[quote who="FlyGuy7" reply="18" id="1964315"]I don't mind they choose to put a tiger if someone asked that and they liked [/quote] For the record, i already asked for tigers. [e digicons]:O[/e] Stardock listens to their customers but they decide according to what they want. Ask in the Gal Civ II forum about multiplayer in that game and loud people... Well, you could ask here about there too, mind you.
Dear Luckmann, you choice of colors makes me cry blood tears. Please, refrain from using some of them, like green, so i can read what you write. Also, red and green? Some people cannot distinguish them, defeating the purpose of using colors. Thank you and have a good day. [e digicons]:P[/e]
I think that he just fears that one element of the game will be decided just because of some loud people. Not per se bad (the decission of that game element, i mean), but a problem if that element is not truly good for the game. The spirit of the first post is good but not having heard from Stardock about it, not sure there should be too much to worry about bear cavalry, frog cavalry or pokemons. They will decide if bear cavalry must be in the game if it truly means something for the game. If
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Ok, non-magical earthly "chocobo" alternative: http://somoche.vtrbandaancha.net/Bernardita/Logo/avestruz.jpg Appart from the earthly horses, we can only hope for giant versions of other animals if we want different mounts that have different roles. (why should i want an equivalent to the horse? I prefer to have other animal that can have a different role, be it a "tank", scout...) -Horses: i ca
[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="4" id="1962597"]I'd say it's worth just getting the digitial download only. When galciv 2 came out I bought digital download + box, and I have still never opened the box. It's packed away somewhere in storage still in the plastic wrap. Since then every time I've bought a game online I've gone for the digital download only. And with Impulse I don't feel like I'm just being allowed to borrow it. I feel like I own it, but the installation files are being saf
[quote]Thankfully, the Pink Space Ponies "thing" from Sins of a Solar Empire hasn't carried over to Elemental. However, as I've been reading through the forums, I see more and more references to bear cavalry (and not just from one person). So, at least for now it seems like the Bear Cavalry is the new, official mascot of Elemental. Granted, the Beta hasn't even begun yet, but that's only a matter of time. Growl? [/quote] Official mascot:</str
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Surely chocobos are copyrighted, so maybe we get "Giant cute chickens suspiciously similar to the ones from another game". [e digicons]^_^'[/e] If you really want a "chicken" as a mount, try the cockatrice. Death gaze ftw!! I still want my tigers, even if my amazons only have them as companions (a Beast Mistress like unit would be nice too... if you c
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="1961629"] That doesn't look cute to me and seems pretty close up to me too. [/quote] THAT is a frakking good image, sir. Sorry for the language but i LOVE that pic. I have it as wallpaper in my work (both my PC and the virtual PC i use just for the IE 6 i need to test webpages accesibility) and it's great to get lost in it from time to time. A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Don't dare to imagine it with the final graphics, all the visual effec
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[quote who="Polistes" reply="9" id="1961806"]I MUST have my army of giant scorpion riders and spider riders! http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/battleformiddleearth2/video/6130945 Best shots at 1:24 and 1:50 And I dont want to be goblins in order to have my giant arachinid army. [/quote] Considering that info abouot giant spiders all around the place (the game world), giant spiders as mounts shouldn't be SO difficult... It will only take like so
[quote who="Ragnar1" reply="20" id="1961909"] So it sounds like the beta is going to be restricted, unlike past betas where all pre-orders are allowed to participate? What is the criteria for being selected for the beta? Earlier posts indicated that everyone was welcome to participate. [/quote] Only fair way is the order in which people preordered. FIFO style. Damn, why did i wait a few days to preorder? [e digicons]8O[/e] [e digicons]:S[/e] <
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="4" id="1952867"] How much for a license to be able to play the alpha? Seriously. Arm, leg, and half of an ear.[/quote] As long as i keep enough to be alive and being able to properly play the game, that's fine. [e digicons]:P[/e] [quote who="Annatar11" reply="4" id="1952867"]Also, someone keeps mis-spelling "cavalry". Right-most medallion in the top row (the guy riding the horse) is named "calvary". I blame MITTENS.<br /
[quote who="Solam" reply="3" id="1958852"]If we can go anywhere anytime what's the point of having a big map? It seems to me the only reason to have one is for the ressources. I want to go back home cast spell. I need to get to the frontlines cast spell. I want my entire army in one place... cast spell. What's the point? Maybe I just don't see it but that's how I would feel. There is no point to having a big
