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Reply to Can't download Elemental anymore in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Thank you, I'll try that. Tomorrow. It's past midnight where I'm at and I've spent the last three hours fiddling with Impulse instead of playing stuff.

Can't download Elemental anymore in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I used to have a rig with Win XP and a GeForce 9600 graphics adapter. For some unknown reason, my graphics card went poof and I got a new one, a Radeon HD 5750. Along with it came a shiny new Win 7 64bit. Good news - Win 7 and the Radeon work fine. After installing Impulse and rubbing my hands in anticipation for the 1.1 beta, I wanted to download Elemental, but for the fourth time in succession i'm getting "the file downloaded is smaller than expected". When I try to install again, the progr

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

Stuff I like: - Ressource grabbing and exploration is fun and feeds my powergamer gene. - The growing "beautification" of the territory I control - seeing the world go from grey-brownish to lush and green is really amazing - City evolutiion is fantastic - that is the feature that Elemental does much better than the current Civ games. I love to see all my "wonders" and special buildings, especially when my capital grows really large. - The RPG asp

Reply to What’s a-hoppening in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Thanks for the update, Frogboy, much appreciated. You said the art team is delivering lots of content. Does that, by any chance, will include new and more sound effects? Maybe I'm a minority, but audio is pretty important for me, even in a strategy game. And since you aim to become the "spiritual successor of MoM" with Elemental, at least TRY to outdo Master Of Magic in terms of audio, especially SFX. The music is fine, fitting and unobtrusive, but what's there in terms

UI: Placement of action buttons and mouseover behaviour in WOM Support Elemental Forums

One small, but significant irritation in the UI is the order in which actions are listed. From a purely logical viewpoint, wouldn't it be better to have the most important actions for a specific structure or unit appear first? Two examples: - Pioneers. Instead of having "Found City" as the first and most prominent button, I actually have to find the teeny weeny "more" button and have to go into the second page of buttons? Isn't "Found City" THE action for which pioneers are built?

AI behaviour and unit cards (not related) in WOM Support Elemental Forums

After putting several hours into 1.08b I've noticed two strange things. The bigger and more annoying one first: The "improved" AI now spams pioneers and plops down cities with no regard to long-term planning. Is there a useable resource, the AI plops down a city around 2 or 3 squares next to it, although, with a little time, the influence from the LAST city it plopped down might reach there eventually. That in itself is not a huge problem, I've dealt with that since Civ 3. But the AI

Reply to Elemental: The Master List in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

And how could the QA team miss all this? And not to let this post end in negativity and add something constructive instead: Please, please please add more sounds to the game. Even MoM had unique sounds for it's creatures, and that game is nearly two decades old! Compared to that, the sound in tac battles in Elemental is very, very weak. The music kicks ass, no problem with that, but to call the few sound effects that actually do play "generic" would be a huge overstatement. No "ready"

Reply to Elemental: Launch-Week Status Report in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Pantasd" reply="1" id="2739319"]it will get better [/quote] Hopefully, before Civ V comes out. So far, I've had some fun but tons of grief with Elemental, and I have trouble seeing me come back to it once Uncle Sid delivers the goods.

Reply to Some minor problems in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Valid points, especially seeing the long lists of bugs and crashes that need to be ironed out. Hence "minor problems" in the thread title :) Strange nonetheless

Some minor problems in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Okay, compared to the mess I got when I downloaded Elemental on the 23rd, the current release is a HUGE improvement. I just sank four hours into a nice game, but there are still some things that don't have to be in such a major game. First, there is something completely broken with the way events are handled in the game. I don't mean quests and such, I mean for instance the order in which battles, research and such are presented. Take this example. My soverign mob (couple of summons p

Reply to Crash while loading a battle inside a city in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Sorry, I checked every Elemental directory (both in "My Documents" and where I installed Elemental, but there was no dump.zip.

