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[quote who="cephalo" reply="8" id="2405902"]The map needs a ton of work![/quote] cephalo - go for the joooob! ;)

Have you tried the open source Komodo Edit IDE? I like it but I am just a hack who started learning Python this summer - so don't take my word ;) EDIT: http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/

How about trash heaps at the edge of cities (the older the bigger), abandoned roads and buildings that slowly are taken back by nature, mine tailings that may be recycled one day, and growing monster pack-rat middens (the older the more loot)? I would love a game mechanism to mark the passage of time other than just through growth and conquest. Just imagine your sovereign living long enough to one day send a scout (archeologist?) to that old mine, city ruin, monster den, etc. that was

I have lost all of my research on game save or load. Is there a place I can upload my save?

Elemenal does a CTD on the load screen: Vista 64 bit, clean install of latest Beta, deleted the Documents\My Games\Elemental folder from the previous install. debug.err http://pastebin.com/m4958c35f After several failed game starts, the game did run but then I had a CTD after clicking on the Play button (final game configuration step): debug.err http://pastebin.com/m438ab5aa I really can't tell why the game sometimes works. The last time I tried it didn't have

I updated elemental to Beta 1a but the game hanged on the load screen. Just to be safe, I uninstalled Elemental and deleted the "Documents\My Games\Elemental" folder (required one reboot) and re-insatlled the game. On start up, the fresh install did a crash to desktop (CTD) on the loading screen (not the the pixelated splash screen). Here is my debug.err http://pastebin.com/m73c17591 . The second time around, the game booted u

Yay! The first Elemental beta patch appears to have fixed the cloth map glitches.

Thanks scottrycroft - setting the mipmap levels to 1 removed the cloth-map artifacts! One tile did flip to an 'undiscovered' look on my town for one round but otherwise it's all pretty. Off course, the game loading issues remain but that could be just a missing feature.

The following glitches also happen on my desktop machine (Vista 64bit, I7, GeForce GTX 275) when reloading a saved game. Restarting Elemental and starting a new game makes all glitches go away. Missing figure pedestal Missing city graphics in world view and city editing mode Missing goodies graphics I guess only the cloth map artifacts (striping, tiling, obscuring, etc.) may be due to a driver/graphics card related bug.

I am having a bunch of graphical glitches in windowed and full display mode: cloth map artifacts (striping, tiling, obscuring, etc.) Missing figure pedestal Missing city graphics in world view and city editing mode My laptop's specs are: Windows XP SP3 MacBook Pro: 2GB RAM Mobility Radeon X1600: DirectX 9.0c, ATI Catalyst 09.3 <img src="http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx344/lobosan77/Elemental/lobosan_graphical_bug01

I build a 64bit Vista, Intel I7 machine just so that I can play on gigantic maps. Maybe my wife will join me in a game again. She used to quit once the map was explored in Civ 4 - exploration was all she cared about. :) I hope the 64bit support will be ready by the time the game is released next year.

I vote for Camp #3! I like its promise of trading-in micromanagement for emergent patterns that I could influence strategically (this might be really fun from mid game on). Trade could also be encouraged by deriving some - perhaps late game - bonuses from resource diversity: - Higher food diversity could attract population (or heroes?) from less divers areas. - Higher precious stones and metals diversity could make your sword and armor prettier. ;)

I love the idea of complex resource and economic management (lots of emergent behavior, please!) but would it be fun to play? A friend and I had a lot of fun conceptualizing a web-based city management game with renewable & non-renewable resources, a complex economy (multiple markets, cartels, positive/negative externalities, etc.), and with global impacts. We soon realized that the really cool resource and economic models we came up with could very quickly translate into much wor