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Reply to We need some major spells that use all 5 elements in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Having the magic shards give different mana just like nodes in Age of Wonders seems worse then getting just "mana" that works for whatever spellschool you got like in Age of Wonders 2 and AoW: Shadow Magic. Having multicolor spells might work but the backside is that people would feel shoehorned in taking f.e Air & Fire for Fireballs that fly extremely far instead of something weaker like Air & Earth for stones & rocks that fly far. We

Reply to Master of Magic 2 = Elemental ? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="5" id="2253155"]I don't understand what you're complaining about, form what I see having installed dosbox and MoM after being excited for this game, There are a lot of similarities from what we know for sure. Also this game has your whole list. The archmage=the channeler CHECK Empire building? CHECK Troops? CHECK MAgic? CHECK [/quote] Invalid argument. It's like

Reply to Universe At War in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Blizzards WarCraft III interface is absolutely superior if you ask me. UaW got Smartcast though. The solution would be that the same hotkeys can be used for every faction (F.e if Novus hacker had z as hotkey for shutting down enemies then Hierarchys radar unit could have scan on z too).

Reply to Universe At War in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

At first I thought it was great. Then I bought it and realised that it wasn't....(Luckily it only cost me 8.8 euro) Patch v.1.3 made the game perhaps crash (60% chance I reckon) after a game is completed which means you DON'T get your achievements! All hotkeys are different which makes it nigh impossible to keep track of which hotkey was associated to which unit (and every ability must have its own hotkey....) WHY didn't t

Reply to Master of Magic 2 = Elemental ? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've been wondering the exact same thing. I too thought it was going to be like Total Annihilation --> Supreme Commander or System Shock 2 --> Bioshock but now I don't know....I will take Brads word for it though.

Reply to Armies of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

No leadership limit! The HoMM games are quite fun but this mechanic changes the ENTIRE GAME! HoMM and Disciples superheroes are fun in campaign but doesn't work well at all in skirmish games. I want something like Age of Wonders where you can have hero stacks if you want to or 1/4 stacks of weak creatures sprawling over the map. If you have to have a hero in a stack to make it w

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

I mainly want the sophisticated version because of the depth possible. I like Age of Wonders but it was to simple. Master of Magic I only played for like 20min but from what I've read from it, sounded much more interesting then AoW due to placement of cities due to mitrhil veins and such. However, I sure as hell don't want anything like GalCiv II where you had 20 planets and had to alter that damn slider for every single planet! What a borefest [e digicons]

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

Changed my mind. Keep it simple and easy to understand but hard to master IF it's fun. If it's not fun, then adopt a system that is.

Reply to What's your speedtest rating? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/471436807.png[/IMG] This is expensive ADSL in Sweden. It normally costs 28 euro but I pay 23 (If 1 euro = 10 Swedish crowns). Distance is miles? In what system? Metric? Mjukis: 100MB from BBB? Would guess on 150 considering the supreme upload speed. (Ponten gör en razzia hos dig snart så mycke

Reply to Regrets. Regrets. Regrets. in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Craig Fraser" reply="23" id="2195783"]E.T. For the Atari[/quote] [e digicons]8C[/e] Somebody actually bought that piece of worthless s**t??? I'm guessing you were like 6 years old and bugged your mum to buy it for you after you've seen the movie. That's understandable [e digicons]8|[/e] But above all, you will no longer be known as a Sins of a Solar Empire devel

Reply to EWOM: A case against real-time in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The problem with purely turnbased games is that sometimes they're simply boring ! It's all about the when , where and how . Like in Heroes II you have to decide which mine to clear out first and when that's done which way to branch out into the world. And in a battle which unit will attack which one. Or an hour ago in Puzzle Quest....look for 4-of-a-kinds, then skulls and then manatypes. There's no action in those games....

Reply to What should happen when you capture a town? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The Age of Wonders way was nice & simple but I would perhaps change some things about it. It worked like this that you had to fulfill the following: atleast neutral standing to the race who currently occupies the city distance to the nearest town of f.e. Elves dictated how long it would take to convert the city to Elves During migration there were chances of the town rebelling and becoming independent. Percentage reduced if you had more troops in

Reply to Military organization and groupings in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I guess (and absolutely hope) that you train individual units which you can form into groups (GalCiv 2s fleets) if you want to and that you can also disassemble squads to individual units again. Having only a certain number of units moving through f.e. a mountain pass is a good idea and I just know it's gonna be incorporated in the campaign in that there are a squad of superpowerful troops guarding a pass which you can only engage with another squad of superpowerful tro

Reply to If You Could Only Play 3 Games This Year in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

1. StarCraft 2 2. Titan Quest Gold 3. Red Alert 3 Don't think that StarCraft 2 will be out this year (how long are they gonna take???), TQ is out of stock exactly everywhere for 100SEK and RA 3 I haven't gotten around too. Currently at C&C 3.

