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Fudge, I'll soon have an almost identical system put together and was hoping that 6GB would delay how soon out of memory occurs.
And now a 1.05 patch in an hour or so. Hopefully the AI will perform better. Not much point to singleplayer if its a cakewalk. And multiplayer won't be till next week or something.
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You can shift select one by one each unit in your city you want to have in a group and then click outside the city to form the party there.
[quote quoting="post"] + AI difficulty levels tweaked for more challenge at higher levels [/quote] Is the AI going to play better at higher levels or is it simply getting free resources?
So far I've run out of memory twice with version 1.0 and my first game. Takes about 40 turns.
Oh thats cool. Hadn't even realized you'd have a 64 bit version. Will 64 bit have any material differences vs. 32 bit? Larger maps is it?
Fun story. If you could get more attention to these writeups, might draw in new purchasers.
Looks much more polished! When does the pre-load start?
Hurray! Pre-load and early release!
Was wondering about this. After uninstalling through Impluse, still had lots of Elemental files in c:\programdata\stardock\elemental and C:\Users\(account name)\Documents\My Games
Lots of these changes sound neat. I don't the game design requiring you to have a spellbook and matching shard. Sure you could create your caster so that they have all of the elemental books but that takes a big chunk of your points. In the last beta, researching magic also gave me books I was missing. But you're looking at a large amount of research until you luck into the book that matches a shard you own. Seems too risky to count on winning via magic. Perhaps Beta 5 improve
Being able to easily switch at game load who is controlling an empire or kingdom is key for large games. This would allow the game to continue if your 10th person couldn't participate, you could switch them to AI control. If someone got a bad start or gets knocked out early, you could switch them to control what had been an AI.
I think part of why the battles aren't fun because of the limited unit movement. Smaller squares on the tactical map and your units being able to move more squares per turn would spice things up.
Oh, was wondering why I couldn't lower land next to my city. I'm stringing out my cities a great deal already to expand my area of influence to capture mines and other resources from adjacent empires. Guess I'll have to see if I can do the same to get a harbor built.
True, it would have been useful if stability of the betas HAD been much better. Hard to test much or get a feel for the game if your running out of memory after 30 turns.
"Generally speaking, beta 4 shouldn’t crash on you during the course of a game." The game won't run out of memory and crash any more?
4 to 5 attempts? I've had this problem too but didn't keep trying 5 times. I don't understand how a save game can sometimes load and sometimes not. Either the file is corrupted, not corrupted or something else is going on?
.9 seems very unstable. Bad memory leaks. More than half the time when I'm trying to load a save game, it will not load.
Here you go. Not published in the news much but you can ponder the natural oil seeps in the Gulf too. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36873
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="35" id="2684054"]We're not going home until the beta goes up.[/quote] Woohoo! I hope the minions get free pizza and cola. Or the like. And not that cheap, icky pizza either!
Cool! A dungeon mini-map within the game. Really hope the tactical battles are fun. Beta 3A was a little boring. It took so many turns to build stuff and the AI wasn't doing very much in the game I played. Not a mod creator myself but shouldn't this feature greatly help sales? Making mod creation and distribution/installation easy should increase the sales life and as more quality mods become available, the product's value to the customer keeps increasing. It would be
Have the memory leaks been killed?
Valar is a typo probably. Thinking he meant "Book of Valor". The cast once spell limitation is kinda a downer. Wish there was some other method to allow for powerful, neat spells but not have them ruin the game. Perhaps have these types of spell as a one-use artifact found in game through a quest or something.
Ran out of memory at turn 40. The special event screens (marriage and such) are too distracting on a high resolution, large monitor. They pull you out of the world with no notice. A window appearing would be better.
First time I've seen a contest like this. GOooo Elemental Army! [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]