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Reply to What do forests provide my city? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="22" id="2878348"] Mods, schmods. There's a 'silent majority' of unknown size out there who care only about the base game, and hopefully its updates. [/quote] I'm not disagreeing with you - but it is my understanding that since its inception Elemental was intended to be a mod-zilla of a game. Seeing some past interviews with BW it almost seems like he has been more excited about the potential user created content than the original stuff (certainly th

Reply to Icarus in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="27" id="2878110"] That doesn't mean that sometimes delaying the game to stay feature complete isn't the right answer. But it does mean that from a project manager standpoint if those decisions have to be made something has gone wrong. A mistake was made that will cost the company one way or the other because the design was to ambitious. It would have been so much better if the designer would have done a speced a design that did fit into

Reply to What do forests provide my city? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="19" id="2878306"] And we're left with forests whose only apparent functionality anchor is that they are part of the GUI.[/quote] Hopefully they will include mod tools allowing us to check what terrain types are within a city's boundaries, and apply bonuses based on that. Ability for custom buildings tied to terrain type, and city-level-up choices tied to terrain type would be a bounty for mod ideas even if SD doesn't want to use it themselves.

Reply to Changes not listed in the 1.19 Patch Notes (Naughty Stardock) in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Here's some changes I noticed: 1. (Tactical) AI focuses attacks on a single unit, purposely depleting counter-attacks. Archers focus on weaker units. 2. (Stategic) AI moves more units into their city when an enemy army approaches. 3. Can no longer zoom in on character models, they disappear when very close. 4. Alt-tabbing in takes a really long time now. 5. Swords crossed icon beside power rating of factions you are at war with. It's a littl

Reply to What do forests provide my city? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="seanw3" reply="10" id="2877604"]Eventually my magics could repair the outward appearance of these forests and hills, but the core of these things, their essence, has been drained by a magical cataclysm. I hope that answers some questions a lot of you seem to be having about the realms of elemental.[/quote] LOL, you have got to be kidding. I wonder if the mountains I create are actually filled with

Reply to Making interesting worlds in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="NelsMonsterX" reply="58" id="2877151"]...one of the things that keeps me excited is the prospect that we'll end up with something as fantastic as GalCiv 2 2.0 where it was a culmination of years of constant improvement into something really special. I hope we'll wind up with an Ultimate-ish version of Elemental as well, and not just separate, divergent paths from the mediocre main game. [/quote] You raise a good point. It remains to be seen in what way they

Reply to Making interesting worlds in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="56" id="2876934"]There should also be ruins of old cities arround, and if you build a new city on those tiles you got a great bonus, to prevent people building cities everywhere. Special ressources, excisting and upcoming, should also appear in clusters arround those few and great city sites. [/quote] I would be in favour a few city ruins, but not "you can't build a city unless it's on a ruins or else your city sucks". I think it would be more f

Reply to Making interesting worlds in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I would like to see at least some city consequence based on the surrounding terrain... I realize that terrain can be altered and that's fine, but I think the terrain spells should be much costlier and have more options like creating forests, swamps, deserts, jungles, grasslands, steppe, canyons, and unique bonuses/penalties for each one. That way it would be advantageous to select certain city types depending on your strategy, especially in the early game making it crucial to decide which ter

Reply to Baking a cake in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tim-Bur" reply="61" id="2873482"]Just to beat this into the ground, I want to recall Frogboy's words on these fora (Sep 2, 2010). He pledged that there would be no new game next year (meaning 2011), and that he would make things right. Even though FE is a branch of Elemental, it is not Elemental, and FE sounds dangerously close to a new game. [/quote] So??? Does this affect you on a moral level? Have you been robbed of your innocence? I don't care i

Reply to Baking a cake in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I think it's fine there won't be explorable dungeons, in fact I think it's a really good sign there's a post explaining this one simple exclusion. Makes me optimistic about everything else that will be added! If it's easy to add for modding though, then the ability to switch to different maps could be useful... imagine a fire/earth/air/water plane that is explorable. I guess that's not really a dungeon though, that's just a regular overland map. I suppose dungeon maps would have to be like ta

Reply to Lord Xia's Treatise on Elemental improvement, ver 1.1 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="113" id="2871212"] I would like it so each faction had a different set of "Random" names for their cities and people. The Random Name Generator is probably the worst I have ever seen in any game. The things it spits out are amazing bad. See my story "Randnamgen" to see my opinion of it.[/quote] Agree %100. It's ridiculous some of the names this thing comes up with: Luelbaraxe Athrenierig Yaegemiada<br

Reply to Legendary Armor in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="3" id="2866109"]The problem is armor. It's such a wall of imbalance there's no way around it. For balance, champions need more health and dodge, not more armor.[/quote] The problem as I see it, is that each time you step one tier up in armour, you easily outclass the last tier of weapon. If attack rating is equal to defence rating, it should be about 5-6 good solid hits to drain HP, (not saying it does work like this). There should be no real point-of-in

