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Reply to Drama Cleansing Thread in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I look forward to the continually evolving and improved game play from Elemental. I also look forward to the first free expansion for me! Although I think I desvere it, for the initial release was very rocky. Here is to picking oursevles back up, dusting off our knees, and get going again! We all have had our moment to be mad, sad, regretful about the initial release of Elemental, but now we are done need to move on! The future is bright, and I for one am glad we are mo

Reply to Any truth to the rumor on shacknews? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

It seems to me that the very nature of corperations is creative destruction. They create and and destroy, they love you until until you don't serve the corperation's purposes anymore, then they spit you out. There are many many people who have lost jobs becuse they corperation cannot survive if these people stay on. It is sad, but the nature of capitolism, thus not unexpected that Stardock has had to follow suit with the rest of Counrty. I am shocked that is

Reply to Damaged groups of troops going to 1 after save and load in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="KlausBreuer" reply="1" id="2745684"]Yes - when we had too little food, and the chaps left me without mentioning it - simply ran away, looking for food elsewhere, I presume. Or maybe they starved in their beds, I didn't check... How's your food supply? Ciao, Klaus [/quote] Food is great i have like 16.5 positive food income.

Damaged groups of troops going to 1 after save and load in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Hello, I have a bug where I had to damaged groups of 8 guards that I had in town resting. I saved the game, and came back and although the graphic shows 8 in the group the hitpoints reflect only one dude. When I hit next turn the icon and the graphic turn into one guy instead of the my group of 8. Has anyone else had this issue?

Reply to Re-thinking 4X economics in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]Sorry for being unclear; what I had meant was that training in the manner you described it (select children that you want to be knights, they then train, join the town watch, and eventually get the chance to be knights on the condition that they do well in a tournament) would be unnecessarily complex. I misunderstood your point.[/quote] no worries i wasn't very clear in my explanation. I think it would be a better system if you could have attackers train as much as you ha

Reply to The mechanics of warfare: Weapons in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote]a knight had become completely useless once he was tipped over, since he couldn't get up by himself.[/quote] need to get out the concussion blasts to knock those pesky guys over! [quote]Imagination is what really draws us into games and the little details are the fuel. I mentioned that the engineers each have a coil of rope. Imagine what they could do with that. Rappel down a wall to escape a burning tower. Replace the bowstring on a damaged bolt thrower. Rig a tent wit

Reply to Re-thinking 4X economics in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote]g00berhead: aside from the idea of gold armor (gold is quite possibly one of the worst metals for armor that isn't mercury)[/quote] You are correct gold armor is bad option that was the point I was trying to make. Thank you for understanding.... that is why you would probably choose to trade for iron with another faction. That would bring on more interesting aspects of starting conflicts if you rely on your enemy to supply you with iron to make weapons it

Reply to The mechanics of warfare: Weapons in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

nice description! I hope the battles will feel like this in game. Playing GalCiv2 I reflect on games and the stories of how events turned out are quite exciting and interesting at least in my head they are!

Reply to Re-thinking 4X economics in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Hallo, I envision an economy run somewhat like Dawrf Fortress... Example, You start with no way to make any kind of armor. You must mine until you run into raw materials that can be refined into metal steel or iron or whatever. Then you must have a someway to heat the forges to melt down the iron ore. After that you need someone who can create the armor,weapon,tradeable good. Now lets say you run into gold and cannot find any iron or raw materials to

Reply to More GalCiv II updates in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I really agree the fleet orbital manager technology. That one change makes ton of changes to my stragey mostly I might try to defend my planets now!

Reply to The mechanics of warfare: Weapons in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

So perhaps there needs to be catagories of things to take into consideration. For example: one catagory is of course is the equipment. One is the person. One is group formation. One is environmental... the list can go on To speak about combat in general terms seems like trying to stuff a turkey into a chicken.... yea nice visual i know, but we should not try to tackle everything all at once. I think that would be a good start for the exellent suggestions flow

Reply to The mechanics of warfare: Weapons in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote]Armour Type Effectivness (None / Poor / Average / Good / Superior) vs Damage Type; Crush Cut Pierce Slash Plate Superior Superior Superior Superior [/quote] I would just like state that a crushing blow is very hard to block using armor in almost any type of armor. Although, armor of this type may spread the force of a crushing blow over a larger area it is still going to be a sever hit. Think about being hit in the leg with. lets say

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I love the scenarios like the the drengin one (can't remember the specific name). I guess I would like to see more of them. For example, some advanced race needs to be put to rest. So you start the game and your goal is to survive long enough to overcome an already established race. or you must research this (insert tech here) before some race uses that against you. I would like to understand what the heck the point system is in the quarterly reports. Like your military is

Reply to I'm a zealot in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Is-Windows-Getting-Morbidly-Obese-62556.html This is in line with my earlier post....