Although i can understand the feeling of "Don't screw SP in the name of MP", i think that Stardock doesn't intend that. In any case, Stardock needs to add multiplayer to this game to create all the needed infraestructure and stuff needed to add multiplyer for later games (like Gal Civ 3 or Society). It's true that multiplayer can affect depth of a game (in the sense of tons of units, mechanics...) but in this case, i don't think it will happen as such considering the modding nature of the gam
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Not sure if i like the idea of replacing the animal resource of one of your tiles. But as long it would require them to have a similar enviroment before being able to switch, i suppose it would be fine. As a side note, i wanted to mention that if Luckmann finally gets his Bear Cavalry in the game, i should get my tiger ca
[quote who="Spartan01" reply="5" id="1955696"]Where does it say that you CANT have an attractive looking game, exploiting all the current technologies AND have great gameplay.[/quote] Money says that. To which you could add time (very closely related to money too, and to bills) between other factors. I'm not saying that it's not possible to have good gameplay and graphics/art, but that the priority should be always gameplay. If i want to pay for art alone, i'll go to a museum, th
[quote who="Spartan01" reply="25" id="1955599"]PLEASE STOP!!!! Please rethink your art concept. It looks like 'Fantasy meets My Little Pony'. Its awful!!!! How do you expect anyone, especially serious wargamers, even serious fantasy fans to take this game seriously.[/quote] I wouldn't take seriously a "gamer" that only takes seriously games because of their art/graphics. I would expect serious (real) wargamers, just to mention one group, to value the game becuase
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The enemy kingdom/empire that just lost his channeler should, depending of the conditions of the current game: -Remain neutral. They don't expand but continue building their armies and cities. They have lost their leader but they won't bow down to anyone else and will defend what it's theirs. -Surrender to the enemy that defeat their channeler. If the other channeler could kill theirs, maybe they will be safer with him, right? -Join another kingdom/empire different fro
The other day while i was taking some screenshots for the user manual of one of the applications we work in, i found the TRUE meaning of the symbols in the four corners: Or maybe Stardock's guys are really smart (they are anyways) and have been advertising the game long before we knew? [e digicons]:ninja:[/e] In any case, it's cool the attenti
Ninja Turtles FTW!!! [e digicons]:X[/e] Crystal Shards should be like mana nodes in MoM. Easier to manage, more interesting to play with,... And i suppose you could always build cities just aside the shards if the terrain allows it, and then sorround it as the city grows. [e digicons]:-"[/e]
Just imagine the teras or even petas that the Epic Story Generator could create in a story log in one of those uber-ultra-mega-big-of-doom maps that Frogboy says that will be possible in 64 bits systems and that could last years... [e digicons]:O[/e] Ok, maybe exagerating (a bit?) but you get the point. Considering all the things that are proposed for Elemental by the Stardock people, i'm not sure that a powerful Epic Story Generator could be done. Too much work for a
You are such a tease, Frogboy. [e digicons]:bebi:[/e] How much for a license to be able to play the alpha? Seriously. [e digicons]:pout:[/e] PS art looks AWESOME. [e digicons]:inlove:[/e]
[quote who="Torynn" reply="10" id="1952006"]I think the art was a good idea in concept but hasn't panned out. Yes graphics don't equal good gameplay but the current set of graphics is too cartoony to allow immersion... I look at the trees and hills of the game and think it looks like 90's freeware. [/quote] I was going to ask how did MoM improve immersion with those 2D graphics... (or any other game of that time) But you say something about "90's freeware" so i w
I would suppose some basic body types needed for the campaign and some extra few for us to play with in sandbox. So i hope to be able to play amazons, Valkyrjur and/or Battle Maidens (all of which are just female models with handpicked names and with different equipment chosen by me), just that not in the campaign (maybe?).
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I don't think it's a mistake to end the game if your channeler dies. One of the reasons is the lore and rpg thingy. It really makes MY character special. He is not unique (as there are other channelers), but he is in a very small group of people able to channel magic and work some miracles here and there if needed. If Stardock provides us character customization for him/her so we can decide the skin colour, hairstyle, clothes (,voice?), etc... [e digicons]:smitten:[/e] Th
I preordered it with the retail box option so i could cuddle the physical copy at night while dreaming of great plans of conquest... [e digicons]:cylon:[/e] [e digicons]:-"[/e] I trust Stardock will provide us with what they are talking about in the journals and interviews. And with it, that will be far better that my dear MoM (although if we talk about hours "invested" in them, Civ IV and, even more, Gal Civ II are very close to it). PS I want to (pre-)alpha test the game.