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Reply to Update on memory use in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Using RAM is for wusses. I get an enormous blackboard and a piece of chalk. Then I just write down all the bits I want to store. When I say enormous blackboard, it's the size of California. Also, i'd tend to agree with those saying that the unit limits in Starcraft 2 are nothing to do with memory. A mixture of gameplay strategy choice and processing power i'd argue. After all, look at an 8-player game with supcom with everybody at the 1000 unit cap. Yes that's hugely processor and general-res

Reply to There's too much cursing on this forum.... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Whilst I understand the desire to avoid too much profanity (I tend to avoid it myself, with the occasional lapse into 'mild' cursing in casual situation) I do think it is bizarre that society places this emphasis on words which are 'taboo' for no real reason. I cannot understand why somebody can be violently murdered in a film and have it be rated a 12A (I'm in the UK btw) whereas if a woman exposes her breasts suddenly the rating leaps to fifteen. Heaven forbid if anybody then goes on to use

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

Bare Bear: All bears the sovereign fights will be furless.

Reply to Waiting paitiently for 1.1 beta (WAIT IS OVER YEAAAAH!!!) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Ah, multi-threading and deadlock. Much as i Love writing multi-threaded code, I think there are few things in the world less painful than trying to thoroughly test the stuff...

Reply to Elemental AI wars in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Actually it'd be great to see a semi-official AI tournament organised by SD. Then they could take the winning AI and see what they could use to improve the 'standard' AI. With the user's permission of course :-).

Reply to AI Wars Part 2: Building a better empire. in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="8" id="2824312"]Sorry to ask this again- but why is it not feasible for the AI to learn from the players, and maybe if people play MP or connect to Impulse, other players. You mentioned not doing this in part 1, why is it impractical? An adaptive from game to game AI does seem like it would be the best way to reduce errors, or quickly find gameplay flaws (such as a one optimal solution) <br

Reply to The coming 1.1 patch in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

One of my grumbles with Civ5 is that the UI won't Let me end my turn until i've ordered every unit. Sometimes i'll know about a unit and want it to be idle. Now I have to click that for every such unit. Seems a waste of time for me. Have it as an option sure. This city idle dialog sounds similar to me. If i want a few idle cities in a large map this could get Very annoying. Especially since global resources in Elemental often leave me wanting several cities idle to save

Reply to Something tells me 1.1 is going to be underwhelming... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

My main concern is the AI. A small game change can require big changes to the AI. So I hope the AI both keeps up with the changes and improves upon its previous versions.

Reply to Windows vs. MacOS? No. iOS in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

To people complaining about Windows being insecure. Remember it's the most popular. The people who write viruses/trojans etc want to target as many people as they can so, for the moment, they mainly target Windows machines. I'm sure if everybody used Ubuntu or OS X (Which, despite being popular, still most certainly is not the majority OS) you'd very soon see serious security flaws being exploited again and again. I think it'll be interesting if Apple eventually gain market dominance (which i

Quests to Download?? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

So, I think we can all agree the number of quests in the game at the moment is horrifically low. I'm hoping this will be fixed over time, after all of the other things i'm aware SD are working hard on :-). However, i can't seem to find any quests in the 'mods' section of Impulse. I was hoping for a nice collection of user-created quests to tide me over. I can also only find One in the modding section of the forum :-(. Just wondered if anybody could point me to a good collection of user-made q

Reply to City List Window in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Splendid :-).

Reply to Brad's new idea: specialist slots and why they're an awful idea. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Please take time to make sure this works and is balanced. Doing it in a single two-week patching window, while thinking about the idea, sounds otherwise. If you take on board all of the above comments, especially regarding evolving it to deal with city-spam, late-game etc, then this idea Could be good. But if it's just left as suggested i imagine it being horrific. Some subtle tweaking please! And, if you do include it in 1.9 this week, maybe make that a beta patch? Constantly changing and re

Reply to Lot of interesting stuff going on in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The fact this can't really be solved (scouting) by 'what would a human player do?' suggests to me that humans need some scouting options too. Time for two spells? spell 1) Eternal Eye. Reveals 3x3 radius. Has an upkeep cost of 1 mana per turn. spell 2) Raven of Scouteroos (name not finalised :P) Summons a raven with no attack or defense but more move than you can shake a pointed stick at. Also has an upkeep cost of 1

