RonLugge

Reply to [Bug/Gameplay] The first city will not use new technolgy in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote]The Tetris minigame isn't that interesting.[/quote] It's not a tetris 'minigame', it's a rather sensible restriction. Your city has to be one contiguous block.

Reply to Merging units in War of Magic Elemental Forums

My understanding is that in the field, by default you'll select everything int he field. When in a city, you need to select each unit.

Reply to How do I build past army units peasants? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="AdmiralDan" reply="4" id="2650936"] I suppose everyone did, including me. They are still labeled as peasants.[/quote] .... My guardian's aren't labeled as Peasants. It even came up with a default name that suited them!

Reply to [Beta 2][bug] recruiting costs for champion party in MP 1vAI in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

A similar thing happens with building towns. I suspect there is a 'scaling' cost involved somewhere (more heroes/towns you have, the more expensive they become) and the 'required' display / check only checks the base, not scaled, cost.

Reply to [bug/graphics] happens quite often - sovereign icon is on another tile then where the game thinks it is in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Ah, there's the problem. I usually play from the cloth map.

Reply to Research: Refined X in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="SpartanFry" reply="3" id="2650017"]Were you guys able to research it like 3-4 times? It didn't appear to do anything and not being in the research history was fishy. [/quote] I researched the farming one several times in my last game, and each time it increased my food total... after a one turn delay. I think housing works similarly.

Reply to Researched barracks, but not available to build??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Barracks may require a city of a certain size... or a command post already present.

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]Hell even light plate is the same in a lot of cases to leather iirc[/quote] Except leather requires materials, while plate requires metal. Big difference there. [quote]Who arms an army with daggers?[/quote] If it's an option, I'd probably like to equip all my archers with daggers as a backup weapon :D Something small and light that won't slow them down, but also doesn't leave them with squat if somebody manages to force them into melee

Reply to [BUG?] Shopkeeps have no inventory in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

As far as I can tell, they can only produce things you can already make (AKA have researched)... is that it?

Reply to How to raise taxes and show newly created troops? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You don't collect taxes. All gold is produced by buildings (tax office is one option for that, but you can also have merchants, markets, bazaars, and the like)

Reply to Game aint that strategic. Is it me or stardock? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote]Food is very hard to obtain, because I feel like gardens are a waste of space. Farms are too rare. Materials are common, but it takes SO long to build that lumber camp (12 turns). I barely seem to have enough building slots to build enough farms for my houses, and it just takes 3 markets or schools and my slots are full.[/quote] Perhaps food is meant to be scarce? :P

Reply to Elemental Water Appreciation Thread in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]A thought just occurred to me. What kind of production do water tiles generate in Elemental? I'm asking because I'm thinking if it would be feasible to make a waterborne city, like the pirate faction in the in the expansion of Alpha Centauri.[/quote] In a word? Water tiles don't produce anything. Any more than any other tile produces anything. Buildings produce things... though some buildings can only be built on certain tiles.

Reply to Failed to download datafile in War of Magic Elemental Forums

To control piracy during the beta, and allow for more rapid updating of data files, a lot of the game's data is stored server-side. That's why sometimes, things seem to change from one play to the next... they can silently update the server-side data for us.

Reply to [bug/graphics] happens quite often - sovereign icon is on another tile then where the game thinks it is in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I've never seen this issue before... O.o

Reply to [0.802][Combat Bug] Autoresolve not calculating combat correctly in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

The AI actually attacked you? O.o And how well defended are your cities? What do you define as 'well defended'?

Reply to [Gameplay]I found a cheat code! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Ctrl-S is for quicksave.

Reply to [0.802] [Bug/Gameplay] Children Grow too fast in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote]Apparently, I have been storing my children in a time warp.[/quote] Yup! Your magical essence helps protect you from aging, so your children age faster than you do. ... :P

Reply to Suggestion regarding left click and interactions in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="8" id="2649340"] Left clicking selects them. Right click issues a move/attack order to your current selection. I'm not sure how that could be a problem unless you've got your mouse set to left-handed and not everything is respecting that setting.[/quote] So I'm not the only person having some kinda deja-vu here? I, personally, have no issue with the 'left-click to interact, right click to attack' functionality.

Reply to Too much research? What to research? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Personally, I like the current system, research wise. My biggest complaint is that I can't always tell what a unit does / what it's prereqs are before I choose it. I'm still using houses... but I've researched villas, estates, and mansions! How do I upgrade?! (Probably a city size thing, of course :D ) Also, there are a variety of buildings that don't seem to make sense. Abbeys (and archives), at 4 squares, give me 1 research? Is ther

Reply to 1st impressions of beta 2 in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote]which is just no fun at all.[/quote] Which is the point. This beta isn't supposed to be fun. The balance isn't even 'beta' yet, this is simply where the pieces come together and start looking like a game.

Reply to Registration Invalid in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

OK, I thought I had this fixed. But now Windowblinds isn't even showing up at installed on my laptop, and I'm having the same problem again. I tried clearing local data and the fix reg... any ideas?

Reply to MoO on Gog.com in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]What do you mean a "real and genuine MoO3"? To the best of my knowledge there never was an actual MoO3 made.[/quote] I know a lot of people didn't like it in it's vanilla form (fan patches are supposed to have made it much better) but that's no reason to deny it was actually made.

Reply to Cool game: Sol Survivor in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I purchased it after seeing a preview on ImpulseTV; it's a GREAT, and very fun game! At 10$, it can't be beat. I recently scheduled a multiplayer match, for Thursday and got 4 players (5, if you count a switch from one player who needed to leave to a new one) and it was very fun. I [i]strongly[/i] reccommend this game, though I should also mention that in some MP games, going to heavily defensive is just as big a mistake as any other RTS. Specifically,

Reply to Deep Space 9 or Babylon 5 in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]In this regard I think Stargate is quite similar. Single episodes may be entertaining but I usually loose any immersion as especially decisions and consequences (when there are those few episodes with big decisions) seem to be just wrong a lot of times. In the end it's like the Disney of science fiction. Try anything to not offend your viewers.[/quote] Hmm.... I seem to remember a few times when the 'right decision' cost quite a bit. Like the death of the Tolan (SP?) civi

Reply to Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics Update Now Available in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

TA has been 'dropping' from Impulse on a regular basis since I got it; I still have no clue why. I just use 'detect application' to make Impulse aware of it again.