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Reply to Elemental: Updating to the Release Version! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Thanks, Frogboy. Hope this early launch causes less headaches for you guys than the Demigod one did. Might have to drop into chat while waiting for it to be available!

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="150" id="2714488"]Which one is it? Either LAN isn't supported, or LAN will be supported eventually and the game is being released in an unfinished state. Take your pick.[/quote] You're bitching and moaning because Stardock have said they might make the game more awesome post-release. Seriously. Quit being dicks, everyone. You know it won't have "OMG PROPER LANZ0RZ" at release and the boss of the company has said it's something they're lookin

Reply to Elemental: No Copy Protection, Activation, LAN and more in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I don't know that I'll ever want or need to use it but I do like that you're going to start offering up to date physical copies of the game. I may even get a "Year 1" copy just to put in with my Limited Edition. Depending on how much the shipping charge is to Australia for a single DVD. :D Really don't care about the quibbling over LAN/not-LAN junk. If you really want to play it multiplayer with people in the same room you just need to plan accordingly, like you do with any other game

Reply to Playing with monsters in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Would it be possible to tag wildlife type monsters with Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore to influence their responses? Carnivores and Omnivores might be more inclined to attack fleshy troops while Herbivores would be more inclined to flee unless they're cornered? This would sidestep the issue of setting up specific animal enemies like cats and dogs - though that could also be done for specific instances - but still

Reply to You humans… in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

The AI still has an advantage - whenever the current spell queue is finished it won't forget to check for something else to learn. Humans still will! It also won't get bored casting enchantments on every unit it produces, or throwing volcanoes around or what have you. But I'm not sure infinite patience counts as cheese. (And Simpsons quotes ftw. :D )

[Beta 2] [Suggestion] Upgrade existing troops to newer design in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Description : Outdated units seem fated to be used as cannon fodder at present, with seemingly no path to upgrading them being available? Perhaps this is already supported but is not obvious in the UI? Suggestion : Add an "Action" button to standard units called "Upgrade" or "Change Equipment". This button should be greyed out while the unit is in the wilderness and only active whilst in a town. Clicking the Upgrade button would then bri

[Beta 2] [Suggestion] Unit Design "Upgrade" button: result not intuitive in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Description : When using the Unit Designer you can click on an existing unit and select "Upgrade" which loads the current unit into the Designer and you can adjust that units equipment from there. However you're not really "upgrading" that unit, you're creating a new unit based off of that design. That's a very useful function to have, since it will save time when you gain the ability to create newer items and you want your troops to have them, but your existin

Reply to [BUG?] In Beta2 notes it says multiplayer w players or AI. But in-game it says 1v1 only, no AI in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

There's a button to select 1 vs AI directly to the right of the 1v1 button. :)

Reply to Elemental: BETA 2 Tour in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Thanks for the details on what's in and what's out. :) With Custom Game disabled how do we go about starting an MP game with AI opponents as you mentioned the other day? Or should I just wait less than 24 hours and ask if I can't find the button? :)

Reply to Elemental: Beta 2 Info in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote="Frogboy"]Playing against the AI is also a good test in multiplayer because you have to connect to an AI on one of our servers.[/quote]Thankyou thankyou thankyou. :) Honestly, I probably wasn't going to try a multiplayer game in this beta because the MP side of things isn't as interesting to me, but if I can help with the MP stuff without having to deal with other people... well, thankyou! ;)

[NPC] Mythor Two in WOM Mods Elemental Forums

NPC Name: Mythor Two Screenshot from Sovereign Selection Screen: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7443198/mythor-two.jpg Backstory: This erratic but brilliant younger sibling of Mythor One has felt overshadowed by his big brother's achievements all his young life. Now that he too is of an age to head out into the world, all that will change... Though his keen intellect and imposing presence may be insufficient to counter a life destined for a bad end. Sidenote: I don't actually

Reply to Channeler Customization: Continued in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I like the idea of Background/History to your Channeler, but I'd also like to see an option that is essentially "No bonuses/maluses". In other words, "No particular background" or a "Jack of All Trades, Master of None" style background. I think the History can also tie-in with the Weaknesses. Using the Mason example, you could be just an average, run of the mill Mason, which might cost 1 "point" and give you a 10% construction bonus. Or you could have been a particularly adept M

