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Reply to Prevent ingame incest! in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Istari" reply="47" id="2816557"].... and so began the eons long feud between Lord Xia and House Mercestes. Blinded by their rage and lust, they wrought cataclysmic devastation upon the world as their battles shook the very foundations of the soap boxes they stood on. Caught in a tempest of callousness and contempt, they knew not the consequences of their folly; that civilizations would be wiped from the memory of existence did not approach the warranting of an afterthought. May th

Reply to Brad’s reign of terror ends in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wizard1200" reply="14" id="2815154"] Quoting Chancelor, reply 13Can you tell us some info on the rule change,so we can read about it before the patch Yep, a preview of the changes would be really nice.[/quote] Yes... Something to tide us over more than we're presently being tided over...

Reply to Brad’s reign of terror ends in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

*Bounces in his chair a bit.* Can't wait for the 1.1 Beta! No, seriously, I can't wait... May just have to come over there and play it on one of your machines... Hmmmm... *Leaves to get his car keys.*

Reply to Prevent ingame incest! in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="29" id="2814882"]I'm a redneck that starts fights with Muslims because I think your arguments in favor of incest are gross? You are calling me intolerant because I think incest is wrong? That is amazing. So you believe that we should respect all aspects of other cultures? If children in China are maimed in factories, women in Saudi Arabia are being married to 40 year old men when they are 8, or stoned to death when the

Reply to Please eliminate the Child Genetics Code. in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

This is the PERFECT thread to be reading on Halloween! I love the xenophilia/phobia/attractiveness idea. Straight love it. That should get into the game at some point. But I have to say sorry... Because that idea is nowhere near as awesome as the general content of this (de)generating thread. Please, guys, keep it up, I can see another weeks worth of entertainment being tapped out of this, at least. On another note, I'm not one for compound ey

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="129" id="2814530"] That could work. If we're going to go with a more complicated underlying system, I hope it makes for better parallelization of production when it comes to units. It irks me right now that I've got one town doing all the work for 20 turns of creating armored mounted units, while 4 other towns are basically sitting idle doing nothing. Why doesn't one of them train the horses, another one make the weapons, a third make the armor, and the l

Reply to Do we want kick ass champs? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Fishslayer, we -ARE- playing the same game. The whole "Give them a long bow, sit back, and watch them pwn," is what I ALWAYS do with Heroes. That is THE PROBLEM. Let me elaborate on that statement. The Problem is you CANNOT make a Hero Melee. Legolas is the only guy who could make a bow look truly heroic, and in the movies that's far too mitigated by the fact that he's played by Orlando Bloom, so only Book-Legolas counts. How many Heroes in Fantasy settin

Reply to Prevent ingame incest! in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Do none of you find it just slightly disturbing how okay we all seem to be with this? I, for one, oppose the idea, albeit on a purely biased and non-objective basis. Sure, it's got the whole 'Realism' thing going for it... But even that's half-assed in this regard. Coming from a purely objective, game-play-related standpoint here, I have a couple ideas on the subject. First off, give players a disincentive to inbreed. Inbred children should have a tra

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jharii" reply="108" id="2813741"] Quoting Gwenio1, reply 107 Depends on how it is done. If you have raw resources that are local that are then used (like houses use food, only this would be local) by the refining structures then it is XML (at least I assume local resources work, the XML supports them but I do not know if it will be handled correctly). To make it so you can get the resource directly from the mine if you do not have other buildings that 'convert' it then t

Reply to [Fan-Fic] Jormund'allarah, Assassin turned King in Elemental Fiction Elemental Forums

Chapter III, Part Four: The First Year Nabaja kept the pace slower, as promised, and used the pace as a way to help teach the newer recruits proper marching and team-work. While they stumbled over each other at first and prompted Nabaja's rage in doing so, but by the end of the day, they were working together nearly as well as the men from Attiembi. They arrived Nokeslil just as the sun was setting on the thirteenth day of travel. On the far edges o

Reply to [Fan-Fic] Jormund'allarah, Assassin turned King in Elemental Fiction Elemental Forums

Chapter III, Part Three: The First Yeat The next day, just as he'd said, Jormund informed the citizens of Attiembi of the growing threat, and put out a call to arms. Nal went to the architects to have them start tutoring under him, but they wouldn't listen, thinking him rather bold to be telling such a lie. All apologized profusely to Jormund when they found it to be true, and he in turn directed that they apologize to Nal, whom they'd now be apprenticin

Reply to [Fan-Fic] Jormund'allarah, Assassin turned King in Elemental Fiction Elemental Forums

Chatper III, Part Two: The First Year Jormund left that night, riding alone on the fastest Horse Embineas could offer. Horses were few and far between as it was, mostly procured only from the smuggler, and on rare occasion. Without sleeping and without stopping, he made it to Attiembi in only three days time, the horse nearly lame by the time he arrived. He consequently declared the horse the first member of Talranth royalty, and proclaimed that no one would ev

Reply to [Fan-Fic] Jormund'allarah, Assassin turned King in Elemental Fiction Elemental Forums

Chapter III, Part One: The First Year Jormund, Re, and Nabaja sat around a campfire late that night. Nal and his mother had gone to sleep. The mercenaries has brought beer from the tavern and conducted a celebration. For what, Jormund couldn't be sure, but they were happy, and he wasn't going to rain on their parade. They were asleep now, happy and drunk. The mood around the campfire was not so happy, howev

