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Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Welcome aboard Mr. Jon Shafer. Ignore those who oppose you. I know that Civ 5 is better than Civilization 4, as honestly, I thought that civilization 4 was the worst civilization series. But, yes I know, Civilization 5 is lack of a lot of things, but it can be added by the expansion set. So, don't be upset. So I know that your presence here will give positive improvement to our beloved Elemental EWOM, and maybe the next Galciv 3 (who know)

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Quick Brad, give Rebelito a cake to apology. But... well, that's not my problem. Well, Jon is a good edition to Stardock. So welcome to forum, son, if you haven't do it.

Reply to Dave Stern Joins Stardock to Oversee Creative Storytelling in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Why not hire George R.R Martin? [e digicons]}:)[/e] Oh noooo, we will never see Elemental again for the next decade, if it's him. So, welcome Dave, if you decide to greet us in this forum [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] I hope you can give a contribution to AAR section to show us how great of our elemental can be. You know... I love to read AAR, but our forum is lack of AAR story that I can read :( Plus, sometime, AAR can raise our spirit to play the game again. It's happen to ano

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

About the civ franchise, I prefer Civilization 3 to Civ 4, and I love Civ 5 rather than Civ 4. FOR ME, Civ 4 was the worst civilization game ever!!! Except for it's religion idea. It was superb (honestly, if only Civ 5 has religion thing in their feature...) but that's only personal opinion.

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

who is this person really?

Reply to To balance the Champions and regular Soldiers in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The problem of Elemental EWOM Champion is that there are a lot of them, and people tend to recruit them all. If the champion is too strong, the army will be useless, but if the champion is too ordinary, the game will felt bland. In a game like this, there are always two kind of gamers. First, the people who play it as strategy game and consider the map as a board of play and every units as unit. The other are role playing game people. I don't say about the RPG system like Diablo etc,

Reply to [Gameplay] Heroes slay monsters. Monsters destroy armies. Armies overpower heroes. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I think heroes should act like the king in a chess game. He provides bonus to the group, but must be protected at all cost. I see that it is ridiculous to see a single unit destroy groups of soldiers singlehandedly. What is he / she? Rambo? a god? But it is only apply to late game, when the group of army is too big for a single unit to handle.

Reply to FREE Pirate bay in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

well, the Pirates are heroes of their own kind. I just remember about a comedy movie called Euro Trip, where the protagonists could become rich men in poor eastern Europe Country (in that movie, 1 dollar is a fortune). Just imagine for people who live in that country, buying an original game will take all of their fortunes. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Maybe they need to sell their house in order to buy Elemental War of Magi

To balance the Champions and regular Soldiers in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

From beginning of the time, Elemental EWOM has a balance issue with the Champion aka Heroes. their number and power make some people forget about the existence of regular army, their price make people complain, and their uselessness at the end game drive a lot of people crazy. So what should we do? If we make the champion stronger, then the player will avoid regular soldier and go to them, if we make the champion weaker, then people will think that they are useless.Making all

Reply to Tonight’s AI work in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

well I don't mind if the AI cheat at the highest difficulty level, as cheater (player) will find challenge that way. Remind me to my friend who cheated in Master of Orion 2. Because he found no challenge to lower difficulty level, then he just prefer the highest difficulty level for challenge. Well, cheater must stands against cheater :P

Reply to Tonight’s AI work in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think it is necessary for Mr. Frog to play against human players, analyst it and then use the most effective strategy from the experience to teach the AI. Without the challenge and experience of being defeated, humiliated or maybe win against other humans, no one know how to make a clever AI. What about challenge every veteran players in this forum one on one battle? The information will be priceless, and no one will find no challenge from the AI who can beat the best

Reply to Private builds for the adventurous in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]Some of these things are, realistically speaking, just going to happen. For instance, you took over his city while he was heading there to reinforce it. Since it's simultaneous turns, he got caught in a bad situation which you were able to capitalize on. Right now, my focus is on more bread and butter type things like city building and strategic use of armies and the like. But feedback like yours does indeed help.[/quote] I think I have an idea to c

Reply to Why can't devlopers just remake the clasics? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

Well, I have play a lot of classic games and I love them, but I think I don't want to play the exact game today as the old games tend to have simpler gameplay, bad graphic, and more. What I like is a kind of glorious old games that enhanced in term of feature, gameplay and graphic. I love MOM, but to play the same MOM again today (even if you enhance the graphic and AI) is boring. You need to enhance it more and more, to put more feature and gameplay (and a bit better graphic - I'm not fond t

