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Reply to What happened to the big Announcement? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Don't get me wrong, I love hexes. IDK why people went back to using squares in the first place and it also eliminated Civ's stack'o'doom and/or collateral damage issue. Realistically speaking I doubt there will be any plans to rebuild the core of the game to use hexes instead of squares. Maybe in an Elemental 2. Edit: although...hexes are normally for tactical games and we do happen to have this very lacking tactical combat thing floating around....might be interesting

Reply to What happened to the big Announcement? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="22" id="2859394"] Quoting Winnihym, reply 13*gasp* Lord Xia is the lovechild of Wintersong and Heavenfall! I KNEW it! *twitches*[/quote] You must have known Stardock couldn't keep this secret forever... Also, are we really getting Jon Shafer? Does this mean squares will be replaced with hexes or that this will become Elemental:Revolution, or both? [e digicons]o_O[/e]

Reply to FREE Pirate bay in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Using that logic why should I be charged for rearranging the chromosomes of a living being and in order to shape it to my will and eventually conquer the world zerg style.

Reply to Land reluctant to change from decayed to bountiful in WOM Support Elemental Forums

A lot of things seem to change and recalculate from merely reloading a save. It bugs me a lot.

Reply to Make Prestige A Global Resource in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="troglyte" reply="10" id="2856080"] Quoting brycex99, reply 8Yeah, you can Raze a settlement by opening up it's info card after researching Fortifications in the Training line of Warfare for Kingdoms or Warrior Castes in the Garrisons line for Empires. A new option appears "Raze Settlement" and it tears it down. Definitely nice for some of the more useless AI settlement placements. Thanks for that. But why should anyone have to research "How to raz

Reply to v1.2 wishlist in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Wet T-shirt contest that we were promised in beta!

Reply to v1.2 wishlist in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Forgot half-decent multiplayer with rankings and global statistics. Also I'd like a sandwich. Oh and sponsored tournaments where I can win t-shirts and a great big golden champions belt or perhaps a crystal shard with gem corresponding to element (ruby=fire, etc) as a gift for special someones.

Reply to [1.1] [Bug? Balance? Oversight?] Tactical Spell Stacking in WOM Support Elemental Forums

may want to update your post name if this issue is still occurring in 1.1

Reply to Private builds for the adventurous in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="jecjackal" reply="83" id="2855241"] Also it seems when I alt tab out of the game, my custom sovereign's portrait changes to Janusk for some reason heh. Who do you really think is sovereign?[/quote] Janusk is just looking for some bum to lead and get things started, later he can start a coup and blame all countries former issues (low food, lack of resources, complete lack of diplomacy) on you!

Reply to Tonight’s AI work in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Oh looks promising! On a sidenote... I did not realize AIs were advanced enough to to predict future turns. For example does this simply mean that they cheat and see you teching say horsemen in a game and respond by training pikemen? Or does it mean they notice from their encounters with your army that you are very horse reliant, or see buildings that support horse tech and in turn realize they should train more pikemen in war preparations a

Reply to Tiered Play & EWoM in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Sounds like you want to play age of empires [e digicons];)[/e]

Reply to 2012: Changes that made Elemental a classic. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Delivery of sandwich via carrier pigeon when hungry via ingame interface. Thereby saving precious minutes of walking to kitchen and preparing one that could be better spent playing elemental.

Reply to Steam Christmas Sale in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I have more hope for Elemental's future than Civ 5's. Like a fanboy I preordered Civ 5 and was not able to return it to get my money back. I'm stuck with both so I am now imagining it like a race to cope with my percieved $100 or so loss, which game will be my strategy replacement for Civ 4 first. [e digicons]8|[/e] Civ 5 team fired non-disclosure retired the civRevolutions guy they had lead the project after releasin

Reply to 2012: Changes that made Elemental a classic. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Expanding on unique tech trees dream; I liked the idea of uncommon/rare techs although the implementation I saw before they disappeared was quite bad. I think there was a lot of potential in the idea for rarer more powerful techs to make games a bit more unique, and I hope its added in the hopefully inevitable makeover of the current tech tree. Honestly now that work is probably going to begin on patching soon hopefully I'm going to be plugging this as much as possible along with the mor

Reply to Elemental: v1.1 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Mystical would be hilarious. Prodigy reminds me of that old tech tree. I do hope uncommon/rare techs is implemented again only in a better way. I thought the core idea was very original and set the game apart from other 4x games.

