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Reply to Road Building…Your thoughts? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] We really want to avoid having to build “workers” or some other construction unit to build out of city improvements. But at the same time, we’d like it to be more interesting than simply clicking “build road to city X”. What do you think? [/quote] I'm not sure what exactly can possibly be "more interesting" here. I don't think it will be any more interesting if a player will need to make more than one click to

Reply to Boogie's Thoughts on Chancellors, Cities, Snaking and Secession in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Anyways, that's just MY personal idea on the whole matter. Does it solve all issues current and future? Certainly not, but hopefully it'd put us one step closer to a truly unique and engaging system for building both your cities and your nation. [/quote] Nice idea, but i think randomness may be a big issue. What if heroes flock to one player and another player doesn't recieve any? I think if you implement that idea, you should think how to ba

Reply to Elemental: Modding in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

What about AI modding? Possible? Impossible? Can change C++ code? Can change only Python code? Only XML settings?

Reply to Master of Magic video demo in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ragnar1" reply="54" id="2521613"]Got me so excited to play MoM again, I downloaded DOSbox, but I ran into a problem: My keyboard has a problem where I can't use \ or = in the emulator, which make it impossible to input DOS commands. I had read some info where several other people had this same problem and the solution was to change the keyboard driver, but I couldn't get the driver to change or update. Might try my laptop today.[/quote] Try DosBox fr

Reply to Lose to win? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="ubernaught" reply="33" id="2529332"] Perfect balance on the other hand, is to me the precondition of the golden path...that is, one strategy to rule them all.[/quote] Nah, perfect balance in strategy games is when there is no such thing as one winning strategy. If there is only one winning strategy then there is no strategy in the game at all, you're just playing according to a predefined script.

Reply to Lose to win? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Doopliss" reply="3" id="2525729"]I believe the idea of an interesting endgame wasn't that randomness would make the weak strong, but people would be amassing different types of power (Adventure/Magic/Diplomacy/Military divisions being the most obvious) that would clash in interesting ways instead of a "battle of the biggest". No randomness at all was mentioned in Frogboy's examples of endgame turnarounds; unexpectedness, yes, but the person planning it still worked&nbsp

Reply to Lose to win? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="FutileEmotion" reply="13" id="2526297"] BACK ON TOPIC, we've discussed the magic vs. might option for keeping end games interesting. What other ideas and options do we have? What wars, historically, have had a suprising ending, where the "winner" was not who you might have thought?[/quote] Underdogs win 63.6% of the time if they use unconventional strategy. However, i think chances are so high because enemy isn't prepared to counter that unconventional

[BUG]Negative number of free tiles in a city after reload in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[IMG]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2782/negativetiles.jpg[/IMG] Neabrarae have basic houses only and still has -4 tiles. So it's not a lumbermill bug that was already reported.

Three different city development paths and victory conditions in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

How to make cities different from each other? I think there should be different development paths open for them. Instead of a library and barracks in every city, you'll have three different paths: 1) Might . This one will be what everyone expects - libraries, barracks, big population etc. Makes troops like spearmen, slingers and paladins armed with adamantium weapons. Researchs non-magical techs. 2) Magic . Magical tower, then magical stronghold

Reply to The importance of optimization in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="AG3" reply="11" id="2512523"][quote who="Servius" comment="10"] I pray every night that my pentium II, 250megs of ram and my voodoo II video card can run this! [/quote] Can you even run anything past Windows 3.11 with that? [/quote] Actually, 386SX with 8 or 16 Mb RAM (i don't remember for sure) can run Win 95 if you're creative. And 64 Mb is ok for Windows 2000, probably for XP too.

Reply to Making research cost more for bigger empires in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="27" id="2511223"] You are right when you say that military conquest is expansive. But any military expanses or economic penalties are short or medium terms problems. The research bonus however, is extremely powerful in the long term, long after your armies and economy have recovered. Furthermore, these penalties do not depend much on wheter your military conquest was successful or not, so it reinforce further the "winner advantage".[/quote] You trade

Reply to About villages and castles... in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I prefer something like an outpost from MoO2. You put it on a resource and that's it, you don't need to micromanage it at all. The last thing i need is to have several dozen of villages to micromanage in addition to anything else that requires micromanagement. Or that village should be completely automated, like in Civ 4 (cottage>hamlet>village>town, automatic growth)

