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[quote who="MatBerryman2" reply="1" id="2519433"]This should be sticked! [/quote] Yup. Nice job, Wintersong. (Maybe add some links to the source posts so folks can see you didn't make it up & look into the chatter in those threads?)

[quote who="TheColourOfHeartache" reply="18" id="2519414"]If you're going for a Fae race shouldn't they be living Under The Hill rather than in trees?[/quote] You might be bumping on that awkward "race" word. Rishkith is planning a full set of factions that will include many different types of fey. Dig around on Wikipedia and you'll get a quick impression of how varied the folk lore is.

[quote]I mean, where are the ladies?[/quote] The spiders probably were ladies, at least if Elemental giant spiders are as social as they seem to be. Social spiders tend to have a female-biased sex ratio.

In 0.264, there sort of is. HOME and END step backwards and forwards through active units, at least when they're in a good mood. Sometimes they get erratic, though.

[quote who="pacov" reply="9" id="2519074"]still trying to figure out why they put it to porno music [/quote] Maybe it's a German thing? [e classic]:-|[/e]

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="4" id="2519014"]Taken. I wish surveymonkey didn't have that lame 100 participant limit for the free version, because it is by far the best survey creator I have found.[/quote] Please pardon the threadjacking, but if they didn't have that limit, how would they ever get a paying customer?

[quote]I think I'm going to try that gnocchi one soon. I'm trying to cut back on processed foods, but I never really learned how to cook anything else. An easy recipe like this is a great help.[/quote] Cutting back on processed foods is good for everyone, but if you have to use them, it's not hard to make 'em your own. You can make a quick pseudo-lasagna from frozen or fresh raviolis, some jar tomato sauce, a bit of your own spices, and some fresh parmesean, romano, and/or moz

Demiansky, you more or less caught me trying to, pardon the jargon, manage my own expectations. Civ-type games have never really done better than spackle over the player-POV/timescale problem, and Elemental has some unique possibilities because it includes magic and has the RPG 'fusion' thing going on. The whole turn=week thing in GalCiv2 still drives me crazy even though we can now toggle the main map 'calendar' to display a turn number instead of an inscrutable Julian date from the

[quote]Not to quibble too much, but a market isn't 'free' if it is coercively monopolized.[/quote] I'd agree with that if by coercion you mean use of physical force or corrupted regulatory authorities to suppress or control competitors. But I sense a hint of distaste for cartels like OPEC and De Beers, before they started letting go of their monopoly approach. If the 'coercion' involved is simply the exertion of superior financial resources and valid contractual relationships,

Wintersong's kinda correct. You can see part of your answer in the difference between our Declaration of Independence's foundation on "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" and our Constitution's goal of establishing central authority to provide security, encourage interstate commerce, and stave off a public debt crisis. Revolutionary ideals yielded pretty quickly to crass material concerns. But on particular business of how badly we in the US tend to misuse the English word "so

Any of you engineering types got a guess as to how far off we are from seeing a real machine like this concept piece? (And how crazy is it to hope that a real Rolltop would flex on the Y axis also--if I could bend that keyboard into an ergonomic hump, I'd finally be hungry to own a portable.)

Savory bread puddings are swell when it's cold, and can help clean out leftovers sometimes. Just take a recipe like Giada De Laurnetis' spinach & pancetta strata as a sort of template. You can scale back the bread and liquids if you don't want leftovers and switch the meat, cheese, & veggie parts around all sorts of ways. I've had yummy stratas made without meat a

Back in December of '08, TexasTim65 started a thread that has a bunch of different takes on the turn=day thing. Given the recent talk here & the persistence of turn=day in the beta UI, I'm starting to lean to not having any in-game calendar and just calling a turn a turn. Elemental is plenty ambitious enough without trying to tackle a major problem like building a 'temporal transmission' that can shift gears between the pace of a hot w

[quote]lowered the land under my sovereigns feet and lost the game. I shouldn't be suprised....but for some reason I was.[/quote] The map is not the territory ...

Unless the in-game calendar gets a major re-jiggering, it doesn't seem like even 'normal' lifespans are likely to matter for any but the most outrageously long games. Currently, a turn is a day, so a 3,650 turn game only spans a single decade.

[quote]Not really....... just accelerate gestation/mensturation to unreasonable speeds, and let nature take its' course. (I get the distinct impression that it's actually a bit more complicated than that, but we don't really cover "creative biology" in health class, and I'm sure you all get the gist.)[/quote] Surely a mistress of Life magic would be able to cast spells to ovulate as large a group of ova in one cycle as she liked, selectively fertilize each one using a handy supply of

[quote who="Solam" reply="3" id="2517567"]Yeah... what he said [/quote] Two unclear pronoun references for th price of one [e classic];)[/e] What's what, and who's he?

[quote]They made a TV series of dune? I have to see that![/quote] It's actually two miniseries that cover the three original books. You can rent it from Netflix. William Hurt plays Duke Leto, lots of other good casting, overall far superior to David Lynch's 1984 film.

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="33" id="2517427"]Understanding the Fallen...[/quote] Game, set, and match [e classic]:lol:[/e]

[quote]Isn't Karme for each site seperate? [/quote] No. It's nowhere near that tidy. Stardock forums span mutliple domain names, but only some forum areas (e.g. Off-Topic) under each domain name name count for karma under the other domain names. If a 'local' user gives you karma, then your cross-domain karma gets added to your total. So I'm stumped as to why xGhost shows 3 karma from elementalgame.com but I can only give 1 karma via this domain or 2 karma via galciv2.com, whic

From what I can see via the Elemental site, there might be a karma code glitch here. Maybe a recent code tweak has let Off-Topic karma start propagating across sites whether or not anyone gets a 'local' karma point first?

[quote]Smooth as glass after some Lost in Space.[/quote] Beg pardon, but I think of Lost in Space as a campy classic, not a 'serious' space opera. I can have fun with Lost in Space because of the laughs, and as a plus the show threw out the occasional chunk of thoughtful sci-fi despite being an Irwin Allen production. B5 just failed to live up to how seriously it tried to take itself, at least as far as the character shots go. It pisses me off to this day that no one helped the face-b

[quote who="Redindus" reply="4" id="2516749"]Cool thanks, sorry if i didnt catch that infos eariler.[/quote] Asking is a good thing. The Elemental boards are already way deep in posts, new people are around all the time, and search engine tech is still a very long way from being able to help out with a plain-language question like yours.

I started using the dedicated HOME and END keys after reading about them in a dev reply to eobet's suggestion about toggling between units . Their response is definitely erratic, and I suspect that the instability might be related to running in window mode and switching back and forth between the game and other stuff. In some games, both HOME and END have simply stopped working or refused to include a particular unit in the toggling

Elemental is not an RTS game and the devs want to support 64-bit OSs so that the largest maps will dwarf anything yet seen in a TBS game. See 64 bit OS & map size for some early discussion on the subject, and this dev Christmas time Status Report for more recent word on the 64 bit question.