Reply to 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Please make the "no popups" preference in the client persist between client updates. So I don't have to bitch and bitch and bitch about it like I did the Impulse "fast start" background process. :P Otherwise, sounds like a good idea. :)

Reply to Elemental BETA 1 Arrives in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Died laughing when the EGA stuff started up. Funny stuff. :) Amazing to see the advances in graphics in the one game, too. Looking very good. :)

Reply to Elemental Beta Gameplay in War of Magic Stardock Forums

"like of the world loading but just being the cloth and that's it" That's all that's in the beta. Did you not read any of the multiple posts from Frogboy saying that it's cloth map only? He did make quite a few of them and made it very clear it'll be cloth map only for quite some time!

Reply to Starting to check your emails? To eager? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Stardock runs on (American) Eastern Standard Time, as far as I know. Making it around 3am there, I believe? I wouldn't expect it before 9am their time and more likely some time during the day, after the last little checks are made and whatnot. I'm sure as soon as it's available people on the forums/chat will be talking about it though. :)

Reply to Beta NOW, and KYRO HOW DARE YOU EDIT MY LONG AND EXTENDED THREAD TITLE in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="56" id="2371078"]Considering "it won't be fun"tm and it will be full of bugs, crashes and who-knows-what-more, why not realease it now? Come on!! [/quote] They'd probably prefer not to trash people's computers with a beta... ;)

Reply to Beta NOW, and KYRO HOW DARE YOU EDIT MY LONG AND EXTENDED THREAD TITLE in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="weepy" reply="52" id="2370879"]I have being checking Impluse every 30min since midnight 13/09/2009....[/quote] Checking your email for your key may prove more productive... hopefully some time this week! :)

Reply to Will the Beta be fun... Yes and No or yeahno if you want... in War of Magic Stardock Forums

The point is to manage people's expectations towards the beta. If you tell people over and over and over that the first beta will not be fun and then they play the beta and don't find it fun then those few who complain just have something wrong with their heads. ;) Frogboy said the first beta of Demigod wouldn't be fun either, but it was alright. Nowhere near as much fun as the finished product, of course. I'm expecting Elemental to be much the same - kinda fun but lacking the depth a

Reply to OpenGL and Elemental in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ron Lugge" comment="1"]I doubt they'll be using OpenGL; SD has historically been a windows based company, which means directX.[/quote]"Historically" you'd be wrong as they started on OS/2. ;) Can't see why they'd develop the game on OpenGL though, not when GalCiv2 runs on DirectX and that's their most recent game.

Reply to Elemental: PAX Preview Part 2 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Master of Magic did in fact support some level of player customisation. I can't recall if it let you choose different bonuses for your civilization's race but it certainly let you choose the exact makeup of your spellbook library. So your Mage's spellbook might have had 3 Life spellbooks and 6 Chaos books while your opponents might've been 6 Nature, 2 Death and 1 Sorcery. For people worried about the "OMG BETA WON'T BE FUN" thing, Frogboy said the first Demigod beta wouldn't be fun eit

Reply to Hill problems in War of Magic Stardock Forums

The game is in Alpha. The engine is nowhere near finished. Don't worry about it just yet. ;)

Reply to Fences after August 31 in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Yes I just updated and am now getting that same error message on startup. It also never used to be a "community preview beta", I seem to remember it being released as free software originally.[e digicons]-_-[/e]

Reply to Questions? Ask them here in War of Magic Stardock Forums

Will we be able to save a specific set of starting conditions and random seed to email to friends or share via the Elemental-Metaverse or just replay because it happened to be a really fun game? To explain more clearly, could I set up a game for myself and friends to play through in SP, individually, but each of us have the exact same starting conditions, landmasses, enemy AI, etc? Without Ye Olde Kludge of saving the game as soon as it's loaded and sharing the savegame around. ;)

Reply to Yes, Impulse is the fastest in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Steam actually goes faster than me... but to be fair, that's because my ISP is one of the local Steam content servers. ;) Am generally very impressed with the speeds Impulse gets though, even as an overseas user. Downloading anything particularly big is always going to take a while but at least I'm not cursing at it only using 10% of my speed. :)