Reply to Elemental: The MUST HAVE 2010 TBS requirements in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="42" id="2510478"] So I guess this answers my question about whether custom games are going to rely on outside servers to fuction properly since games are saved to Stardock servers, which is... unfortunate.[/quote] Already answered in the dev journal about multiplayer, you can host your own game on your own server https://forums.elementalgame.com/373543

Reply to Who wants to play against and/or with Frogboy and Carrie Elf in 32 player multiplayer! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Count me in

Reply to Making research cost more for bigger empires in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="25" id="2507782"] Well from what you wrote, I think it all boil down to a matter of preference : should expansion (military or otherwise) be rewarded with faster research? My answer is no and I would guess that yours is yes. I find that the additional resources, military production and economical base are enough rewards for expansion, and adding faster research just overly favour expansionists nations. It is a game mechanism which actively help winners and obst

Reply to Some thoughts about micromanagement in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I think the best micromanagement solution comes from the game Birthright: Gorgon's Alliance, a former tabletop game. You can make only 3 actions each turn, one extra action with one of the artifacts, and IIRC one extra action with a leutenant. Micromanagement is about the same for a huge empire and for a kingdom with only one region.

Reply to Making research cost more for bigger empires in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="23" id="2502327"] How is building libraries more micromanagement than building houses, farms, barracks or any other building for that matter? But yes building research infrastructure in other games result in faster research. The problem is that simple growth (let's say increasing your number of cities) also speed up your research.[/quote] It isn't any different but that's not a good reason to add extra micromanagement either. [quote who="Epha

Reply to dynasty familys ? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nedryel" reply="3" id="2495299"]The idea of dynasty would be even better if the soverigns had unique traits. Then, having a sovereign die could be fun, just to get another trait, that would change the kingdom's strategy^^ Some leaders could have trade improvements, build slightly faster, etc. but there could also be some "bad traits", with negative influence^^ Could also be fun to be able to murder an opponent ruler, to make it lose his trait <br

Reply to Making research cost more for bigger empires in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ephafn" reply="21" id="2501443"] I think this is the key point of your post : No, wealthy trading nations should not be considered large. Wealth should not be considered in the formula at all. Rich nations with a strong infrastructure should be getting a research advantage over poorer nations. But I believe that a rich Belgium and a rich France (much bigger and with more population) should have about the same research potential (and with the same answer if both are poor). The

Reply to Master of Magic video demo in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="2471004"]Re planes. Planes were in those early games because of the memory limit. We don't have that memory limit. 640k is long gone. Bigger maps.[/quote] Planes are completely different from a strategic standpoint. Bigger map is just a bigger map, it doesn't give you any additional ways to attack, and you don't need any special kind of defence against it. Bigger map doesn't have that "multiple planes" flavour either.

Reply to Some thoughts on succession in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Why can't i marry males to other families and keep females? IMHO female rulers should be allowed, like it was in MoM.

[Bug] Save button greyed out in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

"Save" button is grey. I tried to delete prefs.ini and to reinstall the game (as suggested in that thread ), and it doesn't help. screenshot debug file

Reply to Stardock coding practices in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]Plus, then you don't have to go and find where the variable is declared in order to know what type it is so that you can use the same type in your for loop.[/quote] Visual Assist X helps a lot in that case. I used it when i modded Civilization 4 C++ code, it saves a lot of time when you need to change someone else's code you don't know.

Reply to Kingdoms Galactica in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="111bigtime111" reply="6" id="2119948"] crashmatusow please try the game before you bash it. If you don't like it after that then that’s reasonable enough, but don't dismiss it before you have even tried it. thanks. bigtime[/quote] Fine, let's consider it... Ops, there is no manual. How do you plan to play a strategy game if you don't know what to do? That's not a strategy game at all, it's another online bullshit pretending to be

Reply to What multiplayer games do you play? - Post your games and find others to play with in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Active: Spectromancer (online strategy card game) - my primary game at that moment CS: Source (FPS) - some shooting for fun :) World of Warcraft (arena PvP / MMORPG) - soon i will start to play it once again with friends Recent games: Massive Assault Network 2 (TBS/Wargame) - classical wargame online. A little too slow for my style, but a really good game with a good multiplayer balance, ladder and tournaments. Quake Live (FPS) - repackaged Quak