Kestral2040

Reply to Hi Everybody! 1.1 goodies in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="docbates7" reply="2" id="2806699"]Toby - sounds great. are the specialists going to be a "global" resource ala the rest of the resources or are they city specific?[/quote] global, people do move don't they? ;) [quote who="Tridus" reply="1" id="2806697"]The specialist changes sound good. Is it going to affect the Egalitarian trait at all? (ie: more specialists because your female population can do things too aside from cook?)[/quot

Hi Everybody! 1.1 goodies in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Hey guys and gals, sorry its taken me so long to introduce myself here, been busy working on 1.1 content for you all. I am the 'less-exciting-than-Derek-Paxton' new Associate Producer on Elemental, Toby Sarnelle. :) For a little quick background on me: I have been at Stardock for a year now, however, I was just recently moved over to the games team. Those of you who have been around here for the last year may have seen my posts in the Elemental Army fo

Reply to Forum Broken -- all Sins Forums now give you the Elemental Dev Journals threads in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

ok I've been assured this has been fixed :) however, the serverside cache has to clear so it will be a minute before changes show up. Raven: its probably a local caching issue, try clearing your cache and refreshing (control f5 if in firefox or chrome).

Reply to BattleForge: Worth checking out? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I played Battleforge for a couple months off and on and I really enjoyed it, particularly the co-op/PvE content. If you like Magic cards (or other CCG's) and RTS's then I would say its worth trying out for sure.

Reply to Elemental Army failed login in War of Magic Elemental Forums

there was a bug following the update yesterday for the announcement system apparently... it should be taken care of, try refreshing the page and you should be good to go.

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

also keep in mind that there are multiple people awarding points, not everyone sees every submission so they are not always judged based on each other. Plus the scoring rubric is subjective and will change from person to person. We are trying to make it fair but it can be tough :)

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Madmelodie" reply="51" id="2650055"]All I gotta say is that we've (the hubby and I) have two things planned for this contest that will be AWESOME. Also, quick question: I suck at drawing (though I plan on doing some fanart myself), so is it ok to commission art for the contest, like say, from a friend who isn't interested themselves but are willing to help me out?[/quote] yes this is fine so long as your friend is ok with it. [quote who="larrypeter

Reply to Holy crap! A guy just got 625 points an online video! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

if you watch the videos they were edited and commentated videos of him explaining a bunch of the game as it stands in beta 2. A ton of content/work went into it and thus he got a lot of points. Yes, if you make an hour long tutorial/walkthrough of Beta 2 with tons of information you will get a lot of points too :)

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="38" id="2647656"]The deal with wishlists is that (at least some of the larger) sites use the number of people who've added a game as a major factor in determining article placement, etc. The more people wishlist it, the more likely others will have a chance to see previews and such on that site.[/quote] qft. Also for some other comments: Windisch: Digg articles count, however, to keep them focused we are just giving points for articles that are

Reply to What is the point of the "Army"? - Marketing Genius in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Aeon221" reply="56" id="2647908"] What gets points != what is done in the hopes of getting points This short termist Elemental Army campaign is so totally at odds with the careful and sensitive long term development strategy of this company. I hope that I can be excused a little cognitive dissonance in attempting to understand how one company could have such contradictory, concurrent, strategies.[/quote] this is just a short term promotion

Reply to An Elemental Tale in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I would say you are probably maxing out (or getting close to at least) the top end of what you could expect to get from a forum post on our own forums with this... which is a way of saying: great job! :) Up to you if you want to post more of it, its probably not going to peak at much higher point wise then this got you though. Its more of a category (on our own forums esp) limit then quality/quantity of work.

Reply to What is the point of the "Army"? - Marketing Genius in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="52" id="2646847"] (I will say that another concern about doing this now is that it puts pressure on them for an August release that didn't exist before. If it turns out they're wrong and the game isn't ready for that release, do they have to push it anyway because the hype created by the army has forced the issue?) [/quote] No, this will not happen. The game will come out when Brad decides its ready. Period.

