Hello,

I thought to myself prior to elemental coming out that it was going to be a game I would get for sure.  Then the game hit, in the state that it was, and so I was really dissapointed and left it.  It's not uncommon for this to happen, there have been plenty of games that have done the same thing.

Normally that's the end of the story, but here I am looking at joystiq every day, noticing this Brad Wardell fellow popping up all the bloody time making these promises, then to my shock, inch by inch delivering.

The latest set of patches and planned 1.1 release, combined with his offer to provide 2 free expansions really did it for me, paid and playing now.

So congratulations and being the first game company to do that for me.  I should also say thank-you, because I am having loads of fun.

Great game, I don't generally get too sucked in to just any 4x game, but this one has a real character to it, the feel of it is really good, not bombarded with too many stats, good general game play systems and the world is great.  I really like it.  More world interaction (events?) would be great tho!

Tactical combat is a bit of a let down, it really should go to hex's rather than squares (i'm fine with squares on main game) just to add some more tactical positioning options.  But tactical issues are really not that big of a deal for me, I auto battle a fair bit.

The interface could be better, but I'm ok with it. And you have some good things coming up, so that cool.  You really need to show movement path's for future turn movement - it really had me confused at the start.

Well done to you're programmers, I've had no crashes and only had one bug - in tactical combat an archer was on a preset movement path at the beginning of the turn and because the position he was to move to had just been filled by a hero, it bugged with the archer's run animation going but him not being able to move, this then stopped me from doing anything with any unit...  Luckily the one button that did work was 'auto complete battle', which resolved the battle and I was able to get by without reloading.

I'm a happy customer.  But please, keep on comming with the improvements!  I hope you get plenty of sales over the next few days, I have a feeling you will.

Blight0r