MichaelCook

Reply to Stardock & Civ: Design differences in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Dom 3, all is abstracted from your viewpoint. The map is divided into provinces and you move from province to province, if you are in the province and the enemy is you automatically fight. Provinces can have two types of "building", those you can construct (Fortress, Lab and Temple) and those you find via searching (these give benefits, usually gem income, sometimes recruitables, sometime other stuff). These buildings don't take up space, they are abstract. Pop goes up and down but you don't

Reply to Dom 3 AAR in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Yes, thats a "Plover". Actually they are called "Masked Lapwings", from the the Lapwing family of birds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapwing I'm just being picky, I called them plovers growing up and spent too many days harassing them so they would swoop us, oh the days... [e digicons]B)[/e] No, I didn't take the pic myself, not for the lack of Lapwings in my neighbourhood. Just about every roundabout has th

Reply to Dom 3 AAR in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Fair enough. What would you say is a noteworthy PD nation? Oh, the AAR webpage is down..... Apparently that fairly common with the wiki.

Reply to Let's talk about Master of Magic in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="WildBoarPie" reply="51" id="2547479"] Finally - I'm old enough to own an original copy, a limited edition that actually came with a Master-of-Magic T-shirt. I still have it, heh heh I'm so sad. - Guess that feature only works for me!!![/quote] Could you take a pic of that and post it, I'd love to see that. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Dom 3 AAR in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="10" id="2547476"]Jotun PD rocks? Have they upgraded them in a newer patch, because my recollection was that Jotun PD sucked, horribly due to low morale. And I don't think they had hurlers either... so no pun [/quote] The frost giants? Big guys? I think 1 for 1 they are top quality PD. There are alot of great ideas in Dom 3, but I won't argue that it lacks something in the implemen

Reply to Unit design really demonstrates a key part of the economic system in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hmmm, thinking about this I wonder if there will be a similarity to the Dom 3 combat, that being no defined unit sizes but rather a single unit can have between 1 and 1 million (maybe not 1 million but you get the idea). I always wanted Dom 3 to have directly user controlled combat, so I like this idea.

Reply to Dom 3 AAR in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Elemental will definately be more Master of Magic than Dominions 3 in gameplay terms. Dominions 3 is one of those games that you can either get into in which case you love it, or you just won't get it. In the AAR I found that it was too wordy to follow all his troop movements from around turn 30, what it is good for is to see his use of summons and forged items. Also mercenaries, I always forget them when I play. [quote who="Raven X" reply="7" id="2547405"]It took me an

Reply to Elemental Beta 1G will be this week in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

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Dom 3 AAR in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I found this awesome Dominions 3 After Action Report. Its good reading and the author assumes little knowledge of the game so describes some of the mechanics. It shows some of the cool fantasy strategy of Dominions 3 and should serve to whet the appetite of anyone interested in Elemental. http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/User:Matryx/Guides/Dominions_3_Newbie_Game Enjoy as the underwater kingdom of mind enslaving fish looking t

Reply to Civ 5!! Bad timing. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="47" id="2546508"] I'd rather they stop working on Civ5 (for now) and do a SMAC2, that is a franchise long LONG overdue for some new blood![/quote] Civ 4 Colonization. They will use the Civ 5 engine to release a sequel to SMAC. Its already planned, along with the features missing in the Civ 5 release that will be in the Civ 5 expansion packs.....

Reply to The Government are attacking me! in Everything Else Elemental Forums

All your base are belong to us.....

Reply to In media res: midgame start option in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

This is good. I'd like to expand on it too. Given the link up the game will have with the Stardock servers (to up and download mods, patches ect) I think it would be very easy to set up a "Game of the Month" like on the civfanatics forum. Give the pure single player a way to compare vs others. Games could either be from the start of a game or part way through, where Stardock has set up a tricky situation to manage. Eventually GotM's could be with quality mods. Allow users to

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

A view on the US healthcare system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7oMNu6P4Vc Administration costs are a bit high in the US, 20 cents of every dollar.

Reply to Unit design really demonstrates a key part of the economic system in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Makes me wonder more about the tactical combat. Even 250 vs 1000 is tough let alone 4 vs 1000. And compared with the old MoM "1 unit per square" have we got rid of squares? Back on topic... The system sounds very organic. Very Sword of Aragon but with construction times. Interesting [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Civ 5!! Bad timing. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Omnax1" reply="39" id="2545006"]Civilization 5 will be definitely nice game. I do not expect it to be revolutionary game at all. Just polished version of civ 4 with new engine and good modding possibilites.[/quote] The new combat will be change the game heaps. Civ has never had tactical combat, now it will and it there won't be any "going to the mini-map" stuff, it will all occur on the main game map. What I'm interested in is if th

Reply to The Random Variable in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I have just learned to play the board game Agricola. It is a game of strategy and what you describe above sums up the difference between the "basic" game (family version?) and the "advanced" game. Sword of the Stars tackled the problem by having a tech tree that changed each game, I think Elemental is doing something similar.

Reply to Hexes in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Cerevox" reply="14" id="2544705"]1 unit per tile? thats gonna fail hard. How do we put multiple units on a city? can we mass large numbers of forces anywhere without taking 10 turns to get them all across a border? 1 unit per tile in a civ game would be a disaster.[/quote] Unless the definintion of a city is more than one tile. Then you are allowed to have Stalingrad type experiences.

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="37" id="2543380"]Looks cool on the screenshot, although I would also prefer a Alpha Centauri 2. Perhaps they can do both?[/quote] Civ 4 Colonization.....

Reply to ImpulseTV is Here! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'm looking at it now, I can only view the opening 9 videos, when I scroll left or right the other vids don't light up and are not clickable. Have vids not been made for them yet?

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

psychoak, your so negative your positivly positive in your outlook. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] "A cancer epidemiologist would probably explain the data this way: In the U.S., we conduct far more tests, which turn up many more cancers. That in turn leads to higher survival rates because we wind up treating some cancers at an earlier stage. It probably even saves some lives that otherwise would have been lost to the disease. But there's a downside to all those te

Reply to Hexes in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Hexes [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="2542230"]w00t! Civilization is only competition for Elemental if someone would buy one instead of the other. [/quote] Exactly my thoughts. Its funny how I'm a paying customer, yet I also want to see Elemental do really well. Kinda like Elemental is my sporting team :) Yes, w00t indeed! Except my laptop most likely won't run it, I doubt they will integrate Stardocks ideology of making games

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="200" id="2542132"] Michael, did you notice that while the NCPA is "a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization," it is most definitely an ideologically motivated think tank? They are staunch defenders of classical liberalism, the intellecutal underpinnings of many modern conservative thinkers. They've got some credentials for rigorous research, but it is research driven by an ideological agenda. (Not a bad thing in my book, except when peop

Reply to I didn't want to play any Ubisoft games anyway in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="8" id="2541771"]This will be the most easily circumvented DRM in recent years. Their validation servers will be DDoSed, causing the company to release the failsafe they've already made to allow the game to play without an internet connection.[/quote] :) So simple yet effective. After buying the game and not being able to have it authenticate in a reliable way, I return it to the store with a storm cloud over my head. The other thing is wha

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="188" id="2541415"] Delivered. As this nonsense hits the news every time the subject comes up, I don't know how you've failed to hear this from someone else. I have revised my assumption that you were ill informed. I now assume you live in a box under a bridge somewhere and stole a computer to post here. [/quote] God put me here just to give you some satisfaction, here and now. :) I don't be