Philocthetes

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="47" id="2868912"]... Completely unplayable? Seriously?[/quote] A couple of post-release builds refused to run on my rig, although the latest version at least starts a game without crashing for me. The 'unplayable' thing is, crashes aside, definitely an eye of the beholder situation. I've barely been playing since September because I'm one of those folks who developed serious attitude problems about a few things, magic in particular and atmosph

[quote who="Tydorius" reply="38" id="2868446"]... The problem was that the beta phase was not long enough or in depth enough. ... They've already said they will revamp their approach to beta testing. ...[/quote] Can you point me to the thread or give some distinct strings so I can search for it? I try to keep up with Dev Journals, but I missed any discussion of doing future betas differently. I definitely felt that there was a major missing final phase that focused on the 'conten

[quote who="Sythion" reply="20" id="2868349"] Quoting gmot, reply 13Sorry, no can do. My head hurts from that massive run-on sentence. A little punctuation would help - maybe just one or two commas? Not asking for anything fancy like semi-colons... You ended your first sentence with a preposition, your hyphen was completely unnecessary, your third setence was a fragment, and you misused your ellipsis.[/quote] The first sentence wasn't a formal construction, but "to do"

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="87" id="2867635"]I kinda assumed it was aimed at me, I may curse on occasion, but I think I'm still one fine fucking gentleman.[/quote] Maybe, but you're no grammarian. Intercourse run-on sentences. [e classic];)[/e]

[quote who="TheRayster" reply="57" id="2867381"]... People just need to be civil in all cases, and respect each other. If you couldn't say it to your mother without feeling a twinge of guilt or shame, you should not say it at all. ...[/quote] Keeping a civil demeanor in public is definitely a good thing. Respecting people in general, however, is not the same thing as feeling obliged to speak respectfully to someone who is a belligerent twit, and if the twit's behavior includes c

Re so-called bad words, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Vocabulary choice is a matter of fitting personal style to a given context. I try not to throw in words that might scare parents or offend religious conservatives--unless it seems like the thread, or especially the OP, is not picky about such things. Sometimes my emotions get the better of me and I end up calling a pile of excrement by a much shorter word. Re censorship, I'm a minority (gay) and I regularly see folk

[quote who="Alstein" reply="20" id="2865935"]The only thing SD really wants is a dropbox account, which is actually a useful thing to have for other reasons. Dropbox just requires an email- make a dummy email if you need it. I don't think the request is particularly oneroua. [/quote] I'd gladly pay a bit of extra clicking to be able to avoid mucking with a third party offering a so-called free online service. Too many net-newbies (that's you if you never sign

[quote who="xStarfirex" reply="7" id="2866250"]... I think perhaps one difference between you and me is that I am not that attached to much of the stated lore for elemental so far and as such if that "lore" starts getting in the way of their prefered gameplay mechanics then I would rather they changed the lore to fit over changing the game mechanics if they are working fine.[/quote] Tweaking lore when it conflicts with valued mechanics makes sense, but it should have happened during t

The name of the spell book is a horrible immersion breaker, at least for me; it just doesn't work with the MoM-successor, Tolkien appreciator, Song of Ice and Fire fan talk. The spells themselves, generally speaking, make sense in the hazy framework of the post-Cataclysm game world we're supposed to be in. The 'balance' stuff I can't say much about because the game's still changing rapidly and I've never cared very much about scores/winning/whatever. I'm still waiting for a TB

[quote who="joasoze" reply="5" id="2865098"]Maybe its because we are old [/quote] The dev participation seems a likely important factor, but the net.geezer thing might be part of it as well. Couple of interesting Off-Topic threads: https://forums.galciv2.com/117380 and https://forums.galciv2.com/397269

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="81" id="2864001"]Their hires prove the dedication. Let's just be patient and, as customers, grant the time they need to pull it all together.[/quote] Patience is a virtue I can get behind, but Brad's an ardent capitalist, so 'we the community' are obliged to maintain our own personal standards of excellence whilst we work on our ability to be patient.

