LightofAbraxas

LightofAbraxas

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I hate to be "that guy," but... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

...has anyone heard anything lately about the release date for v1.1? I'm assuming that since there hasn't been any official word lately, the devs have backed off the "September" target release date. Anyway, just curious!

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Reply to VERY IMPORTANT: Make Teleport Optional or REMOVE IT in 1.1 in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] I can spend hours creating defenses of all sort, sending units to control strategic points... all that for what? How do I know, in fact, if the enemy is not just putting together a huge stack that is going to jump around like in a dumb arcade game and destroy all my work in just a few turns? Lucky the AI right now is so dumb that is not applying this obvious simple dominant strategy! If the AI did the game would be already unplayable! <br

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Reply to Brad's new idea: specialist slots and why they're an awful idea. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="lord ebonstone" reply="8" id="2789100"]The whole specialist stuff really smacks of GalCiv2, which Elemental needs to be moving further and further away from, not toward. Examples from this idea: -Actually interesting, perhaps tiered ala Civ5/WoW/whatever, specialists. (This allows for real "specialization." I can dip into, say, Combat and Adventuring if I want to focus on Physical Heroes and basic-unit Armies. If I jus

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Reply to Lot of interesting stuff going on in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="41" id="2789112"]Cartoonish, maybe, but more playable IMO. The objects (like trees, mountains, or monsters) are far more visible because they are off-scale and (which is the killer) have the dark border that is used to differentiate objects. 3D objects typically do not have such a bright object / dark border layout so they blend into the background. The cartoonish map is the clear winner in the contrast and useability

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Reply to [for devs] Requests for changes in modding in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] 4. Right now, we can only build one type of improvement on each type of worldresource. For example, a "ScenicViewBonusType" will ALWAYS produce the same improvement. Even if more improvements are added that uses the same type, there is no way to build them. I would like to see an option added to select which type of improvement is to be built on a resource, if there are several choices. [/quote] <span style="fon

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Reply to The Elemental all-purpose mega thread in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Alright, I'm going to go ahead and make a little noise about something that I haven't seen mentioned too much in the forums, but is a big deal for me. I apologize because this is a repost (I hadn't seen this thread at the time), but I wanted to be sure it caught the eye of the devs, if just for a second. Important note : First, I like this game. I think it's a brave concept, and an

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Reply to [Gameplay Suggestion] A Plea for some Strategic Depth in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="4" id="2778879"]To the OP: I am sorry, but Civ 4 does not have a better battle system. Not even close. Ground/Air/Sea is all the same. Exactly the same. It's different, and much better thought out, to a point. If you look, you'll see how it was changed for Civ 5. Civ 5 >>>>>> Civ 4 as far as battle systems go. I love the *potential* of the battle system in Elemental, but it needs a ma

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[Gameplay Suggestion] A Plea for some Strategic Depth in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You know, some meaningful strategic choices would really lend this game some depth and replayability. First off, I should say that I kinda like this game. It's different, it's interesting, and it has a lot of potential. But, I have to admit, I was definitely bored after a few games. So... I put it off to the side for a while and played Civ 4 for the first time. <span

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Reply to Axing Adventuring in War of Magic Elemental Forums

"Yes, English is not my mother language. And even not my second language, so I'm sorry if my english is bad" Well, in that case, that's pretty f'ing impressive. So, I'm guessing that your intent in having inns as quest centers is to have quests that replentish over time? I actually think that this is a good idea (if it can be balanced within reason), but again, I think that having different "levels" of quests/locations is a good mechanic to reward the player for pursuing a tech line o

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Reply to Axing Adventuring in War of Magic Elemental Forums

"You just want your adventurer go to the next level of dungeon. Honestly, I hate Adventure Tech and hope it would changed." Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying. I think the adventuring component is a fun aspect of the game. I'm not sure I understand what your point is, I'm sorry. I'm guessing that English is a second language for you (and I apologize if that's incorrect), so I really don't want to argue about it.

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Reply to Axing Adventuring in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What GV said. I love this tree, and certainly don't think it should be removed. Look at it this way: they're researching the locations of forgotten notable places, resources, and leads on important people wandering the wastes. Imo, there could be more quest types (and more involved) and notable locations, but I would be sad if it got the axe...

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Reply to EPIC "time control" in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

I've found that increasing the TechLevelExponent to between 1.8 and 2.0 really stretches out the mid and endgame for me. Cheers! I enjoy a long game, too.

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Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Also, as many other posts have mentioned, no one is asking for 10,000 individually controlled units. As an illustration, 8 Full Battalions of 100 6 Companies (or whatever) of 50 = 1100 units, and only 14 commands to issue each turn. This is hardly overwhelming, imo. (P.S.) My laptop runs MTWII, which renders many many many units at once without any problems. My laptop is fairly horrible. I don't think this is going to be quite the issue that many people seem to

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Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Thanks for heading this up, RX. I would love to see battles that look something like this. Granted, with the tile-based system we have now, it's not going to look exactly like that picture, but I would love 1) More than 12 units in an army. 1.5) Bigger tactical maps to accomodate. They don't have to be huge, but bigger than we have now would be nice. 2) Bigger unit sizes. From 1 (for scouts and garrisons for towns under low threat),&nbs

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Reply to Discussion: General Combat System in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Alright, I'll throw my 2 cents in here. I think that my ideal combat system would change 3 specific things. 1) Seperating attack and damage would allow for some meaningful differences in weapon types. 2) Normalized distributions. I would suggest a normal distribution for defense scores, and a "skewed" distribution for attack. A system that makes multiple rolls and keeps or averages the highest one, two, or three rolls would shift the probability distribution "above" the mean d

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