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Reply to Box or Download version? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

the box (or at least the special edition one) is also expected to come with goodies besides the "beefy manual" Demigod had a poster and a figurine, for example. (someday, I will have a Rook play as a rook or golem in a table-top RPG) I've been asking for 3 for a while, but the most I've ever gotten is "perhaps someday, but not right now" and I'm fairly certain its going to bet he same answer when Kryo or somebody official spots this thread.</p

Reply to "Elementalopedia" in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote]only the first bear cavalry line. Space ponies does not naturally compute into bear cavalry, and also breaks the princess rule[/quote] yeah, it was a bad joke anyway. What do you mean the princess rule though? It refers to something I must not be aware. [quote]You left out "always defended by a hoard of rabid, olvergrown fanboys".[/quote] overgrown!? what are you suggesting? (I'm trying to lose weight *tear*

Reply to request for special dispensation (attn: SD) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

last I check it was ok to install a Stardock game on as many computers as you want, provided it does not remain installed on all of them. You do not have a download "limit" of any kind. You just should be the only one using it (don't give it to your friends, for example, with the exception of the possible LAN scenario, but then its ONLY during that game session) Just like, if you install it on your grandmother's computer to play it for a while, uninstall i

Reply to Dude, where are my Women? (Wall of Text (TM)) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

considering the whole family tree deal they have planned, and the importance of "daughters" that will be in that (for use on battle fields or otherwise) I can't imagine that the females and their role in population is in any way going to be downplayed. But of course, we'll see

Reply to War casualties in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm not sure about the "superstack" as there are many ways to deal with that, But, this game will without a doubt have a ranking system at some point to promote those units that have seen many battles. This game promises to have dragons as powerful as 100s of little normal dudes. I'm not sure what that means in terms of weaker units more relevant, since you didn't actually set any kind of standard... but its on the same topic. They certain

Reply to Caster Units and Mutants in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

yeah, I'd have to veto elves. However rings on units that let them cast fire spells are a grand idea. We'll see how it turns out. It will cost essence, and therefor only really be widely available to players who choose not to use the "going gandalf" tactic.

Reply to "Elementalopedia" in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

As long as it says "Bear cavalry: Ferocious and unstoppable. Any opponent is pretty much @#$!ed." If it needs to be longer, it can have "Especially space ponies." added on. If it wants to actually contain something intelligent, it COULD add: " Bears are members of the Ursidae family. They are Bears are normally antisocial which makes them less comfortable to be trained with other bears the way horses or do

Reply to Balancing RPG and Strategy Elements for What Matters - Fun in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What is all this talk about "Fun" ? we don't need that! (joking) but seriously, I wouldn't worry about it. Ever played D&D 4th edition? while I'd likely argue thats more of a strategy game than an RPG, it is what many people think of when they hear of table-top RPGs. You say in the "typical RPG" the player characters are much more powerful than all other units except for a few bosses? Well

Reply to Guarded caravans in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'd vote for option 3 and perhaps option 1. option 1 doesn't make total sense because why would the caravan be able to use the best weapon? I know few merchants that are particularly skilled at fighting. But in theory if they were skilled in fighting, or had a hired guard, they'd have access to the best equipment the merchants carry.

Reply to [SUGGESTION] Summonable units in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

on kryo's note, I believe it has also been confirmed by Frogboy that there will be fantastic units to be obtained through magic means, i.e. summoning. it was in one of his "FAQs" found in the dev journals I think.

Reply to Elemental Won't Start At all.. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

its a tricky situation when it doesn't even pretend to start. Posting your direct X diagnostic might help I'd wager though. If anything else, the devs might be able to build a machine as close to yours as possible and install the version of direct X you have to see if they can reproduce it in a place where they have easy access to all the troubleshooting tools they need. (To get the Direct X diagnostic I just mentioned, type in your searc

Reply to Elemental Beta ideas discussed: October 2009 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I have to support the rearranging of UI. I personally don't think Elemental is a game where "minimal UI' is in any way a positive feature. The ability to hide UI to look at the sexy shader engine you're pooring time into... yes. But the UI right now seems minimalistic in a way I'd expect an action game to be. Less is better, sure, but when you try to compact info into a bunch of tabs at the bottom is when you know you have a problem because that isn't less inf

Reply to Get Your E:WoM Avatars Here! [image heavy thread] in War of Magic Elemental Forums

yay, avatar uploading works again!

