CON ARTIST You spent your younger days plying your trade with the shell game among others, You've found that other rulers are just as easy to convince to give you more than they think they've given. (Trades sometimes provide you with more than was agreed upon, and the other person will never know it)
The polygamy trait would only have an advantage if your Sov is male, marrying multiple me won't improve a female Sovs birthrate
I hate infrastructure points.. I don't want yet another number to keep track of and spend.
http://elementalbeta.wikidot.com/ You can contribute to this wiki if you want to help out...
Hehe.. Why didn't I think of doing that? Oh yeah, no earth shards to harvest.. :(
[quote who="Fhoenix" reply="36" id="2551394"] Well, I guess this will be hard to balance but it's not like the current talents are balanced at all. [/quote] The best answer for balance is just to deal with the cost of them. I don't really have any ideas for new traits, but balance is just a matter of testing and adjusting pricepoints.
[quote who="Orvidos" reply="28" id="2551304"]What's the 'Insane' trait entail? I don't want to wait till Thursday to find out! [/quote] I'm pretty sure it is reduced prestige in a whatever city the sovereign is hanging out in.
[quote who="Omnax1" reply="1" id="2551156"]I think that bonuses and weaknesses are too generic. like +% something or -% something. I would like to see more gameplay related things, like acces to some great spells which others can not get, Being able to build unigue buldings etc... no only statistic bonuses. [/quote] There are already some like that..
[quote who="Tamba" reply="21" id="2550683"] * Random Names * + Added "nazi" to ban list in name generator yeah, that's what happens when to try to do random name generation http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generator.aspx [/quote] This story is about why they should have told the client that they were doing things stupidly and convince them to use a better method than reading them aloud.
OK it's not just me then...
[quote who="DariasDruss" reply="6" id="2549687"]Ahh they said they might open the BETA today so ahh if it could be cleared up that would be great. Would rather be told to wait until March than be told maybe and wait around all day to see if you get a chance to enter the BETA or not. Thanks [/quote] Just preorder now, and either you get in today or you get in for Beta 2, either way you aren't charged until you can play it.
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="5" id="2549517"]That's the custom unit quote...Brad wrote that, it wasn't pre-canned [/quote] Exactly, you can write whatever you desire in those spaces, so if you want a more serious tone on your SOvs info card, you can write one.
[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="17" id="2549008"]Perhaps trails should develop naturally as your citizens engage in trade between your settlements and then you can upgrade them through research and magic. If you need a road that goes someplace unusual a spell that magically carves a dirt path out of the ground sounds good to me (Or makes a rainbow highway, that would be cool too) [/quote] So far this idea works for people who want to make their own roads and those who don't
[quote who="Splitshadow" reply="52" id="2548790"] Trig is easy as pi. They just try to confuse you by not explaining the different between pi and radians and by forcing memorization instead of true comprehension of concepts. Oh and the whole negative angle thing, which is retarded. [/quote] I hate memorization!
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[quote] The problem is already there, --> city spam. I just want to come up with the best way to limit its as much as possible. Increasingly expensive "new city" techs would go much farther in doing that than simply a single base price for the tech, imo. But you had to deal with city conquest, and the addition of new cities through that manner... but I feel my new suggestion above makes that a non-issue now. [/quote] I don't understand why you need to consider captu
[quote who="Raven X" reply="10" id="2546047"]Getting a Dev response is one thing, sure, but the CEO? That doesn't happen very much, if ever. For a lot of companies "Devs" are a dime a dozen. Imagine going on the WoW forums and having the CEO of Blizzard answering you. Not just a Dev, but the Owner of the company that all the Devs answer to. I don't see that happening in a million years. A lot of CEO's don't honestly take any interest in what their own companies make. They care about
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Outlaw, I think your solution is searching for a problem, just complete the "New City" research and you're now ABLE to build another city. No need to worry about anything other than that.
For some reason I'm thinking someone in this discussion will find this article helpful. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/01/21-01.html
[quote who="Fetus4188" reply="24" id="2549030"]I think it would best implemented as a city construction. Choose to build a road in your city interface, this takes you to the road designing interface, design your road to wherever from wherever, and the road is added to that city's build queue. [/quote] Too much micro for me.. I don't want to have to design my roads tile by tile... I really only want to have to make super important roads..
[quote who="Magicke" reply="33" id="2548797"] I would like to cast Death Magic spells without halving to kill something first. Is this wrong? Does it matter? Are there any evil books of magic in Elemental? [/quote] You aren't going to have to kill anything to use it. Stuff dies all the time, and the way your Sov will twist the landscape gives plenty of plausibility to the player not needing to actually kill to fuel his magic.
Perhaps trails should develop naturally as your citizens engage in trade between your settlements and then you can upgrade them through research and magic. If you need a road that goes someplace unusual a spell that magically carves a dirt path out of the ground sounds good to me (Or makes a rainbow highway, that would be cool too)
*DOH* Double post.
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attaching the number of settlements to the civilization tech tree in some way is a really good idea to whomever suggested it!
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2544679"]The EMPIRE uses death magic. A Fallen race could be on the side of the Kingdom. [/quote] This was the reasoning behind my answer.. something about being in the east.. :P
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I just realized Boogie used the word secession instead of succession... Secession is what the U.P. and Texas think is a good idea..