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[quote who="tevans6220" reply="161" id="2757863"]Just how did anything I say imply that I hated Stardock?[/quote] Because you are trying your best to imply that Brad is lying, or Stardock is failing, and you are not even trying to understand how business works. [quote who="tevans6220" reply="161" id="2757863"]You can call me a "hater" all day but there's no denying the fact that Elemental is not a Stardock quality product and I think Brad would agree.[/quote] Whether&n

Everyone seems to want the magic system from Master of Magic , but has anyone thought about how Elemental might be better off with a magic system more like Dominions 3 ? [e digicons]:P[/e]

[quote who="tevans6220" reply="153" id="2757814"]Here's my money point. Brad just laid people off due to poor revenue from Elemental. They broke even on preorders, right? Anything after preorders is profit, right? Since no Elemental revenue had been coming in before Elemental's release it seems kind of ludicrous to use poor revenue as a reason for laying people off. They had money to pay them before release but not after? Haven't laid anybody off since 1997 but all of a sudden because of poor

[quote quoting="post"]I want to build a Farm on a tile with Fertile Land resource. Unfortunately some NPC champion stands right on it - so I just can't select the tile with my mouse. Is there any "special" way to do it? Like Ctrl + click maybe or something.[/quote] If you don't plan on hiring the champion, you can always kill it. Just select your army, use the Action tab in the bottom info bar to choose Attack, and kill it. Of course, this requires one of your armies being next t

[quote who="Desidono" reply="190" id="2756889"]P.S> My hope for your next game project is a city simulator, ala SimCity.[/quote] They were working on Society until it got shelved. (be patient, the page takes a few seconds to load)

[quote quoting="post"]Magic System Changes. This is an area that’s going to get a lot of changes. For instance, Essence will become a boolean (true or false). Your mana will come from a global pool of mana that is from the shards. The elemental spell books (earth, air, fire, water) will get moved out of character creation and into the tech tree so that players can determine what spell books they want. Various spells will gain a mana “maint” rather than using “enc

[quote who="Elvisman2001" reply="179" id="2754415"]I think the best thing they could do ASAP, while they continue to patch the game and fix things, is open up the modding as soon and as much as possible. I'm talking Python stuff here. . . where WE have access to the AI and whatever else possible. If nothing else, the game can quickly be turned into a modder's dream and just as War Craft III, Never Winter Nights,Star Craft II, Half-Life, Etc Etc have shown. . . the communities can make some in

I figured I'd better ask before updating... does 1.07 affect prior games? IOW, do we need to start new games?

[quote who="StAtiC--9" reply="307" id="2753083"]I don't know if it's come up for anyone else, but I collected all pieces of the forge, and then went back to the temple to assemble them and nothing happens. Really aggravating. [/quote] Did you save and load the game between the time you got the quest, and the time you went back to finish it? This is a quest bug where loading a saved game will reset the initial Quest Location back to it's starting status, and affects any ques

[quote who="DrGroth" reply="293" id="2752422"]Why does Wisdom show up in character creation, but nowhere else. Why Can't I increase it when I level up? It is not even shown.[/quote] From what I read of beta threads, Wisdom and Essence seemed to continuously change function, until the end when they decided Wisdom = your starting Essence. Unfortunately, this isn't explained in the manual. So during the game you can increase your Essence, but you'll never see Wisdom again. However, they

[quote who="Master_of_Magic" reply="16" id="2752532"] So what would be considered free content if that excludes patches and expansion packs?[/quote] The ONLY thing that will cost more is any expansion packs that Stardock releases for Elemental. All patches will be FREE. These patches will also include FREE content additions for at least one year. Even after the year is over, patches will still be FREE.

I wanted to point out that some of your fixes might be changing things that are intended, due to balancing between Kingdoms and Empires, e.g. building costs. Kingdoms and Empires differ in what they are best at. OTOH, you could be correct, and those items are broken. I wish we could have a comment from a developer as to which items are working as intended. I guess we'll find out when patch 1.07 is released.

