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Reply to Elemental: July FAQ in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2317388"]I wonder how many years passed between the last time psychoak *read* Tolkien and the time when he came to appreciate the value of a well-rounded liberal arts education. Anyone with half a brain and a scrap of attitude can come up with crits of Tolkien, many of which are plausible, e.g. he had no real ability to conceive of female characters other than archetype beings like Galadriel or 'tomboys' like Éowyn. On the other hand, th

Reply to AT&T blocks 4chan /b/ in Everything Else Elemental Forums

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Reply to AT&T blocks 4chan /b/ in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Hmmm... I dont see why there is so much disdain for 4chan. I have gone there a few times and frankly I did not see anything worthy of all the urban lore or political bull shit that is associated with it. Maybe I'm to jaded or simple to see it...

Reply to Tropico Reloaded on Impulse! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="12" id="2315976"] Quoting Spartan, reply 1I really liked this title back in the day. It was a fun - albeit not so polished, micro sim game. A great game to play while drinking Captain Morgan Private Stock!!! So that's why the rum's gone!?[/quote] No doubt. Sadly I still cant buy stuff from Impulse. It kills me that I want to get SD a pile of money but they wont take it...

Reply to Elemental: The dream in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I hope things work out well for the engine. [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]

Reply to Tropico Reloaded on Impulse! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I really liked this title back in the day. It was a fun - albeit not so polished, micro sim game. A great game to play while drinking Captain Morgan Private Stock!!! [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

Reply to Researching Techs in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="19" id="2313663"] I think having a system where different AI play styles are chosen based on conditions instead of them trying to learn mid match is far superior. On normal or below you could have the AI just randomly choose a playstyle and on hard or above the AI can change playstyles depending on what it sees the player doing. Having it recognize some obvious player warmongering and responding by changing from say, the expansionist to defensive playstyl

Reply to Researching Techs in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="16" id="2311869"] I can easily imagine something like that in a magic system, but for mundane knowledge, I'm stumped. Well, it generally applies to ethically-limited techs like necromancy, holiness, and slave labor: for example: If you research "Slave Revolution Inspiration" to inspire the enemy's slaves to revolt, you can no longer research "Slave Subjegation" to enslave more people in your own kingdom. A tech like "Beast Hunting"

Reply to C&C4 to require internet connection for singleplayer in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="SNeamtu" reply="3" id="2311672"]Yea, because none of you guys are on the internet right now......[/quote] Epic fail with logic on that one...

Reply to E:WoM Articles, Reports, Reviews, Pimps & Interviews Around the Net in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="1" id="2310748"]The one who died was the spaniard one (already when I found it). What will happen with elementalgame.net? Waiting for alpha/beta?[/quote] I'm still waiting for BB to send me the email with links to all the resources he told me he wanted us to use for it. It is sitting there waiting as it has been for over six months now. Additionally I need to find people to work on it since I dont have the time to do so now.

Reply to Gabe Newell interview in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Hmmmm.... I have suggest many times in the past and even offered Frogboy a lot of money before (he refused) specifically for this title. Anyway I do see it as the way of the future for serious gamers.

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

[quote who="CapnWinky" reply="5" id="2310919"]Modding in pregnancy?! Now I've read it all....[/quote] No you havent. No one talked about the birth defected mutant babies and the bonuses the one in one hundred would get to lead your army. [e digicons]8O[/e]

Reply to Stardock Products in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I really like the black and gold one. [e digicons]B)[/e]

Reply to Researching Techs in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Yep and with a tiered dependancy system attached to boot it should make for some serious tech action and on the mod side the sky would be the limit.

Reply to Researching Techs in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="19" id="2307455"]I don't know if this counts as tech randomization but we are planning to have a pool of techs that are are inserted into games based on whether they make their probability roll. I.e. certain techs would show up in some games but not in others. Not core techs but ones that spice things up in different directions.[/quote] Good stuff. I also hope you allow for negative effects for all techs. For example if I get "supe

Reply to Any girls here? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="24" id="2310406"] More or less......Less. [/quote] Definitely less to be sure... [e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e]

Reply to Comparing notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

No doubt; because in the end there can be only one. [e digicons]:yes:[/e]

Reply to E:WoM Articles, Reports, Reviews, Pimps & Interviews Around the Net in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="landisaurus" reply="24" id="2308722"]Why isn't "Elementalgame.info" listed up here as a fansite? (only fansite that exclusivly follows Elemental to my knowledge)[/quote] To be honest, I thought the site died a couple months ago. Anyway, link added.

Reply to Tweak7 Beta Released! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Sweet! Going to it,,,

Reply to Comparing notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="18" id="2305803"] maybe you can beat up kryo until he can't do his job then take his place. Since he's workin' remote. (I think island dog is too) Somehow I doubt my pay could sustain Spartan's uber-computer [/quote] For the right job I would give it up in a hot minute. Additionally it is not uber Godbox anymore sadly enough. It is a mere demigod now. However I'm already looking into but to build for my next one. I really want an oct

Reply to Comparing notes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Nice update. I hope all goes well on the trip. On the topic of jobs, I always get killed on the "relocate" componet... [e digicons]:'([/e]

Reply to C&C4 to require internet connection for singleplayer in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

You guys should read the thread on the topic at ARS! It is a blast! Additionally threads in other communities are the same. EA is getting [justly] slammed across the board!I cant wait to slam it on Amazon (again) for such practices. On a positive note, SD is getting some pretty good exposure over the issue with the GBR and people like me plugging it to pissed off gamers threating to stop gaming if such shit continues from publishers.

Reply to Any girls here? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="7" id="2303439"] Quoting Scoutdog, reply 3Oh? You'd think that after the fourth sex change, it would sort of.... stop being as effective..... Quoting Scoutdog, reply 6... In any case, it's the anatomically correct part you need to worry about: GmOOni changes genders like most people change pants. Reading these together smells odd...OK, it probably smells bad. Surely you've changed your pants more than four times? And since I've br