mana shard. Develop some basic spells to take the place of the low level elemental magic (magic missile!), and shove the elemental spells off until after you gain a shard. Require a shard for every two levels of elemental magic you can research. This will make having control over a mana shard a BIG DEAL. Also, the number of shards in th
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="10" id="2750565"]I've been looking into the avatar issue and I believe the issue is related to an authentication change we made a few weeks back. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a solution to the problem, but I will keep you guys informed of any updates the next chance I have to take a look. Bara[/quote] Thanks for poking your head in Bara :) In the meantime, maybe sticky a clean post of how to update your avatar u
[quote who="woca" reply="25" id="2750586"] Quoting Vhorthex, reply 23 Patience is a virtue, but... but... yeah. It is, but releasing a Strategy game with a serious lack of Strategy is not good.[/quote] Well, there is some strategy. It's just that a lot of features are broken, unbalanced or not working as intended. I'm not sure if you ever take a peek at the Mod forums, but there is a "bug fix" mod that fixes a lot of stuff inthe game, namely th
[quote who="riadsala" reply="22" id="2750456"]Did none of this come up in the beta? [/quote] I wasn't part of the beta, so I can't confirm this. But after doing multiple searches on teh forums, I would end up with threads about the beta. And some slighty 'outdated' skill and talent lists, or even buildings. A LOT of stuff has been amputated from what I was able to see, traits, buildings, Racial/Faction features. So maybe amputating all that stuff after
[quote who="Tridus" reply="10" id="2750262"] Quoting OsirisDawn, reply 9 I know it hurts if you want MP, but dont you think it is better to get the basics done before? They can only do so much in the short time. It's pretty frustrating to have a box listed feature disabled until god knows when, especially when I wanted to play it with friends. Though at this point they've largely given up and we're just going to play Civ 5 instead, so I guess it doesn't really matter that much.
Nice one! I'll see you all on the IRC chatroom, for the countdown! LOL! Cheers, v.
Can't wait to try this out! Thanks all!
Hey all, As I said in my thread about tips for challenging games: https://forums.elementalgame.com/394307 I'm under the impression that cranking everything to max, DOES NOT ensure the most challenging game. To not go into detail what I said in my thread, the main issues of concern with playing with MAX # of opponents and Map Size. From what I read, and observed, the AI needs a bit of ti
Although some might not like it, I set my Cloth Map Threshold to 86% or something like that, so before I can zoom out far enough to see multiple cities, it reverts to cloth map. Obviously this dosen't help if you like to have views other than top down or iso metric. If you start aiming the camera at a distance, then a performance hit is quite eminant. :) I'm a huge performance 'wh*re' and I have to say the only type of game that dosen't bother me as much if I can't get 60FPS with is T
What? I have the exact oposite, my channelers go in for melee... one of them got killed doing so. It would be definitely a great idea to have a few options for tactical combat. I'm guessing it would be easier set for the group, but if you could flag if each unit should prefer, Ranged, Magical or Melee. As the OP said. :) Good suggestion! But i'm jealous that your auto-resolve uses mana ;)
[quote who="CapitalShip" reply="118" id="2748441"]Those screenshots of MoM do make me realize, sometimes GRAPHICS actually DO matter.[/quote] Really? :O If anything I personally find that MoM graphics aged very well. I played a game about a year ago, and wasn't put down by it's graphics. It's still very charming. :) Although obviously pixelated, the graphics were sufficient for their purpose. To chalk one up for MoM over Elemental, I find that I prefer wh
[quote who="MxM111" reply="3" id="2748581"]I disagree. Oh I agree that AI is bad, but I think balancing and significant late game changes should be incorporated. Good AI can not be written without first setting the rules of the game, and right now, I suspect lots of changes are needed in the rules in order for the game become fun, THEN good AI is possible to write.[/quote] Very true, Should there be any changes made to how cities are managed, the talents added/fixed/removed, y
Hey there! I started a thread not so long ago, trying to elucidate what makes the game more challenging or not. Maybe this is what you were looking for. :) https://forums.elementalgame.com/394307 Cheers, V.
[quote who="Eisenhund" reply="3" id="2748712"]I'm going to blame you for my recent thought, but you started it with your terrain thinking. [/quote] Blame me all you want :) If it inspires brainstorming it's all good. Woa, I have to say you took this to a whole other level. This water aspect could be another ressource, and towns far from the coast lines or rivers/lakes would have to be supplied by cities that have water? O_O Maybe somekind of "fallout-ish" mod cou
Hello everyone! I was thrilled to see someone had compiled a bunch of avatars, some of which are taken from the wizards of MOM :D I quickly downloaded one, tried to upload it and well... It dosen't work. I get a text box flash very quickly stating that it's preparing to upload the file, and then boom done. But I always get the same message in the picture frame (Please upload a new picture). :( Am I doing something wrong, or is it just disabled temporarily? My p
[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="3" id="2748618"]Use heavenfalls bug fix mod. Its in the Mods section, and all it does is modifiy the xml to fix tool tips, things like the warrior temple, and it makes the shards work for spells. I would classify it as a must have mod. (edit it doesnt fix the debt thing but it does fix the warriors temple to work properly)[/quote] Oi! I did find "some" mods but it seemed to require me to go and personally change the .XML files. I found the threa
Hey everyone, I learned this recently by a friendly poster. :) And I was a little taken aback. As it seems, the AI has no need for resources as he can go into the negative with all of it's resources (from what I heard, I only saw this with money). This seems to be the major cause for issues in large map games (lengthy games) as the AI will be able to sprout it's best units over and over in all of it's cities making it probably impossible to beat at some point :(. I wou
[quote who="Clawdius_Talonious" reply="7" id="2748315"]Even titles that, by all rights, should have shipped without issue like GTA IV (AAA title, RockStar having plenty of a budget to port the game from console to PC, etc) are often riddled with bugs and nothing is done about it for weeks or months. Stardock has already released patches that address the majority of the bugs that were preventing me personally from playing, and I have little doubt that those who aren't able to play currently wi
[quote who="sagittary" reply="8" id="2746714"]As opposed to normal gameplay challenges, why don't we try unusual challenges. For instance, in Civ, there's the one-city challenge where you try to win a game while only having one city (you can conquer other cities but you must raze them). [/quote] Hi Sagittary, Thanks for the idea, although I'm still hoping of getting a "vanilla challenging game" before I start experimenting with these crazy challenges. :) <p
Hi Robbie, Actually my thought process was not to give a "bonus" per say, but try to incorporate somekind of strategic value to terrain. As it strands it offers minimal impact on combat, and will prevent you from building on cliffs, mountains or forests. There is no difference if you build something on a swamp or Arctic. I think that something should reflect this aspect. I wouldn't mind if it were in terms of build time or extra material costs, I just want "something". <p
Apparently it goes live sometime this week. We'll have another 'countdown' on the chat channel again... >.>
[quote who="pmaura" reply="62" id="2745706"]I would like to say I would gladly pay about $100 for a modern remake of MoM, and I mean that, dont add any new ruels just a super facelift that make her look 18 again. If you want to add a few things here and there like a custumizable hero, more spells another race, more diplomatic options great, but dont remove shit. refine her and fix her, dont reinvent.[/quote] Blame Microprose for this, they've been sitting on the
Yes, it is true. lol