[quote who="seanw3" reply="38" id="3259296"]Damn you metacritic and your incompatibility with my computer![/quote] It knows you're a fanboy, that's why it won't let you create an account. [e digicons]XD[/e] It would be cool if it also could recognize idiots, maybe then the scores would actually mean more.
Players reviews, at least on Metacritic, are not to be trusted. The problem is indeed the one Brad pointed out, people try to influence the overall score. For example, Galactic Civilizations II Twilight of the Arnor has a 7.9 user score on Metacritic, which I find to be revolting. One guy even says he doesn't even like 4X games. Then why bother? I don't actually believe in a score system for games, because each game is different and has good things and bad things. Some people
So, Brad, now that the game is released, maybe after the first patch, you guys can take a look at that engine issue you were talking about? :) Sales seem to be good so far, so that's a good sign.
I loved dynasties in WoM. Could you die of old age? I don't remember that...
[quote who="Napean" reply="11" id="3257809"]Yes! Good review. As to the reviewers credibility, I don't mind. If I were a reviewer, I would only have posts/reviews for Paradox, Stardock, and the occasional indie. That's just where the good games are [/quote] While I fully agree with you about Paradox (I own most of their titles) and Stardock (I own WoM, FE, GalCiv II and Demigod), there are plenty of good AAA games, Mass Effect and Skyrim being
Yes yes great article but why did that guy only review 3 games, and all of them Stardock titles? I mean his credibility is... meh. He doesn't have to convince me, I own both Elemental games, but just saying.
[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="6" id="3257035"]Thats going to do nothing for FE as it already sets that flag.[/quote] Oh sorry then. I know I use it with great success with Paradox titles, and I just assumed it's the same issue. My mistake.
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="21" id="3257151"]That doesn't necessarily mean top sellers of today, does it?[/quote] I think it does. It gets updated hourly or so.
[quote who="Ryilan" reply="18" id="3257127"]Any chance we can get our Free copy for 2010 buy in, on Steam?[/quote] No. You get it in your Stardock account. You can't transfer products from your Stardock account to Steam. They said this might be possible for future games, but not FE. You can use Stardock Central for automatic updates.
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="16" id="3257118"]Froyboy posted something about FE being the top billed game of the day already... something change?[/quote] Go look for yourself on http://store.steampowered.com and click the Top Sellers tab. It's still very good, given the amount of traffic Steam has. EDIT: I remember when GalCiv II was the 3rd most sold game on Steam for a couple of days, during last summer&#
As of now, FE is the 9th best selling game of today on Steam and 2nd on Impulse. That's good. EDIT: Update.
Or you can just download this: http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php Open it, select your .exe, and it does everything for you.
Stormrealm sounds good. But "World of Thunder" sounds better I think. You should also update your features list to make the mod more attractive to new comers (to the mod) like me :)
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[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="5" id="3255214"]You can use it because you have the 6 mana required. The monster AI can't use it because it has no mana. The whole point of giving these creatures hurl boulder was to help control kiting. [/quote] You're probably right.
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So this is indeed a bug that still needs fixing. *cough* Derek *cough*
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I use an Earth Elemental in .992 and Hurl Boulder works just fine. Maybe your .xmls are messed up?
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So has anyone seen the AI actually upgrade its altars yet? In GalCiv 2 the AI doesn't upgrade its influence starbases even to this day, 6 years after release :S
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I'm sorry, this was already reported here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/433374 But it still isn't fixed.
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I have an army containing spiders and other crawling beings, and one Young Crow Demon, and this makes the whole army able to fly over water, mountains etc.
So Brad, I'll just ask again: Is the AI capable of using these spells to terraform the land to its advantage?
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[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="3" id="3251418"]It was a bug with the Resoln Water Temple, it will be fixed in the next patch.[/quote] Indeed I only had water shards, I forgot to mention this. Glad to hear it's known.
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This might only occur when upgrading the altar by directly selecting it. When upgrading from the city build screen, it sends it in the queue.
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This is the first time I see this bug. So building an altar queues it in the nearest's city build queue, but when upgrading the altar to a shrine, the upgrade takes place instantaneous, and the free elemental summons immediately. I'm playing as default Oracle Ceresa with Resoln. I have last played Resoln in .983 and haven't encountered this bug.
[quote who="Colbert30" reply="295" id="3250672"]I still haven't found a good use for those spells. What are you guys using them for?[/quote] I found myself on a map, where the only way to reach another faction was through a 1 tile wide path, where that faction built an outpost exactly on that path, and I couldn't get past it because I couldn't walk over it, because I hadn't made contact with the said faction, and wasn't even able to declare war on it. This has been
[quote who="AndyBarrett" reply="293" id="3250661"]I find that it's quite laborious to only be able to do 1 block as a raise or lower with each cast. How about a hold and drag box to do several sections at a time?[/quote] Do you really think it's worth the time and effort to implement something like this for a spell that you'll probably use once every 10 games?