@ Tekcadman Thanks for the info, you had more luck than I did, but I also had ElementiumChurners (and a couple others) installed and it seems to do odd things sometimes.  Will try a couple with just the combat rules mods.

I noticed on rediculious that the AI now casts spells on the global map. I have seen it cast earthquake or the volcano on cities to defeat a faction. Also it casts a spell that randomly teleported my sovereign away from his supporting troops.

So far the AI is going in a very positive direction, the one thing Im concerned about is that there needs to be some sort of protection from spells like volcano or earthquake.

Also I would like to see strong spells like that have a casting time associated with them in turns, and allow a line of spells that would allow other players to detect the ritual being cast and to cause it to fizzle like in MOM.

depends on where you installed the game. doesn't it? is there a shortcut to the game exe on desktop or start menu? open up the properties of that shortcut and find where the file is..

It probably wont show up since its not a official beta release my best guess is that it is supposed to still just say 1.1 , jsut do a search of elemental.exe while in the c drive , it should come up , also it may be located in your "c:\programfiles x86\stardock....." if your runninga 64bit os, unless u selected a dif locatino but just do the search and ull find it.

Subbing...

couple of things ive noticed and/or had issues with. Keep in mind im running a high end system.

Definite issues:

1. I have noticed that when joining groups/armies, there is a definite lag time, the larger the armies involved, especially if its made up of multi-unit cards, the longer the lag time, this also seems to be an issue when large armies are fighting, I've had a couple times where two large armies would meet and it would CTD, consistently, unless i move the view so that they arent on the screen anymore quickly.

2. I get a good amount of seemingly random CTD's

3. I got a "Out of Memory" crash on a medium mapabout 270 seasons into the game (keep in mind there were some random CTD's during that time period as well).

Highly recommended tweaks, almost buglike in nature.

1. The starting areas seem to be lumped together, i tested it on 5 maps, and in medium size maps, 4 of the 5 races were always lumped together in a fraction of the map, with the 5th not much further, id say the 4 of 5 were all in 1/15th of the whole map, with all 5 in 1/10th. IMO we need to be spread out semi evenly, or at least more so than we are.

2. erm thought i had another but dont recall

I just started playing yesterday and started off with this exe, been playing on challenging and the AI seems to be decent.

thanks for releasing this for us to use froggy!

Froggy any word on if ur gonna put out any more pre builds before v1.11 comes out or whatever they said they were gonna put up. on the main page. or u just building it up for 1.11 now

I received the first OOM error ever on 1.1D (and by ever, I mean on any version of Elemental).

Does SD want us to post dumps/debug files?

...for the adventurous is right. Playing on challenging for the world setting, a Level 3 57 HP young drake spawned about turn 30!

i play on rediculous always, sometimse by turn 30 im getting groups of wolves, and other low level units with like 50-60+ hp in stacks of 5-6 (thats by turn 30 not juust one or 2) , just at the start i get run up on here and tehre from those 50hp guys, right off the rip. someimtes by turn 50-100 im already getting attacked by monsters with 100-150hp , i dont know if there leveling up from other attcks or soemthing but with that multiplier they get for difficulty , if they gain 3hp on a level up it prob adds something like 30-50hp ,ive lost a battle b4 and then they were low on health like 5/50 , then i look after i lost and they were like 150/180 from getting 2/3 lvl ups at once lol. i enjoy the challenge tho.

Holy cow I'm getting whooped on a normal world and all AI on challenging... Going back to normal lol. Ow and Altar are very very very annoying city spammers, even if allied with them they keep spamming cities next to my borders and stealing my resources away over time. Other game i killed about 10 pioneers of them and then he dropped a pioneer right in my influence zone next to 2 crystal mines (right next to the one I had under control and build on).

This build seems a lot more stable and less buggy then the impulse 1.1 build (may also have to do with the fact that I'm getting whooped and not reaching the end game and started playing on medium worlds instead of large), btw sovereigns have codes in their descriptions in this build (cr14 etc). Did crash out with an oom on medium just now though.

1.1 comes out tomorrow night supposedly, though it sounds like it's largely the AI fixes over the holidays+ maybe some other stuff.