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I'm 99% certain Brad has stated that with the new 1.1 patch there will be an updated PDF file of the manual.
Why would Stardock see some of Valve's trade-in action?
A lot of generic video game communities (GameFAQs, IGN, etc) are just filled with trolls, morons, or worse. You have to go into really niche places to avoid it in my experience. I visit a lot of video game music message boards, where it's people who really care about video games (so much so they listen to it's music on it's own!). I once stumbled upon a board for people who are huge fans of mecha-video games and anime, and they often discussed other genre's of games and
[quote who="Stuie_acs" reply="29" id="2800619"] Quoting monsterfurby, reply 4...they are, in my opinion, a bit too much in love with their own storyline. This. There's a reason that successful fantasy games have elves and orcs and dwarves and creatures from mythology: we can all easily identify with this stuff and that gives a game some sort of built-in depth. So when I have to fight a wyvern, I kind of "get it". On the other hand
since 1.08, I haven't had any problems running Elemental. Pre 1.08 I had a few minor quibbles. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit Processor: i7-950 3.06 GHz Memory: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 1GB
It still saddens me to this day how much the awful port of Oblvion really hurts it. Half the mods I have installed are fixing the UI and CTD issues.
Haha, yeah, I found it, that sole +1 Karma he has now is from me XD. Thanks though, always good to have a helpful community.
Man. You are dedicated to this bug. if I can figure out how to give karma, I'm going to give you some.
This is Double Rainbow. Thanks!
The Heirgamenon in the Limited Edition of E:WoM is not related to the one on the website with the tech trees, just fyi. That being said, a small, clean PDF of the tech tree would be nice.
[quote who="Pantasd" reply="4" id="2795399"]i hope the end of october so they can fix alot of stuff[/quote] not too close, otherwise the big Minecraft update will conflict with my gaming schedule...
[quote who="hairrorist" reply="5" id="2795239"]Just wait for the tactical battle mod me and Kenata are -almost- done with. We ran into problems with attack and defense multipliers, but now, thanks to Kenata's brilliance, we have them working. The goal of the mod is to attach special abilities to all of the weapons, so that they all fulfill a tactical niche.[/quote] oh nice, I will definitely keep an eye out for that.
Brad has stated that he's putting tactical battles off to other members of the dev team. I would like to get a discussion going on possible changes. Some feelings I have on the matter to make tactical battles more gratifying. 1) Units need options. A "defend" option is good, and should cost some action points (or w/e the system uses post 1.1). I'd would like for item packs to add once per battle unit options. <p
[quote who="JSJ101" reply="23" id="2794667"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 12 Ive been thinking of requiring food to construct an outpost. Thoughts? Yes, please! I also wouldn't be heartbroken if caravans generated gold, exclusively, and not food. Doesn't food as a global resource kind of model distribution through trade? How would caravans increase global food supply? I've never understood this.[/quote] Your local geographic regio
Am I crazy or do none of the new heroes have spell books? From reading over, one obviously isn't suppose to, but the other 4?
hrm. I don't know if this is a big enough deal to waste time on TBH. The game only pre-generates what, 8 or 9 units? the time it takes to delete the pre-gen'd units is so negligible. But I guess if the Dev team have time it wouldn't be an awful thing to put in.
I do think having rivers would help add variety to the world's map and view, making it more pleasing to the eye and immersion.
I'm not certain if I follow. Do you dislike the premade-troops? (i.e. Scouts, Observers, Peasants?) Cause if so, you can design your own troops, and call them what you want.
Nice addition, but I'm still hoping that things change so building lots of cities is not very viable and/or discouraged. Plus another vote for it showing what cities need more housing.
I'd like to vote for being able to make a better variety of units, outside of traditional combat roles. I'm all for more items that would exclude weapons but add non-combat utility. Like a camouflage item for turning a scout invisible for a few turns. Maybe another that would allow scouts to damage or render inert enemy improvements at the risk of getting caught and dying (similar to spies in GalCiv2).
I'm hoping that with 1.1 and onwards, building 15 cities should/would be either impossible or extremely discouraged, and a revamp not necessary.
@ Hairrorist - I'm not sure if you are implying that Elemental doesn't have said complexity and depth is a good or bad thing. To throw my 2 cents in, I think elemental could benefit from more depth in terms of dynasties, alliances, treaties, and what have you. We have a fair amount of options, but more would really make this game shine.
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As much as I do like the idea of having fortifications outside of a city, I already hate the marring of the beautiful map when cities begin to go all over the place. I could agree to: 1 Watchtower buildable per city owned. (and this is after hopeful 1.1 changes that will make building more cities a pain/less able to) They are NOT teleport-able to. and I like the sight only when manned idea too.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (With Complete 2009 mod) Minecraft (A LOT OF MINECRAFT, I play it while I watch my Warehouse 13/other shows)
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Seeing as Brad is a fan of Avatar, The Last Airbender and has stated he wants the in-game visuals to be more like it, I doubt he would harken back to such an old school thought of magic users NEEDING a wand/staff. Also, having to move each adventerur/heir/soverein to multiple cities just to outfit them would get awfully tedious. This was fine in old school linear RPGs, where towns had different items because you were being rail-roaded into a speci