What's up with Elemental's performance? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Alright, my rig isn't the hottest beast in town, but I think an AMD 64 x2 with 3 Gigs of Ram and a GeForce 9600 should be more than enough to run Elemental on 1280x1024 (default settings). Drivers are recent too. Interestingly, in the first couple minutes the game runs silky smooth, but gets choppy real quick. It doesn't matter if I do a 4-on-4 tactical battle or if my champion party walks through dense forests, the game gets all laggy, key inputs don't register and it takes between o

Crash while loading a battle inside a city in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Alright, I'll post my MAIN problem with Elemental in a different thread, here's one crash that happened to me just a couple minutes ago. I was attacked by an enemy inside one of my cities and the game went poof. Before that, the game ran very, very choppy (although my rig meets all recommended system specs). Here's the link to the debug.err file I got. http://pastebin.ca/1923845

Reply to [crash] When alt-tabbing in WOM Support Elemental Forums

For some reason, Elemental has a very wonky performance on my machine that's pretty much at the recommended specs. Anyways, I alt+tabbed out of Elemental and shut down Impulse, and when I wanted to alt+tab back into Elemental, it crashed with a DX error.

Reply to On the road to version 1.2 in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Persistent lobbies . It's annoying to be booted back to the server browser after every custom match.

Reply to Pantheon: No, it’s not just you in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Huh... I can't connect do Pantheon at all. Instead, after waiting a couple of minutes, it bombs me straight back to the desktop. Custom games work fine though.

Reply to Back from the lake, what’s next? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

I hope the SD and GPG guys are actually reading this. Lots of good input.

Reply to Back from the lake, what’s next? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

One really obvious thing: Persistent lobbies for custom games. Why, oh why do we get kicked back to the Main Menu after playing one custom game? What if the same group of people want to play again (I say REMATCH!)? And while on that, why not add the option to instantly send friend requests from the lobby? When you click someone, you only have the ability to send a private mesage. Add "Send Friend Request" or some such. You're obviously trying to emulate some par

Reply to Favor points stuck in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Same here. To add to this: For some reason my achievements go all nuts when I play multiplayer. - Getting weird achievements. I have played less than 10 games online, so it should be pretty impossible to max out the "Kill 500 DGs" Achievements. After the last couple matches I always had those maxed with the character I played. I turn the game off and back on and everything goes back to more or less normal. - Achievements not

Reply to Is back-dooring considered cheating? in Demigod Demigod Forums

I just won a very, very close game by "backdooring". The enemy was so busy grinding creeps and taking our flags that he completely neglected defense. I loaded up on health pots and zipped behind his lines to open his portals to our side's minions. It took them at least a minute before they recaptured their portals and went on to happily grind their levels up. So I thought "wtf" and did it again, but by this time our team had enough cash to buy giants. Boy, what a nasty surprise for them.

Reply to Be nice to your newbie friends. in Demigod Demigod Forums

I put my signature here because I'm trying to get my feet wet in DG multiplayer - but preferably NOT in my own blood. Had 3 games so far and got mauled really bad. I had some offline games beforehand and thought I had my Rook game down put. At the end of the latest game, pretty much everyone was in the high teens and I was barely able to get to 6, because I died so much. I *really* like the game, the whole package, but either I'm not good enough or the guys I've been playing were simply TOO g

Reply to [BUG] Rook humps enemy citadel in Demigod Demigod Forums

Well, I didn't see any "citadel humping", but Rook likes to get stuck on terrain edges (especially on Cataract) Seems the pathfinding algorithm does not take his size into account.

Reply to A better lobby interface (with pictures!) in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

One thing that really makes me scratch my head: Why do we get booted back to the main menu after playing a custom game? Along the same vein: It would GREATLY help it there was a "recent players" bit in the Impulse menu, so I could add people to my friends list AFTER the game ends. If you want to copy Xbox Live, please, Stardock, DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Typing Usernames is so 1988, especially with people that just LOVE making 1337hax0rzu50rnamez.

Achievements in Demigod Demigod Forums

Alright, some info before I go to the heart of my problem. Usually I'm playing on the Xbox 360. That's where I get the basic idea of achievements from. So, now I'm playing Demigod. I see the "Achievements" bit in the main menu. After playing a couple matches with Rook, I finally got the "Rook the Initiate" achievement, for example. I turn off Demigod afterwards and when I come back and check my achievements, the one I just earned is gone, for whatever reason. So