This idea is good. Random events, that may change the balance of the game are good thing. Some people hate it, but I think it is good in general. They shall be both good and bad. Such events shall happen either randomly or trigered by some action (a defeat of a faction, declaration of war, a hero falls, generated magic exceeds some critical level in some city etc...)
Elemental will be realeased in the USA, so I suggest to implement the setting of the gender (who is the rightfull heir). Otherwise you may have problems with feminists. [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Even if we ignore them, it is true, that some societies prefer men while the other women. E.g. the king of the Amazons is an unthinkable thing. Or the pope is never a woman. Well that case happened, but....
I have never heard about this game. However the reason is the development of the PC games is very expensive. If you create a game that work on one console, it will work everywhere in the world. However if the PC game works on one PC, there still may be thousands of computer configuration, where the game will not run. Sad, but true.
OK. However the question is: Will bronze sword I become a bronze sword II for no cost? For new units it is OK. For the old ones it is not OK. Is the upgrade the upgrade of a soldier or a squad?
I disagree with the idea of "removing of old technologies" from what you can build. I agree it was sometimes unpleasant to upgrade older units like the existing ships in GC2, however automatic upgrade of all weapons is not good. If you have a sword and you invent a doublebladed sword, the old swords will never become the doublebladed ones. If you want all your units to have the new weapons, you need to pay for it and it may cost you a lot if you have lots of units. It was the sa
Erasing towns of the fallen empire is not quite logical. At least the bigger ones (it is OK for small villages). Cultural victory is OK as it is in Civ IV. It is OK if there is a limited number of turns in the game. I hope there will be no limit. If cultural points are in Elemental too, it may be OK, if you generate much more culture points and winn. However "Q+30" expression you use - plus is not the right operand. Consider different map sizes. If Q+30 i
I hope it will be available to order. And I hope it will be a real book. I dislike reading PDFs.
Tooltip will help you in most cases. The hungarian notation is good, if you print the code and work on paper or you are writing a book about programming. Even with tooltips I think it is good, if you use "m_" (class members) and I used "sz" prefix for T strings (it is not good to use (char *) on windows platform, where str prefix is used). Starting every class name with "C" is bad due to the reasons already mentioned (if you are trying to access them in IDE all first letters are C).</
[quote]I would strongly suggest using PEP8 [/quote] We are good at it in my company. Especially at points 3, 6, 11, 14 and 15 [e digicons]k1[/e] for the link.
Yes, clean coding is great. However I have not seen it since I started programming. Well not quite true, some simple tasks at the university were clean. I am very happy, that I could move from C++ with MFC to Java. It has compatibilty issues too, but not as much as the mentioned deadly combination.
[quote]I never played X-Com[/quote] Poor you! However you still have a chance. There is a freeware remake for WindowsCE. It was a great game. It has been followed by several "remakes" however no one was as good as the first one. UFO Afterlive was close but even it was not as good.
Antimagic zealots as a minor race - good idea! However it would be a bad idea to have such faction. As I understand the game, each faction is ruled by a magic chaneler. So why should they obey their master?
[quote]Or will they be much bigger and you can scroll around like in AoW?[/quote] There are lots of answers to your question in this forum. Just read the previous announcement - that about detail levels! We will see however, what map size will be available in the beta. However I don't think it would be important to have a huge map in early betas. Of course it will be important in the late ones. The overall strategy of huge worlds will definitely differ from the strategy on the small w
The good thing is they are a warning to the others. Piracy is bad. The laws that may solve software piracy are still not complete and they are chaotic and it is a very bad thing. On the other hand some part of the piracy is caused by media companies itself. E.g. I watch downloaded Stargate Atlantis. I spent several hours already by attempts to get legal DVDs. "We don't ship DVDs to your country..." is the response....
[quote]BoogieBac, could you consider to add a "notepad" to the game?[/quote] Well. I think the game should be playable in a window. If so, you may run any text editor you want (without the need of this feature to be present in the game). Logging is however always a good idea. Especially in beta.
[quote]The only exception would be dwarves and this would ONLY be for mines for the digging of jewels. [/quote] Even dwares will probably not want to live in a depleted mine.
The good story must bring something new. No generator can do this.
I think refilling new creatures is OK. Low level creatures would be generated first, higher level creatures later. The higher the dungeon population is, the higher level creatures may appear. It may be nice if eg. an orc infested dungeon generates orc raiders (as a neutral units) roaming on the map (when dungeon population reaches critical level) . One more idea: It may be nice if specific low level creature allows specific higher level addons - e.g. orcs allow worges and orges,
I don't think it would be wise if a software company would sell hardware too. Remember Microsoft! It is as bad as if a software company starts to sell vegetables. You need to employ new people for it (specialized to hw (or bananas [e digicons]:d[/e] ). It is expensive and the company may not have any profit at all.
1) X3 Reunion 2) X3 Terran conflict 3) Elemental, War of Magic Some people say X3 is boring. However I can not resist to watch my ships entering and leaving hyperspace and making me lots of money. Hey, have I already mentioned money.... GC2 is good too, however If I am allowed to choose only three games.....
It is an interesting idea indeed. However it would be difficult to program the movement (especially the user interface) and as a user you can allways split the army into several smaller armies to prevent this. So I think it won't work.
I would suggest such achievments: - peace lover - winns the game without being at war with anyone (neutral creatures and cities do not count) - destroyer of the empires - winns the game by killing all opponents - Famine, the third rider of apocalypse - loses some specific amount of population due to starvation
3) There is no need for the high-level dungeon to be too far from teh player. The more attempts the player makes, the more food the dragon will have... [e digicons]:pig:[/e]
I liked Atlantis much more than SG1. However both series are great. Now I wait for the fifth season to be available, so I can buy it together.
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