tjashen

Reply to Numbers and numbers with some numbers in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

In another game from the way back machine (Outpost), factories could produce road sections, which were stored in warehouses, as long as you had space. Placing said road sections took a number of your worker population, so if you placed a whole bunch at once, you could tie up your entire population and not get any other buildings built until said sections were complete. You could also build monorails, etc. as your tech progressed. Come to think of it, since population is no

Idea for a future expansion r.e. cities and combat in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I was thinking about what I'd like to see in Elemental r.e. attacks on cities, and this came to me. I bashed it together in Photoshop real quick so you could see what I had in mind. Essentially, the City map would be your combat map as well. Note the space between structures for your units to stand in. Of course, the scale would be zoo

Reply to Imbueing Champions & some special ring trick? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've found said +1 essence ring using the latest patch. Thanks to you guys mentioning this a while back, I've never bothered to learn Imbue Champion, using the ring or essence potions to get the mana ball rolling on that Hero's next level up. Usually takes a couple of level bumps though to get the mana up to a 'usable' level.

Reply to [Idea] Research & Development in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I've been pondering your post here for a bit. Yeah, I do like where the Galactic Civilizations tech trees ended up with Twilight of the Arnor. There, you had three weapons tree branches (beam, missile, mass driver), with your Galactic alignment determining which tree had the really cool uber weapon, once you built a certain galactic achievement (Temple Of Neutrality for me). I was thinking about how to implement charges, phalanxes, mongol archers, and such, and the 'horse'

Reply to [1.09e] Out of Memory in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Game reloaded fine, and I played a few more hours before the next crash, which was instigated when the antivirus decided to start a full scan at the same time I was attempting a save (so not your guys's fault). The first crash was 'between game turns', but I'm sure you picked up on that with the debug.err. In my case, I've found if I shut down all other 'background' programs (antivirus, etc.), the game is stable for much longer periods, and haven't seen many crashes. I usu

Reply to [1.09e] Out of Memory in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I spoke too soon. Ran a whole bunch of turns back to back, and just hit the out of memory error. Debug.err here: http://pastebin.ca/1965549 I suspect I'll be able to load an autosave and continue. If not, I'll post again. In the meantime, no worries! Also, if my debug.err is correct, apparently I haven't updated video drivers in a while (autoupdate fails again). I'll check the A

Reply to Technical question on experience & spiders in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I try to research up to Notable Locations level 2 fairly early, as that's the level which significant gold shows up. Then, levels 3 and 4 once the ruins/locations start drying up. Also, I snag heroes whenever I can, so they can go their separate ways and grab more heroes when the treasury spikes. At one point in the game I'm playing now, I had about 4000 gold banked, mostly from exploring ruins, so I researched a hero tech to get more of them to appear. Also, I

Should there be a ring/amulet limit? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I've noticed that my Sovereign/Heroes can wear a good number of rings and amulets, gaining bonuses from all of them at the same time. Most Sovereigns have 8 fingers and two thumbs, so from a practicality standpoint 10 rings is certainly possible (8 would be more comfortable though). Then there are toe rings... SHOULD a Sovereign or Hero be allowed as many rings as they want? Or 8 or 10 active rings? Or a lesser number? You can also pile on the amulet

Reply to Technical question on experience & spiders in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I would have LOVED to have Infernal at this point, but research on Infernal had just started. Again, the key was having the sand golem in the party for the spiders to expend their ranged attacks (entangle/poison) on. Otherwise, I'm guessing that my Sovereign would have been immobilized early. A Fire Giant would have worked just as well (and he has a ranged spell), as the spiders like targetting him, but he wasn't online yet... I had picked up a couple of items that

Reply to Technical question on experience & spiders in War of Magic Elemental Forums

In my most recent entanglement with the six spiders, I pulled this off with a mid-level bow-armed Sovereign, sand golem, familiar, and one other hero. It took a few tries though, as I only had 15 mana to work with (3 fireballs and a fire dart). I had an active fire shard at this point. I whacked off the spider with the toughest attack first (who also had entanglement - rock spider?), then the next highest attack (Black Widow) using spells. At this point spells

Reply to Technical question on experience & spiders in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Yes, entanglement can be a huge problem. I've found, though, that the 'tougher' spiders are generally more worried about the Fire Giants, golems, and such, targetting them before your sovereign. Of course, if your school of magic doesn't include summoned creatures, this can be problematic. Best defense against entanglement is missile weapons/multiple spellcasters hitting the spiders with the entanglement ability first, and a large stack of units (they can only target a cou

