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Reply to This is a great Game in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="DocTerryC" reply="4" id="2807788"]I just saw the game today in a store, and it looked interesting. I enjoy RPG and Strategy--the Spellforce franchise was magic! But, before emptying $50 out of my wallet I decided to check the reviewers. To summarize they say: Good game. Released before it was ready. Lacks polish. Lacks continuity and storyline, and is VERY buggy. But--they all liked it! So, I suspect that the reviews

Reply to Hi Everybody! 1.1 goodies in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Gazz_" reply="90" id="2807781"]Would a higher spell damage (through INT) not automatically achieve that result without introducing an entirely new system? [/quote] In AoW, the damage does not scale and is fine. The problem comes when a unit has its resistance bumped up to where it is virtually cannot be hit with magic. And why have resistance? Because it is easier to balance magic against weapons when there is a resistance stat. It can be done without resistance, but

Reply to Hi Everybody! 1.1 goodies in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Just add a stat that allows units to take avoid taking damage from spells, and have INT make the spell caster better able to overcome this resistance.

Reply to PC Games no longer work at release in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="James009D" reply="60" id="2807699"] I think this is a huge part of the 'problem', we've also got more hardware and software that can conflict then before. However, technology, 'best practices', and knowledge have also progressed at, I assume, a reasonable pace to counter all that. [/quote] Not really. There are some things that make it easier, but some times they have pit falls that can make it easier than ever to have a problem and not notice (e.g. garbage colle

Reply to Solid State Hard Drives in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="James009D" reply="8" id="2807703"]Good topic! I was actually JUST wondering about this myself. My question is how do you implement a SSD for things other then the OS: gaming, for example. If I want to play something like Elemental or Sim City or Civilization 5 on a SSD because of it's super fast load speed how do I do that? Does it work? And is it worth it? Also, what SSD would someone recommend for that? [/quote] You will want to look at the random access speed, as t

Reply to Solid State Hard Drives in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Last I heard it was 10,000 writes minimum per sector. 1 Sector = 4 KB of disc space. They typically balance it out so that each sector gets the same amount of wear.

Reply to PC Games no longer work at release in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="43" id="2807436"] Sadly the GOLDEN AGE is gone forever because of greedy publishers and developers alike. Their philosophy: Put out CRAP OUT OF THE BOX the LEMMINGS will buy it. [/quote] To say all developers care only about money would be incorrect. Just yesterday I check the requiments to work as a programmer at one company (to get a few for what companies want for when I get out of college), and one of the requirements was to be passionate

Reply to PC Games no longer work at release in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Vladesch" reply="42" id="2807397"] I havnt done any programming with it, but I thought that was directx was for. I have to wonder, is the problem with directx or the games code? [/quote] That is what DirectX is for, but how well it works is questionable. DirectX gives a single interface for accessing the graphics driver. The driver takes care of how to use the hardware. The fact that you theoretically should not have to care does not matter is somethin

Reply to Additions to 1.1 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="37" id="2807207"]actually with regards to the greek phalanx, it was well armoured for its time but it had limited offensive strength because they held the spears overhand above the shoulder which does not lend itself well to producing a lot of armour piercing power, so when the heavier armours started to show up, the phalanx got out-teched. I don't know my history well enough to go into more detail than that but iron > bronze so that was that. (

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Grove12345" reply="35" id="2807179"]EWOM was one of the last hopes of seeing a small time developer make a unique game for PCs in this era.... but failed...kind of. [/quote] There are others that try to make innovative games, it is just most people never hear of them as they are not mainstream. EWOM may have been the last by a company large enough that many gamers have heard of them, but certainly not the last small developer that will try.

Reply to Diablo III in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="38" id="2806622"]Only this game will make me happy.[/quote] No, only Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (once it is released) shall be able to do that.

Reply to What are your early game strategies? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Phylast57" reply="25" id="2806577"] Yup, no prob. Thanks. I did that and the Dragon says he's gonna join me but hasn't after 2 turns. Does he take awhile or did I miss a step? [/quote] The quest has issues that some times prevent the dragon from appearing. If you do not get it, then you are not going to.

Reply to What are the top five things you'd like to see fixed/added to Elemental? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Supergulo" reply="19" id="2807115"]1) Multiple worlds, I know that they said that it would not occur, but please! We want to invade other alien worlds (Also, to be able to make map that, for example, connect on the sides (Ringworld!))[/quote] Or the ability to add elemental planes to explore. Regarding the round world effect, in Age of Wonders the UPatch team has created an invisible teleporter to achieve this effect.

