Martimus

I don't like how the Constitution is only useful in multiples of 5. That means that you need to gain 5 levels increasing only constitution just to have any impact on the HP of your character. I would move that down to 2 at the most (still forcing two levels dedicated to constitution to have any effect, which isn't great either), and remove the arbitrary 2x multipler to the level. This will put HP at around the same level, but make constitution a meaningful stat. &nbs

I have to admit that the part of elemental that disappoints me the most is the city building. There is very little specialization that I have come to expect after having so much of that in Galactic Civilizations 2. In fact it almost reminds me of Civilization, where deciding what to build bears very little to the strategy of the game. What I suggest is that you continue to have a specified number of "resource" buildings per town level (buildings like the library for knowle

I have an ogre outside one of my towns, and whenever I fight him, the game instantly crashes the minute he decides to attack one of my troops during his turn. I can attack him during my turn, but both times I tried to kill him it crashed as soon as he made an attack during his turn. I am running Windows XP 32bit, with a Radeon 3850 256MB video card, and a AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU (manchester, on S939 board). It has been a while since I have played the game

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Unfortunately there is no crash files, since the game hung and didn't crash. As reported multiple times before, the game would hang for me at the splash screen, and never recover (cannot alt-tab, or ctrl-alt-delete). I figured out that it was my firewall that had a pop-up that stopped the program from continuing in the previous beta, but before Beta 3 I could always alt-tab to it and allow the program access. Since Beta 3, alt-tab no longer works on the spla

The mounting of the horse on the last picture looks really bad. I'll download the latest version and try out the new quests. The game is starting to shape up! I look forward to trying out the finished version.

I didn't see the Firewall bug getting fixed, but I will try it out anyway to see if it is.

The issue is that when the Firewall block comes up, there is no way to alt-tab to it to tell it to allow Elemental access. Reading the other problems, most had older S939 AMD processors, which means they likely have an nForce Chipset. This may mean that we all are using the nVidia Firewall that came with it, and thus don't have the option to set new programs manually (at least that I know of.) Hopefully you can change it as I suggested in the other thread, so that we can a

I had to turn off my firewall to get it to work. The inability to alt-tab out of the splash screen is what makes it hang. I was getting a firewall check since Elemental was trying to access the internet (which is strange at that point in the game). Maybe you should to the internet access later, when it is possible to alt-tab in the game, or change that splash screen to allow it?

I have the exact same problem. It hangs at the loading screen to the point I have to reset my computer to recover. It has done this both times I have started Beta 3. It hangs once the Elemental Beta 3 screen shows up on the screen. The feather is there, but nothing to click, and I am unable to alt-tab out, or even access task manager using ctrl-alt-del. I could only recover with a hard reset both times. This is my system: Microsof

I have had the same issues. I am glad I found this post before I posted it a second time.

That is bad ass. You should definitely have bone ogre camps in the game.

Is the 3D view supposed to be extremely blurry, like there is a fog over everything? Is it just that I am in a foggy area, and evrything looks foggy, or do you think there is an issue with my fog of war that makes it so there is no clear places (even my sovereign is fogged out)?

[quote who="LeBlaque" reply="9" id="2627409"]Let me restate my primary interest here because it is clear I didn't do it properly the first time: In sum, do people feel that the feedback provided by Brad&Co. on Elemental has been sufficient with respect to WHAT they are implementing from the beta team? Is there evidence of this? The purpose of comparing Stardock to the EVE developers was that it appears that EVE goes to great lengths to incorpor

[quote who="Lord Cobol" reply="48" id="2627972"] Haven't played Baldur's Gate, so I don't know what exactly the continuous-turn system would have been like. Anything like HOMM5 ?[/quote] Neverwinter Nights also used this system, along with the sequel. I like that way of playing, although I hated the arbitrary party limits of those games as they made no logical sense in the game world (only to add balance, since it doesn't make sense that 3/4 of your par

I kind of like the first camp. If I would like this game to be like any other game, I would pick Mount and Blade:Warband, since it is the most natural game I have played in a long time. It still has its issues, but there are a lot of game mechanics that are natural and aren't obvious game mechanics. What I wish this game was, was a game that tried to balance through natural means, and not something that changes game mechanics in a unbelievable fashion to attempt to change

[quote who="L7xLoTek" reply="26" id="2620768"]Particle editor? Hoo, count me intriqued. Quoting Martimus, reply 25Did you leave out the frame-rate limiter in the cloth map? I seem to be getting overheating GPU errors an awful lot when I play the game. Um... That should never happen. You should check if you have proper air flow and possibly remove excess dust from the fans and components.[/quote] Trust me when I say there is plenty of airflow. If

I hope to see it in action. The latest bug in Mount and Blade:Warband has got me not wanting to continue playing, so this game will have to fill in that time. Did you leave out the frame-rate limiter in the cloth map? I seem to be getting overheating GPU errors an awful lot when I play the game.

Just happened again. It seems to be random.

I am running Elemental Beta 1z4, and the game video crashed (causing a GPU recovery), then the game crashed about 30 seconds later. I am running Windows XP Home (32bit), with a Athlon X2 4200+ (S939), and a Radeon HD3850 256MB Video card, I am using the 10.3 drivers for my video card. This crash happened while trying to click on the actions tab (first tab) while a town was selected in the cloth map mode.

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="115" id="2606626"] Why can't we have race distinctions without custom races? I'd also like to know that... I'm in favor of "...build out the Factions with more lore and artwork. Current customization of factions would remain." But, I don't understand why we would have to eliminate race distinctions for that? (To be honest, eliminating race distinctions seems like it'd do the opposite of building out the factions'...). I mean, af

I would prefer to expand the race differences than the faction differences. Although don't gimp the faction lore too much, since that will be a big part of the storyline.

In games like this, it is the Lore that keeps people interested. The game-play only lasts so long without a story to drive it home. Plus the Story can cover up bad game-play and still make a good game (like Mass Effect).

This was my favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3GD0UnBCk Before that, no intro ever interested me. I loved the Mechwarrior 2 intro though, and it brought about the cinematic intros that all games have now (that you seem to despise, if I remember correctly).

I guess one of my characters stepped into the Kingdom of Gilden, and the king asked me to leave. I chose the option saying I would leave. A new option box comes up immediately once I choose the option, with the same request. No matter how many times I click it, it continues to pop up. I tried war, and that does the same thing. Lets talk about this will bring up a diplomacy screen, but once that is closed, the option box pops up again. I have to close the ga