Reply to Ridiculous Requests for Upcoming Patches in War of Magic Elemental Forums

kingdoms should only be able to interact with things where the colour is more blue than red. Empires where the colour is more red than blue. The UK and Canada should be selectable. The UK can be an empire, Canada a Kingdom. The US should be a minor faction based on the UK. The tiles should not be squares, nor hexagons. They should be dodecahedrons. There should be a quest to destroy your own faction. The reward is your own f

Reply to Elemental: Post-Release Update Schedule in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Why not just balance the turns by giving every unit initiative, so player A doesn't get to move all of his units first? I can't really see why Not to implement this.

Reply to Global Mana Pool Design Revealed in War of Magic Elemental Forums

This sounds good. Provided of course we don't receive it until there has been time taken on balance etc. After enjoying the beta i'm becoming rather tired of constant patches making big changes which are then reversed in a week's time as it is realised how they break the game. Sure these changes are good, perhaps even have more beta patches like 1.08b but i'm getting tired of feeling like a beta tester when the next big 'idea' comes out... Make sure we don't get anythin

Reply to #1 needed change: more beta patches less churn in War of Magic Elemental Forums

(Strongly) seconded.

Reply to [1.08] Still getting Out of Memory issues? Post video card/os/drivers/etc here so they know what's left to tackle in War of Magic Elemental Forums

After about 300 turns on small map (so quite far into a good game :-(). Win 7 Home 64-bit Intel i5 750 Geforce GTX 260 4GB Ram

Reply to [1.08][B, hotfix] Bows 100% miss rate in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I'm starting to wonder if there is any serious testing at all :-(. I still have high hopes from the game, as i have since beta but really... they're still missing this sort of thing completely?? Maybe we should have a patch once a fortnight or so, get some actual testing done. I imagine this so-called 'hot-fix' didn't go through QA. That's really, really not a good idea...

Reply to Age of Wonders Comes to Impulse! Classic Gaming Goodness! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Can anybody confirm/deny if we can download and play Shadow Magic if i buy it now using that link? And if so is it legal? Thanks! :-)

Reply to Why no "rare-uncommon-common-abundant" selections for resources/shards/monsters/events etc.??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Agreed. More to the point, where is my end-game 'demographics' screen? :-(

Reply to Labor Day notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Sounds good :-). I've only played one game since the beta sadly but should be back to times where i can sit and happily game away for a few hours in about a week's time :-). Glad to see plenty of patching being done. My big suggestion for minor factions: Thought 1: Minor should mean No Dynasty imho. Suppose sovereign death in enemy territory means heirs take over. Minor faction sovereign death in Any territory except within own borders => minor

Look on this as "The beginning"? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Having played Galciv2 and SOASE (admittedly by Ironclad) a great deal, the way i think of Elemental on release is almost as a "demo" of the game's potential. Comparing Galciv2 with both expansions, fully patched nowadays and the retail Galciv2 is.... amazing. Atm i think Elemental is pretty fun but I'm quite happily expecting it to reach 'epic' status in a year or two. I'm aware this is a bit odd and one can certainly argue the game is rushed but release-a-good-game....then make-utterly-aweso

Reply to Dear Frogboy in War of Magic Elemental Forums

/signed. Indeed, many thanks :-). Played first chapter of campaign then around 150 turns of my first sandboxg game. Most entertaining. I'm playing on Normal. Wasn't sure what difficulty is the classic 'AI plays its best and everybody has even abilities' difficulty? Certainly could use more polish in places but an awesome game and I'm sure SD will give it the polish it deserves over time :-). Can't help but feel that after the first, perhaps second

Reply to What happened to the community? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Faction customisation is in! Just requires xml editing now but means you can have a lot more freedom. I'm aware some may be intimidated by xml editing but you really shouldn't be, if you sit down and actually use it you should have the basic idea in five minutes. Though of course this is less accessible than the previous in-game editor. Overall my opinion is: Good game but in a year or two, with more polish and maybe two expansions (this Is a sd game :P) it'll be a game