Reply to [Fan-Fic] Jormund'allarah, Assassin turned King in Elemental Fiction Elemental Forums

Chapter II: The Budding Nation Jormund padded his away around the field. What he was looking for, he couldn't be sure, but he knew he was looking for something. An irregularity, a hot spring, an exceptionally warm patch of ground, anything that might explain what happened here. After several hours of searching for clues, he gave up. Exhausted and frustrated, he returned to the tent, and slept. The visions hit him harder t

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="100" id="2813517"]The system is a little bit clunky right now. To help streamline the process, an all accessible notification icon/button (no not the red exclamation mark) and a new hotkey to cycle to the next available ready to be improved resource would help improve the process a bit faster and easier, especially for the new players. After reading through pages of ideas, most of those posted are adding to the resource

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

While PC Gaming is by no means dead, or even dying, per se, it is in a decline. And like people have said, this is a slump that will eventually pick back up. Market trends. But supporting Blizzard is supporting PC Gaming, albeit indirectly. But no more so than supporting any single Developer/Publisher. Well, less so now that they're owned by Activision... (Which I abhorrently oppose btw, but what're ya gonna do?) But if you really

Reply to Untimely Death caused by two annoying bugs in War of Magic Elemental Forums

@Mystikmind: Lol, yes, attacking from within a city is VERY buggy. In my present game, I'm playing as the Magnar with a custom Sov and 9 other Realms for a total of ten. Resoln is dead, conquered by the lack-luster might of the Magnar, and now the true might of the Magnar has conquered every city that the puny Lord Karavox of Kraxis owns... But he is not conquered... I actually know exactly where he is. I literally have the bastard imprisoned...&

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="FishSlayer" reply="71" id="2812872"] no offense, I appreciate your reply, and you are definitely correct about the implementation time line. But read my post and yours again.... OP asks a question. I chime in with a 21 line reply about why I do not agree with it. and you reply to ONLY the last 2 sentences. And one was a sig. LOL. Not busting your butt, but I think the two main points I bring up are far more important as to why I DO NOT agree with the tweak. A

Reply to Time to bite the bullet - is the game worth it? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Well, I play on Large maps with either 10 or 11 Realms, depending on if I'm using one of my custom creations or not. On average, I'd say, given a decent enough start, I get 7-8 cities of my own. Probably one level 4, 3-5 level 3's, and the rest level 2, before my food caps out. At this point, I'm rarely far up enough in any tech tree for it to make a difference however, so that's usually when I conquer my closest neighbor for access to additional food resources, which usua

Reply to Time to bite the bullet - is the game worth it? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="FishSlayer" reply="35" id="2812854"] Quoting scifi1950, reply 29FishSlayer - You do realize that with version 1.1 they are removing the link between Food & Caravans. This strategy will be DOA. Not picking on you personally, I think we'll all have plenty of rethinking to do given all the changes being made. Back to square one everybody! yeah, i heard that. 1-- I dont believe anything a dev says about "upcoming

Reply to Fixing the Glossary: "Specialists" should be"Artisans" - "Green thumb" should be "Hunter" Any other Changes Wanted? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fearzone" reply="7" id="2812832"]Yuse sayin' dat da big warboss Feerzone runz wit da pretty elf babez wearin' pink g-stringz if allz he gotta do iz eatz a little kabage? Dat ain't no problum cuz Feerzone just chooz on it a lil' biz den spitz it out when hot elf chiks ain't looking den feerzone getz best of ALL da worldz likez killin' da puny humies and takin der gunz and sords and skulls as toyz for me!!![/quote] You've got Orkish down pat man. Kudos.

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="FishSlayer" reply="67" id="2812847"]Ummm no. Sure it SOUNDS cool, and in fact some games have done it. But was it done well, and/or did it add to the fun of the game? A few of the first posters in this thread hit it on the head. "more complication", "frustrating". etc... Here is my thoughts on this. Basically in an action rpg (think diablo or hellgate) game they take some "garbage" and break it down into components, th

Reply to [Funny BUG] I've Imprisoned Lord Karavox and cannot kill him. in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Polistes" reply="9" id="2812757"]Make peace with him. He will be your bitch for ever after unless your military weakens. Or you can make peace, sign a non aggression pact so he can move them when he leavers the city far enough use that curdgens inferno on him. It kills him instantly and no chance of escape. I have used that on factions I am allied with when they started harassing another faction, just cause the volcano to arise under the sov no matter where he is and its all over

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Freebird1956" reply="64" id="2812821"]I agree 100% with your thoughts with the current setup. There is too much going on, but nothing great. Make the actions simple and rewarding. Diablo was that type of game. It was fun and the magic system worked. For me its not about growing my city. its more about the battles and the magic. Lets fix the current problems with the game. Then move on to make it better. Theres alot to improve on and Derek will make that happe

Reply to Begatting resources in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Soletestament" reply="28" id="2812617"]I think what makes having different resources begat new resources fun is the feeling of progression... pure and simple. We want to see our cities go from using Bronze swords to Steel or Adamantium or whatever. But like several people already pointed out, doing that can really make things tedious rather than fun. Why not keep Ore as ore but give research options that improve the quality of gear or what