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

[quote who="RentheUnclean" reply="107" id="2473765"]Well I have to say I'll miss Frogboy's posts. As a doctor I've enjoyed the little glimpses into how games are made. I don't understand too much of it though, so I generally keep my comments to general ideas. In the end, if there is a fireball shooting across the screen, I don't care how you program it. I do empathize with your frustrations with people on the internet. In general, people suck on the internet

Reply to Sovereign Attributes discussion in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Why not, but aging could be a good way to get the sovereign out. They need to find a way to survive years after years. That would be a strong mechanic : you could extend your life span through magical means, herborism, yoga, changing every piece of you with some magical things (a mystic arm, then legs, then.. etc and you're immortal when you're all .. Elemental) that would be a good reason for the sovereign to get back on the surface : he/she needs ancient knowledge to stop time damag

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

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="100" id="2473560"] Quoting vieuxchat, reply 95 But what about a fire elemental with high magical resistance ? Will he be able to stop "Iceball" because he have a high magical defense ? That is the sort of things that hardcore gamers fear. Moreover if there isn't different effect between an iceball and a fireball what is the point choosing between them ? You can specialize in fire or ice, it will be the same gameplay-wise, you'll be able to do the same th

Reply to Sovereign Attributes discussion in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

More attributes : . Base Age (20, 40, 60) : you can get more points for creating your sovereign, but you'll gain bad effects earlier in-game. (maybe 100 turns = 1 year of life, and if you're too old you can die, unless you cast the "extend life" spell from the life/death category) . Base intellect (-1, 0, 1, 2) : you can research more spells in the same time, you have a lesser malus from casting spells higher than your casting level.<

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

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="75" id="2473102"] For the Love of God, Frogboy,how can you say that? No fire spells putting men ablaze, no frost one freezing them, no slingers creating clouds of poison, no nothing? You can't say that when we know you play Dominions. There are no 'party' combat system there, but armies of hundreds against dragons and such just like Elemental will give us. And there's nothing tedious launching your pikeneers boosted with earth magic against lava men radia

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

[quote who="Raven X" reply="90" id="2473491"]Frogboy, I think a lot of people (Me included) took your post to mean the Damage "Effects" would not be in. You said in a post earlier... Quoting Frogboy, reply 75 No where did I say or imply that battles wouldn't end up with people being fried via acid or fireballs blasting away or fear spells or what have you. Right here you mention types of "Effects". We like those. Those add more then just a damage modifier. Wha

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

[quote who="tesb" reply="87" id="2473474"]@vieaxchat if you were attacked by a different attack type then your defence (i.e. missles against point defence) you still would absorb damage one third of the point defence strength.[/quote] Really ? That have changed from the last time I played it. Good change :) Maybe I'll re-try it.

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

[quote]So just one final notice: in GalCiv II you had three kinds of weapons and three kinds of counters and this was quite Ok.[/quote] No that wasn't ok. With shields (versus lasers if I remember right) you're hopeless versus point damage and missiles. Your shields weren't at least stopping some of the damage. They were all the same kind of defence but with different names. That didn't allow for realy tactical options. Look at gratuitous space battles for interesting tactical options

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

[quote]A damage TYPE means (code-wise) means that there is a corresponding counter to it. No strategy game that I'm aware of does this. Early on, we were tempted to do this because we thought it would make unit design more strategically interesting. The result, however was it just made it more complicated. Players can have their cake and eat it too. I can make a dagger that does 3 to 5 damage PLUS 2 points of poison. That's not the discussion we're having. The discus

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

I'm confident that "tags" or "effects" will be available. I also hope that the area of effect from spells/durability/power/etc.. will be available to customize spells. Maybe from the fireball spell my casters will go from a "area of effect spell" for instance. That would be available if the hero has the right perk (like in DnD)

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

It only makes sense if fire/water/earth/wind will add "effects". Like a lightning strom will stun, and a fireball will ignate. Then a simple "Arcane" damage would be a good idea.

Reply to Master of Magic video demo in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="2471004"]Re planes. Planes were in those early games because of the memory limit. We don't have that memory limit. 640k is long gone. Bigger maps.[/quote] Planes were also there to add strategies : you could appear in the back of your opponent thanks to the planes, and the right spell.

