Sammual

Sammual

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Reply to Essence Should Be Really Essential in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Denryu" reply="20" id="2236208"]@ GW I like the idea of everyone having an exactly set finite amount of a primary resource. Mana fills the role of a renewable source of energy. However, if you really think having ways to get essence during the game is a fun option, it seems like that could be easy to add as an option at setup. (Allow essence as quest reward/some other way). It is weird that I see some people wanting essence recouped after someone takes over your land though - what

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Reply to Essence Should Be Really Essential in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Essence is a personal "stat" for the channeler (you the player) and not a resource stream like mana in MoM or Iron in Civ. Whether you spend essence on restoring lands, annointing champions, or enhancing spells, you cannot count on ever replacing that essence. But, you can hope that you'll be lucky enough to do so..) [/quote] That is my hope for Essence as well. [quote quoting="post"]Channelers can gain essence via: A very slow/long chart for

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Reply to Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="16" id="2234820"] Even knowing what to look for I still can't find them (I also tried to find them when I first looked at the screenshots)... [/quote] Good. That means I have hidden them well. The ver of the program in the web player just turns tiles that are out of height range into the highest tile (Impassable mountains - Cloud covered mountains OR Snow covered mountains at the poles). As long is this is not throwing

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Reply to A strategy game that is also a world in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

In Civ / MoM / MoO and other games of this nature your first few turns have a HUGE impact on the game due to the escalating nature of production and growth. It sounds like Elemental will have an even greater scale of escalation, balancing you starting options will be fun. Sammual

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Reply to Beware the killer stack! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Seeing all the comparisons to MOM, I wanted to get my biggest pet peeve out... Large killer units. They might be ok against human opponents, but in MOM, the whole game boiled down to having the killer stack and the AI couldn't keep up. Regardless of how far I fell behind against the AI, it didn't matter as long as I built the largest army. I'm not saying it isn't a valid path for a game, but to me it isn't epic. I prefer there being so

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Reply to Why squares instead of hexes? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Paradoxnt" reply="16" id="2232794"]If there were a vote involved, I'd vote for a Hex grid. However, I can live with squares.[/quote] That about sums it up for me as well. Sammual

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Reply to EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x100b62e8 attempted to read memory at 0x00300030 in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

I get an error a lot like that when I attempt to join a multiplayer game (Panthanon). EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x100cdee5 attempted to read memory at 0x003e8000 Program : C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe Cmd line arguments : Callstack: UPNPNAT::add_port_mapping + 177653 bytes ((Unknown)(0) + 0 bytes) Last 100 lines of log...

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Reply to Magic limits: spheres of influence, upkeep, and more? (little bit o trade discussion) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote]I would not, however, feel it is unreasable to have "within influence" and "out of influence" changes. Say, you can cast spells globally, but outside influence (or into different dimensions) you have a higher casting cost, or different casting rules apply. In MoM, it was a global casting with a minor "distance from tower" effect that gave no way to sense the scale. I'd deem it reasonable to keep the idea of a sphere of influence, as given by AoW, but change it to be less limiting.

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Reply to Magic limits: spheres of influence, upkeep, and more? (little bit o trade discussion) in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Your 'sphere of influence' idea is interesting but sounds like it would add a lot of complexity for too little gain. As far as mana per turn goes I don't see why it wouldn't be in the game. I see spells with only mana costs to be 'burst' type spells of no great power (Single combat attacks or weak area effect spells). Spells adding a small essence cost would be greatly enchanced 'burst' spells or something with a permenent effect. Spells adding a large essence cost w

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Reply to Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="12" id="2222344"]I like the shapes the continents formed in the screenshot. If it yields results like that often (obviously, we wouldn't want the exact same) then I'd say its pretty solid. [/quote] Thanks, I put a lot of work into making the continents look 'organic'. I have never seen two maps that even look alike so far (I am well over 1,000 maps generated) and 99%+ look good. The 1% I am fighting with meets all the criteria I

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Reply to Elemental: Internal debates made external in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]So Camp #3: The Merchant 1. Everything is a resource. 2. Resources can be processed into other resources (iron to swords, crops to food, crystal to potions). 3. Resources are sent automatically to other towns based on the resource needs of that town. No micromanagement, no AI. 4. The fun of this portion of the game would be in watching your empire grow organically. Example: There are no ratios to set. If I bu

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Reply to Internal debates made external is better than beta in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Better then Beta? No. In a Beta you get to experence the issue and then with enough info make an informed choice. In this case we heard a short summary of what was being discussed and got to weigh in on it. Other then that I agree. I think it is great that SD let us in on a discussion they were having and let us attempt to influence the end result. Sammual

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Reply to Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="drrob" reply="8" id="2217708"] Why not just let everyone start off with a "super settler" so they can put their home castle wherever they want?[/quote] I haven't ruled that out yet but I want to see how good I can get auto placement. Sammual

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Reply to Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="7" id="2217612"]this makes me want to play settlers of catan (yeah, its still not running for some reason) [/quote] Are you getting an error or is it just displaying the 'download the plugin' message? Sammual

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Reply to Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

My plan for the weekend is to finish Map Generation. The second to last step will be starting locations. I have a DB setup that has all the tile types and how much they are worth to each race. I will calculate the city value for every spot on the map and place each players starting city in one of the top X spots (Where X is the number of players). Doing it this way your starting city will be in a great spot. The last step will be to add the special loc

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Reply to Getting back to Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Thanaeon" reply="4" id="2215140"]I'm heartened to see the maturity of the Elemental gamers' community. On almost any other game forum, I'd have expected to see a huge outcry, wailing and gnashing of teeth over this, but you guys have taken it pretty coolly and calmly assessed the things you like and dislike about it. Kudos. [/quote] You are giving us too much credit. The game is not even in Alpha yet. At this point everything is on the drawing board.

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Reply to Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="2" id="2216086"]ho ho ho, see what I told you. already a responce hmm.... I seem to have downloaded the player... to no change. it doesn't start any map generator (I'm running the Win 7 beta right now, as to not risk harm to my release client version) [/quote] You were right. You installed the player and can't see anything on my page? Did you try reloading the page? Sammual

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Master of Magic Clone WIP - Map Generation in War of Magic Elemental Forums

NOTE - You have to have installed the Unity Web Player to see my map generator Hey all, As a long time fan of Master of Magic I have kicked around the idea of doing a fan remake of the game for some time. With the release of Unity 2.5 for Windows I found a game engine that has the power to do everything I want to do while being simple enough for me to understand (I'm a SQL / Cold Fusion / Jav

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