Reply to Is This Game Playable? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

ATM it has the learning curve of a strategy game, yet none of the depth/content. I don't mention the AI as we know thats being worked on. I'm waiting patiently for any news on future patches for all that other stuff. Quite a few bugs and game breaking mechanics that still need to be mowed down and the game doesn't yet have that 'one more turn' feel either. For me its more of a...click end turn, rinse and repeat, yawn. Winning the game is more of a grind/inevitability than anything involving s

Reply to This world needs lore! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="11" id="2853586"] Quoting LightofAbraxas, reply 10Yes. Has anyone heard anything about the scope of the expansions? I've heard some troubling talk of them being "micro-expansions" a couple of times in the past couple of weeks. Then you haven't been hearing in the correct place. At least I haven't read anything by Stardock this last couple of weeks talking about doing microexpansions.[/quote] I think its just paranoia d

Reply to Happy Holidays Brad, Derek and rest of Team in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Merry Christmas!

Reply to Steam Christmas Sale in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

What I don't understand is that the sales on Steam are often reflected on other digital stores even all purpose ones like Amazon and those less focused on actual games like Newegg. Steam has very clever marketing to bind it all together yet other places are still selling it at higher prices even though online stores like the examples I mentioned earlier are still selling them at sale price. Is this just because all the above can afford to sell less and match each other'

Reply to Researchers Reveal New IE Zero-Day Vulnerability in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Why would you use something called Internet Exploder [e digicons]:thumbsdown:[/e]

Reply to Steam Christmas Sale in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

hmm... looks like you can buy it for 69 dollars here or trade it in for 2. Also only works for playstation, isn't that nice. http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-2-Playstation/dp/B00000I1BP or you can get it for about 3.74 on amazon here for PC. http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-II-Pc/dp/B000FPM8OG/ref=dp_cp_ob_vg_title_0 Awesome game but probabl

Reply to I wish the landscape worked like this... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I agree that the game should start out with few resources and wilderness style. However it should be a wilderness that you eventually overcome and conquer outside of a dragon or elemental lord type spawn. Early game you should be at the mercy of the wilderness, working on fortifying your position and getting the basics setup using goodie huts to give a boost. Midgame you should be looking to start dealing with neighbors through diplomacy (not really implemented yet imho) or war. Late game you

Reply to Steam Christmas Sale in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="52" id="2853785"] Quoting tetleytea, reply 49I liked III better, but I never stuck around on IV long enough to appreciate the expansions. Apparently IV got better over time. On III you spend a lot of your time micro'ing all of your workers. And too much of the game rides on getting your first great leader. Ah, ok. I dont know much of the Civ games, but it seems that IV had more ex

Reply to Gamespot Dubious Honors in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="63" id="2853582"] Quoting Carewolf, reply 40 Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 32 I disagree. Vanilla Civ 4 is one of the best strategy games ever made. The expansion packs simply take a great game and make it better. You seem to have the shades of history on. It took moret han 6 months before Civ 4 was even playable more than 2 hours at a time. Yes, I enjoyed it, but I had to quit the game every two hou

Reply to I wish the landscape worked like this... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I agree with Heavenfall on this. Also I don't think kingdoms/empires are very red tape heavy. As king/queen you wield absolute power and when you tell them to do something and it gets done. Also you can light people on fire, that tends to cut down on any bureaucracy getting in your way.