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Well, just a bit ago, ESC started working for me after being hit many, many times in many different sessions and doing nothing. Hopefully it will stay working, because at the moment I can save and load as well as exit normally, which is nice. If only the Kingdom menu would start working...

Deleting the FamilyTree files is definitely only a partial fix. I'm getting pretty inconsitent functionality across sessions and cannot access any menus in the game, so I can't try a re-start and load to see if it gets me back or finally into a more functional state. The oddest variations are in whether or not I can even attack a wandering monster (sometimes I just end up sharing a square), whether I can build a town, and whether I can train troops in a town. (I also had one very odd

Well, it looks like we have very similar feelings about our party memberships. But I still object to a definition of politician that is fundamentally pejorative. It just seems like misguided anarchism, or rhetoric taken too seriously, or something like that. Faugh, I'm still fighting off all that nasty hope that my party was brandishing last fall... p.s. Hat-tip to the right-wingers: my favorite new bumper sticker in a long while--"So, How's all that 'hope' and 'change' working out fo

[quote who="psychoak" reply="45" id="2377458"]By the less derogatory definition, yes I would be broad-brushing. By the secondary, I'll take one from the numerous agencies they've set up and assume guilt until they prove their innocence. I don't consider everyone that runs for office to be a politician ...[/quote] I can't follow your "By the secondary" point, but we never formally agreed on a defintion of "politician" and my default definition is based on running for public

[quote who="psychoak" reply="41" id="2377169"]Necessary evils, restricted to the bare necessities. A government run health care industry is not a necessary evil, it's just damning outselves to do it.[/quote] You're missing the point from us 'serious' lefties. We don't want a "government run health care industry." We want basic health care as a public good and we have no objection to rich people using some of their discretionary income to satisfy their various needs for boutique

[quote who="mstroh" reply="47" id="2377326"]... Edit: And I think the offender may be found. If familytreesubwnd.dxpack is deleted from the screens folder (and all the other files are left in), the program seems to work. I've managed to get to the main menu, can fiddle with the options, and at least get the screens to set up a game.[/quote] You deserve a free copy of the first expansion pack. That got me past the splash, though setup, and onto some form of the m

[quote who="mstroh" reply="47" id="2377326"]OK, found a new hiccup with this error. I deleted the contents of the screens folder, as suggested here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/36430, and found out the following: 1) If I tell impulse to redownload the contents, there is no change (the game still crashes after ~5 seconds on the splash screen). However, if I leave the folder empty, and run Elemental from a desktop shortcut, I can successfully get to the in

[quote who="psychoak" reply="39" id="2375740"]You prove my point. Beaurocracy comes with size. The bigger it is, the more layers it needs. ...[/quote] No, I wasn't proving your point. Bureaucracy comes with formality, and the chances of it becoming problematically inefficient increase with size. In a highly technological world soon to hold more than 7 billion people, some large bureaucracies are necessary (inevitable). At least if you want things like relatively stab

DOS, schmosh. Real games are built with PEEK and POKE.

[quote who="Denryu" reply="19" id="2375510"]... I don't mean the diferent shades of red on one roof, I am talking about the golden straw roof and the red tiled roof all being in one asset (SS#2) I, perhaps mistakenly, assumed that roof color would designate ownership. Not saying it necessarily should but that is pretty standard. No I am not worried about two cities being close together and me being confused as to who owns which while zoomed in. I am just saying that it would

Heh. I guess it's a good thing that I've ignored the Windows Update offers to 'update' my Nvidia drivers since I got GC2 working via an Nvidia update. But I'm still with Popcornlord--no joy despite numbers changing in my driver version. Nothing changed in the DebugMessage section of my debug.err file.

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="5" id="2375494"]I tried using the built-in IRC client in Impulse, but whenever I typed something, it was always trying to interpret it as a command. So, I installed Pidgin instead. Was I just doing something wrong?[/quote] I think some software just got colicky for a bit this afternoon. From late morning to early afternoon Eastern time, things worked fine for me in the Impulse client. I dropped out for a while, came back somewhere past 1500

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2375493"]Not a bug (GC2, PM, etc, all work the same way), but does need the message.[/quote] So which of the other suggested tags would you have used to report this? (It seems like a bug to me, just low severity. I wouldn't have considered it a Crash, Performance, or Suggestion item, especially because I'm used to seeing the notice in GC2 for the same setting change.) p.s. Thanks for pinning the basic bug reporting thread.