Reply to Tactical Battle change suggestion in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="kenata" reply="5" id="2866872"] - Champions should be given combat buffs based on their charisma. This would allow them to act more like generals in the sov's army instead of merely glorified units. [/quote] Don't you mean champs should impart a combat buff based on charisma? As in, toward their troops. Good suggestions all around. There is already the sort of beginnings of a paper/scissors/rock. Magic and archers take out heavy tr

Reply to There's too little cursing on this forum.... in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Diardiamond" reply="16" id="2866746"]Labvakar! (good evening) Mani sauc Diardiamond (my name is ...duh) Ej ellē pimpis (fuck off dick) Couldn't resist a little swearing in my mothers native tongue... though german & russian swear words have more character than latvian ones; but I live in quebec so I grew up with those colourfull french swears. Esti tabarnac salup!! Anyways... anyone who can swear in 8 languages can get 'lu

Reply to Design in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="cephalo" reply="10" id="2865854"]On a related note, I'm very dubious about the concept of 'Questing technology'. If you discover a quest that you aren't ready for, you should simply get your butt kicked when you try it, ala Master of Magic... "You see DEATH KNIGHTS guarding the ruin". The idea that you don't have the questing 'know-how' makes no fictional sense. It's just way too gamey. That whole questing tree should just be scrapped. It breaks the cohesion of

Reply to Will there ever be an option to upgrade old units? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I don't think SD has anything against upgrading, it just wasn't added, like a lot of other features. I completely agree with all stated sentiments, whether it is an equipment swap like that for champions, or re-training through the city queue. I am constantly disbanding obsolete units with lvl 5 or 6 experience. Such a shame. I think a global equipment locker would be in order, that's sometimes called an armoury. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Would also be cool if particularl

Spell Ideas in War of Magic Stardock Forums

If you happened to miss the Elemental Spell Contest, (like I did), and want to get some ideas out: Eruption - Small volcano appears on battle field, spews lava randomly each round within area of effect Chain Lightning - Lightning spell which affects multiple targets. Standard spell but - increasingly effective against heavier armour. (heavy plate having more steel than light plate). Less effective against padd

Reply to Any word on 1.2? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thormodr" reply="8" id="2865375"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 7 Quoting LightofAbraxas, reply 3My crystal balls say: "Some time this week." For the announcement, I assume. Hmm i asked my magic 8 ball if we would see an announcement this week and it said "Not likely" so.. whats the hierarchy of scrying devices anyway? Man, it'd be cool if they had crystal balls in the game. [/quote] My pig intestines indicate the first week

Reply to Status of OOM issue? Next Patch Release date and contents? Possible OOM workaround! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Oh, well in that case I think the OOM issue is less important cause I crash a lot more without the error.

Reply to Status of OOM issue? Next Patch Release date and contents? Possible OOM workaround! in War of Magic Stardock Forums

They are well aware of the problem and working to fix it as soon as possible. I have 6 GB so I've only got the OOM error twice. I end up getting random CTDs before the OOM has a chance to affect me.

Reply to Lord Xia's Treatise on Elemental improvement, ver 1.1 in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="95" id="2864546"]The Ai is markedly improved, it has been making stacked units with good armor and weapons, but still not aggressive enough. Gilden actually took a well defended town from me. I had a 12 long bow archer unit, with magic items, and master armor on, a well armed champ and a 12 stack of shrills and the AI was able to defeat it. Now, I did auto battle, so that might have been an issue, but they were able to take it, I was impressed.&n

Reply to Let me, help you, help me, and me be lazy about it! (RE: Crashing!) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="2" id="2863434"]I personally use drop box.. its free and easy. Step 1 download drop box. step 2 install drop box and get a free account. optional step 2.5 Set drop box to not start up with windows step 3. Put anything you wish to share into your drop box public folder step 4 right click on the thing you wish to share in you public folder and click copy public link. step 5 paste it to forums in a top

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

no but that could change... plus with any luck every square inch of ground wont be inside a city's ZOC after the next update. It doesn't have to be claiming ground, it could be 1 of each element shard, plus a major spell of preparation for each one, then it would have at least 4 parts, and possibly 5 if you include the spell that ties them all together. oh you're talking about them getting into your turtle zone, yeah they could use boats... or the spells could b

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

[quote who="Diardiamond" reply="9" id="2862781"] In regard to alternate ways to win, I sure hope the AI doesn't try to win by questing or spellcasting. Both ways give no indication that you are about to lose. Good point. An idea would be chaging the game winning Quest into something a lot more roleplayish where you get the chance to thwart the enemies attempt in some manner. Of course, having the AI attempt to stop you from compelting that same quest would be a good idea as we

Reply to [Gameplay] Prevent Infinite City Spam - limit buildings, make cities cost, increase monsters. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Goldmos" reply="8" id="2862724"]if you want city spam/one big city both viable solution you need to remove the tile limit per city and make it global. In this case, you can build one mega city with a "small" zone of influence or many small city that cover a lot of ground. I think it's the only way to "kill" the city spam problem and add some importance to your capital.If you dont like the tile limit, make a global population limit, it will work well to. My 2 cent[/quote] &