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[Customization] Ships Need to be Customizable Units in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I think ships need to be customizable just like land units. You shouls be able to change out faster or slower masts for movement, lightly armed or heavily armed crewmen, or weapons such as onboard catapults and ballistae. Maybe even have some ships with spellcasters to increase movement or help in combat with healing or fighting. Also, I think may have been suggested, but there needs to be different types of fish, shrimp, and crab resources out in the ocean that could be h

[.98][Bug?] Markets cost food? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I found that markets cost one point of food, is this a bug? I find it is not worth it to build a market then and I don't see the reasoning that they would cost food, they don't support population.

What Happened to Rivers? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What happened to rivers? I saw them in Beta 1, then they disappeared and haven't come back. Are they going back in somtime? They are an important terrain feature that shouldn't be left out.

[.92][Bug/Graphics] Water Shard Improvement not Completely Built in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

My city built a water shrine and it completed and gives me control, but the graphic didn't change. Also the forest disappeared after loading my savegame. [URL=http://img821.imageshack.us/i/graphicbug1.png/][IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img821/9795/graphicbug1.png[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=http://imageshack.us]ImageShack.us[/URL]

[.92][Crash] After battle for magic armor in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I went to a quest site and got the quest for Alzor's (?) Armor. I ended up losing the battle to the spiders and after the battle ended it said I lost the battle, then a message popped up that said I have the armor, even though I lost the battle, then it crashed. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5133204/Elemental/Bugs%26Crashes/Elemental0_92-2010-07-19T22-40-59-284.zip </p

Reply to Post Apocalyptic inns... okay... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Maybe they are a little odd. Run down houses or even ruins that have been repopulated somewhat would be better, but probably the most ambiance-killing part is how many inns there are, way too many. I think there should be about 1/10 the number of inns there are now.

Reply to [.90][Crash] Moving on a horse in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

If anybody cares, I solved my random crash problems, now I can play for 100 turns or more! [e digicons]\o/[/e] To anyone with terrible random crashes, turn off anti-aliasing!

[.90][Crash] Moving on a horse in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I just rescued a horse from darklings, mounted it, and moved to another tile and it crashed. My game is still unstable, I can only play for about 30 turns max and many times cannot reach even that. The crashes are seemingly random and everywhere, scrolling across the map, clicking, or watching characters move, zooming, etc. Sometimes a crash report is made and sometimes not. Also my savegames many times cannot be loaded and crash or freeze on loading. <

Reply to Dangerous amounts of fun in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

@ Aizune- I like that idea, I've always been for the forts-like-starbases idea. I am glad to here all of these improvements Frogboy. I especially like the new way to claim resources, it is very logical and now that I think about it I should have suggested it myself! I have a small cosmetical suggestion: when these resources are built maybe have a small dirt path leading to the nearest road or city and have small people or wagons carrying resources traveling, it would incre

Reply to Teleport Working? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Teleport does not work in this build, there is a video of Brad mentioning that in the Dev Journals.

[.806][Crash] When Clicking on Building Popup in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I got a crash when clicking on the popup for a completed building, a Pub. It began to zoom to my city and just as the edge of the city came into view it crashed. Now that savegame will not allow me to view my city without crashing. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5133204/Elemental/Bugs%26Crashes/Elemental0_806-2010-07-11T15-22-13-614.zip I still do not have ver

Reply to The art of map generation in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

When are rivers going back in? They are an important strategic terrain feature that I miss.

[.805][Crashes] Unplayable game in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Here are two recent crashes and dxdiag. This current version is unplayable because I cannot go more than five turns or less without crashing! [e digicons]X([/e] I have to say that each build has gotten less and less stable on my computer since Beta 1. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5133204/Elemental/Bugs%26Crashes/Elemental0_805-2010-07-02T00-27-21-879.zip <a href=

Reply to Zooming: Better or Worse? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I have to say that I don't like the size changing, leave default as fixed, unless you can make it an option, which would be great!

Reply to The modders will destroy me in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Hey, with an engine this flexible, you could even enlist modders to make new games with the engine and split the profits between you devs (who made the engine) and the modders. Paradox Interactive did this with at least three of their new games, Magna Mundi, For the Glory, and I think Arsenal of Democracy , which all started out as mods for their respective Paradox games. I think what Paradox did was ingenius.

Question/Suggestion about rivers... in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I was wondering what happened to rivers on the map and when are they going back in? I also wanted to just suggest, if rivers are going in eventually (I don't see why not and it would be weird not to have them), that they be navigable by river boats for trade, if large enough a barrier to movement except a fords and bridges, and maybe also have a majority of the surviving fertile land near them since they are a good source of water.

Reply to Lore inconsistencies in War of Magic Elemental Forums

@endofdayz- You certainly have a right to your opinion, but this game is not meant to be a traditional fantasy game with typical fantasy races, which I find quite refreshing. This world is completely Brad's idea and you should either go back to playing Dungeons and Dragons if you want elves or drop your argument because it is not going to change. Or better yet wait for a mod or mod it yourself. If you want more variety I would suggest you argue for more cultural

Reply to How to raise taxes and show newly created troops? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

To raise taxes you must build a tax office (I think), but there is no way to raise or lower taxes,the tax office produces a certain amount of gold per turn like the market.

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I kind of second what SavageBananaMan said. It's weird to have global resources for your cities even if the cities and resource improvements are not connected by roads or caravans, they need to be connected or else how do the reources get around? The current system could theoretically let two cities be on opposite sides of the map and not connected by roads or seaports to exchange resources. I was also thinking that a good way to make factions more unique is to have at lea

Reply to [0.802][Crash] out of memory error in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I think I have this problem too, and it fails to make a debug.err file, why is that? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5133204/Elemental/Bugs%26Crashes/Elemental0_802-2010-06-12T15-12-17-147.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5133204/Elemental/Bugs%26Crashes/DxDiag.txt

Main Menu Music in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I noticed that the main menu music changed in Beta 2 and I just wanted to say that I liked the previous menu music, in Beta 1, better. Just my opinion, anybody else have an opinion?

Demolishing and Disbanding Refunds in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I was thinking that demolishing buildings should give you back some materials and disbanding units should give back iron and materials, depending on their weapons and armor. Building materials and unit equipment would not just disappear but would be reused. Of course not all materials should be returned to your stockpile as some would not be recoverable and no gold should be returned because it was used to pay for the construction, workers, soldier's pay, etc. Also demolis

Reply to Possible Successor to "Comprehensible Suggestion List". Volunteers ? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

That's terrible. I wish you the best of luck and hope you can stick around to contribute more of your excellent ideas and see the final version. I can't imagine what it's like to know your time in this world is so limited. But to use one of my favorite quotes "Never give up! Never surrender!"

Reply to [Gameplay] On food, houses and city levels. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

You know what, I think I like this idea. Theoretically, you should be able to build a city into infinty with a huge amount of resources and the current system does severely limit city size, almost unrealistically so.

Reply to More weekend AI musings in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Island hopping seems to be a bottleneck for many AI's. Total War AI absolutely sucks when it comes to sea invasions and many other games, such as Europa Universalis III, are not much better. Hopefully you can get this AI to figure it out.