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Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="18" id="2806320"] DirectX could do with some competition in the 3d programming interface. Anyone remember when games ran best and only best when running with Glide? [/quote] To get the level of access need to have a graphics library that comes anywhere close in preformance to DirectX, you have to pay Microsoft to get the licence to use the needed API; therefore it does not really matter to Microsoft. And DirectX if free so it would be ha

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="GCFL" reply="14" id="2806292"]why are people saying the Kinect will fail? I for one plan on purchasing it? Too expensive? please... the vaulted wii forces you to pay over $100 alone just to get a wii fit. You do not see people having issues with that...in fact when it came out stores could not keep it in stock. The long term price of a Kinect and xbox device and the wii are very similar when you start looking at the add on devices for the wii. It will

Reply to Quest bug - Destinys tutor in WOM Support Elemental Forums

The reward per the xml is 25 materials. Hardly worthy of a 4th level quest.

Reply to FARTS and the world of Tomorrow in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]a Publisher's role is minimal in comparison to the physical world, and their duties could foreseeably be incorporated into a Developer's role instead of requiring an entirely third party company.[/quote] As a note, if it is like the book publishing industry (and from what I can tell it is to some extent) then even if they no longer create the physical product there are still services they currently render that they can do for less. For books, it is things li

Reply to PC Games no longer work at release in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="10" id="2806244"]might finally be released in a playable bug free state[/quote] For an example of why this shall not be, try looking out "bush hid the facts" on Wikipedia to find out about a bug that was in Notepad from Windows NT through XP. Simply put, some bugs are beyond a game developer's ability to fix and may be hard to work around.

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

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="15" id="2805960"]The main problem in fact would be addressing the lack of action typical of the first 100 turns. [/quote] Having monster lairs and making it practical for soveriegns to have some gear / spells when the game starts + monster lairs would solve this.

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

1) Make simultanious turns optional. 2) PBEM & Hotseat multiplayer. 3) Better map making capablilities. 4) Better city building. 5) Better diplomacy, questing, and magic.

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

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="9" id="2805575"]Why limit a unit (champions) that are already pussies? I can put every ring, amulet magic item on a champion, raise him to level 10 and a unit of 12 soldiers would dry-rape him unless I abuse some cheap spell. [/quote] They may want to consider level caps for non-heroes (but it would be unit specific, so dragons and other creatures go higher than the normal units). Say like level five for the average soldier and c

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

2 rings is a common number in games. Really what is needed is to not have the adventure tech spawn a crystal mine, but rather require the upgrade to find them at all. The a crystal cost would really reduce the quantity you can have per unit (which is supirior to an artificial limit).

Reply to What happens to a Hero if I Kill His Sovereign? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Inheritance should be in the game, but be optional (possibly with three settings: none, AI only, and everyone). And something needs to be done other than erasing nations when they lose their leader as that is just no fun at all.

Reply to [1.09] Campaign - Unable to complete "25 crystals" quest for Capitar [Fixed Internally] in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Porter20" reply="36" id="2805201"]is there a new patch out to fix it [/quote] 1.09E is its name.

Reply to City List Window in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="80" id="2804102"]What do the colors for the pop numbers mean? anyone figure it out? appreciate it [/quote] It shows if the town needs housing.

Reply to [1.09] Campaign - Unable to complete "25 crystals" quest for Capitar [Fixed Internally] in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Porter20" reply="34" id="2805116"]any fix of this yet as l have no internet access and a friend get me the patches, atm my game is unplayable in the campain mode [/quote] It is fixed.

Reply to Why can't devlopers just remake the clasics? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="DKL" reply="19" id="2804920"] Or another common one is that what was expressed in the 90s with sprites would have to be rendered as 3D models which is vastly more expensive. Dominions3 is completely sprites-based and has 82 overall score on metacritic. EU series don't have shiny 3D, and are well-received too. AoW:SM is sprites-based, and you can see sells stats on Impulse yourself, I'm sure they are good enough for such old game Whenever I see fra

Reply to Help On Horses in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="1SuperG" reply="4" id="2805053"]I haven't bothered with horses since the initial release as they didn't seem to get you anything of real value for the cost. Has this changed? [/quote] +1 move and combat speed. This is very worth while as it keeps your forces from moving at a crawl.

Reply to Help On Horses in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Chancelor" reply="2" id="2805030"]Thx for helping me.Can you put the army you already have on horses and your soverien?? [/quote] Heroes and Sovriegns can buy mounts at the shop, but you will need to train new troops to have mounted units. You will need the mounted warfare upgrade to use the horses. Note: Kingdom uses horses, Empire uses wargs.

Reply to Please...please....fix the mount animation [Fixed internally] in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Redwind85" reply="6" id="2805045"]what does fixed internally mean [/quote] It means they have fixed it, but we will not see it till next patch/hotfix.

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

Maybe items could be given a survival chance. Things like padded armor and clubs would virtually never survive, but uniques (particularly the items for the Master Quest) would always survive. Also, you should get the stuff from your own dead.

Reply to Should or Should not. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="trcanberra" reply="20" id="2804903"]I'm one of the folks who kinda like the game as it is now, but am also keen to see the improvements. I should note that I am not too interested in 'winning' - I like exploring the systems and the maps - in fact I get kinda annoyed when I happen to win too early - did this a couple of times when I was just trying to clear the map a bit so I could explore some more. Depending on the cut off dates for getting the expansions fr

Reply to Should or Should not. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Either wait for 1.10 and the first major changes to improve gameplay (this is also when the demo comes out) or trust Stardock will make things better and buy now (which gets you the second expansion free). The really fun stuff is not hear yet, but it is playable now without excesive crashes.

Reply to I'm lost :( in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="9" id="2790269"] Regarding the diplomatic victory it is even more absurd, since ONLY the human player can really accomplisgh that. In fact would you accept to be the last ally to a faction that is already allied with everyone, thus handing out the victory to them? [/quote] Diplomatic victory should require all remaining factions be allied with everyone<

Reply to Unitscale not working? in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="asadex" reply="6" id="2804798"]I'm also interested in unit scaling, 'cause i think that the units in tactical combat are too big, a scaling down will give more space for formations [/quote] I seem to recall seeing a tag for adjusting the scale for TC, I think it may have been in the file for recruitable units (specifically dragons).

Reply to Why can't devlopers just remake the clasics? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="wrigleys" reply="9" id="2804611"]might as well remake some of the old classics because im getting tired of the same types of games from different companies every quarter.. [/quote] There is one company you may want to look at if you want "different", and that is Soldak Entertainment.

Reply to Why can't devlopers just remake the clasics? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

For it to happen either the majority of gamers would need to stop judging games by the pretty screen shots / trailers, or developers will need to crank up the prices (and people be willing to pay them) to where they can afford to put in the time and funding into doing a remake that matches the original, only with better graphics. Neither seems likely to happen soon.

Reply to Most annoying thing for me right now in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="cpl_rk" reply="4" id="2804494"] Since it's a TB game shortcuts frankly aren't important. With very few exceptions, the only time I use shortcut keys are hand-eye type games where you need to group & move units quickly in a real-time environment, games like age of mythology, otherwise I can't think of any cases I need a shortcut key. The game defintely needs some more windows. The city list should include what's in teh city, and there needs to be a caravan listi