Lord Xia,

Realism often goes against gaming. If i would play a realistic roman or ancient battle most of the time armys would try hard not to fight against eachother. Moving into a superior position and waiting for the other to attack. Which wouldnt be much fun. Civilization isnt realistic but it wouldnt be much of a game either if it was realistic.

Mtn_Man

True, civ 4 is better. But i prefer some things about civ 5.

I still play civ 4 whenever i want a real challenge.

i still play Civ3 more than Civ4. Much of that is due to not being able to play huge unmodded maps, or medium sized heavily modded games with Civ4. Civ3 is the better game for me simply because it doesn't have the content limits. And that seems to be due to Civ4s fidgety 3D graphics. i can play massive games on Civ3 with major mods. Some of these mods have broke the code which limits number of cities and units. No problem. Hundreds of cities and well over a thousand units. No problem cept with the hyperlinks. Mods keep me playing, and that kept me buying until Civ5 required external DRM client. 

i hope FE can get a handle on this memory thingy. Elemental franchise could become my new Civ, but only if i can play epic games with massive mods. If not then i will enjoy the small maps till i don't. Then move on. 

Well, I haven't actually played the game yet since I was neck deep in getting to the new cap in Lotro when this game came out. I will just come out and say that I have never once played a custom map in any game except Alpha Centauri where the campaign map was a set map. I would love to give you guys 5 bucks for some DLC but maps are not the way to my wallet; sorry.

I will try the game out this weekend or next after I browse some of the 1.01 feedback. I greatly enjoyed the original release of WoM but the aspects I loved were nerfed as the as the game improved lol

Fatbil,

I would rather see more expansions than dlc. But if i like to play the game im not that bothered with small packages which would lenghten the time i would spend with the game. More diverse monsters, skins and new factions has my preference for dlc. But new patches, balance tweaks and mods might be preferable to me now.

If u are worried about the price. Steam has summersales where u could often buy it for 75% less. But you have to be patient of course.

I honestly think a map pack for DLC is a terrible idea. I have never, and will never, buy a map pack. They don't add anything worthwhile to the game. Random maps + lack of MP really erode a need for spending additional money on maps. I think you'd be way better off with added civs/spells/champions than maps.

Willie Sanderson,

The possiblilitys of the fantasy genre is endless. So u might get lucky

I'd rather play an original game than a Tokenesque pastiche. As I said in one thread, it would be a disservice to the game to slap together some fantasy races and drop them in while neglecting to actually make something that adds to the game and the games lore, you're essentially dumbing it down for mass appeal because people can't stand originality. 

It depends how good those maps are and what they may contain. If they come with scripts or recurring events (like tidal waves, expanding growth, growing volcanos or rivers springing up - i.e. life of their own) they would be interesting. So far I have not used pre-made maps with most games, as they have no advantage over random ones.

(On the other hand, I'd like to support Stardock.)

Folks reading this Discussion Thread, who are interested in the Map Pack that Frogboy mentions here,      (or folks who are militantly sure that they don't like the idea of a DLC Map Pack       ) probably ought to check out Frogboy's new Discussion thread, where he mentions (among other things) that a "Gigantic" Anthys Map will be included in the $5 Map Pack; and that "most" of the new Stardock-staff  "Hand-crafted maps"  will permit some measure of ships (unit transports ?) to be used on them ...

The point is: the discussion about the Map Pack has moved onwards, to this Thread:

         https://forums.elementalgame.com/436360

Might as well put my suggestions for the game (which I totally love btw!) up as well (pretty much copy/pasted from a previous post I had):

I would be wastly more interrested in seeing DLC's with new civs, new techs, new rare resources (super unique lizard mount for troops? Yes please), new quests, wildzones and events. I expect a few of these will be coming in the expansion, but why not give a little in advance. Possibly look into vastly unique civs that don't use any of the same methods as the other civs?

Especially if there's BIG maps - like 50% bigger than current large.

Just seems like I'm always starting on top of 3 other factions, even on large with just six total players (when large accommodates 9 according to the tooltip text - which I'm trying to imagine).