Reply to Convince me not to buy an Alienware Aurora in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

From advice I have read of threads like this one elsewhere, it would seem that if you do not what to build your own then the next best option (in terms of what you get for your money) is to go with a brand of intermediate size (not one of the really big ones like Dell and HP, but not obscure either). My personal preference is Micro Express, but I have only looked at their laptops (and the cheapest gaming setup for those last time I looked was above the price you list).

Reply to 64bit Elemental still in the works? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="33" id="2806968"]Sure, if some games actually used that amount of RAM. I haven't played one yet that does. Can you name two? All I see is games never go above 2gb, and almost all games never go above 1gb. Edit: I'm not trying to sound obstructionist. It may well be that 64-bit will save PC gaming. But a developer can't just say "when everyone has it, it will be awesome". If there is no support for it, why get it in the first place? [/quote]

Reply to Game Development tools in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="1" id="2807043"]Horses for courses really; C++ can be nice and fast, however it requires some indepth knowledge of memory management for complex projects. C# handles a lot of that stuff for you, however you need to manage your content around the Garbage Collector. Take a look at some of Microsoft's Visual Studio stuff; it's entirely free, and you own everything you make with it. [/quote] He said Visual C++, which has the option to

Reply to Ridiculous Requests for Upcoming Patches in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="82" id="2806519"]I think an absolute must for 1.1 is space unicorns.[/quote] Why? To give the pink space ponies an enemy? Miniature giant space hamsters would be better.

Reply to Goodies... goodies everywhere! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Polistes" reply="12" id="2806945"]I think there should be a global limit of goodies lets pretend that 100 goodies is the max limit globally. Well once that 100 is reached no more goodie huts spawn until the ones that are already present get removed, so lets say four factions each remove 10 huts. There for those 40 would respawn over time brings the number back to 100. We could also have a limit to prevent goodie hut numbers from going to low. so for example there can be no more th

Reply to What happens to a Hero if I Kill His Sovereign? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="24" id="2806848"] Wait a minute...I also just noticed that under my child's picture in the game it says, "first in line for the throne...". Now it really seems like your children were designed to take over for your sovereign. [/quote] Prior to one of the recent patches, children could defect to a defeated AI faction and become the ruler. Therefore it can be concluded they did implement inheritance, but it is over ru

Reply to Ridiculous Requests for Upcoming Patches in War of Magic Elemental Forums

The AoW source has yet to be released, so it would be impossible to copy it without breaking the terms of use agreement.

Reply to [for devs] Requests for changes in modding in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="50" id="2806586"]Requests. Secondly, it would be helpful if there was a tag to turn improvementtypes into mutually exclusive buildings. For example, I could have a CHOICE of building a War College, or building a Sion training facility. I would recommend that the tag be fairly simple, for example: . I would also like to see this tag be repeatable, so that we may choose between three or more buildings to be exclusive. Ps. Idea

Reply to PC Games no longer work at release in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="dadoo2" reply="24" id="2806453"]sure some graphics cards occassionally fail to implement every aspect of direct x properly, creating some problems, but this is rather rare, and on the whole, this is for new, state of the art features, and you are bringing it on yourself when you try to use them(leave an option to shut them off so you can easily check them), if you write for directx, it will work on compliant graphics cards. [/quote] It is not just hardware,

Reply to PC Games no longer work at release in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="18" id="2806374"]For all the people making excuses for piss poor releases, I've had a number of games that worked just fine, out of the box even, no patches necessary or registration required to take a broken product and turn it into an actual game. Is there a chance that there are hardware problems, sure but not always. Elemental, FFXIV and a host of others are not suffering from some unfair disadvantage of working with PC hardware though, the proble

Reply to [1.09e.49] Unrewarding quests in WOM Support Elemental Forums

For Sarog you can alter the party along the wway and remember that only your sovreign can pick up the reward (so I suggest you send them in alone to get the quest and to get the reward, this worked for me). Also some seem to think if you save and load after getting the quest then it breaks.

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Delmoroth" reply="21" id="2806345"]Though console gaming hurts pc gaming, it wont kill it without a lot of changes. There are types of games that just wont work on console unless you dramatically dumb them down as to fit the console controllers. I mean really what PC gamer doesn't die a little inside when they see a game they were waiting for with hit PC and X-box or PS3? You know you will see a game striped down to fit consoles and the contro