Reply to Impulse adding titles faster and faster in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2471130"]It's really a contractual thing really. What people don't realize is that many of these companies are really a bunch of different companies. Plus, Impulse is currently only available in English and some publishers require translation of the client to be made available in say Germany or France.[/quote] And do you plan to do the translation anyday ? I hope I could do it myself ... where are those damn files ...

Reply to Sid Meier’s 10 rules for game design in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Yep civil war is a must ^___^ BUT ! I'd like to see more things about a living world. For instance, when a city is spreading too much, it begins attracting strange creatures (and youhave a quest to get rid of that swarm of ugly things), or undead creatures begins roaming the mand. Or if you're a bad bad bad boy then some nature creatures will hunt you to stop making earth suffering. If you're too good then some bad bad bad creatures will bring a touch of chaos in your so beaut

Reply to Sid Meier’s 10 rules for game design in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote] It seems to me like this one is the hardest for long strategy games to do well in. Most of the games that I've played, the last 10-15 minutes are a foregone conclusion. Last 15 miutes a forgone conclusion, I just finished a Galactic Civ where the last half the game was a forgon conclution, I can't think of many that past the 1/3rd mark there have been 'natural' changes of who's winning (not caused by game changing random event.)[/quote] In adv

Reply to Channeler Customization: Part 3 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

In master of orion 2 you could onnly get -1 "points" from weaknesses, and that was a good idea to help balancing. I see that HP and strength are separate ? I thougth you would like to stay with strength = HP. I lik ethe fact that they are separate caracteritics, but ... what would be nice would be that a wounded unit will have lessened values. For instance if you're at 100% HP, then you get a 120% efficiency in attack and defence. The first point of hp lost will let you with o

Reply to Channeler Customization: Continued in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I loved that part of customization in Pendragon (a rolplaying game about king arthur) and Ars Magica. But what would be really cool is to be able to "continue" the story of our channeller as the game progress. Every 365 turns (for instance) you get a choice to do with your channeller (he is aging). (Maybe at some point in the game you have to make him immortal or you'll lose ?) And the choices you get would be dependant of your "achievements" in game. You fougth 30 or

Reply to Sovereign Attributes discussion in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="2467730"] I agree with most/all of the above comments. I'm just a bit disappointed that the initial proposal for the sovereign is so basic. MOM is supposedly a major influence on this game and your channeler customization options there are much more varied and interesting (artificer, warlord, spell bonuses, etc). I was looking for something at least as good as that. Okay guys, let me give a warning here: If journal entries are go

Reply to Some quick battle notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Damage types aren't so bad IF there's some different kind of damage effects : temporary damage (like in UFO afterlight), lengthening effects (like poison or shock or etc.) So the defenses would prevent damage or soften it or lessen the bad effects that comes with it (like fire that would burn over time, or water that would make you heavier or wind that would reduce armor or etc.) Damage types are good as long as they open tactical possibilities. The 3 types from gal civ2 weren

Reply to [0.262] SUGGESTION - displacement choice in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

And I had the following problem : I gav my sov the order to get out the city, but he went on a city square -__- .. so he was once more time in the city. 1 movement point lost for nothing :P

Reply to [0.25][bug] You lose... like a loser. Loser. You lost in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Me too (for defeat)

Reply to Some quick battle notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="23" id="2465485"] Quoting lifekatana, reply 21NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? I thought you had a brain and din't listen to screaming fans who want damage types. damage types and armor types are HORRIBLE GAME MECHANICS. This makes it basically rock/paper/scissors and is the prime reason why I don't play galciv anymore(or sins for that matter).

Reply to [0.262 BUG] SAVE geyed button after deleting saves in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Not for me. I can delete every games and the button won't be greyed.

Reply to Research in 1C in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I was able to research everything in civilization and warfare. I got to level 12 or 13 in them to get the last techs. Anyway, I replayed Master of Orion 2 last night and the research system is almost the same, and it never bothered anyone. I just hope there will be some kind of "situationnal" techs (if you start near mines you'll have a better chance to get the "mines" tech.

Reply to [.262.][Bug or Suggestion] Crazy number of roads! in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I tried to build a road to those cities, but I couldn't. So it's just a "cosmetic" bug.