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[quote who="Tridus" reply="6" id="2737873"] Quoting Peace Phoenix, reply 5If pre-made sovs could be micmicked with custom ones, what would be the incentive to play premade sovs? Not having to make them? What's the incentive in playing a custom one if you're automatically put at a disadvantage?[/quote] Being able to choose *exactly* the stats you want is its own advantage. People can make much better decisions about what works in the game than

[quote who="Sothron" reply="26" id="2737833"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 25 Ah the classic fanboy response: any criticism is childish and unwarranted. Releasing a game that within four days makes previous saves unplayable is most definitely deserving of criticism.[/quote] Calling people who disagree with you "fanboys" is childish. The retail release of Elemental warrants some criticism. Devs working around the clock to deliver multiple meaningful patches with

I like the fact that they're rare. It gives real value to them as a resource...enough to go to war over, unlike most other resources for which there are plenty. Owning a horse resource gives a genuine tactical advantage. There are lots of other ways to increase speed, but the +combat speed is really nice as well. And it makes you feel really good when you can finally build mounted units. And the thing is, they're still worth researching even without acess to a horse resource

Thanks for your continued efforts!

There's really only a sampling of the things they eventually want to get into the mix in the game right now. When damage vs armor types are made more transparent, that will help. In addition some units have special abilities, and they wanted to do more of these. I can easily see research-able magic items or kits that grant special tactical abilities to units, like the assassination ability, or that smiting ability some heroes have. If magic resistances are made transparent, I can see ge

I disagree. There are perfectly viable pre fab units available for people who dont want to mess with designing their own army. Modders will provide more. Do there need to be *more* options for differentiation? Yes. But at any given time, a human mind is going to make better decisions about the types of units they make in a given situation, even if it's a decision about whether they want a unit to cost two crystals, or one. The ability to research exactly the tech you want,

You should be able to eventually research "training academies" for the end game, that allow you to exchange (a lot of) gold and materials (crystals too , probably,,,need more use for shards) to train up heroes stationed in that city. It should be prohibitively expensive for higher levels though. Just a way to make sure your less used heroes are in competitive shape for the end game.

[quote who="Saryk" reply="3" id="2734826"]I have been building Pioneers to make other cities and getting caravans between them. But I don't know if that helps since I got my third city up last night before going to bed. But when I see a special resource I build a city next to it, if it is away from another city.[/quote] If you click on a caravan once their route is established, you can see the food bonus theyre currently providing. There's more tech available to

Some things I don't like: 1)Spending character points for equipment. Waste. You can buy a decent weapon to get you started just as easily, and you're going to get a better weapon/armor at some point, basically meaning those points are wasted, unlike points put into a stat or ability, which are useful the entire game. I'd rather see a choice of starting equipment "packages", separate from the point buy, that you could balance amongst themselves. For instance, one might in

So, you don't want to be a "warmonger", but you want to put back in the ridiculously overpowered early game summoning spells that allow you to roll over half the map with infinite units that units that have no material costs, before anyone can possibly resist you?

[quote who="Voqar" reply="3" id="2733101"]Units seem to gain health as they level up, but not hero/sov types - those you get the point to spend. I'm playing Tarth too and they just get a % health boost. [/quote] I honestly have no idea then. As the tarth, by level 3 my heroes/sovs would all be at 20+ hp without putting any further points in con. This is was all prior to 1.05, and in the late beta. Unfortunately, I think I nuked all my save games,

Technical/stability issues are the most important...some people still can't play the game well. Followed by a reasonable degree of bug smashing so that at least the things that work, work like they're supposed to. Then balance, A.I, system expansion and overhaul. Luckily Stardock is able to work on more than one thing at a time.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2732811"]They never gained hp on level-up, but they really should [/quote] Then there was something wrong with my previous games where I played Tarth. Because my units always gained more and more HP. Unless maybe one of Tarths special abilities accounts for that. Their max hp just kept going up.

I'm still getting .5 as well.

Was this removed? My sovereign and my heroes have gained levels, but no HP beyond what they started with. Playing custom kingdom/sovereign. Did I miss this in the patch notes, or is something amiss? Thanks!

[quote who="Windchill33" reply="2" id="2732369"]Yes that's true it's not really misses....but if i'm hitting for zero damage over and over it might as well be, either way it's still just not very fun. IMO there is a ton of tweaking that needs to be done in this area to avoid this kind of stuff, watching two high defense units fight it out hitting each other for zero for 3 minutes then one of them finally breaking through and one shotting the other is kinda boring and doesn't seem like what sh

Zero damage shows up as "misses", so youre probably not missing so much as failing to do sufficient damage against powerful/high defense/high magic resistance units. The battle descriptors need to be more transparent.

I've got Death Worship on a custom race. The units *do* have more HP than they would normally, but not +10 extra hp. For instance, the basic soldier unit I designed should have 5 HP, according to the unit builder, but they come out with 10 HP. I cant figure out any other place the extra HP are coming from. Never mind. I figured out the extra HP was from having them stationed in a city, which seems to grant

[quote quoting="post"] Edit: one more thing, with a custom sovereign, can you start with equipment? When I passed an AI sov in the first few turns, he had a sweet looking staff, while I had nothing. Was there something in the customization that I missed? [/quote] Yes, you can purchase equipment as part of the Sov creation process, on a tab in the same menu you assign clothing and stuff. However, it is probably a far bett

Do spouses' traits influence the traits of your offspring? Ive always tried to marry the most powerful option available, which would kind of suck if I had to waste her talent by sticking her in a castle to keep from dying.

Yes please. The units take forever to walk from point to point, and turning off movement altogether makes the game difficult to follow.

[quote who="Answulf" reply="41" id="2731931"]It depends on your tolerance for bugs and lack of information. I don't regret buying it, but both the bugs and the lack of basic information are frustrating at times. Edit: Funny, I read the post above mine about the alt-tab bug and was currently alt-tabbed out of the game to post this. When I went back, it crashed. [/quote] Don't alt-tab. At least not until they sort that

I have a Nvidia card with up to date drivers, and I get the DX error crash occasionally when alt tabbing too. I don't recommend alt-tabbing until they figure that out. Play the game in windowed mode at your desktop resolution. It's indistinguishable from full screen, except you can pull up desktop elements without alt tabbing. I haven't had a crash in over 24 hours since starting to play that way.

It's *going* to be an amazing game. It isn't right now, for technical and gameplay flaws that degrade an incredibly promising core game. It was forced into release early, and there's no getting around that. However, as someone familiar with Stardock's slavish dedication to improving and refining their games, and listening to community feedback, you couldn't pry this game out of my hands right now. It's still got tons to offer, and I know my feedback will be listened to and conside

[quote who="technotica" reply="15" id="2730140"]I have one question, is it better than Disciples 3? I am dying for a new game of this sort. [/quote] Completely different game than Disciples 3. Disciples 3 compares to HOMM. Elemental compares to Civ. If you want a game that mostly focuses on tactical combat, with light strategy elements, look elsewhere. Elemental is a grand 4x strategy game with light tactical elements. Despite that game's issues,