LordTheRon

[quote who="Sareln" reply="15" id="2554340"]Alternatively, you commission your art-department to make a sweet movie showing how the artifact gives you dominion over all life and death as you ascend to true godhood... or as the mysteries of the universe open up to you and your enemies become but mere motes of distraction as you achieve enlightenment. Better yet, make two movies. I'm not sure which is easier/more effective. [/quote] I was hoping the movie is a give

[quote who="Hackbar" reply="9" id="2554112"] Quoting Wintersong, reply 8 @Hackbar: victory condition means that if you achieve it, you win. It cannot be a Quest Victory if you get the artifact (supposed end of the Quest Victory) and end having to win the game by a militar victory (that i's not even assured with the artifact because if not the other players would go 'GG'). I understand this, yes. I'm not opposed to a quest vi

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="2" id="2553471"]When suggesting some kind of Sovereign Creation process, I suggested to be able to lock Sovereigns to certain factions. The process involved two steps (Blood Inheritance and Life Inheritance) with an optional third (Social Inheritance) that would lock the Sovereign to a certain faction if used. Having Sovereigns independent of factions can be nice to use your favourite Sovereign with the faction of the day. But locking him to a single factio

Having fiddled with beta .0291 over the weekend I came to a few early conclusions. While I love customization I don't think it should kill the 'Lore' of the game. When starting up the game I could chose my sovereign, pick my clothes, pick traits, chose my faction and chose my race. For me this just didn't feel right. When I chose my sovereign he should belong to a certain faction. A Capitar sovereign, in my eyes, shouldn't be able to rule over the Tarth faction. After that I coul

This bug is still in .0291, playing on a laptop with the mousepad, which doesn't have a middle button.

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="8" id="2549068"] quoting post WHEN can I get into the beta? Officially the answer is Beta 2 which won’t be until mid next month. However, if you have pre-ordered (or plan to pre-order) we may open the beta for one day this next Thursday and let everyone who has pre-ordered the game up till then in so that if we have to delay beta 2, users aren’t having to keep waiting and waiting because we want to

Banned for mentioning the war. Don't mention the war!

Banned for being the poster right above me who I'm supposed to ban.

Banned for not recognizing the country that founded New York.

Tssk, banned for banning people from Holland and not writing Holland with a capital H.

Banned for using urban language people from Holland wouldn't know anything about!

Basically all the good ideas have been written down here already. I'm all for diversity. Things we surely need are: - Different types of magical damages and resistances - Resistance stat! - Traits like first strike, death strike, healing, etc.

[quote who="auboy105" reply="39" id="2399077"] Quoting LordTheRon, reply 6 About sovereigns returning to the nearest city. I like the solution Age of Wonder has. You return to the nearest city with a wizard tower. If you don't own any cities with towers anymore and your sovereign dies, you are history. Doesn't have to be a wizard tower for elemental, but it should be quite an expensive building to make certain players don't easily build them in all of th

Ok thanks for the heads up, never realized that.

In Elemental you are able to build new cities, just like in MoM and the Civ series. Civ II was notoriously famous for the Infinite City Spam (ICS) strategy. Spamming as many cities as you could to get a great economy and warmachine going and win the game. Elemental should be all about magic. City building needs to be a part of the game, but it shouldn't dominate the game of magic. I've read earlier that BoogieBac (shoot me if it was another Stardockian [e digicons]O:)[/e] &

About sovereigns returning to the nearest city. I like the solution Age of Wonder has. You return to the nearest city with a wizard tower. If you don't own any cities with towers anymore and your sovereign dies, you are history. Doesn't have to be a wizard tower for elemental, but it should be quite an expensive building to make certain players don't easily build them in all of their cities. This makes a conquest victory a bit easier since you don't have to completely destroy or conqu

[quote who="KbT" reply="28" id="2396066"]Flat, small percentage modifiers, like Gal Civ II, is terribly dull. The resources in your realm should be an important feature in all aspects of that realm - its warfare, its culture, its trading, its research.[/quote] Totally agree. Percentage modifiers feel very empty. +4 'beakers' or -2 'hammers' is much more clear for a player than 'this increases our research by 2 percent'. It's not forbidden to use percentages, since

Great idea and especially great voor a TBS fantasy game. Bring 'em on those cards!

Sorry doublepost.

I'd go for option C, definitely NOT option B. I like the stockpiling idea, if it's doable to get it in the game without too many complications. But otherwise things shouldn't get any more complicated. I totally agree with Ugrok that the player shouldn't be forced to spend too much time creating units. It's a fun addition for the people who like to micromanage their units but players who like a faster paced game shouldn't be punished for that. Shoot me if I missed this bit of info

[quote quoting="post"] I keep thinking that it’s better to have more resources than fewer. I’d love to hear how others feel about this. I also am of the opinion that controlling a resource shouldn’t be a pre-requisite for building something but rather controlling the resource acts as a bonus. For example, if I research metal weapons then I should be able to build metal weapons. metal deposits will be displayed on the map which can be co

After a little while in the game my screen keeps scrolling to one side, no way to stop it. After a restart things are fine again.

I would definitely recommend it, if only to avoid lawsuits from people with wrecked lives[e digicons]

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="8" id="2376602"]Lots of guarded loot is definatly part of the overall plan [/quote] That's very good to hear Boogiebac, thanks for the heads up.

Absolutely, this should definitely be in the game!