KellenDunk

KellenDunk

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Reply to Strategic Advice for the "New Player" in TBS: things every basic AI should know in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="29" id="2614293"] Quoting KellenDunk, reply 24Why should the AI make perfect decisions in the gray areas? Do humans make perfect decisions when it would be close? Don't you see how ridiculously flawlessly you're asking it to be? I have never said it should make perfect decisions, I have said that with for your method to work, auto-resolve has to give realistic results. That's it, if you have two sets: 1) The results produced

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Reply to Books/Movies/Games that have inspired Elemental? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="GreenIsles" reply="5" id="2613127"]KellenDunk, I'm not sure I understand your post. I mentioned George Martin in my original post (that he supposedly influenced the Elemental team and that I picked up his first Ice and Fire novel last night). Please clarify?[/quote] I guess I just skimmed your post. I was just repeating you then. The only thing of his that I've ever read is Sandkings. and although that seems like it could make a fun strategy g

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Reply to Parallel Maps in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="TCores" reply="1" id="2613525"]I do not know whether there will be support for multiple maps in the same game instance. I do know that Frogboy has confirmed there won't be any in the default game. I had the same idea as you and asked whether "no multiple maps" would mean there'd be no suppot for off-map dungeons, but no response yet. This is one of those things modders can't really do if the support isn't there, unfortunately.[/quote]</

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Reply to Strategic Advice for the "New Player" in TBS: things every basic AI should know in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="23" id="2613321"] Quoting KellenDunk, reply 20 It doesn't need to, when you make the decision to withdraw you don't do it with perfect knowledge of exactly how things are going to play out, you do it on your assessment of comparative troop strengths. Auto resolves are a perfect way to measure that. Again you're demanding a level of accuracy for a simple system to be way higher than necessary. Except when combat falls on t

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Reply to Strategic Advice for the "New Player" in TBS: things every basic AI should know in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="21" id="2612853"] Quoting KellenDunk, reply 20 Quoting VicenteC, reply 19And an AI using that calculation will only be good if the auto-resolve gives good results, but all auto-resolves I remember give results that aren't very similar to the real result if the player is involved. It doesn't need to, when you make the decision to withdraw you don't do it with perfect knowledge of exactly how things are going to play out, you do it on your ass

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Reply to About how many Pre-orders are there? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I looked into it. Already 1billion copies have been preordered. Although to answer your concern, I think it will be pretty easy to find games to play. Impulse reactor is already in this game, so just Shift+tab or whatever to find people to play with.

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Reply to Strategic Advice for the "New Player" in TBS: things every basic AI should know in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="19" id="2612372"]And an AI using that calculation will only be good if the auto-resolve gives good results, but all auto-resolves I remember give results that aren't very similar to the real result if the player is involved.[/quote] It doesn't need to, when you make the decision to withdraw you don't do it with perfect knowledge of exactly how things are going to play out, you do it on your assessment of comparative troop strengths. Auto re

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Reply to Elemental Beta Testers: Your characters in now in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Orvidos" reply="30" id="2608569"] (Edits: Or a weapon used by a Soul Calibre character. If they've managed to copyright that. . .*Shrugs* I have no doubt you're fine, just keep it in mind, everyone else.)[/quote] You'd be talking about trademarks here anyway instead of copyrights. You don't copyright a name.

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Reply to Rethinking factions… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="9" id="2604603"]I Very Much like the idea of making our own Races. I love it in fact. This part though bugs me... quoting post So even if you made a race of those Avatar blue guys, when you capture a city from Pariden, the city would remain populated by Men. You would then be able to created a mixed army where they all have their strengths and weaknesses and visually look different. So you could create a true “Last Alliance&r

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Reply to Rethinking factions… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

A second thought I had, with the AI not even remotely fleshed out and the factions being only marginally different right now this may just be biased by how much fun we have designing factions.

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Reply to Pre-order now, beta key sent when available? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Naithin" reply="6" id="2602174"]Indeed, been in a few tech alpha's before (for a few of the now older MMOs) so have a fair idea of what to expect in that regard. Call me a masochist, but I can typically garner some fun from that phase. The problem for me is when it's supposedly in a gameplay testing phase, and we're still experiencing such issues. (i.e., shadowbane. ) [/quote] This "Beta" is the equivalent of other companies alpha tests. This has bee

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Reply to Religion in Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="36" id="2601980"] Also, Benjamin Franklin was origin of something that would become the most powerful philosophy. Get his ideals, strip them from religious values and what do you get? Capitalism. Or should we consider Capitalism a religion too? Jedi are considered religion in some State of the USA or so I heard. [/quote] I have a friend, with the last name "Burrone". He joined the military and entered Jedi as his religion. In boot c

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Reply to Elemental intro? [nop! :)] in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What's bad about the voice over? This is what's called a teaser, and I think it was just fine. Actually I liked it. Saying something is "horrendous" isn't evidence that it is so. The idea was like these were paintings or illuminations gives it a sense of history as it is a retelling of history a bit. speaking of voiceovers in game intros I'm pretty sure the guy that did the one in demigod was the easter island head on Legends of the hidden temple.

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Reply to Can Stardock PLEASE buy the rights for Warcraft RTS? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="strager" reply="15" id="2598136"] Quoting Whiskey144, reply 14 Quoting strager, reply 13I guess he doesn't realize that with that much loot, he could start a small studio (somewhere with low-wages of course) and make a decent game all of his own... Given enough time, initiative, and a free or open-source engine that can be used to make a game that can be sold, anyone can. You can even do the work on your own. It'll just take a long time. Possible, y

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