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Reply to Waiting paitiently for 1.1 beta (WAIT IS OVER YEAAAAH!!!) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Me too

Reply to Capture vs. Killing: Technology and Bonuses in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

What would there be to stop a player that was in a largely losing position to 'snipe' low health stacks with a powerful mage just to rush to the 20% capitulation threshold, and therefore win without deserving? Also the bonus would start to erode into the reduced damage that you were doing by trying to capture the unit in the first place, making each subsequent unit eaiser to capture than the last. Interesting idea for sure, but probably needs more balancing.

Reply to The Dominance of Multicultural cities in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]The new economic system got in this past week as well. People generate income (and modders can tweak how much or how little you get). This gives players a reason to have fewer, better cities since population means money. Population also now used explicitly for city improvements and other things. So you can, for instance, build as many workshops as you want or as many studies as you want as long as you have the people to staff them. How you choose to use your population beco

Reply to The Dominance of Multicultural cities in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Maybe I am misunderstanding the blurb for 1.1. But I thought that now you could build any number of the same type of buildings within 1.1. this is what i was talking about, rather than just building lots of buildings. Therefore you can already build more then one of each type gold improvement, so it won't be a bonus anyway if you already have the opposite style of building. This was done to make large cities better than several small cities, thereby reducing the benefits of city spam. Ma

Reply to The Dominance of Multicultural cities in War of Magic Elemental Forums

As far as i was aware in 1.1 you can build any number of buildings within a city anyway, since they will have maintenence costs associated with them now. This should go somewhat towards fixing this problem. Maybe the best solution with be to massively increase the costs of buildings for the opposing side when you take them over, forcing the decision to either pay the extra costs (justified by the increased buerocracy needed to run them) or destroy them and rebuild your own buildings.

Reply to Fixing the Zone of Control (Influence) in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I like the idea of effectively warring indirectly against another faction by tring to push your influence into their zone of control. However the AI needs to see this as a negative thing to do. For example it should modify their relationship with the perpetrator downwards and if it results in taking control of cties or important resources may even lead to war. This being said it therefore needs to be controllable, since at the moment you can quite easily take control of a re

Reply to How does Sphere of Influence add to the fun for Elemental? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

1. I care. In fact it is one of my favourite details within the game. It might be purely cosmetic, but it is a joy to watch as the world comes back to life.

Reply to Time to bite the bullet - is the game worth it? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I asked the same question last week, and took the plunge and bought it. I am enjoying the game immensely, although you can see that it is almost a barebones game at the moment. When i look at the ideas within the game i get quite excited and the prospects. It is very stable on my computer, not crashing once yet. I truly believe it will become the new benchmark for fantasy turn-based strategy games. And knowing that you will get 2 expansions free it is a win-win situatio

Reply to Why cant i move whole stacks from my cities? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

This should probably go in the FAQ's since i didn't know either. I am glad that i now do :)

Reply to [Suggestion] New Victory Condition. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Wouldn't having a city at a certain size do. It would obviously have to be huge. But once it got there then maybe you would have to build the 'wonder' to firmly establish it as the capital of the world. I would suggest it would have to have both a certain size area of influence, (probably a percentage of the map) without including the AOI ffom your other cities. It would also have to have a certain population. I am pretty new to this game so i don't know how feasible it

Reply to Do we want kick ass champs? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

If squads are the problem, then allowing them to combine with squads is a great idea. (again like Warhammer IIRC), That way they would behave like a body guard whilst the hero did his/her thing. The enemey would have to then destroy the squad before getting a shot at the hero. It wa mentioned that a squad of 4 with att 10 each still attacks as 4 hits of attack 10, so if you then allow the hero to have his attack too it wouldn't be unbalancing. Also Charisma could ultmately decide how good a q

Reply to A List of ‘Positives’ in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I am pretty new to the game but here are the things i like the most (in no particular order) 1:- The graphic style overall.. It is unique to this genre (AFAIK), and it makes Elemental instantly recognizable. It some how seems to fit better with a fantasy style game than photo realistic terrain. 2:- The renewing of the map within the Sphere of influence. I think this is universally seen as a good thing. It makes expanding seem all the more worth wh

Reply to Thanks for planing a beta.. in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Not to steal the thread, but yes 'Realising' is the correct spelling, 'Realizing' is an Americanisation of the word, pretty much like colour and color. As to the original point, one of the reasons I purchased the game before the 1.1 patch was just so that i can appreciate the improvements made. As it is i am enjoying the game massively, even in it's current patch level.

