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Reply to [0.913] Tactical Combat Unit Portraits Repeated Over and Over on Left Side of Screen - NOT BUG SORRY... in FE Support Elemental Forums

Ah...yeah, I didn't understand that at all. :( When I hover my mouse over a portrait, all instances for that unit highlight so it looked like some kind of weird duplicating picture bug. Sorry for the false bug report, but it is definitely confusing and a break from standard convention from the global map as well as pretty much any other game in this genre that I've played. I'm not saying this is a bad thing...just that it is very different

[0.913] Tactical Combat Unit Portraits Repeated Over and Over on Left Side of Screen - NOT BUG SORRY... in FE Support Elemental Forums

In tactical battles, the Unit Portraits that show health status are repeated over and over on the left side of the screen (this is for every battle I fight). For example, in a 1:1 battle, I see 12 unit portraits on the left side of the screen (alternating my unit and the opposing unit) and then the Next portrait, which shows my opponent's unit. There are no unit portraits on the right side of the screen. I am using Windows 7 64-bit with an Nvidia GTX 680. &nbsp

Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jharii" reply="379" id="2781827"] Quoting Tormy-, reply 377 Yep, it worked like a charm in the King Arthur game as well. Maybe the most underrated and under the radar game in history...? IMHO, of course... But it is a pretty stellar game that no one has really heard of. [/quote] One thing I LOVE about Elemental and something that really turned me off of King Arthur is that "I" am not represented as a u

Reply to [1.08] Post battle mana loss. in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I am also experiencing this bug. Any caster involved in a battle will have 0 mana after the battle. Seemed to start happening in my game after I picked up the dragon via the egg quest (many, many hundreds of turns into the game.) I have tons of Essence temples built, so most of my casters have max mana anywhere from 60 something to near 100. The first time it happened in this particular game, I had 3 casters in a warband, each with over 60 mana. They fough

Reply to I hate being called a thief, and hate even more... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="deimios666" reply="11" id="2775698"] 2. When I have such PITA licencing services or almost rootkit like protection schemes I use virtual systems. Sure they are slower but I know that even if I change the whole computer, the virtual one will stay with the same hardware so the licensing stuff keeps working. [/quote] We run virtual license servers for most Flex-LM and other applications with host-based licensing. However, be careful...the companies that handle

Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="327" id="2774973"]Sure you could have more numbers of troops but at this point its purely aesthetic. [/quote] Well, that is part of the point. Aesthetics do matter (to some anyway). Maybe not to pure strategy gamers, but I play games as much for the strategic, operational, and tactical challenges as I do for the experience and chance to mentally escape reality for awhile. It's probably my RPG roots. Additionally, I

Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Smoebo" reply="323" id="2774865"]When you research one of the later warfare techs that allow for larger unit size (say squadrons or companies or whatever it will become after they rehaul the system) your sovereign and heroes are no longer represented by themselves on the tile they occupy. Like Birthright, there's half a dozen or whatever number of men with the hero/sovereign. In addition maybe give all heroes and the sovereign an hp boost upon researching that tech. This would hel

Reply to [1.08] Organized Talent still costs 10 points in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Restarted the game and created another new character...now it costs 20. I'm at a loss to explain it...my title screen distinctly said 1.08 as I backed out of character creation and checked it when I saw the talent only costing 10. [e digicons]:S[/e] No explanation but it's fine now.

Reply to [1.08] Organized Talent still costs 10 points in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Okay...now that is weird. My game says I'm at 1.08 but this talent costs me 10. I'll go back and verify again...

[1.08] Organized Talent still costs 10 points in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Patch notes for 1.08 say that Organized talent should cost 20 points, but when creating a new hero in 1.08, it still costs 10 points. EDIT: Restarted game and now it costs 20. I am positive I was at 1.08 and it was only wrong the first time I started the game after updating.

Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

There were several games from KOEI years ago (Ghengis Khan and Romance of the Three Kingdoms) that had turn-based tactical combat. The armies you commanded in both of those games were in the tens of thousands and the battles didn't take much time at all to fight. If my memory isn't failing me, the tactical considerations were far deeper than Elemental and there wasn't even magic. The AI built big armies just fine...in fact, maybe I wasn't very good, but I was frequently de

Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Armies that rival the best of fantasy literature are probably more relevant for mods than for the lore of the base Elemental game world. That being said, I believe (and so does Stardock based on numerous postings by the dev team) it is mods that are going to make Elemental a long-term classic. I think the whole desire for epic armies could be fueled by people envisioning the kinds of mods that they'd like to play... I want to battl

Reply to I hate being called a thief, and hate even more... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Licensing tied to server MAC addresses is a pain... It's bad enough that they tie it to a physical MAC which makes disaster recovery of license servers a nightmare, but then many of them also explicitly prohibit the address range reserved by VMware so you cannot virtualize the servers and reduce your long term maintenance. We use about 30 or so different software products that leverage this licensing scheme...ugh. By the way, Microsoft System Center Configur

Reply to A Official "Epic Request" to Stardock from the Player Community in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Another vote for a more epic feel to battles and the game in general. These aren't mighty empires or great kingdoms...it's clan warfare in the Highlands. I want more Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, Midkemia ...and less Hatfield vs. McCoy. Seriously, an "army" of 12 people... I keep picturing Arthur assaulting the Grail Castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as opposed to the

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hey Inver, I was able to successfully download the Multimedia package last night just fine (if you recall I was having the same issues as you before RC1.) Last night everything I downloaded via Stardock Central worked flawlessly. However, this morning, I tried to get DesktopX downloaded and installed (it had previously failed before RC1), and am now getting extraction errors again. I did notice that every time I start Stardock Central it appears to be trying to autoupdate.<br

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Jeremy, One thing I noticed is that after I installed the latest version of Stardock Central and was able to start successfully installing the packages (I was getting extraction errors on the downloaded packages before this), I needed to download a second time the packages I tried to install that I had already downloaded (WindowBlinds, for example). This wasn't a big deal for the Object Desktop stuff (small files), but it was a drag for the Multimedia package (I still have about 70 mb

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Mythor, Mine started over as well (not a big deal for the Object Desktop stuff, but the Multimedia package for GalCiv is going to take some time at the current speed). I'm just happy that it is working! :) I'm going to go eat some dinner, play some 'Operational Art of War: A Century of Warfare', and then GalCiv should be ready to go! :D I cannot say enough how great it is to see Stardock listening to their customers and quickly getting issues resolved. I don't wan

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I did one other thing after updating the software to the newest version. I went to 'Tools-->Refresh Application Data' in Stardock Central before attempting to install any of the Object Desktop or GalCiv applications. Between that and installing the newest version of Stardock Central, things are now working like a charm. Hope that helps some of you! :) I'm just including this latest info, since I did make two changes to my system (described above) before trying to in

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sorry...standard html doesn't work in the forum, I guess? Here's the address to the post: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=24230 Carl

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In case anyone was confused, when I say "the newest version", I am speaking of the version that was released within the last hour. See this post for details: Link to Post Good gaming!

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To anyone having the extraction errors after downloading, I just installed the newest version of Stardock Central and I am now able to download and install programs successfully. Give it a shot, it worked for me. LOL

Reply to ATT: Make sure you are using this Stardock Central (enclosed) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

When I launched Stardock Central 10 minutes ago after getting home from work, it did an autoupdate and had me reboot. Following that, I am now able to download and install applications again from Stardock Central (it had been giving me an extraction error prior to this version.) Thank you so much for the quick resolution of this problem!!! :)

Reply to FAQ: Download Problems! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am also experiencing major problems with Stardock Central. I am unable to successfully install most of the available GalCiv or Object Desktop items (I have purchased both, and was a beta tester so I have had earlier versions of both Stardock Central and Drengin game manager on my system). However, when I started having problems, I removed all previous versions of Stardock Central, Component Manager, GalCiv (this includes files and related registry keys). Doesn't matter which Stardoc