[quote who="flymar" reply="15" id="2809157"]... It wasn't an attack in any way. If you consider it was, I apologize. I just think it's a bad idea.[/quote] I probably should have written "struck me as a possible attack," but I was lazy.
These both seem like functional spells that might last through major rework of the magic system: Infernal (Fire, Tactical, Level 4) : Infernal is an adjective. This seems like a long-ignored typo that should be Inferno. Or something else fiery, but not leaving you wondering about the object of the modifier. Stab of Ice (Water, Tactical, Level 1) : So ugly it can't even be described as a simple grammar or spelling error. It's the opposite of poetry. How did name
[quote who="Sunjah_Kahn" reply="10" id="2808953"]Woah, I don't think we need to blast the opening poster here for trying to give feedback. Just my opinion, but this post hurts no one, and could help. ... Seriously, though, just as a suggestion; aren't "boards/forums" for the posting of ideas? It seemed like this guy here was attacked for simply stating ideas and opinions...[/quote] The only post that struck me as an attack was Flymar's reply 9. Seems like the re
The devs might be just as interested, or more, in how folks would distribute 1,000 possible points among a set of categories like this as they are in how we might rank a given item on a given scale. Seeing magic as just 12% of a total score seems odd to me because I've been most interested in those aspects of the game (and because the subtitle is War of Magic). I'm not sure where I'd 'steal' the possible points from, but something around 20% of the possible total seems like a good sta
[quote who="charon2112" reply="10" id="2805412"]I use shortcut keys constantly in TBS games. I find it very convenient.[/quote] Me too. The decline of that sort of convenience in many forms of software make me suspect that there's an evil dev conspiracy to make software in general favor folks who prefer fondling pictures to ones who appreciate complete sentences. I wish I'd taken a screen-cap of the Keyboard tab that was briefly in the Options for the betas. It's certain
[quote who="DKL" reply="45" id="2802716"]Regarding user reviews objectivity, was reading one site recently and saw some 0/10 reviews for E:WoM based on accusations that Brad and his team have right wing political views. Now THATS a way to judge the game [/quote] Re "objectivity," reviews are all about finding someone with common subjective tastes to help you find stuff you like and avoid boring or annoying stuff. The only role "objectivity" might play is in hard-numbers stuff like
[quote who="charon2112" reply="21" id="2805405"]... I would suggest just making like a normal strategy game, if all cities are conquered, game over. OR, if you lose your sovereign and don't have a suitable heir, you lose. That would add a whole new layer of importance to marrying and having kids. [/quote] That might be interesting if there weren't already a powerful motive to breed: new, spell-casting champions. As the game is now, the only question about your so
[quote who="Admiral Rom" reply="58" id="2801785"]... Im still a bit worried that design decisions like making all the factions essentially the same, will force me to rely on modders to make it more interesting.[/quote] This "Let them eat mods" thing might be my single biggest worry/vexation with the Elemental project so far. The idea of moddability as an important trait makes sense to me, but so much of what I've read from Brad and others makes it sound almost like buildi
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="16" id="2805174"]Yea, and the game already list who is next in line to the throne, it just seems set up for this feature. And if someone was able to take over if a Sov died, then we wouldn't worry so much about Sov suicides making the game so easy.[/quote] RPG stuff aside, I've always supported sovereign-death=game-over because it is just more fun for me strategically. Having succession for AI players seems like it might be fun, but I'm still
[quote who="yaromir" reply="76" id="2791053"]... I have lots of room on 1600 width. Quite a few others play on 1920 width. Optimize the screen for 1280 but give us a choice to add more columns if we have the real-estate.[/quote] Plenty of web gimgaws are bandwidth-sensitive. I want TBS UIs that are resolution-sensitive. Although Elemental might need a Setup option along the lines of "Screw the Eye Candy and Max My Info Displays."
[quote who="Alstein" reply="34" id="2803868"]This leads to the question: do people want honest-to-goodness reporting or the LCD? Or are corporations manipulating the news for their own benefit? [/quote] This tried-to-be-in-recovery postmodernist says, "All three." Sometimes I wish I'd never learned Venn diagrams...
[quote who="Gene1966" reply="8" id="2801950"]... I like certain things to be unpredictable, but I like other things to be predictable. Then I like manipulating the predictable ones.[/quote] That almost describes the whole 'role-playing by myself' thing that TBS games have done for me since Civ 1. You might also be pointing out the challenge for the designers when it comes to 'our sort' of players. It boils down to control freaks asking for a steady supply of surprises that turn
Money, in games and the world at large, is basically abstracted exchange value. Primary economic activity involves exchanging things that have direct use value: labour, food, fibre, shelter, libations, and other 'simple' luxuries. Money has great power to transform and expand political economies, but it should never be mistaken for something useful in its own right. (I admit that some metal coins can be reworked into useful forms and hyperinflated paper currency can seem more useful as stove
Might be even more fun if each champion had a 'roll' to determine whether he/she went back on the labour market, took up general villainy, or decided to go on a vendetta against the foul folks who murdered his/her sovereign.
