VR_IronMana

Wow, I hope she's done growing... I mean, if she's a teenaged bride..she could get...bigger.

[quote who="cloglobster" reply="20" id="2740505"] I own hundreds of PC games, some good, some great others poor. Some hasn't been well recieved by the reviewers but are still great games _for me_, others are bad like they say. The point with reviews are that they're subjective. It's what the reviewer thinks of the game and doesn't have to apply to your taste. .[/quote] Which makes me wonder - what's the point? If a reviewer is looking at it with his/her tas

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="72" id="2730874"] I'm playing on pretty much the same with an ATI 5770 card so I should be having issues every 5 minutes but have only had 1 going on 3 days now. I think a lot of gamers blame the game for computer issues they have. Or they buy crappy DELL or HP machines and expect them to be as good as an Alien or Ibuypower one. )[/quote] Hey now, I'm playing on a crappy HP machine - you sir offended me LOL J/K no offense.</p

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="18" id="2730095"] I don't know if it was feature creep, or what, but Magic was what brought me to this game and what's ostensibly still keeping me here. (Well, that and the the AAA $50 I just spent.) Elemental in it's current state is basically Heroes of Might and Magic, with less interesting character development and more interesting 4x aspects. I'm hoping they have a lot in store for magic...but it continues to beg the question, why didn't they either put tha

Tactical combat - there's no turn order or anything, you select a unit, use up his/her/its actions. You can pick in any order you want. Then when the next turn comes, they get their actions back (gauge refilling). Each action consumes so many movement points. Weapons depend on attack speed and movement is 2 AP per square I believe. It's not ATB like FF or the Charge Time/Wait Time system like in FFT or Tactics Ogre. Unit portraits (on the left column) that have mov

So if the game is this screwed up - why didn't I have ANY of these problems mentioned in the review? How can a game crash "every 10 minutes" for one person but then play for 3 hours and 100 turns without crashing for me? Tactical battles work just 1 time in 5? Not for me - I've yet to fail loading/playing out a tactical battle. I don't think I'm super lucky or anything so what's going on? And, yes, this was the "release" version before any patches.

Actually, given how important Essence seems to be - I'd rather give out points for Essense and Constitution (HP and MP) and let the rest of the stats go up once in a while based on their class (adventurers might gain map moves more often or Researchers up INT more, etc). That said, what mechanic do "regular" units use to level up? I notice I don't get a screen for them. Say when my Lady Archers reach level 2 - I don't get to set their points, but their stats go up - so SOMETHING like

I have to say I'm shocked multi-core folks are having problems :( Makes me wonder how I'm getting good performance with a single core CPU. It really is curious. I hope to upgrade this machine (or get a totally new one) and hearing that multi-core folks are struggling is a bit worrying.

LOL Awesome.

[quote who="OliverFA" reply="113" id="2727265"] But if a game has no demo, and you don't know or don't trust the company, would you pay for it? [/quote] I did. I never played any other Stardock game in my life. So Elemental is the first ever Stardock-made game I've ever played - and I preordered after just reading about what it's goals are and the fact it's a freaking turn-based game. Haven't played one of those since AoW...

[quote who="Baleurion" reply="22" id="2725346"] Case closed, its just a huge fear-factor scam.[/quote] Sad but true. Fear to push their own agendas and profit streams. I guess that's the latest prong of capitalism these days.

Sounds like you haven't gotten any material "mines" (i.e. stone pits, old forests, etc) and are just working from the workshops in your cities.

I think the value in regular troops comes in when you can train parties and teams. You can train 9 of a 10 attack, 8 defense solider, but you would have a harder time casting Summon Bear 9 times. Adding HP I think happens with the experience training [i.e. the research skill under Warfare] (for some reason I want to say experience doubles their HP - but don't quote me on that) and there's an item you can add on when designing a unit (medic pack or something) that adds some HP.

[quote who="Theutus" reply="36" id="2723905"]I never read manuals or use tutorials, unless absolutly necissary. That being said, a tutorial covering the basics should be pretty common place. This games controls seem pretty standard to me and I personaly wouldn't use the tutorial if it was there. [/quote] I guess this is pretty much my position as well. I was getting scared when I was hearing about how bad the UI is an what not, but...I don't have any problems getting aro

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="9" id="2722535"]It was in Beta. I'm sad it took it out. Since it is classified as a mod, that makes playing with custom factions impossible in MP. Additionally, I'm worried about people intentionally creating overpowered (eg, the mod doesn't "enforce" a certain amount of "points" like in the Beta) factions and then stomping everyone ._. [/quote] As long as you allow it for single player. In other words, if I want to

[quote who="Lomion Agarwaen" reply="20" id="2721825"] I am not clear on something. The "retailers" agreed to make their "exclusive" content available to all within ~90 days. However, did Frogboy imply that there is special content available if you buy the book from Random House and only if you buy the book. [/quote] I believe the book is for another campaign (that's based on the book)

More power, we need more power!

[quote who="laminblake" reply="57" id="2721820"]wouldnt it be funny if an asteroid hit us right now and we couldnt play elemental because we all died......[/quote] QUIET! If you talk about it, you might make it happen! [e digicons]X|[/e]

[quote who="fatindian" reply="6" id="2721736"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 1Yes. You will all get the same stuff at some point later on. Best Buy and Walmart paid for additional content to be made (just like Random House did for the book). But in the case of the retailers, it was agreed that all content that was made for them would be able to be given out to all players within 90 days. Why not just disclose this information beforehand? I've already

[quote who="Hedrik" reply="34" id="2721621"] Us bad boys get the girls, the jocks get our left-over airheads we don't want anyway. Sure - but seriously, it's the GEEK CHICKS that rule! Smart AND hot? I pitty the fool, er, the jock, er... what was I saying? Sorry, just saw the post about trolling the IRC channel...[/quote] Yeah, smart hot girls are overpowered.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="33" id="2721612"] Quoting VR_IronMana, reply 32 Jocks always get the girls Not so!!! I was a rocker back in high school and I got way more than my fair share..hehe. Us bad boys get the girls, the jocks get our left-over airheads we don't want anyway.[/quote] Everything I knew about the world has just been proven wrong... Thanks a lot, Raven. :D :P

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="25" id="2721509"]Why would you use Intelligence to resist that sort of effect?[/quote] Nerds don't get girls so they drool whenever they see one? Of course...that would mean that high intelligence would be a bad thing :) Low INT characters would be like the jocks - been there, seen that, got their t-shirts :D Jocks always get the girls :D

[quote who="caeldrin" reply="135" id="2721351"]I'm confident that we'll be released in some minutes,i feel this inside me! [/quote] Wait... "we'll be released"? So...are you like Legion and you're saying "we" because you are many? Or maybe you're the Overmind for the Zerg swarm? Just what exactly is being released here... [e digicons]}:)[/e] [e digicons]:D[/e]

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="136" id="2721357"] You don't know my boss. If I called in dead she'd be asking if I could work remotely from the afterlife.[/quote] ROFL Hey, I mean if they have phones in the afterlife - maybe she thinks you're calling using VOIP so you can hop on your FIOS or whatever and get some work done :D

[quote who="Storm" reply="125" id="2721310"]What I don't understand is if the early release people are using Gold version, why not just release the gold version to us and just keep working on 0 day release for Tuesday as expected. .[/quote] Actually, this is what I thought was going to happen. We're actually getting the whole 24th version? No wonder it's taking "too long".