clockwerk

Alright, I am definitely getting out of memory crashes, even with the 1.01 version. This usually happens around turn 175. Not at home so I can't post my log.

[quote who="_Scooter_" reply="3" id="2725033"]The problem is that there are no early game decent defensive units that are tough city defenders. In Civ there are archers, which are a hard-counter to an early game rush.[/quote] Hrm, I don't think that is really the case. My air elemental was hitting for 53 damage which is far more damage than any early units. My group of three elementals was pretty unstoppable. On the flip side, I did run into an AI that had an e

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="31" id="2724601"] Quoting solidsmooky, reply 16PLEASE fix the camera when you switch from building stuff to your city to going back to your units. It stays top down and it is annoying as heck. Do you not have a mouse wheel? is it hard to use?[/quote] The mouse wheel did not fix the problem for me. The first time this happened I was able to switch back to the previous camera view by clicking random

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="16" id="2724314"]PLEASE fix the camera when you switch from building stuff to your city to going back to your units. It stays top down and it is annoying as heck.[/quote] I agree. I found that I could turn this off by unclicking "city zoom" in the options gameplay screen.

As a small note, the version that we are playing right now is not the release version per se. The Day0 patch should arrive tomorrow and only Stardock knows what the patch will fix or add.

[quote who="zampolit" reply="18" id="2724338"] Actually just use the master of magic platform and make it multiplayer! Don't even change the mechanics! Just a graphics overhaul...BOOM massive great game with a huge customer base. Don't put any "programmer expression" into it. Make the cities, units, and spells work EXACTLY the same![/quote] Stardock would get sued for Copyright infringement.

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="8" id="2723813"]Civ 5 can go to hell if anything elemental is way better, so freaking over Civ4's city spam.[/quote] I've found that AI's in Elemental sorta city spam. I went from having two large cities to six cities after fighting a single AI. If I were to fight another, that would be ten cities which puts it in the realm Civ4 on a huge map.

I think a good thing is to learn why an AI declares war on you. Assuming the AI logic isn't completely random, the system is probably checking your army levels compared to the size of your population. If you spend considerable resources building units early on, the AI should be less likely to attack you. For me, I focused on magic during my first real game. I had an anemic army so a "friendly" AI decided to attack me. My summoned elementals were easily able to

In non-campaign games, you need to click on the resource surrounding your city that looks like a fertile field. There should be an option to build a farm there. To put it another way, you don't build farms from a city's build menu.

I am using Vista 64x and was able to play for several hours without a crash. That includes tactical battles. I did experience considerable slowdown after two hours, though. My CPU usage was pretty low. Perhaps it was a memory leak.

First of all, I want to thank Stardock for working very hard on getting the pre-release version out to everyone. As a game developer myself, I understand how presenting your product to the general public is both exhilarating and terrifying. Second, note that I did not play the Beta version of the game; this is a genuine initial commercial response. 1. I created a unique sovereign based upon my general playstyle for 4X games. I found the 3d graphics of my sovereign du

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="6" id="2718863"] Do you happen to live in or about Vancouver? [/quote] Pretty close. Seattle. We decided to go to the Cascades as opposed to the Olympics, one of the few temperate rain forests in North America. Bet I still could have a fire there ...

I am going camping. But there is a burn ban. So I can't make a fire. Which means camping is pointless. But I have to go anyways. Bleh.

From: https://forums.elementalgame.com/374531 How do I get divorced? Your Sovereign can get "divorced" by sending the spouse, without any equipment or bodyguards, to the nearest and strongest monster or enemy army available. Seriously. How do I get married a second/third/fourth... time or stablish my own harem? In a mod, if anyone makes one about it.

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="181" id="2718577"]I will apply some of my logic then... If there are aliens out there capable of travelling here, why would they want to visit this hell hole? [/quote] E.O. Wilson is one of the most famous 20th century naturalists. His theories on evolutionary biology (mainly about genetically inherited social structures/skills) were controversial and revolutionary. What does he study? Ants.

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="26" id="2718684"] Quoting ciscopot, reply 10.The fact that the beta testing is over, does not mean in any case, that the software can be removed from my harddrive without my express conscent. "Removal of Content. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Impulse and its licensors reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, or disable access to any Products, content, or other materials comprising a part of the Servi

Muggles .... noooooooooo! He was a good, semi-diseased green bear. [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="35" id="2717064"] So my question stands, where is the balance? It might be there, none of us know, none of us are playing the version Brad is, which is why I'd like his opinion. I went through this with GalCiv2, it's not as though there isn't precedent for me with the game not quite being where I want it to be balance wise upon release, or even a fair bit after. I had better hopes for Elemental, but frankly, I've not seen much to bolster

[quote who="Tridus" reply="21" id="2715639"] Doesn't the Steam version come with a Civ? At least they're not at Dragon Age complexity levels yet. That had so many different freebees from so many different vendors that it required a chart to sort it out. I don't see how anybody really wins when you get to that point, it's just frustrating.[/quote] I'm not sure. I was simply pointing out why digital retailers may pay a game company for exclusive digital content in order

Likewise, I cannot upload any Avatar in either FF or IE. Yes, I am using the latest version of Flash for both browsers.

[quote who="Storm" reply="16" id="2715616"] Actually I don't think Activision or any Game publisher cares about doing these incentives. It's a gimick for the retailers. It's not about getting more people to buy your game, but rather getting more people to buy it at a given retailer. I mean lets face it, none of those items on the CIV pre-order would 'make' me stop and go, OMG I want to buy CIV V. I'm either interested or not in the game itself, but what it would do is m

[quote who="joasoze" reply="15" id="2715611"]@clockwerk Their bottom line will suffer if I buy another game instead of the one they are selling. The problem is that it is impossible to really know how a game would have sold without the bonus. Since everybody else is doing it, nobody (of the large games anyways) dare sell without it seems.[/quote] Publicly companies would not be doing this if they were not earning a profit off of it. Perhaps vendors like Steam and D2D

[quote who="joasoze" reply="8" id="2715431"]Bonuses are lame. Everyone who pays full price later and doesnt get them, will feel cheated. Not a great way to treat gamers.[/quote] For most companies, you are not a "gamer." You are a consumer. A number. Realize that publicly traded companies, like 2K and Activision, have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to maximize profits. Most game companies don't care if you feel cheated by pre-order bonuses since it will