Hi,
First up, please do not take this post as a critisim of the game. It's not. I love Elemental, and I'm happy that I've persisted with it. This post is just one of my frustrations with the game in it's current state. I'm more then willing to admit that I may be missing something here, or not building, reasearching something. So if there is any advice on game play that could help resolve this issue I'd be more then happy to hear it.
The issue is the game's economy. I'm having problems managing the resources needed to run my Empire whilst at the same time, keeping my cities defended from attack. I've been finding Elemental to be a tad frustrating with the way it manages it's economy. First off, it's unclear where the money is going and how to increase the amount of money coming in. So balancing expenses for me has been hit and miss.
I don't know if this feature already exists or not, if it does then please explain to me how to do it. The feature I'm after is city razing. Lately I've found that if I capture an AI's city my economy goes down the drain. It's made even worse by the need to keep troops in the cities in order to prevent wondering mobs from destroying them. Add in the necessary troop requirement to be able to beat back the AI and the whole thing is an excercise in frustration. The ability to completely raze an AI's city rather then capture it, would be nice. The ability to balance my econ with my armies would even nicer, but hey I can't have every thing
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Thanks for reading through my rambling post.
Raven