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Honestly if I were you I would wait for FE to come out. This game although not as bad as when it came out is still not very fun and the graphics are bland and ugly (unfortunatly I don't see this changing.) Gameplay is sub-par but improving. Tactical Combat is well not nearly as fun as AOW:SM or MOM but they are working on it. AI - Well it ain't very good at the moment but Brad is working on this. Mods- It is very moddable although I have yet to download a mod.</p

Reply to Where is Campaign Book 2 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Infantes" reply="12" id="2881261"] sandbox gets old pretty quick. You honestly baffled me. Now I can relate to many a users priorities, but THIS simply is out of my range of comprehensible values. Even where I play the campaign, the "sandbox" mode easily gets played 20, 50, hundrets of times more often. [/quote] Sandbox game play in these types of game are different each time. You can't say that about a liner campaign. I aften find camp

Reply to Where is Campaign Book 2 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="gradeajohn" reply="6" id="2880529"]So, by default, we get a campaign weigh in at about an hour, that doesn't even count as a full tutorial since it doesn't go in depth with magic, or even mention research? We have to spend more money to get something that could remotely resemble a campaign? Nice... [/quote] You should never buy these types of games for the campaign. Campaigns in thes games usally suck. The sandlot parts of the game are wha

Reply to The ultimate explanation of why EWOM has been... less successful so far in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Infantes" reply="10" id="2881258"] When most of the world is kids obsessed with Twilight and Vampire Diary and similar stuff it is hard to ignore it if you want to earn money in the entertainment business. So you think that Twilight became so successfull because they simply copied? I´d rather guess they became so successfull because they delivered something new (well, not new like in "nothing even remotely similar ever existed", more like in "a new

Reply to [eMOD] ExpandedFactions 8.13 for After the War 1.10 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

So is this mod finished? I ask because I'm concidering downloading it but wanted to be sure I'm not downloading a mod in progress. With the exception of coarse of correction and upgrades. Also with this work with the Adventure and WEapons mode?

Reply to Tactical Battle Question in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Mandelik" reply="2" id="2882676"]Or more probably nobody knows. Perhaps they will be trying again to make pausable-real-time tactical battles ala King Arthur. I never played Total War games but the battles in KA are much to my liking: change formations, give orders, some units assigned to champions, cast spells, have passive personal/collective abilities... That would be just fine here too. I wonder why they told us their RT tactical ba

Adding the Custom faction to a custom Sovereign in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It would be really nice to be able to add the Custom faction to a custom Sovereign in the faction editor instead of having to go into the programming and add it manually. So that when ever you use that Sovereign in the game he has his custom faction automatically unless you change it. Also when down loading from the MOD screen in the game a custom map it would be nice if it went into the right directory instead of manually doing it in the program in order to see the map on the m

Reply to What Version Number will Equal Fun? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]Probably never. I still don't like GalCiv in any of those areas.[/quote] Oh come on.. GalCiv 2 with all expansions is a great game how can you say otherwise? I know for me this is why I'm still here because I know you guys can pull off an awsome game. War of Magic will not be this game but I do think FE will be because of lessons learned in WOM.

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="218" id="2884498"]The thing is that Steam is (mostly) already DRM lite on most of their games. All you have to do is log in once (not a problem since you downloaded the game from them), set the game to offline, and you can play it all you want without needing anything else like an internet connection. Steam works because most people have no problem at all with this level of DRM. A small number of people make Steamworks out to be some kind of dem

Reply to Quests in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who=" Alstein " reply="4" id="2882831"]Some related ideas that I think would help this idea out as a general concept: a) Adventurers. We flat out need more of them. Adventure needs Adventurers. One thing I'd like to see is adventurers spawned from the towns themselves. Borrowing from FFH, why not have Adventurer's Guilds, which would have adventurer points which spawn adventurers as random NPCs</sp

Reply to Quests in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="1" id="2882769"]You have chosen wisely. I vote for sun rod of course. Love me some D&D style action. [/quote] Anything D&D is always a plus in my book

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="195" id="2883091"]Don't feed the trolls! If he thinks these games are anything close to a clone of OOM or MOM he is obviously looking for a wall of text to ignore from people that need to correct him. Example: I don't mean to be rude but when are you going to make your own game Nintendo? Mario Tennis is a pretty obvious clone of Pong. And we all know you got Mariokart from watching Nascar. [/quote] For me GALCIV 1

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="ne_zavarj" reply="180" id="2882779"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 178 Civilization 5 is a huge success -- for a turn based game. For the publisher , but not for the old Civ fans . [/quote] Have to disagree with you on that my friend. Civ V is the best in the series so far and I liked them all.

