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Reply to Steam Horror Story in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="1" id="2483949"]I tried reading this from the GalCiv forums, which has a black background, and your text is unreadable. I had to highlight the text to see any of it. It probably looks fine from whatever stardock forum you're on, but it's something to keep in mind when posting in any of the off topic sections... A bit on topic, the largest problem I have with Impulse, Steam, etc, is that you are made very aware that you are only buying

Reply to Elemental: Revisiting the Great Cities of (my) RPG Gaming in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

In some old games I played - and forgot the name - you were a company that needed to do money thanks to trade. But you also had political things happening in Venice. You could try to become the doge. It would be a good idea to get some things to do in cities other than just building things. there were also a game that played in the ancient Rome. you had to deal with a TBS and a political simulation of the Senat. And I like the idea of being able to graphically design my city.

Intelligence in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

In the diplomacy screen you can see what tech have been researched by your enemies. There's no point in spying if a windows can already give you everything you need to know (you even know their diplomacy skill !!!) Why not giving some rough estimation of the power of your enemy ? Instead of "Diplomacy : 0" you would have "Weak diplomacy" or the word diplomacy written in a meaningful color (red for weak, green for strong, or something like that). Moreover, invisible units shoul

Reply to [Bug/Gameplay] Coast City Placement in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Since the first beta I often can't travel along the shores.

Reply to Elemental: Quest Discussion Part 2 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Will there be some kind of drawback to failed quests ? Real drawbacks. You had to got that special egg ? You broke it ? It was a dragon's egg, and Mum isn't really in a good mood. You speak of rewards/consequences, but you only say "get .. get ... get" ...". Couldn't it also be "Lose .. Lose ... Lose ..." ?

Reply to Elemental: Revisiting the Great Cities of (my) RPG Gaming in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="KbT" reply="37" id="2483287"]It's worth noting Civ IV has come the closest to this, with its unique improvements and resource system. It's still not great, but it's closer. I really hope you can work out how to do this; one way may be to take the idea of cities being characters, as if in an RPG, very seriously .[/quote] And why not ? What should you need ? I mean in a P&P RPG. What make characters remarkable are their stories, weaknesses. What make some

Reply to It is time to talk about QUESTS! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

What about failure ? If you fail your quest it would be cool to have some drawback : a dragon appear, a city revolts, etc.

Reply to Elemental: Christmas time Status Report in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Great news !! One question : Will the diplomacy system ever use any "spying" system ? Because atm you know everything you need to know about your enemies thanks to the diplomacy windows (what techs they have researched, their diplomacy level, etc.)

Reply to Elemental: Revisiting the Great Cities of (my) RPG Gaming in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Sigil in planescape torment ! No city can beat it.

Reply to Elemental: Beta 1D Change Log. in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Wow. A lot of work has been done O_o Keep it up !! :D And I was asking to myself what would I do during the next Week-End... [e digicons]:')[/e]

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009: 2 Damage Types in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Yeap "Hit points" and "Stamina" are two good things to get. As long as the overall efficiency of a unit is tied to it's remaining stamina and HP.

Reply to Spell Effects (Not Multiple Damage Types) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="31" id="2478649"] Quoting Ragnar1, reply 28Don't forget we need to change the name of the game to "Arcane: War of Magic" since there will be no elements to Elemental. I thought about that but the title seemed too long and couldn't think of something shorter and corny (cornier?). The game is called Elemental: War of magic. The last part added as an extra. Elemental. Elements will be there, they are going to have a role. At this po

Reply to Stockpiling Sucks in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="zigzag" reply="22" id="2478419"]Mana is stockpiled, it's just capped.[/quote] In actual build yes, but in the future no. They said that spells will be used like in Magic the gathering. Each spell will need a fixed amount of a particuliar mana shard. For instance a fireball would need to control 1 fire shard. Maybe they'll add some way to stockpile for next turns or whatever.

Reply to Stockpiling Sucks in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

The game already use a "flow" system. You don't stockpile anything, but gold. Not even mana.

