Great to see that you are still actively developing this game! I have a pet peeve, though: When will you stop drawing roads on water in this game, is my main question? The game is great, but that is such an eye sore and makes the game look really shoddily made in screenshots.
I'm asking because there's quite a few topics in there with no replies, and I know that at least here you do on occasion get a developer reply.
DirectX can easily be emulated these days, with Cider for example. But I personally will not buy such a product (call it philosophical reasons).
Yes, and that is why you do a port and that is why I suggested they hire the i5works team. World of Warcraft relies on DirectX in XP, but for OS X it was ported it to OpenGL, so that is not a problem. The problem might be their Impulse online platform, though... depending on how that is constructed...
Yes, modern Macs are able to reboot into XP/Vista, or even run XP/Vista in a window under the OS X desktop, but the first option cuts you off from all of your Mac apps and the second option produces quite a bit of overhead (and both options makes you feel... unclean). So, I'm wondering now if there is any chance that Elemental will see a Mac version? Also, I'm not talking about cheating with Cider as EA does (it's so much like option two above), but rather a proper port like f