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I agree 100% Archonsod. *IF* there were a differentiation of magics, like the casting limits in MoM's tactical combat but much more generous mana pool or the casting chamber upgrades in AoW I wouldn't feel compelled to hoard my currently completely ineffectual magic in combat. I'd be happy enough for now if they fixed ONE of these aspects... either a way to pool essence like you do with gold but still use the essence stat as a hard cap in combat (i.e. no more godawful 1

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="18" id="2737964"]Has anybody considered that just because there's an exploit in a game doesn't mean you have to abuse it?[/quote] Granted and I hate that it's basically required to make champions anything but really sucky cannon fodder. Without massively abusive overuse of rings, amulets and packs all but a heavily min-maxed melee sovereign is in big trouble later in the game. Ya know, when you can easily be hit for 100+ damage by wandering pack

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="58" id="2738711"]Look another post by you saying theexact same thing, we get the message.[/quote] Just like we get YOUR message. You don't like people repeating themselves at all but are doing the same yourself.

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="13" id="2738492"]shards are not working in manual tactical combat atm. thats why you see so low damage outputs.[/quote][quote who="chaintm" reply="14" id="2738501"] Quoting Bodyless, reply 13shards are not working in manual tactical combat atm. thats why you see so low damage outputs. really? I didn't know about this to be honest, first build after beta has been more tankage army for me, but alas if this is the case, this would be

[quote who="rossanderson48" reply="29" id="2730891"]Edit: For the love of goodness Stardock et al why do you let these trolls continue to flood this forum with their obvious trolling posts to just in yer face you now? Ban them or move them please as I'd rather read the posts of those enjoying the game and what they are finding and yes even ideas for added enjoyment but not tearing the game down in every other thread or post.[/quote] [/quote] I was thinking the same thing ab

Good news though... a Stardock rep has posted a couple times in this thread and it's become clear that part of the problem is that shards are *NOT* being factored in at all during tactical combat. He/she also hinted at a fairly major potential overhaul of how magic damage is dealt with.

As I posted elsewhere I have a VERY lucky save game with a min-maxed caster sovereign (15 int, 15 essence and all spellbooks to start) and have managed to get to 4 fire shards only to see them do diddly squat in tactical. Time to do some auto resolves combats and see how it stacks up.

1.05 versus 1.06 is meaningless in reference to this exhaustive, very well thought out and sadly all too true list. Bland, inconsistent, underpowered and muddled. It's going to take a LOT more than a handful of bugfixes to whip this into shape. Oh and if you want to feel the exact opposite experience from playing a caster sovereign, make a melee one and focus on adventure and magic tech trees early on. Quests for cash and items and magic armor will make you into a

I know this has probably been discussed to death in other threads, usually as part of a metapost about overall game issue, but I'm in the middle of a game with a min-maxed caster sovereign (15 int, 15 "wisdom" and all spellbooks to start) and I'm getting bashed over the head CONSTANTLY how weak and stupidly unreliable magic is in Elemental. Said caster has had pretty phenomenal luck on my current medium map on "ridiculous" difficulty... more like ridiculously lucky. I have

I've had quite a few problems, though significantly less so since 1.05 and the hotfix. Gold and 1.01 would crash anywhere from 10 to 30 turns in. Consistently. All versions crash when I tab out and back into a running game (though curiously NOT the menu even if I've already started or loaded an existing one). This has been so since the original street version. I have a fairly beefy PC (i7 920, 6gb, GeForce 275) and it manhandles anything else I throw at it

Yeah, I just verified that elementium is indeed used directly when you give troops legendary armor.

Ok, so midnight stones have been discussed to death but I'm still completely in the dark about elementium and destiny's sliver. The latter appears to be nothing more than vendor chow to the tune of 250g per pop. Nice but more than a bit opaque since it appears to be questy in some way. Elementium is curious. I was able to buy things requiring it for absurd prices, such as 6250g for the "Karrazan's Sword" (World of Warcraft much? Mixing BWL and BC in the same item i

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="17" id="2734395"]By the same token, some of us consider a game that lays it's bones completely bare to be like showing the secret to a magicians trick. I want to play a game set in a fantasy world, not feel like I'm playing with a graphical mod for an excel spreadsheet.[/quote] I can dig it. But make it an option you can either toggle or perhaps a bar with "Please select the level of information glut you wish to have dumped on you". Spread

[quote who="pmaura" reply="44" id="2734386"]I wonder how much if any is stardock going to add the stadard fatansy features or just say this is the game we made deal with it.[/quote] Given their track record with GalCiv and the like, I fairly sure that this game will feel much more evolved in 6 months. How much of that will be refinements versus overhauls remains to be seen.

Sadly even the "good" bonuses feel fairly meh. Yes the knowledge ones are almost overpowered at the start, they feel useless even by mid-game. Equipment? Don't get me started. 10 points for a weapon? A crappy one you can replace pretty quickly with magic research? Sheesh.

I'm a bit confused by the handful of zealous fanboys that are in each and every UI thread. The ones that are basically saying "if you're too stupid to play this game, go away" in no uncertain terms. I've been playing TBS games since the early 90s and computer games since the late 70s, so I'm not too particularly unfamiliar with how games work. Hell, I've alpha and beta tested numerous games (mainly Blizzard ones of late due to friends who work there) and been through the

My favorite is when you actually own some shards (I have 3 in my current game due to dumb freaking luck of the draw) and spells in those school still hit like a wet paper towel. Nothing like a single target spell that's supposed to hit for up to 68 damage *regularly* doing under 10 on level 1 creatures...

I'm with bman654... though extreme should just be renamed "extremely silly" or something along those lines :) I just love when a one town "empire" that *NEVER* expands declares war on me early in the game. They just sit there with minimal troops waiting for someone to come and squash 'em. Is this some form of tacit approval of masochism or the like?

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Weak, massively overpriced and ridiculously fragile at higher levels. Why bother even getting champions only to have them become one-shot kills for some level 4 ogre or the like?

Bravo Xadie. You've basically summed up all my current concerns after spending about 20 hours playing and keeping it patched up to date to make sure I'm avoiding as many game-breaking bugs as possible (I had frequent crashes until 1.05... I *NEVER* have games crash normally). At this point most of what Elemental has done is make me want to revisit Master of Magic and Age of Wonders. Yes, both have their flaws but there's so much more... I guess you could say

I've turned off fullscreen to get around that bugaboo (aka 100% CTD rate when alt-tabbing) but still crash by turn 25ish maximum. Here's my error file. http://pastebin.ca/1924490

Win7 x64 here and I have the exact same issue.

I followed the current Digg requirements (about Elemental and only posted by IslandDog) and every single one was denied. Any particular reason?