[quote who="kryo" reply="5" id="2375472"]There is an issue being investigated with texture data generation at startup. Please make sure you're using the latest drivers though, just to be safe.[/quote] Kryo, does that mean latest on Windows Update or latest on the Nvidia site? Back when my Nvidia munge-card was vexing my GC2 installation, it turned out that letting Windows Update install 'the latest' drivers was my mistake and I got things running with an update downloaded from

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="105" id="2375162"]Well, most people would have stopped reading the title once reached the "NOW" part anyways. Imagine why. [/quote] I know why. But here I am typing on account of my great good luck in learning early that my rig is one of the troublemakers the devs want to sniff out during this first release. The beta really is no fun, at least if you can't get past the splash screen [e classic]:P[/e]

[quote who="Nights Edge" reply="37" id="2374864"]... I have to say the National Health System here really does meet all the bureaucratic stereotypes. Everything is slow moving and tied in red tape and paperwork, and you frequently have to deal with useless people on one hand and empire builders on the other. ...[/quote] The thing too few people here in the US understand is that burdensome paperwork, useless people, and empire builders are all typical products of any larg

Pinning this thread seems like a very good idea. I'd also like to know whether the devs prefer to see a bunch of individual reports or whether it would help more to add to an existing thread that sounds like the problem you're having. (At the moment, I'm one of several folks having a CTD pretty promptly after the splash screen appears, so I just posted my debug.err in someone else's thread about 'the same' problem.)

I'm having the same problem on a slightly different rig. I tried re-installing, and several other antsy backyard PC guy tactics like deciding Fences was my problem and uninstalling that, with no luck yet. Here's my debug.err: DebugMessage: Version 0.22 last updated on: Thu Sep 17 11:59:54 2009 DebugMessage: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 9/17/2009, 16:39:34 DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Machine Name: Operating System:

[quote]... It wouldn't even make sense for someone with as much power as them to only have black magic spells. ...[/quote] We still don't even know if the game will have built-in 'necromancers' of some sort, and there's plenty of range in the concept for both the vanilla game and modders. The mode you seem to expect strikes me as having them be essentially tough 'monsters' in the D&D sense, but lots of the posts on the subject have made me think of a serious Elemental necromancer

[quote]However, I notice in SS #2 above, that there are both red and yellow rooftops in one asset - so that leads to the question - is roof color going to denote faction?[/quote] That's a zoomed-in view and seems to me that the roof tiles are all 'the same color,' just with varying saturation. (I see no yellow.) I mention the zoomed-in part because I have a hard time imagining that you'd need roof colors to let you know what you faction you were viewing close up. Do you see th

On IRC, Scott said he's starting the final process to get the build on Impulse. Compiling is the least of it, evidently. There's some hand-tweaking necessary, a bit of testing, and a big hunk of time to just get the necessary files on the public servers. 1400ish East coast time if we're lucky, methinks.

I'm pretty sure that essence will remain a stat about magical strength, so a strong necromancer would have just as much as a strong channeler with a different speciality/style. Also, I'm pretty sure I spotted a few tiny dev mentions of the idea that 'natural' channelers like the sovereigns are extremely rare, but not limited to just the sovereigns. Maybe that's a wish-fulfullment projection, but it does seem like a very good idea that would enable many things like a solitary necromanc

[quote]20,000 leagues under the sea is considered to be a "steampunk" book. I can't think of any others off the top of my head. Glancing at wikipedia, it claims books like "The Time Machine" also helped define the genre.[/quote] The wiki called those 'proto-steampunk,' and one of the first 'graphs on the page seems to argue that the main difference between steam- and cyberpunk is that the former "settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian

I try to ignore genre quibbling most of the time, but 'roots cyberpunk' is near and dear to my heart so I have to speak up on a couple of points. First, the "punk" part was every bit as important as the "cyber" part back in the day--the core of the genre is dystopian novels. Second, this steampunk stuff is a moochy little parasite of a genre, not a "sister genre." I've enjoyed a few Babbage engine stories, but there is little to no dystopian perspective in steampunk and to me that mea

Perhaps the eventual Custom Champion tool can be expanded to include inanimate objects as 'body types?' It's pretty hard to imagine a satisfying Elric mod without some way to make Stormbringer appropriately demonic.