Murteas

Reply to Make goodie huts more obvious in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Good enough. I can mod my own effects into the existing tiles, so if I like the dropped pouch to have a glowing neon sign saying "I'm lost, come claim me" I can. :)

Reply to [BUG?] Food per turn broken in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

So why should you keep a garden then? Shouldn't you just build it and then destroy it? And build it again to get the 2 food again? Seems confusing to me, is there a benefit to keeping food producing buildings long term?

Reply to Make goodie huts more obvious in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I certainly zoom out to get a strategic view as well, I guess I want to eliminate the zooming out so I can tell if that is a dropped pouch 2 squares away from me. I should be able to just tell by looking at it. Maybe even color the tile a different color on the ground. Make it flash or have a swirly halo effect (made with the cool particle effect editor).

Reply to Elemental Beta 3 Walkthru in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Looking forward to trying the changes. I especially like the flexibility of the race/faction/ideology component. I think that will be a great replayability factor for me. Excited to see the changes in the Magic system. You didn't mention any UI changes for this specific build, but I assume there will be some improvements there as well? As a junkie for anything random, I would love to see your original random map generator, and

Reply to Brad’s June Elemental flame thread in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Agreed on the tile movement, but otherwise, I am one of those players that likes to have all the details. Don't pull a City of Heroes on me and tell me that my super power punch does high damage instead of giving me real numbers.

Reply to Make goodie huts more obvious in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Hound, that is an interesting idea, but then I would totally remove the graphic from the game at all. Otherwise, won't all of us just zoom out to the cloth map to make sure we don't miss them? I see the small white particle effect now, but it is only visible when zooming out. Possibly this is a glitch or bug that will be worked on. For me this isn't a particulary horrible thing, I just find that things aren't quite as distinct to my eyes when

Make goodie huts more obvious in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

maybe I am the only one, but I can never tell by looking at the 3d view if a tile has a dropped purse or broken carvan, etc. I always have to zoom out to the cloth map to see it. I would like it if the goodie huts were more obvious/had a particle effect to highlight them. Some of them are good, but the more generic ones are hard to see. Just my $.02

Reply to Beta 2 CTD after selecting any option from main menu in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

What are your system specs: Video card, RAM, version of drivers, directx, etc? Hopefully, we can find something that can be fixed to help you enjoy the beta.

Reply to Inns at gamestart? in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I believe the campaign will be dealing with just those sort of concepts. However, the sandbox mode is going to be a bit more open I would image. Just my $.02

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Shane Sims" reply="145" id="2652405"]One thing that feels like an obvious omission for me is a sort of queued path when you are issuing move orders to units. X-COM did it with a running tally of available Action Points used to punctuate each square that you moved, Civ 4 did it with a number on the tile indicating how many total turns it would take at the current movement rate to reach the destination tile. Here's an example: Currently, you select your u

Reply to Elemental Beta 2: Player Input #1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

To be honest, I am surprised by how many people don't like to manage their cities. That is part of what makes a TBS strategy different from the other genres. That said, I agree we don't want tedious or obvious city building tasks to be left for the user every time. But, I definitely want to be able to differentiate my cities from yours, or from the AIs by how they are developed. I love the idea of adjacency b

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="John_Hughes" reply="25" id="2645385"] How about getting points based by Percentage of your Stardock Membership #. with the smaller the # getting a better precentage. hehehehe [/quote] I like this idea. :) Rewards us "oldies but goodies".

Reply to totally confused in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You can pre-order Elemental:War of Magic from Stardock by using impulse. That way you can download the beta before release to help us test the game (it is not like other betas, but is truly being tested by beta-tester who give feedback, etc.). However, the elemental army "game" is simply to create pre-release excitement, buzz, etc. for the game, which should be released in either August or next February depending on when it is ready.

