Kantok

Kantok

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Reply to And now to discuss something of vital importance… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Raledon" reply="49" id="3227432"] That's it. Nothing really important here. Leveling the city to 5 is nice and helpful, but it's in no way close to having a material/essence rich city. Heck, 0/5/3 is the best possible location I can think of with a sum of 8 points, by far. Regarding the flexibility of Essence- I believe it's actually a problem. Essence bring more than the other resources, and has the flexibility issue, with little to no cost. I do

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Reply to Calling all Apple haters, lovers and all others in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="GunslingerBara" reply="26" id="3227468"]Meh, the iPhone hasn't interested me for years. The software has stagnated, Apple's walled garden completely turns me off from their products, and I personally hate their polymorphic design aesthetic. The iPhone 5 didn't show anything that made it a must-have besides making the screen bigger (which, if you'd look at Android and even Windows Phone 7 phones that have released in the past 2 years, a bigger display is nothing spe

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Reply to How to nerf heroes and make armies count! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The hero/army problem is something that can definitely be worked out in Beta 5. It's all about finding the balance between leveling, troop-dependent research, gear, and maintenance costs. There are plenty of very simple (and very bad) ways to make armies more desirable than heroes. It's not a problem that requires new systems to solve. The difficulty will be in balancing the two existing systems so that they feel like a real choice. Right now the

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Reply to Calling all Apple haters, lovers and all others in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] What do you think will be included in the new phone? [/quote] A handful of features that have been available on Android for a while now that Apple will market as if they are suddenly revolutionary. They will claim that they were developed solely in Apple's secret basement laboratory which you may not know rivals the Manhattan project for scale and scope. One or two interesting features that market really well but in reality do

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Reply to MORE - old school turn-based 4X space strategy game in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="TAOCuathon" reply="27" id="3226953"]Someone telling me they don't overestimate their capabilities is meaningless. Of course you don't THINK you are overestimating them. Still good luck, I am a space junkie.[/quote] No different than you THINKING they do overestimate them.

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Reply to MORE - old school turn-based 4X space strategy game in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="TAOCuathon" reply="13" id="3222234"] How much actual programming have they done? Do they have a working engine? Are they going to make alien races that aren't just anthropomorphized earth animals?[/quote] You do realize that at some point in the development of every classic game we each individually love there was a point where ZERO actual programming had been done. There were months were they did NOT have a working engine. And anthropomorphiz

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Reply to Trained units are useless in FE Beta Elemental Forums

I see several problems with trained units as of right now. They all boil down to one simple idea: The game has huge incentives in place for basing your military power on heroes/sovereigns over trained units with no counter-balancing features in favor of trained units .

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Reply to Dynasty in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Brad said repeatedly that it got canned because they didn't have the time to develop it into a system they would like. Essentially, when all features were prioritized it wasn't high enough on the list.

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Reply to Seems Greg LeMond is still America's greatest cyclist in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="13" id="3212966"] You do know there IS NO political [or other] advantage to be had [for the UCI] in stripping a person's results years AFTER an event, not when the very act indicates some failing in the system at the time. The results were/are done and dusted. The only on-going result from 7 Tour victories is to Armstrong's bank balance. The reason the issue has come to light NOW rather than then is clearly [a bit of] finger

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[0.95]Outpost & Resource Assignment Thoughts in FE Beta Elemental Forums

So maybe it's common knowledge, but I just noticed that resources that are claimed via an outpost's area of influence do NOT get assigned to the city that the outpost is attached to. Resources get assigned to the city nearest the resource. So my outpost and resource that are right next to each other are actually assigned to different cities, despite the fact that the outpost is required for me to claim the resource. Would it make more sense for the resources

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Reply to Seems Greg LeMond is still America's greatest cyclist in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="10" id="3212954"] Quoting Wizard1956, reply 8His reasons for lying down and letting himself be kicked are solely his own. Exactly...if he can't be blowed to defend his reputation then I'm certainly not in his stead....[/quote] Right, because there's no evidence around the world of individuals losing fights against large government or governing organizations that are in the wrong simply due to a lack of resources or bureaucratic iner

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Reply to [0.95] Micromanagement & Outposts in FE Beta Elemental Forums

Add a UI screen to the Govern section that lists your outposts, their attached city, their existing upgrades, the resources under their influence, and has a mechanic to allow you to build other upgrade, all without leaving the screen. Maybe a small world map with a highlighted box so you know where the outpost is. It would look a lot like the city screen. Problem solved. Edit: Oh, and I agree with the 3-turn minimum discussion. The nu

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Reply to Roads...yeesh. in FE Beta Elemental Forums

[quote who="mdonais" reply="13" id="3212557"]I love the current road system. I enjoy spending more time on quests and armies and big picture stuff instead of little boring details like building roads. [/quote] The current road system would be fine, if it built decent roads. See below for a textbook example of dumb road placement. The city to the top left is my capital. The city to the right, that all my traffic has to go through to stay on t

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Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think people assuming that dropping the Elemental name is going to somehow hide the fact that the game is both by the same guys who did E:WOM and set in the same universe are deluding themselves. Every single review will mention WOM. Every one of them. WOM's launch was that spectacularly bad AND WOM's issues play directly into whether or not EFE is a good game. Did Stardock really learn from their mistakes? That will be the thrust of nearly every review

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[0.95]Master Quest/Spell of Making Victories in FE Beta Elemental Forums

It is strange to me that I can pursue either of these victory conditions and the other empires in the game pay zero attention. You mean to tell me that these opposing great magical heroes have no way to notice the giant magical spires that my kingdom is building or that I'm riding all over their land fighting major battles and recovering godly artifacts? The fact that I can chase either victory option without repercussion is in itself weird. It is exacerbated by

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