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Reply to My Wishlists in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Get Hegemonia from www.gog.com and save $5. :P

Reply to Balance Suggestion in Strategy Sins Forums

How about we avoid nerfing the Advent and you just take some time to learn how to play to your Vasari's strengths?

Reply to People Against Bear Calvary in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="2" id="2237847"]bear caLvary... so right and so wrong at the same time...[/quote] Bear Calvary: Attack 6 Defense 4 Health 4. Special ability: For on the third day he will rise again... >.>

Reply to Microsoft= Epic Win in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Because at best you're running the console version at 1280x720 (unless Xbox360 does Fallout3 at 1080p, which I doubt), and even my monitor is higher-res than that. :P As for the Microsoft motion sensing thing, I predict that by E3 2010 there will be fewer than five third-party games that take advantage of it.

Reply to Essence Should Be Really Essential in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Snowballing in the endgame in your average TBS game is very rarely a symptom of bad design and much more often a symptom of incompentent AIs or self-interested players. If a single player is so far beyond all the rest that they can't even gang up and take him down, then he deserves to win; if they refuse to gang up to take him down, then they deserve to lose. Unless you're talking about 1v1, which is an edge case (and not, I would hazard, the centerpiece of the TBS experience for most

Reply to Naval Forces? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

But... but... Flying Invisible Warships!

Reply to Essence Should Be Really Essential in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="22" id="2236271"] Like maybe a late-game superspell that lets you drain the essence and return the lands to their blasted, post-cataclysm state?[/quote] That's certainly a possibility, and one of the few I'm willing to concede--I'd considered mentioning it in my post, in fact, but figured that someone else would say it. :P That aside, there are two rules that describe basically the entirety of my view of a good essence system: <li

Reply to Essence Should Be Really Essential in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Denryu is spot on in reply #20. I don't see essence invested in fixing land as something you should expect to get back from a thematic perspective, either. You've put that essence into restoring the land, and the land is (presumably) permanently restored until something else blows it up. The essence you invested is gone, and that adds yet another layer of strategic choices--do you fight over the land that escaped mostly unscathed, or do you spend part of your power on making new land

Reply to Essence Should Be Really Essential in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Essence should not be an easily renewable resource (if at all renewable), and it is not a problem if channelers are incredibly powerful early-game (that just makes it more interesting than the usual grab-resources, avoid-fights, found-cities standard start to TBS games). The vibe I'm getting now is vaguely like Larry Niven's Warlock series, and that's an awesome thing to remind me of. The balancing act between keeping yourself strong, keeping your empire strong, and preventing yoursel

Reply to Galactic Civ2 help in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

As a heavy user of Sentry (I build sensor pickets and station them around my planets for an early-warning system >.>), I can tell you exactly what it does. The ship stays idle until another ship comes into view, at which point the ship will be active again during your next turn--no more than that.

Reply to Command Line functions for Editor commands in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

This idea is awesome.

Reply to Elemental: Internal debates made external in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ellestar" reply="17" id="2227712"] Anyway, let's say our empire has 50 resources out of 110. If we want even the most basic overview, we need to know current reserves, production, consumption, import, export and total change per turn. That's 50*6 = 300 numbers on the screen, nice excel spreadsheet. We didn't even start giving any orders yet and we don't know any details about production, consumption, import or export. As a bonus, we also have 20 cities. That makes it 20 sprea

Reply to Armies of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="11" id="2226349"]Here is a question my friends and I have: One of the biggest downfalls in Heroes of Might & Magic is that one "General" can hold/lead as many troops as he wants. This leads to the "stack of death" syndrome; everyone has one main hero that carries around 90% of his troops, and the other generals (if they even bother to buy more than one) do nothing but sit in the castle and/or are errend boys, transporting troops or weekly treasure f

Reply to Armies of Elemental in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Drawback #1: a dragon is an indivisible unit of force. Doesn't help you any to be able to crush one army at a time when all of your borders are beset by hordes of lesser troops. :P

Reply to Trying to Visualize Multiplayer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Do it Civ4 style by default--borders don't overlap. Make players take explicit action to claim stuff beyond their own borders. Let everyone know when someone disputes a border.

Reply to Empire: Total War, Part 3 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Honestly, you're probably better off waiting a little longer. Total War games have a history of being released too early and then slowly but surely patched up to a more acceptable state. ETW is kind of in between at the moment--enjoyable, but flawed. I understand they plan at least two or three more major patches, though, and that's good. A hint--don't play a colonial power in the grand campaign quite yet. The AI doesn't do too well with crossing oceans and protecting its overseas hol

Reply to Questions to Developers - Getting back to Elemental in War of Magic Elemental Forums

What about LAN games? I know I sold probably three or four copies of Demigod by installing it on friends' computers for a game night (after which they bought it, of course).

Reply to Pre-Ordered and in it for the Long Haul: Sound Off in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Here I am, on my fourth Stardock product and my third Stardock preorder. >.>

Reply to Demigod will die? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="fsasota" reply="16" id="2150326"] I really don't mean to sound like an asshole... [/quote] Well, that's something else you've failed at.

[BUG] Can only log in with the same alias as Impulse is logged in with in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

My Impulse account is accessible both via my email address and the alias 'Legerdemain'. If I'm logged into Impulse with my email address, I can't log in to Demigod with 'Legerdemain'.

Reply to Riddled with Issues in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Silphius" reply="7" id="2143228"]OMG When was Job added?! What abilities does he have? General or Assassin? I Wanna play him! Play him! PLAY HIM NOW!!!!111 *mashes keyboard trying to activate the Job Demigod*[/quote] Job: Active abilities 1-3: Lose Property, Lose Family, Wear Sackcloth Active ability 4: Win Game

Reply to Why does Elemental need a cool looking world? in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

[quote] Why does Elemental need a cool looking world?[/quote] Do you need a reason beyond 'to look cool'? So long as there's gameplay behind it, I don't. :P

Reply to Demigod: THANK YOU BETA TESTERS! in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Congratulations to Frogboy and Tyo for taking an idea, turning it into a rough initial beta, and polishing it to a gem-like sheen in time for release. It's been fun with the beta testing. Here's to years of fun with the real thing. :D

Reply to Greatest Finds in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Only comments here, no great finds. :P I actually followed ORB from fairly early on in its development, and I wish it had stayed more true to what its original goals were--solar system-sized maps, about half an hour for a fast ship to cross without using the jump dealio, resource asteroids that orbited things (so you didn't really have defined territory), and so on. Of course, it ended up being only a little better than a Homeworld clone. And I'll second (third? n-ordinal?) th

Reply to Empire: Total War in Everything Else Demigod Forums

I figure I'll wait for a month or two of patches before buying it. Total War games are kinda like Microsoft products, see.