Reply to Elemental Pictures in Real Life (Now less modem friendly) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

yeah, I'd cast that spell. So where did this occur? does anybody know?

Reply to Elemental Beta - Hard reboot crash in War of Magic Elemental Forums

there is a debug log. Its "debug.err" found in the documents folder "My games/elemental"

Reply to Designing units in Elemental discussion in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I'd want to see something like Option C. The way I'd want the units to be kept to a minimum is have a system that holds what is a direct upgrade of something elser (you might have to send some time early on, or just use a few pre-made sets) If you have mithril helms on all your guys once you gain access to mithrel, (because all I'd want is the cheapest armor, leather oc icot, and the best armor, mithril, adamantine, oricalcum, ect. I'd only use bronze or steel

Reply to A couple suggestions for the elementalgame site in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

I'm not sure what the officials think. But I think pointing out typos found in the lore is something that somebody has to do and you've done a good job. I thank you for catching the often missed "ending sentence with preposition".

Reply to Kids are so jumpy these days in Everything Else Elemental Forums

seen it before, though I'm a bit bothered you said "kids these days" as if a single example from the internet is enough to make a sweeping generalism like that (I know its a joke, perhaps I'm just irritable of late) I mean, children and young adults have talent too... they just arn't being paid to express it. (it was once said something like, "kids straight out of college arn't always worth hiring to good positions" around me onc

Reply to Majesty 2 in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I'd say I'm a game. I bought Majesty 2 because I was feeling down, and man... it picked me right back up again. (thats when you know you've got a good game) Yeah, the demo basically had the easiest level (tutorial) and hardest level (not even in the game) as the examples. I guess the idea was to give the entire spectrum of what to expect from the game. (I feel they should have made it more clear that it is intended to be insanely hard)

Reply to Avatar upload/removal seems to be completely broken. in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

what? no halloween avatar? (I guess a grotesque doesn't really need to "dress up" since its already like a freaking gargoyle. But still... it could wear a pumpkin :D well, provided its fixed before the end of the month I guess. I'm not sure how high or low priorities avatar uploading is. At least the digicons are in fact back...)

Reply to Emoticons have gone AWL in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote]Should be fixed now. Sorry for the troubles.[/quote] and we love you for it. [e digicons]

Reply to Where is my Elemental??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

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Reply to Avatar upload/removal seems to be completely broken. in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

yeah... what I said. Though, admittingly the link Bichur just posted suggests that the digicons AND the avatar uploading is broken. I assumed it was just a fumble of the JS somewhere causing both to stop. now... the digicons are now fixed but avatar uploading still doesn't. (I did note in that link though that I've tried with flash 9, 10, on 2 forums with 3 browsers and through impulse itself. Which is a bit more info than "its broke", which it o

Reply to Get Your E:WoM Avatars Here! [image heavy thread] in War of Magic Elemental Forums

hmmm.... that actually isn't the crown I had in mind. Apparently the crown I did have in mind is one of the images they beam in from their online servers, rather than storing on our computers. (I forgot all the faction emblems were not on our comps. I had assumed that like the spells, the key, cup, crown, and helm were also in our stash-o-game files. BUT! you gave me what I wanted anyway by posting those. A clean image of the back [e digicons

Reply to Get Your E:WoM Avatars Here! [image heavy thread] in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]I'd take down any non pure Elemental from the main post to reduce the noise. (yea, mainly my fault, sorry)[/quote] I fault you none! You had elemental inspired avatars, and they were great until the game hit our HDs. I consider them to be "Limited Edition" avatars, for those who have been around long enough. I mean I think the MoM ones are fine enough t o be there (though I doubt we really need 3