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[quote who="zigzag" reply="5" id="2468732"]... Would you have a problem with 'SovereignName has advanced to level SovereignLevel'?[/quote] Gawds above, below, and sideways, No . I think what has me concerned (more than the general thing I mentioned in the OP) is noticing a discussion on damage types where Brad typed "Sorry it is actually called lightning in the game. Not sure what I was thinking" in response to an argument about what "electrical damage" might m

[quote who="Denryu" reply="4" id="2468718"]...At any rate, I don't expect any type of genetics program to be in this game, I would just like one. i ahve about 5 games worth of ideas I would love to see in this game, but honestly if they all went in the game would probably be unplayable.[/quote] Might still be worth two or three expansion packs. I try to hide from ads, but the equate-spending-with-love season is here again, and I'm constantly reminded of how quickly yesterday's wonder-

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="1" id="2468559"]Text in general goes to external (non-code) resource files as it has to be localized. There the localization team/writers/whatever fill it, so coders won't be involved if the text looks too modern or not, that's out of their responsability...[/quote] My point was that with a game like Elemental, the text is not the relatively simple thing it is for a productivity tool--it's content with at least as much story/flavor value as it has fun

[quote who="kryo" reply="13" id="2468113"]Martin Luther != Martin Luther King, Jr.[/quote] True, but if I was still in shape with my primitive graphics tools and Stardock hosted pics directly, I could do a decent Venn diagram showing a pretty good set of traits in the intersection of those two dudes. I don't have historical population info handy, but I wouldn't be that surprised to find out that MLK's leadership reached even more people than Luther's did, at least during the latter's

Rumours have suggested that this project will be the first Stardock game where editorial content gets a serious budget investment and will be worked throughout the project rather than spackled on at the end after the mechanics and UI are largely finished. I found that notion quite attractive, but so far I've not seen much on the boards or in the builds to indicate that the rumour is actually true. Now that the major sections of beta are rolling out, the boards are more full than ever

[quote who="astrath" reply="1" id="2466341"]I'd go for the fresh parchment look, possibly with terra incognita or something written on it.[/quote] I'm guessing that picking black for terra incognita gives the devs more flexibility with the cloth map pallette, which needs to carry quite a bit of quickly discernible info. Already got two major sepia tones with land and water, a third one could make things messy...

Ten Thousand Huzzahs for the weaknesses! (the concept, not the specifics) Putting history, talents, and weaknesses together in different ways looks like it might be able to yield vast tracts of replayability, almost like the soverign is a 'second map' with swell customization options.

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="17" id="2467667"].... I for one would prefer a system in which the factions have varied and customizeable succession systems.[/quote] I'm with the wandering canine here. I'd rather see no succession system at all than see every faction always following exactly the same practices. That would render what seems like a swell idea for a worthy subgame into a bunch of boring clickwork, at least after one had settled on a standard dynastic strategy. I don

GalCiv2 eventually gained a launch-direction functionality so you could choose which square a ship would appear on when it left planetary orbit. Hopefully, the plan for Elemental includes something similar for units stationed in keeps. (Getting rid of the 'free move problem' would be nice, too.)

I had no Non-Agression Pact. Later in that same game, I saw a Troll walking over one of my towns and doing it no harm. Wonder if it would have attacked any garrisoned troops?

Living buildings might be a nice complement to the old idea of making a keep or town out of a dead giant's body. Wish I could remember the thread title, there were some funky ideas there...

Wonky all around, seems like. I just noticed that the Capitar (the sovereign walking over capital) thought they were at war with me, although the UI didn't let me know that until I randomly decided to see how the new diplo stuff looks. You'd think folks calling themselves sovereigns would have the manners to let a person know when a war is on...

The rival sovereign actually walked over my capital during the little tour. No diplo UI appeared and the town did not change hands even though it was undefended. Can post a screencap & recent debug to fogbugz if needed (saved a copy of the debug).

Sounds very interesting to me, but the current design direction seems to be very minimalist re roads. Still, it would be nice to have at least two types of travel paths, roads as they currently are and highways that do things along the lines you describe. Could 'keep it simpler' by making the current basic roads more or less automatic/organic and making highways a bit cheaper to build if you start with an existing 'natural' road.

Claymation muppets...very postmodern.

Worldwide Pants ?

With default settings, on turn 43, I founded a second site. No other major factions are visible on my map, but I appear to have options to build roads to five different sites. This seems wrong. (I have not tried to see whether I can build roads to sites that I can't see.)

(watching this thread, still pining for a way to do this without making a clutter-post)

No, but I hate the fact that we're suffering in a mess of pseudo-standards thanks to the dumbass 'browser wars.' Don't you hate it when you think you've got a build ready for distribution, but it turns out it ain't quite ready?

CapnWinky started a neat thread on Orthanc (from the Lord of the Rings) last summer, and Kyogre brought essence into the discussion. I'm sure a bunch of us are very interested in ways to invest essence other than just founding a town or enhancing a champion. [quote]...Unique buildings could allow you to specialise. Trade extra resource gain for decreased survival (as a measure of your sovereign combat effectiveness)[/quote] <p

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="33" id="2463651"]...Cause it is spam? And people (at least me) are really fed up with spam, so we won't even tolerate a little bit of it. (Especially not in a place where it doesn't have any right to be, in my task bar.)[/quote] I'm one of those folks who promptly disabled the tray icon and only run Impulse when I want to check for a game update or get on IRC with Stardock. If I ran the Now thingy, I'd probably be in the "it's spam" camp, but

Anyone heard that the December update will include a fix for this problem? Having a 10x larger tech tree in the new build is gonna be really frustrating if this bug persists.

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="2" id="2454408"]So, diplomacy = magic?[/quote] Maybe, sorta. The OP reminds me of the older discussions about Independent Kingdoms/Powers and how they might connect to the questing system. The devs are apparently planning to work on backstory steadily rather than leaving it until the final polishing stages before RTM, so they should have plenty of opportunities to build in entities and/or quests that could do something along the lines of Prospe

[quote who="Gabberkooij" reply="5" id="2463343"]... Does the fame increase when you cover a real great cover?[/quote] Ooo, a loop! Or is that a paradox? Band interviews aside, how could you tell whether a newer cover was covering an old cover or 'the original?' BTW, I pay no attention to 'fame' in the YouTube context. Is 8.8 million views big for famous names like the Muppets and Queen? Also beginning to wonder if Dr. Teeth will be covering We Are The Champions/We Will

Very glad to hear that the city building UI will not stay so much like a console game; I'd be happy to give up half the screen to a well-detailed improvement list that I could just read instead of mousing all around for pop-ups.