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Alright. Its time to end this. Brad needs a name for the damned book, and it is our duty to deliver a name for the book. As far as the game goes, my vote goes for a custom name. What you choose for currency will be displayed as the string for currency in every situation, so you don't need to know tons of different names of currency. This would be a purely cosmetic decision. If this is not applied to the game, I will make this humble suggestion from my analysis of the world of elemental.

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The suggestions by the OP seem fine to me, I honestly don' think it matters. My own suggestion would be Attero. I support the ability to name your own currency, and it'd purely a cosmetic feature, of course. Factions having their own currency would make sense as well, as long as the different currency has a 1:1 ratio at all times....I don't want to have to take inflation into account in a TBS fantasy game.

Reply to Corrupt a Wish: The Forum Game. in Everything Else Elemental Forums

"Granted the whole world turns to communism and we all have to share everything" I wish people would reply to wished AND state wishes of their own.

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I wish i was the smartest person ever. Granted. You are the smartest person ever. You discover the secret to immortality through nanotechnology and members of various religious institutions arrive at your doorstep with lethal weaponry to kill you before you finalize your findings. They proceed to kill you in 397 different ways with the multitude of weapons at their disposal. I wish society forever abolished the use of money.

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I know I'm making a Warcraft Mod

Reply to Movies for gamers in Everything Else Elemental Forums

1. Donnie Darkko 2. A Clockwork Orange 3. Law Abiding Citizen (skip the morality bit and the tinkering mindfuckery is awesome) 4. The Inside man(again, great mind fuckery) 5. District 9 (I know a lot of people didn't like this, but it had great story telling skill) 6. Know1ng 7. The day the earth stood still 8. The Notebook(don't doubt me nigga) 9. Shaving Ryan's Privates (Saving Private Ryan, watch it...again...now) 10.

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I would play a rapture mod that makes elemental work like the city of rapture. The magic system is perfect for that purpose.

Reply to Promising game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Welcome to the stardock fanfamily. *passes the cyanide laced kool-aid*

Reply to Player Input: Professions in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="40" id="2555995"] Quoting Unicorn McGriddle, reply 37 Right now, I'm leaning toward a compromise between them that involves selecting three things: first a Birth which narrows your options (e.g., Slave, Noble, Peasant, Artisan, Merchant), then a Field which is an area of work (e.g., Agriculture, Law Enforcement, Learning, Military, Commerce), and then a Career in the Field which is what you actually wound up doing by the time the Cataclysm hit (butcher, watchm

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I would like to see something such as painters receiving abilitites that only painters can get, like canvas scrite(reveals fog of war for one turn in an area of effect) etc.

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="synnworld" reply="150" id="2544051"] Quoting Circumstantial, reply 149 Quoting kyogre12, reply 66 Quoting Circumstantial, reply 63There are a lot of positives for civilization as a whole staying out of space development. In society today, its a space race. Next thing you know, we'll have nukes in space. Go look up the rods of god program. Scary shit. Im pretty glad that NASA funding got cut. I hope all funding gets cut for all space programs. When it becomes cheap a

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="152" id="2544074"]You totally just necroed this thread, but what the heck 1. you can nuke the space operations of you enemy nations You don't need nukes or anything else in space to do that: http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/19/china_shoots_down_satellite_drawing_protests_worldwide/ Correction: You do need a nuke to nuke space operations of enemy nations. If you don't use nukes you aren't nuking.</e

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[quote who="kyogre12" reply="66" id="2522240"] Quoting Circumstantial, reply 63There are a lot of positives for civilization as a whole staying out of space development. In society today, its a space race. Next thing you know, we'll have nukes in space. Go look up the rods of god program. Scary shit. Im pretty glad that NASA funding got cut. I hope all funding gets cut for all space programs. When it becomes cheap and militarily effective, we will have nukes and weapons of great variety

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

The civilization series is great, and I'll probably buy civ V just to see where they decide to take it, but Civ IV was a combat simulator junkie's worst nightmare. An army of archers should NEVER EVER EVER defeat an army of Industrialized Artillery....sigh. That was really my only problem with the game...that and you end up pissing off everyone as a result of simply trading with other players. You are practically forced to make enemies in that damned game. I have yet to find a strategy that i

Reply to Elemental: Revisiting the Great Cities of (my) RPG Gaming in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="KellenDunk" reply="74" id="2541774"] Quoting Jalicos, reply 65 Horteka (Skies of Arcadia) Mostly memorable for the music, but the unusual verticality of the area was interesting and fun to run around in. Esperanza (Skies of Arcadia) A poverty-stricken outpost long ago abandoned by the nation that built it. The rusty metal, blood-red skies, and cheap prefab architecture really reinforce the general atmosphere of despair. I

Reply to Game Design? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Lol you guys have ruined my childhood dreams and ambitions. I am off to a field that is (hopefully) more centered on the individual rather than the group. Writing, here I come(maybe I'll write a newyork times best seller in my basement in 9 days and reshape society as a whole with the conjuration of only 30,000 words).

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Decisions decisions decisions. Fuck society, lol. I should be able to do w/e the fuck I want for the sake of just trying it without consequence. O well, I guess it is off to being a writer. *grudgingly treks along the cobblestone road called "life"*

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http://jobs.gamasutra.com/Jobseekerx/ViewJob.asp?JobID=qBjuHGfetwAMNw%2BhZwtw3zNUQxOl I think I am looking for this, but with even more minimal programming knowledge and 3d art knowledge. I want to improve games and work intimately with development teams, but I don't know If i'll be good at the actual development.

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O btw, THX for your input guys! I will be sure to check all of those sites out within the next few months(school, ugh). From what you guys are telling me, Game Designers are one of two things, either programmers or artists. I was under the impression that there are jobs that entail making decisions on what is in the game and how the game is played. I don't know If I'll be too good at programming and art. I could always go to writing, but its just not the same as being an active member of a ga

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I want to be involved with the story(writing), concept art(maybe the modelling, too), I MIGHT want to work with programming(I only enjoy programming I am good at, custom script is so freaking enjoyable), gameplay progression etc... What I REALLY want to work in is how the game is played. What would the official title be for that? I want to work in developing levels, how the levels are played, what you do to play the game, the story and how it is revealed, the kinds of artwork that are

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BUMP

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BUMP Can someone help me with this?

Reply to Elemental: It's Fun to Charm Stuff... in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I just assumed that probability determined the probability of complete charm and that the respective variations of control would be present, too. Damn. *slaps forehead* naughty brain, naughty! *slaps forehead again* stop assuming brother, get a hold of yourself. *crawls into corner of the room, rolling back and fourth in feeble position*

Reply to Elemental: It's Fun to Charm Stuff... in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Everything seems fine, except that a level1 caster shouldn't be able to use max lv charm. Casters should have to gain experience and lv up before they can cast rediculously powerful spells. LV 100(100 strength?) charm should require a lv 50 caster or something of the like. If you did this, you wouldn't have to factor in the level of the caster at all. The charm could have a strength, the monster could have a level, and any other modifiers could also come into play. S=strength l=monster

Game Design? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

The job title, "Game Designer" is a very relative term, as I have seen from looking across the internets. Here is my circumstance..... I am in Accelerated Programs at my highschool(College courses in highschool, AP testing and the rest) and I am an A student(my gpa is 4.3). I am looking for a school to master in game design and I need help looking for the best school in the Dallas/Fortworth Metroplex region for that purpose. I dont even know everything that game design entails. Im not t