Fistalis

[quote quoting="post"] Here we are at 1.11, and I still can't play the campaign without hitting a gamebreaking bug. I remember a lot of people had problems getting past the first "barrier", this time when I get past it and get my Pioneer to build a second Kingdom the game does not register that I indeed did build the kingdom, and that's that. Thanks to that I cannot get past that part of the game. This is getting pathetic. [/quote] TBH the campa

[quote who="Sarudak" reply="1" id="2862855"]400 defense on a single unit!? No wonder! Nothing in the game could touch that. The only possible way to kill him would be through magic. He probably hasn't been rebalanced since combat mechanics were reworked.[/quote] You have to use magic to win elemental: war of magic.. omg... what are they thinking. On a more serious note. ya he probably hasn't been adjusted. As for the other w

[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="49" id="2862491"] Did you not even read the post hes talking about the program freezing on the first load screen.. its a firewall issue.. . No need to nerd-rage. He was able to download the update, but not run the game. It may be something firewall-related, but it is a problem with the new .exe incorrectly trying to access an un-needed update. The fact that 1.1 worked and 1.11 doesn't strongly suggests this. Edit: Though I did read his p

[quote]What it does is limit the amount of research\gold a single city can provide[/quote] Meaning you need to build more cities rather than larger cities.... Your ignoring a few things.. [quote]New cities can build studies and arcane labs for as long as the global population allows.[/quote] Each building costs an upkeep.. so gildar is a limiting factor as well. [quote]Often, these buildings give the best benefit for the time spent buildi

[quote who="Lonemessiah" reply="71" id="2862283"] But because it seems that the forums of Elemental are now full of the sort of people that the 2k forums were full of.[/quote] There was always alot of cross over members(the TBS fan community is rather close knit)... they just kept the conversations separate for the most part. Jon coming here just reignited an old debate(?) in a new forum. Now that's certainly not his fault.. but tbh i'm not sure its totally unexpected(at

[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="28" id="2862276"] I'm pretty sure it's a program problem and not an Impulse problem.[/quote] Did you not even read the post hes talking about the program freezing on the first load screen.. its a firewall issue.. . As I said above... when elemental updates to a new version the firewall recognizes it as a new program probably due to the fact the exe gets renamed with the version number, requiring you to set it to allow again.

[quote who="jamiekyrin" reply="15" id="2861954"]Hello all. I am filled with despair. I bought E:WoM when it first came out, eagerly installed it... ...and it didn't work. The lovely "dude with dragon" screen came up with its cool quill cursor... ...and stayed ... and stayed ... and stayed. ALT-ESC did nothing. CTRL-ALT-DEL was worthless. Had to restart the computer. I played East India Company and

[quote quoting="post"] As a person who initially looked at Elemental and returned it (pre-1.06) and consider Civ 5 mediocre, can some one who has played both extensively sum up the differences between the two, both positive and negative? I'm taking another look at Elemental, reconsidering whether to get it again. [/quote] What differences specifically are you looking for. As general as your question is its like asking whats the difference between an apple

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="185" id="2861202"] I am just curious, if you can't blame the people who worked on a game, and you can't blame the publisher who publishes a game, who exactly can should you blame for a bad game? You blame all the "internet idiots" who criticize it. That's the trend I'm noticing.[/quote] ya they should all just go back to playing civ IV..and MoM since alls they wanted was civ 4.5 and MOM 2.0 [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] &n

[quote who="bryanw1995" reply="111" id="2861004"] Quoting Werewindlefr, reply 41 the BIG DESIGN DECISIONS HE MADE RUINED THE GAME FOR ME HOW IS THAT MOOT? Are you claiming that 1UPT wasn't his idea.. seriously??. That's nnot a very widespread opinion. Most people I know, hardocre Civ IV lovers and usually Civ V haters, do at least recognize this was a *good* decision. There are many other things that can be criticized about Civ V, 1UPT is generally

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="2860632"]Absolutely, Welcome Jon. You will soon get to know all of us, I am the quiet sweet one.[/quote] xia is the quiet sweet one and jon schafer works for stardock. The inversion of reality is complete. Welcome Jon. I'm sure you'll do great things in your new position at stardock.

