[quote]I wonder if this means Brad Wardell will stop working with Civ V.[/quote] Well, it just means that there is really a market for the Impulse reactor: developpers/publisher really need tools for multiplayer. And the current available option is only Steam.
I am wondering how much ressources are needed to get a working hotseat mode available after a working PBEM mode is made available.
They never said it would be THIS week ;)
As you can have multiple attributes for the same tag, you could also write your XML that way 50 <SovereignFocus Field="Cit
I am wondering if it is a good thing to have so many different attributes with important semantic meanings used for the the same XML tag. I am not really sure that it helps extensibility (adding new priority focus). I guess only time will tell which is more usable for AI coding You could have written your XML that way 50 &nb
[quote who="edpfister" reply="102" id="2606496"] [quote] This also means that canon races should have bonus not available to cutomized faction. [/quote] You had a good post until you said this. Completely disagree. Customized factions/races whatever should have all abilities available. I don't want limitations. Restrictions could come from mutually exclusive abilities and points but not from trying to make a certain faction unique. Canon
[quote]There are two general directions to take: Eliminate the race distinctions and instead build out the Factions with more lore and artwork. Current customization of factions would remain. Expand the race distinctions and provide more assets and code to support players creating their own custom factions made up by their own custom races.[/quote] Why can't we have race distinctions without custom races?
[quote]So the question is, where would people like to see the focus? More emphasis on making the game lore with the 10 factions. Or more emphasis on making it easy for players (in game) to customize their own factions/races?[/quote] Since Elemental aspire to be a successor to MoM, one should consider what was the appeal of MoM. One strength was the diversity of side that could be picked and how it changed how the game could be played. Another was how you could customize your wizard.</
[quote]First, when creating a faction you would have a new tab called “race”. The existing races would be there. You would choose a specific (easy to understand) ability that makes that race unique. Hard Workers might produce pioneers that get more out of resources. Fierce Warriors might get a combat speed boost. Good Traders might be the only ones who can reach paved roads. Fast Travelers go faster. Great Archers can shoot further (maybe attack on the strategic map fr
[quote]The question is what level of complexity should be introduced. Do we have Factions AND Races that are distinct or do we simplify and simply talk about factions.[/quote] I think you should have both. Having races allows to define common apparence, bonus or weakness between factions. It can also help to set a starting point for relation between factions, as well as a starting point for handling conquered cities and associated unrest. For example, if someone decide to mod
[quote] GalCiv 2 was awesome everyone loves making their own race, but the other races had depth to them and i often played as them to get a feel for a certain style of gameplay.[/quote] In GC2, taking a planet means doing a genocide which isn't the case in Elemental (you take a city with one army and keep the city population)
[quote]However, with the reality being that people seem to much prefer to create their own factions[/quote] What is the point in the current beta to choose a premade faction instead of a custom faction? You can alter the premade faction by adding/removing strength and weakness. And the specific benefits (which couldn't be choose by a custom faction) aren't meaningful enough (seafaring bonus) in the beta to specifically choose a faction. And with all available strengths/weaknes
[quote]Last message I saw from Stardock was an active plan for providing a 64Bit version of Elemental.[/quote] With the 64bits version of the licensed engine Havok. If Havok 64bits isn't supported for Windows XP 64 but only for Vista 64 bits and 7 64 bits, there are few things than Stardock will be able to do.
[quote]The current build seems to crash often for my Windows_XP_64Bit system[/quote] I am not sure if Windows XP 64 is a supported system for Elemental. It is clearly not supported for Impulse.
What was the profession of your sovereign?
Did the problem start after a reload?
BTw, have you tried to put the mouse over the def stats of Bannon? It should display th calculation ...
I think to have read Boogiebac stating that the minimum prestige for a town is 1 even if it should be 0. See reply #61 in the 1z3 changelog thread https://forums.elementalgame.com/380890/page/3/#2602692
You would experience the same thing if you create a custom sovereign with 5 dexterity and add him a shield with only 1 defense. So I guesse that Bannon has only 5 in dexterity but we have no way to check this
In the following savegame http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057853/1z3_Viy/Viy.EleSav teleport next to the yellow dragon fountain. Go to this tile and attack the dark wizard. After the battle, you don't get any message telling you what you do next. Having played this quest in the previous beta 1Z, I know that I should have got an healing potion.
[quote]One quick thing: My temples didn't work, they did not add an extra +1 prestige. Anyone noticed this one, too?[/quote] take a look at that thread https://forums.elementalgame.com/380985
[quote]Direct access to research screen via click on progress bar in main screen[/quote] Have you tried to click on the icon at the left of the research progress bar?
I have already made a post on this topic https://forums.elementalgame.com/379797 and it is supposed to be fixed. But the following savegame http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057853/1z3_Viy/Viy.EleSav seems to show that it isn't the case. Viy has 2 abilities: Inventor and Brilliant. The problem is on the Brillant description which is: Increase the re
I suppose you have exited your city with using righ click.
That is very strange: I have just tried to load several times this savegame, and sometimes I am able to completely load the game, in which case I exit Elemental and restart it immediately to reload the savegame, and sometimes it is stuck while loading.