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Reply to Welcome to the public beta in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]graphical glitches like this.[/quote] The game really is in black and white!

Reply to GTX 560 vs Radeon HD 6870 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I just bought the ATI 6770 for about $135us and it runs Skyrim smooth as silk on ultra, and all my TBS games just fine.

Reply to A Reminder: FE will be terrible and give you a disease in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

[quote]Lots of UI stuff is not in still We have a victory screen still to go in that’s a pretty big deal. There’s a bunch of other stuff that will go in but by all means, if you have a UI request, post.[/quote] Sure: Make the UI easily moddable.

Reply to A Reminder: FE will be terrible and give you a disease in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="35" id="3057566"]I enjoy building stuff (if it is done well), and have done so manually in every turn based game. Because of that your No3 I don't agree with. Having options to automatize building stuff is good, but we should be able to do everything manually if we so feel even if we have 100 cities (and that doing so can give a slight edge).[/quote] I agree...just having the city "run itself" because it might be inconvenient to the player is a high

Reply to Really worried about AI in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Confetti. Lots of confetti.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress- Factions in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

One thing I notice in the screenshots of the generated maps are that all of the coastlines are cliffs...I don't see any 'beach' coastlines. It kinda makes the landmass look a little like they're floating. Maybe the map generator could incorporate both somehow?

Reply to FE: Pre-Beta UI preview in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

As for the quest conundrum, how about a fairly typical rpg quest log, which when you select a quest that you've started it centers the current destination on the map.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress- Factions in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

SD, this looks amazing. The faction differentiation and other game elements remind me of Alpha Centauri. Bravo if it plays that way as well.

Reply to FE Pre-Beta: Today’s Screenshots in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

[quote who="id_est" reply="19" id="3054692"]Ok Stardock, you do the incredibly hard thing - divide attributes and combat stats! But, you have another, more dangerous mission - show us dependence of the stats of attributes. Come on guys, you have no ui designer at all? Imagine that you see this game for the first time, and you need to answer the question: what does each attribute do? If Strength affects the Attack, then why Attack stat is under Dexterity? Why is the history window is in the mi

Reply to FE Pre-Beta: Today’s Screenshots in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

Everything looks great! I'm especially liking the look of that tactical scene. Better than 'the brown' we've been getting.

Reply to Who is running 64-bit Windows right now? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Yes, yes. And pretty much the general consensus here. Good gameplay is what I want from a game, yet pushing the envelope with the technologies available help to enhance the gameplay experience, as well as to continue technological advancement, would absolutely be an added incentive to purchase it.

Reply to Less than 10 days to go… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

This news leaves me thunderstruck.

Reply to The Solar Powered Thread in Science & Tech Elemental Forums

Great work Brad. Me and my significant other were just talking about solar-powering the next farm earlier today, and also the possible harnessing of potential wind energy as well.

Reply to Essential UI feature, show movement path in FE Wishlists Elemental Forums

Nice feature to add.

Reply to NON-CLOTH MAP zoomed out in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

I dig the icons. I will second that the rivers could some major tweaking. Looks like they begin and end in random locations, instead of being at least semi-realistic, ie start in mountains or hills, end at large body of water; not to mention their graphic quality.

Reply to Pre-Beta Gameplay Example: The Rise of Kir in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Raise/lower land is a great concept it just needs to be balanced in terms of spell difficulty and mana cost. No need to remove it.

Reply to Sadly... in FE Beta Elemental Forums

irony is iron-y

Reply to WHAT is Fallen Enchantress? You tell us in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Potential buyers who know WoM was a 4 and hear that FE is a 9 will say "Hey, SD turned that ship around! Now I'll buy the game, AND tell all my friends!!" Potential buyers who have not heard of WoM and hear that FE is a 9 who then research SD and find out that WoM was a 4 WILL NOT say "Oh my, the first game in the series was mediocre, so I'm not going to buy the second one which is great!" Why would SD want to spend all their time, effort, money, etc rebranding a perfe

Reply to WHAT is Fallen Enchantress? You tell us in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

How about something like The Elder Scrolls series. Same world and lore, different 'feel' and rules. Some of the same stuff, some new and innovative ideas. Elemental 2: Fallen Enchantress.

Reply to Promising! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="17" id="3048969"]Whether a champion is defeated, captured, or killed should be RNG, maybe with modifiers based on promotions (bloodlust might mean they are more likely to kill champs instead of capture or defeat)[/quote] Good idea here. Perhaps "Normal units" cannot kill champions, under any circumstances. They can only drive them away. Champions can gain skills that would allow them to potentially capture (Kidnapper) or kill (Bloodlus

Reply to Promising! in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

I agree with Murteas. Champions should be few and far between, which seems to be the case as the game stands at the moment. And yes, a high level champion may very well be able to take out a powerful army (and a lower level champion a smaller army) - or at least decimate it - before slinking back to the fortress, badly beaten and broken, needing time to recuperate, but somewhat martyred in return for a job well done.

Reply to AI vs. Kir-Talax Episode 2 in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

You already have the masses rattling their cages in fear, Frogboy. That must mean you're doing something right! I say, give me the best you've got!

Reply to AI: Testing Difficulty Levels in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

I think trading with resources would be simple and useful, if not necessary. IE: I need metal and I have plenty of gold. My ally needs gold and has an abundance of metal. We trade one for the other. Why is this so difficult or unsavory?

Reply to AI vs. Tar Froglar Games: Episode 2 in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

[quote who="Das123" reply="5" id="3046436"]With regards the video, will there be any zones of control on the Tactical Battle map to stop the horsemen breaking past so easily? It appears they could just waltz past without an issue. Having at least a movement/initiative penalty would be good to force players to play formations. Even better would be adjacency bonuses etc.[/quote] The way I see it, mounted units should have an advantage on the turn they plow into a fray (perhaps via a &#3

Reply to AI: Testing Difficulty Levels in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

[quote who="Vaul_Darkhour" reply="39" id="3046200"]One thing I don't understand is how you can develop and reach conclusions about the AI before all the AI is actually working and hooked up (AITraits)?[/quote] Agreed. This seems like it might be an important step in the process.