Reply to Honest Opinions Wanted about State of the Game - newb friendly yet? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Goldmos" reply="6" id="2808267"]Well, if you will buy this game anyhow, I suggest you to buy it now. The reason? You get the 2 expensions free instead of just one. If you want to have a good feel on what it will be, wait after 1.1 [/quote] Sorrty i meant this quote, I am not used to this forum, usually quote is for the post below it.

Reply to Honest Opinions Wanted about State of the Game - newb friendly yet? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="5" id="2808253"]There's no way it will come out this week. Beginning of november, at the earliest. 1.1 is to contain a re-made tutorial, so I think that would be a good point to jump in a s a new player.[/quote] Is this true? I am sure I read in another thread that this offer expired at the end of September.

Reply to Honest Opinions Wanted about State of the Game - newb friendly yet? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Hello people, Since ripcurlrc has started this topic, I thought that I too would be interested in the advice given. I have been lurking few about a week now, after hearing about this game from the news of Kael moving across from Fall Of Heaven. I used to play Galactic Civilizations 2, (and have just realized i can download it for free since i still have this old account open from when i bought it a few years back). I too was wondering whether I sh

Reply to FLAME: Why have these biased polls? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Small useless infomation side note.... The reason prices are marked to just below the full dollar (or pound here in England etc.) is so that the people who took the money for the product would have to open the till to get change, this meant it was much easier to stop staff stealing money from the company, since there would be a record of the transaction. Ok completely off the point but i love sharing useless bits of infomation

Reply to eBay Imports = NO Manual. Should I buy it or not? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Don't buy it. I did and got a pirate copy with no serial code. When i complained to them they quickly cancelled their e-bay account. It took over a month to get my money back.

Reply to Wishlist for 1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

When you choose a random number of races to play against it would be nice if you could select a max/min number, as it is i would like to use the option but i don't want to be stuck with only 1 or 2 races. This leads me to my next point, the total race power bar shows at the very begining of the game what races you are playing against, if you have selected that you want the races to be kept hidden then this should only include races you have discovered. Final point... the UP

Reply to Serious help needed, can't register in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I just registered and the very same problem

Reply to Game Piracy: A Moral Choice in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I have reported them, paypal say i will get a full refund, and i have an original copy of the game coming soon from Amazon. Thanks for the support guys (and girls)

Reply to Guide for newbies in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Some of the 'tactics' described seem like borderline cheating to me. Restarting maps until you have an advantage seems a bit cheesy to me. If you can't handle the difficulty level without resorting to this then surely it would be wiser to play at a lower level. Saving before UP votes seems even cheesier. It gives you yet another unfair advantage over the AI. Imagine it now, you are doing well and a UP vote comes up. You make

Reply to Game Piracy: A Moral Choice in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I used paypal.. After reading their policy i think i should be ok in getting my money back. As for my age...old enough to know better

Reply to Game Piracy: A Moral Choice in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ok let's answer a few of the questions raised.. I have bought games before from Eastern countries (Hardly 3rd world but i get your point) never before have they been fake. Since posting this topic and e-mailing the person they have unregistered themselves from e-bay so it is really not looking good for me. Because of this i think it is fair to assume the worst and so i feel i can now post a link to the item. http://cgi.ebay.co.u

Reply to Game Piracy: A Moral Choice in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I bought the game from e-bay as it is normally a good place to buy software from for less money. I have used e-bay loads of times with no problems before. As for protection ironically enough i can get e-bay to chase them down but it will cost me £15. I can't copy the games and send them back as the copies i have purchased are far better than i can make myself, i was only suspicious in the first place because the print on the discs is very