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[quote who="Aatxe" reply="19" id="2853768"] Quoting alaknebs, reply 1 if there's no tile limit... doesn't that mean you can cover a whole map with just 1 city? No, unless you flatten all mounains, deforest the entire map, connect islands, raise land from the ocean, meet fertile land requirements,...etc ad nausem. I do think that now that you can build on swamps and other previously useless land tiles is a definite

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="29" id="2852591"] Quoting charon2112, reply 23 Quoting Heavenfall, reply 14I'm not sure I like this. This makes it so that you can get an abundance of resources from every part of the map, instead of having to focus cities on the few resources that exist. What is there to stop this deteriorating into another case of "spawn a city every 5 tiles apart" aka city-spam? I hear what your're saying, bu

I understand what you are saying, but like TarlSS said currently prestige buildings are usless and you have no need of them in your city once they reach level 5. This is a flaw to have buildings that serve no purpose at all once your city's level is maxed out.

Sorry about that I should have read your reply a little more closely. I hate the caravan bug that occasionally pops up that will not allow you to build new caravans for a captured city. It happens from time to time usually once or twice a game for me on a large map.

[quote who=" cfehunter " reply="54" id="2853041"] How many other companies would do that? Further more how many companies have done absolutely nothing and just said "you got what you paid for"? [/quote] agreed, surprised and happy about this exact point. This is the only reason why I have stuck around this long. [quote who="Campaigner" reply="55" id="2853065"]Even though Elemental ended up on that dreaded l

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="4" id="2852800"] If there's multiple tactical battles in a player turn then they get that doubled-damage attack in each tactical battle. Also, if the doubled-damage attack is blocked or dodged, that counts and the doubled-damage attack is considered used for that tactical battle. [/quote] That is correct. It should be stated once per battle. It has nothing to do with turn or season.

I would have to almost entirely agree with this article. I wish someone would have gave me advice not to buy this game in its current state.

Don't watch frog play on you tube he makes very bad mistakes and he covers nothing on city building and kindgom expansion. Sometimes I believe he makes the mistakes he does playing on you tube just to make the AI look better. I am not saying this is true, but this game is not hard to beat and out play the competition even on ridiculous / ridiculous settings. This is what I did to learn how to play at release. &

In the games I have played during the beta for v1.1 and v1.1 I have very few cities that level up past level 3. To get the most out of a level 3 city all you need is two houses, market and merchant. If the city has a farm connected to it you add the granary and irrigation. Once you learned gardens under the civic tree you place them in all level 3+ cities for even more expansion. The garden will balance out the two houses in a level 3 city which pays you back

[quote who="TarlSS" reply="3" id="2834705"]MORE USES FOR POPULATION! Also, there needs to be a bonus for population once you reach city level 5. Otherwise what's the point of all those extra prestige buildings? Population needs to modify tax percentage, troop build time and resource throughput more significantly. [/quote] I was going back reading old posts that I have made and this is a great idea by TarlSS. As of right now I usually tear down all prestige

np

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="45" id="2852667"] Considering that I don't think that 1.2 will be a hyper jump like from 1.0 to 1.1, hold your breath for the expansion pack. And even then, considering that we don't know about Stardock's plans for it, cuatious advice would be "Lose hope now and casually check in 7 or 8 months" (maybe more). [/quote] For me to continue playing this game I need the AI, magic, character customization and the one more turn feelin

[quote who="cfehunter" reply="38" id="2852503"]I'd like to point out that elemental while not a direct sequel to anything is seen as the spiritual successor to MoM. This means that, for some people, it had even MORE to live up to than a lot of the sequels released this year. With the possible exception of SC2, but that was 12 years in the making, it's a special case. For the record I love SC2, play it online with my friends constantly. [/quote] Yep I have to

Yeah your sov does not have to meet the int rating. I dont know about anyone else, but if they did need 100 int I would never be able to cast it. I think the highest level my sov has ever obtained is between 10-12. It seems like when I get up there I never progress and that is even when my sov is involved in every battle.

You sure it is not arcane arrow because the graphics are the same and if not they are damn close. I have seen the enemy sovs cast arcane arrow before.

One of my biggest problems with cities right now it our starting city should be the crown jewel of our empire. It needs to have something more than any other city in our empire. The only cities that could rival it would be the capital cities of the other factions. As for the tiles I agree that we should be able to make larger cities. I mean I usually only make 1 to 3 level 5 cities on a large map, but my capital I try to make the best at everything which you cant bec

You all have it wrong. What this means is you have a caravan incoming to a city from a different city, but no outbound caravan going back. So if your city has 5 caravans coming to it, but you can only send out 3 from that city you would see caravan not sent for the two cities that you are not trading back with. Another example 3 cities sending you a caravan, but you send your caravans to a different 3 cities. Your city info panel would show 3 cities as carava

Great post and love the idea because I also have felt that the land has no value which I have expressed in other posts. Also this is not about the Civ games because like someone else said MoM had this also to a degree.

[quote who="Marks1381" reply="48" id="2851752"] 1.1 is closer to an 8 IMO but it has potential to be a 12 you guys are really getting things done I love the attitude in this post. I have 100% faith in Brad, and Stardock. Edit: I've now played 3 games of 1.1 and about 30 hours since it's release. I stopped watching TV, and picked up insomnia. [/quote] How could you rate the game an 8 when we still have: bugs</li

[quote who=" cfehunter " reply="30" id="2851009"] I'm greatly for the way the sov is treated in elemental over how the wizard is treated in AoW :SM or MoM . The entire thing with them being all powerful but made of glass never really sat well with me. [/quote] I do like the fact that my avatar is on the battlefield instead of in a tower. What draws people to every game is different, but what made

[quote who=" cfehunter " reply="30" id="2851009"] I'm greatly for the way the sov is treated in elemental over how the wizard is treated in AoW :SM or MoM . The entire thing with them being all powerful but made of glass never really sat well with me. [/quote] I do like the fact that my avatar is on the battlefield instead of in a tower. What draws people to every game is different, but what made

[quote who="brycex99" reply="40" id="2851536"]@ Phauren - They're creating a brand new engine, adding a lot of elements from different genres into one game, while at the same time trying to live up to the standard set by GalCiv I and II. On top of that, they're creating, for lack of a better term, an open source- ish game which allows people to freely add content to the game. Lots of factors inv

[quote who="Das123" reply="34" id="2851229"]The game being so ambitious makes it a really easy target for criticism because when you focus on individual elements such as the magic or the lack of racial diversity it makes the whole game sound weak. But Elemental really is stronger than the sum of its parts.[/quote] What is so ambitious about this game? Are you referring to all the work they are doing because the game needed it? Are you referring to

first time quoting someone multiple times in one post and I do not understand why my replies were tied into each box even though I enter each line a a new quote. A little help from someone on that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[quote quoting="post"]Fix the fact that my female heroes cannot adorn the Journeyman's Cloak. [/quote] Yes very annoying [quote quoting="post"]Assassin trait only work with the Sovereign it seems.[/quote] I think this one is only for the person that has the trait. If you hire anaba or whatever her name is she has the trait and works for her only, just like your Sov or your Sov's children if the