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The troll; is he made from stone?

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Sounds very very nice and I hope it will work out well. [quote]Can you click to produce a unit in a city without the proper resources in store, and then have to wait while some caravans come to drop the resources off, or will you have to tell the caravans manually to stop by that city before you can start producing? The former would be great, as long as there were some estimates on how long it's going to take even before you click. It would remove some unneccesary micro-management.[/q

Reply to Design elements of Elemental discussed in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]The spells are going to be intentionally de-balancing in late game. I.e. by late game, you'll be able to do Populous level damage to the world. A lot of the reason we had to create a new engine was because we needed one where the world could be truly wrecked.[/quote] Nerdgasm. [quote]Totally. There's instant-resolve (i.e. two armies meet, one dies), there's auto-resolve where the game zooms in and shows a tactical battle but it's all handled by the AI (al

Reply to GameSpot Takes a Look at Elemental in Elemental News Elemental Forums

I'm not sure how accurate their information is, but holy cow on a stick: [quote who="Gamespot" reply="0" id="0"]Your kingdom can also be stylized however you like. In a separate Creator mode, you can edit city buildings to resemble medieval castles, like something out of a fairy tale, or crystalline structures that resemble Superman's Fortress of Solitude. [/quote] [quote who="Gamespot" reply="0" id="0"]Company president Brad Wardell envisions thousands of units

Reply to Pre-Ordered and in it for the Long Haul: Sound Off in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="6" id="1928118"] Count me all the way in! /facepalms You should know better than to say things like that.[/quote] That was... awkward.

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[quote who="Torment" reply="15" id="1928259"]Have you guys seen the comments about the graphics on the various forums? Many people are whining about the graphics style already. [/quote] Forumers whined in masses about Diablo III graphic style. So what?

Reply to Random map generation? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="mittens" reply="5" id="1926243"]So if you want to make a really well thought-out and recognizable island but not an entire map you can save out that island for later use in custom maps or you can add it to the map generation process for inclusion in a random map.[/quote] [quote who="BoogieBac" reply="1" id="1925702"]... results are going to be pretty insane.[/quote] QFT. :D

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I love the artstyle. I'm sick of all those other games which don't have an artstyle at all (being photorealistic isn't really an artstyle imho). If you look at the screenshots of newer games, they all look the same to me. So give my comic style, brillant color style or thick edges as used here. And imho the screenshot of the battle between the dragon and the soldier looks awesome, so congrats to the arty gals and guys.

Reply to Announcing Elemental: War of Magic in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Look at the screenshot I've posted above. And if don't think that looks nice, your bad. ;) Imho the semi cell-shaded look is really nice.

Reply to Elemental - War Of Magic (Gamespy Preview) in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Spartan" reply="10" id="1925578"] I'm a big fan of PI - it is my second favorite company behind SD. I vaguely remember the email about M2 but literally forgot about it since I have not heard anything at all. So I figured the project was cancelled. Speaking of which, one of my dreams as a gamer is for SD and PI to merge. [/quote] No, please no. While I like some of the games they'd made (haven't got one of their newers) the

Reply to Elemental - War Of Magic (Gamespy Preview) in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alfonse" reply="7" id="1925553"]3: Tactical battles. I played a bit of MoM, and found this to be the most tedious part of the game. I very much understand wanting to take battles away from the simplicity of "bigger number wins," but this just makes it that much harder to effectively wage a war. A battle-heavy turn can involve 5-10 separate groups of units attacking. Having to micro-manage these (and I refuse to trust any automation to properly handle the battle, since they are nev

Reply to Announcing Elemental: War of Magic in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="Zoomba" reply="14" id="1925564"] Quoting Vandenburg, reply 8Zoomba, I'm sorry but you suck at chosing cool screenshots These are all early shots of the game which is very early in development still.[/quote] Ah, sorry, you misunderstood me. What I meant was that the screenshot I've posted looks very nice and since fluff is always good for anouncements, you should have included that one. It wasn't meant as a statement about the art direction/qu

Reply to Announcing Elemental: War of Magic in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="Phalnax811" reply="11" id="1925527"]screenshots look like crap[/quote] You know, your high level of discourse is really amazing. Dare I say you would be the leader of the trolls I've just disposed on the border of my magi-kingdom? (Burning Hand, Meteorstrike, Flame, Flame, *swoooosh*)

Reply to Pre-ordered Elemental but not in impulse in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Ok, you got me scared there for a second. But only a second before I saw Brads response.

