David Meacham

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3272412"]Should almost do a poll on this: Would you be willing to give up player designed units to have a greater visual variety in the races? Basically, the limitation is that each body type / skeleton requires its own set of clothing, armor, etc. [/quote] That's a lot of the reason I'd be willing to open my wallet for DLC with that visual variety; I know it involves a great deal of artist hours to go and design

When I came by two years ago and said that Elemental was too bland, I did so because it was a game solely involving differently-hued humans fighting over some huts. It didn't really have anything to do with the AI or bugs or the core gameplay, it was the setting that needed the most help. That's exactly what people were hoping that Kael would bring with him from Fall from Heaven. We wanted a game where a race of fire-breathing golems were fighting against a kingdom o

The fun I was missing in the original Elemental release was diversity in what you could play. You could play humans, bald humans, green-tinted humans, or greyish humans, and you could build a shiny city for them to live in or a crappy city for them to live in with the exact same bonuses. There was nothing fundamentally game-changing like a race of immortal crystal golem people who live underground and don't need food but have to harvest the babies of living races for their souls.&

This strikes me as being a lot like the flagships from Galciv, which kept being billed as 'with enough exploration upgrades, they'll be godly!' but which kept winding up totally outgunned before a third of the game had progressed. Hopefully a little more oomph will be given to unique units in future updates. I don't mind having to pay for that oomph; sticking some jackass in armor on a horse and calling him your champion is probably not in and of itself sufficient to le

A consumer's role in this is to speak with their money. If you like Elemental, buy it. Fretting over what other people are doing is just an exercise in futile frustration. "Rar pirates bad!" is an admirable sentiment and all, but that isn't putting food on the tables of the folks who made the game. There are enough honest people in the world to support makers of good games, so pay your share, show it to your friends, and the developers will be taken care of.