[quote who="WhiteElk" reply="6" id="2863676"]...a PS EDIT: It doesn't help ones productivity to come across reports titled as "Heres your damn X" Attempt to put yourself in their shoes. But failing the experience to adequately do so, simply think of them as a fellow human being.[/quote] That counts both ways. I don't like the tone of the OP, but having a Dilbert strip to back me up makes me pretty sure I'm not the only old-school nerd who appreciates t

[quote who="Leomund" reply="76" id="2863720"]... I think there is a lot of potential there, and I don't mean to be a dick, I just would like to see some imagination go into the world so you can feel like there is something different about the kingdoms other than one has a technology bonus and one has a research bonus. [/quote] Perhaps because he's primarily a software tools developer and not a toymaker, Brad's public discussion about Elemental's problems focuses on technical pro

[quote who="nrich61" reply="3" id="2863647"]... I think they want you to upload it or some crap like that, but I dont want to go creating any more random accounts anywhere, have enough of that crap all over for work.[/quote] Couldn't agree more...

[quote who="brycex99" reply="6" id="2862754"]... Essentially, I want to see the magic system in it's current state worked out to a point of polish that would make adding an idea like Season/Element based modifiers more useful.[/quote] That was my subtext, which was probably obvious to anyone who is familiar with my long-term obsession with the still-scrawny magic system. Re your 'added complexity without added fun' points, well, I can agree that seasons might be more fun if th

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2861898"]One suggestion I have is that you can have Impulse check your install versus the server. Just right click and choose the check installation (or something like that).[/quote] That option disappeared some time ago. I miss it. (I think the verb on the menu was Verify.) p.s. The update was the 'small version' for me, although the Preparing phase was oddly long. Best thing was that the game launches successfully on my rig again. I can bi

One of the reasons I've thought there should be a turns/seasons toggle in Options is that they are just confusing UI clutter without some meaningful connection(s) to gameplay. Combat modifiers would be one interesting way to make the 'calendar' meaningful, but so would linking it to other subsystems like diplomacy (the 'social' season when info flows more freely and deals are generally more likely), dynastic marriages (the wedding season), and, in my dream world, the strategic magic s

[quote who="Alstein" reply="33" id="2861593"]...Personally, I'd love pages of options for world design, provided the AI can handle it, but on a useability end, you're going to also need to keep it simple for others (perhaps a basic/advanced world option?) [/quote] Long ago, there was talk about the Setup options being pages long. Starting with a simple toggle between basic and advanced world settings seems like a very good way to make the complexity available for those of us who want

[quote who="Filthgrinder" reply="4" id="2861577"]What I am saying I want to be able to CHOOSE how I want it displayed. I prefer the Turn Number display.[/quote] GalCiv2 eventually included this as a toggle in Options. Hopefully, Elemental will do the same, only sooner.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="68" id="2859825"]I'm not antisocial or arrogant, I just lack impulse control and the ability to filter what I think from what I say/type...poop. I like saying poop...[/quote] Who can deny the fun value of the word poop? Only stupid poop-heads...

Femmefatal48 wants to bash someone as a fag? This 'fag' is too amused by the irony to bother with the external link. Plus, I'm at least as lazy as Wintersong and I really wish there was a bit more 'spreadsheet' to Elemental b/c so far it still seems like a game aimed at consoles and not PCs.

There's no reason to require a succession thing or exclude champions from this generally good idea. New folks interested in the older arguments might enjoy Scott's thread Thoughts on Chancellors, Cities, Snaking and Secession . p.s. As an old son of the New South, I kinda wish that the game had some secession mechanics, even though I still like sovereign death = game over in single-player mode. Early on, I had high hopes that the dy

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="2" id="2857963"]... I think my issue with cities is that they don't look organic. There's no sprawl at all. They're all either nice neat cubes, oblong shapes, or irregular blocks. There's no easy fix for this. But I think having more visible space within the cities (actually roads, more spacious plots for important structures) would make cities look more organic.[/quote] Definitely. When the placement of a given improvement has no specific tactical or strate

[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="3" id="2856760"]Exactly. When you want to use the cloth map, you usually want to have it zoomed in pretty close. But you also want to zoom out in the normal view at times, so the current system isn't useful at all. I really hope this gets fixed eventually, at least as an option to have the map appear manually, not automatically.[/quote] Re-reading can be such a useful thing. Now I think I get it. You want to ditch the slider for the 'boundary' between th

1.1 crashes on me, but in the past you could press 1, 2, 3, and 4 to switch between various zoom levels and angles. There's also a slider somewhere in options to tweak the zoom level boundary between the cloth map and 3D view.