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[quote who="Bellack" reply="149" id="2696933"] Quoting VR_IronMana, reply 144 Quoting Palmski83, reply 143 One thing that makes me very sad is the lack of playable "monster" races... One of my favorite things about MoM was the sheer variety of race options, and since regrettably I have zero experience in modding I worry it will be too difficult to recreate races like "Trolls", or "Gnolls", or "Beastmen"... I suppose my question is this: H

[quote] Ironically, I thought CoH and Sins did not move the genre forward at all - in fact, they took a few steps back IMO. Relatively few RTS games nowadays really break barriers or introduce novel play styles that move the genre forward.[/quote] To me, I like those no-micro-workers, squad-based games more not so much because they move the genre forward but because I find the play-style more appealing. I'd rather be the general directing the flow of ba

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="17" id="2696527"]Oooook ... so then modern operations should be called "gender changes" ... cause if a guy had an actual (by your definition) "sex change" then 'She' would be able to get pregnant and bear children. [/quote] I'd just call it very extreme elective plastic surgery :) Though I guess gender change would be right too. Are those the 'transgendered' people, or is that a whole 'nother category? I think

[quote who="Spitz" reply="131" id="2693349"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 130 Quoting NullAshton, reply 127One request: I want the ability to stick champions and my sovereign on powerful creatures like gryphons and dragons. Sauron got a dragon to ride into battle on. Why can't we have one? Quoting Dekent, reply 128Because there are no flying units now I hope this is one of the things patched in/expanded on later.

[quote who="Palmski83" reply="143" id="2696422"]One thing that makes me very sad is the lack of playable "monster" races... One of my favorite things about MoM was the sheer variety of race options, and since regrettably I have zero experience in modding I worry it will be too difficult to recreate races like "Trolls", or "Gnolls", or "Beastmen"... I suppose my question is this: How difficult will it be for a novice player to grab ahold of your modding tools and make rac

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="118" id="2696132"]Yeah, probably That reminds me, we need Polymorph spells in Elemental. How awesome would it be to turn your Sovereign into a dragon?[/quote] Or an enemy dragon into a sheep.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2692860"]Well, my suggestion is improbable because it already got shot down. The initial consideration for a resource system allowed for extensive item creation. Mine iron, send it to blacksmith to make a sword from, send sword to an alchemist to enchant with some gems, so on so forth. Then you'd be able to design units and equip them with these weapons, as many of them as you have.There would've been several different places that could do something with t

[quote who="StGwayne" reply="7" id="2682966"]Well its a magical world.. what about a change gender spell ? [/quote] Only if there's an option for doing frock checks. Or a Spell of True Sex that let you see through a change sex vic...target.

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="115" id="2695595"]I haven't read the whole thread, but I don't understand why some people are so chagrined that diplomatic capital will have no use in human only multiplayer game. No such mechanism should be in place! Why the hell should the ratio of my diplomatic capital to their diplomatic capital affect anything when it comes to me making a deal with them? The only reason anything like diplomatic capital has a use even in single-player is be

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="112" id="2695398"] By /definition/ any AI that ignored DC would be better, unless not having very much DC has a negative impact on trading, which still would be a better AI (it would only conduct trades that were more beneficial to it than the human, a hard bargainer is a "better" AI than one easily exploited). [/quote] I think that would depend onhow the AI becomes a tougher negotiator. If it does so simply by ma

[quote who="TLamming" reply="80" id="2695229"]Just make a checkbox "Turn off x feature that I do not agree with" button. Since we can name units anyway, whats to stop someone from naming their princess heirs with male names, etc, anyway? lol[/quote] So, what, you want drag queens in Elemental now? [e digicons]}:)[/e] [e digicons]:P[/e] Me: Hey, let's join in a marriage alliance to defeat the Fallen! Other Lord: I like the idea, but I

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="254" id="2562104"] I think we all pretty much agree we dont want workers. workers we control. Watching non controlled workers building the roads would be pretty cool though. [/quote] Not to mention the possibility of them getting eaten by a bear stack that wandered in the path of the road being built. :D But yeah, seeing the workers building the road in the frontier would be nice to see - just like

[quote who="OMG_BlackHatHedgehog" reply="83" id="2694268"]multiplayer does not always means all human, competitive and against eachother. Again, it can be a LAN with a bunch of computers and do a comp-stomp. Because I have the desire to play this game with friends at parties I shouldn't feel gimped.[/quote] If it's All Humans vs All AI - wouldn't that boil down to Human vs AI mechanics (since all the humans are just going coop and ally with each other)?

