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Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Well, I figured I'd throw in my 2 cents regarding 1 little thing^^ [quote]You don't know whether they have alienated a significant amount of core fans[/quote] Actually I do. I am/was a core fan of Civ; but after my treatment in there official forums every single one of my friends has returned Civ5 for a refund. Thats 40+ hardcore gamers & each & every one of them are telling others not to bother buying with Civ5; & each & every one of them told

Reply to Elemental'ists that own GalCiv2 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]Also Emperor of the Fading Suns, if you install one of the two mods that make it worth playing.[/quote] [quote]Oh, my god, I thought I was the only person to play that game. I couldn't get too far into it, but what I saw was so amazing...[/quote] YESYESYESYES !!! ... i'm a firm believer that EotFS should be remade with todays graphics (I've stated as much in a few places in the SD forums allready^^). No other game has had the same scope that it di

Reply to The Ultimate Turtle / Strategic AI Test in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]I wounder if you left a path in the middle one tile wide if the ai would jsut suiciide units into it.[/quote] I did test that, and yes, they came to me to be slaughtered like lemmings. Of course... on ridic I can't really claim that a Demon or Dragon is trully a lemming, but regardless, they died & my only casualties were a few expendable Elite troops. One other point; I don't remember which factions did this, but at that point of the game 6 factions remained, and onl

Reply to Best possible start? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

My best start: 2 Farms 1 Bees 3 Fire Shards 1 Air Shard 2 Libraries and a partridge in a pear tree... (no..Hic!... I have not been drinking... much) In that same game Porcipeeeen started nearby with 2 Libraries as well. I went on to be a technolgical jugernaught very early on after sieging that city in season 30 when she left to go exploring.

Reply to A new low for the AI in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]This seems like an exploit and needs to be fixed, I would not use it as I think it would make the game to easy.[/quote] Yup, agreed. That's why I mentioned it because I would like to see the AI improved.^^

Reply to The Ultimate Turtle / Strategic AI Test in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I have tried that, but only with 2 cities... the only thing the AI did was cast Volcano over and over again.. slowly trying destroying those cities. Not once did any of them use Lower Land or teleport to get inside the mountain range surrounding my cities. Same thing happened when I surrounded my empire with water.

Reply to shop strategy that ai probably does not use in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Also a "hold shift key down" (or other key) while purchasing to buy stacks of items for those items that may not have a cooldown timer between purchases... takes a long time buying 5 crunchy chics (ahh mystery meat) to to give to each of my 20+heros in those long ridic/ridic games.

Reply to Midnights Stones/Quests in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Actually, I have never played a game where I did not find at least 3 of them early on in the game... but I allways agressively scout out rival factions zones of control to "liberate" their goody huts. Some games I've ended up with so many of those stones that I wondered why I couldn't use them to build some "special" buildings or gear with them later in the game...

Reply to A new low for the AI in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]I traded 507 of my diplomatic capital for 1000 gold (which was all their money). Now their broke and ripe for the taking! Might want to fix this too on the AI Brad! [/quote] The following is an AI problem... You don't even need to trade diplomatic capital to make a rival faction go broke. Just Declare war with 1 faction via the trade menu while talking to a another faction, declare peace & repeat (seems theres no limit as to how many times

Reply to Ars Technica Article- Jon Shafer in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Your thread title reminds me of an old pen&paper roleplaying game called Ars Magica. http://www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica/ And your avatar is totally tripped out with 3d glasses..hahaha.. wild bro.

Reply to Is Elemental enjoyable now? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]Is this game honestly enjoyable now?[/quote] Not for me...(played a few hundred hours in total between version 1.09e up till now...& theres nothing to keep me playing atm) I could go into more detail... but I allready ahve in other threads... no sense repeating it all here since they know at SD what needs work. ^^ ... but I'm still hopefull that it will be in the future. PS: Nice Avatar Jon.. the ominous all seeing eye... hah

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote](minus the avatar, but still he's a noob post-er here so we'll let it slide). [/quote] Rofl.. Thats funny man... maybe he doesn't want to download & install an old version of Flash (or whatever program it is that lets you upload to SD) to be able to upload an avatar... I sure as hell don't. [e digicons]:moo:[/e]

Reply to Who is worse, Fallout fanboys, TF2 fanboys, or Civilization fanboys? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Shale Gas fanboys...