[quote who="pantognost" reply="241" id="2750675"]Am I the only one that has a gripe with the obscurity of the influence system?[/quote] Well, it would be nice to be able to see the numbers involved, but as far as I can tell, influence is working fine. [quote who="pantognost" reply="241" id="2750675"]Oh and also what about the sovereign gaining essence without gaining levels (at least i did not level him up).[/quote] Each Shard Shrine you build will increase Essence tot

[quote who="Daynarr" reply="5" id="2750700"]Actually, I don't think they override an old one. I had, for example, a shard popping up on top of my already built farm. I've also seen shards showing up on top of other resources too (even AI's).[/quote] I wasn't saying the new resource or shard overwrites the old one, but that it overwrites, i.e. appears on top of. So we agree. [quote who="Daynarr" reply="5" id="2750700"]Not only does it appear that new resources/shards show up bu

[quote quoting="post"]I would like to see some more stability here. Every time I load a new game, I get a new set of goodie huts and sometimes if there are resources in my territory that I have not built on, they will change their resource type when loading a saved game. For example, I had a gold mine that I hadn't built on yet and after loading a saved game, it turned into an Air Shard. [/quote] I think I know what happened to your Gold Mine... In one of my games, wh

[quote quoting="post"]The Temple of Essence description states that it increases the essence of your units by 25%. As of the 1.06 hotfix patch, it provides no bonus. [/quote] Actually, as far as I can tell, a Temple of Essence provides a 1% bonus. I was getting a +30% bonus from having 3 shards with Shrines built on them, and after I built a Temple of Essence I was getting +31%. For those that don't know how to see your Essence bonus, click on the View Equipme

Thanks for the post! I'm looking forward to future updates. I wanted to point out that some of the "errors" might be due to people not understanding the system. For example: 1. Not able to build city improvements: I think a lot of people don't know about the 5 tile limit with other cities. This isn't explained in the documentation anywhere, that I've seen. 2. Not able to raze a city: I think a lot of people don't know that they need to research up the Warfare tree to b

[quote who="Akitoscorpio" reply="18" id="2748512"]It would be kinda cool if building on a forest tile gave a one time discount to stuff built on that square, ya know, cause you are choping trees down for those wood buildings. [/quote] What!? Chopping down trees to get resources to speed up a build? Where have I heard that before? [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Actually, the tech is called Shard Harvesting. Shard Domination comes after Shard Harvesting, and allows you to build the Tower of Souls.

[quote quoting="post"]One more problem with saves, sometimes I load it up and it switches the tech category that I'm working on. I'm not totally sure with this one but I'll detail it more if I see it again. [/quote] I've seen this happen when I call up the Research screen after loading a save game. It will reset to the first tech, e.g. Imperial.

[quote who="Norhg" reply="40" id="2747817"]We really should try map out what resources appear from specific techs as all evidence points toward revealed resources being predetermined.[/quote] Kingdom 1st: Gold Mine 2nd: Orchard and Apiary Empire 1st: Gold Mine 2nd: Gold Mine

[quote who="Gravedancer" reply="115" id="2747530"]Dominions 3 still has my curiosity. One possible negative for me is that I prefer SP so I've been slightly concerned where I've been reading about people saying MP is where the game is really fun.[/quote] I only play Dom 3 as single player, and it's a lot of fun for me :) It has the best AI I've ever seen in a single-player strategy game (and I've played many, including 90% of the games listed in this thread). Unless you are some

[quote who="Norhg" reply="6" id="2747547"]Would be a bit weird with short swords and the like having an advantage over the spears, they system might need some rebalancing.[/quote] Well, they could always just give each weapon it's own speed, no need to have everything grouped into categories.

For my Empire of Magnar, Mapping opened up a Gold Mine that was next to my capitol, and Destiny's Scrolls opened up a Gold Mine next to my second city.

I'm playing my first Empire game, and I see you are missing some Domination techs. This branch of the Domination Tree opens up various buildings that can be built. The Old Order (Likely): This breakthru represents a significant effort on behalf of our scouts. We will map out more of the world and find superior notable locations which can provide great items. Unfortunately, it also awakens more dangerous creatures. Unlocks: <str