Reply to Elemental Army Updates in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Worth noting that things that are old and dugg will not get points as the way Digg works its only relevant for articles that are new (its kind of like a 'news' site so no one will ever see anything older unless digging through archives). Also we will try and go through and double check old wishlists if there are errors. If you notice something feel free to mention it and we can fix it. Plus the how to play scoring rules are updated as we change stuf

Reply to What is the point of the "Army"? - Marketing Genius in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Gorstagg" reply="38" id="2646380"]Just take into account people that even if you DO follow the rules based upon what is written. You may be in for a surprise when you get many rejected ones. Even though, you as it may of been were communicating and participating on various forums. Oh and don't even try to submit your Diggs, cause they'll get rejected out of hand, even if you only do exactly as they say. Which is digg an article by Island Dog. Why am I p

Reply to Introducing the Elemental Army! in Elemental News Elemental Forums

there isn't a way to un-sign up, however, the Army will only be going until release and then the icons will be removed (we could find a way to keep them on there I'm sure for those that want them to stick around as just an image, but for the most part they will be removed).

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="17" id="2645243"]I think people should get points for Forums Activity as well. Even if it's only 1 point per post. Not to mention I was plugging Elemental on Gamespot and a few other sites way before the "Elemental Army" started, and I don't seem to be able to go back and get "retroactive points" for things I did months ago. Honestly, I'm concerned with "Winning". I already bought and paid for my copy and the upgrade to limited edition. Having a spare wo

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="7" id="2645079"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 6Wow, kyogre.....you really want to win this competition as I see. Nice! Depends on what you mean by "win" Do I want to be in the top ten and get one of the grand prizes? Yes, very much so Does it matter what place I am in the top ten? No, not really. First, tenth, seventh, I don't care. Although I will tell you that I am quite shocked I'm doing so well. I know it's still very early in the competition

Reply to What is the point of the "Army"? - Marketing Genius in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think that if you look at the submissions so far they haven't been just baseless talking up of an unknown product. They have been forwarding of information put out already about Elemental to people that may not have otherwise seen it. Also because of what the prizes entail (copies of the game you are talking about) I think it implicitly shows that the people saying good things about Elemental for the Army are behind what they say as they are doing it to get copies of Elemental.<

Reply to Elemental army is buged in War of Magic Elemental Forums

we are looking into past entries that dont fit our new Digg requirements (to keep everyone on even footing going forward) along with online videos specifically. We have adjusted the points you can get from online videos as well so that we don't have to just negate all those types of submissions out right but can instead adjust their values. Our initial idea with online videos were people would make their own video not repost videos others made so we have had to adjust scoring.

Reply to Introducing the Elemental Army! in Elemental News Elemental Forums

another update: the refer a friend bug seems to be ironed out. Let me know if you still get the web service error.

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

well the big thing I would say to combat a lot of the negative feelings you have is that what's done is not done. The mod tool improvements were made expressly so we can go back and check up on some submissions that we may feel are not valid. Look for point totals to come down for people who have inflated them soon. also as a side note the fan art thing is probably in the wrong category but I'm pretty sure its a model being made for a Lord of the Rings based mod of Element

Reply to Introducing the Elemental Army! in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote]Kestral, would it be possible to tie that back into the Elemental forum, so that we can access it from folk's icons here?[/quote] yep, that is planned for today :) you will still have to login to see their profile stuff though still looking into why some emails seem to be eaten by the server :(

Reply to Elemental army is buged in War of Magic Elemental Forums

pre ordering will get you into the beta in the next wave. Buying the game for a friend will get your friend a copy of Elemental :D no prizes or anything. I'm working on more mod tools to make it less likely for repeat posts to be accepted. Also we can always go back and change scores if we notice something being reported more than once.

Reply to Elemental army problem with people with lots of quests in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="8" id="2643983"] Quoting ThreeKings, reply 6Download firefox or chrome and your problem should be fixed as well. Not sure if it's fixed but you cannot Quote with Chrome and I hate that little tiny fact. Not sure with Firefox as I only use it at work (because it's neat for web development). Quoting Peace Phoenix, reply 7Thanks, that worked. You are welcome. [/quote] this has been fixed (quoted in chrome!) :)

Reply to What is the point of the "Army"? - Marketing Genius in War of Magic Elemental Forums

to reiterate what Island Dog said, if people actually sign up for the army there is no difference from signing up for Impulse, you will not be added to spam lists or anything. You could opt in for Impulse mailers but that's about it. For the referral emails those emails are all throw away. The only place they will ever be used in our system is to verify who referred whom. I'm trying to say, don't worry about referring friends and having them get spammed, their