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Man is this topic big.... I'm a Swede from Sweden and I say it's right that they got punished. They have clearly helped things that should be illegal, possible. If they have really made all that money then it's time to pay back. All such torrent trackers in where there are illegal torrents must be shut down and the operators brought to justice. I should mention that my entire class supports the piratebay. I equaled t

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Man is this topic big.... I'm a Swede from Sweden and I say it's right that they got punished. They have clearly helped things that should be illegal, possible. If they have really made all that money then it's time to pay back. All such torrent trackers in where there are illegal torrents must be shut down and the operators brought to justice.

Reply to Too long without a dev update! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="15" id="2160630"] And greater replay value via multiplayer only applies to people who *like* multiplayer. I'm gonna give it a try, but I'm not sure I'll end up as happy as Mikey did.[/quote] You don't say??? [e digicons]:O[/e] Multiplayers are great for a game since they will find all exploits, imbalances and optimal strategies quite fast. There's a <span style="text-decoration: underli

Reply to Tolkien in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="NTJedi" reply="1" id="2160100"] I don't care if specifically a race of orcs , elves or dwarves exist within a fantasy game, but I would like to see races beyond just humanoids for a fantasy game. It would be the same as creating a sci-fi space game and all the races were just humanoids. I would be happy with a unique selection of fantasy races such as undead, humans, centaurs, insects, lizardmen and demons where each could pro

Reply to The allmighty STARCRAFT 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="unkn0wnx" reply="12" id="2159066"] I think Protoss was way over powered.[/quote] I say the Protoss were stronger then the others as well. Zerg I thought were too weak.

Reply to The allmighty STARCRAFT 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I have played Blizzard titles since WarCraft 2 and when I first tried StarCraft, WarCraft 2 felt outdated. The graphics and animations were so much better. It was a new generation of RTS. That's what I thought. Jump to today though and StarCraft is a bit unplayable because of its ancient unfriendly UI. Have to fight the interface instead of the friggin opponent! To make a long story short, StarCraft 2 is on my "3 most anticipated games list" and i

Reply to How are dungeons going to work? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="4" id="2121319"] 2. Simple Assets: Most of our asset making time will be spent on units, buildings, and art for the game worlds. The solution for dungeons cannot be a full 3d 'Diablo-esque' maze for your away party to explore. Our artists little hands would fall off...and they like their hands. [/quote] Perhaps they like their jobs more....[e digicons]}:)[/e] [quote who="BoogieBac" reply="4"

Reply to Elemental: War of Magic – GDC Video Walkthrough in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Am i the only one that's not impressed..? The best thing were the zoomed-out graphics. Nice looking. Didn't know there was an inventory system for the sovereign (and heroes I guess). But there were nothing to be excited about.

Reply to Elemental: Tactical battles in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Solam" reply="6" id="2089098"]Some of you would like to have auto resolve at the max setting right at the start while some others would like to have it scale with experience or something like it. I for one can't see my army right at the start battle out against the AI at the max setting. There would be no advantage to having a hero leading them. What possible gain could I have to bring a hero into battle? [/quote] Have you by any cha

Reply to Trading Ideas in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

OMG you two type much.... I want trade to be off like in GalCiv 2 since trading spells left and right destroys the spell identity of a faction (Like a Air mage in AoW Shadow Magic that trades for great Water and Life spells.... If we're talking about resources, then I don't want the instanteous, riskfree trading of AoW but instead something with more depth. Black markets, caravans and neutral raiding parties sound much more exciting. &nbsp

Reply to What about multiplayer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

1. Absolutely 2. Online multiplayer 3. Think of our planet Earth. The Empire controls Europe, America and Great Brittain while the Kingdom have Asia, the Middle east and eastern Europe. You choose a continent and get figting on one of the fronts. Depending on the map size you choose you fight in a different place if you choose a XL map then if you choose a S one. So choosing XL you will be put in an invasion force of an enemy capital city while if you choose a Small map you'll