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="ne_zavarj" reply="166" id="2882529"]Stardock will never succeed to make a good RPG game . Never . They can only make good 4x RTS games , but nothing else . [/quote] Umm.... You do know they made GalCiv and CalCiv 2 right? They were not RTS, they were TBS. Last think we need it yet another RTS game. And these games were the best games the SD has made.

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]As far as combat systems in cRPGs are concerned, should Stardock ever need inspiration, they ought to look no further than Temple of Elemental Evil - that game was downright perfect in this department. I'd be perfectly happy with a dungeon crawler type of experience, provided Brad and his team do not forget about creating an interesting, living world (see Ultima Underworld) with plenty of choices and consequences in regard to main and secondary quests (Black Isle/Troika tota

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="111" id="2880858"] Quoting Paradoxical, reply 53 Although I'm reluctant to get whiny and bitchy regarding all this, it feels as though the elemental process has become a repeating cycle (promise -> failure -> new promise -> disappointment), beginning from an absolutely disastrous launch, but we all know what happened their. The follow up, however, has been disappointing. While I appreciate the Elemental team's dedicati

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="91" id="2880618"]Yea, pics of her would be good, pics of me would be some kind of Cthulu mind destroying image. [/quote] No one wants to see a pic of your hand

Reply to The Stardock Game Roadmap 2011 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]I'm not sure how popular our concept of an RPG would be. We're talking pretty old school stuff. No first person. Just old third person, party (Baldur's Gate / older Ultima). Very niche.[/quote] Finally a Party based RPG. I love building my own party and controling each member ala Baldur's gate/Temple of Elemental Evil etc. Please, please, please make the combat turn based like those games and not RTSish based like Neverwinter night. </p

Reply to Elemental: War of Magic v1.1 Change Log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="101" id="2848187"]Love it. One thing that ruins the entire update for me though? The spell limit...Casting only one spell per turn is utterly bullshit. I loved being able to raise mountain ranges...now it'll take me fucking 20 turns to close off my area...Which i hate beyond all belief. [/quote] <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; background-co

Reply to Elemental: War of Magic v1.1 Change Log in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="alcaray" reply="88" id="2847206"]I bought this a few months ago. Played it for a week or so and stopped because I wasn't having fun. These changes may add to the confusion or they may fix the game. I will give it another go and see. I didn't like that they seemed to get more of their inspiration from more adventure-based games like Might and Magic and Age of Wonders etc. where you wander around and pick stuff up ad infinitum (and whether you

Reply to AI WARS! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="41" id="2844637"] Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 28 Quoting Frogboy, reply 25Depends who the mod specialist is. Most of you have probably heard of him. Ooh, who is this person? When will we know? I wonder if I've seen his posts here... I've gotta hand it to you, Brad. I'm starting to see where this thing is goin'. Building a solid infrastructure to allow the mod community to content the crap out of

Reply to AI WARS! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2843821"] Quoting Ratatosk7, reply 1 Stupid question here. Are AI changes added each patch like crashfixes or are they only added when specifically mentioned in changelog? I'm so glad Stardock has such great post-release support. I wish I could go a few months in the future and play an Elemental I won't even recognize, while a lot of developer/publishers out there simply drop all support post-release a

Reply to Elemental: v1.1 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Sethai" reply="31" id="2845382"]so kingdoms are socialist and the empires are.... american? [/quote] Lets see here, Empires are not for Individual freedom nor do they have a successful free market system. They do not have a Capitalist system, which is superior to any Socialist based sy

Reply to Elemental: v1.1 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="27" id="2845300"] Quoting TheProgress, reply 26 You've got to be kidding me. I figured that the population was split into male and female and that by choosing that trait we'd be able to build larger armies more quickly. I think there was a time when it was even considered that it could impact the growth of your population. But only considered very slightly. Why does it cost 1 if it's just cosmetic? Pl

Reply to Elemental: v1.1 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="13" id="2845190"] Can't see any changes. Still ugly "you". Still good vs bad. Bad guys are ugly (why?). Same factions with no real differences. The view of the world is still sucks for the "epic" strategy game (cloth map is much better for playing). So what was changed? Mana pool? Bugs? Is it all? Patience. I'm 99% confident that all this will be adressed. Only so much can be done in one update, homes. [/quote] I have heard