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="169" id="2477001"]What's really a shame of course is that Elemental is a closed beta and thus no one will get to try out the battles before shipping thus whatever we are thinking is good right now is what is going to be what ships. And make no mistake, you all must buy whatever we decide today because if you don't, we'll blame it on pirates. (just kidding)[/quote] You know what ? You could choose whatever you want

Reply to Elemental: Data-Driving the Unit Stats in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="36" id="2476218"] I've seen Morale thrown around in a thread or two, was it cut as a stat? I beleive the current thinking is to have that an army-wide stat, based on various factors (tide of battle, relations, etc.) and only applicable in battle, but it'd be pretty easy to make that a per-unit stat.[/quote] A whole "morale" thing about the tide of battle is good .. and it should affect the morale checks units would do when they see ding their fr

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

So you mean the "kits" to get the "fire resistance" won't be used in the design unit screen ? And why not a system where you can create templates with your units ? You create "Bob the ultimate unMan", with a sword, a bow, a chain mail and a fire kit. Before battle I chose between sword and bow, then where I apply the "fire kit" (on armor it would enhance the resistance versus fire and on a sword .. well .. it's a flaming sword) Preparing yourself before battle is a hug

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]And, just to ask the question directly, why the heck is it damage types, out of all possible mechanics, that are setting people's blood up? The family tree post did not attract any "I'm thinking of quitting the game", research posts did not either, the lack of elves, dwarves, etc. certainly didn't, but for some reason, damage types brings out emotions and "I fear for the game" posts, for something that isn't even that interesting of a combat mechanic (combpared ot some other effects.)

Reply to Elemental: Data-Driving the Unit Stats in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Where is the morale stat ? won't there be one ? It could really add a lot to the battle mechanism.

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I was thinking about something. Is it so hard to implement a way to change the armor of a whole army ? You could create "tempaltes" when you design a unit. Before battle you choose the template you want. If your army have bows ans swords, you can choose between them before combat. But so much supplies would reduce that army speed. I'm sure Stardock' crew can find an easy way to switch the armor of a whole army.

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Yep, in fact, if you read what boogiebac says in the "data-driven" topic, you can create a weapon with whatever attribute you need. We don't even need mundane/arcane damage ! you can just create a weapon and add tags like "blunt damage" and "fire damage". And have armors with "Fire resistance" and all of that. Now, I hope the battle logic will be easily available to mod.

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009: 2 Damage Types in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

In fact the problem isn't that you have to re-design units, but the way it can be handled in-game. Maybe there's a two-click way to change equipment of your soldiers. You design a unit with "options" : you can equip a unit with a sword and a bow. Beore battle start you chose which of the two will be used. Having more stuff in your "backpack" will reduce map-speed because of the logistics it involves. You want a big army that have everything to fight against ? It

Reply to Elemental: Data-Driving the Unit Stats in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Good news ! Will we be able to do that .. with spells ? Weapons ? Will I be able to create a fire elemental that have "fire armor" and "water weakness" ? And add some tag to swords like "water damage" and add to the battle logic that a "fire damage" will be increased versus a "fire weakness" ? If so, I don't understand the need for separate damage "types" (and all the heated discussion about just "magical" and "mundane" damage), because a simple tag will be able to handle all

Reply to Elemental: Data-Driving the Unit Stats in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Hum .. so ... we have "blunt damage". Will armor be able to acts accrodingly ? Like if I have a full plate armor. Will I be able to tell the comp to lessen damage if the armor is an "anti-blunt damge" ?

Reply to Random Elemental journal: December 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

All we need is some words from Frogboy saying "Don't worry, there will be effects (aka stats (HP/attacks/defence/spedd/etc.) changing spells) in the final game. And a fire elemental will be hitted hard by an iceblast even if he has a high magical resistance versus fire." And a lot of people here have programing knowledge, even game programing knowledge. But we're not discussing implementation, we're discussing "what will be able to do in the game ?" So, will a fireball be the