Reply to United States Government Officially Fighting Piracy in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="jeffalford" reply="303" id="2810967"]Back in the heady days of 1992 I got to see these guys, I did not know of what they portend, I now know, the End has Begun! [/quote] Isn't share the ministry file in youtube is one of the act of piracy, as you don't pay the licence to the record company to share this file in the public forum? Not only that, if we open the file (which is automatically downloa

Reply to It's nice to see Pirates being held accountable. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="tazgecko" reply="251" id="2827443"] Quoting Istari, reply 249I am Poor Joe Lives-Alone. I have a set income and set expenses. This makes my budgeting very easy. Unfortunately, I have no money after my necessary expenses. However, I really like music. I have a friend who has agreed to copy some music for me, free of charge. If I did not obtain the music in this way, I could not obtain it at all. In this way, though I have most likely broken the law, I have not actually caused

Reply to It's nice to see Pirates being held accountable. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="244" id="2827255"] Brainsucker...file sharing/torrents function by the 'simple' user ALSO becoming a distributor. There is NO innocent downloader, only abetting distributors. You're totally losing the plot with comparisons with radio broadcasts...as they pay royalties [unless you're thinking of the 'good old days' of offshore radio [PIRATE] stations broadcasting 'in' the UK in the sixties/seventies.]. Direct downloads of a pirated song

Reply to It's nice to see Pirates being held accountable. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="239" id="2827113"] Brainsucker.... Radio stations/TV stations pay a royalty to 'distribute' the music via their medium...in the format of that medium. This is accepted/consented by the copyright owner/s. Kazaa is NOT.[/quote] Then you should catch and punish Kazaa. She won't download the pirated file if there is no Kazaa in the internet. It is also true about the MP3 creator. You won't be able to steal the song if there is

Reply to It's nice to see Pirates being held accountable. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="232" id="2826661"] This silly cow 'shared' 1700 songs via Kazaa. Now let's all do the math, shall we? Ignore the 24 songs at 65 grand each...sounds mean and evil, don't it. How about... Oooh...$1 lousy dollar per song...whoopee-do...like 10 bucks a rekkid...sounds cheap, dunnit. Now... "fair" assumption...each 'shared' [how noble the phrase] song gets maybe a 1000 downloads?...gotta be conservative

Reply to Ideas Needed: Sovereign Special Abilities in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Well, I don't know how will this bonus / trait will be implemented, but here I go : Polygamy : The sovereign can have more than one wives (polyandry for female sovereign) Kama Sutra Master : The sovereign spouse will get bonus stats as her husband know how to make her sastified nerd : The sovereign prefers to hide inside his / her laboratory and conduct dangerous experience rather than socialize with other people. get tech and spell research bonuses, get

Reply to Do we want kick ass champs? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I don't want a kick ass champion, I want a useful notable persons who has unique purposes for my kingdom (not only at the beginning but to the entire game).

Reply to [Discussion/Suggestions] Let's Discuss: Heroes and Dynasties. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The problem is that Stardock doesn't call the Hero, Hero. They call them Notable Person. Sooo I don't think that they are hero. They are just people that noticeable by your sovereign because of their past deed. Of course, some of them have the capability to become a hero, but many of them just people who can help your sovereign build the kingdom. Soooo, rather than Hero, I prefer to call the Officer / helper / wiseman / etc. They are just the "officer" from the Koei's game Romance of

Reply to United States Government Officially Fighting Piracy in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

I have a friend from a third world country where the pirate softwares are abundant. According to him, it is the result of exchange rate between US dollar and their currency that cause the prize of the legal software become very expensive. ( just imagine if the prize of the software is the same as their monthly wages) There, only rich kids can buy legal games (which is imported from other country); while there are a lot of kids who want to play the game. That's why people choose to buy pirated

Reply to Allow The AI To Use Teleport To Defend Its Cities And You'll Finally Realize How Annoying That Is! in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Rather than Teleport, I prefer town portal. A magic that allow your sovereign to transport himself (only himself) to the city he choose (his own cities)

Reply to Hi Everybody! 1.1 goodies in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Looking at how the concept has changed and the stats have lost their previous function, shouldn't the stats should be revamp and change, too?

[Idea] Research & Development in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I don't know if this idea can be implemented on Elemental : War of Magic, but i'm sure that it can be implemented to any Civilization type of game (or space 4x game). My idea is to separate the Research & Development part in the research tree of the game. The Research Tree is more about to research the general Idea. It just like in Civilization game, where you can research automobile where you can get a tank, or flight that you can get fighter, etc. While the develo