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Confucius say that man who leap off cliff jump to conclusion. All kidding aside anything is possible given enough time and money. I bought Elemental in September, had my wtf moments with CTD's and lame AI, came to the forums, microwaved a bag of popcorn while I read the drama, digested SD's plan, watched the execution of said plan, and am now playing my little teenie tiny part of the community feedback loop. SD is investing the money and proving it with these hires; the

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="16" id="2860255"]Right now I'm thinking we'll trim the interface down to one big button in the middle of the screen, 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels tall (approximately - will vary based on the resolution of the user’s monitor). The text on this button will say "Win the Game." I've had some discussions with Brad and the marketing team about this, and everyone is really excited by the possibilities. We've seen it work well in products from other publishers,

[quote who="MattSan" reply="87" id="2860214"] Quoting Ratatosk7, reply 86 I think its fun to watch who he hires next. Its like some sort of industry Guess Who. Maybe a forum mini-game? Are there prizes if we guess correct? Lets start up a betting pool. $5 a bet, winner takes the pot. Who wants to bet first? [/quote] $5 on Michael Bolton from Initech.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

[quote who="HerrGamenon" reply="14" id="2860151"]Hey all...Dave Stern here, thanks for the welcome, look forward to participating in the forums, and working on the game (not necessarily in that order!) [/quote] Teanastellen!

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="41" id="2859718"]Isn't that the same as a square grid with diagonal movement allowed? Either way you're on a.. let's call it a tile, and you can move in eight directions, each of which takes you to a new tile with eight paths leading from it. I don't think it matters whether you represent this 'tile' with a square or an octagon or hide it from the player entirely, either way it's essentially just a point that's symmetrically connected to other surrounding points,

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="16" id="2859373"]All three of the new folks are amazing, and we are lucky to have them.[/quote] Larry, Curly, and Moe are into video games? Nyuk nyuk nyuk.[e digicons];)[/e] JK!

"All we need is just a little patience."

I know Brad mentioned they are completely revamping tactical combat so this idea is probably moot. One idea I thought of would be to implement some kind of fatigue debuff to attacking/defending units in combat. Logic goes that if a unit is actively engaged in combat, it is getting tired and stats suffer. I raise this point because in my current game I have an army of 11 fully geared champions marauding across the map killing massive groups of armies (armies in Umber cities of 6 groups of 9 Si

[quote who="Istari" reply="54" id="2858638"] For more MoM facts, just PM me. [/quote] Chuck Norris once took on MoM and lost.

Holding down the scroll wheel and moving the mouse around does the trick. Not sure why you're experiencing problems.

Agree - makes sense to me.

Derek - how about a separate menu to manage trade routes? Something akin to the mini-map that shows cities, colored routes, threats, and a ledger type menu showing turns to upgrades, how many used/free trade routes per city, all that jazz? It would be cool to visually see the caravan connections and manage them from a dedicated menu. It's kind of a pain to manually find and click on the caravans to see when the roads will upgrade and such. However, totally agree there are higher priorities. I

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[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="28" id="2856938"]Ok since we're bringing my work into this lets see if this makes any sense. I'm a waiter and have been full time for the past 9 years. At least once if not several times a day I get a bad tip for no reason. People tell me how great everything was then tip horribly. My hourly wage is $2.50 and its not even enough to cover my income taxes that are paid on my declared tips. The people I serve are the source of my income. When someone stiffs me or

[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="24" id="2856877"]Wow you guys are all a bunch of moral crusaders with your anti piracy rants, what would the world do without you. I'm gunna go play my cracked copy of New Vegas, keep me posted on the piracy crackdown in Sweden [/quote] You work for free? Sounds like you are the moral crusader, selflessly donating your time and labor to others without compensation. Just sayin'.

[quote who="Lord Cobol" reply="11" id="2856722"]Agree with kapeman that it is worse because you can't really see exactly where it happened. I've bitched about this before. What's with the obsession most gave designer's have with centering things in the middle of the screen. They center the screen on the event, then center the message about it, hiding the event itself. Silly. "center" the event on one side of the screen and put the message about it on the oth

[quote who="troglyte" reply="18" id="2856762"] Reduced 73% Original 469 x 595 [/quote] [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e]

I vote with my dollars so I don't generally use or pay for crap out of Hollywood or record labels. If I find something worthwhile to watch or listen to, I'll pay for it. Stealing another's property is wrong- I'm sure any poster on here supporting Pirate Bay would not want their own time and labor to be stolen without compensation. Creators of products and services need to be paid to keep the lights on like anyone else.

Raise/lower land used to be a single tile in 1.09 - now they both affect 9 tiles and the mana cost is cheap. I usually lower mountains in my zoc to provide direct routes for caravan road building (helps improve logistics) and raise land around cities on the coast to expand tile building or give caravans the shortest route possible. Regarding teleport, I'm finding it useful to plug any gaps behind my lines, never from faction AI, only from mobs. I created a thread awhile ago

Your Gollumz stole my preciousss.

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="19" id="2856508"]Absolutely no cookies for anyone.[/quote] Blueberry muffin?

This thread just broke my browser.

I blame Canadians. Southpark told me so.

I'd like a cookie.