Reply to Building my first computer in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Oh yeah, g00berhead - buy a floppy drive. If for whatever reason, you use sepcial drivers for your hard drive (RAID, SATA, STATA RAID - Boards w/ an Nforce chipset were a huge problem -are they still? Anyone know?), you'll need a floppy to intsall windows XP. Windows won't let you add new drivers during the install process via CD.[/quote] By floppy drive you mean the 3.5" floppies? I have a copy of XP pro I got for like 5 dollars from my college, I think I will stick wit

Reply to Oh my god, patch 1.03 is officially horrible in Sins of a Solar Empire in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]My only problem with 1.03 is that the AI still plays like a lobotomized hamster, and the diplo system is still an unplayable mess.[/quote] I am not so sure about this... I have a friend who cannot beat a single easy AI. He can walk and talk at the same time too, so perhaps a step up from the lobotomized hamster intelligence. :)

Reply to Building my first computer in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I am leaving the blue ray out of my computer until there is cheaper software and hardware available. I can't justify 300-400 when I could go and pick up a PS3 for a bit more. I do think I will scale back the RAM for the moment to 2 gigs and stay with a 32 bit OS. Waiting till 64 bit OS and drivers are up to speed sounds like way better plan than the headaches they will cause now. one thing about the motherboard I pick currently picked is the spec says ATI crossfire ready...

Reply to I'm a zealot in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Ok I don't if I can expain this very well, but this is the way I see things as far as businesses. It is rather organic... or I guess physical is a better term. Small companies are always going to be more efficient, and more profitable because of this one simple fact. It seems to me that Stardock and Iron Clad are doing something that is not your general run of the mill business model. I believe to make a successful company you need people who can work well together and not very many

Reply to Building my first computer in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Good call on the OS I will stick with XP I think. Vista makes me nervous with all the horror stories I have heard. From wht I understand Vista is a RAM hog and doesn't really add any features I would be terribly interested in. With Blue-Ray being the new DVD format Vista doesn't even offer a way to watch Hi Def movies.

Reply to Where did everyone go? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, well, having a 4 year old running around and a wife who is always finding things for me to do instead of run my empire. I tend to let things slip every so often. plus I am new to the game that in itself is a get out of jail free card.... right? :p Anyways, I have researched the tech and and sold to other race for gobs of techs and cash... I made out like a bandit... plus my enemies are hurt pretty bad. This was the best thing to happen to my empire! Every game includi

Building my first computer in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I am doing research on new computer components, and this is what I have come up with so far. Comments suggestions are wanted. Things to keep in mind price I'm shooting for under $2000 Box: Cosmos Case price ~200 Mortherboard: Intel D975XBX2 INTEL CORE 2 DUO READY SOCKET 775 ATX MOTHERBOARD price ~200 Processor: INTEL CORE2 QUAD Q6600 QUAD CORE CORE PROCESSOR 2.4 GHz, 8M L2 CACHE, LGA 775 price ~250 Hard drive: SEAGATE ST3500641AS- RK BARRACUDA

Reply to How old are you? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

27 here.

Reply to Where did everyone go? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

ahh I remeber seeing that little show and reading about it, but I got distracted and forgot completely about it. Thank you for your reply.

Where did everyone go? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I am playing a DA sandbox game, normal difficulty, on a gigantic map with max players. I have set up scatterd, rare, hospitable planets. Essentially I have Earth and Mars and that is it(I am playing Terran). I was lucky and found 3 minors races each with one planet, in the same system. I took them over very early in the game, which made everyone else very nervous and essentially divded the galaxy between the good races on one side and the neutral and evil races on the other. pretty much I h

Reply to Setting up a new machine in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I am a 3D modeler and i would love to run SolidWorks or CATIA V5 on your machine. My poor work computer 3.0 GHz with 2 gig ram about explodes with small assemblies. I use CATIA V4 for this reason. Unix tends to be a bit more stable. I don't know much about coding I just know how to make my poopy work computer cry hehe!