-WhiteElk

No no no No! At least steam is a privatly held company. I won't use steam and passed on Civ5 over issues of privacy, security, reliabilty, and license ownership. If I don't trust steam how can I trust a corporate entity!? Particularly one who just last month got slapped with a class action lawsuit for their handling of customer credit card info!?! And one who last year faced a suit for deceptive DLC advertising!?! A company who's been sued by its own

No no no No! At least steam is a privatly held company. I won't use steam and passed on Civ5 over issues of privacy, security, reliabilty, and license ownership. If I don't trust steam how can I trust a corporate entity!? Particularly one who just last month got slapped with a class action lawsuit for their handling of customer credit card info!?! And one who last year faced a suit for deceptive DLC advertising!?! A company who's been sued by its own

Great Read! I've found value in most all of the Dev Journals I've read. This one rates towards the top of the list! TY [e classic]:congrat:[/e]

Fah! Fun by any other name is still fun. Besides, I don't see anything odd about it anyhow. + I'll wait to judge the names relevance once I learn something of the games lore. BTW: The name is Fallen Enchantress

Explorable dungeons in the canon game interest me enough. Particularly to play out the steps in the Quest Victory * . But my main interest in explorable dungeons is that it opens another door to modding. It may be that a mod uses the main game as a way to display and organize a parties inventory. Then the explorable dungeon part becomes the core of that mod (most of the game is played there). I once participated in a forum RPG. I thought it w

[quote quoting="post"] Magic creates the world! Multiple walkable levels! [/quote] Now thats what I'm talking about!! Awesome concept cephalo! I've always had the feeling that Elementals map script was missing something huge. This could fill the gap ( spawn the shards and shape the terrain, then place the civs and normalize the starts as needed, now populate with heroes, monsters and lore locations ).

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="16" id="2872946"]WhiteElk, coding things is a nontrivial pursuit. It is not affordable for Stardock to add things they don't intend to even use.[/quote] I've messed around with Python only briefly. I've no experience with C++, and am generally ignorant as to computer science. So I don't understand the precise nature of the roadblocks that modders encounter. But I frequently read remarks from knowledgable, talente

[quote quoting="post"]Explorable dungeons are a good example. They would be cool to have, but they don't belong in Fallen Enchantress. It's not just a resource issue (though that's part of it, the more we do the less we do well), it's about where do we want the player spending his time. What is the actual game? Done well explorable dungeons would break from the main game and have the player play a "minigame" for 10/20/30 minutes after which he would be returned to the

[quote who="swingnchad1" reply="17" id="2865829"]This idea isn't new. Microsoft has been sending crash reports this way for years. [/quote]I don't like the microsoft reports one bit! Get a program crash then their reporter ties up my cpu, the fan kicks into high gear, my machine hangs, and I am stuck waiting out the many minutes it takes for it to do whatever the heck its doing. Only when it is done doing its thing, am I given a choice to not participate. I'

[quote who="nrich61" reply="13" id="2864257"]then dont make it automatic, just make it ask if you want to send an error report after a crash and give you the option to see what your sending, it would be EXACTLY the same as we do now, only we dont have to go 1jumping through a binch of stinking hoops including opening other accounts elsewhere to give them the stinking file. [/quote]That appears to make sense. Something to factor into the judgement is the man hours cost it would

^^^ And the cutoff date kept getting pushed back and back and back yet again!! And you can still get a fat discount if you preorder. Nothing lame about how this all went down. Stardocks gone long past the above and beyond point. There is nothing here to disparage them for. Whohoooo! I'm anxious to learn more. Guardian monsters, interesting locations, wizard champs, world spells... Yeah man, sounds fun!

