Elemental Beta 1-G plans

Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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Elemental Beta 1-G plans

The next public beta of Elemental adds Dyansties, Spells, and Quests. I’m pleased to say that those features are in but they aren’t even slightly balanced or remotely polished yet. Moreover, there are some blatant bugs (AI is threaded now and there are times that it isn’t triggering the semaphore) that we need to deal with.

So with that in mind, we’re going to go ahead and push Beta 1-G back. Because next week is the launch of Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, our next window is February 18th. It just doesn’t make sense to foist a beta on the beta group that has quite so things to address still.

Stay tuned.

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Ynglaur

Join Date 05/2006

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Either way, beta "testers" will still be playing. If you're in the beta, who cares about a release date, to some degree.

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From the video lady sarah does not look pretty... I'm not saying she should show more skin... I'm saying her face is plain and average looking.

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From the video lady sarah does not look pretty... I'm not saying she should show more skin... I'm saying her face is plain and average looking.

yes it is quite plain and average, though i'm sure in time her beauty will become apparent. Also, if in that time she decides to show more skin I will not argue one bit...

Lady Serra (because I agree with Scoutdog, and I think she needs a more fantasy spelling) 2.0

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Wintersong

Join Date 07/2006

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Hey... you TOOK mine!!

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Hey... you TOOK mine!!

hey, how many ways can spell "sarah"? I did have Sarai, but thats pronounced differently I think?

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By which I mean Wintersong's elegently simple reaction. Usually I'm the prudish one......

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Like Wintersong has any right to talk with all the avatars that have been used.... lolz

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Wintersong

Join Date 07/2006

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I don't talk. I write.

Considering that (for the current placeholders) Tarth is a seafarer faction that has recently become interested in the lands of their ancestors, Lady Sarah should be like this*:

And should have a more approiate name like Lady Sango. Alien enough so only a very precise part of the global population find it too common. Or Kin (欽) Suzume (雀) if you are into homages and certain webpage is right.

* If we must really fall into the "scalantly dressed women to satisfy certain kind of individuals".

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tesb

Join Date 03/2008

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* If we must really fall into the "scalantly dressed women to satisfy certain kind of individuals".

no we must not

i really would hate to see this game turned in this way

also @rising legends picture: that women could never ever fire of a real war bow (composite or long)

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Ynglaur

Join Date 05/2006

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Quoting tesb,

reply 60

also @rising legends picture: that women could never ever fire of a real war bow (composite or long)

If it's any consolation, it's from a comedy.

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Quoting tesb,

reply 60

* If we must really fall into the "scalantly dressed women to satisfy certain kind of individuals".

no we must not

i really would hate to see this game turned in this way

also @rising legends picture: that women could never ever fire of a real war bow (composite or long)

LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kröd_Mändoon_and_the_Flaming_Sword_of_Fire#Cast

India de Beaufort as Aneka: A "beautiful pagan warrioress whose weapon of choice is sex."[1] She starts episode 1 as Mändoon's girlfriend, but he has problems with her open sexuality and she finishes their relationship. Despite this, Aneka loves Mändoon more than the hundreds she has slept with.

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tesb

Join Date 03/2008

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well, there should be irony tags to prevent this kind of embarrasment in the future

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Quoting Tridus,

reply 50

Quoting Tormy-,
reply 35
Hm....Q3 2010 is still the planned release date? I am just wondering, because the beta phase is still in the early stages...not to mention that I am still having random crashes all the time, so even the latest beta build is unstable.

Building systems is a lot harder then populating them. There's five beta phases scheduled, but if you look at later betas, most of the basic gameplay is being done in beta 1. Stuff will get tweaked and changed later, but this beta represents a disproportionaly large amount of work compared to the others.

So at the moment, the schedule is still doable. If not, they'll move it. No worries.

True.

Quoting Frogboy,

reply 39

Hm....Q3 2010 is still the planned release date? I am just wondering, because the beta phase is still in the early stages...not to mention that I am still having random crashes all the time, so even the latest beta build is unstable.

The "latest" public build -- the one you have -- is from last year. Let's keep some perspective.

In Sins of a Solar Empire, the team (Ironclad/Stardock) only got infinite resource in during *release candidates*. That's right, up until the release candidates, the asteroids ran out of resources after awhile.

In fact, at this stage with Sins of a Solar Empire's beta (7 months before release) there were no phase lanes, no broadcast centers and thus no culture. Not because they hadn't been put in yet but because they hadn't been thought of yet.

Fair enough.

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Why have we still not seen any screens of these horrific half-breeds? This is inexcusable.

Pweese?

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i already posted a pic lol...google susan boyle

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Quoting BoogieBac,

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The Frog always trumps anything that Boogiebac guy says (who I heard I actually just the office janitor).

You'll be getting several features not listed as goals for 1G (Custom Facitons Editor AND Custom Sovereign Editor, to name two) plus much more content for the implemented features. For example, right now there are TWO quests in the game...

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!! I can finally build my forces and amass tremendous personal power!!!!!!!

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So Froggy, how we looking on Beta 2 then? Mid Marchish? Or perhaps early April ish? Building a Core I7 machine to replace this 5 year old Pentium 4. So Just wondering how long I got to put it together before I can get my hands on Some Elemental Beta action.

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