Reply to Announcing Elemental: War of Magic in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Zoomba, I'm sorry but you suck at chosing cool screenshots:

Reply to Pre-Ordered and in it for the Long Haul: Sound Off in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Raises hand.

Reply to Elemental: War of Magic Announced! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]- Frogboy/Draginol (Brad Wardell): AI Programmer -[/quote] That was everything I needed to know about it. ;) Oh, and to prove my fanboy credentials, I've also allready preordered. ;)

Reply to Mods Disabled in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]not compatible with the beta[/quote] Yep.

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[quote who="TeeWeeHerman" reply="15" id="1920983"]Tech tree though seems a bit limited, though much bigger than any RTS I've seen. Did I understand correctly that other races have other tech trees and units? I'd imagine that it's easy to research the entire tree on a bigger map. This makes me suspect that a bigger map with slower play is not what this game is designed to do well. [/quote] Yeah, the tech tree hasn't the scope of your usual 4x tech tree and your correct that on larger m

Reply to Red Alert 3? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Besides the stupid DRM stuff, I won't buy because of its design. RA was fun, RA2 was almost too campy for my taste and RA3 looks absolutely ridicolous (and not in a good way). T&A for the win seems to be their slogan, no thanks. And I didn't liked C&C3 fast paced micro gameplay anyway (and its sucky story neither).

Reply to The "feel" of SoaSE in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Haree78" reply="10" id="1919372"]There is no pause to give orders, it's all real time in that respect but the speed fleets move and the fact you don't actually need to micro them when in combat if you don't mind being 100% efficient in battle means nothing feels like you are being too slow. Letting AI fight your battles probably means you are at 80% efficiency vs another AI. Vs another player not microing is probably death but you and I don't care for that.[/quote]

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[quote quoting="post"] (Hi, entschuldigt das ich hier in deutsch schreibe, aber mein schriftenglisch ist sehr schlecht. Vielleicht findet sich hier jemand der das übersetzen kann.) Zu meinem Anliegen. Ist es möglich das Fluchtverhalten feindlicher AI Flotten etwas herabzusetzen? Es ist nämlich nervig sobald eine der Flotten nur 1-2 Schiffe mehr hat, das die anderen die Beine unter die Arme nehmen und flüchten. Gruß JB <br /

Reply to The "feel" of SoaSE in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Sins is worth its money. That said: The AI isn't bad (it tries to attack on a different frontline if it can't get through at one for example), though not as good as the GalCiv2 AI (which is the best AI in a strategy atm. anyway). The UI and control of units is about as good as it gets. Atmosphere and graphics are imho very good. The three races are different enough to ensure a different experience with each of them. But, as others have said, it is somehow lacking in the long t

Reply to IGN: Sins unusually low hardware requirements in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="13" id="1917409"]Necromancy + eets = oh god, my eyes![/quote] Speaking of the devil, what happened to eets? Haven't seen him flaming Yarlen for a long time (ok I wasn't here for a long time too).

Reply to IGN: Sins unusually low hardware requirements in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="Kaltes" reply="9" id="1917183"]speaking of the ATI 9800 i used to run that card. I liked it it got the job dun. I will say that i think the CPU makes more difference to the way games play then do the videocard. but mabey thats just my experiance.[/quote] Hey, I still use it. Imho it was one of the best cards for it's time. [quote who="Annatar11" reply="11" id="1917193"]And I just realized we necro'd this thread after a spam post in it.. it's almost a year old