DerekPaxton

[quote who="impinc" reply="94" id="2834196"] Quoting Derek Paxton, reply 93 We are targeting tomorrow (Thursday) for release. It will probably be late tomorrow, maybe past midnight EST (and into Friday). Why not just plan for Friday then? I really want the patch soon, but I'd rather you guys take the time to do it right (don't work crazy hours to get it out on Thursday).[/quote] It's the time it takes to get through the staging proces

We are targeting tomorrow (Thursday) for release. It will probably be late tomorrow, maybe past midnight EST (and into Friday).

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="89" id="2834150"] "Yes, you will now be able to surround an NPC city with your own influence. They're supposed to be minor. They don't really need it anyway, since they don't harvest resources or build up their cities. Alternatively, now that you can get them in your influence, the AI will have to declare war on you to get at them." Unless I missed it, quite possible, but how is a Minor Faction going to be able to offer "special

Ill check with the server folks tomorrow and see whats going on.

There wasn't supposed to be any 1.09n (b) patch.

This should be fixed now. Please post here if you continue to have problems.

[quote quoting="post"] I used to have a rig with Win XP and a GeForce 9600 graphics adapter. For some unknown reason, my graphics card went poof and I got a new one, a Radeon HD 5750. Along with it came a shiny new Win 7 64bit. Good news - Win 7 and the Radeon work fine. After installing Impulse and rubbing my hands in anticipation for the 1.1 beta, I wanted to download Elemental, but for the fourth time in succession i'm getting "the file downloaded is smaller than expected". When I tr

This should be resolved now. Let me know if you have any further problems. Thank you for letting us know.

This is a great feedback Shrap123, thanks for taking the time to write it up. Brad and I were chatting about it tonight. I wish I could say that we are going to fix it by tweaking some value and fixing it all, but there are a lot of changes coming that will help with this, make champions and sovereigns more useful, improve spells and make the AI more competitive. Making the sovereign and champions hp increase per level, improvi

[quote who="seanw3" reply="14" id="2829115"]Any updates to fix gildar from creature values?[/quote] Nothing yet. This probably won't be looked at until early next week. The games team has this week off for thanksgiving, it's just Brad and I working this week. Brad's doing AI work and I'm half lining up issues for when the team gets back, and half working on future design docs. [quote who="Sherekhaan" reply="18" id="2829162"]Can you put up

You are right Heavenfall, its definitely overpowered. It didn't make it in before we locked down but we still plan to have it dramatically cut or removed before the public 1.1.

I haven't been able to reproduce this. Let me know if anyone sees anything more specific as to why/when it happens. I'll keep my eye out for it too. edit: reproduced it!

Got them all scheduled for the next fix, thanks Heavenfall.

We had a talk about minor factions and decided that they shouldn't have influence, but we still have to clean up the message warning player when they are to close.

Patch 1.09o was released on Thursday 12/2/2010 Resolved Issues: 1. Fixes an issue where animals won't attack cities (looks like combat will start but then it ends without combat). 2. Fixed a crash when clicking on the game concepts or walkthru entries in the Hiergamenon. 3. You can no longer drink some quest items (like the magic flute). 4. Storm now correctly has a mana cost. 5. New diplomatic conditions: -

Sorry all. The beta build isn't passing QA. Even though it is just a beta, and issues are to be expected, it has stability issues we want to address before releasing. We are pushing the release until tomorrow to give the developers some time to investigate. I apologize to those who have been patiently waiting, we have more work to do on our end first.

[quote who="Murteas" reply="151" id="2826272"]That is a great benefit for beta users in my mind. Looking forward to testing the beta. Everyone needs to keep in mind that this is a beta patch.... not the real thing![/quote] +1 karma from me for this comment.

[quote who="KINGTS" reply="147" id="2826239"]Why do you need a Internet connection after updating the Beta patch? If your offline, you cannot play, is that your meaning?[/quote] Yes, if you are offline you will be unable to play after updating to the beta patch.

Just a reminder that the beta will release tomorrow (sorry we aren't committing to a time yet). I didn't want people out looking for the beta tonight after reading the changelog and wondering where it was.

[quote who="Sherekhaan" reply="14" id="2825495"]I don't see the fix to mount animations in tactical battles being torturously long; unless of course it was cunningly hidden. Please tell me that is in this build...[/quote] Yes, animation speed in general was improved but most notably on mounted units (where there was a bug) and archers.

[quote who="onomastikon" reply="15" id="2825496"]Looks very promising, thank you! But ... why did you remove morale? Even if you were dissatisfied with the way it was currently working, it would have been excellent to at least have the mechanics in game to tweak (perhaps later, perhaps post 1.1). Now, there will be no use for such wonderful spells such as Fear (there goes my spell contest idea), and an interesting option in tactical battles is gone. While I am sure Morale was far f

The following are the key new features of the 1.1 patch. It went into public beta on November 19th and will be released on December 14 th , 2010. Global Mana System - Instead of having mana per unit, mana is a player resource. Players must balance between using their mana to enchant their cities and units, summoning creatures, attacking their enemies, or saving up for powerful la

[quote who="nikmesh" reply="198" id="2823388"]So is casting time for spells confirmed in 1.1? If yes, then any idea what is going to pass for the MOM equivalent of 'casting skill?'[/quote] Casting Time isn't in 1.1, but it is speced to be included. The problem is that Casting Time is big change with art, UI and AI implications and it interacts with future systems (meaning that if we implemented now we would need to reimplement later anyway). So it isn't in 1.1, but I want

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="7" id="2821902"]Maybe I'm being paranoid, but does this OP mean that essence is being removed from the game entirely? No Impulse build or dev blurb so far has made me think of giving up on the game, but this change might actually make me regret all the time (and the modest sum of money) I've invested so far.[/quote] Essence is gone, units dont have individual mana anymore, global mana is used instead (as it was in MoM). &nbs

We have been hard at work on the 1.1 patch. Today we built an internal alpha which went to our testers and they began reporting issues, bugs, etc. Our feature list isn't completely implemented yet, there are still a few things to checkin but I expect that they will be all in by Monday. The team has been told to focus on bug fixes and polish between now and next Thursday (11/18/2010) which we are targeting as the date for the release of the publ