This troubles me as well. Sometimes its just a frustration. But other times its painfully costly... can't get reinforcements to a besieged city in time etc. It's usually those damn merchant caravans that are getting in the way. I can keep borders closed, but that doesn't stop the caravans. Sometimes I force them off the road and harrass them from returning to it. This is a pain in the ass to manage and unfortunately doesn't result in a new road be

[quote who="DariasDruss" reply="7" id="2863784"]They could have just made a program that would have automatically sent the crashlog to a certain area.[/quote] I wondered about an auto-error reporter back in the v1.09 betas. Since an internet connection was already required, I thought why not allow the program to auto-report as well. But some people have a real problem with this sort of thing. I had a serious problem with how steam scans ones harddrive and report

I recently thought that 2k was killing the 4x TBS PC genre with their handling of the Civ franchise. But a like minded fan outcry from the Civ community, has actually educated me to some quality alternatives to Civ. So although 2k may be killing Civ, I wonder if they may actually be doing the PC TBS genre an inadvertent favor. Civ was once my be all/end all PC game. I didn't need any game beyond Civ+ mods. Everything else was a bonus distracti

[quote quoting="post"] Stardock hires Civ5 lead designer Jon Shafer Um, wow. This can only lead to good things.[/quote]I think Jon coming to Stardock may bode well for Elemental, a future Stardock title, and the TBS genre in general.... just so long as he embraces an earnest humility... and hasn't gotten stuck being caught up in some premature ideal such that his

Way back when... I tried to follow the official 2k forums for Civ news. But the experience was so unpleasent and fruitless that I've never thought of the 2k forums as anything more than a kindergarden when even CFC compares as collegiate. Then, prior to Civ5's release, 2k lizzy comes on CFC and says "yeah dudes, we are gamers just like you. We're all one, and I'ma gonna give you all the latest scoop cuz we're hoomies like taht... and you know what? I'ma e

Well in fairness... for those who sort through a multitude of reports ( in addition to other time sensitive tasks ), it is helpful to ask the reportee to report via a somewhat standardized form. I haven't been in the software industry, but having been in roles of responsibility for a variety of other industries makes me a bit more understanding of requests for standardized reporting. The reportees share a little of the work load when they report along standar

HF I wasn't replying to you, but rather that which some people might think they see when reading between the lines of the OP+replies... well that which I think , some might think they think they see ;~p I too look forward to Brad focusing on the AI ( beyond after hours and holiday spurts ). Lets hope SD finds some quality talent to fill the lead designer roll soon. That'll take one of the hats

Considering the AI is just now beginning to get some of the high level attention that Brad wanted to give it, it doesn't surpirse me that the AI is still falling a bit short of that milestone mark, despite significant recent progress. I trust it will get there. Rest easy by looking at where it was and where it is now, and know that where it is now is still not where it is intended to be. " Patie

Well FatNonFree, I think the big announcement first talked about many weeks ago, was about the new hires and not about v1.2 nor XP#1. I'm anxious to learn what the focus for XP#1 will be. But thats for another teaser, leading up to yet aaaaaaanother big announcement. LoL Thanks to all the big post-release updates, and the post-release hiring of high profile individuals... I feel like I've had more pre-release excitement with Elemental post -release, th

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Throughout Elementals process of software updates, and assorted high profile events, I keep reading people saying that they will Now buy the game, wherefore they had previously not been intending to. Some folks have gone so far to say that they aren't much interested in the TBS and/or Fantasy genres; but due to Stardocks high level of commitment towards post-release support, they will or already have, bought the game. Reading t

Question: "Who is worse, Fallout fanboys, TF2 fanboys, or Civilization fanboys?" Answer: Civ fans who are steam fanboys.

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="21" id="2861252"]Yeah, we need a resource placement overhaul. Brad's work helps tremendously by placing more resources in the world but we also need to work on distribution.[/quote]Excellent news! Resource occurrence was the only thing that had me seriously concerned. All other areas of needed improvement seemed to be progressing well. Now I have absolutely no worries as to the future of this game! I'm a fan of mass-options

Welcome to the game Dave.. or welcome back as it were ;~p As an avid reader of sci-fi, I'm compelled to read some of your novels now. Also in my to-read queue, is the book you assisted Brad with. It's interesting to me that a PC TBS game, has a dedicated author on the books. What exactly will you be doing? Will you be creating new lore which expands upon the existing story? Or will you be limited to editing th