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Ensuring There Is A Steamroller Effect And Doing It Well in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I know some people feel the Snowball Effect is a bad thing. This is when the player can gain a significant advantage they can leverage to give them a good chance of winning. However, many games in this genre have a snowball effect and it is fun, so this thread is to create space for discussion of the benefits of the Snowball Effect. One of the things I liked about MoM is the er.. snowvball effects. Simply put I am not against the snowball effect as long as it does not happen too early

Reply to Preventing the steamroller effect in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hmm. To get back on topic, I would like to suggest that one of the things I liked about MoM is the er.. snowvball effects. Simply put I am not against the snowball effect as long as it does not happen too early. However, some effects like building up an unstoppable hero or obtaining the armageddon spell did have a snowball-ish effect. As I recall with sufficient time you could equip a high level hero with artefacts and enchantments enabling them to have a move of 9 and to defe

Reply to Elemental: Thoughts on multiplayer in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] There would be AI players in the game but there would be only tactical battles in this mode when attacking other humans. This way, players don't wait around very much. [/quote] Question. If there are tactical battles in the Alpha, how will they work? Will there will be tactical battles with full graphics in this mode, or will they be abstracted to the cloth map as well?

Reply to Making your own worlds in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Looks cool. I like worlds with lots of islands. I do have one question though, which I will direct at you Brad as I know you do the AI. One great let-down of Master of Magic and other games was that the AI was bad at handling complex maps or islands. Can you confirm that the AI in this game will be flexible and able to handle diverse maps and islands?

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

I am in camp 1. The key here will be good UI. Bear in mind that managing this will be many small decisions, not one shot setup of some horrendously complex web. Basically, when on a town screen you decide what you want to build. For each option all the ingredients get shown - in green if available and red if not. As you assign resources to be shipped to the town the colours change. If a resource becomes unavailable temporarily because a shipment get

Questions to Developers - Getting back to Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Regarding your post in the Journals, please clarify? Questions and Comments [quote quoting="post"]1. Multiplayer games will be hosted by us. Period. No peer to peer. Not even hosted on the user’s box. Our servers. No ports, no proxies, nothing. We’re hosting it. We are revisiting the way the economy works in Elemental to simplify it.[/quote] I have some

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

Questions and Comments [quote quoting="post"]1. Multiplayer games will be hosted by us. Period. No peer to peer. Not even hosted on the user’s box. Our servers. No ports, no proxies, nothing. We’re hosting it. We are revisiting the way the economy works in Elemental to simplify it.[/quote] I have some questions about this. Firstly, on multiplayer I am not that

Reply to Countdown to Beta Zero - Spells, Spells, and more Spells! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="12" id="2212401"] Not all spells cost essence, just the ones where you're 'creating' something or 'imbueing' something (at least from my understanding). You'll have MANY spells to cast that dont sap your essence, but the ones that do will be considerably more potent.[/quote] Question ... so we can basically make cool visual effects for spells, but how about managing their in-game mechanic effects? How do we edit what the spells do</e

Reply to When pure isn’t pure in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

LOL. As it happens, I prefer activation based DRM like Stardock's because it avoids having to have a DVD in the PC all the time. The best method I have seen is simple. Basically you have to do a one-time activation on install. The software is hardware locked. There is an initial limit of installation on no more than 5 separate pieces of hardware. Most people never reach that. Finally and most importantly, if you do not reach the limit and you do no installa

Reply to Demigod: Monday in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Hi, Glad to hear you are addressing this. I hope the debacle has not hurt sales too badly. (Want to make sure Stardock has loadsa cash for Elemental development budget!) I am a bit surprised to hear that you need dozens of servers. Out of interest, what volume of sales has Demigod had, roughly?

Defeat Unclean Beast with Regulus in Demigod Demigod Forums

Basically, how do people recommend you best take out Unclean Beast with Regulus?

