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Reply to A Petition for the end of Good and Evil in this Game. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2889419"]The Empires are not evil. I'd argue that the Empires are more on the "good side" than the Kingdoms in many respects. Trying to call the Empires evil is a gross over simplification. The Kingdoms and Empires are ideologies. Not moralities. [/quote] Obviously your point of view didn't make it into your game. For *most* people... Death magic, domination, slavery, portrayal of Fallen landscape, etc. = EV

Reply to Favorite map size? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

160x128 (or 10x8 depending on how you are measuring). Unfortunately the game starts crawling/crashing on these maps once you get into the hundreds of turns.

Reply to Update on memory use in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="yaromir" reply="44" id="2888483"] Personally, allowing players to change some options would be the best solution. For example, I dont care if there are people working in my city. I could simply deactivate that feature and I save memory and threading. While people walking around might be cool and immersive, it is only slightly more so than the looped animations we all know and love. If it comes at the cost of noticeable

Reply to Improving Tactical Combat in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote]Well Stuie, based on the current maps and weapons, there aren't too many tactical choices the AI can make. Even if they do fix the problem where the AI chases a weak unit in circles while your archers kill them, the outcome of the battle is still basically a back and forth slugfest. That's why I feel better terrain and weapon design need to happen at the same time as the AI improvement.[/quote] I guess I was thinking that if they had to pick one thing to improve, I would h

Reply to Another lost customer to DRM in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Dear Frog, You finally lost me as a customer. I supported your products, I purchased Elemental despite knowing its sorry state from participating in Beta. I supported you because your games were DRM-free. Addition of dial-home DRM, log-in that you can't opt out of to something that previously had none is ultimate breach of Gamers Rights. I will not be buying any of your products, ever again. Fuck

Reply to Elemental: Modding in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Creating your own items [/quote] Item workshop! Any chance this will ever see the light of day? Sure I could muck around in the xml, but if you already have a tool that does it for me...

Reply to Elementerra 2 in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Very nice. Love all the options. Off to play.... Edit: WOW! This is definitely different. I'm going to have to play with the settings a bunch to figure out what works for me. Really nice job on this cephalo! Your work is very much appreciated!

Reply to Is elemental fun yet? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

No. The world is bland, the gameplay quickly becomes repetitive, and the tactical combat AI is just plain awful. Hopefully Fallen Enchantress (which as an "early adopter" you will get for free when it is available) will remedy all this. If you really want to give it a try now, m ods mitigate some of the above. Go to the mod forum and give ACP, Extended Factions and some others a look.

Reply to Improving Tactical Combat in War of Magic Stardock Forums

It is already possible to make larger, more interesting tactical maps, although it would be better if the game provided them. But as long as the AI is acting like the women of the Batley Townswomen's Guild, there really is no point - the AI will rush you irregardless of the terrain and start swinging. So I would hope that the AI gets massively improved, and then the rest can/will follow.

Reply to Change Log For 1.19b in War of Magic Elemental Forums

No problem. https://forums.elementalgame.com/405107

Reply to Elementerra 2 experimental map file. in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

Good to hear! Thanks for the update - looking forward to this!!

Reply to AI Demandobot status report 11th of Feb in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="nitey47" reply="7" id="2886270"] And I suspect the non-stat level up applies to the heroes as well. [/quote] That is correct. @ Vallu751 - Thanks for continuing to shine a spotlight on the stat thing. Fixing that really will go a long way to making this a better game.

Reply to Quests - can you see what quest details go to what square in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Quests - can you see what quest details go to what square after you visit it and get the quest to begin with? Thanks. [/quote] No. So if you've activated quests from multiple huts and you're not sure which one needs the dead rat you are carrying around, you'll have to visit each one until someone says "Ooh! A dead rat! Thanks, mate."

Reply to Quests in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="52" id="2885029"] Quoting Stuie_, reply 50 Quoting Werewindlefr, reply 49 Mount-Hyjal Had to google that reference. You kids nowadays and your MMO games! As the previous poster mentioned, it's a reference to the last mission of Warcraft 3 vanilla, so not related to WoW. Just some good old fashion RTS culture. [/quote] Well if you google it you get a first page full of WOW links.

Reply to Suggestion in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Please do not remove Custom Soverign/Factions when updating OR put a warning in "This patch will remove Custom Soverigns/Factions, Please make sure you write down your Custom FAction/Soverign info before installing this patch." [/quote] That ticked me off when I upgraded to 1.1. Luckily I had saved mine a day earlier. Regardless, move them custom stuff you want to keep to the Mods folder and it should be safe and still available

Reply to Quests in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="49" id="2884860"] Mount-Hyjal [/quote] Had to google that reference. You kids nowadays and your MMO games!

Reply to This land is…clean in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="stevelamperti" reply="8" id="2884551"]I also am curious about the answer to Lord Xias question. I have often encountered a an enemy leader with a collection of unread books and undrunk potions.[/quote] I'd rather they learn how to take their stat upgrades when leveling before they learn to read books. They are missing way more points from leveling than from reading.

Reply to images on product page in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="asadex" reply="10" id="2883654"] Quoting Infantes, reply 8 @asadex: Ahh.. I don´t know, I generally like the tactical battle system as it is. As said, the scene on the picture rather looks like strategic battle where you put armies against armies (or in this case dragons). I wouldn´t really want that. I think in a strategy game battles have to be "armies against armies", we are not playing

Reply to Unable to offload units from a transport in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I haven't used a transport in five months. But from what I remember, it's just like selecting and moving specific units out of any other stack or city. You will need to move them onto a beach square (you cannot disembark next to a cliff). If that doesn't help, maybe some more details about the problem you are having would be helpful.

Reply to Dark Side of DRM in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] To the world Stardock promotes DRM free gaming, just do a search and you will see multiple results that state this. The problem is, I have come to learn that the games really are not DRM free. Over the weekend I lost my internet connection due to a faulty router. An annoyance, but something I could easily fix on Monday. In the mean time I figured i would play Elemental, and that is where the DRM issues started. I curr

Reply to Magicka in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] why is there no magicka on impulse makes me sad i want to buy the game but not from steam [/quote] Gamersgate has it.

Reply to Ignore User in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

Obviously this thread is going nowhere.

Reply to Ignore User in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="IROKONESS" reply="29" id="2883236"]Stuie, your avatar needs a change of pants or something? [/quote] All the others are at the dry cleaner.

Reply to Ignore User in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="14" id="2882862"]You may be able to log in to joeuser.com (it shares your credentials as it's part of the same system) or create a site you can then access the blacklist function and will likely carry over to any Stardock site. Reduced 63%Original 892 x 269[/quote] Doesn't seem to work. Thanks for trying though! Nice to have one helpful response in a thread full of people trying to be "cute" or whatever. I've never

Reply to Ignore User in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="4" id="2882657"] quoting postDoes this forum have an "Ignore" function that I'm just missing? Or does it desperately need one? What did Lord Xia say now? [/quote] I would never put him on ignore! The entertainment value is way too high.