[quote who="PoSmedley" reply="87" id="2801121"]GW Swicord, off topic but I just gotta say, I am really diggin' that avatar. [/quote] landisaurus made it for me when some newer folks at Elemental also started using the original, non-Vulcan version that the devs posted. I paid him in karma. Mumblefratz, I've not been around GC2 lately and the devs removed Off Topic from the Elemental forums. I'm around, just not often where you're likely to see me posting. Re the foru
[quote who="Gaeb22" reply="37" id="2801076"]... Like armour, colour, etc etc etc?[/quote] I'm a Floridian who very much appreciates having some colour in my world-English prose. It's just that my only exposure to "spelt" has been on the labels of niche-market grain products. Is it kosher in the UK to use a simple T where us cross-the-pond folks would generally think to use a form like "spelled?"
[quote who="Das123" reply="34" id="2801009"]... In FFH2 there were also specific monsters that spawned as the Armageddon counter climbed and depending on your stage of development they either spelt doom or were an opportunity to get some really cool equipment. ...[/quote] Your liberated spelling of spelt has some serious irony/cognitive dissonance entertainment value. It almost distracts from your more important point about how the buil
I have no idea about what KingHobbit meant by "heroes," but I definitely want to see some sort of non-combat experience for champion units with administrative abilities. That might look like "doing nothing" to a combat focused player, but to turtlers and other less aggression-centered players it would look like a perfectly reasonable corollary to battle champions gaining power by winning fights.
[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="80" id="2800843"]... And you can view the total given, it's right there in the bar as you said: ...[/quote] Beg pardon for not being precisely clear with my picky point. I was hoping to see the karma given total included in the link text that leads to the karma given details. That way, one click on a user's karma total in a post would lead to a page that showed totals for both karma received and karma given. p.s. The global karma math might s
[quote who="YuhongBao" reply="23" id="2800828"]"The real problem is that, just like the Romans, we've turned pandering to the lowest common denominator into an artform." Hopefully Brad won't do so.[/quote] He's a riddle wrapped in an enigma so far as that goes--very interested in all manner of mass-market stuff, yet clearly a very picky and thoughtfully opinionated man. The cognitive dissonance talk makes me wonder of Mr. Wardell likes any 'difficult music' like Bela Bartok
I don't know how long it's been there, but somewhere amongst his recent updates Bara has added a View Karma Given option to the user karma pages. Finally, this site karma stuff has some, ahem, balance. I'd like to suggest adding the total given to the info on that bar, to make it easy to see at a glance what I found with a bit of clicking. There's some fascinating variety in folks who get lots and give much less, give lots more than they have, etc. Beyond the raw numbers on th
Would be nice indeed to see the cloth map show this info without relying on the Terrain viewer. Seems like all it would take would be some new tile art along the lines of the stuff for hills, deserts, and swamps. [quote who="Black-Knight" reply="2" id="2800566"]... but t would be really cool not to be forced to play only on the cloth map. ...[/quote] Heh. I'd rather not have to suffer the baggage that the 3D views has brought to the game. Imagine how much attention the mechani
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="220" id="2800421"]... Yay threadjacking![/quote] The Stardock boards taught me that fun new word, and your link to that Perdue site both reaffirmed my desire to get Raven to earn a karma point and made me notice that I've never done paid work on prose that included a phrase like "Mind your p's and q's." But I can imagine being handed a style sheet written by an editor who found mixed case preferable to the apostrophe use: "For plural forms of individual le
[quote who="marlowwe" reply="8" id="2800286"]... I agree with everything you said except for the above part. I feel that above all else, Elemental needs to keep to a structured and concrete path as much as possible. This means every mechanic must be, from the game designer's point of view, predictable and meaningful. Introducing probability-based elements in a game that can't even get the simplest mechanics off the ground will give the development team unnecessary headaches - especially in th
[quote who="kyogre12" reply="216" id="2800254"]... To be fair, in certain situations an apostrophe can indicate that something is plural. Those situations are pretty uncommon, and its use in the OP is still incorrect, but they do exist.[/quote] Not to exacerbate my threadjacking, but can you cite an authority there? I admit I haven't bought a new style manual since last century, but I've tried to keep up with online references and to the best of my knowledge there are no plural noun f