I'm not a fan of large scale uncontrollable events. I don't mind a local earthquake or something, but huge game-changers are not my cup of tea. Having said that, if people really want this, then I would like a switch to toggle them off. :)
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[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="110" id="3148833"] Haven't looked more than a quick look through the windows start menu, but apparently no game manual either, would love to see a little in-depth explanation on the gameplay. I'll have to check the website, maybe they have something there. The auto-retreat thing is kind of weird, not sure if that is a good or bad thing yet. [/quote] There's a manual that covers the basics - should be in ..\
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[quote who="Gammit10" reply="101" id="3147062"]As a noob to the genre, I thought the demo sucked completely. There were no tutorials, no good on-going hints... I just felt dumped into a game with some rogues and hunters (wtf are those good for?) and no explanation. That's lame. [/quote] You must have turned off the tutorial by mistake. It was definitely in there. Maybe not to the detail level you needed, but to say there was no tutorial is just w
[quote who="zigzag" reply="31" id="3145623"] Technologies in one branch don't require technologies in another branch. [/quote] There are, however, some resources unlocked in one branch that are required to build items unlocked in another branch. So there is some level of interactivity even if it is not a direct link.
[quote who="keithburgun" reply="13" id="3146822"]A game like Elemental that is based on inherent - not emergent - complexity will be lucky to live even 5 or 10 before nobody gives a shit. The reason? Inherent complexity is cheap. [/quote] That sums it up nicely. But I think your message is lost on this audience.
[quote who="Humility" reply="7" id="3144724"] Come to think, a.i is still not same as player, first of all, monster didn't attack their outpost, or resouce building, how do i know? there is a.i outpost near my main city, and had earth shire under them, till my city control zone taken over and monster alreadly on resource building before my city zone of control taken over, when I taken over control I got a screen monster raze my building but a building I don't build but a.i, so al
Sounds like the game is pretty tight for an alpha. I'll be purchasing when I get home. :)
[quote who="Tattyhat" reply="45" id="3143207"] [quote]Quoting AlLanMandragoran, reply 9 Ponies?[/quote] +1 All colours and sizes please. [/quote] Ponies: +1 mana, because friendship is magic. I would hate to work for Stardock. Nothing like having some "ideas" floated by you and then posted on the internet to put on added pressure. As for the actual "examples" posted: •Every champion should
[quote quoting="post"]Start of game: You cannot select text when making your backstory, editing, deleting sections is all a PAIN IN THE ASS! hold the delete key etc. It was so frustrating I wrote my back-story in Word, and copy pasted it into FE. Then I accidently hit the ctrl V key twice, and removing the doubled up text was annoying spamming the Delete key...[/quote] They need to get rid of the horrible default backstory as well. It's actually the firs
Anything that promotes slower expansion for both the player and the AI would be welcome in my book. The world fills up too fast for my taste (and I'm playing on really big maps).
[quote who="Patho" reply="6" id="3141617"]The non-aggression of mobs to AI units and overt aggression to players units means they effectively act as guardians for the AI, so why would they want to clear them? Example: A death demon with a pack of assassins next to AI city ignoring AI units. Player army arrives and captures AI city, death demon group immediately attacks captured city on same turn, destroys players army and razes city. Next turn AI pioneer builds ou
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I just realized that screenshot has trees! My overland map doesn't show the trees. Guess I'll reinstall and see if that helps.
So you are doing a "double kill" on the bugs?
This "double kill" thing is pretty much game breaking on maps bigger than Large. I'm playing on 11x8 maps and the AIs are getting knocked off one by one usually before I even meet them.
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I've seen this happen in .77 - it has to be a bug. I can't build in their territory, so they shouldn't be able to build in mine.
Hey! It's there now! Sleep is for the weak. Time to check this out..... @Cackfiend - I don't think there's anywhere that shows you when you registered. Whenever you first downloaded or patched the game through Impulse it should have been registered automatically.
Cool - thanks for the update Brad.
[quote who="LordRikerQ" reply="62" id="3066552"]Support Actually does help. We are at 2 hours later from 3pm and Support got back to me and got FE added to my download page. Thanks Stardock. If you didnt get anything yet, message support. Im off to play now.[/quote] Then I guess I can hold out hope that they get to my email some time soonish. I registered in August 2010 and no sign of the download link in my product downloads.
[quote who="askjosh" reply="41" id="3065513"] [quote]Quoting Stuie_, reply 39 All I had to do was install it through Impulse prior to Nov 2010 right? Still no invite here.[/quote] Doesn't matter if it was installed through impulse, what matters if it it was purchased prior to November 1st. as long as they have a record of that sale you are good. [/quote] I guess my point was: if I used my retail box serail number
All I had to do was install it through Impulse prior to Nov 2010 right? Still no invite here.
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[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2977998"]It's a new feature, 4-man units is the smallest squad size now. Pioneers, caravans and some other recruitable creatures are exempt.[/quote] Unfortunately, the UI doesn't update very well to reflect the fact that you can buy a single pioneer versus a group of soldiers. Most of the time nothing appears buildable even though I have enough for a pioneer, and when I finally click around enough to get the pioneer to be available,
This is a mod to create Gaelic names in Elemental. I tried to follow standard Gaelic letter frequencies when at all possible. Link: Removed (if anyone is really interested, I'll upload it to a new site) Installation: 1. You need to replace the Core name generation files to use this mod. Unzip the files to your Elemental directory: ..\Stardock Games\Elemental\data\English\ and choose "Yes" to overwrite the existing files.</p
Yes it is possible. You have to build all the maps though. I started working on it, but with the AI tactics being basically rush-the-human, all it did was make battles longer, not more interesting. I can dig out my notes on how to do it if you're really interested. It's not worth the bother though in my opinion.
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Custom maps are in alphabetical order finally.
These are the only three "new" games I've purchased in the last six months. Come back a month from now and I can add Shogun 2. AT RELEASE: E: War of Magic: F Civilization V: D Fallout: New Vegas: A- END OF 2010: E: War of Magic: C Civilization V: C Fallout: New Vegas: A NOW: E: War of Magic: C Civilization V: C Fallout: New Vegas: A <