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Reply to All the gripe... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Infantes" reply="5" id="2916786"] Sure I can´t keep people from complaining. But equally I have the right to support the developers. [/quote] The thing is, I have not seen even a single post with "you, supporters, should stop posting here", and locking their threads, you see what I mean? But sure, I support Stardock too, especially, where it counts - I bought every Stardock related game (gal civs, all their expansions, sins, Demiogod, this game), an

Reply to All the gripe... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I have not been on this forums for several weeks. I came back and made a post expressing pessimism about next patch, only as a counter for very optimistic post above me about next patch, and I just reacted on it because I really tired to see these unsubstantiated claims. The thread was locked, and Frogboy says that Elemental is not my cup of tea and I should look somewhere else (which is strange, considering that my favorite genre is 4X TBS, and my second favorite is fantasy based RPG). But w

Reply to Elemental just isn't a fun game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="25" id="2915244"]I think with the changes planned in 1.3, WoM will be a fun game. I really don't think that the game really needs a lot to be "fun". It just needs to be more interesting and dynamic. And some balance. It looks like they are going to add things and make changes that will help that in 1.3. I might be blindly optimistic and biased, due to being Brad's baby mama, but I really think that 1.3 has the chance of being

Reply to Elemental just isn't a fun game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Lets be honest, we will not see fun elemental game for very long time, if ever. I mean the game is out for already about half a year and it is not more fun than it was in the beginning, only more stable. Somehow SD missed the fun part. The game is only shadow of what was promised. The quests are boring. The world, the one that suppose to have history, is boring. There is very little to do in developing your kingdom. You just browse around and have random fights... The game mis

Reply to A little nervous... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I think the only support that WoM will get is that it is based on the same engine (at least partially). So, any bug fixes in FE will propagate to WoM. But I do not expect things like balancing or gameplay changes in WoM.

Reply to The natives may not be friendly in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Love (of forum posters or Elementar gamers) is not required or needed. Respect however is. I am still very disappointed with the way the game was released DESPITE beta testers saying that it is not ready. Oh, I understand that bugs can be missed, QA is difficult process and so on, but the game was bland simply not fun at all! And Stardock simply ignored that and released game anyway. And this is company that promoted gamers bill of right! "Love"? Like in "screw gamers"? Yes, I know it

Reply to Cheating AI better than bad AI? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Both are bad thing - the game is not enjoyable with bad AI. Nor it is enjoyable with bad AND cheating AI.

Reply to Gamespot Dubious Honors in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="FatNonFree" reply="79" id="2855103"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 78Elemental has a random land mass generator, it's in the map editor if you ever want to see it. Just go in there, choose a size and press go and it will randomly make your world. The problem is that it creates maps that aren't fair. Elemental isn't like say Civilization where you can pretty much do anything with each tille thus the shape of the world is largely irrelevant. We'd need to modify

Reply to This world needs lore! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="UmbralAngel" reply="16" id="2854581"]i disagree that this game needs lore... MoM had no backstory at all (besides whatever stories you make up about Merlin, Rajak, etc)... and that game was great! So Elemental should focus on making the game fun to play before worrying about stupid crap like story. At the end of the day the most popular games in the world have no story, story is not a necessary feature for games, if you want story read a book or watch a movie. If y

Reply to Gamespot Dubious Honors in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kantok" reply="16" id="2850575"]I don't see how Civ V doesn't run away with this award. Patched up Civ IV is arguably the best game of all time. Civ V had massive expectations and it's terrible. My disappointment with Elemental pales compared to my disappointment with Civ V. [/quote]Well, it is unfair to compare patched up and past two expansions Civ IV with vanila Civ V. If you expected to have game as polished as Civ IV in present state, you have some rea

Reply to This world needs lore! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="12" id="2854220"]It is a good sign when the subject of threads turn to the game world needs lore from fix this and that is broken... Just sayin...[/quote] Well, to be honest, it is just this thread, and may be couple more threads in the past. The rest 99% is about the other things you have mentioned.

Reply to This world needs lore! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

No, this is not gravy. There must be a coherent story telling engine, that connects everything in game. There should be "story generator", which is also may be non-trivial task. I just do not see effort in doing any of this.

Reply to Please add x and y camera invert options in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I want to bump it in hope of SD response.

Reply to This world needs lore! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Beta means that main parts are already there. I do not see lore at all.

This world needs lore! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What happen with the promise to have world generated which has a story and lore in it? I am not talking about campaign, I am talking about regular play where the story is played through interaction with other AI, heroes and through quests. There is everything in the game that can do it - there is diplomacy, there are quests, but there is no story, whatsoever. The quest are stupid non-related random things, which does nothing to advance your diplomatic relationship or understanding about this

Reply to Please add x and y camera invert options in War of Magic Elemental Forums

For me up/down rotation direction is unnatural, I would made it in opposite way. And I completely see how some people wourd prefer to change left/right rotation as well. It has nothing to do with left-right-handedness. So, I second the request...

Reply to 1.09o 15 min first impression is enough in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="2835293" I also suggest, based on the tone of your post, that you not play beta builds of the game.[/quote] I LOLed and now QFTing

Tutorial/manual for 1.1? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

One of the problems with official release was horrible tutorial and so-so manual. With 1.1 there will be significant changes in the game, so will there be good tutorial with that or at very least manual that explain new game or at least differences from pre 1.1 game? (And no, pointing out to dev journals is asking for failure again)

Reply to What's coming in the expansion pack? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

11. Hexes instead of squares for tactical combat... Nah, I don't think they will change it, may be in Elemental 2...

Reply to Impressive Performance in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="3" id="2799946"]Yeah, end turn performance is one solid feature Stardock has done well ever since GalCiv II. No minute-or-longer turn processing like with Civ V![/quote] Well, Though Civ V AI is not that challenging, it is head and shoulder stronger than what Elemental has today. Let's wait and see what real AI of Elemental will do, once it is introduced with patches.

Reply to Where did my post "losing faith in elemental" go? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

>Where did my post "losing faith in elemental" go? There must be a heaven somewhere for the deleted posts. I am sure your post is there, enjoying its being with the other posts... [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to "Preparing to download" takes very long time in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It is NOT normal for impulse. I have 28 games on it (long time customer) and quite a few software items, and none of those, as far as I can remember, have this problem. With Steam, I am not sure, because it updates in background, so I do not know, and honestly it is irrelevant.

"Preparing to download" takes very long time in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I just wonder if there is something wrong with my setup. Each time I update Elemental, it takes longer than a minute to do something while it shows "preparing to download". I have lots of games on impulse and none of them have this issue. Usually it takes just couple seconds for the game to start downloading. Do I need to reinstall the game?

What about variable teleport cost? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What do you think if teleport cost sepends on distance. For example 1 mana give you teleport for up to two tiles. 2 mana to 4 tiles and so on (or may be different ratio?) May be the cost should saturate somewhere around 15 mana (i.e. for 15 mana you can teleport anywhere). More over, these can be new spells to research, like "teleport up to 6 tiles" is the most basic spell to research, "up to 10 tiles" can be researched at level 2, and so on...

Reply to Why I chose Elemental over Civ 5 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kalin" reply="322" id="2788119"] But if you're looking at Elemental currently, vs Civ 5, then no, I don't think there is such a "WORLD of difference" between the two games. Both games has their share of problems, and some are very serious. [/quote] Look at meta-score 91 vs 54. If there was ever "world of difference" it is. And, by the way, majority of the reviews appeared after 1.06 patch, and even later. So, I fully agree that there is "world of d