Reply to Diplomacy as a finite resource in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

What about the idea of assigning a permanent envoy to an empire. Instead of having an envoy actually on the map moving around, when you meet a civilization you assign an ambassador to that country. It is assumed that you will have some form of rapid communication with that ambassador (magic, birds, etc.), so that you can "immediately" make proposals and respond to the other faction. However, your relations will be affected by the ambassadors abiliti

Reply to Elemental Beta Testers: Your characters in now in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

VieuxChat, You seem to do really well based on these forums, but if you need help. I'm sure many here would be willing to help translate. If your username is any indication, I could help with the French to English translation if needed. Murteas

Reply to Elemental – Data Driving the AI in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="LDiCesare" reply="33" id="2607228"]What about replacing the 50 by a ? You could then provide other end conditions like when you leave the current state based on actual game parameters instead of turn counter. Eventually, a python function could be called inside the element, although it might be slow. The point is a f

Reply to EVIL quit game message. in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Morlark" reply="5" id="2605261"] Quoting kryo, reply 4Please don't go. The drones need you! They look up to you. That was literally my first thought when I saw this topic. I'm glad to see that I'm not totally insane.[/quote] I know I've heard this...but I can't place which game it is from... can you help me out?

Reply to Let’s try this again… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Expand the race distinctions and provide more assets and code to support players creating their own custom factions made up by their own custom races. This is my vote, because that is how I will play. I think that I will love the backstory and lore (I am planning on getting the book), but I know that when I actually play, I never choose a pre-made anything. I just don't.

Reply to Rethinking factions… in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think it is possible that everyone is over-reacting just a bit to the OP. I know that forum communities tend to grab any little developer tidbit and run with it despite not having all the context or a good understanding of the actual intent of the post. In my opinion, we should just calm down and try to suggest options instead of throwing out allegations of Stardock trying to cut all the races. The way I read

Reply to Elemental – Beta 1Z4 is coming in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I missed the poll as well. But while I haven't run into any CTD's I don't mind another beta 1z to fix the problems for others before we go into Beta 2.

Reply to [.302 Bug] Item unequipable when moved between characters in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Thanks BoogieBac for the explanation. That makes sense. It is a Champion Item. So is it a bug that I could transfer it to the soldiers at all? Or are you going to allow trained units to carry Champion items, but not use them?

[.302 Bug] Item unequipable when moved between characters in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

In Beta 1z3, I received a spear from a goodie hut with my sovereign, but decided I wanted to give it to my courier (peasant equiped with a club and messenger kit). I opened up the equipment tab with my sovereign and dragged the spear to my other unit on the cloth map. The spear showed up on the other unit, but also stayed with the sovereign, but I couldn't equip it with either of them. After hitting the turn button, it disapeared off my sovereign, but

Reply to Elemental: A preview of the modding in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="nasarius" reply="43" id="2599447"] With Python you get a very easy interpretative language. Ehhh. Maybe. It uses syntax you can kinda-sorta read if you know what you're doing, but is still going to be incomprehensible to non-programmers. For example, I don't believe you can do this in QBASIC: foo = [x for x in [1,2,3] if x >= 2] foo = map(lambda x: x**x, foo) I mean, I can write dead-easy-to-understand C++ code if I

Reply to Elemental: A preview of the modding in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Turducken" reply="14" id="2598822"]I've been lurking on this forum for a while, but this is the first time I've felt moved to comment. My big modding question is: can we mod AI behaviors? Adding new creatures, items, and buildings are all fine and dandy, but they are pretty much useless unless the AI can use them effectively. I know this is a very tricky area of programming expertise: if you look at any open-source or freeware strategy game, they always founder o

Reply to Elemental Beta 1-Z2 News and Changelog in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Astrobia" reply="24" id="2594734"]You guys sure are powering away there. On the issue of fun, what about fun we make ourselves? Like names. If I was to hypotheticaly name my city "The Outhouse" and I was to recieve a message that went something like "You lost a unit in The Outhouse", am I having too much fun? [/quote] LOL.