While I purchase most games through Steam and the older games from GOG (Masters of Magic, MOO 1+ 2, etc.), I still put a high priority to purchasing games from Stardock. I have opted to get the Limited Edition of Elemental. With that out of the way, I noticed that good questions were not addressed among the debate that seems to be brewing here.
One of these questions was: Could an account with two registered keys on it allow for multiplayer to be played between the keys on a single impulse account? (multiple keys, 1 account)
My next question is, how will LAN work exactly (as in clarification). Can one registered impulse version of Elemental, play a direct connect version of LAN, without the aid of the internet? Among the occasional activities with my friends there are a wide range of examples from table-top Warhammer (Orcs here), to Starcraft and Civ 5 LAN Parties. Also the occasional DnD and Spellforce gatherings.
Civ 5 did not require Internet access for direct connect games. I am only curious, though for the most part, I am not buying this game for Multiplayer, as most of my friends are pretty much out of state and out of mind, everyone including myself is moving on to the future with our educations and our lives (some having even given up gaming altogether) and contact has been lost.
It would be nice for future considerations though for this title, I won't fret over not having it. LAN being taken out was one of several in a series of rather disappointing turns of events with Starcraft 2 and it's horrible naming system not to mention the attempt to jam Facebook and Twitter down everyone's throat, the game is still excellent though.
My last couple of questions is on the still murky jumble of information that is floating around the Faction Creator. This would probably be the only feature I would fume over a little. I do not particularly like using text editors, and am not in the modding scene all that much, I know others don't mind and that is perfectly alright, but one of the major draws of Galactic Civilization 2 was the ability to rather simplistically create my own faction (leader pics and all) without having to really dive into editors all that much.
Also judging by a previous poll not many including myself particularly care to play as one of the pre-made kingdoms, as we would rather make our own (as in Galciv 2).
Question 1: Will there be a working UI driven editor at least in the Workshop? Or are we all relegated to text for our Faction creation needs?
Question 2: Taking into consideration for the need to maintain multiplayer balance on official servers, will we at least be able to design our multiplayer kingdom's peasants and general color scheme with the inclusion of the ability to name our kingdoms? Also, will this include a simple heraldry editor to customize our flags?
I only want a simple editor that would operate kind of like halo's emblem system, and no custom pictures so as to prevent people from marching their "army of dongs" with their phallic flags into my territory making me a very unhappy and angry person.
Spore pretty much showed us the depths of immaturity that would be traversed by the masses if you gave them any kind of creative freedom and you didn't at least have checks and balances to monitor these idiots.
This concludes my list of questions. I hope to get an answer, and yes I still have my Limited Edition on preorder and cannot wait to play.
