GaelicVigil

[quote who="JSJ101" reply="81" id="2771903"]Also, as many other posts have mentioned, no one is asking for 10,000 individually controlled units. As an illustration, 8 Full Battalions of 100 6 Companies (or whatever) of 50 = 1100 units, and only 14 commands to issue each turn. This is hardly overwhelming. If it is too much for you, you may want to see your physician for some ADHD meds...[/quote] You're right. Hell, I'd be happy with battles of onl

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="79" id="2771890"]Well, all respect I had for you, Raven, was just lost. Epic does not mean "more".[/quote] Yes...it...does. Epic: of unusually great size or extent

[quote who="Sythion" reply="32" id="2771858"] TES example is not handicapping yourself at all; that's playing to the strengths of the character you designed. That's great. Elemental doesn't do that well.[/quote] Like I said, role-playing and game mechanics are mutually exclusive. If I decide that my character is afraid of water, then I can decide to never build ships in my game. If I decide that blood makes him queasy, then I can decide to never build soldie

I'll start by saying that I disagree with the OP. The AI should be a lot better than it is, and we shouldn't have to handicap ourselves to make it challenging. HOWEVER... I consider Elemental to be very unique among 4X strategy games in that it has huge amount of role-play mechanics within it. Good role-playing games are peculiar things because to get the most out of them, they require the player to do things that are not built directly into the game itsel

I'll start first. My favorite "Let's Play", hands-down is Let's Play Morrowind by GixG17 . It's over 130 sessions and counting from a first-time Morrowind player. It's pure gold.

Who watches "Let's Play" videos? I love them, but while some are downright terrible, others are fantastic. If you have seen a good "Let's Play" video, share it with us here.

You guys want a starship simulator, you've got it: Shores of Hazeron Every other starship simulator pales in comparison.

I've seen most of the previews of Civ 5 and despite everyone telling me that *this* is the one with -major- changes, I still don't see it. Civilization 5, at it's heart, is still Civilization 1 with more bells and whistles. It's still a linear romp through the same old history that we've seen before: Settlers, Workers, Phalanxes, Knights, Musketmen, Infantry, Artillery, Nukes, Space Components, bla, bla, bla. It is gettin

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="56" id="2771530"] Wrong again MOE go read and comprehend but that is expected from trolls like you.[/quote] No, you're the troll. Tag, you're it! [quote who="Yellowstone_1872" reply="65" id="2771590"] I'd love to be throwing huge numbers of troops around the board, but: a) I don't need them, mostly because the computer can't afford to put up similar numbers (unless you us

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="52" id="2771507"] Quoting Adam_H, reply 44 Quoting psychoravin, reply 37 More unnecessary crap to bog down the game /unsigned. If you want Total War go play Total War this is Elemental:War of Magic not romper room kindergarden oooohh lookit the pretty pictures. Last thing I want is yet another kiddy clickfest rts game. Good thing Raven X didn't suggest RTS gameplay, then. I like how you didn't even bo

[quote who="Tridus" reply="47" id="2771482"] Quoting GaelicVigil, reply 38Tridus: Let's not play semantics here with the word "epic". Of course we all believe that small battles can be just as cool as large-scale battles, but come on, you can't tell me that you wouldn't want to experience a battle like Helm's Deep or Minas Tirith in Elemental, right? Both small AND large scale battles are staples of any fantasy novel or movie, we simply want to see the latter happe

[quote who="psychoravin" reply="41" id="2771457"] Quoting GaelicVigil, reply 38Tridus: Let's not play semantics here with the word "epic". Of course we all believe that small battles can be just as cool as large-scale battles, but come on, you can't tell me that you wouldn't want to experience a battle like Helm's Deep or Minas Tirith in Elemental, right? Both small AND large scale battles are staples of any fantasy novel or movie, we simply want to see the latter

Tridus: Let's not play semantics here with the word "epic". Of course we all believe that small battles can be just as cool as large-scale battles, but come on, you can't tell me that you wouldn't want to experience a battle like Helm's Deep or Minas Tirith in Elemental, right? Both small AND large scale battles are staples of any fantasy novel or movie, we simply want to see the latter happen in Elemental along with the former.