Reply to Resources for city building. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

In GalCivII, I definitely engage in planet spamming (i.e. colonizing any planet I can land a transport on). However, I do have to keep an eye on those border planets, as overlapping/increasing spheres of influence can cause those planets to change allegiance if left unchecked, and thus boosting influence with influence starbases becomes very important. While that dynamic is partially implemented in Elemental currently, I don't feel the same 'need' to build influence structures i

Reply to AI sovereigns illiterate ?? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

While this isn't a big 'fix now' priority for me, I agree that enemy heroes and Sovereigns should be reading more... Also, if they are packing midnight shards, cool weapons, or what have you, it'd be nice to get some of that booty after the battle.

What are the top five things you'd like to see fixed/added to Elemental? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Hey y'all! Now that Elemental has been available for almost two months now, I'm sure some of you have some good ideas of what you feel is 'missing' or needs to be fixed/added. In the interest of helping the Developer guys get some added feedback, what are your top five, NON-BUG RELATED , Elemental requests? <span style=

Reply to Feature Suggestion in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I like the watchtower idea. Currently I don't have much use for them, so if they triggered an early warning system as well as providing the increased sight distance, that might make them more appealing to me. If they provided a minor increase to defense (say 5% increase), that'd make them even more interesting to me.

Reply to [1.09e] Out of Memory in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Since this is the 1.09e memory thread, I figured I'd post that I haven't seen memory-related crashes since this patch. I am still getting the occasional 'in combat' freezeup though (quit & restart game time). Thank goodness for autosave. I regularly play on large maps with 10 opponents. I've made it past Turn 300 a couple of times now before deciding I've pretty much won and start a new game. AMD Turion 64x2, 2 gigs memory, ATI Mobility HD2600, decent fre

Reply to Elemental featured in today's Penny Arcade newspost in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think of 1.1 as a sequel of sorts. After all, magic is changing, and we've had a lot of changes since 1.0 (not just fixes). By my logic, Stardock will be putting an 'expansion' out within 3 months of the original, just in time for Holiday shopping (assuming November for 1.1). Let's see other companies do that! With that, I guess it's time to get this out of the way: Hi, my forum name is tjashen, and I am an unabashed Stardo

Reply to Our Elemental Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2803550"] Quoting tjashen, reply 21I'm still wrapping my brain around the fact that the Stardock community apparently has over 4.2 million members/customers... That includes our non-games programs. WindowBlinds alone had, at one time, a couple million users. I think sometimes people forget that games, while a big industry, have historically been small potatoes compared to the revenue non-gam

Reply to Advice on a particular strategy? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I started a game once with NO opponents. I blitzed past the choose opponents screen, thinking I'd selected 10 opponents when in fact none had been chosen. Took me a bit to figure out I was all alone... This was circa 1.07. Dunno if the game still allows you to do this, or how the resource seeding is cirrently done - i.e. if you'd have enough resources on a solo map to make it a worthwhile exercise in tech tree exploration and trying out city building strategies.

Reply to Our Elemental Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I'm still wrapping my brain around the fact that the Stardock community apparently has over 4.2 million members/customers...

Reply to Elemental Review on german "GameStar" in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Thanks for the better translation Blackmantle! I usually find that Google translations of various things can end up being quite amusing!

Reply to Elemental Review on german "GameStar" in War of Magic Elemental Forums

They seemed to like it. Gotta luv Google translator. The 'translated' lines that caught my attention: this dynamic urban development is one of the factors in the drug game. However, it can happen that you will be not proud warriors, but a nasty fight Spider, bashfully the slide into one of your armies. Much better is another method of obtaining hero: himself a witness. But once the fighting cock

Reply to [Idea / Discussion] Monster Lairs in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Definitely agree on the need to implement line of sight. If the lair is underground, a 'fog of war' to hide the unexplored parts of the lair would be nice too. One larger map would be simplest, IF the map itself didn't tax the system resources too much (i.e. chewing up too much memory). I don't think any spell should have 'unlimited' range in any case, just more range than, say, bows. On a larger map this becomes important. Finally, to state the obvious here,

Reply to More ships/navy stuff in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I want submersible dragon carriers! To go with the rideable dragons... Sorry, couldn't resist...

Reply to What's coming in the expansion pack? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Why settle for Bear Mounts? I want Shrill Cavalry!!!