VR_IronMana

[quote who="Charvel1" reply="12" id="2699639"] Next best, IMO is single-player. Crank the AI difficulty up and you will have a hard time of it, especially since you have AI teammates and they make some dumb decisions (although they have gotten better with patching). It's possible that if a person only ever plays single-player and never gets into a multi-player game (where they see how the game SHOULD be played) then they would have IMMENSE enjoyment out of it (I envy those people). That'

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="7" id="2698879"] Yes, some of the items are useless. Hell, a LOT of the items are useless. But once you understand the 10 or so that are good, you realize they are quite balanced, just pretend the rest don't exist. [/quote] Which means that the item balance needs help. In a game with so many items - if only 10-15 are good, that's a problem. The fact 10 or 15 are so much better than the rest seems to say the others are

We have folders for races and units where it will read from \Docs\My Games\Elemental. How about folders for: -Music (to add songs/tweak music/sound settings -Music\Sound (to hold custom sound effects and unit speech) -Maps (to hold our custom maps) -Maps\Structures (to hold our custom buildings [stats, etc]) -Maps\Tiles (to hold custom tiles) Or, if it needs to be where things like music and maps has to stay in the \

[quote who="mastroego" reply="30" id="2699554"] Don't you have any personal quirks or fixations? I am a control freak, I have my methods, I keep my things organized and seemingly this whole online activation trend clashes with that. Seems like I'll have to accept it or leave gaming again. I don't know, I guess I could try with this digital download after all, of course we're not talking about millions, but I'd certainly be ready to pay more for the product if it

[quote who="Cordsmith" reply="1" id="2699557"]I do like how the game is shaping up, but it does not seem clear where the tactical battles are going. It may not be fair to compare it to other games at this stage in the Beta, but there are many tactical battle games that when played compel me to want to play more tactical battles. At this point they almost seem to detract from the game, and I generally want to skip battles for now. They are missing the "fun" el

That is awesome. Even more awesome how easy it is once you know how. This is getting scary.

It's about time. I wonder why they avoided Shogun for so long. Rome gets expansions. Medieval got an Expansion, a sequel, more expansions for the sequel. Two more franchises come out. And NOW they finally get back to Shogun? I would love it if they just take the original, maybe update the graphics a little, balance the units (like someone said with Geisha) and maybe add a few more added more fiefs (think Nobunaga's Ambition), better AI (always), and BRING BACK THE OLD STYLE MO

[quote who="mastroego" reply="19" id="2699150"] See, possible scenario: 20 years from now. [/quote] You might not be alive in 20 years... I mean, I understand planning for the future, but 20 years from now...for a video game? Really?

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[quote quoting="post"] So as I play Elemental Beta 4 I look for its Civness. I want it to inform me, lead me to a certain extent, help me to grasp the complexities of play, but it does little of that. It doesn't tell me why I should built peasants. Will they be able to defend me? Will they level up? Will they be replaced by future units? It gives me a shop where I can buy things but who are they for? Are they for my sovereign? Are they automatically equipped on particular units? Do I ma

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="5" id="2698803"]Got everything to work (at least at the new game screens) except the crest. Have to find the internal names of the logos for the kingdom crests.[/quote] Found it. CoreLogos.xml

DG had potential: -but it's AI was an absolute joke. Yeah, I get it's about MP, but it didn't even play a basic game of DG well. It bought the wrong citadel upgrades, bought bad items, fought badly, had weak concept of map/flag control - even on Nightmare -I agree, there's only like 3 decent maps: Cataract, Prison, and one of the 5v5 ones (I think it was either Brothers or that round one with the heal crystal in the middle -Half the abilities didn't even work/wor

Got everything to work (at least at the new game screens) except the crest. Have to find the internal names of the logos for the kingdom crests.

I didn't find Kingdoms.xml. but I found CoreRacesTypes.xml and CoreRacesConfig.xml in C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\data\English These have all the stock races. I figure creating a new file and cut/pasting one as a template and go from there? Going to try it out and see.