[quote who="Krynus" reply="5" id="2694114"] And we really need to be able to build lumber yards (or whatever they're called, mills?) in regular forests. Maybe let old growth forests grant more resources, but right now regular forests are useless. At least I haven't been able to build anything on them in this current build.[/quote] Sounds like a good idea. I mean if my people can cut down trees to extract usable wood - why can't I do it to a "regula

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="59" id="2694018"]Try Pong, it's so simple and equal for both factions that balance is perfect and works fine in single player and multiplayer. [/quote] Yeah, sure, just have one set of troops and techs and all race and faction is would be just fluff and color and backstory. Yeah, it'd be balanced...but would it be fun? Heck, why not just have 1 kind of unit in the game. Perfect balance, no? I admi

[quote]I really like the idea of needing to use DC to declare war and force a cease fire, as this is something that will work in both SP and MP. Im not too fond of the use of DC that will only be viable in SP...but I can live with it ... as long as there is a good use for it in MP. To declare war on a player (NPC), a player spends DC which is modified by several factors (mimicking RL, to declare war you must convince your people that its a good idea....and the DC is spent to convin

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="12" id="2692662"] I like the 3D map. I just use the cloth one to find goodies, quest objectives or my far away units. If these would be better signalized, it would be perfect. And to whom belongs a unit should be more obvious too.[/quote] Same here - I play on the 3-D map but either zoom out or switch it off for a moment to find quest objectives (that nice BRIGHT gold icon is nice) I think some thi

[quote who="xGhost4000x" reply="49" id="2692880"]Well....I have two alarm clocks, and they are as follows: [/quote] "We Are All One" is an awesome song.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="15" id="2692682"] Quoting GW Swicord, reply 12Follow up with some Dead Can Dance tracks without lyrics. It won't get you back to the testosterone tones of the Conan soundtrack, but they'll definitely encourage an Elemental frame of mind. If we're going for Lyric-less relaxation, I'll throw in a recommendation for Amethystium.[/quote] Oh yeah - nice stuff there.

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="256" id="2692363"] Quoting Koalab, reply 255 Quoting Spitz, reply 254 Quoting Frogboy, reply 249 In Beta 3C, spells go right through armor which was a bug that was fixed. I would eventually love to have magic mitigated by magical resistance, rather than mundane armor. I agree.... How would armor stop a lightning bolt or a fireball Um... Really?

[quote who="Slainangel52" reply="37" id="2692485"] Stardock fortunately realizes this, if somebody wants to pirate something, they'll pirate it, that's a simple fact.[/quote] Yeah, too bad other game developers don't :( I guess they are being idealistic or something to think they can develop THE system to end piracy. Like you said, it's up there with world peace, the end of poverty, and the end of crime. I.e. never going to happen.

I don't think I want to start with a bang, but maybe researching parties/teams might not make sense. I don't want to do everything by turn 20 and then have the next 100 turns have not much to research. It's close enough to that, imo, on the normal pacing. I want to have fun in the beginning, but not at the expense of the system running out of stuff to do too quickly.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="2" id="2691631"]I wouldn't mind seeing whole numbers for everything, personally. The fractions don't bother me, but whole numbers are just cleaner. Functionally, there's no difference between 10.7 attack, 10.9, and 11 - it all rolls 11 anyway. It's weird seeing your stats bo up by fractions when raising attributes, too.[/quote] Oh, I had assumed 10.7 just meant I had 10 attack still and am working towards 11. In other words, 10.7 doesn't ro

Got a crash when autoturn tried to advance the game to the next turn. For what it's worth, it was the first game I played as Empire under .92 debug.err and I think I finally found where the dump files are stored on my machine - they are under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic on my machine (XP) (I don't even have the directory structure

1. I agree - instead of houses, how about having cities have a food upkeep or something just like military units have a gold upkeep. That ways the "cities everywhere" thing won't happen (since you have to have food income to maintain population) but you don't have to build houses yourself. 2. More bonuses to pick from would be great. 3. Agreed 4. At the least, ALL sovereigns should get the Royality trait. I mean, how is a King/Queen NOT royality? At least then you'd ge