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Jon Shafer" reply="11" id="2860725"]Thanks all, looking forward to helping make Elemental and future Stardock games amazing. And stirring up a bit of trouble on the forums from time to time, of course. Jon [/quote] Yo Mr.Shafer... you better turn EWoM fun... LOL. Welcome aboard... hows it feel to join this madhouse? oh, fyi... im the curt a-hole drunkard; nice to meet you. Seriously though... better go work now before more

Reply to Why I now think it was good Elemental was released last year in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="2" id="2859810"]Odds are the next SD release will be tested more carefully/made sure it's ready before being released. One of my regrets about the Elemental beta was not saying myself that I didn't think the game was in a good release state, but I didn't feel like I could judge it fairly, since I didn't do the GCII DL beta, and didn't see the state that game was in on launch. Didn't really do pre-orders for SD stuff until DA.<br /

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Wow... lots of emotion in this thread... it's overflowing. Crazy read though through all 9 pages... [e digicons]:X[/e] The only 'Civ' game that I really-really liked was AlphaCentori, ALien Crossfire... does that make me crazy? Maybe... maybe not... But one thing I do know for a fact... 1 person was NOT responsible for ruining a 20 year old franchise. Change is allways a precarious thing for an established game, people are people &

Reply to Elemental'ists that own GalCiv2 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="nrich61" reply="25" id="2861426"]SO im borrowing the game from a friend who has the ultimate disc to decide if i want to buy, but of course cant update and register since its already registered to his account, its version 1.93, is there much difference between that version and the most recent (2.03)? [/quote] Enjoy trying out the game; I'm sure that once you do you'll like it enough to buy it yourself. A few tips for you while you are trying it out though</p

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

[quote]I think hexes are better also, but Brad doesn't, and that's what counts.[/quote] Squares take a round world and make it a box, ^^, while Hex's are for satan's children (no insult to any of you who are one..^^; & couldn't think of a better blurb) What game developers should be using for strategy games is a duel-layered octagon grid. that plays on a world map without grid lines... direction movement is based from the unit in questions current position, not a fix

Reply to New player who bought thanks to 1.1 - feedback and questions in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Diardiamond" reply="2" id="2856952"] there is no rp [/quote] rp = roleplay (not "roleplay mechanics") [quote]Diar, RPG is an acronym for Role-Playing Game. I am assuming you did not know this based on your comment. There must certainly are RPG mechanics - every unit in the game can gain levels. RPG mechanic. Levels are gained from XP gains. RPG mechanic. Quests - RPG mechanic. I'm sure there are more... [/quote] Yeah I know... I've be

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

[quote]Derek, quit horsing around. I need a 1.2 Beta to start testing pronto![/quote] I agree. Proper game testing is needed, though in hindsight, it sure would have been better applied before release.

Reply to Fans of GalCiv 2 look here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

For space Sim this one gets my WIN/WIN prize, a KEG of [e digicons]:beer:[/e] , is IW2. They don't make games like they used to eh? Sigh... it's been like 10 years since Independance War 2... goes to show in gaming, Never Ever make a game that potrays the CORPs as badguys & regular everday people as the terrorists/pirates. Oh 4x games... doh.. HAHA. To be honest, I don't really remember the diference between 4x, 3x and or 2x ... so on that note... EotF

Reply to New player who bought thanks to 1.1 - feedback and questions in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]Love the RPG mechanics[/quote] SOrry bro... but I'm confused. What egzactly do you mean by that... there is no rp in EWoM...? hehehe///plz explain. ^^

Reply to There are two forums! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]I've noticed that the forum on the SD site is quite a bit faster. This one's a bit laggy.[/quote] ditto - chug-a-lug

Reply to 1.1 and finally passing some judgement - disappointment :( in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Yarp, 1 game now of about 10 hours.... ridic large map/ridic max factions. It took my Sov & 2 hired heros over an hour in tactical combat to kill an enemy Sov and his spouse in there capitol at turn 20 of the game, just made sure they all had healing food/potions & weapons&armor from the neutral faction. Ahh... bummer; after that combat I lasted untill turn250, at which point I stopped from a growing lack of interest in finishing my c

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

but yuo all probably saw this & thousands of others like this allready.. lol Seaons greetings & all that good will stuff (and if you ahve trouble with the goodwill part drink as much as I do to help you along^^)