I started the Epic Battles thread so I'm obviously all for this. Signed. [e digicons]:digichet:[/e] I just want to point out something: Battles of this size are ALREADY possible in Elemental, even though they are extremely rare due to the way the economy and AI works at this point. So for those complaining that this would require a super computer to run, large-scale battles can already happen in the game. We're just asking that the

[quote who="cwg009" reply="79" id="2770596"] Good post overall, but I disagree with you about increasing influence generated by cities. The whole reason I like this idea is precisely because it does allow choice: players who don't want to spam cities no longer need to, players who do want to spam cities still can. Right now I have no choice, I have to spam level 1 cities to fill in the gaps between my big cities that actually have resource nodes. I do not want to be forced to do this. Bu

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="8" id="2770566"] Quoting GaelicVigil, reply 6Glad you discovered this, although I think most people already knew about it. However, if you had told me how you can scroll the map using your arrow keys I would have worshiped you! Seriously, scrolling is a royal pain in the butt with only the click+drag and screen-edge methods. Doh! I did not know this one either ...thanks for the tip! &nbs

[quote who="Kalin" reply="76" id="2770556"]Making a city cost 1 food isn't going to stop city spamming. First of all, there's the problem of the capital city, which will starve as soon as you found it. Secondly, the way caravans work right now, making a city and sending a caravan to your highest food city will more than make up the 1 lost food. You'll usually gain 2-3 even, even more as you expand further outwards. Essentially, if you make cities use more food, people will have to build even

If you read through that whole thread, you'll see a lot of suggestions on how to implement this in multi-player. Most agreed that labels created during matches would be persistently shared among all players. However, the power to label the map would be limited to the landmarks that fell only within your faction's Zone of Control.

Glad you discovered this, although I think most people already knew about it. However , if you had told me how you can scroll the map using your arrow keys I would have worshiped you! Seriously, scrolling is a royal pain in the butt with only the click+drag and screen-edge methods.

During development Frogboy stated we would be able to label stuff on our maps: "...at the cloth map level, you’ll be able to label the world as you see fit. Give deserts and swamps and forests names. It’s purely cosmetic but it’s about making the world yours." Is this a planned feature still? Obviously it shouldn't be a high priority, but it still sounded pretty cool at the time for the

Cool post. I want to see more stuff like this, with pictures too!

[quote who="Jandurin" reply="42" id="2770369"] Quoting nOObonian, reply 39 My solution, which no should have to do, is to rename the city to (G,T,A,2xF). So when the city level up screen comes up, I know what the city has. G=gold, T=tech, A=arcane, F=food, etc...). This was critical when I had one city with 2 gold mines and was trying to eek every gildar out of it. Haha. Nice. I'm totally going to adopt this method until the level up

I say buy it. I have not had this much fun with a turn-based strategy game since Civilization 2, I hated GalCiv2 and Civilization 4. This game is chock full of stuff to do, mods and updates come frequently and are easy to implement, and the game itself is a lot of fun. There's a great feeling that comes with owning a game that continues to get better and better all the time. It's like, "Hey, I'd better load up Elemental again, the new patch just came out with tons of

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="2768364"]I think we should come up with an XML list of names for each faction and have the name generator pull from that. [/quote] Sounds great, but please leave this as an option, I actually like the random names!

[quote who="Talarius" reply="49" id="2770258"] After (probably too many) hours of reading through threads and watching videos of the game on YouTube, it was THIS thread here that convinced me to not purchase Elemental (yet). I had assumed that battles scaled up as the game progressed, both in units-on-screen and in complexity of tactics, both those exhibited by the AI and required from the player to ensure victory. From what I'm reading here, that's not currently t