Wahngrok

Quality surveys like your last one are very well recieved here. ;)

I hope this gets update as more people answer. Thanks for this and taken, of course.

If you want to get a glimpse at two creatures from elemental as well as the zooming map in motion head over to the demigod forum and look at the new video posted there . Elemental is featured from 2:23 - 2:32 and 3:45 - 4:53. Even so we won't get to see the detailed map in the first beta I'm still looking very much forward to it. <img src="http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2696/capture05062009233212.jpg" alt="Sandc

If you are able to pull off #3 the economic model could be modded to something like #4, right? If yes then count me in for #3. :D

Instead of quoting the whole post I'll just use this passage [quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="15" id="2216380"] A turn based strategy game needs to have deep mechanics to work with. But it needs to decide where its core is. In Colonization it was in the economy, so resource management, resource transport and such made sense. If that is goign to be the core of Elemental then go for it. But I suspect that Elemental is going to be focusing on units and combat. &nb

In a short video posted on the Demigod forums you can catch a peek of something you can speculate about. Direct link to full video is here .

[quote who="ozu08865" reply="4" id="2191948"]I just hope Frogboy answers too![/quote] As Lord Reliant said, he's pretty busy with Demigod . So don't get your hopes up too high.

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="1" id="2191872"]According to the tentative sched Brad posted, Beta 0 is planned for June, not August, and everyone with a pre-order can participate.[/quote] I wouldn't be too surprised if Beta 0 is delayed for a month because of the massive amount of work done on Demigod right now. Brad in one post stated that they had even the art team for Elementa

[quote who="Tridus" reply="12" id="2184155"]I agree, I really don't like podcasts. I wanted to hear about the Elemental stuff specifically, and 15 minutes later they're still talking about Demigod.[/quote] It's just like radio except that you can skip bits. So what's wrong with that? But for those who want to skip the Demigod bit: Elemental gets discussed starting at 28:40 minutes and runs until 46:39 (total time of the podcast is 55:34 minutes).

There's a podcast of an interview with Brad at Flash of Steel . (via Civfanatics with thanks to Kael)

OK, so this is mainly about Demigod, but there's a little (and I really mean little) peek of elemental developement in the video. So for those who don't read the Demigod forums AND hunger for even the smallest hint about Elemental here's the link to Brad's post: http://forums.demigodthegame.com/348714 Word of warning: the video is about 190 MB, runs 27 minutes and the interesting bits are just 15 seconds from 4:45 to 5:00. But ther

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="12" id="2140962"]This should allow for a "less unfair" way to reduce the lead of the leader : simply scale technology cost by the size of the empire. If you are twice as big, you need twice as much labs to do your research.[/quote] I woulnd't go that far. That's almost punishing the player for expanding. Implement diminishing returns and you have a mild version of what you are proposing. As I read it expanding is costing some kind of focus (or mana if you wi

[quote who="Tamren" reply="12" id="2118429"]If two identical units both get one action point and the first unit uses that point to get rid of the other unit, then how is that fair?[/quote] But that's even more an issue with turn-based combat. One reason calculated results and player controlled battle is often so far off is because you can act with all your units at once and thereby minimize losses by concentrating your spells/attacks so that the opponent has fewer offensive capabiliti

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="11" id="2118419"]Posts were a split-second apart, and if it works like Wahngrok says, then I rescind my previous statement.[/quote] I'm hoping it works this way because it's a good way to let single-player and multi-player battles behave the same way (and be managable in an acceptable time-frame). I don't mind a Total War like tactical combat system for single player because I can pause at anytime and think about what to do next. But multiplayer is complet

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="6" id="2118341"] I'm glad you didn't because I'm hoping for someone to explain to me how this "continuous turns" stuff is not just some euphemism for 'RTS click fits stuffed into a TBS turn.'[/quote] If done right continous turns dont' have to be a RTS click-fest. Games like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights (at least the first one - don't know about NWN 2), X-COM: Apocalypse, UFO Aftermath/Aftershock/Afterlight, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Stee

If you could make a Carcassonne total conversion you could probably make one for any board game as well. Ah, the possibilities... And even better: Master of Magic reloaded. [e digicons]:sun:[/e]

[quote who="highlander" reply="4" id="2105846"]nice how i'm the only one in the 'Demigod QA fire team' pic[/quote] There can be only one . Sorry, couldn't resist. [e digicons]:-"[/e]

Since not all of you may be watching the Demigod forums here's a nice treat of Stardock pictures. Elemental developement can be seen on some of them. Feel free to speculate. [e digicons];)[/e] Thanks to Frogboy for posting it.

While eye-candy is nice it almost always doesn't make or break a game. Bad gameplay mechanics however will. I never liked the style-over-substance approach. So no problem with me if you go the way of the Dwarf Fortress (although the cloth map does admittingly look better than ANSI graphics). ;)

[quote who="Lavitage" reply="14" id="1956327"]I don't konw if I'm reading this right, are there people in here actually defending blind research, and saying they used that option in SMAC? If so, keep the spellbooks predicatble just to spite them.[/quote] a ) Yes b ) Of course c ) Ah you must already be in that nice christmas spirit of brattiness. [e digicons]#:([/e]

I don't think they'd be interested in the opinions of a 37 year old geek from germany but if they are you can send 'em here. [e digicons];)[/e]

Seconded.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="1932182"] When I click on a city and want to see how long it will take for my squad of Paladins to be made it will still say "9 turns" [...] Yet, in another town, it might only take 8 weeks even if the city is a totally undeveloped town[/quote] I hope that you don't have to click through all your towns just to see which one can build a specific unit the fastest at a given time. That would lead into micromanaging hell.

The strategic choice in this case would be which field of study to emphasize. I agree with Nathaniel as I feel that a little randomness helps keeping one on the edge and focusing more on the overall strategic choices and not to micromanage everything.