[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="2690669"] Medically speaking, the box version of Galactic Civilizations will give you leprosy. [/quote] Yikes. I'll make sure to wear gloves when the Elemental box arrives. :) I can't fondle my pewter dragon if my fingers fall off from leprosy.
Perhaps instead of a hard limit, the more magic items you wear, the more chance of there being some kind of "reaction" that will do more harm with the more trinkets you're wearing? Making a load on essence would be interesting as well. Could backstory it as they only become activate via the essence of the wearer (of course, it would mean no-essence characters couldn't use them logically) so to do their thing, they draw "power" from the wearer - like a living battery. </p
Seems that the different races wear different stuff. I couldn't put boots on my Thrathian Sovereign (the Kingdom that gets Egalitarian, I think it's called Thrath). When looking at the appearance during Sovereign creation, some of those choices are gone too. Must be the way they are trying to get the races to have a different appearance/culture.
How interesting, never would have thought that the game I'm getting (preordered from Impulse) will be different than the one folks are buying from Gamestop and the like. Quite enlightening.
Agreed - music is under-appreciated in games, and Elemental has awesome music.
Just reporting that this occurs again in .92. I get a windows exception error 0xc000000d No dump files are created at /Stardock Games/Elemental Debug.err attached
Just to add: When I zoom all the way out to where I get the cloth map - the town is labeled correctly as Nadil. But when I zoom back in - it's misnamed again.
[quote who="Juvantei" reply="5" id="2690185"] In this game I am spamming the end turn button just so I can get to my next research upgrade, that is really stupid. It's not apples and oranges. The games have some things in common and are worth comparing to improve this game. I want the turns to feel more meaningful and not force me to spam the end turn button just so I can get to my next city upgrade or get my next research. That really cheapens the game.<br /
Also here is my save. Not sure if it will reproduce or not. Bad Town Name Save
I loaded a saved game and all seems well except I noticed the town name is labeled wrong on the map. The town's card says Nadil (correct) by the label on the map says Imiek (the name of my second town). My second town appears to be labeled correctly in both places. T
[quote who="SolarVengance" reply="2" id="2688762"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 1 Am I missing something? The tons of other posts like this. It can't get delayed. Source?[/quote] Search the forums, it's been said many times by Frogboy.
Sometimes, I get an unhandled exception error from windows after the game is trying to close its process (the game window has been closed and I'm doing other stuff with the computer). debug.err
[quote quoting="post"] Normal difficulty / Epic pacing My score was 10 [/quote] In my current game, one of the AI kingdoms was knocked off in 3 turns [e digicons]x_x[/e]
I should also add that the tactical battle music just blows all the other away in terms of volume. It is by far the loudest music I've encountered in the game. Seems like the volumes on the themes could use some normalizing and such so that the volume doesn't have such huge variations from hard to hear to makes-a-heavy-metal-concert-sound-mellow volumes
What happened was the music was like in conflict with each other or something. I could hear faintly the main menu theme trying to play but the layered music on the map was still playing and dominating (i.e. didn't fade out for the main menu theme). After a while (when the layered theme finished?) the game unstuck itself and is acting normal. debug.err: http://pastebin.ca/1904209
While on the game map, the layered music plays really softly. So I turn up my speakers to hear it. Then when I go on the Kingdom Info screen, it gets MUCH louder and then I have to turn my speakers down, but then when I'm done with the kingdom screen, the music gets all soft again. If I go back to the main menu (Esc) then that music plays all full volume as usual. I played the mp3s in Windows Media Player as a sanity check, and the volume was fine. I don't know
I tried to start my autosave after a crash and noticed some weird stuff -Population said -1 -End turn could not be clicked. -Autoturn didn't work either, even when my sovereign was out of moves. Then I tried to start a new game, and the game crashed on me, but I don't see any dump files. I got a windows error. Save file <a h
Got it as well, after one Alt-Tab http://pastebin.ca/1904098
[quote who="Austinvn" reply="150" id="2687752"] Now there are obvious counters to this - don't let the dragon travel alone, for example - but that's beside the point. You shouldn't have to take special precautions to avoid a potential exploit, the exploit should not exist at all; the dragon should be able to kill a fragile spellcaster and his 50 harmless peasant friends by targetting the spellcaster first, this is what player expect and no illogical game mechanic should get in the way of
[quote who="Bellack" reply="83" id="2687617"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 56I reported 3 different CTDs, 1 lock-up & 1 save-reload problem so far...0.9 is kinda unstable. I was crashing all the time until this newest build now if my hero/Soverign levels after winning a tactical encounter the level up screen pops up but I'm unable to select a stat to put my one point into. The 'OK' button is grayed out and the mouse icon looks like the tactical move icon. I have to ctrl-alt-del
[quote who="SeanenG" reply="111" id="2684388"]The last screenshot with the trade screen catches my interest. What exactly is 'Perceived Value'? Obviously, this is some sort of estimate of how much the trade is worth - a number of games use this same model. My question is - and I acknowledge that I'm probably splitting hairs, here - perceived by whom? Is it my perceived value? His perceived value? Is it mine on one side and his on another? Some abstract number based on how many gold
I think slowing research down some would help. The Hosten Library was mentioned, I didn't take it because I didn't feel like I needed it. I'm ahead of at least a few of the other nations in research and have cleaned out the Diplomacy tree (don't know if more levels still help it though). I think next game, I'm going to play with the Pacing option when you create a world and see what that does. I don't think I'll ever create an army of any decent troops with the amount of non-g
Wargs and horses should be different if only one is a horse and the other is sort of a wolvish sort of creature. I like the idea of different kinds of horse/warg denoting their strength/stamina/etc. which would impact the quality of the cavalry units created with them. That said, it's still an abstract representation like everything else on the map. I mean a herd of "real" animals should move around, migrate (especially in this world where natural prey/food is probably rare).
Try this workaround :
[quote who="otakucore2" reply="10" id="2686060"]I don't know what to make of these retaliation attack comments. In my 3B games so far, enemy units have always damaged me (or attempted to damage me) when I attack.[/quote] I don't remember getting counter attacked, just attacked when it's their turn. I remember waiting one square away with my 2.0 moves sovereign, the enemy moves to me, me attacking, then moving 1 square away. I never took a counter attack and they n