[quote quoting="post"] And then you LOST me.. when I saw the details about the activation procedure. Sorry guys, this is just wrong. I know piracy is a big issue and all, but such requirements only encourage it, imho. If I buy something, I want to be able to do what I want with it (except reproducing it, of course). If I have an obsessive relationship with the whole OS-reinizialization thing, I don't want to DEPEND on the company's

I don't know if I had it or not - but I had the bug where you didn't get tactical battles, which seems like it was a symptom of not having the hotfix. I uninstalled Elemental and then reinstalled it and now I have it and got my tactical battles back.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="32" id="2698445"] Quoting VR_IronMana, reply 31 What second update? I just checked and there's no updates available. I just tried a tactical battle and it wouldn't do anything. There's a second update. Check again. Frogboy mentions it at the top of this thread. Edit: Ok, the yellow text at the top of the page is gone. Frogboy stole it!!! LoL. There is a second update that fixes the battles and it fixed the cursor for

The 2nd update must hate me. :( I just checked and it says no update available, yet others seem to have it? Will keep checking.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="30" id="2698405"] Quoting TS22, reply 29 Quoting kyogre12, reply 25 1. Both "- and +" keys aren't changing the tool size for me. I'm looking into it to make sure it's nothing on my end. Try the + and - on the number pad (assuming you have a number pad). I am playing on a laptop, and the + and - buttons aren't working for me either. I've even tried using control, shift, tab, etc. in

[quote who="Kholai" reply="36" id="2697842"]Basic human sociology experiments have proven that, whilst initially offering a reward encourages performance of a behaviour, once that reward has been offered the human mind ceases to think of an activity as enjoyable, and begins on some level to think of it as "work". [/quote] I think that depends on the individual. Some people might find modding intrinsically rewarding, or a self-rewarding behavior. So they repeat it s

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="84" id="2697163"]I'm always amused by people complaining that a game that's meant to be fast paced (and never gave any indication otherwise) is.. fast paced. It's okay to not like fast paced games, but you can't really trash SC2 for doing it because that's exactly how it's meant to be. It's not meant to appeal to (predominantly) TBS gamers. [/quote] Well, I play SC on Normal game speed even though fast is the default. I do actually

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="86" id="2697171"] Edit: Sorry, I just realized that you were talking about SC2... But I still think that game speed settings are a good idea for Elemental. When you create a game there's a "pacing" setting in the lower right which I don't think actually does anything yet. But Stardock does have the right idea.[/quote] I think it does. When I select Epic pacing, the time to research takes a LOT longer.

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="76" id="2696959"] Mostly because SC2 was a frigging waste of $70.00. Even 12 years later, it took 3.25 minutes to get through the Tutorial... [/quote] I was able to get it for about $40, otherwise, I don't think I'd have it now. It's not a bad game, but $59.99? Or *gasp* $100 for the CE? Nope. Elemental CE for $70 looks like a steal by comparison. Heck, it's only $10 more than standard SC2.

[quote quoting="post"] So it's me...the guy that didn’t buy Starcraft 2 yet, Hiya. Just wondered if any of the chumps, er I mean nice people, who bought Starcraft already could enlighten me on DRM and such. I was just wondering... 1 - Do you have to be online even to play the single player? 2 - Do you have a limited number of activations? 3 - Do you have to have the cd in the drive? 4 - ANY (officialish) idea when

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="147" id="2696579"] Quoting Tasunke, reply 146Well, my original choice was "custom" but .... now my Favorite is Tarth, followed by Resolyn.Not having access to custom, Tarth is my favourite too. Alotugh fi I were to follow the magical girl Sovereign route, Procipinee with Pariden seems the best.[/quote] Oh no! You revealed Procipinee's secret! I wonder what she looks like before she transforms into Super Sovereign X