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I have also noticed this behavior, never got a game to load until i saw the "wait" thing on this board, now seems to work.

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="6" id="2467481"]I would rather be able to select an heir than to follow any rites of succesion involving blood relation. Perhaps after a few betrayals by "former allies", I might look at an enemy and consider them honourable in comparison. My thoughts might be "Atleast he had the decency to face me on the battle field." and "Despite our grudges, he seems to treat his people right.". [/quote] I don't really understand how one could say one's enemy t

[quote who="SnallTrippin" reply="24" id="2383700"]...question: Aren't all programmers lazy? Answer: ye[/quote] Heh, one of the quotes I use at work: Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. -- Robert A. Heinlein Which I typically follow with "So they don't have to get up as early" I never cease to amaze

WooHoo! Found a peanut, er, bug. Charged a 10th lvl troll on the 2nd turn and got killed, tried to start a new game, got a totally white map.

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I have had a similar problem, mine has also occured with some other games. I have a two monitor setup and sometimes when I launch a game it doesn't get focus properly, so I make a habit of clicking in the window after the splash screen comes up and it works fine now. Don't know if it will help you, but after two attempts to launch only to have it exit, i tired just clicking on the screen and it continued.

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="17" id="2375641"] Yeah I thought it was real slick the way they waited until [their] quitting time to send out a message so I didn't have any time to respond in time to actually get the thing downloaded today.The process started early in the day but there are A LOT of pre-orders. All will be well soon.[/quote] I have to apologize for the shortness of my previous post, they did process my order and send a code (yay!) it's been a long week.</

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Yeah I thought it was real slick the way they waited until [their] quitting time to send out a message so I didn't have any time to respond in time to actually get the thing downloaded today. My CC company is responding to my query with "since you have such a good credit rating we put a hold on your card since you didn't make a payment this month" To which I respond "thanks for letting me know which credit card to cancel", that seemed to honestly confuse the poor person. frewk

I despaired of ever being able to copy/paste on these forums, thanks for tip!!

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="57" id="2369183"] Razing cities (or at least towns and villages) was common practice in ancient and to a lesser extent in medieval times. Sure, it'll leave a bad impression on the allies of whoever's towns you're razing, but they'd have a poor impression of you anyways. And maybe some other goody-two-shoes would get a negative impression of you from it... But razing a town doesn't necessarily mean slaughtering its inhabitants. It just means dispersing the

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="51" id="2368584"] But, if you have 32 races, and then say 10 minor races, 20-25 cities is obviously too small. Assuming that you spread out some before going to war, and establish, say, four cities, then at four a piece you have 128 cities, just for the main races. Plus say another five or six for the minor races. Let's just say 135 for ease of computations. So, if you're a huge sprawling empire by turn 500, and have crushed a few players, you probab

So I am wondering, will the option to download the beta just show up some day? Will we get a notification ahead of time, at what point (date) should we investigate NOT being able to download the beta? I pre-ordered in November last year, just nervous.

I guess as long as the area you control doesn't increase the amount of essence you gain, that makes sence. edit: I found the piece of info I was looking for: Over time, the life force (or death force) that a channeler initially imbued in the land will naturally spread so each founded town won’t usually require the sacrifice of essence to create. However, if the player wants to quickly spam out a bunch of cities (which is a typical strategy in 4X games) it

Ok my question, that I can't find addressed anywhere else is, what is meant by: "... there won't be the traditional "land grab" found in most strategy games" is there a description someplace I haven't found yet of what we get instead of the land grab? (I always hated the "land grab" phase of 4x games.)

meh, I hope I get in the alpha then, 'cause Champions Online will (supposed) come out on Sept 1. Everything I see about this game makes me more impatient, I may actually break off playing CO to play with the public beta if I don't see an invite to the alpha. But who knows how time will pan out.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="6" id="1950672"]Seems like this thread has found a really big basic question for the game. How does using a channeler's fundamental essence to expand usable map territory relate to siezing rival territory through force? Is the fundamental limit what your channeler can personallly sustain, or what your channeler's subservient units can defend?[/quote] Good question, is it unit based or does the basic essence of the ruler imbue the land over time. (kind of

[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="16" id="1942685"] Rather than taking your death lumps and keep on fighting, because you know you can make a comeback. 'Course lots of people will still the reload option, but I'd still like an option in between "ironman" and "reload at the first sign of trouble". Has it been confirmed yet as to whether we will have the choice to keep on fighting or will the game just end as soon as our channler dies? I sure hope that its the former because while it w

Did you ever consider you might need glasses? :) I know some places are tough to read due to fonts etc, but not that bad.

[quote quoting="post"] Has there been any offical announcement by Frogboy on the statsus of the beta in June? June is 4 days away! I dont think I could live thru another month without testin Elemental! nah just kiddin! [/quote] Even if they were still targeting June, the end of June is just as much June as the begining. So they would still have 4+ weeks to get it to us.

Most games[quote who="landisaurus" reply="11" id="2104389"]yeah, I'm totally confused how we are expected to wrapping solve the lack of tesselation in octagons for the above stated reason. That being said, we could have a complex over-lapping system (where octagons overlap each other, i.e. put another octagon over every 'G' as seen in piderman's diagram so that the diagnols of each octogon passes through the centers of the adjascent octogons.) to create the best system! again th

Because most companies use cancer as their business model. Greed mean profit, profit means growth, growth mean more profit, etc. Very few ever realized that cancer inevitably results in the death of the host, and the cancer. (see recent "economic downturn" as cancer patient going on life support)

Loving the sound of this game with each new journal entry. :) Seriously, I haven't heard of a game this promising in a long time. I'd be interesting to know how villages/towns/cities develop. Will we be seeing them grow by population only or do the specialty type building affect growth? (i.e. blacksmith, alchemist etc.) Will we see individual buildings, will I know a blacksmith from a stable? Will cities cover area on the map or just be points on it? Most strat

I like camp #3, but I'd like to add something about roads. It'd be interesting if roads kind of built themselves. Or at least started automatically. If you have two locations, people will move betwee the two locations over certain paths more often than others. (Ever notice places on collage campuses where the grass is worn into a path when the sidewalks don't take people where they want to go?) So if paths grow (organically) based on traffic, then resources (money) can later be expend

[quote quoting="post"] FBeta 0: June 2009. This won’t be fun and will only play on the cloth map. [snip] Beta 2: October 2009. This is the multiplayer test. It still won’t likely be very fun but you’ll be able to suffer with friends [snip] Beta 3: December 2009. This is when the game better start getting to be fun . This is where we balance things, etc. Gamma: J