Reply to You have a connection issue? Tell me! in Demigod Demigod Forums

Straight forward really. I have worked as a Network Engineer, so I know of what I speak. My PC connects to the internet via a home hub. Port forwarding is enabled, on ports 6100-6200 to my PC. Port 6073 is also forwarded per the instructions you posted elsewhere. The firewall on my PC is set to allow the Demigod application to basically do what it wants. The Impulse Reactor configuration program is configured to use ports 6100-6200. So, when I try to connect it eventually find

Reply to Concerns I am starting to have in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="23" id="2130148"](i): You gain more essence as you go up in levels, but once you spend some essence, that bit is gone forever. The real trade-off is, in later game, the guy that freely spent his essence building an army and spreading his control will be a shirivled weakling compared to the guy that horded it and only spent is as necessary.[/quote] Cool. (1) How will that scale with map size? (2) Will levels be capped or uncapped?

Reply to Concerns I am starting to have in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I don't have any concerns and neither should anyone else. Beta 0 is not even out yet.[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="11" id="2122664"]For every 'non-human' race we'd add, guess what we'd have to do? That's right, make 1000 other peices of armor to fit THAT body type (probably 900 once we find peices that 'mostly' fit).[/quote] Boogiebac. Can I make a suggestion? If this game is good, I would happily pay the same again $30-40 for an expansion pack with extra art content a

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

Makes me even more desperate to be in the Beta 0!!! :) Looks excellent.

Reply to The World of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="13" id="2107564"] Almost all the world in this map is linked by land, except for the small landmass in the middle. Can we be reassured that in Sandbox games the AI will be comfortable with using boats and islands. ... ? With SD? Yes! [/quote] I'm pretty sure, but it would be nice to hear it from a developer.

Reply to The World of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Great, *** BUT *** Almost all the world in this map is linked by land, except for the small landmass in the middle. Can we be reassured that in Sandbox games the AI will be comfortable with using boats and islands. ... ?

Reply to What spells do you want to see? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Here is my list ... (i) Land altering spells. I think these should be general, irrespective of school or at least possible to obtain in most games. You should be able to alter the landscape to suit. (ii) Chaos Channels and Black Channels. In MoM you could use Chaos Channels to create winged, living boats. :) (iii) Flying fortress. I liked that spell too. (iv) Regeneration. (As in MoM, grants HP regeneration in combat and also grants resurrection of the uni

Reply to Should essence be at least semi-renewable? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Of course, the answer to this question may well arise from the beta. If essence is too limited (for example on large maps) we can doubtless give feedback.

Reply to What is your biggest hope/biggest fear regarding EWOM? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hopes Excellent customisation, allowing a really wide variety of buildings and units to be created. Good AI Lots of different spells Widely varying content Worthy successor to MoM and AoWSM Fears Customisation is constrained e.g. limited number of building materials. Any building you want so long as it is wo

Reply to Elemental: EARLY test of the engine in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Like it. Agree with earlier post about the shadow angles (multiple light sources?). Most medieval cities had the fields outside. However, there were exceptions. My main interest will be the flexibility of the building customisation (can we have buildings made of crystal / flesh / mud / trees) ? Are all these buildings customised then?

Reply to Should essence be at least semi-renewable? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I imagine that logically, there might be some way to make the amount proportional to the map size. You might start with more on a huge map. There might be other ways to to increase essence. For example, based on the back story it should be possible to drain it out of some NPCs like dragons, whose number is proportional to the map size. (Say).

Reply to The Fallen in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]Other than aesthetics, does hiding your components serve any purpose? Some of the lasers *are* pretty ugly, and I'd never thought of hiding them before.[/quote] No, just aesthetic. As a suggestion for Brad, for Galciv III, I often thought they should dispense with 'functional' components entirely and just have jewellery and maybe points to attach effects. (e.g. emission points for guns, and lights for engines etc.) They are spent money on buying art for ugly

Reply to The Fallen in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="13" id="2045141"] I sometimes hid my lasers inside my ship when I could. By butting down a large block, then putting down the laser, then putting another block down on a nearby 'hook' OVER the laser. (i don't know what else to call them. the little bits that let you attach different parts) [/quote] Yep I did the same. Couple of other techniques which were useful were ... (i) Shrinking th

Reply to The Fallen in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Hi, Question for Brad then. ... ? Can we have different materials (e.g. flesh / crystal) for the customisable buildings etc?