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="74" id="2860587"] C'mon be fair. Jon's here to help make EWoM more moddable, +. He's in no position to "ruin" EWoM. Besides, it wasn't Jon who ruined Civ5. The shareholders and management from 2k and take-two ruined Civ5. Those greedy fucks are the ones responsible for the FUBAR state of Civ5. Jon's got talents. These talents will be put to best use by Dereks management skills. In

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="69" id="2860570"] and I know that not every game can't make me masturbate... oh sorry for the harsh word. I mean, make me enjoy it like crazy. Those are two different award categories in a game. For the former I think more in terms of the C&C series. I mean look at that GDI chick in the cutscenes. Oh and the Allied chick in RA2. But not Tanya--she's overrated. I also love those Shadow Maidens in HOMMV.&nbsp

[quote] It resolves crashes and improves the AI.[/quote] Yay. *crosses fingers* and fires up dropbox in anticipation of posting a thread full of crash dumps [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

[quote who="IBNobody" reply="1" id="2860282"]sorry for sounding ignorant... but who is trip?[/quote] Jon schafer

[quote who="Ratatosk7" reply="22" id="2860269"] Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 21 Quoting Jon Shafer, reply 16Right 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 p

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="16" id="2860255"] Greetings all! Proud to be joining the Stardock team, and expect to work on a lot of great projects here in the future. There's been some assumptions here about what my joining Stardock will mean for the games the studio will be putting out from now on. Fear not all - they'll be clearly recognizable as Stardock games. One thing that I will say though, is that Stardock's games are awfully complex, and probably need to be st

[quote] The rest of your points are moot. [/quote] the BIG DESIGN DECISIONS HE MADE RUINED THE GAME FOR ME HOW IS THAT MOOT? Are you claiming that 1UPT wasn't his idea.. seriously??. Jon Shafer: "I'm certain you're familiar with Panzer General ? it was actually the first game that I ever bought, and it's something that stuck with me and I'm a big fan of that game. I felt the combat system in it was a really good system t

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="16" id="2860166"] The pun hurts me.[/quote] I thought it was punny... [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="39" id="2860130"]Comparing python to xml is like comparing Windows to a text file. Quoting Fistalis, reply 35 Which is funny.. that if something is great in civ V then it was shafer but if something was terrible then its not his fault? wtf You know what... you're exactly right. I'm sure he added parts I don't like as well as parts I like to Civ5. I'm not saying everything he changes with Elemental will make it better.

[quote who="FatNonFree" reply="36" id="2860122"]so python is better than xml?[/quote] Python has alot more capabilities than XML.

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="34" id="2860115"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 33 Quoting Heavenfall, reply 32OP has clearly never glanced at the modding potential in Civ5. It is out of this world. As good as elemental's modding support is at allowing users to add content to the game, Civ5's is 10 times better. To be fair modding support is great but not hugely important to alot of people. Me for instance.. give me some XML and let me go to town.. once i have to SDK or pytho

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="32" id="2860102"]OP has clearly never glanced at the modding potential in Civ5. It is out of this world. As good as elemental's modding support is at allowing users to add content to the game, Civ5's is 10 times better.[/quote] To be fair modding support is great but the more complex modding is not hugely important to alot of people. Me for instance.. give me some XML or CSV etc and let me go to town.. once i have to SDK or pyth

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="6" id="2860065"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 1Ya he gets to ruin this whole generation of TBS. I buy elemental to get away from the crap that is Civ V only to have the lead designer of that crapfest work on elemental... Yes, because Shafer funded the project entirely of his own accord, created the design brief and instructed the development team to create a dumbed down version of Civilisation. Because all developers are self funded powerhouses who don't

[quote who="cyansylph" reply="6" id="2859948"]Only one press release? Where is the second release about hiring Jon Shafer[/quote] Gotta wait a few days for the initial nerd rage to die down so his welcome thread isn't filled with hate mail [e digicons]:time:[/e]