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Populous in EWOM, how exactly do you want it?

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Populous in EWOM, how exactly do you want it?

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Frogboy mentioned Populous

3D engines for doing very very nasty things to the game world when you have enough magic -- think Populous


To me it sounds like either one of the following:
1.    Magic that uses essence create/destroy map terrain
OR 2.    Map builder UI shows up allow gamer create/destroy map terrain tile & tile.   Cost is paid by essence.

The question is how powerful you want?  In good old Populous, you can sprout a volcano under your ememy’s city to destroy it.

What kind of effects you want?

It also sounds like some variation of material physics may exist for the game.

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Reply #51 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Darkodinplus, reply 25
I believe the core of this disagreement stems from the fact that you believe equations are meant to explain while I believe they are meant to predict. Either way if you wish to continue this discussion we should probably do it someplace else. 

Edit: In other words send me a PM if you want. 

I'm just a humble spectator, but it strikes me that y'all are wrangling over two aspects of the same wavicle. If you do indeed carry on the discussion in private, please let us know if you actually come to some sort of both-and conclusion. I only had two years of high school physics, but it was understanding the 'explanations' embedded in the units that helped me figure out what equations to try for a given test problem (i.e. to make a prediction).